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CH24

she first saw the twins 4 years ago on a cloudy day (get it, kumou, kumo, lol)

she's at their shrine and she's like WOW IT'S DIRTY WTF

then she hears some villagers show up yelling for the twins, the usual like GTFO HERE DEMON SPAWN and gen's like damn I heard these guys were hated in Oumi but this is Intense

then she steps in a trap and they're like LAWL GOT YOUUUUUUUU

then they're like hey aren't you an ashiya person (they can tell by her eyebrows so I'm guessing that's a special clan or w/e) wtf are you doing here

she says "if you're gonna kill me then hurry up and kill me"

okuni's like "wow you're dangerous huh" and baren guesses she's there to do recon on them, he's like "you came to take a look at us right" and okuni mentions something about the ashiya clan(?) being followers of the "big serpent"?? or something... I'M GUESSING THAT MAKES SENSE TO YOU LMAO I'm assuming it's orochi-related, but she's like "well that explains why you're interested in us"

baren mentions some guy being famous--"Abe", whose duty is to seal the "big serpent", and again calls the Ashiya followers of the big serpent and then I think he says that she or whoever she's working for is carrying a grudge against him...?? at least it sounds like he's implying she's there spying on them because of a personal vendetta rather than because of duty and that she/they are trying to outwit him by geting to them first but I could be wrong

Gen asks f they're connected to Abe and Okuni says they're not with anybody and then she's like THIS IS INTERESTING

meanwhile gen's having a flashback to some dude, her older brother I guess?? basically telling her to find the orochi's vessel before abe, he's an asshole and is like YOU'RE JUST A DOLL, DON'T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING DON'T FEEL ABOUT ANYTHING JUST DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD

gen tells the twins that yeah basically she's there bc of him and that the ashiya in general don't give a shit about abe and that they're all just like "pfft orochi"

okuni asks if they have no interest in that too (or asks her if she's not interested as well, I can't tell) and gen replies that she's a doll, the twins exchange a shifty look and then let her go

okuni's like WELL THAT KILLED THE MOOD lmfao and they're both like "there's no doll that breathes and talks girl love yoself" (okay they don't say that part but still)

after that she says the twins didn't interfere with her/them/whatever they were fucking around with before lmao and she says she came and went freely at the kumou shrine

though I guess she keeps spying on them?? bc it looks like she's sitting in the bushes and she's like "WELL I HAVEN'T CAUGHT ANYTHING YET" lmao

and she's just thinking and watching them cook and then tanuki's like HI and I htink he brings her rice?? raises hands

anyway she sees them fucking around with the villagers and figures out that they're trying to make the people hate them on purpose
so they can be "Oumi's human sacrifice" essentially

and she changes her opinion of them

asshole bro comes to get a status update after a year and gets annoyed that nothing has happened, he's like YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN CAUGHT RIGHT lmao

she doesn't say anything but apparently that doesn't matter bc he just tells her to keep watching them and be prepared to nab the orochi vessel at all times

she says she doesn't think the twins are the vessel and he's like wtf are you their BFF now WHY IS EVERYONE AROUND ME SHIT AT THEIR JOBS blah blah blah while gen's wondering if he really understands how fuckin scary the orochi showing up would be, and she wonders what she would do if that happened, like if she'd run away by herself or die with her clan

then she thinks "ah, but I don't think I"d like it if the land the twins are trying to protect disappeared"

asshole bro is like ................. watching her walk away and orders somebody to keep an eye on her and to kill her if she switches sides on them

apparently she was listening in via cicada or sth lmao and she's like "bullshit you don't know what I was thinking, you came to see if I'd switched sides" and she wonders if he has a bunch of "dolls" to replace her with

the twins peek out from behind the tree and she's like "eavesdropping is a hobby of yours huh" lmao and they're like IT'S KUMOU TERRITORY WE DO WHAT WE WANT

baren's like YOUR BRO IS A DICK and she says it's always been that way, okuni asks if she's gonna cry and gen's like iunno, I've thought of myself as a doll for so long that I don't know my own heart anymore

she gets caught up thinking about Feelings and being a doll etc and then they throw something at her and baren's like YOU'RE THINKING TOO MUCH BECAUSE YOU'RE HUNGRY and gen's like ....oh I guess I haven't eaten in a few days huh lmfao

okuni orders her to eat up and rest and "if you're a human then live properly" lmao and baren's just like "don't leave that behind" which honestly can either mean "eat everything and don't fuckin litter" or "don't leave evidence behind" I'LL LEAVE THAT TO YOU TO DECIDE

and gen just now realizes that the rice tanuki has been bringing her was from them... GEN PLEASE

anyway she thinks about how they're the first ones to treat her like a person and she's like I DON'T GET THESE TWINS lmao

then I guess she just decided to never go home?? bc it cuts to baren going "so you opened up an information shop right" and asks if it's okay for it to be in her house and she says it's fine, and that since she was always doing recon she has lots of information and knows how it can be used etc and says her bro doesn't know where she is

then I think baren asks what side she's on?? or sth like that, she's just like HMM I WONDER WHICH~~~

he's like whatever, if you have info on the orochi I'll pay for all of it", she says JUST INFO? and then I guess they banged

in the narration bubbles she says that she can't trust people, that they had a fun relationship exchanging money and info and bangin' away, there was nothing deep and nothing for either of them to get hurt about

she says "those twins don't trust anyone outside of each other, that's what I thought"

cut to baren complaining about someone, I'm assuming sakichi lmao because he's like YOU LOOK AWAY FROM HIM FOR TWO SECONDS AND HE'S DOING SOMETHING STUPID, 9 LIVES WOULDN'T BE ENOUGH FOR HIM

then he says "what I'm about to say from here is just me talking to myself, do what you want" so essentially giving her an out I guess

but then he says that "if anything happens to us, "that" will definitely come here into our territory. It's troublesome, but he's the one who's causing the times to change" (he says something about having the "wind" which I'm guessing is just a metaphor but in case it's significant, yeah)

"Do not let him die"

then it cuts to sakichi bursting into gen's place and going SHUT UP AND LET ME PROTECT YOU lmfao so I'm guessing this is back to present time??

then it's all very dramatic ~THE WIND THAT'S MOVING THE CLOUDS IS BLOWING~ blah blah and while gen's running she's thinking about sakichi and how he might be able to do what she couldn't

and she thinks "I want him to save those twins that were captured in their beloved country" but she says "rengoku" in furigana which is "purgatory" so EYYY JAPANESE

and I'm guessing she's saying this about the twins?? she's basically like THOSE RUDE LIL SHITS WON'T FALL SO EASILY lmfao

CUT TO SAKICHI IN NORTHERN OUMI which I'm not gonna translate bc it's irrelevant and this chapter is long lmao basically they're riding along chatting, he sees blood on the ground, everybody's deda and he's like wtf there shouldn't have been a battle here C'MON WE GOTTA GO TO ISHIDA VILLAGE IT'S RIGHT AROUND HERE and it's on fire, everybody's running away

sakichi asks wtf is going on and some dude yells DON'T FUCK WITH US IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT and that's the end