Talk:Beni-enma/@comment-30121804-20190122174601/@comment-37276691-20200107024834

Both LifeLaughter and OniTenshi500 are correct in a way.

Benienma doesn't really exist in lore or legend, its a FGO original, merging the legend of Great King of Hell Enma and Shita-Kiri Suzume(severed tongue sparrow) legend.

The story mentioned by LifeLaughter above is the lore of Benienma written in game, and translated pretty accurate. The story OniTenshi500 mentioned is the original legend of Shita-Kiri Suzume. In FGO, the event of Shita-Kiri Suzume did happen and took place after Beni was already managing the hotel but the story was heavily modified, there was a grandpa or an old man mention throughout the event, usually by Beni when she talks about her past.

In FGO version of the Shita-Kiri Suzume event, there were no tongue severing by the grandma. After she started managing the hotel, Beni was still curious about the human world and went to explore. However she was captured by a women and was being auctioned due to her rare bright red feather and speaks human when hit. She was rescued by the old man when he bought Beni with all his fortune, just for the sole reason of protecting her from suffering anymore when Beni asked what was his intention.

To repay his kindness, Beni invited him to the Lost House and treated him like king during his stay. When the old man was leaving Beni insist him to choose from one the two boxes. Similar to the original legend, the old man chose the small box and it was full of treasure. The old man never mentioned the Lost House to anyone, he did not spend any of the treasure for himself but instead used all those treasure to help other villagers. I won't mention the whole text here, but in the end the old man died a peaceful death on a beautiful day. Beni thinks he deserve a better living environment and deserve to be praise and thanked by all the villagers he helped, but the old man had no regrets of what he have done with those treasures.

In FGO, Benienma's Shita-Kiri was a skill or title she earn being Enma's daughter and can sever a liar's tongue with the "fastest, smallest and shortest" or I quote the translated dialogue page "fastest, most minimal and briefest" Iai slash