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It was enshrined at the bottom of a large pit, granting wishes in exchange for any young woman it swallowed, and later sealed away. A shadow of an old faith, the mere remnants of its former glory...
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Tsuuu...Kasa...-Kun! I granted...Your wish...For you Do you...Remember...Our promise? (Tsukasa responds): I do Then you must offer...A sacrifice...Of Equivalent Exchange! (Tsukasa responds:) It's fine, because Amane's healthy!
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— The Mysterious Entity granting the young Yugi Tsukasa's wish for Yugi Amane to be healthy, and the latter offering himself in exchange.
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"It" (Or Unofficially, The Entity and The Pit God), is the currently unnamed overarching antagonist of Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun.
It is a mysterious being that originated from the bottom of the Kamome Village's sacrificial pit, was worshipped as a God by the villagers and had the Kannagi sacrificed to it. In more recent times, it was sealed and the sacrificial pit was filled in by the Red House, and now currently resides within Yugi Tsukasa, seemingly controlling or influencing his actions. It is also implied to be the true source of the Seven Mysteries' powers, and what they are standing-in as proxies for.
Due to Tsukasa having caused many of the actions that drove the series (whether under its influence or is in cooperation with him), "It" was also called the "Root of the Problem" by Kako. It is implied to still be active in the New Present despite Kako and Mirai's best efforts.
It may or may not be related to the "Kami-Sama" that Hanako refers to, although there may be some possible signs that make the both of them more related than it shows.
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Thought to have been uprooted by both Kako and Mirai in Chapter 111, both the appearance of a supernatural posing as a younger Yugi Tsukasa, and the abnormal behavior of the Red House, coupled with the use of one of its victims as its mouthpiece/main servant, seems to paint a dire picture that tells us that the Entity is still up and about, not having been removed as originally stated.
History[]
The Kannagi Sacrifices[]
In ancient times, this mysterious being resided at the bottom of a ravine, and was worshipped as a god by the villagers of the Ancient Kamome Village, who turned the ravine into a Sacrificial Pit. They had their wishes granted in exchange for the sacrifice of the Kannagi, and in order to make the sacrifices happen, the villagers convinced the Kannagi that the "sacrifice" was actually a wedding ritual wherein the Kannagi was "married off" to the god below.
Akane Sumire and Katakuri were among its unfortunate victims, thrown into the Sacrificial Pit to appease the entity and have the village's wishes granted. In Katakuri's case, he was chosen despite being a male member simply because there was a shortage of young girls in the Akane Family at that time.
The Red House And The Yugi Brothers[]
At some point, it was sealed within its Sacrificial Pit presumably by exorcists, the pit was filled up with ground, and the Red House built atop of it sometime later. Despite this, the Red House was connected to the Sacrificial Pit via a well that became a portal to the boundaries, (As implied by Teru in Chapter 83). This action also resulted in the decline of the Faith that the villagers set up, and by extension, its power.
After that, a young couple would buy the house, reside in it, and later bear a pair of twins as their children.
One day, while a young Tsukasa was playing on the Red House's yard, the Entity would first call to him from within a storm drain. From there, Tsukasa would have his wishes granted in exchange for several animals that he found on the yard. One day, he overheard a Doctor and his mother talking about his brother Amane's condition, with the former telling the latter that he might not be able to survive his condition. From there, Tsukasa made it goal to make his brother get well and achieve his dreams in becoming an astronaut.
On the eve of the Yugi Twins' Fourth Birthday in 1959, Tsukasa approached a room within the House, where the Entity resided. and sacrificed his life in exchange for Amane's well-being. This would be the last time any of his family members would see him until six months later.
The Entity now stayed within Tsukasa, the latter staying as a ghost within the house until the present day. One day, Tsukasa encountered Yashiro Nene and Minamoto Kou as they searched the Red House in an attempt to bring Hanako and Mitsuba Sousuke back following the Severance. Chaos ensures for the both of them in the Red House, and in the midst of it, Kou tells Tsukasa that his brother had died after he had killed him long ago. This revelation would lead Tsukasa to go back in time to six months following his disappearance to ensure that the future he had been told will come to pass.
