Translated Stories/The Green Jasper Diviners/Part 2

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Epilogue

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Chiharu

Ng... Ngg...

Chiharu

Hah...

Chiharu

... Where am I!?

Shizuka

Charu, you woke up?

Chiharu

Shizuka-chan! Great, you are all safe!

Shizuka

Now that you said so, I guess they were real.

Shizuka

Both sinking to the bottom of the water and being purified by Charu...

Pinch

Chiharu

Is it painful?

Shizuka

Pae~in...

Chiharu

Then, it is real, given that rule.

Shizuka

Seems so.

Chiharu

But, where am I...?

Shizuka

I don't know either. I am sure that we are alive though...

Chiharu

A girl's room?

Shizuka

Or maybe the Heaven that looks like one?

Chiharu

Ehhhh, no way! See it as we are alive.

Sunao

You are both alive.

Shizuka

Sunao.

Chiharu

It's Sunao-chan!

Sunao

And this is my home.

Chiharu

So, Sunao helped us.

Sunao

Right, I did...

Chiharu

Thank you.

Shizuka

I would like to express my gratitude too. Thank you, Sunao.

Sunao

Ye...

Shizuka

Anything wrong with you, Sunao...

Sunao

The same question to Shizuka and Charu. Like, being drifted away.

Shizuka

If you put it that way...

Sunao

............

Sunao

Sorry. I didn't. I wasn't trying to help you...

Sunao

Instead, I attempted to kill you...

Shizuka

Huh? What are you talking about...?

Sunao

Anyway, take it easy, okay?

Sunao

I have a lot to say and a lot to ask about.

Sunao

And I prepared breakfast too.

Shizuka

I don't feel like eating anything...

Chiharu

... Sunao-chan was going to...?

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Chiharu

Sunao-chan...

Chiharu

The things you said just now, are they true...?

Sunao

Yes...

Sunao

It's true that I attempted to kill you both.

Chiharu

But why... I don't understand...

Sunao

I play a role that eliminates people who go against the village's intention...

Sunao

Therefore, I was attempting to kill. Mainly... Charu...

Chiharu

Me...

Sunao

If Charu wavered over the contract or said she wanted to go back...

Sunao

Or tried to eliminate the Holy Wavering Deity...

Sunao

Went deep into the sanctuary of the shrine...

Chiharu

――!?

Sunao

Being drifted away in the river with Shizuka was out of my expectation.

Sunao

The conditions put forward by Mikoshiba-sama was satisfied for several times.

Sunao

But Charu narrowly escaped from those moments.

Sunao

Because of Shizuka's intervention...

Shizuka

In short, Sunao is Mikoshiba's puppet...

Shizuka

An assassin that executes those who disagree with her.

Shizuka

So Charu who went out of her expectation, and I who wanted to guard her, were aimed at.

Sunao

Yes...

Shizuka

I can't believe that you are her puppet...

Sunao

But, it is the truth...

Sunao

I didn't want to do it either.

Sunao

I treated you two as my friends, so I didn't want to heart you.

Sunao

But the unexpected thing happened...

Sunao

Charu became sensitive to weird atmospheres,

Sunao

and Shizuka wanted to guard Charu, which raised Mikoshiba-sama's vigilance...

Chiharu

But you didn't kill us.

Sunao

............

Chiharu

You didn't. Sunao-chan helped us.

Shizuka

Why is that...?

Sunao

I heard what Shizuka said besides the river, and that stopped me from doing so...

Shizuka

What did I say...?

Sunao

You said... "I will also become a dead body at the bottom of the water."

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Shizuka

What did I say...?

Sunao

You said... "I will also become a dead body at the bottom of the water."

Shizuka

How did that very sentence stop you, Sunao...?

Sunao

... As you said, I am a puppet.

Sunao

What I know about myself is confined to my usefulness to the Land of the Rising Sun

Sunao

and my duty to deal with situations that threaten the village.

Sunao

I didn't know what would happen when I no longer fight as a diviner...

Sunao

Or not exactly, I didn't dare to think even if I was doubtful...

Chiharu

Doubtful...?

Sunao

Yes...

Sunao

I did know that a diviner will go out someday.

