Narrator -
Hello Readers! It's me, Narrator!
I hope you guys are enjoying the book so far.
And Incase your wondering why the Sabbath Exams Arc is taking so long, it's because William just finished organizing the trials.
As well as characters and "memorable moments"
Memorable moments as in the things our Protagonist will do to make her stand out (every anime has it)
Anyways, let me cut to the chase, it's time to outline some things about the verse we've learned so far.
You see, we still have a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
way to go until the end of the series.
And there are a lot of things I want you guys to get accustomed to. Without info dumping.
So let's outline somethings about Tsumibito! (Without any spoilers of course)
First I'll say the most obvious.
"Why can Hori hear and talk to me, the Narrator?"
I honestly don't know, it's really weird. William is a really weird writer so I can't find the reason.
But I do know that as soon as Hori acknowledged me I joined the story as a character. Now I guess I'm "A voice in her head."
Anyways let's talk about the series, Tsumibito.
This is a world where Sins have physical manifestations.
Due to "The Curse" Sins manifest in Random individuals whenever there is a spike in their Sin committed daily.
The amount of Sins committed required for a Sin to manifest depends on how much committed Sins triggered the previous manifestation of the previous Sin. This sounds like gibberish.
Let's just use an example. This does not correspond to the main series, it's just an example.
The sin of lying born on 1920 required 100 lies committed in one day.
The sin of lying lived from 1920 to 2025.
And was killed by a Priest (member of SHO-Sin Hunting Organization) on September 1st 2025.
Now for the next sin of lying to be born in 2025, the number of lies committed in a single day will have to surpass the previous numbers of lies that gave birth to the previous Sin of lying, which was 100.
So 101 or more lies will have to be told on a single day.
We can represent it like this.
Sunday - 1 person lied globally (obviously not possible but let's just use it as an example)
Monday - 50 people lied globally in a single day.
Tuesday - 73 people lied globally in a single day.
Wednesday - 39 people lied globally in a single day.
Thursday - 99 people lied globally in a single day.
Friday - 100 people lied globally in a single day.
Now, 100 lies caused the birth of the previous sin of lying, so now we'll need more than that.
Saturday - 101 people lied globally in a single day!
At the exact moment that 101th lie is told, the next sin of lying will immediately manifest in a random person.
Be it a boy or girl, man or woman, white or black, old or young, gay or straight, it doesn't matter. The curse does not discriminate.
Normally when that happens the person immediately loses his or her humanity and begins craving human flesh. But I guess Haruki is a special case.
Characters:
Hori
Our MC Hori Inori formerly Inori Jiro, is the daughter of the prime minister of Japan.
Father Tabata Jiro or Father Jiro for formality.
She is 14 years old, she's quite... developed despite her age and her muscle mass slightly increases due to her training for the Sabbath Exams.
Her primary goal for now is to pass said exams, become a Priest, and perform crazy feats to earn recognition. This way, a single interaction with the Prime Minister should be possible. During such meeting. Hori plans to explain that she is not dead. Hoping her father to believe.
Despite her corpse already being confirmed. Hori would need to do some serious convincing. If her Father does believe, the story will take a new route in finding the cause of the fake corpse. Stay tuned to find out.
Haruki
Haruki Maru is the sin of.... This is not going to be revealed anytime soon.
As he already explained. When a sin manifests in a person, it shows the Sin written boldly on the victims hand and then fades away.
Unfortunately, Haruki was suspected to be unconscious when a sin manifested in him, so he did not see the writing on his hand to notify him of his Sin.
Not acknowledging the manifestation of the Sin somehow made him retain his humanity and memories, so he's still Haruki.
As absurd as this sounds it's not the first time it's happened, like I said, after the already explained requirements are met, the sin manifests in a random person.
So of course you might be unconscious when a Sin manifests in you.
Haruki doesn't think about it too much, because it makes him depressed.
As for his mother, she will be introduced after the Sabbath Exams.
Pretty sure this is obvious, but the story takes place in 2022 Japan, Fukui.
Father Jiro
What we know about him so far is that he's the prime minister of Japan. Hori's father.
The head of SHO Japan.
He is also the strongest man alive, although nobody knows his ability.
Mrs Takane
Hori's pregnant lady friend.
Full name, Takane Akane. A 20 year old widow.
As already revealed, her husband was eaten by a Sinner in her presence.
Sinners are believed to have "preferences" when devouring humans. That is, if they aren't starving.
Mrs Takane's husband was eaten by a Sinner of Addiction.
He was a gambling freak, although not addicted enough to turn him into a Sinner of Addiction but enough to attract one.
Luckily for Mrs Takane, and her unborn child. She didn't have any addictions, so the Sinner left after devouring the husband.
But unfortunately, her husband had a lot of debt, causing her living standards to dramatically drop.
You notice her shopping at the old man's store a lot right.
Tengokyu is an old distant relative.
He gives her special discounts because of her condition, pregnant and in debt.
What a kind old man.
Hori's "feelings"
As explained in the story, Hori gets goosebumps whenever a situation is dire, or whenever a life threatening attack is incoming.
Now the reason she couldn't dodge when Robber 1 struck her nose with a gun during the store incident.
Is because the goosebumps Hori gets before each attack greatly varies.
The deadlier the attack, the more goosebumps she gets.
So I guess her body didn't consider getting smacked in the nose as deadly.
That's why she immediately dodged when the robber pointed the gun at her forehead.
Even though she's never actually seen a gun, her "feelings" immediately told her that it was dangerous.
Making her to dodge it point blank.
Haruki's Mom hasn't been shown or described yet, so she will not be talked about in this W.W.L
The next chapter marks the beginning of the Sabbath Exams. Hope you guys are ready.
Okay! that's all for now folks!
If you've got any more questions about the story so far, ask in the comments. William would love to answer them.
Anyways till next time! see you all at the next
"What We've Learned"