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FF3 > Rei's Journal
MAJOR thanks to Dani a.k.a sablehairangel for taking the time to type all this up for me. I am incredibly appreciative and owe my soul!
[Incidents]
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The tattoo bruise
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Every time I dream of the house, the bruise – the tattoo – gets bigger…
I found a picture of a similar tattoo in a book of folklore
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A Snake and Holly pattern.
According to an old folktale, the tattoo represents the pain (holly) and longing of a girl whose lover has died.
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Like my longing for Yuu…
Disappearances
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According to Miku’s research, Yoshino Takigawa was asleep almost all the time just before she “disappeared”.
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After the accident she slept longer and longer hours, and whenever she woke up, she would hum what sounded like a lullaby.
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Apparently the medical community is abuzz with rumors of similar occurrences: Hospital patients who disappeared.
Is this another of those urban legends?
The lullaby
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According to a book Miku found for me, the lullaby sounds like a song called “The Sleeping Shrine Maiden” from Northeastern Japan.
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The empty house I visited on the job assignment was in the same part of the country, off the map deep in the hills.
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The book suggests the song might be a folk corruption of an old religious ritual.
A ceremony to do with sleep – could it be connected to my dreams somehow?
Human Columns
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The old book tells how a family named Moriya marked by the tattoo killed the shrine carpenters after they had built the manor, then ended by making themselves into Taboo Pillars or Sacrificial Pillars.
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All except one, the new Master Builder.
[Location]
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The Abandoned House
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Miku tells me the house I went to is famous for being haunted.
They say it’s a place where people can meet the dead.
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And that the dead lure people into the “Other World”.
The words have stayed in my mind.
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What if Yuu really is there inside that manor, calling out to me…
What will I do?
The Manor of Sleep
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Inside the house was a courtyard.
It was Snowing.
There was a line of graves and an even older house looming up behind.
The Hidden Shrine
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The area around the sealed shrine was full of evil air.
Now that the door is open, the air has escaped and entered the manor.
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The seal has been broken, and there is no turning back now.
Carved into the altar inside the shrine are the words “Offer up the Mirror Etches with the Holly of the Priestess.”
Human-shaped stains
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Sacred rope was hung along the narrow corridor behind the door where I heard the moaning, and the walls were covered in black human-shaped stains.
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There was a similar stain left behind after Yoshino Takigawa went missing.
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I read in one of the papers about mummified bodies being discovered behind the same kinds of stain.
The Skewered Dolls
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Inside the manor in a courtyard surrounded by a corridor, was a tree wrapped with sacred rope.
Around it stood straw dolls skewered on stakes.
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According to an old book on folklore the practice belongs to an old folk cult.
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The dolls stood at the border between the mountains (divine) and the village (human), functioning as protective deities or amulets.
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What is there in that courtyard, beyond that door?
The Impalement Room
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A room full of red dolls nailed to the walls with stakes. According to an old tome left behind in the house, nailing the dolls acts to soothe something that lies deep within the manor.
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The ceremony is called Impalement, and is carried out by young girls called Handmaidens.* (special note *)
The Hanging Prison
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In the room with the hanging prison was an altar where a human skin hung, covered in a tattoo.
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Before the altar was a pedestal with four round objects on it, inscribed with writing:
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“Obtain the 4 Purity Stones, By the Handmaiden’s* Song subdue the waking of the priestess in the Chamber of Needles.”
Is this connected to the Hanging Prison?
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Is there a shrine maiden inside there?
The Ceremony Room
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I found a Buddha image similar to the one on the blood-stained altar in an old book of folklore.
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The book suggested the image was a kind of memorial, used for offering live sacrifices.
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Is the image in the book the same as the one in the house?
What was happening in there?
The Library Altar
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On the second floor of the reed screen room was a library full of old books.
There was one shelf with an altar on it.
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Something must once have been displayed there. Carved into the shelf were the words:
“Offer up the Commandment Tome Written in the Ink of Tattoo.”
The Rope House
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The house in Miku’s dream is different from the one I’ve been seeing.
The corridors hung with rope, the blood altar, the woman torn apart…
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Miku has a memory of these things.
Is this place somehow connected to Miku and her memories of her brother?
Missing in Minakami
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According to what Miku found out from the papers, the girl in Kei’s dream was his niece, Mio.
A couple of months ago, Mio and her twin sister Mayu went missing.
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Mio was found along about a week later.
Several other people have gone missing from around Minakami and there are rumors that they have been “spirited away”.
[People]
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Yuu Asou
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My fiancé.
He was an editor who worked on books of folklore, philosophy, and anthropology.
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We met as students. He was the opposite of me in every way: quiet and kind, like gently falling rain.
Like a soft shower that washes everything clean.