Upon his return to his past, he started making events go awry for his family, with both his mother and Amane realizing the truth early on. This eventually came to a head in 1968, when Amane kills Tsukasa, followed by the suicide of the entire family within the Red House.
Actions at Kamome Gakuen[]
Following his second "death", Tsukasa, and by extension, the Entity would stay inactive within Kamome Gakuen, and recruiting the likes of Nanamine Sakura, a trapped supernatural at Kamome Gakuen and Hyuuga Natsuhiko, an immortal human with cursed blood to form the Broadcasting Club so that they can enact their plans. In the Present Day, Tsukasa revealed himself to his brother Amane, now christened as Hanako-San of the Toilet, one of the Seven Mysteries, which resulted in fear from the latter.
Both Tsukasa and the Entity also started enacting the actions that would drive most of the events of the series, including the aforementioned encounter with Nene and Kou in the Red House that caused Tsukasa's start of darkness in the first place.
The Entity's possible ultimate goal (And by extension, Tsukasa's) was to gather all the Seven Yorishiro together so as to end all things, perhaps so that the Entity can regain its lost power and destroy everything else in the process.
Removal by the Clock Keepers[]
As a result of the chaos that ensued at Kamome Gakuen during the 113th School Festival, and the resulting destruction of the Big Clock at The Sealed Auditorium, time at the Academy was stopped, prompting the Clock Keepers to find the culprits and make them stand trial. They brought in Hanako, Yashiro Nene, Minamoto Teru and Yugi Tsukasa as the accused to stand trial. While they found probable causes for the prior three (Hanako's perverted intentions, Nene's lifespan, and Teru's hatred of supernaturals), it was Tsukasa who was actually the culprit as he had ordered Hyuuga Natsuhiko to destroy the Big Clock, as he proudly stated at the trial, before disrupting it himself.
During the incident at the trial in which Tsukasa wrecked and caused chaos to the Clock Keeper's Boundary, as well as killing Kako, Aoi Akane prepared to defend himself but was nearly killed when Mirai sacrificed her life to protect Akane, revealing the Clock Keepers' Yorishiro in the end, which Tsukasa obtained. But before Tsukasa could fully gloat in his victory, Hanako swoops in and pins him down, preparing to kill him as he saw that the brother he knew is an "impostor", to which Kako resurrected himself and then told Hanako to dispose of him.
But having heard what Hanako said, Kako came to the conclusion that whatever was inside Tsukasa was actually the Entity that had ruled the ancient village, and then enacted a plan to remove the Entity entirely via the creation of a New Timeline. Having repaired Mirai in his workshop at the Heart of their boundary, he then entered a large grandfather clock with Mirai in tow, while entrusting the safety and security of the New Present to Akane. As he and Mirai lock themselves in, they begin to change the timeline by removing the Entity from the timeline, which results in the formation of the New Present, and the seeming removal of said Entity
Actions in the New Present[]
Unfortunately for them, it seems that the Entity wasn't exactly removed as it was implied, as the method of Kannagi Sacrifices to the God still remain in the New Present's Present day. In addition, the New Present's iteration of Yugi Tsukasa is seemingly not really Tsukasa in the first place, as Akane theorizes (Which is confirmed to be the case in Chapter 119). As such, there is a possibility that the New Present Tsukasa is actually the Entity itself, having managed to escape from Kako and Mirai's removal.
This is all the more confirmed by the situations that happened at the Red House, as there seems to be an entity present that controls both the house and lures people inside to capture them and turn them into the beings trapped inside it. Among them include Yugi Amane and 2 of its latest victims: Kou and Mitsuba, who have been transformed into supernaturals resembling Yugi Tsukasa's own supernatural form.
Appearance[]
Nothing is currently known about the Entity and what it truly looks like.
In ancient times, it was a large gaping hole at the bottom of the Ravine where the villagers sacrifice their Kannagi to it by throwing them towards it. According to Kako, it had lost much of its power after it was sealed, being described as a "shadow of an old faith", and "the mere remnants of its former glory". Whatever power it had before, it possibly lost, and its current goals seem to focus on regaining it or ending the world as revenge for its defeat.
