Ren threw his arms up in the air as the younger girl pointed her weapon at his face, a somewhat worried expression on his face as his glance flitted between her and the wooden sword.

"Well, I mean... If you saw something weird poking out from behind a wall and nobody else saw it, you'd want to check it out to make sure you weren't going crazy, right? Besides, you really think this--" he said, motioning to the sky as he continued. "--is normal? Seriously, what kind of New Year's Eve...?"

As he was about to start complaining to himself, though, the spontaneous appearance of a few other people (who were also presumably dropped in from the middle of the festival) caused him to hold his tongue and turn to address them. While one was a pretty apparent drunkard (which probably meant there wouldn't be much use in trying to talk to them), the other seemed to be a rational human being asking questions that weren't obvious to the point of rhetoric. That was something he could get behind.

"Ah... Well, I saw a weird skeletal arm... Thing... Poking out from behind the shrine. Went over to check, found nothing; turned around, felt like half a dozen things were grabbing me, and then darkness. That's about as succinct an explanation I can give from my end," he said, getting off of his seat on the railing and slowly lowering the girl's bokken with his right arm. "Also, please don't point that at me. There's only so much my mind can take before I start getting anxious."

The pseudo-sarcasm loaded in his voice was half-serious, and though the girl definitely seemed to be a few years his junior, she was armed and he was not. A bunch of bruises from being whacked by a wooden blade was [i]not[/i] something he wanted at the moment.

"Well, regardless of what's going on, we're not getting anywhere without some exploration..." he began to say before noticing the ground starting to shake under the group--the pebbles that seemed to jump into the air every few seconds was an indication of that, if anything.

"...Huh? Okay, what's--"

Before he could finish that question, though, an unearthly roar came from the bottom of the steps to the shrine before a giant skeletal arm came crashing down right in their field of view. Another one soon followed, dragging a giant skeleton that seemed to be the size of a large house up towards the group.

Ren stared in shock for a few moments before the skeleton moved again, dragging its body further up the stairs.

"Oh, [i]shit[/i]," he swore before taking a few steps back up, moving closer to the shrine. "Nope. I'm running. Not dealing with that. No way."

With a few more steps back as the monster let out another scream, Ren took a look around before noticing that a few smaller skeletons were beginning to claw their way out of the darkness under the thing's ribcage.

"Er... I vote... We run. NOW."

With that last statement, Ren turned around and began to run, passing by another girl and a... Weird headless person of some sort okay it was probably long past time to freak out by now but there were bigger problems at hand. No way that sort of thing would go down to anything less than a few RPG blasts to the head. Or some sort of magical sword from a game bisecting it.

What the heck was up with today?!