The Heaven District. Aptly given this name because it functions essentially as an entire district dedicated to village amusement. Carousels, balloons, primitive roller coasters, haunted houses, photo booths festival foods etc. The ideal place to go on a date. The Heaven District has become a gathering place for everyone as a means of entertainment admission is free. Rides etc, however, are not. There are several hotels in this district and purchasing a home here is possible, albeit rather expensive as nothing is below [Manse] quality. Some inhabitants jokingly refer to it as 'Squidney Land' as the venture was funded by the Arashikage entirely out of pocket and the theme being very sea based. While some attractions run through the night such as swan boats, and the carousel, come midnight the district will tend to quiet down from foot traffic.
Common Entertainment
The Ten District Ten District isn't currently holding any over the top festivities at the moment. The common street vendors and street entertainers have returned to their average everyday routine of producing the occasional spectacle a delicious but crazily priced fair foods.
Kaito dropped 20,000 ryo on 20,000 play tokens, feeling an uncomfortable mixture of bored and empty. While he wasn't a big gambler, he had felt like he had nothing to lose and he wanted to waste some time before he headed back to the force for some patrols.
He walked to the prize wheel to place a bet of 5,000 tokens.
Amused with his winnings, he pocketed the gain but reentered the original bet into the prize wheel. They felt like a good weight in his pocket. He was quickly hooked onto the feeling of victory and eagerly awaited the result of his 5,000 token bet.
ooc: 20,000 play tokens (5,000 gambled, 7,500 won for a net total of 22500 tokens)
Kaito's face fell at the result. He put 7,500 back into the prize wheel, determined to make big wins. He was hooked onto the simple game of high risks and moderate rewards already. Filling his emotionally vacant heart with the cheapness of gambling was a dangerous route but he was committing to it quickly.
Kaito was running out of win tokens and feeling unsure about feeding them back in for play tokens later. He opted to put the rest of his 2,500 play tokens into the bet. He was hoping the prize wheel would be kind and hit 20 again.
Whilst her best friend was gambling away all his tokens, Maekohad been off gathering up snacks for the two! She was bright eye'd and smiling, the last five years had flown by so fast. She was still attached to Kaito's hip. Preferring his company over anyone else, yeah she'd made friend's but it was obvious some bond had formed between him and her ever since that first little spar they had. Kaito opened her up and she let go of her fears and embraced his friendship with all her might. So now, here she was scurrying back up to him, handing him a tray of assorted snacks. From Dumplings to Mochi, and everything in between. "Did'ja win me anything, Sunshine?" Maeko cooed at him, giving the boy a beaming smile.
Name: NurikaBAE Rank: D Description: A Nurikabe, aka, wall yokai has been blocking paths in the Ten District. It refuses to move unless someone take it out on a date.Which many have declined because simply put...it is a wall, and a wall isn't exactly the fastest moving object out there. Mission Moderator: Necroplant Mission Participants: Solo Reward: Unknown.
After her recent stint in the hospital and finally getting given the ability to go back to work Teririki had chosen a very strange mission to go after. Recently Yokai had been allowed to live in the village and as a result some weird things had happened and still were and she was on her way to deal with one of them, what was her assignment you might ask? A large wall Yokai had apparently set itself up as a blockade and was making the ever awkward demand of someone either going on a date with it or it would continue to inconvenience people. So the idea here was that a girl with Teririkis looks and fashion sense was a prime choice to placate the Yokai and go on a “date” with it, of coarse there was not actual expectations on beyond spending time with it and trying to let it have an actual enjoyable time in hopes that it would cease being a bother at this point.
Chewing on some gum and listening to music on an mp3 player equivalent, Teri was basically ignoring the fun fare surroundings and focused on locating the Yokai and get this done, besides she was slightly interested in how a wall would attempt to take someone on a date so had taken the mission without much complaint and had even dressed up for it a little, dressed much like the picture but wearing shorts and carrying a blue purse. Her bright orange hair was tied back in a ponytail, however not all of it was, enough left to give her some bangs that went a little past her chin in length on either side of her head. After a short while of searching, she noticed an odd increase of foot traffic, indicating somewhere nearby was blocked and thus redirecting the flow and now she had an idea where she made her way in that direction until she found the large Yokai, proceeding to yell and wave a hand to get its attention.
