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The Notebook's Beginning[]
June, 1982.
Satoshi Houjou disappeared several days after the Watanagashi festival.
There were three possible reasons for his disappearance.
One possibility is that it was an accident.
Dead bodies sometimes end up in irrigation channels a few months after hit-and-run incidents.
But since the police did a thorough search of the area and hadn't found his body, this possibility seems small.
The second possibility is a self-motivated disappearance.
Satoshi-kun has been living in dire circumstances.
His close friends actually heard him imply he might run away.
The police thought he skipped town after killing his aunt.
That seemed plausible, considering that aspect.
But the police arrested another person for the murder, so this hypothesis must also be considered false.
The last possibility is that he was involved in the series of mysterious deaths in Hinamizawa.
It's also called the curse of Oyashiro-sama.nHe fell victim to it, and disappeared.
Unless Oyashiro-sama's occult power is actually verified, this curse must be the act of humans.
It's only natural to assume that Satoshi-kun was made to disappear by someone's will.
So, the question is, whose?
The possibilities are quite limited.
The culprit is either a member of the Sonozaki family, a member of the Three Families, or one of their many relatives.
......The police can assume that easily.
I need to think beyond that.
Who did it? How did it happen? And why did it have to be done?
Why did Satoshi-kun fall victim?
What was the motive?
Who gave out that order?
Who actually did it?
The mastermind, the culprit, and the truth...
All are in reach of my grasp.
Maybe I'll find them right behind my back.
But even so, I can't reach everywhere.
There are parts of my back I have to make an effort to reach, clenching my teeth and cracking my joints so that the tips of my fingers can barely touch them.
The truth is hidden in places like those.
I'm writing this because......
...I need to organize my thoughts and memories.
Nobody will read it other than myself.
But if somebody does...
...That means that either I threw these notes away because I no longer needed them, or I fell victim to the curse of Oyashiro-sama in the middle of my attempt to solve the mystery.
If it was the former, that's okay.
...But if it was the latter...
Please.
I want you to help me.
Please help this powerless young girl.
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- Ancient Times/nazo
A Smudged Diary[]
Satoko was crying while hiding behind my back.
She's been crying while clinging onto me, so my back was wet with her tears and snot.
My aunt had been screaming hysterically, but she looked tired now.
...I suddenly realized that it was already past one in the morning. She vomited out a series of screams one last time, then finally called it quits.
Satoko seemed exhausted. She was looking down in a state of shock.
Even after my aunt walked away, she didn't realize she had been freed.
So, I stroked her head and told her...
"......It's over, Satoko."
Satoko twitched.
Her eyes grew bright again, and tears rolled down her cheeks.
...She looked up at my face.
".................."
She knew it was over... but wanted to hear it directly from me. She begged me with a look.
...To be honest, I was really exhausted, too.
So I felt a bit annoyed when she tried to make me say it.
But I needed to pacify her... so I gently told her what she wanted to hear.
"......She's done with her scolding... So let's go to sleep, all right?"
Satoko clung to me while her tears continued to fall.
She was crying again silently...
Satoko was shivering pitifully.
...Her small back reminded me that there was nobody else to protect her.
"Here... Go brush your teeth, make your bed... and go to sleep..."
Satoko smiled faintly and nodded.
I felt dizzy.
...As I was released from the strain, a harsh drowsiness fell upon me.
While Satoko was washing her face, I went to the toilet.
I zoned out while watching my pee.
In my dizziness, I almost missed the shot.
...I felt like I was being sucked into the toilet.
...I couldn't even remember what caused it...
Why did my aunt start screaming today......?
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- Crickets/yoru
A Crumpled Diary[]
My aunt finally stopped her hysterical screaming.
Today was just like any other day.
I can't remember what set her off. Whatever it was, she changed subjects constantly anyway. It didn't matter.
She went on past midnight again.
The urge to sleep was pounding the back of my head.
