Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary - Ch. 42 - Little sisters are not scary?

[NekoiNemo]

... and this is why we don't do matriarchy

 

[Beer_Kitty]

I have absolutely no idea what is going on.

I can't tell any of these black haired women apart from eachother, I dont know who is whose sister or mother or aunt or grandma. I have no idea what they're talking about, no idea what this practically means for Kaya's sister, don't understand what this could mean for any of the males in the family.

I still have no idea what Kaya is

The chapter with the ghost who was actually a molester was great. Everything afterwards has been an incomprehensible mess. Like what the fuck is going on. Stop throwing around the word "curse" like it has some inherent meaning that doesn't require any build up or further explanation. Replace every instance of "curse" with any other noun and it would be about as coherent.

Nana is Kaya's Aunt
Mutsu is Kaya's Grandmother
Black Hair guy is basically Kaya's uncle
Kaya's mother is the one with the pregnant belly since chapter 1
The Black Haired pregnant woman in this chapter is basically Kaya's other grandmother, sister to Mutsu grandma.

Kaya is basically similar to Nana, a priestess born from the cursed womb.

Its not that hard to understand tbh.
Kaya's mom hated the family for killing her aunt who she treats as her mum since Mutsu doesnt care about her. So in turn using the cursed womb, shes planning a massive suicide to everyone carrying the Ebisumori surname. The cursed baby shes carrying is the same as the curse in this chapter. A curse thats gonna kill everyone that falls down to the category "i hate them" of the mother carrying it.

 

[Beer_Kitty]

thats what im getting at, kaya one way or another "terminated" the cursed baby and was born normally (maybe a little late)

No, Kaya is a cursed womb baby. She was allowed to be born so she became a Priestess like Nana and Mutsu.

What we are waiting now is will Kaya's mom die and let the curse do its thing or will the group prevent it by either forcing her into labor so that the baby will just be another priestess

 

[kiby]

The panel of Mirai holding a bloody newborn curse baby made me wonder for a sec if that was a picture of Kaya's birth or if she just gave birth off-screen. She is currently in the maternity ward since her due date is coming, but Kaya's dad would call Chie or Nana if the hospital called him.

 

[unkman]

Nana is Kaya's Aunt
Mutsu is Kaya's Grandmother
Black Hair guy is basically Kaya's uncle
Kaya's mother is the one with the pregnant belly since chapter 1
The Black Haired pregnant woman in this chapter is basically Kaya's other grandmother, sister to Mutsu grandma.

Kaya is basically similar to Nana, a priestess born from the cursed womb.

Its not that hard to understand tbh.
Kaya's mom hated the family for killing her aunt who she treats as her mum since Mutsu doesnt care about her. So in turn using the cursed womb, shes planning a massive suicide to everyone carrying the Ebisumori surname. The cursed baby shes carrying is the same as the curse in this chapter. A curse thats gonna kill everyone that falls down to the category "i hate them" of the mother carrying it.

i doubt that truly the case here, sure, i think the mother hate the ebisumori family, but i don't think it's at the point to litterally choose suicide.

the chapter tell us about the magic behind the leech cursed child, but that pose a problem here.

1 : from the telltale, the cursed child need 10 month to be unleash on your ennemy, or here, the mother of kaya goes to the hospital because the birth is near meaning that we are in the normal pregnancy, not 10 month, if she truly wanted to create a "leech child", then she need to stay far away from the hospital to avoid giving birth.