“Nurikabe-san!!! Are you the “infamous Dandy” I’ve been hearing so much about, I’ve been wanting to meet you for a while now!.” She chimes at him, whilst getting a weird look from one of the people walking her as he had been privy to her less than thrilled expression suddenly light up and an overly sweet voice would shoot out of her mouth. Now the only way to describe this is by saying she spoke with energy akin to an idol baying for support from her fans that would be described as “adorable” and “irresistible” from the glow stick wielding, never-miss-a-show fans that build fan/cheering clubs might say... plus Otakus everywhere and most other at least partially shallow people, even ur aware it’s an act. In short she was going to be extremely tactical with trying to make this Yokai get the VIP experience, then let him down lightly at the end. After waving she pulled her headphones out and rant to him with her hands extended on either side and she kicked her feet up behind her as she ran to again add over-the-top “idol” like cute energy, even remembering to trip but manage to keep her balance just for effect.
(I’m taking the NurikaBAE mission please XD ) Stamina 300/300 | Chakra 600/600
People dispersed as the girl made her way through, as they were already dispersing naturally due to the inhibiting prowess of the wall. Many of which were already developing prejudices towards the 'monsters' which were being integrated into their village. The AYIP was favored by a majority of the citizens the bill would not have passed if otherwise but still one could say it was the charismatic presentation of the bill that swayed the vote as not many including the Arashikage himself was aware of the expansive criterion and potential disturbances they would rightly be capable of causing. Turth be told the particular path being blocked was basically the same as a detour sign a mild inconvenience which would require more walking around as oppose to being able to just cut through and save three or four minutes time.
When the small eyes of the wall made looked down at the girl it would speak. Slowly and bellowy as what one could typically assume. "Not...very...sturdy..." It would make the comment on her almost stumbling which many human types would find cute or endearing. The girl would come to a realization hopefully sooner rather than later. Her 'date' wasn't a human. As such what was attractive humans was likely not necessarily attractive to it. That was shown its it attentions clearly shifting as if ignoring her and refusing to acknowledge her existence like a chad would a flirty unattractive barfly.
Also. Quite literally thickheaded flirtatious advances in general bounced off the wall like the cans and trash some ten district attendee's tossed his way. The the big oof moment came when after stating her lack of sturdiness he stated plainly "ugly..." short end of it, the wall itself showed no interest in initiating a date with Teririki at all, in fact it didn't seem to know why 'it' was addressing him in general because walls such as him required more straightforward blunt explanations. That said when a girl who wasn't paying attention in rather plain khaki clothing bumped into him and thusly became paralyzed in shock and fear...he leaned down partially and inquired to her instead. "Would you like... to go... on a date?" The friend of the girl would grab her paralyzed friend after saying 'she's a bit busy right now' before the two headed off. Rumbling back into his straight position he seemed unphased by the rejection maintaining the same tired like expression.
“Not very sturdy.” What kind of bloody reaction was that, she’d gotten dressed up and put all that effort in for THAT?! How could this approach not work, was it that the thing didn’t appreciate the effort or was it just slow? Silently fuming she resisted responding to this blunt criticism and opened her mouth to try and salvage this with another attempt and push the same routine as obviously he’d been to taken aback and didn’t know how to react properly, yea... it was obvious “soo...””UGLY!!” She was cut of, almost after if it had shouted the word at her and considering how loud it was talking one could basically say it didn’t shout the word, without other people none the less, this was a critical and provocative blow that actually stabbed right into her confidence like a knife! How dare you call my ugly you god dammed brickmonster, obviously you’re just stupid, if he is not interested in me then he’s not interested in anyone, I’m gonna go and tell them the mission parameters are a bloody joke and someone got the wro.....This though was cut short by a girl who was dressed a bit more modest and casually than Teririki and the bloody thing reacted what seemed to her like a hundred times faster than he did to herself... and he asked her out.