Sunao

But, even if I live outside the village... In the nearest village,

Sunao

I have never seen any other diviner...

Shizuka

At that point, my words...

Sunao

Yes, an awful scene suddenly came to my mind…

Sunao

Could all of those who went out... became the dead body at the bottom of the water...

Shizuka

That's the reason you helped us...

Sunao

Yes, to ask about what happened from you...

Shizuka

Then, it's my turn to talk... About what I heard during the coming-of-age ceremony.

Chiharu

In other words, from the one that I saw...

Shizuka

Yeah, Mikoshiba said so shamelessly to me...

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Mikoshiba

Let me tell thou the truth before thou departest.

Shizuka

The truth, right?

Mikoshiba

Exactly. The truth about ye diviners.

Shizuka

... Please tell me.

Mikoshiba

Diviners are existences that shatter devils,

Shizuka

Yes.

Mikoshiba

and the existences that will become devils in the future as well.

Shizuka

――!?

Shizuka

Eh, that means...

Mikoshiba

That literally means ye will become devils in the future.

Shizuka

No way, is it a joke...?

Shizuka

If that's true, why did you keep such an important thing

Mikoshiba

Such a harsh thing shouldn't be let out easily.

Shizuka

... Does my mother or anyone in the village know that?

Shizuka

And knowing so, you still turn us into diviners?

Mikoshiba

People who know are limited to us priestesses and dancers.

Shizuka

I don't understand...

Shizuka

If we who shatter devils are going to become devils,

Shizuka

isn't that a vicious circle? It's meaningless for us to become diviners.

Mikoshiba

That said, the wishes made in order to save the Land of the Rising Sun do come true.

Shizuka

――!?

Shizuka

Then, after that, we are...!?

Mikoshiba

Used up.

Shizuka

............ It's too cruel...

Shizuka

Weren't we just literally sacrificing our souls...!

Mikoshiba

Exactly.

Shizuka

............

Shizuka

Yeag... No... It's not time to cry...!

Shizuka

If I sacrificed my soul to the Land of the Rising Sun...

Shizuka

My honor can be maintained...!

Shizuka

Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted.

Shizuka

Proud of that, I can fight till I eventually fall...!

Shizuka

I see, the last ceremony was about acknowledging this truth and enduring till the end...

Mikoshiba

No.

Shizuka

――!?

Shizuka

Then why should you tell the truth!

Mikoshiba

Thou art becoming a devil before long.

Mikoshiba

The reason? Because it happeneth when thy jewel loseth its shine.

Shizuka

............ Wait...

Shizuka

What is the ceremony of coming of age about...?

Mikoshiba

Discarding the diviner that hath made the wish fulfilled and protected the village, and turning her into a devil.

Mikoshiba

No diviner ever goeth out of the village.

Shizuka

-!!

Shizuka

Mikoshibaーーーーーー!!

- Mikoshiba -

"Sorry..."

Pluff!

Shizuka

Ah...

Mikoshiba

Be drown in the waterfall basin... Be stifled and agonized... And become the game of the next diviner...

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Sunao

............

Shizuka

These are all that I heard...

Shizuka

I have told you what you want to know, Sunao.

Shizuka

As you have worried, no one ever goes out or anything.

Shizuka

Everyone is trapped at the bottom of the water and never makes it...

Shizuka

Now that you heard it... Are you still gonna kill me?

Sunao

... I don't want to kill.

Sunao

Neither do I enjoy being a puppet from whom everything is concealed...

Shizuka

Then, please be with us.

Sunao

But my dad and mom may be killed by Mikoshiba!

Shizuka

What... You mean you were threatened that way...?

Sunao

Yep...

Sunao

So I had to choose who to kill...

Sunao

Shizuka and Charu... Or my dad and mom...

Sunao

I dwelled in Mikoshiba's home, tried searching it, attempting to find a vital point to hold over her...

Sunao

I tried to find things like documentation, passbooks,

Sunao

or anything that could be utilized to threaten her in turn...

Sunao

But I found nothing...

Shizuka

I know I won't be killed... I know Sunao is kind...

Shizuka

Actually, you are not going to kill, and I don't know what's behind it.

Chiharu

What I know is just the kind Sunao!

