Shioriha Ruri Plays Through a Mermaid-Obsessed Woman’s Curse Request in Paranormasight

NIJISANJI — Shioriha Ruri, a Nijisanji streamer, reached the first use of a curse in the horror-mystery game Paranormasight FILE38: The Ise Mermaid Tale (パラノマサイト FILE38 伊勢人魚物語) on Friday, after a woman the story had cast as a gentle descendant of Oshima turned out to want the curse used on her. It was part 13 of the playthrough, and it ran about 50 minutes.

The stream opened with Abi and the young medium Kiruke searching a string of fishing towns for the descendant they had been told about. Kiruke’s pendulum was tracking a spirit-charged iron box that had been passed to the descendant, and Ruri let Abi take the pendulum in a short scene in which the player calls out when the reading is strongest. The trail ended at a small apartment, where a wary woman named Somekawa answered the door. She asked about the iron box, then declined to hand over a second treasure she said was hidden where no one would find it.

“なんか、とんでもない女が出てきたな。” — Shioriha Ruri, after reading the profile of Azusa Somekawa

About 20 minutes in, Somekawa explained that she was not the descendant everyone had been looking for but her younger sister. The elder sister, who carried the family’s mission of returning a mermaid to the sea, had died in an accident five years earlier. Somekawa said she had walked away from that duty, grown jealous of her sister’s bond with the mermaid, and taken the family’s treasure and sunk it in the sea. When the mermaid finally appeared to her, she said, she bargained with it and was refused. Her last request, she told Abi, was to use the cursed bead on her so she could become a mermaid, whatever the form.

Somekawa dived before Abi could answer. In the game, Abi chose to go through with the curse, and the story added the woman’s profile and her end. Ruri’s commentary was sharp throughout: the streamer called her conduct that of the worst kind of “Gian,” a nickname for a selfish bully, and said a remarkable woman had turned up. Chat picked up the comparison.

Chat treated the scene as a ranking of the story’s worst people, and several viewers put her at the top so far. The stream moved on to the island of Kamejima, where the party met a local businessman and learned of the spiritual adviser he had hired, a name some viewers recognized from the previous game. Ruri closed the stream as the story turned to a scene with a girl named Sato.