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E3 - Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 3

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[00:53] ---
    Stifling air quietly shaking me
[00:56] ---
    Suggestive silence
[01:00] ---
    The distortions in the light
    growing more twisted

[01:03] ---
    Logic lost to me now
[01:07] ---
    I believe what you said
[01:10] ---
    A place I long to return to
[01:14] ---
    Distinct scenery
[01:17] ---
    She sneered as she declared she wanted it all
[01:22] ---
    I've always felt your joy
[01:25] ---
    I've always felt your tears
[01:30] ---
    No one was closer to you,
    now those memories haunt me

[01:36] ---
    The one and only answer
[01:39] ---
    The door I was searching for
[01:43] ---
    Slowly opened just now,
    and revealed to me

[01:50] ---
    Something engulfed in the bright light
[01:58] ---
    The true nature of everything
[02:00] ---
    "Higurashi: When They Cry GOU"
    The true nature of everything
[02:02] ---
    The true nature of everything
[02:13] ---
    --C'mon, let's go, Satoko!
    --How many times must I tell you
    not to treat me like a child?!
[02:18] ---
    We should go, too, Keiichi-kun.
[02:20] ---
    What's happening now?
[02:22] ---
    It's time for the cotton drifting!
[02:35] ---
    Cotton?
[02:38] ---
    Since this is your first time,
    you can just copy me.
[02:50] ---
    You repeat those movements
    while giving thanks to Oyashiro-sama.
[02:55] ---
    Who's Oyashiro-sama?
[02:56] ---
    It's the guardian deity of Hinamizawa.
[02:58] ---
    That's why it's really important
    to pay your respects to it.
[03:02] ---
    Thank you, Oyashiro-sama.
[03:05] ---
    Thank you, Oyashiro-sama.
[03:07] ---
    Oyashiro-sama...
[03:26] ---
    And that's it!
[03:28] ---
    We should probably go meet up
    with Mion and the gang.
[03:30] ---
    Yeah. I'll go find them! They've gotta be close.
[03:34] ---
    Hey, Rena!
[03:35] ---
    It's okay, I got it!
[03:40] ---
    Sheesh...
[03:49] ---
    Tomitake-sa--
[03:54] ---
    Wouldn't want to interrupt.
[04:05] ---
    "Monday, June 20th"
[04:09] ---
    "Restroom"
[04:13] ---
    Maebara-kun.
[04:15] ---
    Chie-sensei? What is it?
[04:17] ---
    A visitor is here to see you
    at the school entrance.
[04:20] ---
    A visitor? For me?
[04:26] ---
    Maebara-san, I presume?
    Keiichi Maebara-san?
[04:29] ---
    Yeah, that's me. And you are...?
[04:32] ---
    --Sure is hot out here.
    --What?
[04:35] ---
    I've got air conditioning in my car.
    Why don't we talk in there?
[04:40] ---
    Uh...
[04:41] ---
    Don't worry, I don't bite.
[04:43] ---
    "Gifu Prefecture Police"
    Don't worry, I don't bite.
[04:46] ---
    Tell me if it's too cold, all right?
[04:48] ---
    I like it cold, so I'll end up
    blasting it if you don't.
[04:52] ---
    So what did you want from me?
[04:55] ---
    What can you tell me about this man?
[04:59] ---
    Tomitake-san?
[05:01] ---
    So you do know him?
[05:02] ---
    What of it?
[05:04] ---
    He was seen speaking with you
    and your friends last night at the festival.
[05:11] ---
    Do you know this woman?
[05:15] ---
    I don't know her name,
    but she was with Tomitake-san.
[05:19] ---
    When's the last time you saw them?
[05:22] ---
    I saw them right at the end of the festival.
[05:24] ---
    I didn't talk to them, though.
[05:26] ---
    Did you notice anything strange
    about them? Anything at all?
[05:32] ---
    Why? Did something happen to them?
[05:36] ---
    Before I tell you, let me ask you a question.
[05:42] ---
    Maebara-san, do you believe in curses?
[05:46] ---
    Curses? Why the heck
    would I believe in curses?
[05:49] ---
    That's what I'd hoped to hear.
    You're a city kid, after all.
[05:54] ---
    Why's that important?!
[05:56] ---
    You see, there are plenty of people
