YUKARI: "Mika! What the hell are you doing!"
MIKA: "It's fine! I'll be right back!"
MIKA: "Aaaaaahh!!"
YUKARI: "Mika!!! "
MIKA: "My camera!!"
YUKARI: "You idiot!"
YUKARI: "Just leave it be!"
CHISATO: "We have to hurry!"
YUKARI: "Why are we still not on the other side... This bridge wasn't that long last time..."
YUKARI: "It's almost looks like the other bank just keeps running away from us..."
MIKA: "I'm beat... I can't run any more..."
CHISATO: "Hey, but... at least the voices... have stopped."
A: Maybe we should turn around and go back? B: We've gotta press on!
A: Maybe we should turn around and go back? B: We've gotta press on! [X]
YUKARI: "We just have to keep going. There's no point in staying here."
MIKA: "What? For real?"
YUKARI: "What, why..."
YUKARI: "Now we're here, but why..."
CHISATO: "Yukari, stay strong!"
MIKA: "Chisato, those voices we heard earlier..."
MIKA: "To me it sounded like they were actually saying something."
MIKA: "D-don't tell me we've been cursed by that picture I took or something like that! Or have we...?"
CHISATO: "That picture?"
CHISATO: "Ah. Yes. I think there's some sort of connection."
MIKA: "......"
MIKA: "So, we've been cursed...?"
MIKA: "And it's my fault...?"
CHISATO: "No, that's not exactly it..."
CHISATO: "Mika, you remember that shrine we saw indicated on that very old map, right?"
CHISATO: "I'm... really concerned about the fact that that shrine has been removed."
CHISATO: "Maybe..."
CHISATO: "Maybe bad things are happening because of that."
CHISATO: "And what we saw in your picture surely was a hint to the true nature of all this."
YUKARI: "I've had enough! I don't want to hear any more about all this!"
CHISATO: "Wait, Yukari."
CHISATO: "Give me just a little bit more time..."
CHISATO: "The Torii at the end of the stone stairs... I have to go there one more time..."
A: "Alright, fine." B: "No! What the hell are you saying!"
A: "Alright, fine." [X] B: "No! What the hell are you saying!"
YUKARI: "Well, okay..."
YUKARI: "But I'm not letting you go there all alone. We're coming with you!"
CHISATO: "Thank you... Yukari..."
MIKA: "Uhm... That scream just now..."
YUKARI: "Is... Is this really still the park we know...?"
CHISATO: "I sense strong emotions all over the place..."
CHISATO: "And they want to show us all kinds of things... pictures... sounds..."
CHISATO: "We should be wary... But try to listen to them with courage."
MIKA: "Huh...? Listen to them?"
CHISATO: "Let's go."
YUKARI: "......"
A: "What's going on here, Chisato!?" B: "Run away!"
A: "What's going on here, Chisato!?" [X] B: "Run away!"
YUKARI: "Chisato, this scenery..."
YUKARI: "Is this... is this really still the park?!"
CHISATO: "So you see it too, Yukari?"
MIKA: "Hey, hold on, you two!"
MIKA: "See what exactly?!"
MIKA: "E-enough with the stupid jokes, okay?!"
YUKARI: "I... Am I dreaming?"
CHISATO: "No, you're not. The lingering emotions are showing you this."
CHISATO: "Emotions from the people that died... no, that were killed here."
MIKA: "There's a horrible smell in the air here!"
CHISATO: "It was probably a place for executing people..."
CHISATO: "To think that such strong emotions would abide here..."
A: "We should go NOW!" B: "But... why...?"
A: "We should go NOW!" B: "But... why...?" [X]
YUKARI: "But... why is this...?"
CHISATO: "When the shrine was still here, all these emotions were probably under control, appeased by it."
CHISATO: "But now that shrine has been destroyed..."
MIKA: "I'm hearing something like a... Buddhist sutra?"
YUKARI: "Maybe the voices here are telling us they want the shrine back?"
CHISATO: "I think so."
YUKARI: "But that's impossible!"
YUKARI: "How could we possibly..."
CHISATO: "Yukari, quick! We have to get out of here!"
CHISATO: "Yukari..."
A: "What should we do, Chisato?" B: "We should go home immediately." C: "There's still something I want to check."
A: "What should we do, Chisato?" B: "We should go home immediately." C: "There's still something I want to check." [X]
YUKARI: "Let's go on. We have to."
CHISATO: "... Everyone, watch out!!"
A: Jump to the left. B: Jump to the right.
A: Jump to the left. [X] B: Jump to the right.
YUKARI: "Chisato! Chisato!!"
MIKA: "Senpai, no!!"
give it back
GIVE IT BACK
SAKAI: "Ah, you came to."
CHISATO: "......"
CHISATO: "Filasto?"
CHISATO: "Is that you, Mr. Sakai?"
SAKAI: "Wait, don't get up."
SAKAI: "Please rest some more."
CHISATO: "Ah..."
CHISATO: "Uhm... I'm sorry, but... I was here with some friends... Where are they?"
SAKAI: "Ah. You needn't worry."
SAKAI: "They managed to dodge the truck in time. They've gone to call the police right now."
SAKAI: "You're the only one who fell into the lake."
CHISATO: "There were many down there... Many who were very angry..."
