Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai - Vol. 7 Ch. 43 - The Ebisumori family is not scary

[fight2live]

holy shit, an update!

and holy shit, that was so messed up

 

[NoTofu]

Thank you for continuing this

 

[VINT64]

Well, this series is notorious for pretty hard redraws (like on p.24).
And I see you're doing amazing work about it. So I'm happy you're the one who took it.
Good luck with your work, let's hope we'll catch up to the ongoing in no time

 

[waalex11]

@Faldo
Nah... not at all. That completely contradicts everything.
Her cold behavior. Continuing the tradition by educating Nana/etc. The rest of the family not stopping either. No signs whatsoever that Mutsu was doing anything to break the cycle, let alone her family.
There's also the foreshadowing from Yoshie that if the tradition is broken, spirits will be let loose somehow.

If Mirai would've been skipped as the next womb-sama, who would the family have replace her?
The Womb-sama must be of Ebisumori bloodline from their ancestor the diety.
The womb-sama must first hold the growth of the diety for it to then transfer to the new host to become the incarnate of the diety, the eldest daughter.
They hold a system, sorta for purity but mostly for ease of efficiency.

Sure, a cousin may be the womb-sama instead or whatever, but we've had no signs of that all.
... Maybe Mutsu isn't as cold as she seems, but I highly doubt she was actually planning in secret for Mirai to not be the next, and for another instead, who knows who. Meanwhile, being so cold? No. I completely disagree.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[MathMols]

What a trash family

 

[Beer_Kitty]

People tend to forget, the womb-sama are used to benefit the Ebitsumori clan. They "curse" their target which meant they are similar to what the God in Dark Gathering was doing. They are basically a supernatural for hire killers in a sense.
So in that context, Mirai wasnt forced yet to be a womb-sama because theres no work to do. No one has paid Mutsu for a kill and Mutsu might have been avoiding to do it since in her time, the Ebitsumori clan is rich enough. Tho its in decline now with Nana not having enough power as it is.
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And yes, they might have some mystical arts of hypnotism/mind control so thats why most womb-sama feels off. Thats why no womb-sama are afraid of dying.

 

[andrade09]

Thank you for translating this Possum, you’re awesome!

 

[Grye]

HLY FK

 

[RC1138Boss]

Thanks for picking this up Possum. This series is very good.

Well i am sympathetic to what Mirai suffered with this batshit crazy family of psychics.
But what she wants to do now? Her mother already died. Guessing she wants to wipe out all people from the Ebisumori family.

 

[Fuzaki]

@Faldo
Nah... not at all. That completely contradicts everything.
Her cold behavior. Continuing the tradition by educating Nana/etc. The rest of the family not stopping either. No signs whatsoever that Mutsu was doing anything to break the cycle, let alone her family.
There's also the foreshadowing from Yoshie that if the tradition is broken, spirits will be let loose somehow.

If Mirai would've been skipped as the next womb-sama, who would the family have replace her?
The Womb-sama must be of Ebisumori bloodline from their ancestor the diety.
The womb-sama must first hold the growth of the diety for it to then transfer to the new host to become the incarnate of the diety, the eldest daughter.
They hold a system, sorta for purity but mostly for ease of efficiency.

Sure, a cousin may be the womb-sama instead or whatever, but we've had no signs of that all.
... Maybe Mutsu isn't as cold as she seems, but I highly doubt she was actually planning in secret for Mirai to not be the next, and for another instead, who knows who. Meanwhile, being so cold? No. I completely disagree.

There has to be more going on though. It doesn't make sense why Mutsu never tried brainwashing Mirai like how Yoshie. Why would she only educate Nana but not Mirai when we know from Yoshie that it's common for the womb-sama to be "educated" as well. It's likely that Mutus had second thoughts about the whole ritual but likely still followed them because that's the family tradition. It might have to do with the extended family/branch families since Mutsu's parents are likely alive during Mirai's upbringing. Maybe she was trying to figure out a way to break the curse without continuing it with Mirai as the womb-sama. I think she was cold towards Mirai so that she would never discover the family tradition and cut her off from the Ebisumori family entirely.

 

[riflow]

I've been processing this chapter for a few days but I just realised, if kaya's grandma wasn't willing to teach Mirai to be a "womb-sama" or indoctrinate her, as her aunt was and as she had zero clue what about what was written in that book, doesn't that mean she cared about kaya's mum a lot more than she thought?

