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--Kuon--
🔴The setting this time is Shonagon (one of the government positions under the Reisei system) in the Heian period, and the house of Fujiwara Yorichika.
Douman Ashiya, the father of Ukitsuki, the unsung protagonist, and his older sister Kureha, lives as a priest at a shrine behind Shonagon's mansion and uses a number of techniques with silkworm thread.
Shonagon claims that a monster has appeared in the mansion and asks Doman to deal with it.
A few days later, the sisters, worried about their father's late return home, decided to visit the mansion.
At the same time, from the opposite location, four of Doman's disciples, Sakuya, Dokai, Doryo, and Dochin, were called by Doman's letter and went to Shonagon's mansion.
------...This is the general synopsis.
🔴Detailed explanation from here
🔴1. From the cause of what happened to the Shonagon mansion
The reason why the monster appeared in Shonagon's mansion this time is that it was a byproduct of Doman's attempt to create a powerful forbidden technique against Seimei - a foreign law.
That's the ``sick people'' that are everywhere...
The process involved wrapping a person in silkworm thread, which Doman specializes in, and crossing him with some other living creature. By doing so, the creature formed inside the cocoon transforms into a different creature.
The centipede woman who appeared in the middle of Sakuya came out in the middle of the combination of centipede and wife.
Doman created a number of cocoons, and if they intersected nine times, he would be reborn as a child of a mulberry tree.He completed the ``Law of Nine Grudges'' and intended to use it as a weapon against Seimei.
This is the main cause of what happened to the mansion.
🔴2・About the purpose of the mulberry tree and the mulberry twins
Twins appear from the beginning to the end
These twins are the clones of the mulberry tree, created to allow the immobile mulberry tree to walk freely.
The reason why there are twins is because there are two mulberry trees: the mulberry tree in Doman's garden and the mulberry tree in Shonagon's garden.
Therefore, the reason why it was half burnt in the Ukitsuki arc is because Sakuya burnt down the tree in the shrine's garden.
The purpose of the twins is to create a new mulberry tree child through the ``Law of the Nine Grudges.''
Using silk thread from his own tree, he placed it in a box and tried to wrap it in a cocoon nine times.
Doman notices this and tries to use it against Seimei.
🔴3・About each character
[Utsuki]
A long time ago, he regretted not being able to save his girlfriend's sister from falling off a cliff.
For that reason, he continues to care for his sister, who almost died, and continues to think of her even as her memory fades in the end.
[Kureha]
One person who received the Law of Nine Grudges. Although he falls off a cliff, he is revived as a different creature by the Kuwanoki twins' law of Kuon.
Although he remained conscious as a human for several days, as the days passed, he became afraid of the fact that his skin color changed, and tried to prolong his life using the law of Kuon that his father had taught him, and was repeatedly defeated. After crossing paths in the cocoon, they finally cross paths with Ukitsuki.
At first after being revived, he was in poor physical condition and hated Ukitsuki, who was brighter than him and who fell off the cliff, but after interacting with Ukitsuki, his father, Doman, told him that the real culprit behind him falling off the cliff was revealed. , I was surprised to hear that they were Kuwanoki's twins.
[Sakuya]
He is the lowest of Doman's disciples.
Along the way, she meets Ukitsuki and Kureha, and learns of the current situation of Ukitsuki, who has never left the area, and vows to save her and bring her out the next time they meet for the eighth time.
At the end of the game, the law of Kuon is completed and the box containing Ukitsuki is about to be destroyed by Seimei, but he earnestly tells his feelings and tries to help Ukitsuki.
[Dokai, Doryo, Dochin]
Doman's disciple.
▶Dokai: The best of the three. Along the way, he learns of the purpose of his master Doman and tests the method of Kuon on his own body. Later, he meets Sakuya and attempts to sacrifice her to Kuon's law, but it ends in failure.
