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How long has it been since Keitarou was our damsel in distress again?

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The substitutes aren't doing shit, Yayoi.

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>>288517931
And that should be all. Now we wait for tl

>>288517946
Thank you for posting, OP! I was waiting for this.

>>288517871
Kid clawed his eyes out, that's fucking brutal.

>>288517705
so its attacking his soul bypassing the substitutes protection on the body the same way park granny stole eiko soul without the body protection doing anything right?

>>288517931
and its doing spiritualist hand signs bullshit to make itself invisible to other spirits and people that can see them

>>288519432
The substitute only take damage from ghost attacks that target the body, so yeah, anything that targets the soul, mind or life energy can bypass it. It's actually quite limited once you deal with graduate class spirits, only preventing instant death in most cases

>>288519470
feels like a more experienced ghost than the previous ones, this one takes extra steps to remain hidden while everything else we have seen so far is just confortable moving around with the passive invisibility ghost get to the common eye

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>>288519504
In fact, Yayoi's working theory is that this spirit used to be a veteran spiritualist himself

Our first ghost hunt in a while and Keitaro is once again in mortal danger. Ah, it is like we never left.

This is either a setup for chargpt gemini to learn how to read the flow of energy, or yayoi to use the samurai pokemon she just got

>>288517490
>Took a photo of her own heart
Disheartening.

>>288517598
Last time he was the main damsel was way back when he got the red dress curse
Keitarou probably misses the shikigamis that Seimei lent him

>>288521313
kek

Interestingly this spirit didn't just take out the soul, but specifically the Dantian, the center of one's chi, and in this case, the core that connects soul and body, and seeing as this spirit knows spiritual techniques as well, maybe he is practicing Neidan, the Chinese spiritual art to make itself immortal

>>288521469
At least no one can say she's heartless
Or maybe they can since she has one less heart

>>288522090
That was exactly four years ago.

>>288517705
Man, every ghost they've encountered after beating Tai managed to bypass the water dolls
They really need to upgrade their gear to handle the sudden difficulty spike

>>288517458
LEEEEEEEEEETS GHOOOOOOOOOO

>>288517465
detailed organs make me uncomfortable

>>288517556
RETSUTOKOSUTO !

>>288519470
>new region new troubles

>>288524840
Maybe using S Chan's hair to weave some protective clothing?

If they just find faith in the lord Jesus Christ, no entity could stand in their way. But that would be too easy?

>>288526431
That reminds me, that one spiritualist that looks feminine but is really a guy dressed in all white...they seem rather Christian coded.

>>288522090
Keitarou wasn't in any direct mortal harm so even if he still has them, they won't activate automatically. They'll probably wait until he's scratching at his brain before Goki and Zenki will come out to deal with monkey man over here.

pretty fucked up having to kill your own kid because you watch him scratch his eyes out and continue to scratch his literal brain out so you jus twant him o be at peace and you out of this hell

Yayoi needs to shock the monkey, shock the monkey, tonight. Anyone get it? No? Never mind.

>>288517465
nice

Wonder if the shikigamis Yayoi caught while she was being interrogated can be useful in some way?

one could say he got a gut punch...

>>288528088
Think Seimei took those back already

>>288533301
sex

>>288533301
Ha, so fanart of her does exist.

>>288526882
No crucifix spotted. He is labeled as an exorcist though. I'll just chalk it up to the japs not understanding Christianity. But the cross should be like the barest of minimums.

>>288526431
It's funny how this is one of the settings where this may be true after Marbas showed that, even in its improperly summoned state, it's a deity-level threat that required an overpowered graduate and an actual deity masquerading as a shikigami to beat him

>>288535638
The japanese psyche is scarred by the abrahammic faiths. Something funny to consider is "If these ghosts are SO powerful, why didn't they stop the nukes and save the homeland?"
>Christian soldiers annihilated two of their cities with new types of science and forced their god-emperor to renounce his divinity
>A Jewish woman helped write their constitution
>They have to import muslims to stimulate their dead economy
If it's a question of numbers, the belief of 120 million japanese vs 4.3 billion abrahammics, they lose. There are other series where they show "the vatican" as running roughshod over everything like invincible terminators.

