Introduction - Four Great Demon Beasts
Four Demon - The Great Beast.
The familiars that serve as limbs for Merem Solomon, the Dead Apostle who is both one of the 27 Ancestors and the Burial Agency.
It is said that each one is equal to a single Ancestor.
Each one of the Four Great Demon Beasts is a Divine Beast class fantasy creature, but they were all creatures that Merem “literally” imagined.
They don’t belong to any species on earth, but they pay homage to many organisms throughout the world.
Source: Source/Tsukihime Dokuhon “talk”, “the dark six”
Boss-class monsters that obey the Dead Apostle Merem Solomon. The Demon of the Right Leg appeared in Talk. Well, it kind of got owned, but that’s because the Living Forest and the Whale Dog had just the worst compatibility.
The fact that they don’t have names is because of the rule that “you can’t give demons a name so easily”. Merem wants to give them cool names, but it seems that if he did, they would become truly free, so he can’t.
Explanation - Demon of the Left Hand
Class: King of Rats
User requirements: Manifestation of admiration towards others and the wish to transform.
Design reference: His little friends living above the ceiling of the temple.
The hero and idol of the rat world.
A demon with absolutely zero fighting power, but the transformation ability to completely imitate the appearance of any human.
In human society, he holds the status of priest. In the past, as the third most beautiful rat in the world, he has a lot of support among narrow communities living in narrow spaces like underground, above ceilings, in gutters, and behind furniture.
“Left Hand” itself likes its priest self, and spends his days working relaxedly for Merem, humans and rats.
“…That’s weird. Hey, did I design you to like humans?”
“I will be an ally of humans as long as there is pizza.”
Is a conversation this cheese lover has had with Merem.
Also, every time the rats ask him,
“Hey, hey, what part of you is a “Great” Demon Beast?”
He apologetically tries to think of a response.
Explanation 02 - Memorandum
The representative of Merem, who can’t grow any older from his boy form. While he can transform into many types of people, he normally likes to take the form of a kind old priest.
When faced with high-level exorcism, this appearance becomes undone and he reverts to his original form.
Just a note so that you don’t misunderstand, but the power to transform into any human is a power of the “Left Hand” and not Merem. What Merem created was an existence able to freely change into a human, but the one actually execute that is the “Left Hand” only. Meremu himself wants to become an adult, and wants arms and legs, but he cannot himself transform.
Again, although the Four Great Demon Beasts are basically Merem’s limbs, they are actually just providing him with limbs.
If Merem disappears, the Demon Beasts won’t disappear until they are destroyed, but if they disappear, Merem will lose his limbs and have to reimagine them.
To the Demon Beasts, Merem is their creator, but he is not someone absolutely necessary. But since they will be reimagined if they’re destroyed as long as Merem is still alive, they seem to hold some loyalty towards him.
Explanation 03 - Demon of the Right Leg
Class: King of the Earth
User Wish: Manifestation of divine punishment and huge tsunami
Design reference: The animal sculptures and stuffed animals decorating the temple, and also the temple itself
The black dog of destruction. The bell of the end. The dog of gods. The whale dog.
The demon of conquest and destruction that Merem prefers to drag along with him. It doesn't have any specific powers, but just having a huge body close to 200 meters in length is enough to qualify it as a "demon".
Supposedly, Merem actually wanted a cuter dog, but it seems that his art skills are a little biased. The demon beasts that make up his "legs" do not act independently in a human fashion, but take action directly according to his orders. Perhaps it's because Merem loves dogs, but apparently his "Right Leg" listens to him more than the "Left Leg".
Explanation 04 - Memorandum
Just like other demons, the Four Great Demon Beasts are separate beings from Merem.
Although they are demons conceived by Merem’s imagination, once he draws an image out it begins to walk away from him. While they listen to Merem, their creator, he cannot manipulate their ways or feelings.
Basically, while humans can make as many revisions as they want when something is still in their head, once it’s put into form (ex: statue, drawing) and let into the world, it can no longer be changed.
Indeed. The only things left in the author’s hands after he lets it into the world are the ownership rights.
Explanation 05 - Demon of the Right Arm
Class: Clever Daughter
User wish: Manifestation of bayonets and war… is the official front for the manifestation of doll moe. Otherwise known as The Angel-Tricking Demon.
Design reference: Goddess statue in the temple, funeral
A huge, anthromorphized pile of trash, Sword-chan.
A living gear statue around 10 meters tall.
Among the four beasts, the only one actively undergoing model (fashion) changes. Fundamentally a downer-type, super-lazy goddess.
Usually hides its face with a mask. Rarely takes it off. Also a mobile temple, with stairs and an entrance in the stomach region.
As an idol, only possesses a minimum amount of intelligence, and is not very adaptable. As an example, it has around the computational power of a Family BASIC. A problem child that has trouble deleting commands after they’ve been given. Kind of like a printer that doesn’t stop printing even after the cancel button has been pressed!
It’s a demon that symbolizes weaponry, but this is on principle limited to “weapons that it can possess”. The design changes slightly to keep up with weapons development, but it settled on this model about 100 years ago.
Explanation 06 - Memorandum
The demon beast doesn’t appear much, maybe because Merem is being stingy. If we were talking Ultra Seven, it would be Windam. A character with few appearances despite its popularity.
Going off topic, but in the initial planning phase we thought of it as a V2 rocket anthromorphism.
Aim at the target and shoot, and with it transform into human shape and hack it to pieces. That was some kind of rocket-like intelligence mode we planned, but we thought that if it’s a demon then it should fully anthromorphize, so its acting style was changed. Also, keep it a secret, but personally I wanted to see Mr. PFALZ’s mech girl.
Explanation 07 - Demon of the Right Leg
Class: King of the Sky
User wish: Manifestation of wandering and liberation. One who aims for the stars.
Design references: The floor style in the temple. Talking with birds.
An amalgamation of many different animals. The king of beasts that swims in the sky. A huge demon on the same scale as the “Right Leg”. Its tiled skin stores many different animals. Though it has aspects of a sky fortress, but perhaps because of the fate of those who fly, it will be destroyed if its wings touch the ground.
The most beautiful of the demons that Merem imagined. The “Right Leg” specializes in annihilation warfare, but this one specializes in one-on-one combat against a super high-class enemy. …Well, generally it just deals critical injuries, then crashes and disperses.
Merem treats it as a weapon with a too-high cost.
Explanation 08 - Memorandum
The Four Great Demon Beasts ---- treated by Merem Solomon as “odd entities” even among the 27 Ancestors, who pride themselves as being odd to begin with.
It’s probably like having anime characters in elaborately drawn landscape paintings.
While Reality Marbles repaint reality with one’s own imagined world, Merem’s Four Great Demon Beasts might be revenge against reality, from a fairy-tale world abandoned by the people.
The Four Demons are the child called Merem’s doodles that have been given form. Therefore, when they appear, the landscape’s reality starts to crack.
In order to demonstrate this unbalance, we requested their designs from someone with a completely different perspective, the gothic artist Mr. PFALZ.
…The result goes without saying. The back of the giant beast that is “Right Leg” sinking in the city. The author definitely dreamed of this black prairie lined with lion statues, where the two protagonists clash. Screw that, I wanna write it.