Corpse-Stench Seal Route — Where the Path Opens After Window Two

Published 2026-09-10Updated 2026-09-183 min read

The Corpse-Stench byway stuck-point solved: why the post-cutscene route is invisible, and the exact drop-stairs-wall-run chain to the third Prison Window.

The miasma-choked byway — its exit hides behind a wall-run.

The Corpse-Stench byway section of the Arashiyama chapter strands more players than any other route in the game, and it's not a puzzle — it's a delivery problem. The cutscene tells you a road opened, but not where.

The Route

  1. Seal the second Prison Window — fight through the byway and absorb it as usual.
  2. Watch the cutscene. It confirms a path opened somewhere — deliberately vague.
  3. Drop down from the window's ledge and head forward.
  4. Take the stairs up to the upper right.
  5. Wall-run along the right-hand wall — the wall carries you across the gap to the target platform where the third window waits.

Why Everyone Gets Stuck Here

Two compounding reasons:

  • The cutscene's hint is too vague to translate into a location — nothing visually flags the drop point.
  • The route chains three movement verbs (drop, climb, wall-run) with no markers between them. Miss the wall-run cue and the lower ground reads as a dead end, which it is.

The trick is refusing to trust the ground floor: this section always travels by wall. For the surrounding chapter, see the Return to Rakuto walkthrough; more stuck-points live in the all-puzzles roundup.

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