[Er... Not exactly. Now Keiichi understands how Rika felt when the people said that Oyashiro-sama cursed them. He holds up his hands to signal a stop for Adell's train of thought.]
Okay, first off... Oyashiro-sama would never curse anyone, not even someone it may hate. It may sound sappy but Oyashiro-sama just worries about people and wants to help and do as much as possible but... Its powers are limited, okay? So even if it would want to stop the so called curse, it can't, but Oyashiro-sama never cursed anyone.
The rules were mostly probably created due the syndrome. Given how the parasite only lived in Hinamizawa's region and anyone who entered the village would be infected and if anyone left the village and the radius of effect of the Queen Carrier... Things would get bad. Oyashiro-sama didn't make them because it wanted to trap people or something.
[He clearly sounds as if he knows Oyashiro-sama personally. He scratches his head for a moment.]
Let's see how to start this... Maybe Rika would be better to explain all this but she's not here so...
Let me start from several years ago in my world, okay? Around four years ago, there was a goverment project regarding the building of a dam in the village that would drown it under water. The workers all came from outside the village, most of the village people were against the project because they didn't want to leave the village. This kind of broke the rules Oyashiro-sama had set, people outside the village were in it and they were going to damage the village. Besides the fight people put up everyone expected them to be cursed by Oyashiro-sama...
Four years ago, in the night of the Watanagashi festival, a festival of the village to worship Oyashiro-sama. Two workers of the dam were 'cursed', one was killed and cut in pieces, most of them were found except one arm, and another vanished entirely apparently taken by the demons. That was the first time the curse acted.
The next year, around the same date, that of the festival... A married couple fell from a cliff, one of them was found dead, the other's body vanished as well. They were the parents of a good friend of mine, and even if they had been members of the village they had supported the dam project, thus they hadn't minded leaving the village nor harming it. So everyone assumed it had been Oyashiro-sama's curse punishing the traitors of the village...
The next year, once more, a married couple suffered the curse. Rika's parents, despite her father being the priest of Oyashiro-sama, he had kept a neutral position during the dam project instead of fighting for the village. He died, his wife vanished.
And finally the previous year to the one I'm from... A woman was killed and her nephew vanished. Them both were related to the victims of the second time the curse was said to happen. She... Was an evil woman, an outsider who tortured my friend. He was my friend's older brother, who kept protecting her but... Apparently he wanted to leave the village as well.
[Keiichi sighs.]
But all this was just a coincidence. There was no curse... At least not one that came from a deity or a demon. It was simply a combination of the syndrome and a human working against the village.
[Action]
Okay, first off... Oyashiro-sama would never curse anyone, not even someone it may hate. It may sound sappy but Oyashiro-sama just worries about people and wants to help and do as much as possible but... Its powers are limited, okay? So even if it would want to stop the so called curse, it can't, but Oyashiro-sama never cursed anyone.
The rules were mostly probably created due the syndrome. Given how the parasite only lived in Hinamizawa's region and anyone who entered the village would be infected and if anyone left the village and the radius of effect of the Queen Carrier... Things would get bad. Oyashiro-sama didn't make them because it wanted to trap people or something.
[He clearly sounds as if he knows Oyashiro-sama personally. He scratches his head for a moment.]
Let's see how to start this... Maybe Rika would be better to explain all this but she's not here so...
Let me start from several years ago in my world, okay? Around four years ago, there was a goverment project regarding the building of a dam in the village that would drown it under water. The workers all came from outside the village, most of the village people were against the project because they didn't want to leave the village. This kind of broke the rules Oyashiro-sama had set, people outside the village were in it and they were going to damage the village. Besides the fight people put up everyone expected them to be cursed by Oyashiro-sama...
Four years ago, in the night of the Watanagashi festival, a festival of the village to worship Oyashiro-sama. Two workers of the dam were 'cursed', one was killed and cut in pieces, most of them were found except one arm, and another vanished entirely apparently taken by the demons. That was the first time the curse acted.
The next year, around the same date, that of the festival... A married couple fell from a cliff, one of them was found dead, the other's body vanished as well. They were the parents of a good friend of mine, and even if they had been members of the village they had supported the dam project, thus they hadn't minded leaving the village nor harming it. So everyone assumed it had been Oyashiro-sama's curse punishing the traitors of the village...
The next year, once more, a married couple suffered the curse. Rika's parents, despite her father being the priest of Oyashiro-sama, he had kept a neutral position during the dam project instead of fighting for the village. He died, his wife vanished.
And finally the previous year to the one I'm from... A woman was killed and her nephew vanished. Them both were related to the victims of the second time the curse was said to happen. She... Was an evil woman, an outsider who tortured my friend. He was my friend's older brother, who kept protecting her but... Apparently he wanted to leave the village as well.
[Keiichi sighs.]
But all this was just a coincidence. There was no curse... At least not one that came from a deity or a demon. It was simply a combination of the syndrome and a human working against the village.