Chapter Eight Memos
- Itsuki -
Itsuki Tachibana, is The Remaining
.
He was left behind by his twin after the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual the year before The Repentance.
Itsuki loved his twin Mutsuki so much that the ritual ended in failure, and a year later it was Yae and Sae's turn to perform the ritual.
Itsuki, who made a pact with Mutsuki not to let the same thing happen to Yae and Sae, wrote a letter to his friend Ryozo Munakata, asking him to help them after their escape.
Keeping his promise to Mutsuki, Itsuki distracted the villagers.
He was locked in a cell and committed suicide.
Sae was captured after Itsuki's death, and when she saw what had happened to him, she wept, saying It's all our fault! We shouldn't have tried to escape!
- Twin Order -
Nowadays, when twins are born, we think of the one born first as being the older brother or sister.
But All God's Village thought the superior
, or older
, twin would let the lesser
, or younger
, twin be born first.
In this same way, throughout ancient Japan, the twin born first was considered to be the younger brother or sister, and the one born second the older twin.
But on December 13, 1874, an edict proclaimed the one born first was the older twin.
From that day, that became the accepted rule.
- Twin Shrine -
Somewhere in All God's Village, there was a separate cemetery where The Remainings were enshrined when they died.
There, pinwheels were given as offerings to comfort The Remainings' spirits.
These pinwheels made a lonesome sound as they turned in the wind.
