# 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
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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.
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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.
**[23:40] ---**
"*Onidamashi-hen*:
Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4"
Next time: *Onidamashi-hen*:
Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4.