>>288517790
I hope this soul-stealing bastard receives a horrible fate for making this cute MILF and her child suffer like this

>>288536015
KEK

>>288517544
One thing to note is that there's a possibility that B ranked spirits aren't necessarily weaker than S or A class, since Yayoi says she ranks based on internet rumors, with:

S rank being inescapable or have curses with unlimited range, example being Asura who kills you instantly or Bleached head who traps you with his spatial warping

A rank being high chance of spiritual phenomenon and ghost with curses that make life worse than death, such as the fat parasite using ghost who only targets handsome men

B rank is if a group of people visited the spot, then only one would be made a target and the rest could escape safely

While stronger ghosts would likely have stronger abilities and thus be more dangerous, a graduate class spirit could be in a B ranked spot if it simply targets one person and doesn't attack often, which is likely the case here as the author probably won't waste the samurai's first battle on a scrub

>>288517776
I do wonder how the ghost flashbacks work. Because it is used as an excuse, writing wise, to have Yayoi take an educated guess at what a curse does. So it's often not
>oh based on whats happening, I think the curse is something like so and so
but more like
>it was revealed to me in a dream
And the flashbacks come semi randomly? Or at least I can't figure out a pattern. iirc Bleached Head, A Dam ghost, High Priest, and Shuten never got flashbacks.

>>288537294
Pretty sure it's the mother victim ghost showing her this time.

>>288526038
Could work against spiritual attacks
Even if it doesn't last long, it's better than nothing and could at least work as an early warning if it mysteriously starts breaking

>>288521313
>yayoi to use the samurai pokemon she just got
Problem is the warrior graduate attacks indiscriminately, so they'll need to seperate Keitarou's soul from this new ghost first

>>288526038
how about that S chan upgrade
she deserves it

>>288538771
Well, she would need to have something to consume like how Bleached head consume Shuten Douji, still crossing fingers for K tunnel ghost(the one who took Nagiko's body, a female tunnel ghost with hair powers, almost too perfect to be true)

>>288537294
i like to think its something the people with extreme high spiritual affinity can do, and that ghosts usually show to them when they are around

>>288537294
Usually they do it during highly emotional moments, particularly if said flashback have something to do with their motivation for becoming evil ghosts, the parasite ghost from A dam was just a rapist so unlikely to have a tragic backstory or anything, and bleached head was a just a sadistic murderer who did his stuff for artistic expression

>>288538771
Best we can do is Yayoi handing her over to Keitarou as protection in the next haunted spot so she can get ripped apart to show off how powerful the resident ghost is

>>288542177
Look, someone has to be the Worf of the group.

>>288542204
You had to be established as strong before hand to considered Worf. S chan has only beaten Keitarou and no one else.

holding hands with yayoi

Thanks for the raws, OP. I've been following the monthly chapter drop for some time now, and recently started reading these raws as a benchmark for my own grind (currently at 4-5k vocab).
Reading the raws made me notice how wordy DG is. I also check the jashin-chan raws, and while that one I can read easily, DG feels like each panel is a kanji bomb.

>>288544197
Yeah i don't evne try much i'm too much of a beginner and DG author seems to have too much stuff, but i enjoy it

Yaoi with Yayoi

New chapter of Ura Baito
>>288542898
We only have 10 chapter left

>>288536015
DG threads are some of the highest quality threads on /a/ lmao.

>>288545568
very comfy

>>288543419
Touche

>>288547307
Creepy child

>>288547326
ghost hands typed this

>>288520334
Well shit
Guess we should have expected ghosts like that to eventually show up after we learned that even rank and file Replaced can use those kinds of techniques

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Did you celebrate her birthday last month?

>>288550350
Yes. I tried to go into a abandoned house to explore it for a haunting. Didn't pan out though.

>>288517458
LET'S GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>288517490
I was not expecting her to take a photo of it and show that to them. Guess it does put in perspective the extreme danger they're in.

>>288517598
Red Dress was the last time he was in extreme danger. Since then, he had Zenki and Goki for protection but not anymore.

>>288517667
>trying to tear out his brain and heart simultaneously
Jesus christ.