2 : the problem of the leech curse, is that you need to sacrifice someone, a pregnant women, as nana stated, and that is itself a problem, for the curse to activate, the baby need to crawl his way out from the womb as we have be shown by the pregnant ghost, then the curse is active and begin to kill

3 : the sister of a prietress doesn't serve just as a living nuke, they serve as a backup for the family if something happen to the prietress like with nana and kaya, so no, it's not just something you do because lol, as nana say, the leech curse is a last thing the ebisumori family do.

when we take all those element into account, there a problem, mirai can't be the culprit behind the death of her mother, she is still alive and pregnant, so she can't be the one behind the curse, unless there another curse that we don't know.

but then who is the culprit if not mirai ?

the telltale given by nana i think give us a hint, you see, it pretty strange that the 4 generation prietress choose to sacrifice her sister for a mere joke of a wealthy merchant, i think she has ordonned the curse because the family that was whipped was in reality a very dangerous ennemy of the ebisumori.

and it's not far fetched to think that the one behind the murder of the grandma are in reality another family of medium, maybe a ofshoot of the ebisumori.

 

[Clover_Zero]

It's been pretty clear that this manga has some horror pregnancy, but hoo boy. This chapter. Love me a horror manga with horror pregnancy. (Stares at Dark Gathering)

 

[TheWisestofWolfies]

I have absolutely no idea what is going on.

I can't tell any of these black haired women apart from eachother, I dont know who is whose sister or mother or aunt or grandma. I have no idea what they're talking about, no idea what this practically means for Kaya's sister, don't understand what this could mean for any of the males in the family.

I still have no idea what Kaya is

The chapter with the ghost who was actually a molester was great. Everything afterwards has been an incomprehensible mess. Like what the fuck is going on. Stop throwing around the word "curse" like it has some inherent meaning that doesn't require any build up or further explanation. Replace every instance of "curse" with any other noun and it would be about as coherent.

The consequences of not locking in and paying attention.

 

[Pagemistress]

Im guessing the whole family tree. From the head family upto all the branches and everyone whos been using the powers.

That seems unfair. At least some of them might be innocent in all of this.

 

[Pagemistress]

If I had to guess, the entire family. Possibly even Kaya. Mirai was neglected by her mother, and then finds out that the person she CALLED her mother was essentially used as a suicide assassin. Then finding out the ENTIRE FAMILY is built off of things like this... it's no small wonder that she wants the family to burn.

That strengthens my fear that she has never cared about Kaya. And Kaya may possibly know that.

 

[Pagemistress]

I..... holy fuck
This manga is about fighting ghosts, and yet the most horrific monsters are entirely human.


Probably the whole clan.
From what we see of Mirai, she does seem to genuinely love her family (as in her current one). I think she's scared that Kaya and (maybe) her unborn child could be discovered by the clan. She wants to protect them from what happened to her aunt.

I'm not sure where her unborn child fits into this. It doesn't seem to be a full-on curse yet since Mirai is still alive. Maybe the child is partially a curse where it still has humanity like Kaya but can still be used to curse someone? No idea.

See, the problem is that it was previously stated that the longer a child is in the womb, the more powerful their powers when born. Only when they are in the womb past when they should be do they become a curse. With how powerful Kaya is... is the second child really the first time she attempted this?

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[wotta57]

Was looking through some older chapters
A lot of things take on a completely different light now.

Chapter 15
When Mutsu saw Kaya, she references "something" she did in the past and said "Nana had nothing to do with it."

Spoiler: Chapter 15

And maybe I'm looking too deeply into it, but when Kaya smiles on that page, she looks awfully similar to Yoshie's expression on the final page. If nothing else, "Kaya" seems to recognize Mutsu.

Spoiler: Chapter 15

In chapter 22, we find out that Kaya was born from a C-Section. Mirai this time insists that she wants to have a "natural" birth. The bottom right panel on the second page here possibly indicates some hesitation on her part.

Spoiler: Chapter 22

In chapter 25 Nana pulled out a photo of Yoshie and compared her side-by-side with Kaya. I'm guessing this is foreshadowing how all children born through the cursed womb spell look like the First Priestess

Spoiler: Chapter 25

That strengthens my fear that she has never cared about Kaya. And Kaya may possibly know that.

