# E8 - Cotton-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4
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**[00:12] ---**
Chie-*sensei*.
**[00:14] ---**
Have they found the mayor yet?
**[00:17] ---**
Not yet.
**[00:19] ---**
We haven't heard any news yet.
**[00:23] ---**
But I'm sure he's okay.
Let's head back to class.
**[00:29] ---**
Okay.
**[00:31] ---**
All right, let's get
our afternoon class started!
**[00:35] ---**
Huh? Where's Furude-*san*?
**[00:41] ---**
Does anyone know where Furude-*san* is?
**[00:47] ---**
Keiichi-*san*.
**[00:48] ---**
You were just talking to Rika, weren't you?
**[00:51] ---**
Huh?
**[00:56] ---**
I mean, yeah, we were just talking,
but I don't know where she went after...
**[01:02] ---**
You know, I think I saw her talking
to someone behind the school...
**[01:07] ---**
And that someone wasn't Keiichi-*san*?
**[01:11] ---**
I didn't get a good look at who it was...
**[01:13] ---**
What *did* you see?!
**[01:15] ---**
It looked like a man in a construction uniform.
**[01:18] ---**
But there's no one like that at our school.
**[01:23] ---**
Oh, no...
**[01:24] ---**
Now Rika-*chan*'s missing, too?
**[01:35] ---**
Rika!
**[01:36] ---**
Rika-*chan*, where are you?
**[01:40] ---**
Furude-*san*, are you over here?
**[01:43] ---**
Furude-*san*!
**[01:46] ---**
Rika-*chan*!
**[01:48] ---**
Rika-*chan*! Shout if you can hear us!
**[02:02] ---**
--Huh?
--Kei-*chan*, over here!
**[02:07] ---**
--What'd you find, Mion?!
--I thought I saw something on the roof!
**[02:15] ---**
Rika-*chan*!
**[02:20] ---**
She's not up here...
**[02:21] ---**
I don't see anything up here, Mion.
**[02:24] ---**
Sorry, maybe I was just seeing things.
**[02:31] ---**
Rika-*chan* was acting weird earlier, too.
What could've happened to her?
**[02:36] ---**
I have to put an end to this.
**[02:41] ---**
Mion? What did you just say?
**[02:45] ---**
I *said*, I have to put an end to this.
**[02:52] ---**
M-Mion, why...?
**[02:55] ---**
Why do you look so angry?
**[02:57] ---**
Rika Furude...
**[02:58] ---**
She's come to carry out
Oyashiro-*sama*'s curse.
**[03:02] ---**
She's the head of one of
the Three Great Families.
**[03:05] ---**
She's... the ringleader behind it all.
**[03:09] ---**
That's right. It's her.
**[03:13] ---**
It's her. It's *her*!
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*She's* trying to *kill* people!
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Exploiting the Three Great Families
and Oyashiro-*sama*'s curse to do it all...
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But I won't let her!
**[03:22] ---**
That's right. I'm putting an end to this curse.
**[03:26] ---**
She's trying to kill people!
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She's *trying* to *kill people*!
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I know it!
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I know it, I know it!
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I know it, I know it, I know it!
**[03:36] ---**
I know it, I know it!
**[03:37] ---**
--C-Calm down, Mion!
--I know it, I know it, I know it!
**[03:39] ---**
--What are you talking about?!
--I know it, I know it, I know it!
**[03:41] ---**
I know it, I know it, I know it!
**[03:43] ---**
I know, I know...
**[03:44] ---**
I know, I know, I know, I know...
**[03:46] ---**
--I know, I know, I know, I know...
--M-Mion!
**[03:50] ---**
I know, I know, I know, I know...
**[03:54] ---**
--Mion! Keiichi!
--I know, I know...
**[04:00] ---**
What's wrong?
**[04:02] ---**
Chie-*sensei*...
**[04:03] ---**
Rika-*chan*'s not here, either.
**[04:06] ---**
We're cancelling class for today.
**[04:08] ---**
Let us teachers handle
finding Furude-*san*, okay?
**[04:11] ---**
You two head straight home.
**[04:13] ---**
Okay.
