Taken in context of Fatal Frame's plot... saying the girls are 'wife' potential would be a very bad choice. Kazuya (Ren's friend) ends up in drowned in a black box reliquary because he was obsessed with a shrine maiden pillar. The whole plot of the game is 'good' water ghosts lure people to suicide mountain to drown in boxes to fight 'evil' dark water ghosts. Ghost marriage-groom put in casket.