Thirteen Modesty

After arriving in Japan, I became a high school student named Kamiyagawa. Looking around—
Hanako crouched in the bathroom, waiting for someone to knock on the door; the Split-Mouth Woman wandered the streets with scissors in hand; Miss Mary's deathly calls echoed incessantly; the wails and barks in Inunaki Village never ceased; the Ubume searched for her long-dead child; the Aoandon smiled, enticing passersby to play with the lanterns of a hundred demons…
In a crumbling world rampant with sinister tales and malevolent spirits, Kamiyagawa set a small goal for himself:
"Defeat all the demons and monsters, and become the supreme ruler of ghosts and deities."

I Loaded Kaidan Game

Behind the Divine Cabinet stood an enormous tree, its twisted form reaching up towards the murky sky.


This tree was on a scale that looked like it could rival a real-world Fuso pine.


The only difference was the variety of clothing hanging from every branch; styles for men, women, children, and elders, frayed and weather-worn as well as vividly new.


Countless garments weighed down the branches, and although there was no wind, the limbs creaked continuously, and the clothing fluttered about like ghosts, casting multiple shadows.


"This must be the Garment Tree," Kamiyagawa reasoned to himself.


Regardless of one's status in life, after entering the Three Paths River in death, everyone's garments would be stripped away by Datsueba, and the cloth hanging elder would hang the clothes on the Tree to measure their sins.


That's what the myths of the Three-way River said, anyway.


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