Sunao

Sorry, Shizuka... Charu...

Chiharu

And even when left unattended, a diviner will be killed anyway, right!?

Chiharu

If so, let's launch a preemptive strike!

Sunao

Charu?

Chiharu

The old woman doesn't know I and Shizuka are well, right?

Chiharu

If so, let's go back and scold her secretly!

Chiharu

Then pump her for all the secrets!

Chiharu

About diviners and devils, the reason for sinking diviners,

Chiharu

and about Sunao-chan, everything!

Chiharu

That way, everyone can be saved!

Sunao

... Quite straightforward. But what if we keep unfound...

Shizuka

Wait, I agree to punish her,

Shizuka

but this time, I think the picture may be a bit more complex.

Chiharu

In what way...?

Shizuka

Charu and I fought against some followers, right...?

Chiharu

Yeah, those without a labyrinth?

Sunao

Without a labyrinth...?

Shizuka

Yeah, I thought so when I fought before too,

Shizuka

but now I think the case might just be the opposite, which means it actually had a labyrinth.

Chiharu

It didn't have, but it had...

Chiharu

... Ah.

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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -

Because the so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity.

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Chiharu

In, the vicinity...

Chiharu

Shizuka-chan... You mean the village is a labyrinth...?

Sunao

How can that be...!!

Shizuka

It could, as Charu said.

Shizuka

At some point, a devil swallowed the whole Tokime's Village,

Shizuka

and under Mikoshiba's manipulation, it is eroding us, the power of diviners...

Shizuka

If so, the picture that we will be killed eventually,

Shizuka

the villainy of threatening Sunao and eliminating the undesirable,

Shizuka

the presence of followers without a labyrinth can all be explained.

Sunao

... Indeed they can be explained.

Sunao

However, if that's the case, everything should have been circulating inside...

Sunao

Luring people unfamiliar with the conventions like me and Charu in

Sunao

could only cause unexpected things like what's happening now.

Shizuka

That could be owed to the devil's stupidity

Shizuka

or impatience for something.

Shizuka

These are no more than some guesswork though...

Chiharu

However, this is probably the evidence that the village is a labyrinth.

Shizuka

What is that plate?

Chiharu

A smartphone.

Shizuka

The rumored telephone...

Chiharu

This is a map, but Tokime's Village is missing in the image.

Sunao

In that case, the village really fell into the hand of a devil...?

Chiharu

Yeah, there must be an enemy to defeat!

Shizuka

Though I don't know about the smartphone, I believe in you two as long as you believe.

Shizuka

Let's hurry up...!

Shizuka

Sunao, okay?

Sunao

Sure...!

Sunao

You don't know what will happen if it detects your power and knows you are alive...

Chiharu

Before everyone is involved in, let's defeat the village's devil!

Shizuka

Right, let's hurry to the village.

Sunao

I should tell my dad and mom to escape soon too.

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Chiharu

Shizuka-chan, Sunao-chan, the devil's reaction is getting stronger...

Sunao

Shizuka's reasoning may be correct...

Sunao

Is everyone fine...

Chiharu

My mother and the man in the village...

Shizuka

And my mother...

Sunao

Devils are existences that consume humans by nature. Since things have gone beyond expectation...

Shizuka

We should first confirm the village's situation...

Sunao

True...

Shizuka

............

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Shizuka

No sign of human...

Chiharu

Yeah...

Shizuka

Everyone in the village is wiped out

Shizuka

even before things about the village is leaked to the outside...?

Chiharu

But considering the devil is still here, it might not be the case that it has already done so...!

Sunao

I agree.

Sunao

This place would have been useless if it had finished feeding itself.

Sunao

Let's stop thinking pessimistically.

Chiharu

Besides, can it be that it is waiting for us?

Sunao

... Thinking from the devil's perspective,

Sunao

since a diviners meal is more appealing for a devil,

Sunao

it might want to entomb us here and reset the situation...

Chiharu

Yeah, it already expected our returning...!

Shizuka

The devil would be alright without some people involved...

Shizuka

If so, it's meaningful to keep the village and spare the villagers' lives...

Chiharu

However, you can't get the answer by just thinking...

