![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Look over there. That's my house. Well, there's nothing left because it burned down." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"So inside that vortex is the Hone Ningyou." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Be careful. If ya get too close, ya'll get sucked in." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Unpleasant thoughts. Collection of negative emotions. Not sorcery, but curse of people itself. Hideous." |
![Story Mary.png](/images/8/82/Story_Mary.png) Mary |
"That's... Poison." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Yeah, it's Poison, the otherworldly Poison that Hone Ningyou spit out." |
![Story Mary.png](/images/8/82/Story_Mary.png) Mary |
The problem is that it didn't just spit it out, it's utilizing it. Such terrifying learning ability." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Fortunately, Hone Ningyou is motivated by resentment. It has no ambitions of world domination or humanity's extinction. Thanks to that, Nishiki has not been destroyed yet. If that thing is interested in a Giant Tree, it's the end of the world." |
![Story Mary.png](/images/8/82/Story_Mary.png) Mary |
"But there will be those who are trying to get it interested. They are also thinking of using it as a weapon." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Yes. We can't overlook the dumbasses on that side." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Youko, right?" |
![Story Mary.png](/images/8/82/Story_Mary.png) Mary |
"Not necessarily Youko alone." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Miss Yuuzen, just to confirm, can we enter that realm... That vortex?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Ya can enter with me. But I just don't know if we can get out." |
![Story Mary.png](/images/8/82/Story_Mary.png) Mary |
"I won't turn back even if ya say so, I won't let Yuuzen go alone." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"I know. Going in alone is a bad idea. The support y'all got is quite a monster. It makes it much easier for me to fight it." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Maki is a kijin. Not a monster." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Excuse me. I meant it as a compliment. Please don't be offended." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Yer a disciple of Shimoamazu the First, aren't ya? That's quite an accomplishment." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Can you see the curse placed on Kijinga Castle? Yuuzen, you are no ordinary person after all. Quite a feat to create Hone Ningyou." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Hey Maki-san stop..." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Yuuzen, tell me more about Hone Ningyou. How Yuuzen created Hone Ningyou. Want to know before confronting Hone Ningyou." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Hone Ningyou is made with your mother's bones. There are several sorceries that uses person's bones. Some of them include puppet techniques." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"However, your Hone Ningyou is not just any doll." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Yeah, it is not just a doll. It has an ego, is independent, speaks its own language, and uses sorcery. It can also create its own techniques, and somehow it is also very good with weapons." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"This is no longer puppet techniques. Not the art of breathing life into puppets, nor the art of breathing life into people's bones." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Hone Ningyou is almost impossible to be created. At the very least, it is difficult to establish it as sorcery. That's what Shishou said." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"But I, as a little brat, could do it. I could do it, no matter what Shimoamazu the First said." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Understood. Don't think you are lying. But of course, Shishou is not wrong." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Shishou said this at the end. There is one exception, though." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"That exception is Reverse Soul Technique, a secret technique that is forbidden in Nishiki sorcery." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"Yuuzen, you used Reverse Soul Technique. This is an unforgivable act for a sorceress." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Yuuzen-san was still a child. Besides, you don't have to talk like that without knowing the circumstances when she used the technique..." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Shut up. This is none of yer business." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"But..." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"It's okay. Just like what this kijin said. I should explain to everyone what Hone Ningyou is all about." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"By the way Miyako, that's very unusual. Yer not the kind of person who would have come at me like that. Not so long ago, ya would have said, 'Information should be shared to everyone'." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"It is true that 'necessary information' should be shared. But, I think there is a way to say it. Words should be used with care." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"I'm surprised at this twerp. I didn't know she could change so much in a short period of time..." |
![Story Miyako.png](/images/2/21/Story_Miyako.png) Miyako |
"Did you say something?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"No, nothing. I just thought ya are growing up too." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"......" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"That's right. I'm going to Hone Ningyou's house now. Ya'll should know what it's like." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Maki is right, when I was a kid I used the Reverse Soul Technique. It is a forbidden technique to return the soul of a dead person back to the body. As long as the dead's body is the original, they can be brought back to life, even if it's just bones." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"If the Reverse Soul Technique is used, then the Hone Ningyou has a soul. That is very troublesome." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Why is it tricky if it has a soul? Is it like with Wandering Lives, where it transfers to other people?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Don't worry about that. As Yuuzen said, the returned soul can only stay in its original body." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"But having a soul means one has a heart. If one has a heart, one has feelings." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Well... that means?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"That means that the power to curse people is strong. If one's a sorceress, it can be very troublesome." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"If there's a strong grudge or hatred left, it will have powers of sorcery." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"Meaning the smart ones have a different and more complicated way of fighting than cursed spirits." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Rather, it is possible it can conjure cursed spirits. It can set traps and escape." |
![Story Maki.png](/images/f/f7/Story_Maki.png) Maki |
"'Do not revive the Nishiki's dead. Do not use it for arts'. Such are the teachings. Sorcerers or kijin. It will become a formidable enemy if a Nishiki dead regains its soul." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"The power of curses strengthens after death. The thoughts of the dead create a power that a sorcerer cannot read, and Hone Ningyou's power has been growing ever since she came back to this world." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"My mother hated this world. She's like this even before I was born." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"And then she was killed just like that. No wonder she became a monster that attacks people..." |