Sitting here horrified and mystified, BC on one hand I had originally thought the grandma was an active participant in the atrocities of their family line but...why would she have not taught the "spare" kid better if part of their family acting like a cult, is to indoctrinate all non priestess family members into being a cog in the machine?

Is it possible she allowed her sister to be a womb-sama BC it was too late to dissuade her from thinking that's her only purpose in life?

...like. did she...did she do that knowing it would unravel the family and knowing as well that her priestess daughter wasn't steeled enough (emotionally and power wise) to perpetuate their awful traditions herself...

🥲I might be overthinking tho

 

[hvdvyve]

Well, that sure made me megusad :´(
I also anticipate the next chapter very strongly.

 

[hvdvyve]

I've been processing this chapter for a few days but I just realised, if kaya's grandma wasn't willing to teach Mirai to be a "womb-sama" or indoctrinate her, as her aunt was and as she had zero clue what about what was written in that book, doesn't that mean she cared about kaya's mum a lot more than she thought?

Sitting here horrified and mystified, BC on one hand I had originally thought the grandma was an active participant in the atrocities of their family line but...why would she have not taught the "spare" kid better if part of their family acting like a cult, is to indoctrinate all non priestess family members into being a cog in the machine?

Is it possible she allowed her sister to be a womb-sama BC it was too late to dissuade her from thinking that's her only purpose in life?

...like. did she...did she do that knowing it would unravel the family and knowing as well that her priestess daughter wasn't steeled enough (emotionally and power wise) to perpetuate their awful traditions herself...

🥲I might be overthinking tho

She definitely didn't give her second daughter a very traditional upbringing so your theory certainly makes some sense. I believe it to be open for interpretation.

 

[friendly]

Hoouuuuuuuuuuuuu.
And the damn family just put all the discarded younger aunts things in some box, without thinking to read through the baby book...

Just this once, I don't think the chapter title has it right.

 

[Faldo]

@Faldo
Nah... not at all. That completely contradicts everything.
Her cold behavior. Continuing the tradition by educating Nana/etc. The rest of the family not stopping either. No signs whatsoever that Mutsu was doing anything to break the cycle, let alone her family.
There's also the foreshadowing from Yoshie that if the tradition is broken, spirits will be let loose somehow.

If Mirai would've been skipped as the next womb-sama, who would the family have replace her?
The Womb-sama must be of Ebisumori bloodline from their ancestor the diety.
The womb-sama must first hold the growth of the diety for it to then transfer to the new host to become the incarnate of the diety, the eldest daughter.
They hold a system, sorta for purity but mostly for ease of efficiency.

Sure, a cousin may be the womb-sama instead or whatever, but we've had no signs of that all.
... Maybe Mutsu isn't as cold as she seems, but I highly doubt she was actually planning in secret for Mirai to not be the next, and for another instead, who knows who. Meanwhile, being so cold? No. I completely disagree.

But again, why was Mirai not "educated" into her role as a Womb-sama like Nana was. That is the whole reason why Nana wrote the book.
That is the sign that Mutsu has done something different. Because Nana was supposedly "educated" even at an early age.
And where did you get the Idea that a womb Sama is needed for the next priestess? The Manga said the longer the birth is drawn out, the stronger the priestess becomes, and that was the reason why her Sister is such a weak Psychic, because she was born premature.

the "womb-sama," on the other hand is the growing out of control of the power and then used as a one-time curse

 

[Oobaka-san]

There's a few things I'm a little unclear about. For one, does the new Womb eat the umbilical chord of the previous Womb, or the umbilical chord of the Hiruko the last Womb birthed?

Anyway, just a little speculation, but I kind of suspect that Mutsu didn't have the evil intent Mirai believed. She looked honestly very bitter during her little sister's wake, and she had absolutely no reason to force Mirai to go to school if she intended to use her as a weapon like that. Seems to me that perhaps she felt like she couldn't stop Yoshie from carrying out her "duty" and so could only watch in sad silence and promise to guide her sister's soul. And with Mirai, I don't think she ever intended to let her become a Womb. She didn't keep her sheltered and alone, trained to believe that she existed to help the family. She even forced her to see the world outside. Seems more likely that when she said it was indeed for her sake as she is "not a priestess", what she meant was that she was making sure she'd have a path to escape, a chance at a normal life with no need to depend on the family that expects her to die.

Also, while I've seen some say that Mirai killed her mother first intentionally, that doesn't fit. Not unless she was fully aware that her mother had cast a charm to deflect all harm to herself. The fatal attack was directed at Nana, or at least hit her when she opened the door (could just be that the hatred building inside hit the moment a relative came in), and then Mutsu died in Nana's stead because of the charm. Doesn't sound like she'd mourn her mother's death, but I don't think she intended to do so just yet.

