"You okay, kiddo?" "I'll bring you a doctor now." "Hang in there for a bit." "I think you know, but don't say unnecessary things to him." "It's not like we want to hurt you." "He's not from the village." "I'm taking care of an acquaintance's child." "I see..." "Are you all right?" "Where does it hurt?" "How did you get this surgery scar?" "I-I got it after a car accident last winter..." "Accident?" " "Time Wasting" Chapter - Episode 02:" "SIGN" "When They Cry" "Behind where I looked back (who's there in the front)?" "I raised my nails in the dark (and slashed the night)." "Raindrops become droplets of blood and drip down the throat." "If you don't have a place to go back to then stop here on my finger." "I'll take you away along with that finger." "To the unopenable forest where cicadas cry." "You can't turn back anymore." "Akasaka-san, are you nervous?" "No, not really." "It'll be okay." "I left a note that we're heading to the Hinamizawa district." "Well, of course, it's better than not being prepared at all." "Rika-chan?" "The Takatsudo district is past here." "Please don't forget to take off your safety gear." "Until a few years ago, people were actually living here." "The wallet was found in such a remote place?" "There are some villagers who have fields in the mountains." "Such people pass through here in the mornings and evenings." "Pass through here on foot?" "No way." "They go by car as far as they can." "They found the wallet on the ground while driving?" "The finder happened to have a stomachache and left the car to take a dump in the bushes." "It seems that's how it was found." "I see." "Irie-sensei!" "Hello." "If it isn't Oishi-san." "We meet in an unusual place." "That's what I want to say." "And what brings you to a place like this?" "A house call." "Oh no." "An emergency?" "No." "Well, there's something that concerns me." "Forest service field office?" "No, police." "I'll buy some time." "Take the kid and leave from the back." "G-Got it!" "Pardon me!" "Hello, this is the police." "Do you have a second?" "Yes, yes." "I'm opening it right now." "Stop!" "Police!" "A-Are you Toshiki Inukai?" "Yes." "Who the hell are you?" "Don't resist anymore." "Just give up." "You jerk, hand over the kid!" "Backup will arrive shortly." "There's no escape!" "Oishi-san!" "Where's Oishi-san?" "When I dropped him, he was blowing bubbles." "Damn." "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." "If you underestimate me too much, I'll show no mercy!" "I'll be waiting for you with this baby." "Oishi-san!" "Now this is kind of like checkmate." "L-Let's get out of here." "Oishi-san!" "It's impossible." "I can't do it by myself." "And they know it well." "Policemen can't shoot people running away in the backs." "Well, I want my retirement bonus too." "You're Cabinet Minister Inukai's grandson?" "Y-Yes." "This may become a huge problem." "In any case, there's probably going to be a scapegoat." "Wha?" "Akasaka-san!" "Mamoru Akasaka" "Are you all right?" "The bullet penetrated cleanly, but please rest for 24 hours." "You're from back then..." "My name's Irie." "Pleased to meet you." "If you need anything, please let me know." "How are you?" "I did something I'm not used to, so my entire body is worn out." "Were the suspects arrested?" " Unfortunately..." " The minister's grandson?" "He's fine." "Being cared for at the station." "I see." "Oh, there's one more thing I have to tell you." "I heard the minister said he's freezing the Hinamizawa dam." "Freezing?" "It's being cancelled?" "It probably means that in exchange for the hostage he withdrew the dam plan." "In other words, the minister and suspects' deal is completed." "But..." "Then..." "Then even if we hadn't tried, Toshiki-kun would've been freed." "Akasaka-san, there may be a force more powerful than we think..." "No, an organization at work behind all this." "What do you mean?" "Well, this is entirely my own thinking, but..." "Those two we tackled with were certainly trained no matter how we look at it." "Trained?" "It's hard to believe that a street thug could pull off such a scuffle." "Speaking of which..." "Yes, his shooting skill was also precise." "Well, everything is a mystery now." "Irie Medical Clinic" "Cigarettes" "What is this?" "What's going on?" "Why are they all..." "You're..." "Injured people shouldn't sneak out of the hospital." "Did you cut the phone cords?" "Even if you called, it'd only make you sad, Akasaka." "Me?" "Ni-pa~." "Go quietly back to the hospital?" "That would be better." "Do you know the way to the hospital?" "Yeah." "Your house is this way too?" "Yes." "I see." "Oppose the dam!" "Be ashamed!" "Protect Hinamizawa!" "Oppose the dam!" "Be ashamed!" "Protect Hinamizawa!" "Oh, right." "Oh, right." "Isn't this shrine your house?" "Well, something like that." "It's festival day today." "Festival?" "It's Hinamizawa's one and only festival, the Cotton Drifting Festival." "Cotton Drifting?" "Just like the name, the festival itself is boring." "Would you like to see?" "Yeah." "See?" "A boring festival, right?" "This certainly doesn't look like a festival." "This stuff isn't even near being the festival of cotton drifting." "When you look down like this, this village looks calm." "You said that the dam definitely wouldn't submerge this village." "Why did you think so?" "I don't understand difficult topics." "But you should be glad." "About what?" "At least peace will now return to this village." "Peace?" "To this village?" "Yeah." "Even though every year from now, gruesome, bloody things will occur?" "In a few years, I will be killed." "Killed?" "You?" "Why?" "This