Hen na Ie - Vol. 4 Ch. 16

[MangaDex]

 

[ReGats]

Well, gee, thanks for explaining everything, I guess. What a hell of a text dump!

 

[Exkalamity]

Whooo great spooky catch up for the summer.

1. This explains why the body found at the beginning of the series was missing a left hand. It was needed for a ritual.
2. A case of Incest is NOT Wincest.
3. Bro had a THIRD child with his sister? Come on man.
4. I am suddenly super suspicious of the light-haired architect dude. If you're so interested why don't you come along? I feel like he may be the secret mastermind or closely related.
5. We haven't even finished the letter from Keita yet have we?

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Not a hidden ninja family unfortunately.

 

[arkvin]

Bro definitely didn't learn his lesson and push his luck again on his sister.

 

[Yukizakurasou]

Can't believe the dude heard his brother shagged his sister and still didn't separate them.

I'm not sure why Yuzuki's dad killed her cousin though. For fun?? Or does she have a secret sibling??

 

[vangstampede]

Of course it's incest. Ergh.

 

[Aldis]

Can't believe the dude heard his brother shagged his sister and still didn't separate them.

I'm not sure why Yuzuki's dad killed her cousin though. For fun?? Or does she have a secret sibling??

pretty sure he didn't care lol
the only thing he care is the incest scandal will make the legitimate siblings not suit as heir, a position he would die for

poor ushio tho

to be honest i thought it would be some kind of family-criminal-ring, not pseudo-cult :')

 

[TheGrandCamarilla]

So, a part of the truth comes to light. But there's still murk, as the house itself is as dark as it can be. There's an old proverb from Niigata - "A persimmon tree fruits, so it is better to wait until near winter to pick it."

 

[Umb3rus]

Guess they aren't going to be killed for now, that's a relief.
And I really dig this cult angle, it's really fascinating. And there's still so much to come, I am very excited.

Thank you for the translation

 

[Emi_Ice]

Thanks so much for the update, I'm really enjoying this series~

 

[tpanny]

holy mother of lore dump

 

[HoneyPopper]

DAYUM.. so the "curse" wasn't even that long ago, it's only been several decades.
Also, thank you for the multi uploads! This was a great binge-read!

 

[gustavonerdz]

I wonder what's the explanation for the new killings yeah. maybe they just figured out that since they have the know how might as well make it the family business

 

[misopogon]

Prefer a cult to a crime ring, but the way all this info has just been unceremoniously dumped leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[alfirizkyr]

I don't think Souichiro ever thought that shagging his sister would ever lead to a multigenerational murder cult with a degree in architecture but it is what it is huh

 

[Reignsan]

So the architect man is definitely a descendant of the branch family right

 

[danbellucci]

What the hell? How about when your husband/wife says "listen, ok, we have to raise our child in a hidden room and use them to murder people in order to undo a curse from 100 years ago" you just say "no" and report them to the police??
Why the hell would anyone besides the original superstitious people 2 generations ago go along with this? nobody marrying into the family has any reason to go along with this.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

'Would more likely result in such a condition' Except that no? That's not how incest related issues work.

 

[Setsura]

'Would more likely result in such a condition' Except that no? That's not how incest related issues work.

What do you mean no? Inbreeding means closely similar alleles in the genes would be combined, meaning more likely occurence of previously only genetic carrier issues. We see this with examples like Habsburg jaws, European royalties hemophilia issue (from Queen Victoria being a carrier), and all the various health issues found with ancient Egyptian pharaohs. Sure impregnation process is genetic lottery, but inbreeding means the gene pool is narrower and thus genetic defects in the bloodline have more chance to come out in the resulting kids.

If you're saying incest won't cause a kid to be born without a hand, well, currently the consensus on symbrachydactyly is that it's not caused by genetic reason whatsoever (and in fact no one knows yet what causes it), so in that case you would be correct. But incest causing a genetic defect to occur in an offspring isn't such a weird thing, though most of the time it takes repeated incest, but well, genetic lottery being genetic lottery. So not born with a hand being Katabuchi family's inherent genetic defect isn't such a wild plot point imo.