Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai - Ch. 42 - Little sisters are not scary?

[Fuzaki]

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.

That's usually how it is. After all, all the curses and vengeful spirits in stories and folklore are a result of human cruelty, whether directly or indirectly.

 

[Descendent]

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 ?

What I was trying to say was, it seems to still be the same curse that came out of Yoshie, acting independently, instead of under the control of a priestess (which would've been Mutsu). We haven't had explanation of what happens to each of the Leech Child curses, after they've killed their assigned targets.

 

[cocosusprime]

So, pretty much... The Kaya's family is a satanic sect of the worst kind...

 

[rluka]

What I was trying to say was, it seems to still be the same curse that came out of Yoshie, acting independently, instead of under the control of a priestess (which would've been Mutsu). We haven't had explanation of what happens to each of the Leech Child curses, after they've killed their assigned targets.

It sure doesn’t seem to have any control.
The only thing resembling control we’ve been shown is, the mother raise the child in her body while telling the kid to kill their enemy. This set the target for the baby.
After that, it runs on auto-pilot based on pre-programmed course. They can’t do anything other than wait for it to finish its job.

I think in stories, curse typically go two pattern after finishing its purpose.
It either disperse (best outcome), stuck haunting a place (at least damage is localised), or start getting twisted and harm random people (then we have jujutsu kaisen situation).
Or like that saying, “when you curse someone, you dig two grave holes (for your enemy and yourself)”. The curse return to sender, and either the sender manage to defend themselves, or the curse kill them. Best outcome is if the universe consider that cleans the tab, restoring balance, and let the curse disappear.

That's usually how it is. After all, all the curses and vengeful spirits in stories and folklore are a result of human cruelty, whether directly or indirectly.

True...
Two popular curses in manga for example, are produced terribly.
Kodoku is made by putting poisonous insects in a pot and bury them under your enemy’s house. Stuck in the same small and dark space, they kill and eat each other until only one is left.
Inugami is made by burying the body of your own pet dog head down, letting it starve while there’s food placed in front of it, and then chop off its head when it suffered from hunger and being betrayed.

Honestly it’s amazing the person doing the curse doesn’t expect the curse will kill them first thing before doing whatever job given, after that treatment.

 

[waalex11]

Man, it feels lonely writing to myself on MyAnimeList forums of this great underrated manga...

 

[Grye]

This family sucks

 

[friendly]

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)

I always think of THAT one Uzumaki chapter.....

 

[ZBoner]

All the problems with Kaya's mom (Mirai) arise because she wanted to give birth to a priestess, even though she was Ebisumori Mutsu's second daughter and therefore not a priestess herself (the tradition says that only the first child gets the Cursed Womb spell), out of jealousy to her elder sister Nana.

...Mirai is now trying to give birth to a particularly powerful priestess with her second daugther to take revenge against the entire Ebisumory family or something like that.

So Kaya's mom is breaking almost all the taboos associated with the family for... reasons we're still not privy to, is what I'm understanding? Now I really want to know her thoughts specifically considering her actions definitely feel targeted.

EDIT: Wait, a lot of events were happening that I've forgotten in between chapters, did Mutsu actually take a cursed bullet for Nana back then with the redirect? Woah, I didn't think Nana was a part of Mirai's targets (maybe, I'm still not sure about the whole agenda)

 

[mossmochi]

The naming convention of the family members in the Ebisumori family is quite confusing, especially with the translator note saying that priestess are named after numbers.

Note: I don't know much Japanese, but I do know the counters for quantity/dates/etc. I'm focusing on the quantity counter system (futatsu, mittsu, yottsu, itsutsu, muttsu, nanatsu, yattsu...) because the family tree more closesly resembles that one. Four can be said with "yon" or "shi" depending on the reading of the kanji (kunyomi vs. onyomi) and what you're discussing, i.e. "shi-gatsu" is used for April (the "fourth month").

