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[ungodliest]

The third Sunday of June, is it..? [ There's a little sigh, almost over the top melancholic. ] Too bad, that means some of us are missing out on a festival, right? It truly is a shame to not be able to celebrate Wataganashi this year..

[ There's a chuckle, and it's a bit eerie - like someone who's telling a ghost story. ]But I guess that might be

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[trashheap_angel]

Wataganashi? What kind of festival is that?

[Someone is apparently not bothered by the creepiness.]

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[ungodliest]

[ welp, she just has to try harder!! ]

It's a festival back home, in the village Hinamizawa.. it's the festival of cotton drifting. But.. you could say the tradition changed a little over the years. In earlier times they didn't quite drift cotton of all things, you see?

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[trashheap_angel]

[Good luck!]

I see... if not cotton, what was it? And why?

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[ungodliest]

Something similar to pulling cotton from a matress, and yet quite different.. Like pulling guts out of a human.

[ Yup, not even sounding disturbed either. Maybe a bit amused instead. ]

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[trashheap_angel]

Then, the cotton drifting is a symbol of blood sacrifice...

[Completely nonchalant. After all, he's done those quite a few times himself.]

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[ungodliest]

That's right. It's merely a watered down symbol of the old village legends. After all, Hinamizawa used to be a village of demons.

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[trashheap_angel]

The humans are celebrating a demon tradition? [...] It reminds me of something, but I don't understand why they would.

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[ungodliest]

It's just something that changed over time and was adapted by humans. But there still are some signs of demons, since they say whenever a person disappears because of the curse, they are 'demoned away'.

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[trashheap_angel]

The remains of that ritual would leave an opening...

What happened to the demons of Hinamizawa? Were most of them defeated by humans?

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[ungodliest]

Nobody knows for sure. Some say they still live in the village, disguised.. others say they moved to places outside the village.

But considering people are demoned away.. well, it isn't strange for them to still be there, right? [ She giggles. ]

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[trashheap_angel]

They could have secret followers among the humans. That happens sometimes where I come from.

[Well sort of...]

Perhaps. Unless the demons use Gates, for realms can touch that way.

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[ungodliest]

... Gates? And what might those be?

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[trashheap_angel]

A door that can be opened between realms... most often a human and demon realm.

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[ungodliest]

Hee, sounds interesting.. I wonder if they have those sorts of things here too or back in Hinamizawa.

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[trashheap_angel]

Perhaps... I offered to open a gate here to see the results, but I was told such things don't work in this realm.