None of her lessons about Yokai had ever touched on these wall guys and this annoyed her thoroughly, monster hunters didn’t seem to really talk about these guys much because they are more of a benign pain and basically harmless without provocation. This one however seemed to know one of her acute weaknesses, well in actuality it was the creatures personal preference at play but she was going to need a minute to get over the powerful words. Her hands were clenched and she stared at what happened, clearly angry to anyone who witnessed her expressions which the big guy was the cause of, or her vanity.. one of the two, but most likely both! A passing couple carrying ice-cream cone were chatting and suddenly yelled out in surprise as quite sudden as the neared her both of their dairy products melted and evaporated as it did so. The cause of this was the angered and actually quite offended/hurt young woman, she had pride and confidence and this bloody wall just kicked it very hard, as such heat haze waves of her scorch release were quivering around her body, not dangerous to anyone but any beverage or ice cream that got within 3 feet of her would become a casualty from the emotional fallout.
She realized how angry she was and remembered what the therapists had said about this sort of reactivity as well as the shame that came with being suspended for psychological issues and thus attempted to get a hold of herself. Teri was still mortified by that mobile walls words and wished the mission permitted her to make it leave by force but that wasn’t in today’s cards, if she made a scene she’d get in trouble and probably get the Yokai blamed by the public which wasn’t exactly fair. So she considered what the other girl had that she did not and also about what the wall had said, maybe not realizing things as quickly as she should have because the Yokai upset her. The girl in khakis what was it the big guy liked about her, what did he even like.... well based on his words he liked sturdy things as he’d expressed she was not “Sturdy” which made little sense to her, she was as sturdy as the next shinobi and probably sturdier then the girl who’d walked into him so what the heck.Wait she walked into him.. could that be... no frickin’ way! She made a noise that displayed how annoyed and unbelievable this theory was, so much so she walked away to go grab an overpriced soda before testing her theory out.
Shoving away an aggressive sales pitch from some dude who looked like he was in the yakuza or something she quite bluntly told him to “Screw off and sell some real products like the good vendors!” Shaking a set of her wrist bells at him as if to intimidate him, although he was more bewildered as the motion didn’t make sense... other shinobi who knew her would understand that this was basically a threat but she’d already moved past him over to a vendor she wanted, grabbing cotton candy and a soda for a whopping 100ryo. She sipped on the drink to cool off and sighed, almost rolling her eyes as she reproached the large Yokai. In an attempt to feign not noticing it and suspecting that it’s perception was a little lacking it may not recognize her and it would be unlikely it could tell she was acting without some abnormal means of doing so. Walking into the wall yokai could only be described as one might expect... it was like walking into a wall and she was genuinely shocked at how hard it was. She bounced off of him with a small jingle and bumped her forehead slightly despite being ready for this, managing to minimize being phased from bumping into him like this and looking up at it in minor disbelief, her composure similar to probably many of the woman before her but her expression betrayed no fear and only a bit of disbelief, speaking false surprise by saying ”Whaaaaaat...? So Sturdy...!” Were the words that left her mouth as she cocked her head ever so slightly in false bafflement, despite her expression on the outside, her internal expression was an almost malicious like sneer, Take the bait you bloody Mungo! She thought, likening him to the extremely large but stupid sidekick type character from earlier t.v. era.
