I feel like this is the better ending, since while the 100 people die in this one, and shiren continues taking the curses of other people, if you look at it the other way, the first ending saves the first 100 people but all the other people who were cursed will die without their lives being...
What I would like to know is how "they" took the sword away, if no one but the one with the crest could lift this sword, like I can see why maybe the clan could lift the sword cause they made it and might have some special techniques to do so, but how did the people taking the sword do it? They...