CHISATO: "Angry because the shrine has been destroyed..."
SAKAI: "It's because there's no moon tonight."
SAKAI: "That is when the pitiful dead run amok here."
SAKAI: "It truly is a sad sight..."
SAKAI: "Something like this just... shouldn't be."
CHISATO: "......"
SAKAI: "Let me tell you, what I know about it."
SAKAI: "400 years ago, the place atop this hill was a site for decapitating criminals."
SAKAI: "Or rather... Criminals is what they were all labeled as, but this also included soldiers who had simply lost in battle against those in power, or even common folk."
SAKAI: "It included men as well as women... And even very young children of tender age..."
SAKAI: "Certainly, when their head was cut off, they must have been filled with words of hatred and resentment for this place."
SAKAI: "What do you imagine happens to a head when you cut it off atop that hill?"
SAKAI: "It comes tumbling down..."
SAKAI: "Down and down it falls, rolling, rolling, until – with a splash! – it dives into the lake below the bank."
SAKAI: "Eventually, skulls were piling up, covering the bottom of the lake. And a horrible stench began to emenate from below."
SAKAI: "The government officials didn't know any better way to deal with this than to simply scrape out the bottom of the lake and make it even deeper."
SAKAI: "Which only meant that due to the added depth even more skulls could come tumbling down into the lake now..."
SAKAI: "The miasma rising up from the lake back then must have been horrible..."
SAKAI: "The crops in the area began to rot, infectuous diseases spread across the land, and many more misfortunes began to befall everyone."
SAKAI: "It was at this point, apparently, that the feudal lord finally decided to do try and appease the spirits lingering in this place."
SAKAI: "The site for executions was abandoned, allowed to fall into ruin, and instead a Torii and a shrine were built."
SAKAI: "And indeed it seems as if that had pleased the spirits and brought them some calm. ...Well, until recently, that is."
CHISATO: "What do you think will happen from now on?"
SAKAI: "Well, who knows. However, for the time being, it's best to just stay away from this place."
SAKAI: "But it's always mostly just been eccentric people like me coming here, anyway."
SAKAI: "You needn't concern yourself with this. There are others thinking about solutions."
CHISATO: "B-by the way... Thank you for staying by my side and helping me like this."
SAKAI: "Haha... I'm the one to be grateful. It's been a while, since I last talked to a young lady like this."
SAKAI: "Well then, good night."
SAKAI: "Come, Filasto!"
CHISATO: "Uhm... good night?"
CHISATO: "I will at least come see you again tomorrow and thank you properly!"
CHISATO: After Mika and Yukari came back, we quickly left the park.
CHISATO: There's no way we could have explained properly to the police what we had been doing there that night, so we thought it best to just leave.
CHISATO: Later, there was an article in a newspaper about the accident, explaining that a failure of the truck's gearbox had been the cause of it.
CHISATO: But that wasn't really of any interest to me. I knew the real cause for all the misfortunes happening around that place...
CHISATO: I knew about the strong emotions, the grief of all those that had been captured and murdered atop that hill, and somehow a feeling of loneliness came over me.
CHISATO: Finally, I folded the newspaper and got up to leave the house, intent on paying Mr. Sakai my visit to thank him once more as I had promised.
CHISATO: "Uhm... Excuse me?"
CHISATO: "Isn't Mr. Sakai living somewhere around here?"
PASSERBY: "Sakai?"
PASSERBY: "That elderly blind man with sunglasses and a guide dog?"
CHISATO: "Yes."
PASSERBY: "That'd be house number three. Are you perhaps... his grandchild?"
CHISATO: "What? No..."
CHISATO: "It's just, he had helped me out last night, so I wanted to thank him."
PASSERBY: "Last night? That's strange..."
PASSERBY: "You sure, it was really old Sakai you saw last night?"
CHISATO: "Y-yes... Definitely..."
PASSERBY: "You see, Sakai passed away from an illness last evening. Tonight is his wake, I think. So..."
PASSERBY: "Well, maybe I simply misheard the time of his death...?"
CHISATO: "W-what?! But..."
CHISATO: "A-and... What about Filasto?"
PASSERBY: "Ahh, that dog of his?"
PASSERBY: "From what I've heard, that dog tore his chain after Sakai's death last night and just ran off."
PASSERBY: "He was really loyal to his master, so... By now, I suppose he's..."
CHISATO: "I see..."
CHISATO: "Thank you very much..."
CHISATO: One month passed.
CHISATO: We lived our peaceful every day life and soon the events of that night seemed like a far-off nightmare.
CHISATO: But today I heard a certain rumour.
CHISATO: It seems that in the middle of the parking lot in that park, a strange shrine has been built.
CHISATO: Apparently, quite a while ago a group of citizen had called on the city for this shrine to be built there.
CHISATO: That's when I understood Mr. Sakai's words from that night.
CHISATO: "You needn't concern yourself with this. There are others thinking about solutions." he had said.
CHISATO: I remembered his words clearly.
CHISATO: And I also remembered the sound of his feet scurrying off that night, much faster than the first time we'd met. I think he might have been in a hurry to finish his last daily walk before he would depart for a very different journey...
Saving...
[I really should start cutting this out, I know...]
[GOOD ENDING]
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