Interviewee: PoI-2457-01

Interviewer: Agent Kensuke Shirokawa

Foreword: Interviewee is listed as the donor for SCP-2457. The following interview is part of preliminary investigations to comprehend SCP-2457, and is originally conducted in Japanese.

<Begin Log>

Agent Shirokawa: Sensei, please begin by stating your name and profession.

PoI-2457-01: ████████ ██████. A kannushi by profession. Head of the █████ Shrine in Hamamatsu, inherited from my father.

Agent Shirokawa: We are here to discuss your visit to the █████ Sperm Bank in ████. Do you acknowledge that you were there on ██ ██████?

PoI-2457-01: Yes, I was there.

Agent Shirokawa: And you were there to donate your sperm. Is that so?

PoI-2457-01: Ye-yes, I did that.

Agent Shirokawa: Recently, several women had died under mysterious circumstances. All of those persons share one common factor. They used sperm donated from you.

PoI-2457-01: I haven't been to Shizuoka City since my initial trip. I did nothing, officer.

Agent Shirokawa: Understood, sensei. Though this may be personal, it is certainly unusual for you to be donating your sperm. Most kannushi tend to have their son succeed the shrine.

PoI-2457-01: Uh, that position is not necessarily hereditary after the war.

Agent Shirokawa: Your wife said you two were trying to have a son, a male successor specifically. Sperm donation does not allow you to legally recognise any child birthed using your sperm. So why did you choose to do it?

PoI-2457-01: …You will not believe it if I tell you.

Agent Shirokawa: Try me, sensei. I've seen my fair share of the unbelievable under my current employer.

PoI-2457-01: Officer, do you believe in the kami?

Agent Shirokawa: Perhaps not in the same way as you would, but that is not relevant. Please continue.

PoI-2457-01: Okay… As a kannushi, my role is to be a bridge for the kami to enact their will in the mortal world. Sometimes, it can be very direct and all encompassing.

Agent Shirokawa: Possession?

PoI-2457-01: Yes. Ah, even among my colleagues, few can fathom the presence of the kami. It's sad, really.

Agent Shirokawa: Indeed. So, when did it begin to interact with you?

PoI-2457-01: Uh… it's a bit embarrassing, but I was confronted by it since I was a child. Thought I was going crazy, but it's clear to me now.

Agent Shirokawa: Ah, so were you possessed during your childhood?

PoI-2457-01: No.

Agent Shirokawa: So possession was a recent event. Am I correct?

PoI-2457-01: Yes. It happened sometime before my trip to the sperm bank in Shizuoka, up till the end of my trip to that sperm bank.

Agent Shirokawa: During your possession, who was in control? You or the kami?

PoI-2457-01: Uh… t-the kami. It is possession, after all.

Agent Shirokawa: Only clarifying, sensei. So the kami assumes complete control over the vessel, or you in this case?

PoI-2457-01: Yes.

Agent Shirokawa: Would that include memory? As in the kami's memory overriding yours?

PoI-2457-01: Uh, sure.

Agent Shirokawa: Ah, there is this discrepancy regarding how this particular kami would know how to enter the sperm bank and successfully file in the needed paperwork. After all, you claimed that it overrode your memory then.

PoI-2457-01: The kami have their ways of surveying our world. It is erroneous to think of them as ignorant to our world.

Agent Shirokawa: But do you know why the kami had possessed you?

PoI-2457-01: He called for me, and requested for my assistance. He wished to be manifested by childbirth, a wish he bore to me since my youth. As a servant of the kami, I oblige and wait for a suitable opportunity.

Agent Shirokawa: Sensei, if I may enquire, why didn't it target your wife? Getting her pregnant would be easier than dropping by a sperm bank and leaving your sperms indefinitely.

PoI-2457-01: Aa… I was not in total control back then… I would know nothing…

Agent Shirokawa: Can we speak with that kami? For it to provide its stance.

PoI-2457-01: You can't. Please don't.

Agent Shirokawa: Why not? Is it possible?

[PoI-2457-01 remains unresponsive for approximately four minutes; vocalisations limited to filler words such as "ēto" and "ano". Agent Shirokawa continues to probe PoI-2457-01 due to his lack of response.]

PoI-2457-01: Uh… it's awkward to admit this, but I made the choices. I chose not to involve my wife. I chose to resort to a sperm bank, to at least fulfil my covenant with him.

Agent Shirokawa: To be born?

PoI-2457-01: Indeed, he took residence in my seed and left me to fulfil my part. My seed became a yorishiro.

Agent Shirokawa: I know it is a bit personal, but given the sperm sample's potency, you can have your son easily. What stopped you?

PoI-2457-01: The women who died. Did they die by fire?

Agent Shirokawa: How did you know that?

PoI-2457-01: He is certainly Kago-no-Tsuchi, whom my shrine is dedicated to. I am certain he will burn my wife, as he did with Izanami. Cannot allow that happen to my wife.

Agent Shirokawa: But if you know what's going to happen, why agree to the whole deal?

PoI-2457-01: It is disrespectful for a kannushi to reject the kami. It is not right of me to expel it on my own and dispose of it. I thought that a sperm bank would still fulfil the covenant… in a way.

Agent Shirokawa: By letting another woman pay the price?

PoI-2457-01: I sincerely pity the women involved, but none of the parties involved bore any malice in their actions. The kami are not like us. They are Nature itself, and their natures cannot change at all. Like how fire is always fated to deplete the source in which it sprung from.

Agent Shirokawa: And after donating your sperm, did anything odd happen to you?

PoI-2457-01: He no longer spoke to me. I guess he felt that I did my part.

Agent Shirokawa: Understood, sensei. But we would like to conduct a medical examination of you, for safety's sake?

PoI-2457-01: [sighs] I will offer whatever I can.

<End Log>

Closing Statement: PoI-2457-01 is scheduled for medical examination at front company Shimamura Contagion Pharmaceutics on ██/██/2013. Amnestic treatment will be held pending results of analysis.