Seeds of Anxiety + - Vol. 2 Ch. 59 - Marking
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I'm not sure. There are some possibilities though, and I'm pretty sure one of these is right.
1. They are stacked up by someone as a safeguard against this dude, and if you topple them while he attacks, he will leave. (Not likely, unless he only attacks right at that spot so there's a decent chance of toppling them.)
2. They are stacked up by someone in order to summon him or get him to attack people, so toppling them makes him stop and leave. (Decent chance, except normally you have a target when you want to kill someone, and this seems difficult to target at a specific person.)
3. He stacks them up himself every so often, enabling him to attack, so toppling them makes him stop and leave. (This makes the most sense from a logical standpoint, but it's narratively unsatisfying. So not likely to have been written this way by the author, imo.)
4. Rock stacks are used for guidance. So maybe their presence is what lets him be there in the first place. But they weren't necessarily stacked in order to draw him to them. People just like stacking rocks. (This is decently likely.)
5. In Japan, rock stacks are used to mark a spiritually significant location. Which also could have drawn him. Again, probably not intended to summon him, but could have actually been meant to mark the location as having strong spiritual energy. (Also decently likely.)
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Personally, I think it's both 1 and 5, but with a minor difference. Toppling the rocks isn't what sends him away.
Let us assume, for a moment, that these rocks not only mark that this is spiritually significant location, but that the spirit living there did so as a sort of territory marker. Why might it need to do so? The answer lies in the attacker.
The only people we ever see with faces like that in these tales are not of the human variety and tend to be malevolent. So, let us assume that the spirit dwelling on the property, finding the girl to be a rather pleasant living resident, decided to mark their territory to tell the malevolent but lesser in power spirit to gtfoh and not bother those that lived there. Kind of like putting motion activated lights to scare deer out of your garden at night.
As he was more wandering around causing problems, thus being an opportunistic attacker, it did not know when he would try to pull something, so it put them up first as a precaution, then restacked while she was out to make sure the message of "Back Off" would still be there. When they fell, that was accidentally, but it caught the attacker's attention, causing him to realize where he was and that he was outclassed.
The fact that she comes home to occasionally find the stacks suggests that the attacker is still in the area, but not all the time and the rock stacker is making sure he does not try anything again.