Once Satoko had been able to relax... she fell down on the spot and started sleeping, still clinging to my sleeve.
I carried Satoko to the bedroom and laid out our futons.
"Here, Satoko. Your futon is ready, so get in, okay?"
Satoko crawled in like a worm. She stopped moving once she was inside.
I wished I could go to bed, too.
But... I couldn't.
My aunt asked me to do some chores.
I had to get toothpaste after school tomorrow. I had to write it down somewhere...
I had to make rice for lunch tomorrow... I set the timer.
Right, I also had to repile the towels in the bathroom. That was the reason for today's scolding...
My aunt will get mad if everything isn't done the way she wants.
Oh, and there was something else.
...I was working at the grocery store the next day.
They wanted me to bring an apron.
...Did we even have an apron in this house...? I'd never seen one...
My aunt will be sleeping when I go to school, so I won't have time to ask her.
What should I do? Since Mion helped me get that job, I don't want to screw it up.
In that case, why don't I ask Mion about it at school? She might lend me one.
Was there anything else...? Hmmmmm......
I was envious of Satoko, because she got to go to bed.
It was pathetic that I felt that way.
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- Crickets/yoru
Notebook Page 21[]
Why don't I relate my encounter with that creepy girl in the rain?
Her name is Rena Ryuugu.
Her real first name is Reina.
I have no idea what kind of girl she really is.
One thing is certain. She has no relation to the Sonozaki family.
She has no relation to the Three Families as a whole, either.
The Ryuugu family used to live in Hinamizawa,
but then they moved to Ibaraki.
That was before she went to elementary school. ...They returned to Hinamizawa some years later.
Rena Ryuugu said she came back because Oyashiro-sama told her to.
I don't know what that means.
She said it was the curse of Oyashiro-sama.
That Oyashiro-sama had stalked her.
I think that was probably a hallucination, but Satoshi-kun had been interested in that experience.
She said that Satoshi-kun was also experiencing Oyashiro-sama's curse.
Satoshi-kun told her that he was being followed by some unknown existence.
He was surprised to learn that Rena had the same experience before.
What is Oyashiro-sama's curse...?
Why did Rena and Satoshi-kun have a similar experience?
I believe that means that somebody put them under surveillance.
Somebody must be spying on the next victim of the curse.
......Since Rena and Satoshi-kun both blindly believed in Oyashiro-sama's curse, they interpreted it as Oyashiro-sama's presence.
If paranoia kicked in, they'd feel as if they were experiencing paranormal phenomena.
Judging from what Rena said, it seems that Satoshi-kun had been put on surveillance since long before Watanagashi.
So, one question comes to mind.
Why were they watching Rena?
I'm assuming that this survelliance was placed on a victim-to-be of that year.
If so, I don't understand why Rena went through it.
Why did they watch her, even though she was living so far away?
If she was considered somebody who abandoned the village, I could understand.
But she didn't fall victim in the end.
Maybe she was forgiven because she came back to Hinamizawa.
...I guess she still knows something I don't...
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- Corridor to Insanity/getting_mad
Notebook Page 24[]
Satoshi-kun looked terrible.
When he went home, he had to mediate a fight between Satoko and their aunt. He became mentally exhausted.
He went to work every day. He became physically exhausted.
He no longer communicated with his classmates. He's either slept on his desk, or was gone somewhere during lunch break.
He used to be really gentle. It was painful to see him suffering like that.
On top of all that, he was dealing with the curse of Oyashiro-sama. He must have been completely, totally, and absolutely exhausted.
That curse was a form of surveillance by those planning to victimize Satoshi-kun that year.
That means that the other victim was in the same situation.
Satoshi-kun's aunt had also been watched.
Did she notice any presence?
What about the others?
Did the victims of the previous incidents also experience it?
I need to investigate the facts in order to prove the curse on Satoshi-kun was actually just surveillance.
Is it surveillance, paranoia... or really the curse...?
