Dark Gathering - Ch. 68 - Zero/First Battle

[MoonRayz]

Author give a good reasoning on how yayoi capturing ghost inside the doll

 

[Mopopolis]

Ohhhh nice surprise, was not expecting this back today!

 

[SMAXZO]

Welcome back, buddy!

 

[DenjinZ]

Pretty sure when it says next chapter is June, they mean the June issue...which comes out in May. Jump SQ always does this. To the chapter itself...real neat seeing how Yayoi got started. Kondo still making good, haunting art. That fakeout on page 35 creeped me out, even if I knew it couldn't be real. As another reader I saw put it "Its like a Naruto shadow clone, but with gore" lol.

 

[dnda123]

the eye-gouging nurse is a bit weak to be graduate class 0 so unless there's a lore behind it, it's probably served as food for the true true graduate class 0

 

[ravens69]

Hah ? Is it Graduate no.0 ?

 

[tinhoccoso227]

I noticed the method of submerging the stuffed doll with its mouth sewn shut is already practiced when Yayoi first encountered Taisai. Notice the deer doll mouth is X.

 

[heisenbergeth]

Thank you for the translation!

 

[sotokouya]

man the grannies are really helpful, wonder why it didn't work but well we saw the bandaged grandma alone and the exorcism is probably something they only came up with later. also i felt like it would a bit more sense that the previous victim would give her clue on how the nurse ghost acted but i'll settle with yayoi picking up hints herself.

anyway it makes sense that yayoi have some sort of mentor for her knowledges rn but i kinda find it weird that we got another stomach cancer patient after the wife of the head monk from the temple case

 

[krkj]

i forget the rules. how are the ghosts called out from the dolls later and captured back? What frees and motivates them to fight it out inside yayoi's special room. i also didn't understand what xx is supposed to mean in this chapter

 

[harukuro]

This is so fcking cool

 

[Elenesia]

i forget the rules. how are the ghosts called out from the dolls later and captured back? What frees and motivates them to fight it out inside yayoi's special room. i also didn't understand what xx is supposed to mean in this chapter

Search out the concept of Gu/Kodoku, you will understand better than the explanation given here. In short, it is an ancient type of Chinese Sorcery where several venomous animals were put together in a sealed jar, letting them fight amongst each other until there's only 1 remaining left. The surviving venomous creature was then used to cast a black magic that causes illness, separation between family members and even death of the targeted victim.

In Yayoi's room case, each of the doll were given a piece of substitute(hair, nail, etc...) so they won't get attacked by the other residents ghost following Yayoi's teaching. In DG verse, when spirit/ghost possessed an object, their supernatural body also follows the state of the object, for example if the doll was damaged by another supernatural attack, so will the same injuries applies to the ghost residing in it. That's what motivates them to fight in order to gain a substitute/piece of the caster to avoids getting caught up in a fight/crossfire between other similar captured ghosts. They were all left in semi-sealed state and from there Yayoi established an absolute defense system where she is basically immune to supernatural attack as the captured ghosts will take the impact/curse on her behalf. This system only applies to low to medium level ghost though, as taking damage/curse also works as some sort of training system to make them stronger.

After some ghost were fed enough of other rebellious ghosts, they evolved to being a graduate-class ghost which was stronger and required many sealing methods to keep them contained and not harm the living. Some of the graduates were not necessarily evolved but reverted back to their original form like in the case of Taira no Masakado or Otogiri Oiran.

The caster then used a Kotodama, some sort of Japanese belief that words contains power, to call out the sealed ghost and make them behave in that manner. Example was Grieve(this is a Kotodama), High Priest of Evil Sutra, making him chant an unintelligible sutra that forced the living and the dead to pass on to the afterlife, in his case, the destination of his curse was actually hell. Graduate-class ghost can also holds a piece of a substitute of the user, similar to Kodoku system or paper Katashiro(paper human-like substitute), making them take the attack/curse of another supernatural beings.

Edited: Fix minor grammar mistakes and added some missing words

 

[IvanDFakkov]

Peak is back!!!
Lol that grandpa got the Nika treatment seeing Yayoi flipping.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[ZenMasters]

The nurse doesn't know she is facing the future pokemon master.

Since Yayoi is still learning, can't wait for the first moment she summon the ghost to defeat that asshole shinigami

Nintendo's lawyers: heavy breathing

 

[Beer_Kitty]

Im guessing that Class 0 is the stomach cancer Obaasan. Its unlikely the nurse because of the shadow in the previous chapters when they are getting Class 0, Class 1 and Class 3.
Since Class 1 is basically a Samurai, and Class 3 is the jizoo that was talked at the very start. So its very likely Class 0 unless we get another more horrifying one after this part.
And yes, the nurse is weak interms of power.