(I thought I was getting the cute giant three eyed dog-esq iteration XD this things a lot less cute but better in its own way. Calling a character who can’t keep herself together and has a fear of ridicule who’s appearance is a partial asset in skill set “not sturdy” and “ugly” harsh XD love ur material lol tis clever. I also like your rabbit character, beat me to making a cotton release user, I’m so sad XD) Stamina 300/300 | Chakra 600/600
One of the disparaged advertisers for a particular food stall was held back by his associate. They'd turn around and whisper to each other. That aside. When the girl bumped into the wall it's gaze would shift downward buts it posture unmoved. "Yes..am very sturdy...Should watch ...where you are.. going." It seemed the compliment was lost on it. It paused to think. "Clothes...outfit...hard...trying...trying too hard. It analyzed the girl more over than just a stumbling passerby whose words mixed with the crowds earlier. "Trying...hard..respect...hardness." Essentially this was what seemed liked a backhanded compliment. Essentially the wall went so far as to say that the girl was trying too hard when it came to her choice of appearance. Yet at the same time this was seen as a good thing to the wall. It was uncertain whether not why it considered this good, whether it actually applauded her efforts or just the fact that 'hard' was in the sentence of 'trying too hard'. Suffice to say though. No extension of wanting to date her was offered. Was she really so desperate to vye for approval from a wall that she wanted 'it' to ask her as oppose to the other way around? The walls opinion of her hadn't changed. She was not depicting herself as 'his type' and typical acts of swooning would be ineffective.
That said a random stranger would place his hand on her shoulder and ask her quite innocently "Are you alright? That Nuri has been there for awhile now, if you want I can show you another rout..." He'd be pulled aside by what could only be assumed as his actual date. At the least she could find affirmation that she could at least draw in the typical man. Still a stoic disinterest in Teri remained. Unless she bent over backwards for it and asked it straight for a date the likelihood of the Nurikabe requesting a date of her currently was almost zero to none. The Nurikabe's attention then shifted to what could only be a type of performer found on the streets. Painted from head to toe and staying completely still. Living statues they were called. Despite being a male performer the Nurikabe stared in fascination. This raised questions as to whether or not an individuals sex and gender were even something that a creature like it even cared about. The answer to that question was no, it did not care. As the next thing it would say addressing Teririki as if almost giving a false hope that she'd won it over. "Trying hard girl.. will you...ask that one there if they want to go..on a date?" its tiny hands pointing to the living statue performer who had many people around them taking pictures.
This was bewildering what in the hell, he reacted yet again totally outside of what she’d expected, was this thing simple or not? Not would likely be the appropriate answer, at least not to someone who didn’t understand much about this particular kind of yokais mindset, tastes and lack there of. Apparently to her understanding she was not up to snuff, according to the ohhh so informed and perceptive talking bloody wall person that she was a trying to hard, which caused her an immense amount of irritation, fluster and embarrassment... how could a talking wall bother her like this?! If anything she was putting out forty five to fifty five percent of her effort, her clothing wasn’t simply selecting slightly more eye catching clothes that normal, it would be true that she did in fact put more than her casual amount of effort for a day into today though. She normally wouldn’t carry a purse and didn’t have any ninja gear on her person at all besides her headband which was securely sealed at the bottom of her purse, yeah ok she’d done her makeup, but damn this wall Yokai for calling her a try hard, what was wrong with trying hard in the first place, why was it worth noting?! The secondary scan and statement didn’t particularly improve her feelings about this thing but at least made it even stranger and she had of coarse by this point realized that normal logic would apply to this thing... her pride tho?
Inhaling and exhaling she readied herself to get really upset as clearly something must be wrong with her, she hadn’t yet fully been able to accept it had a different thinking pattern because it felt like he was making fun of her, trying to figure a response for the big lummox her train of thought was distracted. A hand touched her shoulder and the voice of an unfamiliar guy spoke behind her, offering her some assistance more likely due to her appearance than simply because he saw something stroll into it, being pulled away by what she summarized was his actual date and watching them walk off, the secondary glacé he made back he made brought a smile to her face, restoring a level of of her self confidence and preventing her from actually getting overworked over one Yokais words and turned her attention back upon it. And as per usual it seemed to have about as much interest in her as a capybara does a nearby crocodile and it still sucked in her opinion, if she however couldn’t manage this, there’s no way she’d be allowed to continue and she’d prolly have to be put on suspension for another few months and that was simply not an option.
