Dumping newest translated chapter.
"Birth-Monk's Well (Middle)"
Previous chapter: https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/279097426/#279097426

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So drinking from the monk's well ties you to the land or part of the monk that eats itself. I wonder if the Aunt found it disgusting because the monk tried to claim her, but since she's cursed by the Moon presence, its pull/claim was way stronger than the monk's. She clearly didn't become a tangela when she died, after all.

In the west, An ouroboros means the serpent that eats its own tail. Why do the japanese attribute it to squiggly worm monsters? This is the second time that's happened.

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>>279862761
Compare the baby to the things coming out the river

>>279863975
I'm running brainlet today. I see the baby is squiggly and the little dudes in the well are less so. It just feels like what happens here seems to be copied out of RE5.

>In the early symptomatic stage, patients are known to experience sweating, labored breathing, and confusion or delirium.
>In the later stage of infection, the patient's condition will develop in one of two ways. If the patient has the advantageous genetic trait, the virus will enter a lysogenic stage and mutate the host at a slow rate. Patients without this trait, however, will experience runaway mutations that result in the patient being violently torn apart and killed. The infected biomatter continues to endure as its own separate entity, known only as "Uroboros".
>Uroboros creatures can be described as anomalous masses of black biomatter. This mass often has tubular characteristics, echoing its namesake, though rather than resembling a snake, these creatures' tubules branch off from one another like tree roots, and can be melded back into the mass to grow elsewhere. When an Uroboros creature makes contact with other organisms, it consumes and converts them into biomatter for its own growth.
"All becomes part of the monk" and everyone is rooted to the ground or each other.

Sorry if I'm not contributing but it really does feel like this is a ghostly retelling of RE5.

>>279864370
I don't see the connection

>>279866273
I can see it, but it's a real stretch. I just happened to be playing through the Resident Evil games to prepare for Requiem, so it clicked a little. They outright say that the little guys aren't spirits, they're dregs of something that failed.

>Early stage, sweating, labored breathing, delirium
We see this clearly (Well former chapter), after drinking the water, Matori and Ruko both got infected, and showed symptoms of sweating, labored breathing, etc.
>Later stage, you explode into black biomatter tentacles or become a monster
Matori became a monster that lasted for 20 years before dying. Ruko failed and exploded into biomatter tentacles. (Dry well chapter)
>The biomatter assimilates everything into itself
Everyone who drinks the water seems to be attached to the ground or each other, like the mom, or exploding into tentacles like the baby (Well middle chapter).

It's a cute coincidence, but that's all it is - a coincidence. I'm willing to place money that the author wasn't thinking of a 16 year old video game when he made this chapter.

>>279862062
Yeah, no. Not drinking from that well
>>279862159
So is the water reacting to the curse on Inubousaki?
>>279862452
>>279862514
Whole town if fucked, just leave now and don't bother finding out how fucked they are.

>>279867169
>So is the water reacting to the curse on Inubousaki?
Seems like it, she was marked by the moon presence and the wind god wouldn't fuck with her, so likely this curse can't either.
>>279867169
>Whole town if fucked, just leave now and don't bother finding out how fucked they are.
That happened. They say in the Dry Well chapter that the town underwent renovation, most of the original inhabitants left, and most of the wells were sealed. Matori was one of the "original" few remaining.

>>279867306
>They say in the Dry Well chapter that the town underwent renovation
I completely blanked out on the chapter about the reason we're in this flashback to begin with.

Thank God this kind of folkloric horror isn't real because Japan is already a minefield and It would arguably be worse depending on what country you live in. Just make an unscheduled stop and get a drink of water only to fuck yourself completely.

>>279867925
Date the hag

>>279867925
>Japan is already a minefield and It would arguably be worse depending on what country you live in

I disagree. From an outsider's perspective, Japan's spiritual sense is just overwhelmingly hostile. Everything is out to kill you or destroy you or curse you for eternity and there's nothing you can do about it. It's like it justifies a hive mentality, where all the survivors follow the natural order or their superiors, and any deviation is met with merciless destruction for you, your family, and every generation hence forever.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Japan doesn't really have a "trickster" story, do they? Someone who can pull a fast one on the gods, or stand against impossible odds, through cleverness, deception, and mischief. China had the Monkey King, Subsaharan Africa had Anansi, Native North America had Coyote, the Greeks had Hermes, Prometheus, and Hercules, the Norse had Loki, the Mayans had the Twins of Xibalba, and so on. All of them are stories where man's condition may be hard, but by cleverness or stepping outside the social order, one can prosper or succeed. Japan has NOTHING like that. The closest they have to a trickster is their fox spirits, and even those are "You got tricked for going outside the natural order, the fox spirit kills you mercilessly." I have been to multiple countries, and even the worst of things had clear guidelines and limited their punishment to the offender. No country had such overwhelming misery and arbitrariness in their spiritual mindset as Japan.