**[04:25] ---**
What's wrong? What is it?
**[04:28] ---**
It's my fault.
**[04:30] ---**
All of it...
**[04:32] ---**
It's your fault?
**[04:34] ---**
Why do you think it's your fault?
**[04:36] ---**
Could you tell me?
**[04:40] ---**
Because I...
**[04:44] ---**
No, never mind.
**[04:54] ---**
I thought it was no big deal...
**[04:57] ---**
I didn't know it was this bad!
**[05:02] ---**
We hurt Oyashiro-*sama*...
**[05:05] ---**
But that was Shion's fault...
**[05:08] ---**
That's right. It was all Shion's fault!
**[05:12] ---**
No, that's not right.
**[05:15] ---**
I can blame Shion all I want,
**[05:17] ---**
but that won't change anything...
**[05:43] ---**
Hello?
**[05:44] ---**
Hey there, Kei-*chan*.
**[05:46] ---**
Is that you, Shion?
**[05:50] ---**
Oh, wait...
**[05:55] ---**
Mion?
**[05:57] ---**
I want you to come over. Right now.
**[05:59] ---**
C-Come over? You mean to the Sonozaki mansion?
**[06:03] ---**
I'll meet you at the waterwheel.
**[06:09] ---**
What's going on?
**[06:13] ---**
I thought you might wanna tell me something.
**[06:17] ---**
You're nervous. Trust me,
I know how you're feeling right now.
**[06:21] ---**
So c'mon.
**[06:27] ---**
Let's go talk at my place.
**[06:32] ---**
Okay.
**[06:41] ---**
"PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO TRESPASSING"
**[06:47] ---**
Is this forest... I mean, this whole mountain...
**[06:50] ---**
All your backyard?
**[06:52] ---**
Yeah, though it's not really our backyard.
It's all our property.
**[06:56] ---**
It's not like we have gardeners
taking care of every last acre.
**[07:11] ---**
Man, living in an old-fashioned house
must be nice.
**[07:14] ---**
Yeah, right! It's drafty as hell
and freezing in the winter.
**[07:18] ---**
I wish I could live in
a modern house like yours.
**[07:21] ---**
Oh, but I bet clearing snow off
your roof is gonna be rough.
**[07:24] ---**
Huh? It snows that much here?
**[07:26] ---**
You didn't know?
**[07:28] ---**
Hinamizawa's right in
the middle of snow country!
**[07:30] ---**
Ugh, really?! I hate the cold!
**[07:35] ---**
I guess we're gonna need to train you
for the Hinamizawa winter, Kei-*chan*!
**[07:42] ---**
Hell no! I'll pass!
**[07:44] ---**
Man, now I can't wait for winter!
**[07:47] ---**
You're such an ass.
**[07:49] ---**
Okay, let me go make us some tea.
**[08:08] ---**
You feel it, right?
**[08:11] ---**
Like someone's out to get you.
**[08:15] ---**
What if I do?
**[08:17] ---**
Sorry, I wasn't trying to scare you or anything.
**[08:21] ---**
O-Okay.
**[08:25] ---**
Mion, I...
**[08:27] ---**
I have to apologize to you for something.
**[08:30] ---**
To me? For what?
**[08:33] ---**
I... Yesterday, during the Watanagashi festival,
**[08:37] ---**
I went into the ritual tool storehouse.
**[08:41] ---**
Even though I knew it was wrong!
I was just curious!
**[08:48] ---**
But I'm really sorry!
**[08:49] ---**
Kei-*chan*, I know you, Shion,
Tomitake-*san*, and Takano-*san*
**[08:54] ---**
went into the Furude Shrine's
ritual tool storehouse last night.
**[08:57] ---**
Plenty of people already know.
**[09:00] ---**
And even if you only went in there
because you were curious,
**[09:05] ---**
there are lots of people who think
you should still be punished.
**[09:10] ---**
As long as you realize that, well...
**[09:12] ---**
I know it's probably too late,
but I'm sorry! Really sorry!
**[09:15] ---**
Please forgive me!
**[09:28] ---**
Sit up.
**[09:33] ---**
Don't worry. I'm on your side, Kei-*chan*.