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>>288517705
>removes his soul to bypass the defense of the substitutes
Hey, that's cheating.

>>288517790
Poor kid. Guess this explains why his head was missing from his ghost.

>>288517871
GODDAMN

>>288526038
That would fail against any God class or above level ghost. We literally see that her efforts were nothing against Risu-tan's bunrei and even using a field of it only took Mamoru's double somewhat by surprise since he wasn't fully anticipating it. This ghost is a powerful spiritualist in its own right, so it could likely just pass right on through any protective wear made from her hair.

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tl is out

>>288550439
this anon is a replaced

>>288533301
If evil, why cute?

Is Dark Gathering the leader of the spooky brig/a/de?

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>losing your soul but still being conscious
fucking hell that's scary

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>>288554496
Something to note from last month, Kondo on twitter stated that doing the art for Samurai ghost's flashback was too much for him so we're probably never getting a sengoku era story again.

>>288554526
>Kondo on twitter stated that doing the art for Samurai ghost's flashback was too much for him
in what sense? hard to draw? hard to portrait properly and keep track?

>>288554526
also thanks for the dump

Thanks for dumping without the subjective or personal commentary. I appreciate clean dumps like this.

>>288554322
>That look.
Probably the scariest eye contact with a ghost I've even seen. You're suddenly pulled out of your body only to turn you head and lock eyes with god knows what.

>>288554554
Rereading that chapter, I'm assuming it's all the armor based on how often it appears in the chapter and how something like it hasn't been drawn in chapters past.

>>288554091
Love the casual "He removed my heart".

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>>288554087
New ghost is cool, I really dig how the lower half of his tattered robes double as hair. Seems to be two guys fused together, but I'm at a loss about why he's wearing a monkey's face.
I particularly love the lack of fanfare. All the top brass recently were making pockets dimensions and have complex powers and whatnot. This guy just walks up, takes the cord connecting your soul to your body, then walks away without a word.

fucked up he did it to a kid...

>>288554322
A FUCKING MONKEY

>>288554746
>This guy just walks up, takes the cord connecting your soul to your body, then walks away without a word.
He's using spiritualist techniques too.
>All the top brass recently were making pockets dimensions and have complex powers and whatnot.
He didn't use them for this it seems, but we haven't seen his power yet. It's possible he has something fancy too.

That said, I'm in agreement with you that it's smooth how casually he did this. Also liked how he toyed with them, "taunting" Yayoi's eyes, and "tasting" Keitarou, before the finisher.

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>>288554746
Incomplete metamorphosis maybe?
Top half, corporeal monkey face body is the original body. But it's just a shell.
Bottom half is the same guy ascending to a higher level.
The hands are tied together to force the stealth mode technique because the main body isn't in there to move the shell around.

>>288554866
ascending to a higher level and regaining youth, I'd add in.
The lower half has the same tattoos as the top half but the the top has more of them since he would be older. >>288554228

>>288554526
Damn, stakes haven't felt this high in a long time.

So, this thing is a Kappa, but instead ripping the sould from the asshole, its just straight up ripping the soul from stomach?

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>>288555273
For the record
This thing
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>>288554228
Look like Kappa if you squeeze your eyes hard enough

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>>288517598
This spirit looks a bit like a kappa mummy
In folklore, kappa are said to steal a person's soul-containing organ, known as the shirikodama, through the [spoiler
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>>288554386
The victim were somewhat similar to those of people who had their "heads" taken away

>>288555568
>they pissed themselves

>>288554866
This scares me

>>288554448
Well damn

>>288554228
did ai chan got kami sight or something? why are the other two can't see it?

>>288554126
>That seems... totally different than when it came to me though?
To be fair Keitarou, you had practice with those non-Graduate ghosts before she dragged you into the H Castle Ruins, while this is going to be Ai's very first ghost hunt

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keitarou is groomed right

>>288554746
Based on what the other anons are saying, it seems like this thing is a kappa of some sort. Which makes it fucking baffling why it's lurking around here of all places.

>>288557302
She's not looking at it in this image. She's just looking around scared-like. None of them can see it or sense it in that image at that moment.