I think Mirai actually does care about Kaya.
It's been repeatedly shown that Kaya genuinely loves her mom, and I don't think that would be the case if Mirai just saw her as a tool.
In chapter 17 when Nana came to pick Kaya up, she mistaken for Mirai. When Kaya saw her, she got really happy because she thought her mom was back to normal.

Spoiler: chapter 17

This is just me going off on a limb, but I think Mirai was genuinely a very doting mom, but she became really distant ever since she got pregnant with her second child. From the limited interactions that Kaya and Mirai have, you really do get the impression that Kaya wants her mom back.

 

[rluka]

In chapter 25 Nana pulled out a photo of Yoshie and compared her side-by-side with Kaya. I'm guessing this is foreshadowing how all children born through the cursed womb spell look like the First Priestess

Yoshie probably is not born through cursed womb, the similarity just because they are related (and maybe first priestess gene stronk)
At their 6th generation, the Ebisumori already have a priestess. They wouldn’t try to make another one, unless maybe Mutsu died young, so her mother need to go through the process again. Else, cursed womb will only be used to produce Ebisumori nuke cursed child, not womb candidates.

Yoshie can be used as a cursed womb, but she herself doesn’t need to be born of it. She just need to be an Ebisumori born woman (even this is doubtful) and go through the ritual of eating the umbilical cord of the another priestess/curse child.
In this episode, we saw how Nana is afraid of approaching Yoshie because she can see the curse’s hands, but both Mirai and Yoshie never noticed. The fact also means you don’t need to be a priestess to give birth to one (as in Kaya’s case); it’s just the family’s policy.

 

[wotta57]

Yoshie probably is not born through cursed womb, the similarity just because they are related (and maybe first priestess gene stronk)
At their 6th generation, the Ebisumori already have a priestess. They wouldn’t try to make another one, unless maybe Mutsu died young, so her mother need to go through the process again. Else, cursed womb will only be used to produce Ebisumori nuke cursed child, not womb candidates.

Yoshie can be used as a cursed womb, but she herself doesn’t need to be born of it. She just need to be an Ebisumori born woman (even this is doubtful) and go through the ritual of eating the umbilical cord of the another priestess/curse child.
In this episode, we saw how Nana is afraid of approaching Yoshie because she can see the curse’s hands, but both Mirai and Yoshie never noticed. The fact also means you don’t need to be a priestess to give birth to one (as in Kaya’s case); it’s just the family’s policy.

Good point.

This might be a stretch, but I think maybe Yoshie's soul partially reincarnated in Kaya. It would at least explain why "Kaya" smiled at Mutsu.

 

[Arexty]

1. Holy shit what the fuck...
2. Young Mirai in the flashback looks and acts just like Kaya-chan which was cute.

Was looking through some older chapters
A lot of things take on a completely different light now.

Chapter 15
When Mutsu saw Kaya, she references "something" she did in the past and said "Nana had nothing to do with it."

Spoiler: Chapter 15

And maybe I'm looking too deeply into it, but when Kaya smiles on that page, she looks awfully similar to Yoshie's expression on the final page. If nothing else, "Kaya" seems to recognize Mutsu.

Spoiler: Chapter 15

In chapter 22, we find out that Kaya was born from a C-Section. Mirai this time insists that she wants to have a "natural" birth. The bottom right panel on the second page here possibly indicates some hesitation on her part.

Spoiler: Chapter 22

In chapter 25 Nana pulled out a photo of Yoshie and compared her side-by-side with Kaya. I'm guessing this is foreshadowing how all children born through the cursed womb spell look like the First Priestess

Spoiler: Chapter 25

I think Mirai actually does care about Kaya.
It's been repeatedly shown that Kaya genuinely loves her mom, and I don't think that would be the case if Mirai just saw her as a tool.
In chapter 17 when Nana came to pick Kaya up, she mistaken for Mirai. When Kaya saw her, she got really happy because she thought her mom was back to normal.