>>279868323
>but Japan doesn't really have a "trickster" story, do they? Someone who can pull a fast one on the gods, or stand against impossible odds, through cleverness, deception, and mischief.
Susanoo seems to fit that bill. Taking out Yamamoto-no-Orochi was a feat of cleverness and from what I understand he routinely fucked with the gods. Albeit probably in a more vicious way as befitting the guy associated with storms.

>>279869468
Man, even their trickster god is a mass-murderous monster. Seriously, this is way before the two nukes, what the fuck scarred that nation's soul so hard?

>>279869581
Shit tons of natural disasters like earthquakes, Tsunamis, mud slides, not to mention more universal stuff like floods and famine.

I remember discussing it on /his/ (before /his/ exclusively discussed religion) and basically Japan has always had a strong central government because the only way to recover from your village being destroyed was to appeal to the most powerful lord, and thus their society is heavily skewed toward being polite and being able to appeal to as many people as possible, especially the people at the top, because you will have nothing after the earthquake swallows up your farm, and outsiders to your village won't lift a finger if you're a weird, rude asshole.

Basically, their realtionship to their gods reflected their reality, you can bow and scrape and do anything the gods ask, but the gods are fickle with mercy and even if your village gets swallowed by a mudslide, you better be prepared to bow and scrape some more if you don't want it to get worse.

>>279870076
I will thank god every day I was born somewhere normal and not Japan.

>>279870502
I mean, modern society has better ways of dealing with natural disasters, but yeah medieval/ early modern japan had it rough.

>>279864370
Complete Global Lactation

>>279862062
Delicious flesh-well water

>>279862452
I've said it before, but I love this artist's body horror.

>>279868323
>>279869468
Ok, I did some more reading into the idea of trickster stories within japanese myths and folklore and there doesn't seem to be a lack of them. The Tanuki and the Kitsune are both pretty common figures to have shapeshifting into something or someone for good or bad. Fox possessions, foxes turning into women or monks for various reasons. Tanuki becoming Kettles and hiding on a shelf only to start running around. Those seem to be the central trickster characters in stories but there are plenty of clever people as well and God's that exhibit tendencies of other tricksters like Loki, without explicitly being all about shenanigans.

I'd still rather take my chances surviving in my own country's folklore or most others rather than japans. The closest to a fair fight you get in this series was the Evil Slough from the Archeologist chapters. And that still required a knowledgeable person to know they could perform a minor ritual to get the hair spirit to back off. Compare that to something like Poltergeist where all you need to do is return a skull to a burial site and you get a far more lenient timeframe to do that in and get your kid back too.

>>279870076
>Shit tons of natural disasters like earthquakes
Which explains the duality of Gods like Susanoo and Inari as they represent natural phenomenon or the Harvest. They are just as likely to fuck you in the mouth as they are to give you a boon.

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>>279862561
Thanks for posting.
I don't expect a happy ending with this one.

>>279874323
>I don't expect a happy ending with this one.
Anon, we already know that the girl persists in agony for 20 years and dies to the nephew and his milf. We're just watching the start of what happens.

>>279874873
>that the girl persists in agony for 20 years
Isn't the idea that she's already died and whatever the Hag hammered was just a simulacrum of some kind. But that could just be the doll chick's way of dehumanizing a victim who has spent decades pushing people into a cursed well so she could farm their body fluids to fuel her addiction.

>>279862062
it's the Fuminori vision

>>279877122
Not meaty enough

I'm too pea-brained for this.

>>279862561
Thx mate.

>>279861905 (OP)
LET'S GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>279862062
I wouldn't even touch the pipe or anything connected to that well to be honest.

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>>279879673
OOOOOOOSTO!

>>279861905 (OP)
Just caught up. Damn "Niiya" breaks my heart. Also that cow part was disturbing.