**[09:37] ---**
Trust me when I say that, okay?
**[09:40] ---**
I want to trust you, but...
**[09:44] ---**
Rika-*chan* started acting like
a different person all of the sudden!
**[09:49] ---**
Now I don't know who I can trust anymore!
**[09:52] ---**
It's okay. You confessed what you did.
**[09:57] ---**
You apologized for it.
**[09:59] ---**
I know I can trust you, Kei-*chan*!
**[10:02] ---**
Mion...
**[10:03] ---**
So please trust me, Kei-*chan*!
**[10:07] ---**
Know that no matter what happens,
I'll be the one person on your side!
**[10:15] ---**
Okay. I trust you, Mion.
**[10:23] ---**
Can you answer a question for me, Mion?
**[10:25] ---**
Why does someone have to die
on the night of Watanagashi every year?
**[10:32] ---**
You're talking about the series
of annual deaths in Hinamizawa...
**[10:34] ---**
At first, it was just a coincidence.
**[10:38] ---**
--Huh?
--But eventually, that changed.
**[10:42] ---**
A few zealous people started using
"Oyashiro-*sama*'s curse" as an excuse.
**[10:49] ---**
What changed? An excuse for what?
**[10:52] ---**
As in, "you can kill someone
who's harmed the village
**[10:54] ---**
if you do it for Oyashiro-*sama*'s curse
on the night of Watanagashi."
**[10:59] ---**
That can't be happening... not nowadays!
**[11:04] ---**
Follow me.
**[11:15] ---**
You saw all those torture devices
in the ritual tool storehouse, right?
**[11:19] ---**
Yeah, but those are super old, right?
**[11:22] ---**
Takano-*san* was really into them, but I wasn't...
**[11:29] ---**
God, it stinks...
**[11:31] ---**
Those "tools" were used to uphold
the strict religious laws of Onigafuchi...
**[11:40] ---**
...by torturing and killing those
who broke the law as a warning to others.
**[11:45] ---**
But all that stuff happened
in the past, right? Not now!
**[11:49] ---**
Right.
**[11:50] ---**
In the past, the Watanagashiritual
was overseen by the Three Great Families.
**[11:56] ---**
But when the Kimiyoshi and
Furude families lost their influence,
**[12:00] ---**
and the times began to change,
it became harder and harder to carry out,
**[12:04] ---**
so those ritual torture devices
were put away for good.
**[12:15] ---**
That's why the Sonozaki family built this place.
**[12:17] ---**
Built-- Wait, you're not telling me...
**[12:20] ---**
A place where the Watanagashiritual
could still be carried out in secret.
**[12:29] ---**
Look. See how many different tools we have?
**[12:37] ---**
You see, just because we live
in "modern" times, in 1983,
**[12:41] ---**
doesn't mean anything has changed.
**[12:43] ---**
Hinamizawa is still Onigafuchi,
the village where demons lived.
**[12:48] ---**
But that's...
**[12:50] ---**
Of course, as far as I know,
**[12:52] ---**
nobody's ever used these instruments
for their intended purpose.
**[12:59] ---**
But...
**[13:00] ---**
The rumor that these tools
are here and ready if necessary...
**[13:05] ---**
...is no rumor, but fact.
**[13:11] ---**
What the hell is this place?
**[13:20] ---**
This is my uncle's safe room.
**[13:23] ---**
It's the most secure place on our property.
**[13:27] ---**
This door is so tough, not even bullets
could leave a scratch on it.
**[13:31] ---**
There's... still more down here?
**[13:40] ---**
Boy, feels like you could live down here.
**[13:43] ---**
Because you can. There's plenty of food,
a phone, and electricity.
**[13:47] ---**
And, of course, a bathroom.
**[13:50] ---**
You could live down here for
a whole month if you needed to.
**[13:56] ---**
So you don't have to worry, Kei-*chan*.
**[14:01] ---**
What do you mean?
**[14:02] ---**
What are you talking about, Mion?!
**[14:05] ---**
I want you to stay here
for a little while, Kei-*chan*.
**[14:09] ---**
Starting right now.
