Hen na Ie - Vol. 6 Ch. 26.1

[MangaDex]

 

[hikarimew]

No bathrooms on the second floor, where presumably all the bedrooms are, while having an old lady with mobility issues in the house? AND just one bathroom for five people?

 

[ErikTheRed]

The crampedness and lack of privacy would for sure impact the familial harmony

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Second floor rooms definitely not a good environment.

 

[ReGats]

That house design is complete ass, and you don't even need to be an architect to see it (cuz I sure ain't).

Also, not the sexy pose insert page!

 

[lemon-dono]

That choke point on the first floor is making me angry just looking at it.

 

[Vladlad45]

I like how casually conversational Tatsuyuki is compared to past characters protag-san has interviewed. Also, this chapter really conveys that feeling of mild annoyance and discomfort from being stuck at a dinner table with a really talkative middle aged guy.

 

[feignedremoteness]

No bathrooms on the second floor, where presumably all the bedrooms are, while having an old lady with mobility issues in the house? AND just one bathroom for five people?

I think maybe the grandma’s room is actually the Japanese-style room on the first floor? you can see that she’s on tatami in her “death picture.”
it’s also hard to make sense of the order of stabbings if we don’t assume that.
since the brother only has one stab wound, he should be the final one, and the evidence suggests that the mom had been using the knife right before the crime…(currently she’s assumed to be the first one but I’ll get into that in a sec)…so, it’d be like kitchen > bedroom > kitchen entrance. makes way more sense if the grandma’s room is the Japanese one off of the kitchen.
it also gives a clear suggestion of why the mom and grandma might have had so much conflict specifically….it’s like a house set up to confine the wife to kitchen work and caretaking for the grandma.

my current guess is that the mom killed grandma and that the boy tried to stop her and accidentally stabbed her. (mom going from being stabbed in the bedroom into the kitchen would also explain the blood trail.) not sure why the brother died, though…

another point: it’s a “crime of frustration” yet only one corpse has multiple stab wounds.

 

[7goat]

I wonder if the mystery of all the 11 floor plans would be revealed after we've gone through all of them, or if the mystery of the first house will be revealed while we're solving the second one. Since it was mentioned in chapter 22 that these houses are somehow connected.

Also, the fact that MC wasn't able to find a floor plan for the second house, but Iimura was able to casually provide him one... That's super suspicious.

 

[PMA16]

I think maybe the grandma’s room is actually the Japanese-style room on the first floor? you can see that she’s on tatami in her “death picture.”
it’s also hard to make sense of the order of stabbings if we don’t assume that.
since the brother only has one stab wound, he should be the final one, and the evidence suggests that the mom had been using the knife right before the crime…(currently she’s assumed to be the first one but I’ll get into that in a sec)…so, it’d be like kitchen > bedroom > kitchen entrance. makes way more sense if the grandma’s room is the Japanese one off of the kitchen.
it also gives a clear suggestion of why the mom and grandma might have had so much conflict specifically….it’s like a house set up to confine the wife to kitchen work and caretaking for the grandma.

my current guess is that the mom killed grandma and that the boy tried to stop her and accidentally stabbed her. (mom going from being stabbed in the bedroom into the kitchen would also explain the blood trail.) not sure why the brother died, though…

another point: it’s a “crime of frustration” yet only one corpse has multiple stab wounds.

I also think that too. First the neighbor said they hear the mother scream so that mean grandmother had to hear it too but she died on the bed while the blanket on her so in conclusion she sleep at that time and get killed. The proof the mother killed grandmother is "The child himself had multiple injuries on his upper body", if the child is the one kill grandmother and kill his mother why he has injuries so that only lead to one thing the mother killed grandmother, the child saw it try to stop mother but she lost her mind and swing the knife make the child hurt, he take back the knight and staff his mother. After seeing his mother kill grandmother and he kill his own mother he desperate and then kid hear the sound and come in and get killed by his brother
I think reason why the mother kill grandmother and the child kill his mother and brother is right on the name file "The house that nutures darkness" and the child said "My mother and grandmother did'nt get along, so it was hard being at home. I was annoyed. I had no hope for the future"
I think the strained relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, coupled with the mother-in-law constantly staring at the mother everyday since her room next to kitchen where the mother alway work, caused the mother to become depressed and killed her.
For the child, like Imura said this house doesn't have privarcy and it hard to live and plus the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law make him feel uncomfortable at home when home must be place make people feel comfortable and safe. He had to endure that for 16 years and when saw his mother killed grandmother he desperate and finally released all the emotions that had been suppressed for 16 years.