Shizuka

Unfortunately, the only fact that we know is that

Shizuka

the devil is still alive, and the villagers' situation remains unknown...

Sunao

............

Shizuka

What's wrong, Sunao?

Sunao

Nah, I just have some ill feelings.

「You may be too worried」

「It's probably better to think twice」

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Sunao

(I am probably just anxious because of the contingency...)

Sunao

(I thought too much...)

Shizuka

This is...!

Sunao

Shizuka felt it too!?

Shizuka

Yeah, I did... But from where...

Shizuka

How about you, Chiharu?

Chiharu

I have absolutely no idea... But it surely lies somewhere nearby!

Sunao

Nearby...

Chiharu

Nearby...

Shizuka

Nearby...

Shizuka

—!?

Shizuka

Charu!!

Chiharu

What?

Shizuka

Behind you!

...!!

Chiharu

Aaaah!!

Shizuka

Charu—!

Chiharu

............

Shizuka

Other followers also emerge from the shadow...

Shizuka

Sunao, that way Charu might later be—!

Sunao

............

Shizuka

Sunao!

Sunao

............

Shizuka

Sunao!

- Sunao -

I should have known this, but why...

BAD END (5)

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Sunao

(It reminds me about that, Mikoshiba...)

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Mikoshiba

But I heard from the daughter of the head family.

Mikoshiba

It seems that Hiroe's daughter gained a troublesome power...

Sunao

Yes...

Mikoshiba

Tokime's daughter...

Mikoshiba

I am really counting on thee, but thou couldst not help if thou still treatest this emotionally.

Mikoshiba

Thou art just a little girl after all.

Sunao

... But

Sunao

Then, how can I eliminate Hiroe Chiharu...

Mikoshiba

Even if thou just leavest her alone, the shadow will devour her.

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Sunao

—!?

Sunao

Shizuka, Charu! Your shadows!

Shizuka

Charu, behind you!!

...!!

Chiharu

Su Riaa!

............

Chiharu

It evaded my hit...!!

Sunao

Hit it soon!

...!?

Chiharu

Sorry, Sunao-chan, but I can't believe that they just evaded...

Sunao

I didn't recall it until just now either.

Shizuka

But you noted that they came from the shadows anyway.

Sunao

Mikoshiba's word came to my mind.

Sunao

She said the shadow would devour Charu...

Chiharu

Exactly, they are the same kind of followers that Shizuka fought...!

Shizuka

It was at night, so it shouldn't be related to shadows...

Shizuka

However, Mikoshiba knew that, which means...

Sunao

Everything, including the center of the clan, is apparently under manipulation...

Chiharu

More importantly, we have to anyhow make it before the nightfall, right?

Shizuka

Yeah, but we don't even know the location of the devil at this point...

Shizuka

So, let's go to check if everyone is safe.

Shizuka

Maybe we can feel the power of the devil during our action.

Chiharu

Hmn, that's it!

Sunao

Then, I am going to Mikoshiba's home...

Chiharu

Won't that be dangerous...?

Sunao

There is possibly some information I can collect.

Sunao

As the center of the village, her home may be where the devil hides.

Shizuka

... Please don't force yourself.

Sunao

Okay.

Shizuka

Then, Charu,

Shizuka

it may be dangerous, but let's go separately.

Shizuka

Time before the sunset is precious.

Chiharu

I agree!

Shizuka

Then, let me teach you how to use telepathy.

Shizuka

That's the technique that we diviners can use to transmit what we think.

Chiharu

Ah

Chiharu

(That's the same thing to the voice I heard under the waterfall.

Next: Chiharu 11 / Shizuka 3 / Sunao 4

Chiharu 11

Chiharu

(Did everyone escape...)

Chiharu

(or are they killed by the devil...?)

Chiharu

(If so, my mom would be in big trouble too!)

Chiharu

Nah—! No way no way no way!

Chiharu

(Because it somehow feels weird...)

Chiharu

(If a devil is an existence that hurts people, and if it manipulates the village,)

Chiharu

(then the narrative of "wishing for the Land of the Rising Sun" sounds weird.)

Chiharu

(Yeah, it feels contradictory.)

Chiharu

(Plus, if it wants to consume diviners, why not do so straightforward?)

