MM:Kusabi

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Mio's Memo: Kusabi
Obtained: Final Chapter, after entering the Rope Temple
Replaces: Folklorist

All God's Village's custom was to use outsiders as human sacrifices, or "Kusabi", to temporarily appease the Hellish Abyss. The villagers told Makabe they would show him the Hellish Abyss, but they captured him and locked him up instead. Before using the key from Yae and Sae, he was sacrificed. The village believed the more pain a Kusabi was subjected to before being sacrificed, the more effective it would be. After many painful rituals, Makabe was thrown into the Hellish Abyss. But, along with Sae, he appeared as a Kusabi on the day of The Repentance and slaughtered the villagers. Makabe gave Yae and Sae a note for his assistant Ryozo, telling him to get out of the village. Wondering why, Ryozo did so, but came back on the day of the ceremony to fulfil his promise with Itsuki. When he arrived, the village was gone and all he could find was a girl standing motionless.

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Mio's Notes: The Kusabi
Obtained: Final Chapter, after entering the Rope Temple
Replaces: MM:Folklorist

A tradition developed in Minakami Village whereby an outsider was sacrificed as what was known as a Kusabi, in order to temporarily appease the Abyss.

Told that he was to be taken to see the Abyss, Makabe was lured to the Kurosawa House, where he was imprisoned. Before he had a chance to use the key he had been given by Sae and Yae, the ritual began.

At the Shadow Ritual, a living victim is cut, turning him into the Kusabi. The more pain that is inflicted on the victim, the more powerful their ability to appease the Abyss.

Cruelly cut and suspended from ropes, at the end of the agony, the victim is cast into the Abyss.

On the day of the Repentance, Makabe, in the form of the Kusabi, emerged from the Abyss along with Sae. Wishing to inflict the same pain he had suffered on others, he slaughtered the villagers.

Makabe managed to pass a note to Yae and Sae, who gave it to his assistant, Munakata. It said: 'You must leave this place.' With a heavy heart, Munakata obeyed.

Keeping a vow he had made to Itsuki, he returned to the village on the day of the Crimson Sacrifice Festival, but found that it had vanished and only Yae survived.

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Info - World: The Kusabi

Minakami Village ritually turned outsiders into kusabi, human sacrifices to calm the Abyss. Seijiro Makabe was invited to the Kurosawa house on the pretext of being shown a kusabi, only to be taken prisoner. Though Yae and Sae gave him a key to escape, he never got a chance to use it. Instead, Seijiro was turned into one of the sacrificial mummies in the Shadow Ritual. According to tradition, the more suffering that is inflicted upon a kusabi, the stronger they become. Seijiro was subjected to deep cuts all over his body and hung from the neck with rope before being thrown into the Abyss. On the day of the Repentance, he returned from the Abyss with Sae and set about inflicting the same tortures he had experienced upon the people of Minakami Village. Seijiro's assistant Ryozo Munakata had reluctantly left Minakami at his master's behest with a letter the twins had given him. But when he returned on the day of the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual to keep a promise to Itsuki Tachibana, all he found was Yae Kurosawa, frozen in shock on the outskirts of what was once the village.

楔となった学者

皆神村では、虚を鎮める一時的な人柱として
外から来たマレビトを楔として使う習わしが
あった。

虚を見せるといわれ黒澤家に招かれた真壁は、
捕われて牢に入れられた。そして、八重と
紗重からもらった出口の鍵を使うことも無い
まま、陰祭の贄とされた。


生贄の即身仏である「楔」は、苦痛を与える
ほど強い楔となるとされている。
真壁は全身を切り刻まれ、縄で吊り下げられ
て苦痛を高める儀式にかけられた後、虚に
入れられた。

楔となった真壁は、大償の日に虚から紗重と
共に現れ、自分と同じ苦痛を味あわせるため、
村の人々を虐殺していった。


真壁の助手であった宗方は、八重と紗重から
渡された「ひとりで帰れ」という真壁の手紙
を見て、いぶかしく思いながらも村を去った。

紅贄祭の日、樹月との約束によりもう一度
村を訪れた宗方は、消えた村の跡と、村の
はずれに立ちつくしていた八重を見ることに
なる。