Chapter Three Memos
- All God's Village -
The place Mio and Mayu have wandered into is the lost village, All God's Village
.
It vanished long ago on the night of the Forbidden Ritual
.
The spot where the village once stood is covered in thick fog, and now only a Twin Deity Statue marks its location.
A single young girl was left behind when the village vanished.
Legends of this village are recorded in the writings of a folklorist's assistant.
This assistant is said to have come out of the village just before it disappeared.
- Massacre -
One theory about the lost village held that there was once a great massacre there.
All the villagers were killed, and that's how the village came to vanish.
A woman wearing a red sash, laughing maniacally in a bloody sea of corpses is the vision Mio saw of the massacre
.
On the day of the ceremony, Sae laughingly attacked and slightered the villagers gathered in the great hall.
She then went out and began killing the rest of the villagers one by one...
- Secret Site -
No one must see the place where the Forbidden Ritual was performed.
It was forbidden even to speak its name.
A folklorist named Seijiro Makabe came to All God's Village to investigate this site, thinking it might be the very gateway to hell itself.
- Folklorist -
Seijiro Makabe was a folklorist who travelled all over Japan investigating local customs.
He borrowed the Camera Obscura from his friend Dr. Aso and set out to make an account of All God's Village's practice of raising twins as Shrine Maidens and its hell-gate ritual, the Forbidden Ritual.
Makabe's goal was to clear up the old legends about the hell gate by taking photographs and conducting research on the village and its Forbidden Ritual.