**[14:11] ---**
R-Right now?!
**[14:14] ---**
First off, what about my parents?
How are we gonna tell them?!
**[14:21] ---**
What're you doing?!
**[14:24] ---**
Mion!
**[14:25] ---**
Let me out!
**[14:26] ---**
This is the only way.
**[14:29] ---**
As long as there are people
who want to carry out the curse...
**[14:33] ---**
As long as the soil that grows
and feeds those people is still fertile...
**[14:39] ---**
I understand that, but why?!
**[14:42] ---**
Because I'm going to
*do something* about it!
**[14:46] ---**
You just need to stay here till I'm done!
**[14:47] ---**
But Mion--!
**[14:48] ---**
It's okay! I just want you
to stay safe until then!
**[14:55] ---**
Fine, but you don't have to lock me down here!
**[14:59] ---**
This locked cell is going
to keep you safe, Kei-*chan*.
**[15:03] ---**
--Huh?
--If worse comes to worst,
**[15:06] ---**
you can tell people that I locked you
up in here--that you're just a victim!
**[15:18] ---**
Mion, what are you planning on doing?
**[15:25] ---**
In Hinamizawa, if anyone is ever in trouble,
**[15:29] ---**
then someone who has the power
to help them will do what they can to help.
**[15:33] ---**
That's the spirit of community
that binds us villagers together.
**[15:39] ---**
Right... Like when those punks
were threatening me.
**[15:42] ---**
That's right.
**[15:43] ---**
But that community spirit
warped and changed,
**[15:46] ---**
ever since that horrible incident...
**[15:48] ---**
The war over the dam.
**[15:50] ---**
Soon, it wasn't about
helping people be happier.
**[15:52] ---**
It was about getting revenge
on behalf of the village.
**[15:56] ---**
It became this evil, negative thing,
and that's why Satoko's family was...
**[16:02] ---**
All that turned our kind custom
where we helped one another
**[16:06] ---**
into a cruel custom where
we hated and hurt one another.
**[16:10] ---**
The fault falls upon
the Three Great Families, mine included.
**[16:13] ---**
But all that happened so long ago!
**[16:16] ---**
You're right, Kei-*chan*. This isn't
the olden days of men and demons.
**[16:20] ---**
This is the present. It's 1983.
**[16:25] ---**
And as the de facto head
of the Three Great Families,
**[16:29] ---**
and heiress to the Sonozaki Family,
**[16:32] ---**
it's my job to put an end to
this "custom" once and for all!
**[16:35] ---**
It created "Oyashiro-*sama*'s curse,"
**[16:37] ---**
and not only has it gone on
for five straight years,
**[16:41] ---**
but it's turned into this monstrous thing
we can no longer control!
**[16:45] ---**
It has to be me. I have to fix this!
**[16:50] ---**
I don't know what
you're going to try to do, Mion,
**[16:54] ---**
but if there's anything I can do
to help, please tell me!
**[16:57] ---**
You don't have to do this alone!
**[17:01] ---**
Kei-*chan*, remember the board game tournament?
When you gave me that doll?
**[17:09] ---**
You treated me like a girl...
**[17:13] ---**
And that made me happy.
**[17:16] ---**
I love you, Kei-*chan*.
**[17:18] ---**
That's why I need to protect you!
**[17:22] ---**
And the only way to protect you
is to end this "tradition" once and for all!
**[17:28] ---**
Mion...
**[17:39] ---**
Does that mean someone's here?
**[17:40] ---**
So their minion's here instead.
**[17:45] ---**
That, or they've caught on.
**[17:48] ---**
How interesting. I suppose I'll go say hello.
**[17:51] ---**
Mion, what are you...?
**[17:53] ---**
Sorry, Kei-*chan*. I've got to go greet my guest.
**[18:02] ---**
Is that a gun?! Hey!
**[18:04] ---**
What are you gonna do with that?!
**[18:06] ---**
That's not a real gun, is it?!
**[18:11] ---**
I might be gone for a bit.
**[18:13] ---**
This could take a while.
**[18:16] ---**
Mion! What are you going to do?!
**[18:18] ---**
Wait, the police! Just get the cops to help you!
