Warabe Jiuchin (Ku TRUE Mythos File Zu)

[Machine Translation] Azako was only a child of about ten. Yet she had lived twenty years since her birth in a poor fishing village. She looked like an unspoiled, innocent girl, but Azako was a man and had long since been defiled by her father. Abandoned by her father, Azako wanders in the mountains and meets a mysterious old man. Azako wanders through the mountains and meets a mysterious old man, who leads him to a place where those who cannot return to the human world go into exile. The orphaned baby, the abandoned old man, the unfortunate lucky one, the one who lacks something, the one who has too much something, the one who is possessed, the one who is afflicted, they all wash ashore and become demons. Oni, that is, a changed person, an aberration that retains the vestiges of a human being. Azako eventually takes over from his grandfather and begins to make lanterns for the demons. Using a child's entire body as material, he makes a "child lantern" that illuminates the demon's feet and hides its appearance....

アザコは十ほどの子供にしか見えなかった。けれども、貧しい漁村に生まれてから二十年を生きていた。穢れを知らぬ生娘のように見えたが、アザコは男であり、とっくに父親に穢されていた。父に捨てられたアザコは山中を彷徨い不思議な爺と出会う。そこは人の世に戻れぬ者が流亡の末に辿りつく鬼常叢。間引かれた赤子、棄てられた年寄り、不幸な福助、何かの足りぬ者、何かの多い者、憑かれた者、患った者が流れ着き、鬼となる。鬼、それは人が変化したもの、人の名残を残した異形。やがてアザコは爺の後を継ぎ、鬼のための提灯を作るようになる。子供の身体全てを材料とし、鬼の足元を照らしてその姿を隠す「童提灯」を...。