Following its sealing, the refilling of its ravine, and the construction of the Red House above it, it appears a black broken floor pit on the floor of one of the rooms of the Red House. It can also appear behind other holes within the Red House, as it first made contact with Yugi Tsukasa through a storm drain.
Following Tsukasa's sacrifice, his encounters with Yashiro Nene and Minamoto Kou in the present and his subsequent return from the present to his past six months later, the Entity now appears as a dark circular spot within Tsukasa's chest, from which it is able to communicate with him. So far, only Hanako and His Mother are aware of the entity's existence, or at least that Tsukasa's current behavior was not of his doing. Hanako (As a young Amane Yugi) is also the only character to have seen the Entity's dark spot within Tsukasa's heart.
Personality[]
Not much is known about the Entity's personality itself yet. However, at first, it has been shown that it is impartial when it comes to granting the wishes, so as to grant the wishes of the villagers, as well as Tsukasa's own wish-granting efforts, usually following a pattern that small wishes tends to demands small prices, but the more the wishes becomes bigger, more it will cost, Tsukasa's small wishes at first costing only small animals in exchange of some small objects, but then, to grant the wish of removing the disease of his brother, it demanded the life of Tsukasa himself.
However, as based in all it's actions within the series, during all the events involving it, and all its interactions through Tsukasa and the corruption of his identity and soul, it has been heavily implied that the entity's true nature is nothing but purely evil, having a truly cruel, and unfathomably malicious personality.
Powers[]
Wish-Granting Powers[]
The Entity possess wish-granting powers that are seemingly infinitely more powerful than those of Hanako's and Yugi Tsukasa's, and not limiting itself to either the living or the dead respectively, but it requires an equivalent exchange. For example, smaller wishes can happen only through smaller sacrifices such as rats and other animals, but larger, more ambitious wishes would require the sacrifices of humans, particularly those from a special spiritual bloodline, such as the Akane Kannagis.
Power Bestowal/Empowerment[]
Even with the loss of its powers after being sealed, the Entity was able to extend what was left of its wish-granting powers to the Red House, making the cursed location capable of tempting and granting the wishes of whoever entered inside, as well as making the Red House unfathomably and possibly infinitely large on the inside, and becoming an accessway to many boundaries and realms. In short, the Red House became an extension of its powers.
It also bestowed its power upon its host Tsukasa following its merger with the latter, and his subsequent murder by Amane's hand, thus allowing Tsukasa to grant wishes to the dead supernaturals, as well as defeat any School Mystery even in their own domain boundaries, like what he did with both Number 3, and almost succeeded with the Clock Keepers before Kako resurrected himself and paused time around the Clock Keepers' Court.
In addition, Minamoto Teru mentions that the Red House is possibly a sufficient link to the Seven Mysteries' power due to Hanako being born in there. This can indirectly imply two hypothesis, one is that Hanako's wish-granting powers as one of the Seven Mysteries is also an actual bestowal of the Entity's powers towards him, and two, that Hanako's powers are an reflection of the Entity's powers due to Tsukasa being his Yorishiro, and the Entity's being currently residing Tsukasa as its vessel.
In light of thus, all the abilities that "Tsukasa" had shown so far, which belongs to the Entity, Hanako showed to have too in the exactly same way, such as the wish-granting power, the command of an Hakujoudai/Kokujoudai, teleportation, create or summon objects, sleep induction, enhanced fight ability and supernatural strength.
Also as implied by Teru, it seems that the Entity's powers are also bestowed upon all the other members of the Seven Mysteries via Hanako, as the Red House also can also utilize some of the Mysteries' powers, such as the presence of Clocks in one room pertaining to the Three Clock Keepers, and the way the House kidnapped Nene was via a swarm of bugs, similar to those that Shinigami-sama can summon.
This ultimately mean that the Seven Mysteries are tied to the Entity via Hanako, and makes what Hyuuga Natsuhiko claim about them true, in the sense that the Seven Mysteries are the "proxies" to the Entity itself. It also explains why Tsukasa can overpower members of the Seven Mysteries even when within their own boundaries (Like how he killed Number 3, killed Mirai and overpowered Kako), as he contains in him the true source of their powers in the form of the Entity.