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He passed away two months ago in an accident caused by my careless driving.
Miku Hinasaki
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Miku has gone.
Has she gone to the one she longs for, her brother?
Is her decision…the right one?
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And for me too…?
Kei Amakura
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Yuu’s friend, who is researching the “Manor of Sleep”.
His conclusion is that to get rid of the curse someone has to “Impale the Woken Maiden, and Soothe Her.”
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And so he is going inside the shrine. And once he’s there…
Mafuyu Hinasaki
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Written in Kei’s letter was the name of Miku’s brother: Mafuyu.
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He was a friend of Kei and Yuu who disappeared while on the trail of missing writer Junsei Takamine.
People say he was “spirited away”.
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I knew Miku had lost a relative, but I had thought he had died. She never spoke about her brother.
That photo…is Miku still longing for the brother she lost?
Mio Amakura
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The girl who appeared in kei’s dream.
She is his niece, Mio.
She has been taken prisoner by sleep too.
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She kept talking about her sister.
Was she looking for her sister when she was lured into the house?
Reika Kuze
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The woman whose body has been etched with pain.
She is etched with the longing and pain of those who have survived, and continued to carry and feel that pain.
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And then in the end, what was carved into the mirror was the pain of her own holly.
Her longing to see Kaname again.
I want to be with him again…
Kaname Kuze
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The voice on the tape left behind Professor Asou introduced itself as Kaname.
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He must have set out for the manor in response to Reika’s voice, heard in a dream, and made his way to the Kuze Shrine.
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Did he find her…Reika, the tattooed priestess?
Is there really a place inside the manor where people can go meet the dead?
Amane
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The girl with plaited hair who begged Miku for help.
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She was waiting for her brother to come back…She must have gone into the shrine to try and help him.
And then…
Mother and Daughter
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The mother and child who appared in my dream in old-fashioned kimonos.
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They were looking for someone, calling out in sad voices to him…
Who could they be?
Woman with Comb
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The woman who pinned her combed hair to the wall and awaited someone’s return.
“I’ve been waiting,” she said when I caught her image in the Camera Obscura
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Did this camera once belong to the man she was waiting for?
Maybe he left her and the camera here and set out for somewhere…
Shrine Maiden Girl
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The girls dressed as shrine maidens who tried to impale me in the daydream I had inside the deserted house.
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Are they constantly impaling dolls in those small red rooms dotted round the manor?
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What about Amane, the name they kept repeating?
Could that be the girl who was begging for help?
Yoshino Takigawa
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Yoshino Takigawa the only survivor of a plane crash.
She went missing from the hospital, and appeared in my dream.
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She attacked me like someone out of her mind.
A tattoo-like bruise covered her entire body.
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And now the same tattoo is spreading across my body…
If it carries on like this then I…
The Carpenters
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The men in ragged white robes and tall court hats.
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In an old newspaper I found in Yuu’s room was an article about shrine carpenters who had gone missing – about the same number as in the photo.
Woman On All Fours
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An even older house lies inside the dream manor.
Down in the darkness beneath the floor a woman on all fours attacked me…
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According to Miku, there is an urban legend about someone similar.
It’s apparently based on the true story of a woman trapped by disaster.
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Was she someone who had gone missing too, like Yoshino Takigawa?
Kunihiko Asou
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A scholar of the Occult who lived in the second half of the 19th century.
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His research, known as “Mystical Science”, attempted to use modern Western technology to explain old Japanese folk beliefs about the Other World.
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The first of his experiments to bear fruit was the Spirit Stone Radio.
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This used crystal radio technology and was able to receive supernatural sounds that normally could not be detected.
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The products of his research – the Camera Obscura, the Spirit Stone Radio, and the Projector – were much sought after by enthusiasts after his death and were soon scattered all over the country.
Articles
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Camera Obscura
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An old camera called the Camera Obscura.
It was designed by a name with the same surname as Yuu – Asou, to photograph images of spirits and ghosts.
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But what was the camera doing inside the manor?
The Projector
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The old projector from the house I saw in my dream.
It was developed by Kunihiko Asou, who lives in the second half of the 19th century.
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It uses the technology of the Camera Obscura to show supernatural images from another plane that can’t be played on normal equipment.
The Old Radio
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An old radio that was in the loft above Yuu’s room.
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According to an old book left in the same place, it’s a crystal radio made by Professor Kunihiko Asou for communicating with the Other World.
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A reaction with a special crystal makes it possible to hear words spoken in the past and the voices of ghosts.
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Asou…
could there be some connection with Yuu’s family?
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• (*)While the English translation is “Handmaiden”, the actual term should be Pacifier.
The notebook info is all the info taken places in the LAST chapter, near the end. The notebook progression is not noted in here, but I might work on it when I replay.
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