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The Maid explains that perhaps Yukimasa, seeing the half-Japanese Pauline, was afraid it was another beast. The truth of the tragedy is only revealed because we saw it again through her eyes. White-Haired Girl [WHG] speaks to Yukimasa of the village's xenophobia, which led them to ostracize him. I guess a couple generations of his family had lived in Europe, banned from returning to Japan for some reason. His grandfather left him a katana.

As Yukimasa travelled with Pauline's father, there was a smuggler on board their ship. The associated Japanese official who received the smuggled goods was forced to die by seppuku. Yukimasa suggests the same for the smuggler, as to minimize damage to the ship's overall reputation, and offers himself as the man's second [to cut off his head]. I suspect this will go poorly and perhaps something will happen to Pauline's father. Either way, I think we got serious fantasy-enhanced PTSD fun times ahead. Yukimasa kills the man as he pleads that he's been set up - and Pauline's father detects a smile from Yukimasa as he does it, which Yukimasa immediately denies.

After the possibility arises that another seafarer may have been tied up in the smuggling, Yukimasa promises Captain Asama [Pauline's father] that he will handle it. He tortures the man to death, showing him no mercy. He tosses the man's body in the ocean and plans to lie about it.

Yukimasa also lied when Pauline asked him about trouble at sea, if anything happened or went wrong - he said it was 'without incident'. I find his character design very compelling. We are not monsters, no matter what we have done. We are human. That is possibly the most terrifying fact, and the most difficult to accept.

White-Haired Girl [WHG] falls ill, and Yukimasa promises to go back to the village to try and find her some medicine, or her special request - oranges. The doctor's out, but the fruit vendor mentions that a small boy [likely Javi?] has rounded up the men of the village to go hunt the beast. Yukimasa realizes that WHG is in the mansion all alone, ill, and defenseless. He runs off without the oranges to defend her.

He arrives far too late, he slips on the blood in her bedchamber and follows the red trail all the way down to the cellar where the villagers have already killed her. His last cover of peace ripped away, he promises to slay all of them. There's no beast more fearsome than a human with nothing left to lose.

We walk away with the Maid as she tells the tale of how the village was utterly destroyed by Bestia, how his expert swordsmanship cut down every person. As you walk away from the cellar, you catch a glimpse of white hair in the window. I chose to reach out my hand, but you can also choose to avert your eyes. Strategic saves may come in handy here.

You see a vision, a woman named Giselle approaches the mansion and goes inside, thinking it abandoned. A beautiful man named Michel with long, light-colored hair greets her. He urges her to take some furniture if she needs money, but suspects she won't stay long if she knows the curse of the mansion - a very real witch, he tells her.

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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself...: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
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