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- Shadow/demo_48khz
A Torn Diary[]
Somebody whispered to me from behind.
They told me that I was going to be the victim of the curse this year.
So I'm going to disappear soon.
There'll be nobody left to take care of Satoko.
Somebody whispered to me from behind.
They told me that I don't have much time.
That I won't stay as myself for much longer.
So I had to make the best of the days I had left.
What could I leave for Satoko?
She wanted that huge teddy bear.
She wanted a peaceful life in which nobody would bully her.
I whispered to the person at my back.
Bestow your violent nature and formidable strength upon me.
I want your peaceful mind filled with hatred.
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- Insanity/hig_sample_kyouki
Notebook Page 29[]
Either Satoshi-kun was smart, or very lucky. Or maybe it wasn't him... The police found nothing at the crime scene to indicate his involvement in the murder.
Yet Satoshi-kun was still the prime suspect.
Considering his home environment, he had a strong enough motive.
He had no alibi.
The police had everything other than physical evidence.
It wasn't surprising that Ooishi took a chance.
He probably didn't expect me to step in. But what I did was too little to avert his suspicion of Satoshi-kun.
Ooishi believed that Satoshi-kun did it.
He was waiting for Satoshi-kun to fall apart and confess...
That's what both Ooishi and I were thinking.
But that hypothesis was destroyed later on.
I'll not talk about it now, but Ooishi's theory will be disproven, and the police will be thrown into shock.
A question comes to mind.
That is.... who saved Satoshi-kun?
I can only think of the possibility that the Sonozaki family invented the culprit.
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Notebook Page 34[]
The information that Satoshi-kun might've headed to Tokyo hasn't been verified.
It started as follows.
A young man came to the lost and found window, looking for his wallet.
The station employee asked him to write down his name on the form.
Then the young man started writing Houjou as his name, but he stopped in the middle, crumpled the form, and wrote a totally different name on another form.
Another station employee witnessed a similar-looking young man rushing into the train heading to Tokyo.
The employee from the lost and found and the employee who was on the platform talked about the suspicious young man in the locker room.
...That was all.
The wallet of the man named Houjou was never reported as found to the lost and found office.
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- Soak/z2_hig1
Notebook Page 42[]
At first I thought Ooishi's theory that the Sonozaki family banished Satoshi-kun from Hinamizawa and looked after Satoko in return... was bogus.
But thinking about it now, it doesn't seem too far-fetched.
After all, Satoko Houjou started living with Rika Furude after Satoshi-kun's disappearance.
Rika Furude isn't just a regular girl.
She was the head of the Furude family, one of the Three Families.
The head of the Kimiyoshi family is Rika Furude's guardian.
The Sonozaki family probably couldn't step in, due to having been officially opposed to the Houjou family, but Satoko Houjou is in the custody of the Three Families now.
Even though the Houjou family was severely ostracized during the dam conflict, Satoko Houjou was now under protection.
It seems as though only Satoko was exempted from blame.
Why was she spared, even though Satoshi-kun wasn't?
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- Ancient Times/nazo
Notebook Page 50[]
I saw Miyo Takano a few times after that.
At her core, she was fascinated with the bizarre, and she had an insatiable curiosity that was just as strong.
I have to remind myself not to take her story too seriously.
...Otherwise... I might start believing that Satoshi-kun disappeared because of the curse.
She talks about the dark history of Hinamizawa a lot. It's all very interesting.
Her theories are based on nothing but conjecture, but some of her intuition covers facts that only members of the Sonozaki family would know.
She thinks that Oyashiro-sama's curse is the continuation of these ancient rituals.
In other words, she believes that the curse is performed by religious fanatics.
According to her theory, a religious cult once existed in Hinamizawa, and the Three Families stemmed from it.
She believes that they are operating behind the scenes in order to revive the dignity of the Onigafuchi people, which was lost during the Meiji Era.