    around here who do believe in curses...
[06:00] ---
    And in Oyashiro-sama's curse.
[06:02] ---
    Oyashiro-sama?
[06:04] ---
    You repeat those movements
    while giving thanks to Oyashiro-sama.
[06:11] ---
    It all started four years ago,
[06:13] ---
    when the construction manager
    of the Hinamizawa Dam project
[06:19] ---
    was murdered and dismembered
    by six construction workers.
[06:25] ---
    "Construction Worker Lynched,
    Murdered, and Dismembered
    at Hinamizawa Dam Construction Site"
[06:26] ---
    The murder...
[06:28] ---
    They caught five of them,
    but never found the main culprit,
[06:31] ---
    and both him and the victim's
    right arm are still missing.
[06:36] ---
    And you're saying that's because
    of Oyashiro-sama's curse?!
[06:39] ---
    That was only the beginning, Maebara-san.
[06:42] ---
    Huh?
[06:43] ---
    The year after, a man from Hinamizawa
    who had supported the dam project
[06:47] ---
    was swept away by water rapids
    and drowned while on vacation.
[06:53] ---
    His wife went missing, too.
[06:55] ---
    Most think she drowned with him,
    but they never found her body.
[07:01] ---
    The year after that, the Shinto priest
    at the shrine died from a sudden illness.
[07:07] ---
    That same day,
    his wife drowned herself in the bog.
[07:11] ---
    He got sick and she killed herself?
[07:14] ---
    The next year--we're at last year, now--
[07:17] ---
    a woman was found beaten to death.
[07:22] ---
    So just because someone died every year
    for four years, they're saying it's a curse?
[07:26] ---
    It's gotta be coinci--
[07:27] ---
    Maebara-san.
[07:29] ---
    Maebara-san, it's more than just coincidence.
[07:33] ---
    These four incidents all took place on
    the day of the Watanagashi festival.
[07:38] ---
    On the same day, every year.
[07:43] ---
    Every year, someone died...
[07:45] ---
    That's why the people of Hinamizawa,
    deep down in their hearts,
[07:51] ---
    believe someone will die from Oyashiro-sama's
    curse on the day of Watanagashi.
[07:57] ---
    Then did that happen this year?
[07:59] ---
    The man and woman in those photos...
[08:01] ---
    ...have been missing since last night.
[08:05] ---
    The police are doing everything
    they can to find them,
[08:09] ---
    but we have no clues about where they went
    after they were seen at the festival.
[08:14] ---
    But they're just missing, right?
[08:17] ---
    Maybe they're just alone
    together somewhere...
[08:19] ---
    The car belonging to the woman,
    Takano-san, is still parked in the festival lot.
[08:26] ---
    We also found Tomitake-san's bicycle.
    You know the one.
[08:33] ---
    We believe the two of them were
    involved in some sort of incident.
[08:37] ---
    We're doing our best to gather
    information for the case, but, well...
[08:43] ---
    The villagers are tight-lipped about
    anything to do with Oyashiro-sama.
[08:49] ---
    That's why you're asking me?
[08:51] ---
    At this rate, everyone will accept that
    Jiro Tomitake-san and Miyo Takano-san
[08:55] ---
    were merely casualties
    of Oyashiro-sama's curse.
[08:59] ---
    Casualties of a curse? That's ridiculous.
[09:02] ---
    I agree. There's no such thing
    as divine punishment or curses!
[09:07] ---
    Sorry.
[09:10] ---
    In any case, that's why I need your help--
    because you don't believe in curses.
[09:15] ---
    Please, do it for them.
[09:18] ---
    Sure, but I don't know how I can help you.
[09:21] ---
    Just tell me if you see or hear
    anything strange or suspicious.
[09:28] ---
    Here's my phone number.
[09:33] ---
    Don't tell anyone we spoke today.
[09:37] ---
    Not a word to anyone, okay?
[09:39] ---
    Okay.
[09:40] ---
    Especially...
[09:41] ---
    ...not Mion Sonozaki,
    or any of your friends, all right?
[09:47] ---
    B-But why?! Are you saying they
