Joint post<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://66.media.tumblr.com/1d733063b32fe8f657667791f79ef592/tumblr_ol7jnkSzFi1uimac5o1_400.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nenene Hirasaka 比良坂寧々音</span><br/><strong>Blessed By::</strong>Hades<br/><strong>Location::</strong>Temple Underground<br/><strong>Company::</strong>All involved<strong>Mentioning::</strong><br/><strong>Date/Time::</strong>Saturday, June 20<br/><strong>Mood::</strong>Upbeat, Anxious<br/><strong>Wearing::</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Usual Clothes</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://www.wallpaperhi.com/thumbnails/detail/20120130/women%20japanese%20inuyasha%20miko%20archery%20shrine%20maiden%20outfit%201544x1024%20wallpaper_www.wallpaperhi.com_68.jpg)</div></div><br/><hr/><br/>Nenene gave no fight toward Kenzie's request. After all, even without her duties as an Elder, Hecate and Hades had a history through Persephone, and on a day where they would be appealing toward their benefactors, Hades was likely to perceive denying helping in the ritual as some sort of slight against his wife. As the ritual started and finished, she did her requested duty as best she could, happy it was close enough to how she would normally cleanse the shrine after a major festival that she didn't have any issues keeping up.<br/><br/>Once the ritual was completed and Akira released everyone to handle their tributes and prayers, Nenene darted up to Hades' statue and delivered the basket of pomegranates at the foot of the statue.<acronym title="O Lord Hades, hear now my prayer and accept this trivial offering. To thou who hast gifted my body with power, mine greatest thanks, for this life has been saved. Now as before, this body, mind, and soul are thine to command to thy desires.">「ハーデース神よ、我が祈りを聞け、些細の生贄を取れ上げ。力をくれた者、我が喜ぶ、この命を救い頂い。いざこの身、この心、この魂を自由に使い、召すままに。」</acronym>With her prayer completed, Nenene lifted a single pomegranate from the basket and took it to Persephone's statue, an obsidian cloud appearing around her figure as she used her power for the briefest of moments to drain some of the life from the fruit's skin to make it easier for her fingers to pry the fruit open. She sprinkled a few seeds and a small puddle of the fruit's juice at the foot of the statue, uttering a small prayer to Hades' wife, then repeating the same process at Demeter and Hecate's statues from the same fruit before returning the used pomegranate to the basket. Before the pomegranate was released from her hands, Nenene was surrounded by a soft grey aura as she channeled her power once more, repairing the damage to the fruit's skin, her hands now dyed red in its juices.<br/><br/>Should anyone ask why she had visited the three goddess despite her blessing being derived from the Lord of the Underworld, Nenene would simply explain that in Shinto practice, a shrine maiden would give her prayers to the gods related to her chief deity in order of their relevance to the main god or goddess. With her hands still coated in the pomegranate's juices, Nenene wrapped her slender fingers around her throat, leaving the red impressions of her hand in semblance to the smattering of myths that said Persephone was raped by Hades before Hecate brokered her freedom. And now that her own rituals were completed, the shrine maiden now excused herself to the sanctuary of her new room to wash her hands and prepare a little for the party later in the evening, intending to leave the pomegranate stains on her neck until the evening's end. Even despite being vested in her preparations, Nenene would happily open her door for anyone who knocked on it, no matter their reasoning or necessity.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://cdn.myanimelist.net/s/common/uploaded_files/1472310102-7677863927d8b3e8b0515b11f76c4760.jpeg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Seth Kamiizumi  セート　神泉</span><br/><strong>Blessed By::</strong>Athena<br/><strong>Location::</strong>Hera's House -> Temple Underground<br/><strong>Company::</strong>Open<strong>Mentioning::</strong>None<br/><strong>Date/Time::</strong>Saturday, June 20<br/><strong>Mood::</strong>Pensive<br/><strong>Wearing::</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Formal Kimono</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/67/8e/e2/678ee232f739bd3925ef815c9de23d3.jpg)</div></div><br/><hr/><br/>Seth sighed softly as he walked away from Hera's House. He had waited long enough to know that Kaiya had either been pulled away from the camp once more, or that she was too embarrassed to face him at the moment. Not like he wasn't embarrassed about this meeting either, but he could understand his crush being a little more terrified of what could possibly go wrong.<br/><br/>The young Japanese boy made it to the meeting spot in front of the gates just as the group was beginning to depart and he sped up to pretend like he had been there the entire time. As the group reached the temple's entrance, Seth forced himself through a gap he though to be a little bigger than it was, shoulder checking a woman with a decapitated head in her hand, nearly knocking the bloody effigy from her grip. In typical Japanese fashion, the boy didn't falter or even mutter an apology, just pushing forward and hoping she wouldn't follow him too closely.<br/><br/>When it came time to stand in the ritual's circle, Seth opted for a spot close to Akira as she represented his goddess' fire element, standing to her left since he felt more attached to air than water. Before he had arrived at the Village, he had always thought Athena to be an earth goddess, but when heard Kenzie call upon the numerous earth goddesses, he clearly understood why Athena was attributed to fire instead.<br/><br/>As the ritual finished, Seth watched the shrine maiden dart off ahead of the group. Considering he only knew Kaiya as a fellow Japanese, and really couldn't be sure if Akira spoke their mother tongue, seeing someone in the Shinto garments intrigued him greatly. At least it would be someone else to talk to about gods from another pantheon. The Athena boy shuffled off toward his goddess' statue, placing the puzzle contraption at its feet and clapping softly before bowing, just as he would at a shrine. "Athena, thank you for your blessings and the foresight you have granted me. Thank you for the calm you have bestowed my decisions, and my clarity in these last few days. Please, should you be listening, send a sign soon as to how I may show my gratitude and earn you favor." He bowed again at the end of his prayer and took a few steps backward before turning around, scanning the room for Kaiya in case she had shown up yet, and for anybody he would want to avoid in the meantime with most of the Blessed gathered.