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3/XXXX LEVEL 3/XXXX
CLASSIFIED
Specific Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is currently located at the Tenjin-kegare Jinja, a Shinto shrine located in the Shizuoka Prefecture of southern Japan. This location is currently not subject to the Foundation's purview and is maintained and contained by PoI-845T ("Akira Kamiyama"). Foundation Staff are allowed to interact with and handle SCP-XXXX for testing only.
Foundation staff are reminded to act in a respectful manner and maintain a professional demeanor when interacting with PoI-845T, SCP-XXXX, and by extension, Tenjin-kegare Jinja itself. In addition, Foundation staff should comply with any requests to observe Shinto religious practices made by PoI-845T.
Exploration of SCP-XXXX-A is strictly forbidden per the Exploration of SCP-XXXX-A on the 26/11/1998.
Description: SCP-XXXX is the designation given to a 15th century Ōdachi which is 120cm long and weighs 4.5kg. The sword's origin dates to the early Sengoku period of Japan, also known as the Age of Warring States.
SCP-XXXX's composition is strictly non-anomalous having been constructed from a variety of steel alloys in the Soshu Kitae style. The blade is marked by a series of permanent bloodstains. No substance has thus far been found that can erase the stains, nor has the blade suffered any structural degradation from usage. Attempts to break or damage the blade have proven impossible.
The object bears a single inscription of a yojijukugo, a four character idiomatic expression, upon one flat side of the sword. The inscription reads: "因果応報" which can be expressed in Romaji as "inga ōhō". This translates roughly into "What comes around, goes around", a common idiom attributed to the idea of divine karmic retribution.
SCP-XXXX is currently in the possession of an PoI-845T, who goes by the name of Akira Kegare Kamiyama. He is over 500 years old and is the current and only presiding kannushi at Tenjin-kegare Jinja. He is regarded as functionally immortal and is incapable of most motor functions except for speech and limited gesticulation movements.
SCP-XXXX was once used as a ceremonial blade, inhabited by an impure kami, a religious deity of the Shinto religion. It would be used to ceremonially part a silk ribbon as the sun descended past the horizon every evening, to mark the termination of day. However, in the year 1812, the blade was used to cleave apart nothing and this resulted in the manifestation of SCP-XXXX-A.
SCP-XXXX-A is an extra-dimensional space that corresponds with no known region of space, nor time. It consists of a singular, plane surface of an indeterminable length and width. Illumination is scant and there are no visible stars in the sky. The light that is available is produced by a singular source of illumination, a large tower structure approximately 33m with a bright source of light contained at the apex of the structure.
The surface of SCP-XXXX-A is composed of the remains of Scolopendra subspinipes, Periplaneta japonica, and Haemadipsa zeylanica as well as various calcium deposits consistent with human bone material.
A ring of desiccated human corpses are located within the penultimate floor of the tower structure sat with their legs folded on top of one another. Attempts at dating their year of death as sometime in 1812.
Exploration of SCP-XXXX was conducted by remote-controlled drones.
History: SCP-XXXX was first used by a historical figure known as the 'Pale Justiciar' whose reference is found solely in texts possessed by the Kegare Order. She was allegedly a female samurai whose husband and father were killed during the formative years of the Sengoku period. She would roam the battlefields of Japan and bring mercy to any dying or wounded soldiers she came across in the aftermath of battles, beheading them with a single stroke of SCP-XXXX.
At an unknown time, SCP-XXXX came into the possession of the Kegare Order of monks, a Shinto monastic order. PoI-845T was once a member of this order before the group's dissolution in 1812.
The Kegare Order were a monastic order founded during the Sengoku period who practiced an extreme form of asceticism, a rejection of sensual and earthly pleasures in the pursuit of spiritual goals. The Order are referenced in no other historical texts and the only evidence of their existence traces back to PoI-845T.
PoI-845T was discovered in 1992 by Foundation staff exploring the Shizuoka Prefecture after hearing reports of a mummified body found in an old, abandoned Shinto shrine.
PoI-845T has undergone extensive anomalous bodily modifications in the pursuit of immortality. The vast majority of his skin has necrotised and his entire body is emaciated due to the dryness of his remaining skin. His head is almost completely bald with small remainders of brittle hair dotting the edges of his skull. The eyes of PoI-845T have almost completely degraded with the subject suffering from intense cataracts. His teeth have almost completely decayed down to the root, save for his rear molars.
His internal organs have long ceased functioning and their purposes have been replaced by a series of insects native to the islands of Japan. His intestinal tracts have been replaced by Scolopendra subspinipes (Red-headed centipede) whilst his stomach is filled with Periplaneta japonica (Japanese cockroach). His supply of blood is sustained by Haemadipsa zeylanica (Japanese mountain leech). The only intact organs are the brain, heart and lungs. His nutrition is derived from the accompanying insects that forage during the night before returning back into his body as the sun rises in the morning. Each species of insect replicates a specific set of sounds, which they cannot naturally produce. When combined together these sounds create acoustic noises that resemble human speech.