Also, one other point: it appears that her mother never tried to go after her. Considering her finances and followers as well as the people indebted to her, it would not have been difficult to track Mirai down, but she never did. It really does look more like she was hoping to set Mirai free and preparing her for this with schooling. Everyone else in the family ignored her because she "wasn't human", but Mutsu simply didn't know how to handle things except to continue to push her away.

 

[StormConstantine]

Huh
Well then
screaming

 

[goodhunter]

I believe, as others have similarly surmised, that Mutsu didn't want to continue the womb-sama thing with Mirai. How else did Mirai not know about it at all and was completely oblivious to everything regarding the duties of the priestess clan? We even saw Yoshie stating that Mutsu didn't teach Mirai anything about the duties of the womb-sama, nor the priestess duties, and Yoshie decided thus she was going to leave behind the teachings herself to pass onto Mirai. That meant Mtusu was purposefully withholding from teaching Mirai anything about the family and their unsavory businesses, and she even went as far as sending Mirai out into the external world to live like a "normal" person, while Nana was forced to live inside and not leave. Furthermore, the teachings that Yoshie wanted to pass onto Mirai never ended up being handed down to her, further showing that Mutsu had no intentions of having these things taught to Mirai. But Mirai ironically took it upon herself to become a womb-sama because she mistakenly thinks Yoshie was sent to her grave by Mutsu, but Mutsu seemed like she was not happy about Yoshie dying like this and was bitter towards all of this (while Yoshie herself was a brainwashed believer and wasn't the loving mother figure Mirai thought she actually was). I think she was also teaching Nana the best she can to continue running the family, but without actually continuing the practices as they have done so historically. Whether this meant Mutsu planned on ending their clan's history with the next generation or not, I'm not sure, but we do see that it seems Mutsu was trying to protect Mirai from all of it, and she was perhaps acting cold with Mirai so as to distance the priestess family with Mirai, to further protect Mirai. With that said, this is what I believe is going on with Kaya and Mirai as of right now.

I believe Kaya was initially intended to become one of the curse babies that womb-samas use for the curse murders. Remember how one of the practices is that no human should lay a hand on the curse babies, or else it'll fail? Remember how Kaya was born? The earlier chapters stated that Kaya was born as a C-section baby. In other words, she was not born naturally, she was born prematurely via a C-section. I don't know what happened to cause the situation where Mirai had to go through a C-section, but the C-section caused the murder curse baby to fail, and instead I believe the curse became born with a human skin. Thus Kaya was born, where instead of a human spirit, Kaya is instead a curse spirit, which means Namu was right about the identity of Kaya being a curse spirit in human skin. However, that isn't to say that Chie-sensei was wrong either, Kaya also has a human heart. The curse failed, and thus it somehow holds both human and curse attributes. Perhaps with modern medicine, it was the first time a C-section was ever performed on a womb-sama, thus why there was no record ever of a being like Kaya in the priestess family's history. Or perhaps failed curse babies became still born and were dead, but modern medicine, along with the C-section, allowed Kaya to survive as an oddity in their history. And because the curse failed, Mirai performed the curse pregnancy once again because she failed to accomplish her goal the first time. If we look back at earlier chapters, Mirai begged the doctors for a normal birth, and refused to have another C-section situation despite whatever complications she goes through. She doesn't want the curse to fail, she wants to accomplish her curse. It turns out, the real villain of this series is Mirai, who was blinded by her desire for revenge on what she perceived to be her mother's wrong doings. She felt ostracized by her family by not being included, which is ironic because Mutsu was doing so in order to protect her from it. But that backfired and caused her to instead become the very thing Mutsu didn't want her to become, and even more ironically the curse that was used to kill the enemies of their clan is now being used as a weapon to kill the current generation of the family. So not only is her hatred misguided, Mirai is also neglecting Kaya and her own husband to accomplish her goal. Perhaps she never truly loved her husband to began with, and he was just a tool for her revenge. So hell bent on accomplishing her curse and dying as a result, leaving behind Kaya and her husband is not something a loving wife and mother would do. It is the work of an obsessed woman who felt like she was ostracized both by her family and the outside world, and is now lashing out at the cause of her misery, which ironically she in turn has just continued the cycle of misery with her neglect of Kaya and her husband, and continuing the womb-sama practice.

 

[luigiymario2]

What a shit family, I see why Mirai is cursing them all jesus christ...