 

[DenjinZ]

Im guessing that Class 0 is the stomach cancer Obaasan. Its unlikely the nurse because of the shadow in the previous chapters when they are getting Class 0, Class 1 and Class 3.
Since Class 1 is basically a Samurai, and Class 3 is the jizoo that was talked at the very start. So its very likely Class 0 unless we get another more horrifying one after this part.
And yes, the nurse is weak interms of power.

Class 3 is its own thing. The Transcendent Jizo is special and not counted among the class system. I still think eye nurse could be Class 0, but most likely fed with shinigami and the other notable ghosts in the hospital that Sachiko mentioned.

https://imgur.com/a/a8ons8D

 

[Elenesia]

Im guessing that Class 0 is the stomach cancer Obaasan. Its unlikely the nurse because of the shadow in the previous chapters when they are getting Class 0, Class 1 and Class 3.
Since Class 1 is basically a Samurai, and Class 3 is the jizoo that was talked at the very start. So its very likely Class 0 unless we get another more horrifying one after this part.
And yes, the nurse is weak interms of power.

By following that logic, Oiran and High Priest was also originally weak since they started off as a normal run-of-the-mill type of ghost. Remember that spirit/ghost/demon/deity/god in DG verse was just spiritual entities that was either weak or strong.

Even extraordinary ghost like Taira was originally a human who died in Heian Era, then turned into a vengeful spirit and locals even gave him the title of a Tatarigami, because people claimed that he was the cause of so many misfortunes befallen those who want to remove his grave. With enough souls/energy, experiences and battle compatibility, even a human ghost strength can rivaled that of a deity or became as strong as one. Same case was applied to Class 0(prototype graduate doesn't necessarily mean the strongest) and some of the graduates that we've already seen so far.

 

[fsadfsad]

Search out the concept of Gu/Kodoku, you will understand better than the explanation given here. In short, it is an ancient type of Chinese Sorcery where several venomous animals were put together in a sealed jar, letting them fight amongst each other until there's only 1 remaining left. The surviving venomous creature was then used to cast a black magic that causes illness, separation between family members and even death of the targeted victim.

In Yayoi's room case, each of the doll were given a piece of substitute(hair, nail, etc...) so they won't get attacked by the other residents ghost following Yayoi's teaching. In DG verse, when spirit/ghost possessed an object, their supernatural body also follows the state of the object, for example if the doll was damaged by another supernatural attack, so will the same injuries applies to the ghost residing in it. That's what motivates them to fight in order to gain a substitute/piece of the caster to avoids getting caught up in a fight/crossfire between other similar captured ghosts. They were all left in semi-sealed state and from there Yayoi established an absolute defense system where she is basically immune to supernatural attack as the captured ghosts will take the impact/curse on her behalf. This system only applies to low to medium level ghost though, as taking damage/curse also works as some sort of training system to make them stronger.

After some ghost were fed enough of other rebellious ghosts, they evolved to being a graduate-class ghost which was stronger and required many sealing methods to keep them contained and not harm the living. Some of the graduates were not necessarily evolved but reverted back to their original form like in the case of Taira no Masakado or Otogiri Oiran.

The caster then used a Kotodama, some sort of Japanese belief that words contains power, to call out the sealed ghost and make them behave in that manner. Example was Grieve(this is a Kotodama), High Priest of Evil Sutra, making him chant an unintelligible sutra that forced the living and the dead to pass on to the afterlife, in his case, the destination of his curse was actually hell. Graduate-class ghost can also holds a piece of a substitute of the user, similar to Kodoku system or paper Katashiro(paper human-like substitute), making them take the attack/curse of another supernatural beings.

Edited: Fix minor grammar mistakes and added some missing words

I feel like there are two inconsistencies here though. First, the substitute room worked because all the ghosts in the dolls were linked to Yayoi and therefore if any of them attacked Yayoi, it would hurt another ghost who would retaliate on them. This locked them in a stand off where nobody could attack Yayoi without harming his neighbors and being mauled in retaliation. Taking damage doesn't train them, it weakens them. She trains them by feeding them dangerous ghosts.

As for the kotodama, the effect is less full on control and more part of control. The High Priest debuted already using the sutra before he got his name.

 

[Cashini]

wow her flashback story