Initial contact was made by Dr. Fujikawa who was selected to lead the Foundation expedition due to his expertise with archaic forms of Japanese culture. Interviews were then arranged between the two individuals. The following interviews have been translated from their original Japanese.
Preface: Dr. Fujikawa made first contact with PoI-845T at approximately 10:54am after an exhaustive climb up the Minami Alps. PoI-845T was facing towards the rising sun. After a brief conversation, which has been omitted for brevity's sake, the interview commenced.
Dr. Fujikawa: Does your current situation cause you any serious discomfort, Kannushi?
PoI-845T: Once, once it did. Is a tree phased by the gnawing of its leaves? My personal discomfort is no great concern to myself. I have been suffering in this way for over 500 years and hope that I will live for many years to come, Ishi.
Dr. Fujikawa: Could you explain how you were inflicted with your present affliction?
PoI-845T: The pursuit of Heaven. I once was a young man, like yourself, eager for a discipline in my life. I found my purpose at this temple. There were many of us, students of the discipline. The discipline of flesh and mind. After eons of prayer, meditation, and Harae I achieved the state of which you see before yourself.
PoI-845T makes a clacking sound whilst smiling. This is presumed to be a laugh.
Dr. Fujikawa: Could you tell me more about the Order? I've scanned a few texts and gleaned what I could. You called yourself the Kegare Order.
PoI-845T: Impurity. We were vile and contemptible so we worked tirelessly in pursuit of true Heaven. We allowed infestation to take root within our very body. Our sensei told us it would free us of all our bodily pleasures. I fearfully admit, I trembled when the first insect crawled inside.
Dr. Fujikawa: What did the artefact have to do with this… impurity?
PoI-845T turns his head towards SCP-XXXX which Dr. Fujikawa had gestured towards.
PoI-845T: Kegare-ken. Defilement blade. It was brought here by our sensei's pupil during the Sengoku period and bathed in the pool behind myself. It corrupted the purest waters that flowed through this temple. Look upon it now, all you will see is foulness, stagnation. Our sensei stared into those waters and thought he had found the solution to our direst troubles. He dreamed of a bottomless ocean of filth and muck, and that blade would bring it forth.
Dr. Fujikawa: If I might ask, Kannushi, why do you remain up above? Would it not have been easier to sit in the shrine room.
PoI-845T: I did not wish to defile the shrine further with my own body and so I sit up here so that I might feel the warmth of the sun on my face as it rises, each, and every day.
Dr. Fujikawa: Kannushi, what is the purpose of the artefact we spoke of in our prior meeting?
PoI-845T: The kegare-ken was brought to us by a lonely rōnin, a wandering swordsman and pupil with no master. They told us that the blade had been profaned. Unclean, filthy, defiled - they used all these words and more. Our sensei took the blade and examined it, declaring it kegare, and interring it where it lays to this very day.
Dr. Fujikawa: And this, kegare-ken, the artefact, has it ever been used?
PoI-845T focuses his attention upon the object and nods.
PoI-845T: Once and never again. Our sensei used the blade to part nothingness, rending apart the sky as if it were naught but scripture. The Order followed him through and left me to remain here. I glanced through the hole after them. I tell you, Ishi, do not use that blade. That realm is a dreaded place, it is not the Heaven they sought out.
Dr. Fujikawa: Would you please elaborate upon that Kannushi, what do you mean by 'it is not the Heaven they sought out'.
PoI-845T: Our Order wished to transcend the mortal boundaries of the flesh, as you are aware from your studies. Our sensei believed that utilising the blade would truly part the mortal flesh from the immortal soul. But, before he could issue the parting blow onto Our Most Faithful monk, the blade split apart nothing, and from there we viewed it. I tell you again, Doctor, do not use the artefact.
Dr. Fujikawa: Kannushi, I need to know what the object opened, it's imperative to my investigation.
PoI-845T trembles as he raises his arms skyward, gesturing to the sky above.
PoI-845T: I pose a question in response, kind Ishi, could the Heavens itself not be above our selves?
Dr. Fujikawa: Thank you Kannushi, this interview is terminated.
Addendum XXXX.1: An exploration was sanctioned by the Foundation and was to be completed by an unmanned drone, code named "Jade Rabbit 1" (JR-1) for shorthand. Dr. Fujikawa was asked to use the blade as described by PoI-845T in the prior interview.
The following is Level 4 Classified Information
On this most venerated day, let it be known that the Kegare Order tore apart the Void, the illusionary nature of all Earthen things, and from within we entered the Heavens.
I, the Sensei of the Kegare Order and shinshoku of Tenjin-kegare Jinja was responsible for entering the Heavens. I ruptured the Void with a single, swift stroke of a blade and entered with my faithful students in step behind mine own.
