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A village built on gratitude to something that kills. Every 60 years, seven girls die, and nobody reports it because the demon saved them once. The exorcist walks in blind, trying to stop a ritual that the entire town has agreed to protect. This OVA refuses the comfort of a simple evil, it corners you with the question of what debt justifies sacrifice, what silence justifies murder. By the end, there is no clean answer, only the weight of choosing between two terrible truths.
SYNOPSIS
A quiet village harbors a cyclical curse. Every sixty years, seven teenage girls vanish under mysterious circumstances, and the townsfolk accept this tragedy as the price of an old pact. The villagers believe a demon saved Kanoesaru long ago, and they've honored that debt through their silence, year after year, generation after generation. This time, the Ibuki family's matriarch refuses to let fate claim her daughters. She summons an exorcist to break the cycle before the next girl disappears. What unfolds is a collision between ancient obligation and modern defiance, between a village's dark secrets and one family's determination to survive. The OVA peels back layers of supernatural horror and moral complexity. Beneath the surface lurks a question that cuts deeper than any simple ghost story: what price is too high for salvation, and who truly deserves to pay it? As the truth about the murders comes into focus, the line between savior and predator blurs in ways no one expected.