Miyo-san's theories are far-reaching, and looking at them on a larger scale, they end up making a lot of sense.
But they can't offer any explanation for Satoshi-kun's disappearance when using them on a smaller one.
Her theories are just too broad.
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- Higurashi/higurashi
Notebook Page 64[]
I exchanged information with Ooishi every now and then.
We'd each expect new leads from each other, but neither of us had any luck.
I no longer believe the tip that Satoshi-kun might've headed to Tokyo.
It was clearly bogus, anyway.
Although I can't befriend Ooishi, he's been fair about the deal. He alone has been serious about uncovering any new information.
Ooishi's sources are quite reliable, so whenever I found some dubious tip, I'd check with him to see if it was valid.
My meetings with him have diminished in frequency, since he's been assigned to new cases.
......Eventually, we stopped meeting entirely.
Ooishi stopped investigating, and I reached the limits of my sources of information.
...People now think that Satoshi-kun's disappearance was a supernatural phenomenon called 'demoning away'.
In Hinamizawa, they refer to his disappearance as him having 'transferred', and nobody will talk about it otherwise.
...I don't like the way that phrase... is used to erase him.
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- Cicadas/semi
Notebook Page 85[]
During the upheaval surrounding Oyashiro-sama's curse in 1982, I was pulled this way and that by new leads on Satoshi-kun's disappearance. Every time I found information that looked promising, I kept changing my theories.
But that also became an incredible burden on me. ...It wore me down plenty on its own.
The fatigue was harsh, but it also provided a very kind acceptance.
Bit by bit it soothed away the anger, sadness, and doubt that wore me down.
"I'll never forget Satoshi-kun."
"I'll never try to forget him and move on."
I constantly repeated those to myself in my head.
I repeated them... to keep my memories of Satoshi-kun from fading too. Over, and over.
For the sake of my fun memories of Satoshi-kun... ...together with my fear, and my sadness, I repeated them forever and ever.
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- Daily Passing By (Celesta)
Notebook Page 172[]
That underground torture room is officially called the underground ritual storehouse.
So, do "torture room" and "ritual storehouse" mean the same thing?
According to Takano-san's theory, bloody rituals, including Watanagashi, have been passed down among the Three Families even after the Meiji Era.
The rituals are always ready to be performed.
Their form of worship always revolved around torture, so Hinamizawa's history involved a great deal of human slaughter.
Takano-san's theory is correct.
The underground storehouse at the Sonozaki house looked well maintained.
Takano-san is right about that, too.
Since the Sonozaki family and the Furude family both have ritual storehouses, the Kimiyoshi family must have one, too.
After all, these ancient and brutal customs are still handed down through the generations.
I should remain armed with the knowledge that occult events are still secretly being performed in this cursed village...
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- Soak
Notebook Page 173[]
The sanctity of the ritual storehouse is one of the most prominent elements in the worship of Oyashiro-sama.
Of course, I knew that, since I'm originally from Hinamizawa.
But violating that sanctity is actually a more serious problem than I thought.
Takano-san's research shows that the history of the ritual storehouse goes way back.
The ritual implements within have long been viewed as inviolable objects, which is why it was strictly forbidden to enter.
Takano-san's theory says that Watanagashi was once a public execution, performed to stabilize the reign of the Three Families, rather than a purely religious ritual.
If so, the ritual should hardly be called sacred.
Under those circumstances, the implements should have been despised as symbols of hatred and fear.
When instruments of fear are too visible, it only creates a reign of terror. But keep them as hidden as possible, and they gain divinity.
Many said they would become tainted if the laymen touched them.
The only reason for that was to preserve their false prestige through secrecy, since they would lose their sanctity if revealed before the common folk.
In other words, the true identity of the ritual storehouse's sacredness... was fear. That was the true emotion ruling over this village...
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- Depressive Paranoia
Notebook Page 179[]
The reason why Takano-san and Tomitake-san were cursed is because they broke into the ritual storehouse.