Spoiler: chapter 17

This is just me going off on a limb, but I think Mirai was genuinely a very doting mom, but she became really distant ever since she got pregnant with her second child. From the limited interactions that Kaya and Mirai have, you really do get the impression that Kaya wants her mom back.

3. Good writeup. I was also going to point out that when Mutsu encounters "Kaya" she begs her forgiveness so we can now safely assume she was referring to what happened to Yoshie. We can even see Yoshie and Kaya share the same likeness such as the middle bang. Kaya seems to be easily possessed of Yoshie's spirit if it's not full reincarnation which Mutsu's reaction might suggest.
4. If Yoshie was the last Ebisumori Curse Sacrifice, I wonder who was the target and for what reason?
5. Thanks for the TL!

 

[VintageCatalyst]

I kind of wish that the author would make the backstory more simple. It's mostly a manga about a little girl fighting specters. Maybe the juxtaposition with the suicide assassin pregnancies is what they're going for, but doesn't work very well together imo, to the point we're now at Nana exposition dumping the family backstory for a few chapters.

 

[unkman]

Good point.

This might be a stretch, but I think maybe Yoshie's soul partially reincarnated in Kaya. It would at least explain why "Kaya" smiled at Mutsu.

Not forcebly, the smile seem to be more a trait of the original prietress, if you go look when the 4 generation prietress smile in that chapter, you will see that it ressemble the smile of kaya and yoshie, seem that all the women born in the main familly are born with the ritual of the ombilical womb, and the smile is a common trait among women born that way.

 

[unkman]

Was looking through some older chapters
A lot of things take on a completely different light now.

Chapter 15
When Mutsu saw Kaya, she references "something" she did in the past and said "Nana had nothing to do with it."

Spoiler: Chapter 15

And maybe I'm looking too deeply into it, but when Kaya smiles on that page, she looks awfully similar to Yoshie's expression on the final page. If nothing else, "Kaya" seems to recognize Mutsu.

Spoiler: Chapter 15

In chapter 22, we find out that Kaya was born from a C-Section. Mirai this time insists that she wants to have a "natural" birth. The bottom right panel on the second page here possibly indicates some hesitation on her part.

Spoiler: Chapter 22

In chapter 25 Nana pulled out a photo of Yoshie and compared her side-by-side with Kaya. I'm guessing this is foreshadowing how all children born through the cursed womb spell look like the First Priestess

Spoiler: Chapter 25

I think Mirai actually does care about Kaya.
It's been repeatedly shown that Kaya genuinely loves her mom, and I don't think that would be the case if Mirai just saw her as a tool.
In chapter 17 when Nana came to pick Kaya up, she mistaken for Mirai. When Kaya saw her, she got really happy because she thought her mom was back to normal.

Spoiler: chapter 17

This is just me going off on a limb, but I think Mirai was genuinely a very doting mom, but she became really distant ever since she got pregnant with her second child. From the limited interactions that Kaya and Mirai have, you really do get the impression that Kaya wants her mom back.

I doubt that mirai really try to create a leech cursed child here, the timing, and the fact that she try to give birth go contrary to the curse.

In reality, i think mirai try to create the most powerfull prietress here, the fact that she go "natural" this time seem to indicate that.

Kaya was born thanks to a y-section, hence it can be considered that that "unatural way" has lowered her power if she was born the "natural way".

 

[Descendent]

i doubt that truly the case here, sure, i think the mother hate the ebisumori family, but i don't think it's at the point to litterally choose suicide.

the chapter tell us about the magic behind the leech cursed child, but that pose a problem here.

1 : from the telltale, the cursed child need 10 month to be unleash on your ennemy, or here, the mother of kaya goes to the hospital because the birth is near meaning that we are in the normal pregnancy, not 10 month, if she truly wanted to create a "leech child", then she need to stay far away from the hospital to avoid giving birth.

