Nikubami Honegishimi - Vol. 4 Ch. 11.3 - Birth-Monk's Well (Latter)

[MangaDex]

 

[thegoatrider]

Damn, does he have a family curse stuck on him

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Skullkrusher]

We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood.

Fear the old blood.

 

[Rathat]

Chapter 10 makes a lot more sense now

 

[Redsaint]

Worried about our young writer here, this older lady is clearly planning something scandalous with him.

 

[Gem-Bug]

Thanks for another!

 

[Veruschka]

Thank you very much!!

 

[rluka]

Possibility that the brief contact with the Moon in Inubousaki is enough to degrade the Birth-Monk and result in its death within the years between that time and now?

 

[capricieux]

Possibility that the brief contact with the Moon in Inubousaki is enough to degrade the Birth-Monk and result in its death within the years between that time and now?

I think it has been implied that she had always been a 'strange thing' from the flashback in 9.3. And the doll her child self was holding in that chapter is now in current Asama's doll collection, shown in 5.1.

Thank you for the update!

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

I forgot: Who's the sharp toothed woman the nephew is talking to?

 

[friendly]

Whew. Love the imagery on this thing. The twining... the sense of slime mold, fungal, twining masses.... And the retroactive horror of the way this all wound up once the well dried. Seems like the people dried up too.

 

[izumabakumatsu]

The idea of a living land and the people and creature thay lives there are its child/extensions is... strangely attractive in a quirky way

 

[unknown081]

I forgot: Who's the sharp toothed woman the nephew is talking to?

The assistant to Asama's relative I think?

 

[SatchelBagman]

I forgot: Who's the sharp toothed woman the nephew is talking to?

Tsurugi Sanda, the former assistant and current curator of the Hino Doll House. She and her former boss showed up most prominently in the Psyche-Severed Sacrificial Corpus arc.

 

[kusekabe]

The horror imagery of this manga is just so peak

 

[JackdawMinuet]

We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood.

Fear the old blood.

By the gods, Laurence.

Fear it.

 

[sotokouya]

tfw no sanda-san to tease me

 

[Vainfire]

Heartwarming: this eldritch entity's origin story is doomed yuri!

On a more serious note, this story genuinely must have been such a challenge to write and I'm super impressed at how the mangaka pulled it off. Consider that we "knew" the ending of the story going in: Matori must survive to the present day, and the town must reach its current state of deprivation. This created a great deal of dramatic irony by instilling in the reader the belief that the heroes couldn't win this one, that Matori must live to commit many murders...

Then to turn it around and reveal a whole bunch more lore about the nature of the Birth-Monk, the water, and even Matori herself, to have her instead killed and reincarnated in a way that makes complete sense plot-wise? To catch the reader off-guard after telling us the ending? It's impressive. To work in such cramped conditions as a writer, and make it out unscathed...

 

[7goat]

What an awfully polite bunch.
"Don't worry, we're not gonna trap and kill you and throw you down the well. You'll just upset its stomach."