018b Oumae Ichimu: Ayase's Ideal Mysterious Mother (b)

Previuos episode:
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2016/12/018a-oumae-ichimu-ayases-ideal.html?zx=b1bebf62a2c8bea2
About Ayase the White Exorcist, please refer to
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/rival-as-best-friend-ayase-one-of-witch.html
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/06/016-keeper-of-ayases-faith-about-ayase.html

    Ayase likes and admires her mother for all of her, expect one thing: her original family name.

    After marriage, Ichimu changed her name to Aragaki Ichimu as a member of the Aragaki family, but her former name is  Oumae(黃前) Ichimu(一夢), and Ayase has an inenarrable bad feeling about that surname Oumae. She doesn't know why. The Oumae family is Catholic and always keeps a low profile, logically Ayase doesn't have any reason to dislike her mother's original family. However, if anyone mentions that, or calls her mother Oumae Ichimu, Ayase will feel very sick, just like the honorable image of her mother is totally torn. Ayase doesn't want to think or discuss her ridiculous complex anymore, she just wants to keep her mother as "an Aragaki" instead of "an Oumae". Once when Black Cat asked Ichimu her original subname, Ayase screamed out because of fear.

    Well, Ayase's complex is truly unreasonable, but her intuition is accurate and acute. Her mother really hides a tremendous secret of Oumae from her.

    Let's start the tsory of the Oumae family from the Shimabara Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion). The event happened in the Kyushu island of Japan in 1637. The rebel army mostly consisted of Catholic Christian peasants and was led by Amakusa Shiro (天草 四郎, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amakusa_Shir%C5%8D). The rebel army was defeated and Amakusa Shirou was decapitated (http://ww3.sinaimg.cn/large/005RpE9Bgw1es2oequdjjj30nq0cwmzp.jpg) in 1638. Later, for revenging, Shiro's remorseful wraith was reincarnated by dark force from the hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makai_Tensho). However, he was defeated by the legendary samurai Yagyu Jubei again. Before his second death, his spiritual power of resentment (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/487724757_b41d92e535.jpg) was transferred to his secret daughter, and that possessed girl established the Oumae family when she grew up.

    Therefore the Oumae family is naturally Catholic, but unlike other "normal" Catholics, Oumae family members possess supernatural power from the dark side. Amakusa Shiro believed in the God, but he also hated the God because of the catastrophe happened on his followers. His emotions influences his descendants of the Oumae family continuously.

    So, after Ayase got her holy power of being an exorcist, her surreal power made her to see through her mother's belief figuratively a few times. She felt that the crucifix implanted in Ichimu's inner is not a pure holy one; it was mixed up with some wicked beings, and Ichimu seemed to be manipulated by the mixed force, like a puppet.

    Of course, Ayase doesn't take it seriously, or you can say that she doesn't want to. She rather considers that as a day-dream. Unfortunately, her  intuition gets the truth.

    As the container for Amakusa Shiro's spiritual power, Ichimu doesn't care her own ego a lot. The entire Oumae family was made for Amakusa Shiro, family members just value Shiro's thoughts and wish. Wills, minds, personalities and bodies, all of them aren't important. An Oumae can take use of anything of her/his self if she/he needs to. That's why Ichimu can always act as Ayase's ideal mother; she reflects Ayase's wishes by modifying herself to form Ayase's perfect mother.

    Ichimu also can extend her ability in such way. For example, once she found a wicked goddess who was heavily wounded. She offered up her parts as the sacrifice for the goddess to replace her wounded parts temporarily. However, the heretic deed activated Ichimu's Christian faith to blame those sacrificial parts, and because of that, the goddess's broken head (it wasn't functional such that the goddess was unconscious even when Ichimu held the sacrificing ritual of her body parts) couldn't be reassembled. The functional part of the goddess took Ichimu's donated head as the device for providing ideas automatically. Such that, Ichimu actually got the goddess's power. Her lower half and head were owned by the goddess, and her torso has to obey her donated heads, her entire self can be viewed as the goddess's slave, but the goddess must gets ideas to act from Ichimu's head. Ichimu can summon many powerful monsters with that wicked goddess's power.

    By the way, it's okay for Ichimu to let her spirit and body parts to be blamed by her faith because she doesn't value them at all. Whatever how many negative values you make her to add on her parts, she won't be hurt. On the other hand, even if you can make her to consider herself as a good person, she won't feel any good from that. Though you can say that she's evil, she is in fact neutral, neutral to everything...(to be continued)