Corruption[]
The Entity also corrupts the minds and souls of whoever was sacrificed to him. When the Kannagi were first thrown to its Sacrificial Pit, they were initially their usual selves, but they became unhinged due to them being misled by the villagers and slowly lose their form and sanity over time. The same fate would eventually befall both Katakuri and Akane Sumire were not the latter consumed by Hakubo.
With Yugi Tsukasa however, the Entity introduced many negative traits into Tsukasa's personality, turning what was once a sweet, loving and wholesome kid into a sadistic, unhinged individual. Although whether how much the extent of the corruption the Entity had on Tsukasa, or whether Tsukasa is performing such actions intentionally and independently of the Entity's own, or whether the both of them are cooperating together remains unknown for now.
Weaknesses[]
Temporal Removal[]
Despite its immense power, and being implied to be the Seven Mysteries' source of power, which included those of the Clock Keepers, The Entity is not truly immune to temporal changes. When both Kako and Mirai used the Big Clock in their Boundary to change the timeline, they achieved that by removing The Entity from the equation, thus resulting in the New Present.
However, it seemed that it never truly removed The Entity from the timeline as the Akane sacrifices (Which The Entity reveled in) were continued as the method of appeasement to the Supernatural, and with Yugi Tsukasa still running around, with Aoi Akane implying that it might not actually be him at all, but possibly the Entity himself. Chapter 119 confirms Akane's suspicions, as a photo of the Yugi Family in the Red House is missing Tsukasa, and it is seen later that he was removed from the timeline by Kako, making the Tsukasa running around in the New Present not a true variant at all, and making it possibly the Entity itself.
Kou's dialogue in Chapter 120 implies that there is a power in the Red House that is controlling the houses' victims such as Yugi Amane, indirectly implying that if the Red House's controller is The Entity in question, then it did survive the reset after all.
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Trivia[]
- The Entity being described as a "A shadow of an old faith" and having worshippers that sacrificed the Kannagi to it at one point, as well as its mysterious nature and its ability to render those it receives mad or corrupt their nature, may be references to Lovecraftian-Based Literature, especially The Call of Cthulhu.
- If its goal is one and the same with its host Tsukasa, then its goal to end all things by destroying all the Yorishiro may recall the existence-ending scenario if the Outer God Azathoth wakes up from his slumber, as all of existence is but Azathoth's eternal dream.
- Additionally, Azathoth is sometimes depicted as a black hole or spot in the Milky Way (Identified with Sagittarius A*), similar to The Entity being primarily depicted as a black hole or spot in most of the chapters it appears in.
- There is some possibility that The Entity may be one and the same being with Kami-Sama:
- Both have given their respective appointees the mission to destroy all the Yorishiro in order to atone for one's sins and have his wish granted (Hanako), and to see the world end (Tsukasa)
- In Chapter 61, Hanako mentions to the other School Mysteries at the meeting that even if there would be a "little" supernatural infestation at Kamome Gakuen, it would be something that even God would forgive. Many chapters later, the Broadcasting Club does exactly just that in order to cause a distraction that would allow Natsuhiko to destroy the Big Clock at The Sealed Auditorium and gain access to the Clock Keepers' Boundary for Tsukasa, who has The Entity inside him at that point. In fact, despite that in addition to the aforementioned infestation, time was also stopped for the school, there seems to be no divine repercussions as it fell to both Kako and Mirai to resolve the problem on their own, and neither they nor the rest of the School Mysteries were punished in any way prior to the changing of the timeline to the New Present.
- This also has the added caveat that the posters where the petals that infected the people at the school emerged from were made by Shijima Mei, so either by coercion or choice, a member of the Seven Mysteries was complicit in the Supernatural infestation and the events that followed.
- Despite Minamoto Teru (Or rather, his New Present self) saying at one point that the Seven Mysteries have effectively replaced the Sacrificing of Akane Kannagi as the method of balancing the Near and Far Shores, both Hanako and Kako didn't seem to mind when Hakubo's method of resolving the issue was via Akane Aoi's sacrifice, just merely calling his methods "extreme". This attitude also has the caveat that Kako knew fully well The Entity's history and penchant for Kannagi sacrifices.
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