I don't know how the villagers found out about it.
Maybe somebody was watching.
Maybe there was an anti-theft alarm.
Either way, our intrusion must've been reported to the highest level of the curse system.
That's because, considering the distance between the village and the site where Takano-san's body was found, she must've been killed right after we came out of the ritual storehouse.
It was done very quickly.
It's possible that a special assassination team exists for this purpose, or that the plan had been set up a long time ago.
They might've been secret agents of the Sonozaki family, but the latter sounds more valid.
But if so, who would have been the victim if nobody broke into the ritual storehouse?
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- Insanity
Notebook Page 183[]
I wasn't planning to kill the hag so quickly.
I was going to kill her anyway, but it was too soon.
People would normally assume that the Sonozaki family operates as a hierarchy, but that's not true.
It's actually more like a system of government. Several ministries stem from the main family, and each forms a hierarchy of its own.
These ministries don't communicate with one another.
The people who belong to a given ministry don't know what other ministries are doing. That way, the Sonozaki family's dealings are kept perfectly secret.
Of course, the most important people in the family govern several ministries.
They know, of course, about their own ministries...
And they know a little bit about the ministries their relatives run.
But none of them know everything.
There are ministries that work in the open, there are ministries that work unseen, and there are some smaller ones that Oryou runs herself.
Mion seems to know about most of them, but she doesn't necessarily know them all.
In fact, she didn't know about 'the curse'.
Considering that, the fact that the hag died before I could interrogate her is a huge loss...
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- Corridor to Insanity
Notebook Page 185[]
The head of the Kimiyoshi family was the one who called the main house most often after the fifth year's curse.
My father called the second most.
My parents were still high in the hierarchy, but the stir caused by my mother's disownment still hung over us, so we got treated as outcasts.
So the fact that my father recieved so many calls proved how much the hag valued us despite the distance at which we were kept, demonstrating her own two-faced respect for both sides of the coin.
My father seems to be in charge of the intelligence bureau.
He reported police information, gossip, and rumors going around in the yakuza business to the hag.
He silences, stirs, and distorts that information at her request.
By the way, my servant Kasai is an old friend of my father's.
...That must be why Kasai knows many things.
But I don't know if my father is involved in the curse's execution.
My assumption is that although he gathered information on the police investigation about the case, he wasn't involved in the execution itself.
...The fact that my father and the hag have this close connection isn't widely known.
People know that she uses his information network, but they don't look very far beyond that.
In the same way...
It's possible that a 'curse execution team' exists under the hag's direct control. People just aren't aware of it...
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- Crickets
Notebook Page 188[]
After that, I joined the youth group in the search for Kimiyoshi.
I went down the town council's phone directory and called to see if he had visited, then had the group split according to the circular notice divisions and sent them to search the town.
Everybody seemed to be assuming they wouldn't find him.
But since I knew they definitely never would, it was just bothersome to me.
Even after midnight, they were all still enthusiastically looking for him.
I bore the sleepiness while yawning.
Then I heard somebody whisper.
"Last year...... we did the same thing when Satoshi Houjou-kun went missing."
...The youth group was looking for someone who would never be found... just like last year.
I was yawning because I knew this.
Last year, there must also have been some people who were yawning... and grinning on the inside.
"......When did we stop searching last year, do you remember?"
"Hmm? When Satoshi Houjou-kun was missing? Oh, what time was it?"
"I guess that was around midnight."
It was already two in the morning.
Although they spent this much time searching for Kimiyoshi... they didn't do the same when Satoshi-kun went missing.
After all, some people knew they wouldn't find him.
They must've been sleepy.
They must've said they should leave it to the police. Shit... shit... I want to kill the people who said that...
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- Ancient Times
Notebook Page 195[]
Rika Furude.
She was the head of the Furude family, but she never even appeared at the most important meetings.
