Correct. Japanese ritual suicide, part of the samurai bushido honor code. Committed voluntarily by samurai who chose to die with honor rather than be captured and tortured by their enemies. Also used as a form of capital punishment for disgraced samurai.

[he recites these facts impassively as he follows the path cassel leads, but goes silent for a while when the boy lists off his various deaths. dying once should be enough for anyone. beyond would know - his failed suicide attempt had provided a sort of perspective on the concept. his actual death was another story.]

Which would you say was the worst, Cassel? [his voice takes on a flatter tone for the question. beyond may have mixed feelings about cassel, but he is not ambivalent about the idea of the boy suffering, much less multiple times.]