It is even specified that Seijiro was accepting of his sacrificial role merely to satisfy his curiosity.īy studying the room where the ritual took place, one can assume that the sacrifice is first bound in rope and suspended in the air by various mechanisms as they pull the ropes tightening and eventually breaking the bones of the sacrifice. It is likely that Seijiro was chosen to be imprisoned and sacrificed over his student due to his near-obsessive need to find out everything he could about Minakami's rituals, making him exceptionally easy to lead, trick and capture. The soul of the folklorist came back with the soul of Sae as well, enveloping the village and everyone inside in the Malice. While this did buy time for the villagers, it backfired when the Crimson Sacrifice ritual failed.
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The villagers had other plans for him however, and decided that since the twins had yet to complete their purification rituals, he was to be used for a hidden sacrifice to satisfy the Malice and keep it from overcoming the village. He had originally come to the village to observe and take pictures of the Crimson Sacrifice ritual, bringing the Camera Obscura with him. He also makes another appearance in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, in the All God's Village part of the Manor of Sleep where he is much faster and deals reasonably-low amounts of damage to Kei Amakura.
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In Fatal Frame II, the player is not able to fight him like any other normal ghost before his end-game boss fight and he can kill Mio Amakura in one hit. Otherwise known as " The Folklorist", the Kusabi was a personal collegue of Dr Kunihiko Aso, as well as the unfortunate soul to be used as a sacrifice to buy time until the Crimson Sacrifice and brought about the Repentance.