>>288555568
Difference is, I'd argue this kappa is doing its soulfuckery at a more advanced level - it damages the soul just enough to ruin the victim and completely destroy them, but it doesn't do so in such a way that it immediately outs its influence as supernatural (or at least, it's not the first thought that comes to mind). The ones who had their "heads" snatched ended up only LOOKING like they were alive; their physical heads were full of holes and their bodies were rotten, even ignoring them all being completely gibberingly nuts.

The kappa is a potent enough spiritualist that it simply doesn't need to do more than the bare minimum to get what it wants and it covers its tracks perfectly. The K tunnel ghost by all accounts is a shitter by Replaced standards and was too weakened from Asura to afford any measure of subtlety, so it just went for a big spectacle to get as many people as it could before dipping.

>>288554156
cute yayoi

>>288554249
awww he is caressing his organs

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>>288555326
It's not a kappa its using a mask you acn see clear here >>288554228

this nigga missin his soul bean

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>>288557959
Most so-called real kappa specimens were actually fabricated from monkey remains
Maybe this evil spirit is similar
It could be a composite creature formed from a dried monkey mummy and a human body
Perhaps a psychic was murdered because of this and became an evil spirit

>>288554239
i wodner if its possible ifner whatever the tattos are meant to be
>>288558750
My guess its "naturally" a composite done by itself, you can see the guy with a mask body coming from where a head is supposed to be, and the white part of his body looks like a different body, and we also see how the people that have their seat of soul taken scratch their heads out

>>288559336
Would -normal- Yayoi be just cheery and happy without any of the bratty edge she has now? I wonder sometimes...

>>288559804
I like jaded and edgy, so I don't wonder at all.

>>288559801
Holy shit, that Eiko HNNNGGGGHHH

How is it possible that Yayoi couldn't see the spirit? Isn't her eyes built to see the spectre world? This is the first she couldn't see a ghost when its there nearby them, right?

>>288560097
she couldn't see kami-sama either until it showed itself to her at first, its either a spirit much stronger than normal or in what is likley in this case it can bypass her senses with spiritual techniques he had from life

If this ghost remove the seat of soul from a replaced does it remove them completely and allow the original soul to be able to be brought back into the original body? It could setup for the girl replaced and stuffed in a doll to be saved

I think the Kappa is actually Forest God who turn mad
That's also why Ai, who have divine spirit, can see it first

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>>288560149
>she couldn't see kami-sama either until it showed itself to her at first
???
She was able to see Taisui instantly the first time they meet Ai though? But this one, she couldn't sense it at all when its right there on her face at Keitaro's back.
Do iu koto
This gotta be the first time this happened, right?

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>>288554429
SMASHING

>>288560394
i think there was amoment where tai sui shows up in a pic or somethign but she is unable to see it but i guess we need to wait for new chapter i guess author might explain

>>288560097
Considering Keitarou couldn't sense it either, probably some form of hiding ability that evades normal spiritual sense, while Ai had advanced spiritual sight from Tai Sui or something and the ghost needed to use an advanced technique to evade her

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>>288560487
Keitaro was able to Taisui on the pic without even trying and Yayoi managed to see him when she concentrated with her spectre eyes. But this monkey spirit, even Keitaro wasn't able to see it, so did Yayoi, although Ai managed to see it. This spirit might be a deity-level like Taisui and only Ai could see it even when it bypassed both Keitaro and Yayoi because she's the vessel of a deity herself. Funny how something strong is already here on a B-rank spot. Keitaro just can't catch a break when during low-level spots and when you think they can't do you harm kek

>>288560149
Ghosts can purposely hide themselves from her. That's why she brings keitarou along, because his presence makes them 100% likely to show up. It was stated early on that she had difficulty hunting ghosts after a while because the substitute system would scare any off or at least see her as someone not worth messing with.
She wasn't able to tell that Asura was a ghost at first too.
>>288560630
Rank is only indicative of encounter rate. The higher the chance of something spooky happening, the higher the rank. Problem is Yayoi's ranking breaks down at S rank and above since there's an additional caveat that once you're in the spot, you can't leave.