Using the family tree in Ch 25 (written in Japanese), we can see the numbers:

• Hajime = first (similar to "Hajimete" = first time, I suppose?)
• But this part is confusing because Haji's daughters are called Futaba ("second," futatsu = two; written with kanji for "two") and Mitsuba ("mittsu" = three; written with kanji for "three") although this family tree line is for the second generation priestess.
• Shiho (written with kanji for "four"): is confusingly the third-generation priestess
• Izumi (written with kanji for "fifth"): is confusingly the fourth-generation priestess. "Itsutsu" ("five" in the quantity counter system) is similar in sound to "Izumi."

This makes me wonder if the first priestess had attempted to make two priestesses? But since Mitsuba didn't work out as the third priestess, maybe Hajime tried to make Mitsuba's offspring into the third priestess, but that didn't work either and it became a curse instead (so was crossed out from the family tree)? And maybe they learned more about the Cursed Womb spell with this experiment. Another possibility is that there were two priestesses in that generation, but that wouldn't make sense because it seems there's only one priestess per generation. Or maybe Futaba and Mitsuba are twins and also had similar names? (Since authors love using twins as plot devices and associate twins with being abnormal or bad luck, i.e. Jujutsu Kaisen with Zenin Mai and Maki.) Idk, just some theories because I doubt the author would make mistakes.

 

[rluka]

It could be how they pretend the line is never broken. So they still name Futaba and Mitsuba as the 2nd and 3rd priestess.
Silly thing like how Hanzo, the leader of Iga ninja never die because through the generation the leader is always someone with that name.

My assumption...

• Ebisumori thought the power will be inherited naturally, but it didn’t happen with Futaba. So they put hope on Mitsuba, who also ends up didn’t inherit the power.
• Ichi dies, and they start to get desperate.
• At this point, the daughters are already adults and married.
• Futaba probably succeeded with the cursed womb technique and produced Shiho.
• It’s possible Mitsuba’s faction feel threatened politically. So they went extreme; if the length of pregnancy is directly related to the priestess’ power, then if they can produce an even stronger offspring, they would have more powerful position. Mitsuba overestimated herself, and the baby turns into a curse. Her son was degraded and made into the Ebisumori branch family (Namu’s house).

Such kind of scenario would make sense of why they also create a reactionary rule about how you should not attempt to produce more than one priestess. Originally a political need, but they cover it up with superstitions.

 

[Sonaldo]

Well, that's horrifying. I'll never sleep again.

Yeah seriously wtf 😭. Like yeah this is a horror series but cmon. The art style and humor in the beginning didn't prepare me for this

 

[Nierow]

Something to mention. The mother performs the ritual by consuming the previous priestess' umbilical cord in its entirety. Assuming that Mirai used Nana's cord to give birth to Kaya, whose cord did she use for this second ritual?

 

[OwUmbreon]

We got another question mark chapter

 

[rluka]

Something to mention. The mother performs the ritual by consuming the previous priestess' umbilical cord in its entirety. Assuming that Mirai used Nana's cord to give birth to Kaya, whose cord did she use for this second ritual?

Spoiler

Yoshie’s umbilical cord she left behind. Mirai is not the eldest daughter, that means by tradition, one day she might need to give birth to another Ebisumori nuke.

The cursed womb technique seems to be exactly identical for both the Priestess and the Curse Baby except on if you let the baby out or let it kill yourself. Mirai doesn’t want to give birth to a Priestess, she intend to make the curse first time goes, but it failed because her husband and the doctor managed to bring her to medial attention on time.
You just need the umbilical cord of a Ebisumori woman (maybe even that doesn’t matter).

Seeing the raw, it seems like the story ends in this arc.
Then move on like “Kaya-chan is not Scary II”. Kaya now has a baby sister, and she’s up to 4th year in elementary school, so she’s now among the “older kids”

 

[izumabakumatsu]

So according to the family tree the 4th gen eldest daughter is Izumi but it seem Kaya's family lineage comes from the youngest daughter Michiko. There's also a crossed out daughter within the siblings of the 4th gen. There's still a lot more to be explored and I'm hoping we get more soon.

 

[Kuyu]

Still no update? I hope someone picks this up. Or... translator will continue. It's been months already.