Chiharu

(Instead, it formulates the trivial rules like the coming-of-age ceremony...)

Chiharu

(And made a phone call to my home...)

Chiharu

Hmn——...Hmnnn?

Chiharu

The phone call was made by the old woman...

Chiharu

Ah, that's enough! They messed up my mind.

Chiharu

How would Todoriki Kouichi think in this situation...

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- Todoriki (Chiharu) -

You need to accept weird truths.

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Chiharu

That's the triumphal line after the case is closed. How is that supposed to help the current situation...

Chiharu

(However, with weirdness intermingled...)

Chiharu

(Designating the scope, that's what matters...!)

Chiharu

............

Chiharu

Huh... Is it even meaningful to keep searching this way?

Chiharu

I already searched everywhere that I know. It must have escaped. Yeah.

Chiharu

(This... is not a follower of the devil...)

Chiharu

(The smell of the strange case from the shrine's direction...?)

Chiharu

(It seems stronger...)

Chiharu

............

Chiharu

Ah, I can't, I can't do that!

Chiharu

It's not time to be distracted by other things.

Chiharu

Hm!

Chiharu

... The next would be the devil's followers!?

............!!

Chiharu

Bring them on!

Chiharu

I am going to impose punishment on y'all!

Chiharu 12

............

Chiharu

A chink in the armor!

...!!

Chiharu's voice

Execution!

............!?!?

Chiharu

Good, good, it feels great.

Plump

Chiharu

Hmn?

Dancer

............

Chiharu

Uwawa... Are, are you okay...!?

Chiharu

Well, this person, yeah, the person who danced!

Dancer

............

Chiharu

(Did she just fall off as the devil's follower was defeated...?)

Chiharu

(Not that, but Shizuka-chan's mother said that a devil manipulates people...)

Chiharu

Or something...

Chiharu

(A person being manipulated...)

Chiharu

Correct, there is an imprint of the devil on her.

Dancer

............

Chiharu

Sorry, but I have to go...

Dancer

............

Chiharu

Hmn—? No, there isn't, seemingly...?

Chiharu

(Is she actually someone escaping?)

Chiharu

(I thought there should be nobody by then, yet there are people who escaped slower...)

Chiharu

(Again...!?)

Gasagasa...

Chiharu

............

Pa...

Chiharu

Go to hell!

Shizuka's mother

Come here, Ms. Hiroe! An open field is a better place for fighting!

Chiharu's mother

The place is better for fighting, but Ms. Tokime, this sword isn't, right!

Shizuka's mother

We have no choice but to go on ourselves anyway!

Chiharu

Mom and Shizuka's mom!

Chiharu's mother

Chiharu!?

Shizuka's mother

Chiharu-chan!?

...!!

Shizuka's mother

Before that...

Shizuka's mother

Tokime Isshin Style... Meter-Leap Decapitation!!

Chiharu

Meter-Leap Decapitation—!?

............

Shizuka's mother

Ah, the sword...

............!!!

Chiharu

Aah, it's okay! I'll defeat it!!

Chiharu

After that, we should contact Shizuka's mother and Sunao-chan!!

Chiharu 13

...!?

Chiharu

Is mom okay!? What about Shizuka's mother?

Chiharu's mother

Yeah, I am fine. Thanks, Chiharu...

Shizuka's mother

You are such a diviner... There's an untraversable gap between us.

Chiharu

No, you did an awesome job just now!

Shizuka's mother

Ha, thanks.

Chiharu

Didn't you two escape?

Chiharu

I searched over and over but found no one

Chiharu's mother

Of course, we evacuated with others...

Chiharu's mother

However, monsters emerges from shadows on our way,

Chiharu's mother

and then we were left behind.

Shizuka's mother

Why did they target us, I don't understand at all...

Chiharu's mother

Anyway, Chiharu

Chiharu

Hmn?

Chiharu's mother

I am not requiring your "hmn"! Where did you go!!

Chiharu

Hee!

Chiharu's mother

You just suddenly disappeared, and never came back.

Chiharu's mother

Even monsters like that emerged, do you know how concerned I was...!

Chiharu

Ah... I'm sorry...

Chiharu

I was worried about the coming-of-age ceremony, so I went to see.