>>288560097
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>>288560630
If it wasn't clear from reading the chapter, at the end Yayoi points out that "It made a sign and then vanished" and implying that it's using the hand-sign technique stuff we saw Taisai use during their fight. It's implied that it's not normal ghost vanishing or just ability stuff. He's using a spiritualist technique to completely hid his presence from them.

If you check the chapter pages, you'll also see that he's only seen when his hands aren't clasped together.

>>288560199
Good thinking, but I'm not sure about the "complete" removal. For some reason the bodies that have the seat of soul removed seem to still be conscious and functional, though they are in a state of panic (even though the soul-body is also conscious). Tbh, I'm not really sure what the difference is between soul and seat of soul in this context. With the baby dolls that seem to have took the soul from the person's body, the bodies didn't panic looking for a soul. They just laid lifeless iirc. Maybe the author will go more into detail on soul and seat of soul. They did do 6 months of research after all.

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>>288561084
From what I gather, during the near death experience Keitarou had during the Dam A parasite ghost and F park Grim Reaper eater with the dolls, the soul was still connected to their bodies by what was a glowing line, as seen here

I assuming this line is the seat of the soul, and as far the body is concerned, if the seat is connected than it doesn't react because it doesn't know the soul is removed from the body due to some ghost's power, while in this case the seat being missing causes the body to freak out to search for it before it dies as the soul is no longer connected

Kinda like silent hypoxia where the brain doesn't immediately react to lack of oxygen but rather being unable to breathe out carbon dioxide

>>288561084
Or in other words

>Body: the hell, the soul is still connected to me, why can't I function? Is there a bug?

>Body: the tanden is gone?! We fucking need that! Find it find it find it!!

i kinad like the concept if the body loses it souls and it realizes it just have a complete breakdown

>>288561724
>the soul was still connected to their bodies by what was a glowing line, as seen here
My mistake. I misremembered the soul being completely removed there. Iirc their souls also went back to their bodies on their own too, further supporting that it was still connected.

Then yeah, maybe this ghost removing the seat might be a way to forcibly separate the replaced from the bodies they took.
I wonder though, is this something special that this ghost can do, or can other ghost generally do it too.

>>288560888
Yeah, it is subtle, but he is using the "monkey's" hands to make hand signs, first to conceal his presence and to then "disappear" (probably high speed movement) to run. I don't know how how Yayoi is going to lure him out again since his MO seems to be to just get one soul at a time...like someone else suggested, maybe the curse on Eiko's hand could help in this instance.

>>288562932
>first to conceal his presence and to then "disappear"
Maybe my choice of words were poor, but the conceal his presence is the disappear. He becomes unsenseable and untouchable. Almost like he's in another dimension.
>I don't know how how Yayoi is going to lure him out again since his MO seems to be to just get one soul at a time...
Yayoi is smart. He might be invisible and intangible, but we do know he can sense us. This means light, and probably sound attacks, work on him when he's in this state. Priest's attack might be able to work on him like this, for example. Maybe having him looking into one of the dolls would work too. Idk which ghosts and tools they have on hand atm though.

>>288563269
>Priest coming in clutch
Please be right

>>288563770
Nah, it's gonna be Jizo time.
>>288554182

>>288559801
eikosexo

>>288563269
>>288563770
Unfortunately they don't have priest right now as he's still recovering(really more plot convenience to let the other graduates show their stuff), but I am betting on Eiko's and Keitarou's curse reacting, as it did make Eiko hold her hand out when Keitarou was dealing with Otogiri and was hidden by illusions

>>288564328
>but I am betting on Eiko's and Keitarou's curse reacting
Oh, nice.
However, he's outside of his physical body. If it still draws her to him, then I'd guess this'll be confirmation that the curse goes as deep as the soul.

Speaking of soul stuff, this got me thinking. If another ghost takes over Keitarou's body, and if his soul is outside of his body, how would the substitutes work? Would they still protect his physical body even if someone else is in it? If so guess this also means if a replaced takes over one of the main crew's body, Yayoi's ghosts may not be able to do any physical damage to it. Except for Speedy the Samurai of course

>>288564484
Well, we already know the substitute doesn't protect souls, and the thing connecting them and substitutes are their body parts like nails and hair, so it should still only protect the physical body regardless of who is inside, but I presume they would eventually use the shinigami eating granny and her dolls to fix that issue quickly

>>288564635
Speaking of granny, I wonder if she'll react to graduate 0. They might have to be kept away from each other?
I also wonder if Eiko's not allowed to use her since Eiko looks like the woman that killed her grandson.

