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Soya's Notes (4)


Kanji 宗也の手記 四
そうやのしゅき よん
Game Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Author Soya Yomotsuki
Chapter Final Phase: Hallowed Realm
Located at Meditation Cave
Obtained Down the left fork in the passageway
Description A well-used notebook. Talks about the salvation of souls.
Additional Description It's Father's. He was here...
Related Notes Soya's Notes (1), Soya's Notes (2), Soya's Notes (3), Soya's Notes (5), Soya's Notes (6), Soya's Scribblings & Letter From Soya Yomotsuki

The Rogetsu Kagura is supposed to appease the dead, but I wonder if they are really in such anguish that they need to be appeased? Dr. Haibara's take on the matter is that souls are collections of memories. They cannot be destroyed. If that's true, then death is nothing but endless memory, endless solitude and endless suffering.

Can we ease the suffering of the dead by destroying those memories? There are masks that can do this. The mask of the Vessel lets her lose herself, and the Mask of the Lunar Eclipse forged by Soetsu also clears all memory for a short time. However, erasing memory would leave nothing behind.

Soetsu thought that there was more than oblivion left behind after all memory is lost. Reduce a circle enough and it becomes a point. No matter how small the circle gets, there is always a point left behind.

The same goes for people and for souls.

Everyone's circle is different, but if you keep shrinking it, it becomes a point. The point of origin from which all have come, and the final destination ultimately shared by all.

That point is Soetsu's Hallowed Realm.

I am fascinated by this idea.

I believe this to be the place we come from at the moment of birth, and the place we pass through at the moment we lose ourselves. The Hallowed Realm is in all of us. So is salvation.

Soetsu tried to reach the Hallowed Realm using the Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.

Is this not the true purpose of the Rogetsu Kagura... No, the true purpose of the Rite of Descent?

Soetsu stumbled on the road to salvation, but I, Soya Yomotsuki, will forge the true Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.

朧月神楽は死者を慰める舞というが、
慰めなければならないほど、
死者の魂とは苦しいものなのか。

魂とは、記憶の塊だと灰原氏は言っていた。
魂は滅びることは無い。
だとしたら、死は
永遠の記憶、永遠の孤独、
永遠の苦痛でしかない。

だが、記憶をなくせばそれで良いのだろうか。

器の面は、我をなくすための面だ。
宗悦が打った月蝕の面も、
一度は記憶を完全に消す。

記憶を壊す面は作ることができる。
だが、記憶を完全に消せば、何も無くなる。
ただの無だ。

宗悦は、すべての記憶を無くした
後にこそ、残るものがあるとしている。

円を極限まで小さくすれば点となる。

どんなに小さくしても、点は残る。
無ではない。
人も魂もまた然り。

人の円はそれぞれ違えど、
小さくしていけば必ず点となる。

それは、誰もが通ってきた原初の場所。
そして、誰もが共有できる果ての到達点。
その点こそが、宗悦が記した零域だ。

私はこの考えに魅了されてきた。

それは、生まれる瞬間、
あるいは我が無くなる瞬間に
訪れる場所なのではないか。

零域は万人に存在する。
救済もまた然り。

宗悦は、月蝕の面で
その零域に至ろうとした。

これこそが朧月神楽、
いや帰来迎の真の役目、
なのではではないのか?

宗悦は救済の道程で倒れた。
真の月蝕の面を、我が手で打たん。

Documents
Dr. Asou's Notes - Notes from Madoka - Madoka's Notebook - Madoka's Diary - Letter to Madoka - Choshiro's Notebook - Ruka's Diary - Misaki's Diary - Torn Diary - Boy's Diary - Diary with Pictures - 2F Nurse's Logbook - 3F Nurse's Logbook - 4F Isolation Room Reports - On-Duty Nurse's Memo - Duty Nurse's Notes - Nurse's Notes - Tsubaki Tono's Diary - Assistant's Notes - Director Haibara's Notes - Black Notebook - Sayaka's Diary - Letter to Soya - Soya's Notes - Soya's Scribblings - Letter From Soya Yomotsuki - Sakuya's Diary - Note from Someone - Letter Dropped by Woman in Black - Kageri Sendo's Letters - Kaoru Sendou's Suicide Note - Yuko Magaki's Painting Notes - Patient Observation Record - Misaki Asou Treatment Notes - Ayako's Notes - Fragment of an Unsent Letter - Female Patient's Suicide Note - Construction Worker's Logbook - Scribbled Last Words - Woman's Suicide Note - Patient's Notes - Note Left by Islander - Note Left by Fisherman - Note by Court Guardian
Records
Memo to the New Nurse - Information Plaque - Memo with Code - Information About Lift - Room Assignment Lists - Medical Files - Post-Mortem Certificates - Hospital Notices - Film Incineration - Newspaper Articles - Rogetsu Island Tourism Brochure - "What is the Rogetsu Kagura?" - Rogetsu Kagura Film Record - "To Rogetsu Kagura Visitors" - Dr. Asou's Research - Moonlight Syndrome Research File - Moonlight Syndrome and the Moon - Informer's Report - Old Research Records - Bundle of Burned Letters - Rogetsu Island Tomes - Yomotsuki Documents - Tsukimori Documents - "On the Mask of the Lunar Eclipse" - "Coming of the Day of Tranquility"
Other
Basic Operation - Flashlight - Examining - Camera Obscura - Filament - Taking Hint Photos - Power-Up Lenses - Equipped Functions - Film - Spirit Stone Flashlight - Handbook - Menu - Saving - Blue Crystals - Red Crystals - Hozuki Dolls
Pictures
Control Panel - Code Echoing in Ears - Cradle - Five Masks - Five Maidens - Grandfather Clock Code - Hole in Floor - Misaki with Girl in Black - Old Score Shining on Wall - Smudged Faces - Photo Taken in Front of Infirmary - Photo of Girls - Photo of Man and Masks - Photo of Woman with no Face - Red Wheelchair - Room with Books - Vision of Oblivion - Screening - Mask with Charm - Hidden Doll
Voices
List of phone calls - Radio messages - List of tapes
Misc.
Unused Files