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Kowakujo: Secrets

The side Easter eggs of Kowakujo: Takeo's Echoes of the Damned, the songs Evencry and When The Stars Go Dark, the Cat Cafe, the hidden power-ups, the six Cursed Relics, Mister Peeks and the Toybox of the Twins.

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actualizado 2026-11-09

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Echoes of the Damned

Takeo’s personal quest on Kowakujo, played as Takeo Masaki. After the Pack-a-Punch is on, throw a Psych Grenade in the War Room and step into the gas. An illusion of Takeo leaves the Path of Sorrows behind; with the katana alone, the player crosses a forest, holds three waves of Hellhounds, Scorched Zombies and Heavy Zombies, then kills an Oni. Back on the map, a short scene plays, loot drops, and the Dark Ops calling card The Reunion is earned.

The Reunion

The calling card of Takeo’s quest.

Music

Evencry

Three headphones in the colors of Mister Peeks, in the Stables, the Kitchens and the Onsen Baths, start the song of the map.

When The Stars Go Dark

In the Central Courtyard, find the initials TK carved by the great cherry tree, crouch in front of them and look up into the branches: the song plays with a line of Takeo Masaki of Primis. It is a tribute to Tom Kane, the voice of Takeo in the Ultimis and Primis years, who died on May 18, 2026.

The Cat Cafe

Five stray cats and five toy mice hide among eight possible places each: the Gatehouse, the Flower Garden, the Kitchens, the Stables, the Training Area, the Tenshu Entrance, the Onsen Baths and the Central Courtyard. A cat shows up every one to three rounds and runs off once interacted with; the mice are all there from the start. With five of each, five cats wait on a roof of the Tea Garden: aiming at them opens the cafe, which gives the Neko Cafe calling card, a Random Perk and two Mystery Perks.

Hidden power-ups

Tiny power-ups hide around the map: Bonus Points behind the M34 Novaline of the Kitchens, Max Ammo in a room of the Training Area, Double Points between two branches of the great cherry tree, Full Power in a sunken house of the Flower Garden, Insta-Kill in a drawer of the Storage Rooms, Max Armor near Vulture Aid, and a Nuke in the lava of the Training Area. With all of them taken, a Fire Sale appears under the water of the Onsen Baths, then a Random Perk in a golden vase of the Kitchens.

Cursed Relics

In Cursed mode, six Relics are won on Kowakujo, each through a side quest and a Relic trial: the Gramophone (two drumsticks and a drum pattern in the Kitchens), the Druid Stone (round 20 without losing health), the Valkyrie Helmet (a bowl reforged and an Assault Wave lost on purpose), the Film Reel (ten different weapons Pack-a-Punched), the Dragon Egg (three glyphs struck with the lightning of an Oni) and the Mannequin Turret (round 60 without a flag lost in an Assault Wave).

Other secrets

Mister Peeks

In Cursed Tier runs he may dance in five spots, one of them right above the spawn of the Outer Ward. Shot within thirty seconds, he drops a bronze, silver or gold Lucky Egg.

Mecha Mayhem

According to the Gamesfuze guide, robot parts dropped by rocks floating on the lava, two arms and two legs, and a robot torso drifting to the Flower Garden lead to an Uber Klaus Core, then to a fight against an Abomination and Zürsa at the controls of a samurai Rhino mech. It completes the Dark Ops challenge Maneki Mecha, and the samurai mech is then sold for 1,750 Salvage.

The Toybox of the Twins

Once every main quest of Black Ops 7 is done, a spinning toybox floats outside the wall blown open for the Pack-a-Punch. A cherry-tree tornado brings it down, a bird circles the trees, and an origami figure traded into the box gives the Z-Rex figure.