>>288554866
damm this gecko's skin hoodie made him look so tuff

>>288554167
>murder in the late Showa period where a body was abandoned here
I wonder if our ghost was the murder victim mentioned here

>>288554167
>Headless Jizo
Considering this guy's MO, and his "doubled-up" form (the top part seems to be also most separate) I wonder if he took the soul of a Jizo, if that's a thing, consumed it, and thus got the form he has now.

>>288554249
L-lewd

hand holdding yayoi at night!

>>288560097
Ghosts can hide from her senses since her sight isn't 100% perfect like Keitarou's is. She wasn't able to notice Asura at first either, but Keitarou immediately saw him and there are some spirits that Keitarou can detect instantly that Yayoi has to focus her vision to perceive. That's a big part of why she takes him along.

What's more notable is that the kappa could hide from Keitarou completely, almost assuredly through spiritualist techniques.

>>288560320
Something people haven't been pointing out is that its lower half is pure white, which is something we've generally seen associated with deities or deity-level entities. So the Kappa is most likely some manner of mad god.

>>288560199
>>288562126
Even if using this technique could remove a Replaced from their host, it probably wouldn't be useful against the vast majority of them since they'd have presumably devoured the original soul from the moment they steal their bodies. It would really only help with Doroth since she's keeping the original around to torture her - and trying to go after Dorothy right now is a death sentence.

>I wonder though, is this something special that this ghost can do, or can other ghost generally do it too.
If they know spiritualist techniques, then it's likely they can do this. But the average ghost clearly doesn't - the brainsnatcher from way back when clearly didn't have a clue about how to get past the substitutes, whilst the kappa merely had to remove the seat of the soul here after having a 'taste' of Keitarou. I'd suspect most Replaced should be aware of how to pull this off given they're stealing the bodies of specialists.

>>288557959
>>288555326
don't kappas have a thing where their weak spot is in their butts? Is that the same gimmick here where the seat of the soul is in your digestive system?

>>288570446
Probably. Maybe it's also why personality excretion comes out through the digestive system too.

>>288571716
a cat's fine too

>>288571731
>An evil spirit can make you poop, but what comes out is your soul

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>>288564484
>However, he's outside of his physical body. If it still draws her to him, then I'd guess this'll be confirmation that the curse goes as deep as the soul.
This page did seem to hint that Keitarou and Eiko's curse are spiritual energy-related, what with the effects described being eerily similar to what they have (i.e., mangled nerves that can't be cured)

>>288571716
October is not too far from now.

>>288554429
>>288554436
Damn.

>>288554471
Note that what is called the "Tanden" here is equivalent to the Dantian in Chinese philosophy/Taoism and is the thing you're always seeing talked about in wuxia and xianxia novels. There, you have cultivators using it to cycle qi through their bodies and whilst it getting damaged or even lost is always extremely crippling, it's something that they can theoretically recover from given time or a replacement spiritual structure.

Here, well...you essentially have the body imploding if if ever gets taken away.

>>288554526
Thanks for the dump, anon.

>>288572673
Kek

>>288572673
Pretty much what Kappa's do, yeah. They're just more surgical with it.

>>288576212
Our hero!

>>288559336
Brat

>>288575251
That makes me think i don't remember some chink cultivator novel where the dantians are just outright stolen while the person still alive, they are usually crippled and destroyed but they are still inside the person, having it destroyed/crippled while inside and just removed should have different impacts i think

>>288575251
So Keitarou should get his body Replaced by Child so his body doesn't self destruct?

>>288577373
>surgical
Don't kappas shove their hands up people's ass to pull out the soul ball thing?

