Nikubami Honegishimi - Vol. 2 Ch. 4.3 - Devouring Specters, Distorting Divinity (Latter)

[MangaDex]

 

[AcidVlad]

That's really a great read

Thanks for the trad!

 

[stasis_sword]

Thank you, series like these are great.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

I hope they'll go back there and deal with the situation more permanently, a big shame of horror and supernatural stories is that everything end up open ended (and not in a good way, in a 'you only got half the story' way) and you end up with so many 'unstoppable' entities on the lose, the setting stop making sense as to why humans even still exist.

 

[VinylAT]

This is some cosmic horror stuff. We just have an existence devouring outer god chilling in one village. Thanks for the TL

 

[Skullkrusher]

I hope they'll go back there and deal with the situation more permanently, a big shame of horror and supernatural stories is that everything end up open ended (and not in a good way, in a 'you only got half the story' way) and you end up with so many 'unstoppable' entities on the lose, the setting stop making sense as to why humans even still exist.

It's a facet of cosmic horror that humans are on the bottom of the food chain, entities see humans like humans see ants, and there's no "beating" them, only surviving them. There won't ever be a permanent solution because there is no way for a human to even conceptually understand the level of the cosmic being, let alone fight it. The human mind breaks down at that level. Asama will never gain a super saiyan form, he's just a psychic doing his best to survive in a world where cosmic Great Ones are descending and eating gods and humans. In fact, in some cosmic horror series, if humans survive despite these god-eating monstrosities being omnipresent...then humans are in fact being farmed by said monstrosities for reasons utterly incomprehensible to the humans.

 

[Weoooo]

I hope they'll go back there and deal with the situation more permanently, a big shame of horror and supernatural stories is that everything end up open ended (and not in a good way, in a 'you only got half the story' way) and you end up with so many 'unstoppable' entities on the lose, the setting stop making sense as to why humans even still exist.

If horror could be fixed, it wouldn't be horror.

 

[OrichalonHades]

didnt expect an eldritch outer god to descent started eating the native gods but here we are. its impressive the caretaker spirit survive all this time.

I wonder if that means that Gerai cant actively attack and can only harm those that perceive them.

 

[Riorio56]

It's sad her fate end up like that

 

[capricieux]

She probably ripped her eyes out to not be tempted by the gerai.. poor soul

 

[nxxmfury]

such a good read. thanks for the work team.

been a long time since i found a good supernatural horror like this one.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

It's a facet of cosmic horror that humans are on the bottom of the food chain,

You're not at the bottom of the chain if 50000 Bajillion active cosmic threats are active at once and can't even shake society at large.

If horror could be fixed, it wouldn't be horror.

Horror isn't horror when it's laughably impotent even when unchallenged.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapters.

 

[friendly]

Wough. What a fascinating, grim little story. A cruel anglerfish-like 'god'... and the attempt to drive it out or deal with it just lead to the place slowly emptying out. I don't think I would want to repeat that story either...

 

[Pouco-chan]

Ah...so his family was responsible for the land, where one of these "distorting entities" appeared? In the "dolls" chapter it was shown that his family was performing a purification ritual, after failing to solve the problem. Well, at least no one died yet (except that guy who was digging)~💦
Thks for the translation~

 

[Floriano]

The entirety of the village died, and it keeps claiming victims for around the place.
So the solution for most of these encounters are very lovecraftian in nature, basically ignore and forget as there truly is nothing to be done. The zone was lost to the devouring god, and the best that can be done is to contain the madness from spreading.

There might be a bigger government involvement as they are the reason they visited but they too might have no way of stopping any of these entities as there simply is none. If spirits and gods themselves are getting devoured what can simple humans do? Absolutely nothing and that is part of the horror of the manga, so don't expect him to come back and use a domain expansion on it.

 

[7goat]

I hope they'll go back there and deal with the situation more permanently, a big shame of horror and supernatural stories is that everything end up open ended (and not in a good way, in a 'you only got half the story' way) and you end up with so many 'unstoppable' entities on the lose, the setting stop making sense as to why humans even still exist.

It's mentioned several times that Gerai can make you forget everything related to it (aside from that granny at the beginning, what was her deal anyway), and at the end of this arc our two MCs have clearly forgotten everything that happened, so yea they're probably not gonna solve this case anytime soon.

That said, I agree with the second half of your post. In most horror stories, it's at least somewhat understandable since the characters in it are just average joes who maybe just happen to have the ability to see ghosts. But then there's series like Scary Campus College University, where they do have the ability and strength to fight back, but sometimes they simply leave things be for no reason (the chapter with the weird sea creatures, and yes someone did fill the request form so it counts).

 

[misopogon]

This manga is very goated; all of its story arcs feel like they could be developed into feature length stories in their own right. You could write a whole manga about Gerai slowly taking over a small town and all that.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

But then there's series like Scary Campus College University, where they do have the ability and strength to fight back, but sometimes they simply leave things be for no reason (the chapter with the weird sea creatures, and yes someone did fill the request form so it counts).

Honestly that aspect of it was so frustrating, it's probably why it go axed despite all the dangling plot threads (which the author wasn't really doing much with, let's be honest). Like the male MC's weird 'when I'm about to die, some demon emperor shows up and eat the other suprnaturals' thing that ended up never explained or expanded upon.

Or the Sensei's god bullshit.

Seriously, there was NO reason for them to just leave that one classmate of theirs to rot in that weird cave in the sea creatures mini arc.

 

[Matthewkeen]

nice.