▶Michi Ryo: A person with a refreshing face. Along the way, he meets Ukitsuki and Kureha, and although he works with Sakuya, he is killed by Kureha and becomes a sacrifice for the law of the Nine Grudges. Later, during his assimilation, he meets Sakuya.
▶Dochin: He is the shortest and is a bit shy. He works with Sakuya in the beginning, but when he goes underground, he is killed by his wife, who has transformed into a centipede, and is stuffed into a box.
[Doman Ashiya]
Ukitsuki and Kureha's father. He uses silkworm thread to perform techniques. The priest of the shrine behind Shonagon's mansion. In order to defeat Seimei, he attempts to seal the mulberry tree and complete the Kuon Law. However, just before completion, Seimei gets in the way, and in the end he decides to use his strength.
[Seimei]
The third main character. Defeat Doman with overwhelming power. After that, he tries to destroy the box where the Law of the Nine Grudges is made, but at Sakuya's words, he stays and gives him the sealing nail as a solace.
🔴【Others】
▶Fujiwara Yorichika: The head of the mansion. Due to the law of Kuon, he becomes an invalid.
▶Princess: She becomes frightened by the approach of the protagonist and locks herself inside. At that time, he was taken away by Kureha and sacrificed.
▶ Wife: After cocooning several times, she was transformed by combining with a centipede. He tries to sacrifice Dochin to enter the box, but is defeated by Sakuya.
▶Sick person: The state of the first stage of the Law of the Nine Grudges, and from the second stage onwards, those who are not suitable will wander around as hungry ghosts or half-formed synthetic forms.
🔴 [Summary]
Kuon no Ho is a technique used by mulberry trees to create new mulberry trees.
Doman does not know this, and thinks that after the ninth interaction he will have perfected the technique to defeat Seimei, so he uses the people in Shonagon's mansion as sacrifices.
Since Kureha was the most suitable, she was used until the end, and in the end, she ended up intersecting with Ukitsuki.
However, before the law could be completed, Seimei caught wind of it, and Doman was defeated despite the use of force. His corpse was taken away by Ukitsuki, and they entered into fellowship for the ninth time.
Seimei tries to break the box to prevent this, but he accepts Sakuya's strong feelings and gives her the sealing nail as a comfort, leaving her with the words, ``I don't know what will come out.''
Then at dawn,
What came out of the door were Sakuya and the new mulberry bud, [Young Ukitsuki]. In his hands, he holds one half of a mulberry, like they were once twins.
Sakuya kept her previous promise to Ukitsuki, and she started walking towards a new place to live in peace.
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By the way, in the Ukizuki arc in the second half of the game, after the Kureha cross paths, when Douman encounters Douman, Douman says to Ukitsuki, ``It wasn't Ukitsuki that caused the fall, it was the twins of the mulberry tree.'' I want to say something
If Ukitsuki was conscious, Doman would not have mentioned Ukitsuki's name, and he said that was the reason.
From that point of view, perhaps there was some awareness of Kureha after they met? It seems that
If that's the case, I can understand why Doman said that.
So, I guess it was because of Kureha's influence that he had some reason left in the end...
I thought that part really showed the depth of sisterly love.
By the way, I'd like to add a strawberry at the end.
I'll look into the explanation for this at a later date.
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A collection of flowers A collection of Chinese robes reflected in the bamboo blinds
The sound of a drum on a haunted kudzu basket, a flower bed with mulberry fruits
The imitation of her spinning silk threads, still swaying quietly, all in one place
Arrange the chopsticks that she hates
Hashizoroe Hashizoroe Mai is unraveling in the shadow
Drifting along on the evening moon night, Toribeno Shrine Road
I can't go back again, my hair trembles and sways as I visit again and again.
Align the chopsticks that she hates in the overlapping images.
Hashizoroe Hashizoroe Red-ripe Koishimaru
The camellia bush blurs into the cocoon, layering the bushes here
Her impersonation is now an eternity's funeral skewer
Arrange the chopsticks that she hates because they don't scatter in her dreams.