Even if she did show up, nobody would ask for her opinion, so it never really mattered if she was there or not.
A legend in the Furude family says that if their firstborn child is a girl for eight generations in a row, that eighth girl would be the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama. According to Takano-san's research, Rika Furude is very likely to be the one.
Surely, she must be an important icon in the cult of Oyashiro-sama. The true believers are devoted to her.
So, it's quite surprising to me that Rika Furude herself was the assassin.
It's unbelievable.
It's just too abnormal.
Usually, a VIP like her wouldn't be the one to assassinate someone.
It's possible that... it was a Rika Furude lookalike.
From the way she moved, she seemed experienced in fighting.
It's not normal that a small girl like her would jump me without faltering.
I just got lucky because I had a stun gun.
Without it, I don't know what would have happened.
She was far more skilled than she looked.
Was she trained as an assassin??
Or was it a body double?
Everything is a mystery, including that creepy syringe. What's going on? I can't understand.
She was like an apparition, or something.
Did Oryou Sonozaki know of her existence...?
What is hiding on the underside of this village?
That underside... might run much deeper than I thought.
Notebook Page 196[]
[BGM: Soak | z2_hig1]
At this point, I believe that I can complete my revenge by destroying the curse system entirely.
That means that I have to eliminate the heads of all the Three Families, the successor Shion, and the assassins who are after Keiichi.
Although Keiichi is completely unguarded, he hasn't been attacked so far.
Even though I told everybody that he was one of the trespassers.
In fact, it's me who's being attacked. Rika Furude attacked me.
According to my theory, Keiichi should make for very attractive bait.
But nobody has done anything to harm him. Since Rika Furude attacked me, it might be that opposing the Furude family is a greater taboo than trespassing in the ritual storehouse.
Rika Furude had said that intrusion wasn't a big deal.
She sounded like she was going to let Keiichi walk.
And after I accused her of that, 'Rika Furude' attacked me that very night.
Are there two different factions?
Does one handle trespassers in the ritual storehouse, while the other protects the religious doctrines of the Furude family?
No, that doesn't make sense.
Tomitake-san's death must have been caused by the Furude family's injections.
Rika showed me the effect of it herself, clawing out her own throat and dying like that.
But Tomitake-san shouldn't have been subject to the curse, at least according to the system of the Furude family.
I don't understand why Keiichi hasn't been attacked.
Did he have something exempting him from the curse, unlike Takano-san?
Just like how only Satoko Houjou was spared?
Keiichi is a friend of Rika Furude's.
So... does that mean that if you were close to her, you wouldn't be cursed?
Was she more important than the whole system?
That's impossible.
The hag was at the top of the curse system. Rika couldn't have been higher up than her.
Scribble scribble.
Are there multiple ways to determine the subject of the curse?
Are there as many curse execution groups as there are subjects, and do they all work separately?
Ah, it's a mess. None of my theories add up.
If I mess up my reasoning, I might make the wrong person the target of my revenge.
I don't understand who the enemy is, or how Satoshi-kun was made to disappear.
How much did the hag know?
That really was a huge loss.
I have so many things I wanted to ask her.
...I killed her by accident... Shit.
In that respect, I've already failed in my revenge.
............The underside of Hinamizawa really does run too deep.
Scribble scribble.
(The whole page is blacked out with scribbles.)
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- Soak
Notebook Page 199[]
Shion Sonozaki's last confession is dubious.
Did the hag convince her that the Sonozaki family had nothing to do with it?
Or is that the truth?
In my own investigations so far, I've proven there are aspects of the curse which can't be explained by the Sonozaki family alone.
So, my notes were all bogus from the beginning.
These two hundred pages are full of bullshit.
I thought of burning this notebook.
But I won't do it.
This notebook proves my guilt.
I won't distort the facts.
I won't burn it.
After all, my life was only a notebook long.
I wonder if anybody will read this.
If somebody does, please let them learn something from my stupidity.
