Kuroshitsuji © Yana Toboso
Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
"Have yew thought abaaaht cursin' someone befawer?"
Kagome sent the Undertaker a deadpanned look as she followed him to where the bodies of the prostitutes resided.
"You're thinking of Black Magic. Witchcraft isn't the same."
"Oh?" He tiled his head to the side, indicating his curiosity.
The black-haired woman nodded, "Yes. Black Magic generally governs curses and summoning Devils from Hell. Witchcraft, on the other hand, is an earth-based religion that focuses primarily on re-linking with the life-forces of nature."
"I see."
The two of them fell silent, their footfalls sounding for them; when the gray-haired man stopped, Kagome bumped into his back by accident.
The unmistakable wafting scent of death resonated thru the air around them, and the blue-eyed woman almost covered her nose out of reflex. She caught a glimpse of a smile from the man in front of her when he turned to look at her from the corner of his eye.
The mortician ignored the glare sent his way as he opened the door where the dead resided for him.
"Is there anything about them that's similar, besides being incomplete?"
A cat-like eye peered at the woman gazing at the bodies, her eyes lingering on the incision made on the torso and the bloodied blanket covering them.
"Of caaahrse," the Undertaker moved to Kagome's side and urged her further into the room with a hand on the small of her back, his other coming to rest on her lower abdomen as he continued speaking, "they're all missin' their womanly parts, love."
The young woman's hand covered her mouth in surprise, "What?"
"The uterus was cut aaaht wiv precision."
Who – who'd do such a thing?
"A trained hand?"
The gray-haired man took his hand off of her lower abdomen, "Possibly."
This, it is almost like a mix of demonic brutality and a doctor's steady hand.
Kagome went to open her mouth, but no words came out—she emptied the contents of her stomach onto the floor, instead.
I did a bit of research, you could say, about Witchcraft. Laws against Witchcraft weren't repealed until the 1920's in England, so Kagome can't exactly come out with that for risk of being killed or tortured—even ostracized at the very least.