Saturday, 22 February 2020

EFC! x Noragami Chapter 1

Everyday Fun Club! Crossover Story -- Noragami
Shiori: Hello everyone! This is a brand new segment for crossovers~! Rin-senpai is currently busy preparing for the role since she’s gonna be the main character!

Aiko: Shio-tan, you look kawaii in pink clothes~ Are these for your role?

Shiori: Yep, Ai-senpai! The role I’m playing is actually a petite and flirty girl, but guess what? She’s a--

Seira: Ah! Don’t reveal it, Shiori! *pouts* You always have the habit of spoiling everyone. Anyway, we have an announcement to make. Kirara will be speaking in complete sentences for the crossover stories!

Kirara: Did anyone mention my name? *peers in* ... Oh right! We’re supposed to do a quick overview of Noragami so readers will know roughly what it’s about.

Shiori: Yes! *smiles* And one more announcement before we go on -- Nacchan-senpai is joining us in this~!

Quick Overview of Noragami
This is a supernatural story about a (lazy) god named Yato and his regalia, Yukine. Together with a half-apparition-half-human, Hiyori, the three of them have adventures together with the other gods and regalia. 60% comedy, 40% action.

Cast List
Rinne as Yato
Seira as Yukine
Natsuki as Hiyori
Shiori as Kofuku
Kirara as Mayu
Aiko as Bishamon

Daikoku as himself
Nora as herself
Kazuma as himself
Tenjin as himself
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Gods. Regalia. Spirits. Apparitions.
They make up the spiritual world. Gods are the high-up beings, regalia are their right-hand men, spirits are plebeian souls. Apparitions? Bad, bad, baaad spirits that attack the living world. And having too much of them means trouble brewing...

<Play Noragami OP here>

PART 1 - Breaking Up

“Just because he’s the teacher’s pet... He gets all the good stuff!”
“Man, I’m jealous of him...”
“The teachers keep showing favouritism towards him! I hate him..”
No... No...! Please stop saying those hurtful words.... Someone help me...
Stress accumulated in that male student, unable to control it any further.

At that instant, a gooey, hideous creature possessed that student -- and that’s how trouble starts...

“Help--!!” The desperate, high-pitched shrieks alarmed her. Smelling a rat, she leaped from building to building, trying to follow the direction of the sound.

It came from a certain high school.

Apparitions -- bad spirits that attack the living world -- instantly came to her mind. Her feet landed on the rooftop. With no time to lose, she commanded authoritatively, summoning her regalia, “Reiki!”

Almost instantly, a sleek and sharp double-edged sword was clutched in her hands. She poised for a battle, her eyes locking onto the hideously-looking apparition that lingered in the classroom, hovering near an “infected” student. A gloomy atmosphere shrouded over it as the other students cowered in fear of the monster invisible to their eyes...

Crash! The classroom windows broke into smithereens; an ear-piercing crash alarmed the apparition and student, making them turn their attention towards her.

She smirked. That, was caused by her weapon.

Her arms were positioned correctly to throw a boomerang, but this time it’s a double-edged sword, ten times stronger than any mere boomerang. With a steady and powerful swing, she aimed it directly at the apparition’s head.

Slice! The sword cut cleanly through the apparition’s head, making it wince and howl in pain. Even so, its melancholic cries for its life did not sway her heart. What life? Apparitions deserve no mercy! Her eyes were cold and hard as she deprived it of its life.

The last howl of the apparition intensified, then slowly shrunk into the peaceful atmosphere...

At last, the student was saved! Her legs gave way and fell to the ground, losing conscious. She knew that he’d recover in about an hour, and thus she left the school compound.

She’s a god. A god of calamity, as in the records, but she proclaims that she’s a god of wishes.

Her name is Rinne.

Fleeing to somewhere safe and sound, Rinne slumped down onto a unsteadily-looking bench in a deserted alley. Meanwhile, her double-edged sword, which was her regalia, transformed into a human form -- a girl with dark blue hair, adorned with a huge, white ribbon. Her hair was tied in a ponytail.

“That was easy~! Good job, Kirara!” Rinne complimented her regalia, Kirara. She ruffled her hair.

“Don’t ruffle my hair,” Kirara retorted, hittting away Rinne’s hand. In a stern voice, she declared, “Rinne-sama, I’m ending the contract.”

Rinne froze. Laughing sheepishly, she gestured awkwardly to Kirara. “Nah... This can’t be happening right...? We’ve been partners for not even one month and you want to end the contract--”

“I’M SERIOUS!!! First of all, your hands are always sweaty, so as a weapon, I can’t humiliate myself to be in your dirty hands! Also, you don’t have a proper damn shrine, so we always end up sleeping outside in a dirty and dilapidated place! Which regalia can withstand all of these and don’t complain, huh?!”

“U-Uh... I’m working on the shrine! I’m earning 5-yen by 5-yen everyday so I can have enough money to build a shrine! So be patient!”

“No. End the contract, NOW.”

“... Okay...” Rinne sighed, crying desperately inside. She did the necessary for ending the contract. To Kirara’s infinite delight, she could finally find another god that was reliable and safe, unlike the self-proclaimed “god of wishes”! Without even saying goodbye, she slunk away into thin air.

What am I going to do now?

Being a god, one MUST have at least a regalia, but now Rinne didn’t have one, and the problem weighed heavily in her heart. Being a lazy and dirty(full of germs) god, no one would willingly become her regalia. And now, her future looked bleak, since the rate of earning money was as slow as a tortoise. She sighed.

Just then, her phone vibrated with the ringtone. Immediately, she grinned from ear to ear.
Ka-ching!

“Hello! This is the Rinne God Delivery Service, 24 hours a day! I can fufill all of your wishes for just 5-yen!” Rinne chirped into the phone call, greeting her customer.

All of a sudden, her eyes widened and her jaw dropped. “Hime-sama is missing?! Got it, I’ll go look for her!” As soon as the call ended, she went on her mission to search for the so-called “Hime-sama”.

<Play Noragami ED here>

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