The series of mysterious deaths in Hinamizawa...
Dubbed 'Oyashiro-sama's curse'.
If you're reading this...
...Please find the truth.
That's my only wish.
June XX, 1983
Mion Sonozaki
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- Solitude
A Happy Diary[]
"Yes. When Mr. Kasai broke in, the room was empty, and the window leading to the balcony was open. That was when she fell. She hit the elevator housing right beneath, which gave her a concussion. Then she rolled off the roof and hit the ground, killing her.
The reason Mr. Kasai didn't find her even though he suspected her suicide is that she was on the elevator housing at that time, unconscious."
"Keiichi Maebara was stabbed at about the same time. Was Shion Sonozaki unconscious on the roof then...? I doubt it. She must've snuck out of the building, stabbed Keiichi, then accidentally fell when she came back...... Doesn't that sound right? Ah, would you look at the neighboring balcony again?"
"Ooishi-san, you've got a call on line three."
"Oh, who is it from?"
"Satou, apparently. He says the password is 'ron'."
"Na ha ha! Hello! Ah, Satou-san. You must have some good news."
"Hello... You were right after all."
"Thank you! I'll buy you a drink on Flower Road!"
"What was that call about? A mahjong invitation?"
"Bingo. The Sonozaki sisters switched places. Mion is Shion, and Shion is Mion. They made a mistake when they were supposed to tattoo the successor. So, Mion and Shion are swapped around in this notebook. So then Satoshi-kun and Shion-san... No, Mion-san? This is confusing! Anyway, with that, you gain a clearer understanding of their relationship."
"Are you talking about the mysterious notebook you received the other day? Didn't you say it was all mumbo jumbo that could possibly confuse the case?"
"Even after switching the names, it's still confusing...... I don't know how much of the content I can trust... Even if this is true, Rika Furude's death seems very suspicious..."
"...It's the diary of a lunatic. It drove me nuts when I read it. You know this line on the last page, about how she's sorry for being born...? That makes me want to jump out the window!"
"...Even so... this is a happy diary."
"A happy diary......?"
"Do you know how many times Satoshi-kun's name appears in this notebook......? Shion-san really loved him. But because she was so young, a few mistakes caused that love to be misdirected."
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- Confession
Disowned[]
"Hey, mom. Tell me. Why did you have a fight with the hag? It was bad enough that she disowned you, right?"
"You're so nosy about everything... Well, I guess you're old enough to know. She objected when I told her I wanted to marry your father."
"Eh? What?!"
"I was living a very unseemly life back then. Then the man I brought home was a yakuza, so of course she got terribly upset. She said, 'the head of the family will choose your fiance,' and I said, 'screw your decisions, you fucking virago!' So then we both tried to cut each other down on the spot. We unsheathed our katanas in the living room and clashed and slashed and sliced. Aha ha ha ha!"
"Eeek...! You fought that hag with a sword?! Way to go, Mom..."
"Well, I was into martial arts when I was young. Both she and I held high ranks in kendo, so yes, it was quite the show. Everyone nearby was terrified. Ah, that was fun."
"I see...... so is that why you were disowned?"
"That's right. I was happy for it! I married your father right away. Well, I was forced to remove my fingernails in atonement, though. See how the fingernails of my left hand look ugly?"
"Wow... So, that's why you and the hag have a bad relationship, huh...?"
"Ahahaha, you know what, Shion? That's not actually true. Our relationship is actually pretty good."
"...What?! That can't be right!"
"She has to maintain the family's reputation, so she can't treat me normally, and accordingly, I lay low at the family councils. But I visit her every now and then, and we have tea together."
"I can't believe it...!"
"This is just between you and me, okay? She removed her fingernails in atonement a long time ago herself. Look carefully at her hand the next time you see her."
"Whaaat...?! What did she do?"
"Beats me! I don't have a clue☆!"
"Hey, you do so have one! It's all over your face! Tell meee!"
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