Then it addressed her of its own accord, with no actions on her part that to her knowledge would deserve further upsetting comments from the Yokai and he hopes began to rise... and then we’re utter dashed as Indicated to a performer in the middle of their “Living statue” routine and request she play matchmaker for it. She gave him a momentary and clearly annoyed, regarding look before peering to the performer again and looking back to the Yokai and speaking with her prior pretence and demeanour gone ”Listen big guy... the names Teririki not try hard girl, call me by my name! And I feel I should point a couple of things out, first being that the person you want me to go ask out for you is working at the moment and likely won’t respond until their act is over or they take a break. Secondly I’m not a try hard, I like to put some effort into my appearance is all, I also did put a bit of extra effort because I was trying to catch your attention, it’s a thing that humans sometimes do to try and attract attention, at least that was my intention.” She spoke in a slightly deeper yet still pleasent voice, throwing away the prior facade, coming off as matter of fact in her speaking matter, the fact she was miffed clear in her tone but renewed patience would also be noticeable. Taking a bite of the cotton candy and drinking a sip of her juice through its straw as a momentary pause in what she was saying to the yokai.
Continuing from where she left off after a pleased and refreshed exhale, her voice missing a bit of the irritation and sounding slightly reluctant and defeated she said ”Thirdly, id rather not ask someone out for you considering why I’m here.... why don’t you try going on a date with me, it’s the reason I’m here and having a hard time attracting your attention so now I’m asking you straight out...” She sighed inside as her inner self screamed and protested, her reluctant expression not betraying the part of her mind that rejected what she was about to do, turning to face the wall head on and stepping back to be able to properly look in the general direction of its eyes as opposed to look at one or the other. Then she opened her mouth ”Would you please go on a date with me!” She held her hands together in front of her as she said this and bowed about 30 degrees, making sure to project her voice to an embarrassing volume level as even underneath her makeup, the red flush spread across her face with red hot force and her brain contorted and screamed like a famous art piece. Anyone who laughed would have hell to pay, ANYONE!!!
Hmmm. Silence crept upon the stone surface..."Thing humans do..to attract attention..." gears turned. While Teri remained in her bowing position the thing only just having responded to the words she said earlier at a turtles pace. "I understand now..." The wall looked out to the great horizon of the fairgrounds goers. Laughs, cheers, and genuine enjoyment. Then what came out of the creatures mouth was something of a shocker a rather long winded philosophical statement. "To believe that humans would require it of themselves to make alterations upon their own personal being in order to attain the attentions of others among their kind to provoke potential courtships and intimacy. Validity found in a vanity, but that validity can only be seen as a fallacy, a mask to cover their true being and self. What validation is found in finding affection from someone who does not find the attractiveness of the individual as something of an immediate presentation of themselves. I am simply called a wall by many, blocking their path, but is it not that the true wall that impedes them, is the wall humans place in front of themselves not blocking their path in the realm physical but their potential as a being of which is deserving of love and the acceptance of their peers regardless of appearance outward or otherwise in the realm of the emotional." He spoke like a starfish speaking of the inner machination of his mind being an enigma.
"That aside I am not above this human concept for the exchange of affection through vanity." From what appeared to be out of a..pocket? The Nurikabe removed a grind stone and rapidly began to kick up dust particles as it began to start working on its face. It STILL hand't given Teri and answer despite her forwardness that left several onlookers quizzical. When the smoked cleared what could only be described as a 'handsome' face had been carved into the wall. Albeit was certainly no less awkward. Then finally it came. "I shall go on this date with you human Teririki, for though it is not out of any direct potential feelings of infatuation for you personally, I admire the struggles you intend to face head on in finding acceptance from one of your kind as implicated by the statement of human behaviour when seeking courtship and through this mutual bonding of platonic engagement will we find you the significant other of which you truly seek in the depths of your innermost being." Somehow things took a complete 180* this became a mission where one would assume they were taking the Nurikabe out on a pity date into the Nurikabe taking the individual asking them on the date out for a pity date. A living wall for a wingman. Yet all in all it didn't matter who was taking who out on a date it would at least get the wall moving and stop blocking a favored footpath.