 

[PMA16]

I knew it the page 8 Kurihara put the doll on the floor plan. Like my theory last chapter if we remove Negishi room the house look like the doll no right leg and left arm

 

[TheSilverPhantom]

I wonder if the mystery of all the 11 floor plans would be revealed after we've gone through all of them, or if the mystery of the first house will be revealed while we're solving the second one. Since it was mentioned in chapter 22 that these houses are somehow connected.

Also, the fact that MC wasn't able to find a floor plan for the second house, but Iimura was able to casually provide him one... That's super suspicious.

I think I know why the mother from the Hallway to Nowhere house wants to rid Negishi's room.

it also gives a clear suggestion of why the mom and grandma might have had so much conflict specifically….it’s like a house set up to confine the wife to kitchen work and caretaking for the grandma.

I think the strained relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, coupled with the mother-in-law constantly staring at the mother everyday since her room next to kitchen where the mother alway work, caused the mother to become depressed and killed her.

These two comments made me realise that what happens in the Hallway to Nowhere is pretty similar to this house.

Because of the renovation, everyone who enters the house must pass Negishi's room. Even when there is a door to keep the room a private space, everyone will think "This is Negishi's room" every time they pass through it.
If we consider that her mother has difficulty "connecting" with Negishi (idk if that is the right word), she must be feeling discomfort every time she passes her room. That small feeling of discomfort accumulates, leading her to request the room removal.

I knew it the page 8 Kurihara put the doll on the floor plan. Like my theory last chapter if we remove Negishi room the house look like the doll no right leg and left arm

Didn't notice the connection.

 

[Ditte]

It is confirmed in the chapter itself that the grandmother lived in the room beside the kitchen.
page 28: "Yeah... Especially since there was a pool of blood from the grandma's room to the kitchen."

Another thing that is odd: There are only five members of family, why do they need five rooms?
Usually the parents shared a room. Children might shared a room, but maybe they wanted separated rooms from the get go, so that's three rooms. The immobile grandmother should live in 1st floor. So there are two extra rooms that they don't really need.

Looking at the plan, if the children used the northern rooms, I don't think it would be any of a problem. That's basically a giant shared room. However, if they use all the southern rooms, [child room] [child room] [parents room], now it would lead to problems. Like, if in the middle of the night the grandma need something, then the mother have to pass all the children rooms.

Nice touch with all the police wearing masks on the year of 2020. Oh. If it happened during Covid Outbreak, I can see how the mother - grandmother's relationship get worse rapidly.

Also Tsama, did you really need to misaligned the text on the floor plan, because of the crease from the folding? /stand ovation

 

[Tsama0]

I knew it the page 8 Kurihara put the doll on the floor plan. Like my theory last chapter if we remove Negishi room the house look like the doll no right leg and left arm

Okay, I will admit I dismissed the idea the first time you posted this, but after looking back at the panel with all the plans laid on a table, I saw another house that seems to have a "broken arm and leg" layout as well and I'm starting to wonder.


Oh, and there's another floor plan I find VERY interesting. If you put the different parts of the floor plan together:

*edited the right picture to include more elements from the left picture, and fixed the proportion of the images. Spiral over the heart, and (assuming I assembled this correctly) people entering the nether regions and into the womb? (...or up the butt?)

Also Tsama, did you really need to misaligned the text on the floor plan, because of the crease from the folding? /stand ovation

Hahaha, oh man, never thought anyone would notice, let alone care. I only did that because that's what it was like in the original Japanese.

