Midnight Shrine Popularity Panic Attack
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Story transcript
Tomoko: Please-please-please let me become popular... or at least let me survive high school without dying of embarrassment...
Tomoko: Wait... is that a yokai antenna? Am I praying in the wrong shrine?
Noko: Ohayo! Are you here for the midnight popularity ritual too?
Tomoko: HORNS?! This isn't a popularity ritual—this is a HUMAN SACRIFICE!
Torako: You're not from the neighborhood. Are you here to steal the shrine's luck?
Anko: Or maybe she's here to confess something embarrassing?
Tomoko: They can read minds—yokai CAN read minds! Abort mission—ABORT MISSION!
Tomoko: I-I-I just wanted to pray for popularity! I didn't know this was yokai territory!
Anko: Yokai? We're the Koshi family—this is our shrine.
Tomoko: FAMILY? Not yokai—just weirdly eccentric shrine girls who probably think I'm a lunatic
Torako: Actually... we do have a popularity charm. But it requires you to tell us your most embarrassing secret first.
Tomoko: This is worse than yokai—this is BLACKMAIL! And I'm probably going to confess everything like an idiot!
Anko: Or... you could just visit during normal hours instead of creeping around at midnight?
Tomoko: They're probably recording this. Tomorrow I'll be trending as 'Midnight Weirdo' at school. This is exactly why I needed popularity insurance in the first place...
Torako: Come back tomorrow—we'll teach you the *real* popularity ritual!
Torako: You can't run until we get our payment.
Tomoko: Payment? I only have 5 yen! Are they going to harvest my organs?!
Noko: The fox-lanterns are responding to her...
Anko: Secret first, transfer student.
Tomoko: Transfer student? How do they know I'm not from around here?! They've been stalking me!
Tomoko: I... I sniff my own seat after class...
Tomoko: WHY DID I SAY THAT?! Of all the secrets—why did my brain choose THAT one?!
Torako: Oh, that's perfect!
Tomoko: No-no-no, I take it back! I meant I sniff flowers! FLOWERS!
Noko: The shrine spirits accepted your offering!
Tomoko: They think I'm a pervert AND an idiot who talks to spirits!
Tomoko: It echoed... the whole neighborhood probably heard...
Torako: Don't worry—we're the only ones who'll remember this... probably.
Tomoko: Probably. She said probably. I'm going to be 'Seat-Sniffer Senpai' for the rest of my life.
Anko: Here's your popularity charm! Fair warning—it might make you TOO popular.
Tomoko: Too popular? At this point, I'll be popular as 'that weird girl who sniffs furniture.' The charm should probably say 'AVOID ME' in big letters.
Torako: Come back anytime! We love collecting secrets!