**[18:21] ---**
Sorry, Kei-*chan*, but I can't trust the cops.
**[18:24] ---**
Not here in Hinamizawa.
**[18:27] ---**
If, somehow, I don't come back,
and someone else finds you here...
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Just tell them that I caught you
and locked you away down here.
**[18:37] ---**
Then you should be safe.
**[18:39] ---**
Mion! Hey!
**[18:41] ---**
Wait, Mion! Don't!
**[18:42] ---**
Wait!
**[18:47] ---**
Mion...
**[19:11] ---**
Dammit!
**[19:41] ---**
Mion!
**[19:52] ---**
Maebara-*san*! Are you still with us?!
**[19:59] ---**
Maebara-*san*!
**[20:09] ---**
"June XXth, 1983"
**[20:23] ---**
Mion...
**[20:24] ---**
Maebara-*san*!
**[20:28] ---**
I stopped by the hospital, but they said
you'd been discharged today.
**[20:33] ---**
How are you? Feeling better?
**[20:36] ---**
Much better, thank you.
**[20:37] ---**
Boy, if it hadn't been for that
detective nearby hearing that gunshot,
**[20:41] ---**
we might not've found out about all that.
**[20:44] ---**
I'm glad we were at least able to
get *you* out of there safe and sound!
**[20:51] ---**
Wait, what? Does that mean Mion's--
**[20:53] ---**
Okay, stay calm, now.
**[20:55] ---**
How the hell am I supposed to stay calm?!
**[20:57] ---**
Maebara-*san*, did you know about
the well in that underground prison?
**[21:06] ---**
No.
**[21:07] ---**
That was my first time going down there,
so I don't know about a well.
**[21:12] ---**
When we investigated the bottom of that well...
**[21:14] ---**
...we found bodies.
**[21:19] ---**
The bodies of Oryo Sonozaki, Kiichiro Kimiyoshi,
**[21:23] ---**
and Shion Sonozaki, to be precise.
**[21:28] ---**
Shion?! No...
**[21:29] ---**
We also found skeletal remains
that were over ten years old,
**[21:34] ---**
belonging to at least three separate victims.
**[21:37] ---**
Talk about a dark side of Hinamizawa.
**[21:41] ---**
We also found Rika Furude.
**[21:44] ---**
You found her?!
**[21:45] ---**
Unfortunately, when we found her,
she was deceased.
**[21:51] ---**
She was found in the septic tank of
the outhouse at your school,
**[21:55] ---**
in pretty gruesome condition, too.
**[21:58] ---**
Wait, was that...
**[22:01] ---**
--Huh?
--Kei-*chan*, over here!
**[22:03] ---**
And then...
**[22:07] ---**
What about Mion?
**[22:09] ---**
Mion Sonozaki...
**[22:11] ---**
...was found dead alongside
the body of Satoko Hojo.
**[22:19] ---**
They were lying in a hallway
of the Sonozaki mansion.
**[22:23] ---**
With this many dead bodies popping up at once,
**[22:28] ---**
there's a whole mountain
of things we need to look into.
**[22:33] ---**
Maebara-*san*, I may need to ask you
more questions sometime.
**[22:38] ---**
If that happens, I hope you'll help us out.
**[22:41] ---**
And if I learn anything,
I'll be sure to let you know.
**[22:47] ---**
I'll see you again soon. Rest up, okay?
**[22:53] ---**
Mion said that underground room
was the safest place in Hinamizawa...
**[22:57] ---**
But that's where they found Shion's dead body.
**[23:06] ---**
And when I went looking
for Rika-*chan* with Mion,
**[23:11] ---**
that's where they found Rika-*chan*'s dead body.
**[23:17] ---**
That makes it seem...
**[23:19] ---**
...like Mion was the one who killed everyone!
**[23:29] ---**
Was Mion really trying to protect me
from some conspiracy against me,
**[23:34] ---**
or...
**[23:40] ---**
*"Tataridamashi-hen*:
Curse-Deceiving Chapter, Part 1"
Next time: "*Tataridamashi-hen*:
Curse-Deceiving Chapter, Part 1."