    had something to do with this?!
[09:50] ---
    Not at all.
[09:52] ---
    We just don't know who
    might be involved with this.
[09:57] ---
    So I don't want anyone in Hinamizawa
    finding out about our little chat.
[10:02] ---
    How about we put it this way?
[10:05] ---
    Keep it secret so we don't hurt people
    who want to believe it's a curse.
[10:10] ---
    How's that sound?
[10:14] ---
    Sure, mister, uh...
[10:16] ---
    Ooishi, from the Okinomiya Police.
[10:19] ---
    You can call me Kura-chan if you like.
[10:22] ---
    Okay, Ooishi-san.
[10:25] ---
    I'll see you again soon, Maebara-san.
[10:40] ---
    The victim was killed in
    the lounge with the rope!
[10:46] ---
    That's right!
[10:47] ---
    You're quite good at this!
[10:49] ---
    So whodunit?
[10:51] ---
    The murderer was... Mii-chan!
[10:53] ---
    "Rena"
[10:55] ---
    Wrong!
[10:59] ---
    Keiichi-san, you're late!
[11:02] ---
    I'll have you know I am absolutely seething!
[11:05] ---
    Oh, sorry. I got called to the teacher's office.
[11:08] ---
    Did you get in trouble for something?
[11:12] ---
    Poor, poor Keiichi!
[11:14] ---
    Man, this game was getting so heated,
    I totally forgot you were gone, Kei-chan.
[11:19] ---
    Okay, Rena's got the lowest score,
    so she faces the penalty for losing today!
[11:24] ---
    And Kei-chan, too.
[11:25] ---
    Why me?!
[11:26] ---
    Absconding from battle
    is quite the horrific crime!
[11:29] ---
    Resign yourself to your fate!
[11:30] ---
    Dang it... What's the penalty today?
[11:34] ---
    You've gotta run errands for us!
[11:37] ---
    Go buy the stuff on this list.
[11:41] ---
    "Tofu, mirin, sugar, aburaage"
    Tofu, mirin...
[11:44] ---
    This is just stuff you need to buy!
[11:46] ---
    Club rule ♪7: You must accept
    the penalty, no matter what!
[12:00] ---
    Dammit!
[12:06] ---
    "Tuesday, June 21st"
[12:13] ---
    That's a big yawn, Keiichi-kun!
[12:16] ---
    I was up late last night watching TV.
[12:19] ---
    What about lunch?
[12:20] ---
    I'm gonna take a nap instead...
[12:23] ---
    My, my, you didn't think I'd
    let this chance slip by me?
[12:27] ---
    Mess with me and I'll be mad.
[12:29] ---
    Like, really mad.
[12:32] ---
    Well, that takes all the fun out of it.
[12:35] ---
    Huh? Since when?
[12:38] ---
    They were missing the whole day after.
[12:41] ---
    Which means it happened
    the night of Watanagashi.
[12:43] ---
    So... to both of them?
[12:46] ---
    No idea, but it really seems
    like it's this year's curse...
[12:51] ---
    If it was Oyashiro-sama...
[12:53] ---
    Then maybe, but...
[12:55] ---
    They might've actually been demoned away...
[13:06] ---
    Demoned away?
[13:08] ---
    What's that mean?
[13:12] ---
    Maebara-san! Hello.
[13:15] ---
    Ooishi-san...
[13:16] ---
    Good timing. Take a little drive
    with me, will you?
[13:26] ---
    Here you go, sir!
[13:34] ---
    You like this place?
[13:35] ---
    Oh, uh, well...
[13:38] ---
    Everyone loves coming here.
[13:40] ---
    Not for the food, though--
    for the eye candy!
[13:44] ---
    Um, Ooishi-san?
[13:48] ---
    Do you know what "demoned away" means?
[13:52] ---
    It's something you hear around these parts.
[13:55] ---
    It means to get stolen away
    by a demon and disappear.
[14:00] ---
    It's similar to being spirited away.
[14:03] ---
    Spirited away...
[14:04] ---
    You know, long ago,
    people were afraid of Hinamizawa.
[14:07] ---
    They believed that demons lived there.
[14:12] ---
    Demons? You mean, like, from Hell?
[14:14] ---
    More like the kind that eat people alive.
[14:17] ---
    There are plenty of ancient legends
    that tell scary stories...
[14:21] ---
    ...about monsters that saunter into
    the village and devour people.
[14:25] ---
    Why are you asking about that?
[14:27] ---