has been decided." "D-Decided?" "Who decides such a thing?" "This place is full of those who don't care about people's lives." "Even if I tell you this, nothing may change." "But erasing the moon called death reflected on the water's surface by casting a pebble may be possible." "What are you talking about?" "When They Cry" "When They Cry" "Akasaka-san!" "How many years was it?" "Oishi-san, long time no see." "One day, a few years after the kidnapping I reunited with Oishi-san." "After retiring, he moved to his mother's hometown of Sapporo." "I felt I wanted to see him to confirm something if nothing else." "Entrance Ceremony" "Miyuki was born from the late Yukie's womb." "She's Yukie reincarnated." "Yes, my wife, Yukie died on that night of the Cotton Drifting Festival." "I heard Yukie would go up to the roof and gaze at the sunset every day in the late afternoon." "And going back to her room, she lost her footing on the stairway and happened to land hard at an unlucky angle." "I heard Yukie said this to a nurse she had gotten close to "When he's far away under the same sky I want to pray for his safety."" "Did you cut the phone cords?" "Even if you called, it'd only make you sad, Akasaka." "Yes, that was Rika, who had discerned Yukie's death pitying me." "Go back to Tokyo." "Otherwise, you'll regret it very much." "Entrance Ceremony" "Entrance Ceremony If I had known the outcome..." "If I had known the outcome and gone back to Tokyo, dropping my work as she said Yukie's death might've been prevented." "Kanie Onsen Hotel" "Sure." "As you said let's assume Rika Furude was a prophet who knew the future." "Then why couldn't she predict that major disaster?" "Yes." "The end of June, 1983." "Toxic volcanic gas from Onigafuchi Swamp hit the village at midnight wiping out all villagers." "An unprecedented catastrophe." "The Hinamizawa district is still blockaded even now." "Well, but..." "Oyashiro-sama's reincarnation, Rika Furude was killed so the village instigated his anger." "And so noxious gas erupted from the swamp, wiping out the village." "It's a fact that this was said among the Hinamizawa survivors as though it were true." "Excuse me, did you just say killed?" "Yes." "On the day of the catastrophe, around noon elderly villagers visiting the shrine discovered her corpse." "A homicide?" "Naked and barefoot." "What we know is that after a drug-induced coma she was carried there, her abdomen was opened and her internal organs were intentionally pulled out." "Coma?" "Then the incision wasn't made after death?" "It's as I thought..." "As you thought?" "Oishi-san, what's your take on these serial, mysterious deaths and Oyashiro-sama's curse?" "Akasaka-san, you can only say that now because it went on for five years and had the worst ending." "Back then, those incidents happened by chance every year on Cotton Drifting day." "We all felt like, "I hope nothing happens this year."" "I don't think it was by chance." "That little girl knew everything." "Rika Furude?" "Yes, she predicted all the serial, mysterious deaths to me." "Right, the primary purpose of my trip this time..." "Hinamizawa Serial Mysterious Deaths ...was to find the link between the Oyashiro-sama serial murders..." "Hinamizawa Serial Mysterious Deaths ...and Rika Furude, who had predicted them." "Then does that mean all the scenarios were prepared a year before the serial, mysterious deaths?" "And as in those scenarios, Rika Furude was killed." "The girl knew about her own death." "Then why didn't Rika Furude run away?" "Why did she accept her death without trying to avoid it?" "Why didn't she send out an SOS to someone?" "She did." "She definitely was sending an SOS calling for help." "To me." "On this day next year..." "Yes, on this day in June 1979 the dam site manager will be killed." "Killed?" "His body will be dismembered and thrown away." "Dismembered?" "Following that year, on this day in June 1980 Satoko's parents will be pushed off a cliff and killed." "Satoko?" "The following year, on this day in June 1981 my parents will die." "Further, the following year, on this day in June 1982 Satoko's mean aunt will get her head cracked and be killed." "And in the next year, on this day in June 1983 or maybe a few days later I will be killed." "You?" "If all the deaths happen as predicted is the last death also in the prediction?" "But in that case, whose prediction is it?" "What are you trying to..." "I want to live happily." "That's my only wish." "I want to spend fun days surrounded by my favorite friends." "That's all." "I am not wishing for anything more, but..." "Rika-chan..." "I don't want to die." "Even until this year the Hinamizawa district blockade still has not been lifted." "To get my happiness, I had done everything but had done nothing to be blamed and accused of." "The sound of footsteps became louder every day." "Then I noticed the fact there was no time." "I was a believer in life, to be myself always." "And was asking whether I would be alive." "Give me a reason why not to adopt in this way." "Or judge me to be guilty of so many incurable sins." "Tell me why or why not?" "Complaining way too much." "Maybe I overlooked something fatal for me." "Preview" "Preview What meets is the compensation for kindness." "What falls is the maze to sadness." "What burns are thoughts toward vengeance." "When They Cry." ""Eye Opening" Chapter, Episode 1:" "FIRSTLOVE." " "Eye Opening" Chapter - Episode 01:" "FIRSTLOVE "Eye Opening" Chapter, Episode 1:" "FIRSTLOVE." " "Eye Opening" Chapter - Episode 01:" "FIRSTLOVE Can you believe it?" "Can you believe it?"