Sherumi and Menae

"Menae"

- I wonder why we can't go together...? But soon enough we'll understand... We're twins after all.

Menae & Sherumi are twin sisters that appeared in Distant Writings 1undefined and 2undefined (single-page explanations of Abyss characters that appeared at the end of chapters 39 & 40) and a brief appearance in Made in Abyss Side Story Chapter 003. It is explained on the top of their page that the conversation is happening in the East District of Orth. They were most likely born and raised in Orth.

Appearance
They are nearly identical twin sisters with long thick hair (of an unknown color) and bangs that cover their forehead.

History
In Distant Writings 1, they discuss how there were tens of thousands of pictograms drawn on Abyssal relics and how the simple ones were chosen and applied to the sounds of the official language which became the Abyssal writings that they now currently use. They also talked about how each of the characters originally had "sounds" and "meanings" and were called ideograms. undefined

In Distant Writings 2 they mentioned how delvers used simplified versions of some of the Abyssal Writings characters as codes; there were two types of characters mentioned: "Netherglyphs: Abyssal Writings" (characters used regularly), and "Beyondglyphs: Distant Writings" (seemingly endless newly discovered characters). They also talked about a character unknown to them "Ilblu", or "Iruburu", where they wondered if the meaning of it would be known by the time they grew up.undefined

In Made in Abyss Side Story Chapter 003 after Jiruo's talk with Ozen about the Birthday-Death Disease and other things, Menae is shown talking to a deceased Sherumi covered in flies in a dark room where she talks about if Ozen would come again. After talking about why they can't go together, Menae stops talking and presumably dies. After this a shot of Reg is shown where he sees nameplates fall from the sky; one of these nameplates say: "Sherumi returns to the Abyss".