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[herbalmedicines]

...Has anyone heard of 'the Malice'? Not the emotion, but...an actual force. I think it might have something to do with this place...

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[cursedshinigami]

Tell me more about it?

[audio]

[herbalmedicines]

It's some sort of force from hell. ...There was an incident where it was released into our world, and it killed many people. It turned the victim's spirits hostile, too... They attacked whoever they saw.

I wonder if maybe something like that happened here too...

[audio]

[cursedshinigami]

It's possible, after all, the description fits. Was there any way of stopping it?

[audio]

[herbalmedicines]

Something called the Holy Mirror could repel the Malice back into the Hell Gate. And... [Her voice breaks a little--this part is something that she doesn't even want to think about.] And a shrine maiden's spirit would have to guard the Hell Gate....

[private]

I...I have some of the Holy Mirror's pieces. But unless the Mirror is completely assembled, they're useless...

[voice]

[chilledacademia]

And why do you come to such a conclusion?

[voice]

[herbalmedicines]

The Malice can cause spirits to become violent...

[voice]

[chilledacademia]

Malice? The emotion?

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[herbalmedicines]

...No, it's...something from hell.

[worldsrunnerup]

Yeah? Anything interesting?

[herbalmedicines]

The faces were all completely blurred, just like I thought.

[worldsrunnerup]

Figured as much. How many down there and at what stages of the developing process? Anything half way done, resting in the fixer or anything?

[herbalmedicines]

Ten photographs in all, all fully developed. They don't look like they've been tampered with... It has to be caused by whatever is wrong with this place...

[vampireluck]

It doesn't sound familiar...but what is it, exactly? Maybe it's called something else in other places.

[herbalmedicines]

It's something that was released from hell. It can kill people, and possess their spirits. ...Even gentle people become mindlessly violent...