黄泉のツガイ

I like that the fake Asa definitely seems to have developed some genuine affection for Yuru judging from that quick flash of her thinking about Yuru smiling and her still holding onto that ball he gave her. Like sure she spent a decade gaslighting him into thinking she was Asa so he wouldn’t leave the village, but that’s still a decade of Yuru being one of the only people she’d interact with and him being really sweet to her. Definitely going to be a messy reunion though.

It’s weird because it seems like all the adults are ‘in on it’, but Granny is the only obvious magic and Daemon-wielder. Like any good MLM scheme/cult, there’s multiple tiers of inner circles. On the other hand, the Kagemoris are a fractured circle, all preferring modernity and using Daemons for hits and blackmail (for self-enrichment generally), but clearly there are factions whose lines are drawn based on what they want with the twins or Higashi Village.

Don't you think the swords would have sensed her to be a daemon in that case? Outside of the obvious issue of the other villagers protecting her despite seemingly no one being able to see daemons Although, on the contrary. She didn't say anything at any point, the villagers could have just been holed up in there as an ambush or something. But daemons have clearly been shown to be able to sense other daemons

I think this is where I'm at as considering the villagers basically innocent. Somebody sent hunters after Yuru, I don't understand that at all unless the intent was to trigger the first death - but while some are aware of some aspects of the twin power bs, most are just fulfilling the villager role - and yes it very much makes sense a dude who was aware of the supposed first death power trigger thing wishes they had done that after half his fellow villagers got slaughtered. All the currently remaining villagers are traumatized to heck.

Higashi village sent "outsiders" (agents that had been living outside and would register to him as foreign) to kill him in order to convince him the outside world was evil and prime him to be their weapon, and his dad protected him and ruined the plan. We don't yet know how widespread knowledge of the plan is but it seems like the shaman was just talking casually about it with people who weren't in granny's inner circle so we can likely conclude most people know and are ok with it. Plus they've kept sending assassins after Asa so as far as Gabby is concerned this is an insane cult that has been actively attempting to murder multiple children. And just within the past few weeks/months they successfully kidnapped and killed Asa after ambushing her at a hospital. Sure some of the villagers are not as extreme but Gabby is a child soldier out for revenge. God forbid a girl have hobbies...