>>288579809
Yes. It's a very direct, thus "surgical" approach. They go in and grab it. If you can't be so direct, then put something inside of them that'll liquefy it and have the body expel it.
Like if you eat something and it gets stuck in your digestive system, you can get a surgeon to go inside and take it out, or maybe you can ingest something that'll react with it in someway and get it out.

>>288575251
>is the thing you're always seeing talked about in wuxia and xianxia novels.
I've never read such things, but I did watch Jigokuraku / Hell's Paradise. I assume that "Tanden" there is the same.
That said, I assume the author might put their own spin on what's what, so it might not end up following the same rules.

>>288579065
Child is still out of commission like most of the Graduates and Samurai might just kill Keitarou, which means...
It's finally S-chan's time to shine!

>>288581069
S-chan is always shining. Her hair's always being used. She's the thankless goat.

>>288525290
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTO!

pls post this in the mieruko-chan thread

>>288581069
They can pluck each other's soul out of their body, so why not swap in Eiko's soul into Keitarou's body or use the mom they just captured.

>>288582822
Can you even put a soul into a body without a soul seat there?

when the fuck is S2...

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>>288583920
Soon...

>>288583273
The point is to have the soul possessing the body to control it so he doesn't rip his eyes and brain out.
Or they can put their socks over his hands so he can't scratch at himself.

>>288583273
yes else how would the replaced put a soul into a stuffed doll

>>288585363
Good point. Are soul seats even necessary then? Can you just remove someone soul from their soul seat?

>>288585363
>>288585485
The soul seat is presumably necessary as the thing a soul's tether is connected to, that is - the thing the soul needs to find its way back to its body successfully. If the seat is removed or destroyed, then the soul can't interface with its body anymore and it just gets stuck (which is made even worse because the body will destroy itself looking for the missing seat inside it).

Replaced can fill in where the soul used to be because they clearly don't need to maintain the underlying spiritual (or even physical - that big head Replaced leader definitely fucked up whatever the host body used to be) infrastructure at all. It's all just meat to them. In fact, I'd say it's unclear if a body stolen by the Replaced would have the same reaction as a body that's had its seat removed in the event said Replaced was ripped out of it, given that the Replaced almost certainly destroy the original soul and alter the body to their liking. Dorothy's might, since she still keeps the original soul nearby, but for the rest I'd wager that their stolen bodies would just collapse like puppets with their strings cut.

>>288580195
Fair

>>288579065
Whilst the problems with Child specifically were addressed, moving a spirit into him just to keep the body from tearing itself apart would be a smart play. Sadly, they don't have any spirits available they can do that with (they could theoretically get Tai Sui for it, but he'd likely refuse unless they got him a really good fight in exchange).

>>288581069
Child specifically might be out of commission but what about one of her Bunrei?

>>288587674
Have we seen her bunrei operate without the main body? We know it's possible for other beings with bunrei to make them fully autonomous but I don't think Child's have ever displayed the same capacity.

>>288589054
i don't think so

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>>288589054
There are several instances where there were bunrei that were separate from the main body but it's hard to tell if it was Child was or was not directly assuming control of them. The initial encounter with Child back in castle H had her bunrei stalk Keitarou and Yayoi, and when the two got separated, one spirit tried to puppet Keitarou.
There was also this instance back VS grandma chapter where a bunrei was used to as a security camera.

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Also noticed this from when Eiko got her soul stolen. Seems kinda familiar. >>288554386

>>288589882
>>288589904
This series has a lot of details that get brought back its pretty neat desu

>>288590080
It's a breath of fresh air after so many series where the authors seem to forget what they themselves have written.

I want to squeeze Yayoi's pikachu cheeks...

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Crossover when?

>>288559801
Hot

>>288554429
So was the spirit here all this time or did it teleport the moment it felt someone trying to do something to its victim? Or perhaps the exorcist guy summoned the spirit in hopes of exorcizing and realized he was fucked the moment he saw it?

>>288592674
It was probably there the whole time

>>288592674
It most likely had marked the child and knew the instant the priest was trying to mess with him, so it teleported over. Remember that the kappa is a powerful spiritualist itself and that we've seen it use the hand signs to completely vanish before, so I wouldn't put it past it to be capable of casual teleportation to the locations of its victims.