Moreover, the resentment emanating from the resurrected Hannya demons felt even more terrifying.
In Japanese mythology, Hannya were evil spirits born from women's intense jealousy and resentment. Legend said they dwelled deep in the mountains and emerged whenever night fell, accompanied by their bone-chilling laughter. They liked to eat children!
Of course, that was only one of the legends surrounding Hannya.
Hannya could be divided into three major types: White Hannya, Laughing Hannya, and Red Hannya.
The legends of these three Hannya were all different. Laughing Hannya was a yokai from Nagano Prefecture's folklore. It was usually depicted as a female ghost laughing wildly, with curved horns and fangs, holding a child's head in her hand.
She held the child's head like a pomegranate, giving off a vicious and repulsive impression.
As for White Hannya, legend said that she had originally been the consort of Japan's Crown Prince. Her original name was Rokujō no Miyasudokoro. Because of the appearance of a woman named Aoi, the Crown Prince neglected her. Her jealousy became so overwhelming that she turned into a vengeful spirit!
White Hannya was formed from mad jealousy and hatred, possessing narrow-minded, resentful women and leaving their bodies at night to take lives.
The third kind... Red Hannya, was also the most vicious of the three. She killed without reason or justification. She killed whoever she wanted, then ate them afterward. Her methods were exceptionally cruel.
Without exception, all three Hannya were evil, hateful, and cruel demons.
The three Hannya originally had little to do with one another, yet someone had now sealed them together inside a demon god statue and even built a temple specifically for it.
One could not help but suspect that someone was plotting something horrifying on a grand scale.
Could that person have