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Then the Landowner appears; he reveals the secret of the scar, the brother believed dead, and the cruel yokai his father summoned being sealed with a blood tie: he has eaten it.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"A person racing against time for a faintly beating pulse senses the presence inside the host and calls for help. A mysterious chant is heard about the maple-leaf hand, flesh and bone, fire and earth, and the way back. With great effort, the seed the yokai planted in the host's body is extracted. Then the Landowner appears; he reveals the secret of the scar, the brother believed dead, and the cruel yokai his father summoned being sealed with a blood tie: he has eaten it.","key_events":["A scarred Landowner appears; his father summoned a cruel yokai and sealed it using blood-bound human.","A healer performs urgent extraction of a yokai seed from a host with weak pulse and succeeds.","When asked where the yokai is, the scarred man confesses that he ate it.","It is realized the host may have noticed being reached, not frozen with fear.","A warning is given that a tree coveting flesh can pierce branches and break bones.","It is revealed the extracted seed is identical to the yokai's true form planted in the host.","Ritual instructions are given to cut flesh for fire, grind bone for earth, and close ears or eyes."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"IT'S FAINT..\nBUT THE PULSE IS BEATING.\n\nDID IT REALIZE I REACHED THE HOST? And here I thought it was frozen in fear.\nTHERE'S NO TIME.\n\nPLEASE HELP ME.\nI CANNOT MISS THIS CHANCE.\nSO PLEASE...\n\nO CHILD.\nIN YOUR SMALL, MAPLE-LEAF HAND, IS THAT FLESH OR BONE YOU HOLD?\n\nIF IT BE FLESH, CHOP IT FINE AND CAST IT INTO THE FIRE,\nIF IT BE BONE, GRIND IT FINE AND BURY IT DEEP IN THE EARTH.\nAMI.\n\nNGH...\nIS THE PATH BACK TO THE LEFT, OR TO THE RIGHT?\nUGH...\nUGH...\nIF TO THE LEFT, COVER YOUR EARS AS YOU PASS,\nIF TO THE RIGHT, COVER YOUR EYES AS YOU PASS.\n\nJUST A LITTLE MORE...!\nO CHILD.\nRUN NOT ALONG THE WINTER RIDGE,\nDIP NOT YOUR BODY IN SUMMER WATERS.\nHNGH...!!\nFOR A TREE THAT COVETS FAIR FLESH IS NEAR,\n\nLEST ITS TWIGS PIERCE AND SHATTER YOUR BONES.\n\nIT'S OUT.\n\nNO DIFFERENT FROM THE YOKAI'S TRUE FORM,\nTHE SEED THE YOKAI PLANTED INSIDE THE HOST'S BODY\n\nEXTINGUISHING FIRE\n\nWHO'S THERE?\n\nWITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE THEIR PRESENCE,\nSTARING SO BLATANTLY..\n?!\n\nLANDOWNER...?\nWHY ARE YOU...!\n\nKEUK!!\nGASP... URGH...!!\n\nHAHA...\nYOU ACTUALLY MANAGED TO DO IT, IN THE END.\nURGH.\nURGH...!!\n\nWHAT IN THE WORLD...\nTHAT'S...\n\n?\n...YOU,\nTHAT SCAR...\nAH.\nTHIS?\n\nI GUESSED WRONG.\nSINCE IT REEKED SO FOULLY OF ROT,\nI WAS CERTAIN MY BROTHER WAS DEAD.\n\nWHAT DO YOU THINK?\nTHE REAL THING...\nHOW DOES IT LOOK TO YOU?\n\nIT WAS YOU ALL ALONG.\nTHIS NOBLE, BEAUTIFUL MAN...\nHE INCURRED THE WRATH OF A YOKAI.\n\nWHAT KIND OF YOKAI WAS IT?\nWHAT ABOUT IT?\nTHAT SCAR.\nIT WAS DONE TO YOU BY A YOKAI, WASN'T IT?\n\nTO THE POINT WHERE I CAN FEEL\nITS OBSESSION TO CLAIM YOUR BODY.\nEVEN IF I TOLD YOU WHO IT WAS,\nWHAT COULD SOMEONE LIKE YOU POSSIBLY DO?\n\n...I WILL TRY WHATEVER I CAN.\nIN THE PAST...\nMY FATHER CRAVED POWER BEYOND THAT OF A HUMAN,\nSO HE SUMMONED A YOKAI,\n\nAND THEY SAY THE CREATURE WAS THOROUGHLY ATROCIOUS AND WICKED.\nSO WHEN MY FATHER WAS COMPLETELY AT HIS WIT'S END,\nHE EVEN BROUGHT IN A SHAMANESS,\nAND THE CONCLUSION WAS THAT TO SEAL THE YOKAI,\n\nTHEY HAD TO USE A HUMAN.\nAND AT THAT,\nSOMEONE BLOOD-RELATED TO MY FATHER.\n\nN-NO WAY-\nWHERE IS THE YOKAI, YOU ASK?\nRIGHT HERE.\n\nI ATE IT.","bubble_count":80,"pages_count":28,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"A person racing against time for a faintly beating pulse senses the presence inside the host and calls for help.","spoiler_summary":"A person racing against time for a faintly beating pulse senses the presence inside the host and calls for help. A mysterious chant is heard about the maple-leaf hand, flesh and bone, fire and earth, and the way back. With great effort, the seed the yokai planted in the host's body is extracted. Then the Landowner appears; he reveals the secret of the scar, the brother believed dead, and the cruel yokai his father summoned being sealed with a blood tie: he has eaten it."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/a-tree-beyond-the-years-3ei9eo8y/chapter-11-rf9iq5","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — A Tree Beyond the Years #11","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-17T01:36:46.557Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/a-tree-beyond-the-years-3ei9eo8y"}}