What, what, what is this?!She thought to herself as to her mortification the wall Yokai had gotten philosophical with her words, which she could barely believe. This gormless thing apparently had a lot of thoughts about social interaction, individual self and identity as well as the concept of personal connection devoid of shallowness or focus of physical appearances... and why wouldn’t it, the thing was a wall and Teririki was an idiot in how she approached this thing. It’s talking felt like a thinker but also a little like a therapist, always telling her that using her appearance and the like to create false connections so she could do or get what was needed or she wanted, or under the impression it would appease others and make her more likeable and let her avoid needing to properly connect and avoid feeling vulnerable. She knew that a good deal of what the Yokai said was true, some of it she might be currently unable to totally accept or would try to disagree with if this was actually a topic on the table she wanted to discuss, it wasn’t exactly one she wanted to do so but she’d at least have to admit where one or two of his points were correct, although she’d probably have to acknowledge some of what he said, although as he was on his way to refusing her yet again, she might as well just give up on this mission, she didn’t want to argue this so sort stuff so as to convince it to accept.
Looking up at it, half gawking it expressed something that threw her of a little, the actions that followed causing her to drop her drink in confusion and disbelief at the bizarre act of it using a grind stone on its “facial area.” At least begins acknowledged that he was not above the concept of vanity and proceeded to disfigure...itself? Well if it had been a human these actions would disfigure if not worse a person, yet the creature made no Sounds to indicate pain as Teri stood straight and tensed due to the grinding sound and being unable to stop herself imagining what it was doing as incredibly painful. Just as she’d had enough and was about to tell it to stop, unable to stomach the noise and accompanying Images from an active imagination any longer it would cease its activities and reveal its newly ground “facial features.” It was an incredibly good emulation of what could be a handsome face, although still on a walking wall which would sort of very much prevent most people, if not basically everyone from truly perceiving this as handsome, although at least in the Arashigakure people would probably be able to tell what the aim was.
Her expression was something between astonishment, amusement, embarrassment, with a certain reluctance that implied she was unable to take this fully seriously anymore, this mission even if succeeded had been far more than she bargained for. Her unbecoming, open mouth half smile/pained grimace shifted into total shock and disbelief, like forgetting ones own birthday and walking into their own home to an ambush of friends when expecting burglars, yet still didn’t like surprise parties. Teri did however like surprise parties, hence despite the expression of disbelief and reddening of her face in fierce embarrassment, she had for all intents and purposes, half achieved her goal... the half that involved going on a date with the Yokai, not the part about it being a pity date and her having to ask him out.. so even if she wouldn’t be, the village would be happy.
Teririki started to laugh and hopped up and down as despite all this embarrassment and the table turn, she’d at least won and that feeling momentarily overruled her self image, as she needed to express the energy in some way, her first “real”success in around a year. “Hahaha, Yes! That’s awesome!!! Thank you whatever your name is!!!” She have clapped her hands if not for the cotton candy in one of them, her externally visible excitement dying down to just a little less bright but sincerer seeming mood than she’d been faking earlier. The girl leaning down and scooping up the drink she’d dropped and threw it at the range into a close by bin from where she stood, she rapidly considered what they might be able to do, so as to get him moving and hopefully try and make the Nurikabe not try and try and find her a potential date, although hadn’t decided how to approach that aspect yet. Right now taking it to a more spacious and less inconvenient area with enough visual stimulus that the Yokai would be entertained and find just if not more enjoyable than it must where it currently stood.... then she had an idea.
