History Literature / TheTailorOfEnbizaka

* {{Envy}}: Kayo's motivation as spelled out in the songs is envy against the other women for "stealing" her husband. The novel plays with this; [[spoiler:although she is actually killing the women because she learned Kai started the fire to murder her family, it's implied in another timeline things did play out more like they did in the songs, and although she was driven by revenge she might have also still envied Kai for having a living family while hers died.]]

The novel is located in the island of Onigashima and taking place in the Evillious equivalent of the late Edo period in Jakoku, even featuring a [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration Commodore Perry character on the horizon]]. It's preceded by ''LightNovel/FifthPierrot''.

* NotSoDifferent: After the death of his wife and unborn child, Kiji is determined to give their murderer hell and is completely contemptuous of them for their killings. [[spoiler:By the end of the novel, he learns that Kayo's murders were to get revenge for the deaths of ''her'' family, and muses how similar they were in their goals.]]

-->''The more you sharpen, the better they cut.''

-->''The more you sharpen, the better they cut''

''The Deadly Sins of Evil: The Tailor of Enbizaka'' is the fifth light novel in the ''Deadly Sins of Evil'' series as part of the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles. It was written by Music/{{mothy}}, illustrated by Ichika, and released in 2015.

!!The Tailor of Enbizaka provides the following tropes:

Based on the song of the same name, the novel centers around the crimes of Kayo Sudou in the Enbizaka. Prompted by "Elluka", the Demon of Envy relates the tale of the sad seamstress, who had lost her family to a fire before she went mad and killed a family of four. After spending the majority of the novel on these tales, the narration then shifts to analyzing the story from the perspective of some of its players, such as Kokutan-douji, the strange boy who feels he must go to Onigashima because there's something he needs to do there, and Gakusha, the burned monk who has lost all of his memories from trauma and visits Kayo's head after her execution.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: As is tradition, the book closes on an extra chapter centred on Gallerian Marlon.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Kai, who turns out to be a terrorist and mass murderer responsible for the death of Kayo's family.]]

* ContinuityNod: Back in the databooks, in was shown Chartette died as an old woman outside of Enbizaka. Come here and it turns out that she had a family, with her latest descendent Saruteito joining Kokutan-douji's party.

** Up until now, all demons in the series have spoken with emboldened text, whereas the Demon of Envy's is plain. This is a hint for the reveal that [[spoiler: the one in the scissors is actually Sudou Kagura.]]
* FramingDevice: The Demon of Envy tells Kayo's tale to "Elluka" as shown in the prologue, and other characters tell their point of view of the story in later chapters.
* KissingCousins: Kayo's husband was her first cousin.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: [[spoiler:Kayo]] pulls this, feigning insanity during the latter part of the novel [[spoiler:so that a destructive war wouldn't break out between the Crimson Robed Masses and Onigashima.]]

* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: Turns out that Kayo was never really crazy. The events of her song where she went insane with Envy was just a premonition and she in reality murders the Mirokus out of revenge against Kai. And the narrator? It's not the Demon of Envy (who's actually Levia and Behemo's mother Rahab Barisol), it's actually Sudou Kagura.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Kayo gets this from [[spoiler: Kokutan as he's about to execute her]], remarking on how tragic she was and crying as he's about to go through with it.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: [[spoiler:Kayo]] pulls this, feigning insanity during the latter part of the novel.
* OddballInTheSeries: It's an odd one structure wise. The first chapter makes up over half the book and tells the majority of the main story, with the book then rewinding and revealing various details not revealed in the main story.

The novel's website can be found [[http://akunotaizai.com/ here]] (entirely in Japanese), and can be purchased on Amazon.

* {{Yandere}}: Kayo, one of the most famous in Evillious canon. [[spoiler:Except not really.]]

* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: Turns out that Kayo was never really crazy. The events of her song where she went insane with Envy was just a premonition and she in reality murders the Miroku's out of revenge against Kai. And the narrator? It's not the Demon of Envy (who's actually Levia and Behemo's mother Rahab Barisol), it's actually Sudou Kagura.]]

* RewatchBonus: Kayo's reaction to seeing Kai for the first time after the fire, and after swapping bodies with Ma. She lets out a cry and runs to catch him, and the demon narrates that she heard Kayo say "he's alive". The implication is she mistook Kai for her husband then and there, which doesn't make sense as [[spoiler:we learn later that the two look nothing alike.]] However, after reading the book, [[spoiler:Kayo's reaction to Kai can also be interpreted as her shock to see the man who started the great fire, saying "he's alive" in comparison to her family who perished.]]

** Kai is this for Kayo's lost husband. At least in her mind, due to her projecting her husband's image onto him.

Based on the song of the same name, the novel centers around the crimes of Kayo Sudou in the Enbizaka. Prompted by "Elluka", the Demon of Envy relates the tale of the sad seamstress, who had lost her family to a fire before she went mad and killed a family of four. The demon relates as well the tale of a strange boy named Kokutan-douji, who feels he must go to Onigashima because there's something he needs to do there. Accompanied by some odd and familiar companions, he goes to visit Enbizaka and the two become closely connected. The demon also relates the story of a burned monk named Gakusha, who has lost all of his memories from trauma, that visits Kayo's head after her execution.