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Monsters don’t salt their meat. Or at the very least they don’t salt their leftovers with the intention of preserving them for later consumption; that’s the type of higher-mindedness we don’t affiliate with unthinking monsters. So what does it say concerning the large, bloodthirsty apes that they not solely achieve this, however can even assume human type? At first look, it appears that evidently they’re the primate model of yatagarasu, however because the prince notes, they don’t appear to grasp spoken language—or at the very least not the language of ravens. They actually look extra like were-apes than the rest, however since they’ve by no means been seen earlier than—the prince-turned-priest says as a lot throughout his investigations at his temple—that not solely raises the query of the place they got here from, it calls for it.
At this level, there’s just one reply I can consider that ties into the opposite storyline launched virtually a month in the past in episode fourteen. That episode introduced us the unlawful drug sagecap – which I suspected may need one thing to do with the best way sage and mints can work on animals, since catnip is in that household. However the phrase “sage” can even imply “clever” or “sensible”, so what if the identify sagecap has a double which means? We all know what the drug does to clever beings just like the yatagarasu, however what if it had a unique impact on beings with out human mind? May monkeys have ingested sagecap and gained a false intelligence and yatagarasu-like potential to remodel into human type? Their mind appears fairly patchy from what we have seen – one in all them managed to cover his primate type when the kin’u and Yukiya got here in search of him, however he grossly underestimated what the yatagarasu might do to him. They know how one can salt and protect meat for later, however they haven’t any actual sense of self-control as they eat all the ladies and youngsters on the spot. (Or at the very least I hope so. The opposite possibility is way extra grotesque.) And naturally we’ve the burning query of why Koume was spared the slaughter.
Once we first met Koume within the earlier episode, there was one thing…out about what she and her father mentioned. The 2 have been touring retailers, and we now know that town they visited was focused by the were-apes. Yukiya and the prince discovered Koume sleeping in a coffin, the one survivor, however we must always actually be questioning how she obtained there—and why her father is lacking. Did he put her within the coffin earlier than he was killed? Did he put her there as a result of he knew the assault was coming? Was he by some means concerned in delivering the sage cap and was hiding his daughter the one means he might consider to get her out of the case? We don’t know, however Yukiya is suspicious of her and I believe he’s proper to be. There are too many unanswered questions on how she managed to remain alive, and the time it took for her to get up additionally raises the chance that she was on extra medication than simply drunk. And if that was the case, that raises the chance that her father continues to be alive and making an attempt to distance himself from her, presumably for her security.
This entire scenario looks like a way more harmful scenario than the opening storyline concerning the potential brides. Which may not directly have an effect on the nation, however this might destroy it totally. It goes past asking what occurred and lands firmly within the “why did it occur” camp, as a result of the one factor extra harmful than not understanding the carnage isn’t asking who advantages from it.
Judgement:
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Crispy bread.