Chiharu

Then I fell into the waterfall basin with Shizuka...

Chiharu's mother

Into the waterfall basin...!?

Chiharu's mother

Who did so...!? Is your body alright...!?

Chiharu

As for the body, it's as healthy as you see, and I can even fight with it quite well...

Shizuka's mother

Well, you said you fell into the waterfall basin during the ceremony...?

Chiharu

... Yeah

Chiharu

It's like, the coming-of-age ceremony is like a ceremony that kills diviners...

Chiharu

During which we are turned into devils...

Shizuka's mother

It's a bit beyond my comprehension. Is Shizuka alright?

Shizuka's mother

She said she would contact me...

Chiharu

Yeah, we came together.

Shizuka's mother

... Just leave the details till we evacuate to home.

Chiharu

Then we should also take the dancer I met just now.

Shizuka's mother

Dancer?

Chiharu

Yeah, a dancer that fell off just now...

Shizuka's mother

But there is nobody...?

Chiharu

What...?

Chiharu

That true...

Chiharu's mother

Was there actually anyone...?

Chiharu

Sure!

Shizuka's mother

Disappeared all in a sudden...

Shizuka's mother

Though it's incredible, there is another incredible thing...

Chiharu

............

...!!

Chiharu

Why they always follow and target us?

Shizuka's mother

That's what I am talking about.

Shizuka

But, from now on, we have to spare no effort.

Sunao

Okay, let's go inside.

Shizuka's mother

Shizuka...

Shizuka

I'm back, mom. I'll talk about the situation later.

Shizuka's mother

We are talking exactly about that.

Shizuka 3

Shizuka

A devil is lurking in my hometown.

Shizuka

(I am trying to explain it myself, yet I find it growingly confusing...)

Shizuka

(The customs that we have observed so far, as wells as the wishes made for the Land of the Rising Sun,)

Shizuka

(I don't know if they are still trustworthy, just because of the devil's lurking in ...)

Shizuka

(Even our becoming devils, is because it wants to kill us in a nefarious manner...?)

Shizuka

(It was kept secret from us because of that...?)

Shizuka

(Nah, that thing itself might be made-up...)

Shizuka

............

Shizuka

(The hometown)

Shizuka

(The hometown that I have always love, now seems completely fake...)

Shizuka

(I was fettered by the diviner-consuming rule in the fake world...)

Shizuka

............

Shizuka

(No, I can't... I can't think negatively...)

Shizuka

(Even if I was born in a fake world...)

Shizuka

The existence of my mom is real...

Shizuka

So other people... can't be fake either!

Shizuka

—!?

Shizuka

That house... is illuminated...!

Shizuka 4

Shizuka

Anyone there!?

Ooh! Hooray, everyone!

Our diviner is back!

"Uwa—!!"

Welcome back, Shizuka-chan!

Thanks, you are back...!

I wondered if you won't come back after the ceremony.

Shizuka

Well...

Shizuka

I was worried if any contingency would happen, so I came back with Charu and Sunao.

All three of you.

Then we will soon be saved.

Shizuka

But why are you all gathering here?

Mikoshiba-sama suddenly came,

saying that monsters were emerging, and ordered us to hide before things would cool down.

Shizuka

(Noticing that we were back and then ordered the villagers to evacuate...?)

Shizuka

(As expected, she was trying to wipe us out and revert to the original condition...)

Shizuka

............

Shizuka-chan, what's up...?

Shizuka

(However, everyone is possibly forged... just like the followers...)

Shizuka

... Is everyone real...?

Real...?

Shizuka

... So-sorry...!

Shizuka

It's the first time that the village becomes like this, so I became restless.

It's fine, because Shizuka has always been protecting us.

That's it. We also know that you became restless after getting injured.

I believe in you all, so please rest assures.

Shizuka

(They are probably real... It's justified to think so...)

Shizuka

It will be fine, thanks, madam.

`

Shizuka 5

Shizuka

Okay! After getting rid of the anxiety, I am fine now!

Shizuka

I am gonna defeat the devil!

Sorry for counting fully on you at this point, but please do your best!

Shizuka

Course I will.

Shizuka

We diviners are born for this moment!