 

[Claresilver47]

I think reason why the mother kill grandmother and the child kill his mother and brother is right on the name file "The house that nutures darkness" and the child said "My mother and grandmother did'nt get along, so it was hard being at home. I was annoyed. I had no hope for the future"

There are a few suspicious points like how the grandma was found dead with her eyes shut and the sibling being dead at the kitchen entrance is also in front of the stairs. Plus the size of the blood pools is way off, the knife looks like it was stuck in after his death

 

[unlock_yurameki]

Big kudos to whoever had that theory where the doll represented the negishi household when rotated!! You’re definitely super right about this. after readin the forum messages of chapters 22 to now, most of the houses seem to revolve around a cult or religion.

To admit, I have been super interested in this manga and book (strange buildings) but I have no money to buy the preorder lmao. So I just scurried the internet and tried to find more and info I could about this book.

i wanna talk sooo so much about this!!

SPOILER ALERT FOR UPCOMING HOUSE #3 AND . 6 I think . Don’t take my word too seriously


the next house explored is a water mill without water, it’s the completely empty house With the random square block on the right. Turns out that square thing is a statue of a goddess holding a peach and the water mill was a contraption that pushed the far left wall to the point a person would be forced to kneel down and bow before the goddess in that square hole.

and the house with the weird weird diagrams was labelled as a religious fsclity in the trailer (?) for the book so I think this is definitely some mass cult shit that involved many many many families! So interesting I can’t wait to get my hands on the book and go insane..

 

[Tsama0]

One last thing about the one-armed-one-legged-lady-building, I superimposed it onto the Negishi house, and the spiral/heart thing seems to (roughly) line up with where the doll was hidden (inside the closet in the Japanese-style room). Kurihara wondered whether it was placed there merely to hide it, but I wonder if the spiral and the doll are connected somehow.

SPOILER ALERT FOR UPCOMING HOUSE #3 AND . 6 I think . Don’t take my word too seriously

Er, very fascinating, but could you use the spoiler function to cover the spoiler-y text?

 

[PMA16]

There are a few suspicious points like how the grandma was found dead with her eyes shut and the sibling being dead at the kitchen entrance is also in front of the stairs. Plus the size of the blood pools is way off, the knife looks like it was stuck in after his death

yeah follow my theory the grandmother is the first one death because she was killed while she sleep by the mom, and the sibling is the last one death because the knife on his body
The mom kill grandmother wwhile she sleep
The son found out try to stop mother but maybe she out of mind and swing the knife make him get some injuries and she scream loud make neighbor hear that, after taking back the knife he staff in his mother
the sibling hear the sound and come back, the kid suffred and kill his brother

 

[PMA16]

Okay, I will admit I dismissed the idea the first time you posted this, but after looking back at the panel with all the plans laid on a table, I saw another house that seems to have a "broken arm and leg" layout as well and I'm starting to wonder.
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Oh, and there's another floor plan I find VERY interesting. If you put the different parts of the floor plan together:
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*edited the right picture to include more elements from the left picture, and fixed the proportion of the images. Spiral over the heart, and (assuming I assembled this correctly) people entering the nether regions and into the womb? (...or up the butt?)



Hahaha, oh man, never thought anyone would notice, let alone care. I only did that because that's what it was like in the original Japanese.

holy god, hmmm for now sure that 90% the doll is the key connect all 11 floor plan
but now this second file the floor plan not look like the doll (have to wait next chapter)

 

[Claresilver47]

yeah follow my theory the grandmother is the first one death because she was killed while she sleep by the mom, and the sibling is the last one death because the knife on his body
The mom kill grandmother wwhile she sleep
The son found out try to stop mother but maybe she out of mind and swing the knife make him get some injuries and she scream loud make neighbor hear that, after taking back the knife he staff in his mother
the sibling hear the sound and come back, the kid suffred and kill his brother

Honestly everything about how the younger sibling died is off, he was on his side while facing the entrance and nothing about it matches up properly with someone who supposedly died from internal bleeding due to a knife in their gut. The blood pool doesn't even match up well with that sort of injury