![]() At that time a Passage Boat was used to travel from the Ephemeral Shrine to the Minakami Shrine, where they are placed in a Black Box and sunk in the Black Lake, to be used as pillars to calm and stop the Yomi. Over time the maidens used the method of glancing at memories so much that their hearts were filled with emotions. Maidens with lower power had to make physical contact with the person in order to use this ability, but the stronger ones only needed to look. ![]() The maiden was to remove the veil from her and see with her own eyes the death of the person, secretly taking sins and emotions at the moment of death, and keeping them with them forever. People who wished to die had to enter the back of the mountain and select a maiden to accompany them. The main duty of the maidens is to "Glance" at the souls of those who traveled to the mountain to end their lives, for which they could die "correctly" and return to the water to rest in peace. They also had to go through hard training. They are purified with water from the Pool of Purification in the Unfathomable Forest. When they entered the forest to become maidens, they took the Mikomori surname possibly from the shrine located at the Mikomori Pond. They wear veils that cover their eyes, adorned with an elaborate headdress. ![]() The maidens keep their bodies and hair wet at all times, so their dark and shiny hair is like that of a wet crow, hence the Japanese name meaning "shrine maidens of the wet crow". ![]()
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