#then Rei dies of blood loss after a sharp pain in her abdomen

[doctorbunny]

A little speculation about Corpse Disposal and J-horror

But I'm a little bored so sharing a part-theory, part-headcanon on Muu and Rei

So we unfortunately don't see much of Rei in "Its not my fault" but I want to point out three key times we do

The first time we see Rei in the MV, is her wet sleeve (we know its not Muu because Muu wears a pink jumper under her blazer)

Then, after a lot of bug stuff, we're finally back in the real world, where Muu has just killed her Post-After Pain. In INMF, we don't see the surroundings as well, just the dirt track and bushes. But in AP, we see this is right next to a rushing river (Muu's undercover card also features a bridge as a landmark)

The next time we see Rei after her corpse, is a flashback to the start where she turns the hourglass over. Then it cuts just further back to before Rei stood up - as she pulls herself up off the floor She's alive and absolutely soaked after a session of intense bullying (which we saw Muu insert herself into in AP)

However, I want to now switch a little to talk about cinematography and a concept called the Kuleshov effect The video I linked is pretty concise but the gist is that if you put two shots next to each other, even if they were filmed separately, the brain interprets it as a continuous scene (so if you film a character looking off screen, then a picture of an apple on a table, we're going to assume they're looking at the apple)

Therefore while we understand chronologically that the sequence of events is Rei (wet and alive) -> Rei's murder on dry land ↺ Flashback to Rei still wet and alive Which I think everyone understood as a commentary on how this power struggle was a constant cycle of the hourglass being turned over

I think visually, it also implies a sequence like Rei was bullied -> Muu kills her -> Sopping wet, Rei crawls back to the classroom

But wait! That sequence suggests a missing step How did Rei get wet again?

Well, we know Muu killed her next to a river And if you were a scrawny teenage murderer with a body on your hands, would you leave it there where someone could see it while you grab a shovel and stand in broad daylight digging a hole in tough ground??? Or try lighting a fire in public??? Of course not!

It'd be much easier for Muu to, in a panic, just roll her body into the convenient river and let all the evidence wash away!

(Of course, if Muu was panicking, she might not have been very careful. Given she ended up in MILGRAM, there must've been something tying Muu to Rei's death and in T2 Muu seems to have finally remembered losing her left shoe...)

Fun fact: this is the same shoe Cinderella loses in the animated Disney film (and the best known version of that story came into English from France)

Shoe break over, back to the Endless Queen's Game

So, if we assume Rei's corpse was thrown in the river, what does it matter? Its just a pointless headcanon

But I speculate the meaning goes deeper!

So that image of Rei, soaking wet, crawling off the floor reminded me of something: J-horror ghost girls! Specifically the most famous of ghost girls Samara/Sadako Who became a vengeful spirit after being thrown in a well and now crawls out of TVs to kill people who watched her VHS tape

Her story too is a cyclical one (its called 'Ring' for a reason), the only way to break the curse is to copy the tape and have someone else watch it, who will then become the victim unless they can themselves copy the tape and show it to another unsuspecting patsy

The story goes back further because this movie is based on a novel, which is based on the legend of 番町皿屋敷 Banchou Sara Yashiki. There are many versions but generally a maid girl Okiku is proposed to, and when she rejects the proposal, her master breaks one of ten plates and promises to forgive her if she marries him. When she declines again, he beats her to near death then throws her into a well (sometimes it's a jealous mistress instead of a master)

Interestingly, Atrophaneura alcinous (swallowtail butterfly) larvae found in Japanese wells became known as Okikumushi お菊虫 (Okiku bugs), tying back to the whole insect thing...

It's been said a bunch now, but the name 'Rei' can be read as 霊 meaning ghost (seen in words like Yuurei 幽霊, a more common word for ghost than Rei on its own)

We know Muu is afraid of ghosts too (though I must admit she says Obake, not yuurei, but both words refer to ghosts)

Remembers the i/井 in Sakurai/櫻井 can be read as 'well' I'm sure that has nothing to do with anything

Uh, I can't think of a conclusion because its 1 am and I had to look up a bunch of spooky images

TL;DR: I think Muu may have quickly shoved Rei's body into the river next to where the murder happened (maybe forgot her shoe at the scene of the crime) and now she's scared by the cycle continuing and Rei coming back to haunt her

#muu kusunoki #rei milgram #haruka sakurai #milgram #ミルグラム #milgram theory #I can't fit it in the post but isnt it funny how Rei and Muu's lives revolve around cycles #then Rei dies of blood loss after a sharp pain in her abdomen

[blueepink07]

Where was Rei stabbed?

(TW murder, blood)

When I think about Muu's murder, it always makes me wonder where was Rei's actually stabbed considering that she died instantly. I had thought of the possibility that she might have just fainted, because of blood loss, however her eyes are wide open and has the same surprised expression as during the stab, so it looks like her death was instant.

From the shots from After Pain and INMF, we know that she was stabbed in the abdomen area.

The skirt should be placed around the belly button, from the looks of it, meaning the stab was somewhere around the epigastric region and the upper part of the umbilical region.

From this picture from After Pain, it looks like the upper part of the umbilical region was the one stabbed.

What organs are in that part of the body?

To find out which organs were actually penetrated by the box cutter, we have to take into account the fact that Rei is vomiting blood immediately after Muu stabs her.

The esophagus is definitely not the one, because it's not placed in the abdomen area, what is left is the stomach and the duodenum.

The thing is that not any of these organs will cause instant death. Rei would have died of blood loss in just a matter of a few minutes, however, as I said when I began this theory, her eyes are wide open matching the moment when she was stabbed. It's pretty much likely that she died when she hit the ground or was already dead before hitting the ground.

Also, I want to point out that the position of her body is definitely not comfortable considering her injury. So the position when she hit the ground remained the same. (Again, wanting to point out that she died instantly...)

If she were alive, she might have tried to stop the bleeding as well pulling her knees up in order to manage with the pain. (If the pain was horrible, at least her legs would have been seated in a better position)

Ok, Bluee, but what organ was hit, you didn’t answer the question…

Well, it's not just about the organ that was hit but also what artery was stabbed.

There are two big arteries that reach the abdomen: the inferior vena cava and the aorta artery.

Both if stabbed, especially the aorta artery, can cause instant death in a matter of a few minutes or seconds.

That means, it's most likely that not only an organ was stabbed but also one of these two arteries or both…

This is where the inferior vena cava and the aorta are placed when it comes to the stomach and duodenum.

Taking into account that Muu has stabbed Rei with a box cutter which has a blade with a big width, it is possible that she had hit the small part of the stomach that is in front of the arteries or the duodenum, or both.

It is kind of surprising that she reached this depth with the box cutter, but remember that the box cutter is actually very sharp and Muu was falling when the murder happened. She had stabbed with all her power, with the weight of her body.

If Rei died instantly at least she didn't experience too much pain…

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