”So I see you were interested in the statue performer, why don’t we go to one of the larger areas where people like to busk or just perform in larger numbers and sometimes compete with on another to see who can draw in bigger crowds when there are no actual or big events going on. during those there are far to many people and to much equipment to play in those areas comfortably without reserved space and a lot of the people you’ll see today generally aren’t popular enough yet to be able to rent spaces in those events, so are harder to find a good spot to perform, at least in my experience.... anyway what would you prefer I call you? Like a name you go by?” She suggested with a little information included in hopes to coax him over there before asking a name. She thought it would be cool to watch the performers and also use the more abundant space enough for the Yokai to hang about and not actually block any specific or direct route like it currently was. Another reason she suggested this was because it would be hard to play any games for him and she wanted to have him as our the way as possible, however also be in a place he might get to talk to others.. as the big guy seemed to have thoughts, intricate and complex ones and have quite an opinion, she could see it playing chess with old people and discussing some sort of philosophical topic matter. Another reason was this guy seemed straightforward and the local performers might warm up to hearing this guys thoughts on there acts.. that is if it didn’t just ask everyone out. “We can also talk a little more on humans thoughts or feelings that are other aspects of human romantic relationships as well!, as there are more facets than just appearances to that sort of thing...” She said in her more casual and lazy manner, only half sounding walking over to it and reaching to take a hold of his hand, so as to try and coax him into following her, she’d tug with what she hopped was enough force for him to not and gripped the solid, granite like surface gently, not attempting to use the idea of holding hands to entice the creature, she was simply trying to lead him. Whilst doing this she also attempted to avoid other people’s looks and would not comment or react as if she saw them, although might not be so restrained should someone throw “fun” comments their way.
(Rofl, love this thing!) Stamina 300/300 | Chakra 600/600
"That sounds...acceptable." The wall had returned back to its slow lackadaisical form of speech. Choosing a event that was expansive enough to accommodate his massive girth was a wise decision. If Teri was familiar with the particular digital game involving a red hat wearing plumber the wall moved in the same fashion as one of the enemy types. A almost diagonal shuffle with each step. As the two walked Teri would most definitely have to take intermittent stops to wait for the thing to catch up. What would have likely been a six to maybe ten minute walk to the concert venue would be something of a thirty to forty minute slog. This was of course met with the occasional stop on its own to point to Teri when he found individuals of the single variety. Some 'hot suitors' he had directed her way included a slovenly fellow that only dated 2D women, a highly eccentric but also highly gay individual, and a literal pigeon from a flock of pigeons? They looked somewhat like seagulls, like if seagulls and pigeons bred. Needless to say his matchmaking making prowess left something to be desired but perhaps he saw the world differently. If anything each candidate he'd chosen could be said to have just as much passion for a particular thing not unlike Teri's passion to follow through on this mission. That pigeon was super into that trash without a doubt...ah wait that wasn't a pigeon it was a gullypop. Same difference.
It was only about twenty minutes in to their adventure of Teri being left unanswered about a name did she finally recieve an answer in a moment of what felt like awkward silence where it didn't seem like either of them would have anything to say. "Many of us simple yokai do not have names, they are something we do not find necessary, the differences of another's being is found in their soul, it is something I believe we are more attuned to seeing comparably to humans. Names, more often than not they are given to us by humans. Monster, b*****d, damn rock, stupid thing, blockhead. These are some of the names I have been given. All different yet all the same for In my soul no matter the name I am given..I am Nurikabe, just as no matter what you or others may call you, you will always be whom you believe yourself to be in your soul."
They would finally find themselves at the concert venue. Having missed the opening act and the follow-up but in time for the main attraction. People gathered with glow sticks and the like, an idol group endorsed by Arashigakure's original idol Selina Rosewater was performing. Thusly it had become far more crowded that what was typically to be expected from the average independent acts. Surprisingly despite his love for the 2D girls that one sloven fellow was there aswell. The concert began with a song about opening one's heart followed by finding 'the one'. It was essentially par for the course for most idol songs but the choreography and lyrics were still pretty top notch. "This is pleasant. Despite my better efforts we were incapable of finding your one. Do you believe someday you will 'open' your heart to your 'one'." The wall would patiently wait still transfixed on the stage but they slowly shifted toward the stages side where it looked like security was slowing down what appeared to be a group of 'crazed' fans trying to make it backstage. "CALL IN THE WALL!" one would say. Then from behind the stages left end a large pinkish Nurikabe emerged and blocked the backstage entrance as the bodyguards all wiped their sweat away. The concert coming to its close, the walls fixation had switched a long time ago to something else or rather someone else.
