[The corner of her mouth twitches, a hint of a smile and she shakes her head] It's alright, i think it's interesting too. I'd been unraveling the mystery when I arrived here. I was going to try and break the curse, but... [She spreads her hands to indicate the place around her. 'Then I came here.']
It's interesting. I liked learning about the mountain and its history, the religion and the rituals... I don't know if it had an official name, but it revolved heavily around the water of the area. [Yuri doesn't talk about it too much normally, but Rei's someone who might actually understand it all better than most of Yuri's other friends. It's nice to open up to someone about it all, ad Yuri realizes just how much she's been dying (haha) to talk to someone about it.]
They're called kagemi and mitori. Hisoka--my teacher--her powers were weaker than mine, but she knew the kagemi techniques enough to pass on teaching them to me. I guess it's basically the same thing as psychometry-- being able to see an objects secrets by handling them and all. But I can also use an object to track who or what it belongs to. Hisoka made a business out of finding lost items and people using it. Even if I just have a picture of someone, I can track them down.
Mitori is... [Yuri trails off uncertainly, plucking at some loose strings in the blankets, eyes darting over the patterns for a distraction. At length she continues, tone reluctant] A bit like reading minds. Well, I say 'a bit,' but... I can read someone's thoughts, their emotions... Their memories. I have to touch them though, I can't do a true 'mitori' yet [i.e. actually just 'glancing' with her eyes alone] but it's what helped me with the spirits there. Touching a spirit lets me exorcise them, while also taking on their memories-- their sins and their secrets and everything. Their pain. I take that on, and then they can move on.
...It's what the miko on the mountain did. They'd watch people commit suicide and take on that pain so their souls could 'properly return to the water.' A way to die on their own terms without the stigma of suicide.
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It's interesting. I liked learning about the mountain and its history, the religion and the rituals... I don't know if it had an official name, but it revolved heavily around the water of the area. [Yuri doesn't talk about it too much normally, but Rei's someone who might actually understand it all better than most of Yuri's other friends. It's nice to open up to someone about it all, ad Yuri realizes just how much she's been dying (haha) to talk to someone about it.]
They're called kagemi and mitori. Hisoka--my teacher--her powers were weaker than mine, but she knew the kagemi techniques enough to pass on teaching them to me. I guess it's basically the same thing as psychometry-- being able to see an objects secrets by handling them and all. But I can also use an object to track who or what it belongs to. Hisoka made a business out of finding lost items and people using it. Even if I just have a picture of someone, I can track them down.
Mitori is... [Yuri trails off uncertainly, plucking at some loose strings in the blankets, eyes darting over the patterns for a distraction. At length she continues, tone reluctant] A bit like reading minds. Well, I say 'a bit,' but... I can read someone's thoughts, their emotions... Their memories. I have to touch them though, I can't do a true 'mitori' yet [i.e. actually just 'glancing' with her eyes alone] but it's what helped me with the spirits there. Touching a spirit lets me exorcise them, while also taking on their memories-- their sins and their secrets and everything. Their pain. I take that on, and then they can move on.
...It's what the miko on the mountain did. They'd watch people commit suicide and take on that pain so their souls could 'properly return to the water.' A way to die on their own terms without the stigma of suicide.