Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai - Vol. 7 Ch. 44 - My daughter is not scary?

[Highorse]

it's twisted, but i kinda get it. But also, what is Kaya then? I thought she was quite literally the "thing" given sentience?

 

[Oobaka-san]

Poor woman's completely broken. Not bad enough that she either was meant to be a tool or misinterpreted her mother's attempts to free her as preparation to use her in that manner, but the hate had built up so much that the very existence of that power has become enough to curse her own child. Never mind that Kaya hadn't known her grandmother, hadn't known about her family line. Never mind that no one had tried to draw her back. The simple fact that her daughter had the power was enough to make her no different from Mutsu in Mirai's eyes.

I can only see two outcomes now. Either she fails again and the child is properly born, before or after Nana and Chie try to get through to her, or she succeeds and bears the child, but Kaya, possessing so much power, is still able to thwart it, either saving her mother or ending the thing that killed her.

Kind of wonder just what the child will be if she is born though. Would she also be an incarnation of the priestess, possessed of part of her power? And if so, what would her name be, Kaku?

 

[T-sama]

worst mother ever

Not as bad as her own mother and rest of the family

 

[VintageCatalyst]

*see new chapter
WE'RE SO BACK
*reads chapter
IT'S SO OVER

 

[CatLife]

Free kaya lol

 

[Jink]

Not as bad as her own mother and rest of the family

It seemed like her own mother was breaking the cycle and wasn't preparing her to become the "womb-sama". It was said in the lore dump 2 chapters ago (I think) that the daughters after the first were brain washed at an early age to want to become "womb-samas" and birth the killing curses. In Yoshie's Maternal Handbook Mirai read Yoshie mentioned it was strange Mirai wasn't going through that education/brainwashing. As for why the aunt was used to do a curse killing we don't know the reason for at this point but presumably there was athreat to the family. Perhaps Mutsu (Kayas grandma) wasn't the Matriarch of the family yet.

Was Mirais upbringing rough? Yeah compared to a normal family. Compared to how the family had been doing things the last few generations though it was better than being brain-washed and dying. She wasn't going to be used as a curse bomb and even was sent to public school to at least be given an opportunity at a normal life outside the home, however that didn't end up well since people knew what family she belonged to.

Also the mother willingly gave up her life to protect Nana. I think she was really trying to change, and actually ended up drastically changing, the way things had been done in the family.

Mirai probably thought the cycle would continue and didn't realize her mother stopped it with Nana and her. I mean Mirai can mean "future hope" symbolizing the future of the family no longer relying on the awful brainwash birth curse method. Mirai not realizing that decided to try and end the whole family so it never had a chance of happening again by willingly becoming a "womb-sama" with the killing curse directed at the whole family.

As to why the mother or Nana never tried to clear any of that up with Mirai is the weak point of the plot for me so far.

 

[SkellMeme]

Thanks for the translation

 

[5hijima]

Wtf noo don't kill Kaya she doesn't mean any harm : pien :

 

[friendly]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

Poor kaya's mama. Poor kaya's mama's auntie. Poor Kaya. Poor kaya.........

She never did anything bad. She just was born the way she happened to be born. But neither she or her mother can undo the ways she'd going to remind her of her just. Horrific family trauma leading to uh.

Well.


Alllllllllllllllll this.

least the granny ate it.

 

[asbyth]

feels like we got one more volume til it ends with how things are heading. unfortunate if that is the case

 

[doublesidedtape]

IMO the cursed umbilical cord setting is quite convoluted. Ok, so for the next priestess to be born, the mother must wholly consume the umbilical cord of the previous priestess. The mother apparently don't need to be the previous priestess (E.g Mutsu to Nana), given that the 2nd gave birth to the 4th, while the 5th did not bear the 6th (ch.11 chart).

Did the 1st priestess ate her eldest daughter(2nd)'s cord to give birth to the 3rd? And the 2nd ate the 3rd's to give birth to the 4th?

Ch. 42 tells us that womb-sama and cloning the priestess is the same process. Which means consuming the cord. I take it that the 4th, as the previous priestess, feed her own cord to her sister for the first iteration of the curse. So how does she give birth to the 5th? Is it by eating her sister's baby's cord? So a curse baby is somewhat considered a "priestess" in the grand succession?

Did Yoshie ate Nana's cord? Mirai gave birth to Kaya via the same ritual, which means she probably consumed the cord shown in ch44 (presumingly from Yoshie's curse baby). Did she ate Kaya's cord for her second try?

I'm glad in a few chapters the author have moved on from this saga.

Also some other pet peeves:
All priestess should look exactly like the ancestor (Ch.39), but Mutsu, Nana and Kaya don't really look the same (But I get it, so readers can differentiate characters and also not give away the twist). Kaya looks more like young Mirai.

The story keep using "inherited" for the priestesses. But it's less confusing to just call it cloning, since all existing priestesses retained their powers even after a newer one appears.

 

[NateVG]

It seemed like her own mother was breaking the cycle and wasn't preparing her to become the "womb-sama". It was said in the lore dump 2 chapters ago (I think) that the daughters after the first were brain washed at an early age to want to become "womb-samas" and birth the killing curses. In Yoshie's Maternal Handbook Mirai read Yoshie mentioned it was strange Mirai wasn't going through that education/brainwashing. As for why the aunt was used to do a curse killing we don't know the reason for at this point but presumably there was athreat to the family. Perhaps Mutsu (Kayas grandma) wasn't the Matriarch of the family yet.

Was Mirais upbringing rough? Yeah compared to a normal family. Compared to how the family had been doing things the last few generations though it was better than being brain-washed and dying. She wasn't going to be used as a curse bomb and even was sent to public school to at least be given an opportunity at a normal life outside the home, however that didn't end up well since people knew what family she belonged to.

Also the mother willingly gave up her life to protect Nana. I think she was really trying to change, and actually ended up drastically changing, the way things had been done in the family.

Mirai probably thought the cycle would continue and didn't realize her mother stopped it with Nana and her. I mean Mirai can mean "future hope" symbolizing the future of the family no longer relying on the awful brainwash birth curse method. Mirai not realizing that decided to try and end the whole family so it never had a chance of happening again by willingly becoming a "womb-sama" with the killing curse directed at the whole family.

As to why the mother or Nana never tried to clear any of that up with Mirai is the weak point of the plot for me so far.

I think you got all of them down, as for the last bit, I'd assume the grandma was taught to be strict for so long she just can't speak honestly when it matter and at that point she also didn't want Mirai to dig further into the family matter about the curse womb (which well, she did anyway)

As for Nana I think she's just too socially awkward to say anything and she was pardoned from going to school since she was young too, plus she was taught just about everything about the family back then so I say she was in it with the grandma of keeping Mirai in the dark so she can live normally.

Anyway I blame the aunt and her "diary", like deadass, I can see why Nana blamed herself when she said she didn't check it but damn who would have thought to write down a curse art into a childcare book

 

[unkman]

As to why the mother or Nana never tried to clear any of that up with Mirai is the weak point of the plot for me so far.

they probably tried, but she is sooooo focus on her hate of the ebisumori family that everything her mother tried to do good to her backfire, when she asked how her aunt die, her mother never explain the ritual, shielding her from the fate living weapon, that was the spark of her hate for the family later, when her mother give her the opportunity to be a normal girl, she see it as a way to reject her from the family, when her sister tried to talk to her in chapter 43, she crack and rant about how her sister and mother have the "easy way", at that point whatever they say is considered a lie.