Nikubami Honegishimi - Vol. 3 Ch. 7.3 - Psyche-severed Sacrificial Corpus (Latter)

[MangaDex]

 

[Ghede]

Oh, that's vicious, that's nasty, that's awful, that's a GREAT horror story.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapters.

 

[nodamnbrakes]

Thanks for the chapters

 

[AcidVlad]

Great update

 

[Lenasien]

Okay, so the foreshadowing is spot on, what happen to inubousaki is literally similar with incident that occurred with Asama's relative (chapter 4).

Spoiler: Plus..

this fact is supported by the latest volume cover, so we will know asama's past in the future.

 

[hikarimew]

When I saw them pull out red thread for the spider, I thought "oh, like one-man hide and seek"?
Exactly yes, it turns out. Fun seeing a more modern urban legend pulled into a traditional horror like this.

 

[gundulgondrong]

it's like giving pain killer to a person who got cut in half

 

[deenzfan12]

Fun chapter, classically satisfying "resolution".

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

If the pain and horror was only from both seeing each other then losing the sense is pretty good deal, unless the thing was also corrupting his physical body in some other way.

 

[Redsaint]

If the pain and horror was only from both seeing each other then losing the sense is pretty good deal, unless the thing was also corrupting his physical body in some other way.

Judging from his appearance/comments I’m thinking it was slowly eating away his vitals too. So this basically just spiritual morhphine.

 

[friendly]

Hough. Yeah I guess at the end of the day, the best chance you have would be 'living a normal life as long as you can'.

And I imagine its kind of a "because she knew an actual spiritually sensitive person, she wandered into something Bad".

 

[Mynaux]

Great to have a full arc in one reading, thanks for the chapters!

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

I bet the girl is just being a dick and it's not really his fault.

 

[Gem-Bug]

Older Sanda is great <3

 

[Floriano]

Fuck, still disgusting and unnerving.

 

[Fugutron]

Maybe Asama did the same procedure to save Inobousaki and her doppelganger is the one in the grave?

 

[TheGrandCamarilla]

The profane and the divine are of the same coin, just different sides. Flesh-rending and bone-grinding, I wonder if it's some sort of ritual too. But my question would be what it's goals would be in the end. All curses have, at least in traditional Japanese folklore, a corpus and a symptomatic cause-and-effect. If one were to spell out a damning curse upon another, let's say one that would 'rend the flesh and grind the bones' of the one cursed.. If that curse backfires (whether by being reflected or broken), the one that levied the curse would immediately be affected. It's just the way it is, not even the gods are exempt from this if I recall. Perhaps.. Nikubami, Honegishimi. Perhaps it's not meant to be something that 'rends flesh and grinds bones'?
I do wonder. Exorcisms are, at the very least, never 100% effective. Some things are just that persistent or clingy to remove. See: The story of the man who did a ritual to commune with the dead, got into the clutches of a dead woman, had to spend months in a temple to be 'cleansed' only to discover after his teacher's passing that the 'cleansing' failed and that he was only removed from ever noticing the spirit ever again.
When you see it, it will see you back. The question of whether or not it ever gets tired of seeing you or not is the crux.

 

[solamente]

yknow everything else is on point too, but this story doesn't get enough praise for the way it doles out exposition so strategically

we got what seemed at first to be a very illuminating discussion of the underlying mechanics of the setting from someone who at last isn't reluctant to say (e.g land descent, attention & the role of dolls) only to find that the explanation is part of the con.

it leaves you with this feeling that things would mesh if you combed over each chapter several times, but you're always left wheeling and dealing with shady intermediaries between you and anything resembling extradiegetic truth, which I think is appropriate given its overall tone (and also them working at a magazine that cashes in on credulous hoaxes ... it's not that none of these things have been done before, but do you see how it gels?)

a shame this author hasn't written anything else

 

[misopogon]

Great chapter, great manga, looking forward to seeing more