    I heard Rena and Mion talking.
[14:30] ---
    They said it if was Oyashiro-sama,
    then they got "demoned away"...
[14:34] ---
    I told you about that first incident, yes?
[14:37] ---
    Yeah, that one of the murderers
    was still on the run?
[14:41] ---
    What if, hypothetically, he's not on the run,
[14:44] ---
    but was actually "demoned away"?
[14:47] ---
    Huh?
[14:47] ---
    The year after, only the man's body was found.
    The woman's is still missing.
[14:53] ---
    But in the third year,
    we know two people died, right?
[14:57] ---
    It's the same deal with that one, Maebara-san.
[15:00] ---
    All they found were
    her suicide note and her sandals.
[15:03] ---
    So what about last year,
    when that woman was beaten to death?
[15:07] ---
    They caught the guy.
    A good-for-nothing hooked on narcotics.
[15:11] ---
    But a while after he was arrested,
    a child under the victim's care went missing.
[15:17] ---
    Huh? But you caught the guy who killed her!
[15:19] ---
    What does that disappearance
    have to do with the "curse"?
[15:21] ---
    I'll tell you. The guy died
    while in police custody.
[15:29] ---
    Slit his own throat like this.
[15:33] ---
    So every year, there's always someone who dies,
    and someone who goes missing?
[15:39] ---
    That's right.
[15:41] ---
    Why didn't Rena and Mion tell me?
[15:45] ---
    Did anything happen at the build site?
    Like an accident, or an incident...
[15:51] ---
    I don't know.
[15:53] ---
    Rena...
[15:54] ---
    Maybe they didn't want to make you worry.
[15:57] ---
    That, or they didn't want to scare you.
[15:59] ---
    Huh?
[16:01] ---
    If every year, someone gets cursed,
    and someone gets demoned away...
[16:05] ---
    Then this year,
    we're still technically waiting...
[16:08] ---
    ...for someone to fall to the "curse," right?
[16:13] ---
    "Wednesday, June 22"
[16:16] ---
    Your dad's an artist, Keiichi-kun?
[16:19] ---
    Yeah. Every room of our house is slowly
    getting swallowed up into his studio.
[16:24] ---
    I wanna see! I bet I'll find something kyute!
[16:32] ---
    Hey, Rena.
[16:33] ---
    You guys aren't lying to me or
    hiding stuff from me, right?
[16:37] ---
    Huh? Of course not.
[16:41] ---
    That's not true.
[16:42] ---
    What do you mean, Keiichi-kun?
[16:44] ---
    I know you're hiding stuff from me!
[16:46] ---
    Okay, Keiichi-kun.
[16:48] ---
    Then are you lying about anything
    or hiding anything from me?
[16:52] ---
    Huh?
[16:53] ---
    You're not lying or hiding anything, right?
    You're not, right?
[16:58] ---
    I'm not lying or hiding anything from you.
[17:00] ---
    --You're lying.
    --Why do you think I'm lying?
[17:02] ---
    I know what you did.
[17:04] ---
    You hid something from me
    at the trash heap, right?
[17:08] ---
    --No, I--
    --When you skipped club,
[17:11] ---
    you didn't really go to the teacher's office.
[17:14] ---
    --How do you--
    --You were talking with an older man in his car.
[17:19] ---
    Who was he?
[17:20] ---
    I-I don't know who he was.
[17:22] ---
    Why would a stranger want to
    talk to you, Keiichi-kun?
[17:25] ---
    I-I don't know, either!
[17:27] ---
    Well, what did you talk about?
[17:29] ---
    Nothing to do with any of you--
[17:31] ---
    You're lying!
[17:35] ---
    I did everything right. I worked really hard.
[17:37] ---
    Huh?
[17:38] ---
    Some people have to work really,
    really hard to be happy, Keiichi-kun.
[17:44] ---
    I worked really hard.
[17:46] ---
    I gave it everything I had
    for a really, really long time.
[17:55] ---
    You've got stuff you wanna hide,
[17:58] ---
    and so do I, mmkay?
[18:02] ---
    Let's go. It's getting kinda chilly.
[18:14] ---
    Keiichi!
[18:19] ---
    You've got a call from the bookstore.
[18:22] ---
    The bookstore?
[18:24] ---
    This is Keiichi.