2 : the problem of the leech curse, is that you need to sacrifice someone, a pregnant women, as nana stated, and that is itself a problem, for the curse to activate, the baby need to crawl his way out from the womb as we have be shown by the pregnant ghost, then the curse is active and begin to kill

3 : the sister of a prietress doesn't serve just as a living nuke, they serve as a backup for the family if something happen to the prietress like with nana and kaya, so no, it's not just something you do because lol, as nana say, the leech curse is a last thing the ebisumori family do.

when we take all those element into account, there a problem, mirai can't be the culprit behind the death of her mother, she is still alive and pregnant, so she can't be the one behind the curse, unless there another curse that we don't know.

but then who is the culprit if not mirai ?

the telltale given by nana i think give us a hint, you see, it pretty strange that the 4 generation prietress choose to sacrifice her sister for a mere joke of a wealthy merchant, i think she has ordonned the curse because the family that was whipped was in reality a very dangerous ennemy of the ebisumori.

and it's not far fetched to think that the one behind the murder of the grandma are in reality another family of medium, maybe a ofshoot of the ebisumori.

From what I understand, Kaya's grandmother (Mutsu) died because she gave a charm to Kaya's aunt (Nana) that would "Channel all woe unto Ebisumori Mutsu" (we see Nana's copy split in half in chapter 39, on page 23, and Mutsu's copy on the next page). This is why Nana didn't die when she was attacked by the specter when she tried to visit Kaya's mother (Mirai) at the hospital (chapter 39, page 19–21). The damage was redirected to Mutsu instead, which killed her.

I think the key things to pay attention to in this chapter is the dialogue in the flashback at the end. On page 21, Nana says to Mirai that their mother (Mutsu) told them to "Never touch a womb-sama's baby". But on page 24, we see Mirai touching Yoshie's pregnant belly, and says that she hears murmurs from the baby saying that "she wants to come out". This is followed by an ominous black panel with just a speech bubble, "Is that so." Also note the "Curse of the Leech Child" that Kaya had an hallucination of on page 14 has many baby hands, and we have the same kind of imagery of what was coming out of Mirai's hospital room in chapter 39, on page 18.

When put together, this seems to suggest that Mirai is being possessed by the specter/curse that was in Yoshie's womb, and that specter/curse is likely the "mastermind" behind everything.

 

[unkman]

From what I understand, Kaya's grandmother (Mutsu) died because she gave a charm to Kaya's aunt (Nana) that would "Channel all woe unto Ebisumori Mutsu" (we see Nana's copy split in half in chapter 39, on page 23, and Mutsu's copy on the next page). This is why Nana didn't die when she was attacked by the spirit when she tried to visit Kaya's mother (Mirai) at the hospital (chapter 39, page 19–21). The damage was redirected to Mutsu instead, which killed her.

I think the key things to pay attention to in this chapter is the dialogue in the flashback at the end. On page 21, Nana says to Mirai that their mother (Mutsu) told them to "Never touch a womb-sama's baby". But on page 24, we see Mirai touching Yoshie's pregnant belly, and says that she hears murmurs from the baby saying that "she wants to come out". This is followed by an ominous black panel with just a speech bubble, "Is that so." Also note the "Curse of the Leech Child" that Kaya had an hallucination of on page 14 has many baby hands, and we have the same kind of imagery of what was coming out of Mirai's hospital room in chapter 39, on page 18.

When put together, this seems to suggest that Mirai is being possessed by the spirit/curse that was in Yoshie's womb, and that spirit/curse is likely the "mastermind" behind everything.

it's possible indeed that mirai is possessed by a spirit, but she can't be the one behind the curse, the chapter give us the condition to create a leech child, and mirai doesn't tick any box in reality.

the recipe is :

a 10 month pregnancy, then the curse is active.
the sacrifice of the mother and the child, because the baby, who is a "broken vessel", need to crawl is way out of the womb, killing herself and her mother in the process.

or none of those condition are met with mirai, if the curse is indeed a leech child, then who cast it ?