Touhou Chireikiden - Hansoku Tantei Satori - Ch. 42 - Subterranean Animosity (Pt. XII)

[SpiritedBreak2]

Well, then. I stand corrected. Zun really did give us some backstory, some lore, to devour. Sure, it wasn't much but gives us some insight of before the spellcard rules Gensokyo (or slighly before the creation). I welcome it.

Also, judging by the timeframe of the flashback, this must have been not too long after the creation of the barrier.

Mizuchi's grudge seems pretty straight forward and, really, even a small grudge can be strong and does not have to be a "valid" grudge in the eyes of the others in order to be valid for her.

I... don't feel like we got any new information here?

BRUH.
It implies what families were around, what was Gensokyo like before the spellcard rules (or a bit before its creation), some insight into the Hakurei vs. Miyadeguchi and fleshes out Mizuchi's character quite a bit. There's quite a bit to unpack here.

I don't even fully understand it myself.

EDIT: I can't English.

 

[PrinzEugen00]

What the, a not light hearted story from my Zun written manga! What is this

 

[lswgamer]

All this lore and yet all I can think of is that when Satori stops Marisa from interfering with a "no, wait" is that it was missing a "let her cook".

 

[Valahuir]

I'm predicting Reimu's silence and expression is akin to "This chucklefuck is who had me rattled?"

 

[gelato345]

thank goodness the translation inconsistencies were fixed, now the hakurei’s past dealings are extra shitty now!! i love geopolitics

 

[XTwist]

Nice try hanipaganda

 

[af4zl]

noo why so short Zun?

Why so short?

 

[Kindoru]

All this lore and yet all I can think of is that when Satori stops Marisa from interfering with a "no, wait" is that it was missing a "let her cook".

That's meme material right there

 

[Sakuyadorf]

I see I see
Will this Hakurai family plot point lead into something game related?
I sure hope so and even hope more for a new fighter

 

[McAlastair]

Reasonable enough, but why do I have a feeling that Reimu didn't give a f--k about what Mizuchi said?

Probably because she doesn't.

 

[bobdave19]

It looks like Mizuchi didn’t hate youkai that much before her death, and was actually in the middle of reconsidering the relationship between youkai and human—before getting ambushed and killed by youkai in a brutal fashion. And to top it all off her death was used to scapegoat and dispose of the mizudeguchi family (who were probably the faction against establishing Gensokyo).

Imagine being her and seeing the currently Gensokyo where humans are intentionally kept ignorant and powerless as basically livestock’s for youkai, all while the shrine maiden is seemingly acting all buddy buddy with youkai. No wonder she’s had beef with Reimu.

 

[Gaysexlord]

Oh, damn. This almost seems like a fanwork. Anyways, evil obeys only one thing: absolute strength.

 

[Ven-20]

From what I could gather, she hates the youkai, and hates the Hakurei for protecting them.

But also, she said she had some thoughts about the relatioship between the two sides, and was one of the reasons for siding with the youkai, but what are these thoughts, if she hates them?

Also, why did Suika saved her just to leave her to die

 

[phiquangvu]

how long until there is a new chapter everyone ??

 

[WeaverTVSC]

Also, why did Suika saved her just to leave her to die

I think there might've been some youkai-politics at play. Maybe that posse was under the protection of a Suika's ally, or someone other suitably strong enough.

 

[gelato345]

i’m seeing a lot of confused talks about whether suika betrayed mizuchi by leaving her to die, and i just want to throw my hat into the ring with an admittedly not totally original take on why.

the long of it: suika gave up trying to save her. she recognized that trying to save this shrine maiden would be a lost cause—the youkai would hunt her down endlessly for as long as it took. continuously assisting mizuchi would also very likely paint a target on her own back by the mob, and being on a youkai hitlist does not bode very well even for someone like suika. perhaps she knew that mizuchi was on her way to become a vengeful spirit, but alas. i don’t think it was that she didn’t want to save mizuchi, but that she couldn’t. even if mizuchi did manage to fight for another day, it was unlikely she and suika could successfully fight off what was transpiring—the elaborate human-youkai treaty spearheaded by powers greater than they alone that would come to form the gensokyo we know today.

i think the best evidence of this comes from suika’s own line just as she leaves mizuchi to her fate:

“The land will soon become the domain of youkai. Though not in the form we’d hope for…”

the way she puts it, she sounds resigned to the fact that gensokyo is being formed as is. like there’s nothing she or mizuchi can do to stop it. she recognizes their fight is futile; the battle is already long over. she still resents the new order, as all the oni apparently do, but at that time there was nothing they could do against it. only now that mizuchi has reawakened—and that she’s actually doing some pretty good damage—is when suika and yuugi feel comfortable enough to entertain the vengeful spirit’s tirade against the system again. because at least there isn’t a bloodthirsty mob of shrine maiden-hating youkai to rip them apart now.

tldr; suika didn’t betray mizuchi, she just got sick of being too redpilled.