[18:26] ---
    Sorry to call you so late.
[18:28] ---
    This is Ooishi from the Okinomiya Police.
[18:32] ---
    Ooishi-san?
[18:34] ---
    Sorry for the lie, too.
[18:35] ---
    When your parents picked up,
    I had to pretend I was from the bookstore.
[18:40] ---
    Hold on a sec.
[18:43] ---
    Here's the thing.
[18:44] ---
    After we spoke earlier, I did a bit of digging.
[18:51] ---
    Digging into what?
[18:52] ---
    Into your friend Reina Ryugu.
[18:55] ---
    It's an incredibly boring story,
    so tell me if it bores you, and I'll stop.
[19:03] ---
    I want to hear it.
[19:05] ---
    Ryugu-san lived in the suburbs of
    Ibaraki prefecture up until last year.
[19:09] ---
    Yeah, I know she'd only just moved here.
[19:13] ---
    I looked further into that.
[19:15] ---
    You see, just before she moved here,
    she was suspended from her school.
[19:22] ---
    Apparently, she went around her school
    breaking all the glass windows.
[19:26] ---
    Rena really did that?!
[19:27] ---
    She was diagnosed with dysautonomia,
[19:30] ---
    was given neurological medication
    and underwent counseling.
[19:35] ---
    I discovered something in the notes
    her counselor took during these sessions...
[19:40] ---
    ...and there was one thing
    she brought up numerous times.
[19:47] ---
    What was it?
[19:48] ---
    Oyashiro-sama.
[19:51] ---
    Thank you, Oyashiro-sama.
[19:54] ---
    She said it was a spirit
    that visited her every night,
[19:58] ---
    standing next to her pillow
    and staring down on her.
[20:04] ---
    Rena never lived in Hinamizawa before.
    Why was she bringing it up?
[20:09] ---
    That's the thing. I found something
    in their residency record.
[20:14] ---
    The Ryugu family is from Hinamizawa.
[20:18] ---
    They moved out of the village right after
    she finished elementary school.
[20:22] ---
    Rena's from Hinamizawa...
[20:25] ---
    Maebara-san, are you all right?
[20:27] ---
    Should we stop here for tonight?
[20:31] ---
    Keiichi! Open up, will ya?
[20:34] ---
    Sorry, my dad's calling me.
[20:36] ---
    We'll stop here, then.
[20:38] ---
    If you hear anything, give me a call. Goodbye.
[20:44] ---
    Keiichi, c'mon, open up! My hands are full!
[20:52] ---
    Huh? What's all that for?
[20:54] ---
    Don't play coy with me, Keiichi!
[20:57] ---
    Seriously, what are you talking about?
[20:59] ---
    Rena-chan's here, isn't she?
[21:01] ---
    Rena? She's not here.
[21:03] ---
    C'mon, you don't gotta lie to me.
[21:05] ---
    She came here to hang with you, right?
[21:10] ---
    Did you see her?
[21:12] ---
    Yeah, I told her to head upstairs to your room.
[21:16] ---
    When was that?
[21:18] ---
    A couple minutes after you got that call?
[21:26] ---
    Keiichi? Keiichi!
[21:32] ---
    Rena came here.
[21:39] ---
    My dad told her where my room is.
[21:51] ---
    She heard me talking to Ooishi-san.
[22:19] ---
    Wind gently flowing through my hair,
    time flowing endlessly

[22:24] ---
    A one-way ticket to the future
[22:28] ---
    Dejection and disillusion,
    indignation and exhaustion

[22:33] ---
    Carefully coordinated reasoning
[22:37] ---
    This God Syndrome,
    a string connecting love and lives

[22:47] ---
    It's not some exaggerated, grand ideal
[22:56] ---
    I want to believe in you,
    so I won't falter

[23:03] ---
    Those precious words you said
    that day are silent

[23:12] ---
    As if casting an ominous pity
    upon everything

[23:22] ---
    I shiver and despair over my own helplessness
[23:39] ---
    Next time: Onidamashi-hen:
    Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4.
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    "Onidamashi-hen:
    Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4"
    Next time: Onidamashi-hen:
    Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4.