Shizuka

By the way, have all the villagers gathered here?

Shizuka

Since this is an emergency, has anyone evacuated to the Great Sanctuary?

No, everyone should have been here.

Shizuka

... Then even if any contingency happens, it should be fine with my mother here...

Indeed, with the head family here, we feel much more relieved.

Shizuka

Can anyone call my mother?

Nah, wait... I haven't seen the head family's people.

Shizuka

Eh... Nobody saw them...!?

I haven't...

Shizuka

It can't be true...

Shizuka

And also, yeah... Where's Chiharu's mother!?

The one who works as a nurse?

Shizuka

Yeah, she gave treatment to me!

Sorry, I didn't...

Shizuka

But, what about when she is evacuating!?

We should have been together till then.

Yeah, we witnessed that too.

But I don't think I ever saw her since evacuated to this house...

Shizuka

... I'll search!

---

Shizuka

How can that be, only my mother and Chiharu's mother aren't evacuating...

Shizuka

The only explanation I can come up with is they got targeted...

Shizuka

(But, why...?)

---

Sunao

... Thinking from the devil's perspective,

Sunao

since a diviners meal is more appealing for a devil,

Sunao

it might want to entomb us here and reset the situation...

---

Shizuka

Killing all relatives involved...?

Shizuka

—!?

Shizuka

Telepathy... From Sunao...?

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Sunao 4

Sunao

............

Sunao

(Making the situation so complicated, it's probably all my bad...)

Sunao

(Because I became a diviner without Mikoshiba's permission...)

Sunao

(And I was punished by bearing the role of a murderer...)

---

Mikoshiba

What, she already became a diviner!?

Sunao's father

But Sunao did nothing wrong!

Sunao's father

It's our negligence that we didn't tell her about the diviner...!

Mikoshiba

It's a grave crime...

Mikoshiba

Have ye forgotten that ye are born in the branch family of Tokime Clan!

Sunao's father

We are fully aware of that...!

Mikoshiba

If so, things shouldn't have become like this.

Mikoshiba

Though ye are too naive, with a daughter entering the age of menarche,

Mikoshiba

for what reason ye dare not telling her about that...

Sunao's mother

............

Sunao's mother

We wanted to make her interested in that, about diviners...

Mikoshiba

Ye fool!

Sunao

No!

Sunao

Papa and mama did nothing wrong either!

Sunao

It's me, it's me who willfully made a wish and became a magical girl.

Mikoshiba

Were they call like that in the modern world?

Mikoshiba

Then, what did thou wish for?

Sunao

... For my papa and mama.

Mikoshiba

Trivial... Wasteful...

Sunao

How is that trivial...!?

Sunao

Is it so bad to make a wish for important people!?

Mikoshiba

Thou under the bloodline of Tokime, let me tell thou what's after that wish.

Mikoshiba

... Come and listen

Sunao

Wha-what...

- Mikoshiba -

"Thou wouldst have to redeem thy parents' crime with thy own behavior."

- Mikoshiba -

"Even if thou hast become a diviner wastefully There are mountains of things thou canst do in the village."

- Mikoshiba -

"If anyone going against my intension appeareth, Thou shalt kill that person. "

- Mikoshiba -

"Thou cannot refuse to do so."

- Mikoshiba -

"Kill others to redeem your crime or thy parents die to redeem your crime thou shalt choose one between the two."

---

Sunao

(Still, quite scary...)

Sunao

(But if I dealt with the devil faster, maybe I can help my parents too...)

Sunao

............

Sunao

Ensure Mikoshiba there if she is alive, and question her after the devil is defeated...

Sunao

When returned to sanity, ask her about what she thought before that...

............!!

Sunao

I'm coming in! I got things to do!

Sunao 5

Creak...

Sunao

Mikoshiba-sama...

Sunao

............

Sunao

She really evacuated with other villagers...?

Sunao

(Or, maybe, became a puppet of the devil...)

Sunao

............

Sunao

Not here...

Sunao

(Take this chance to search the shelves that I couldn't when Mikoshiba is here...)

Sunao

(... A gap in the wardrobe.)

Sunao

—!?

Sunao

(Something is leaking out faint light...)

Sunao

............

Sunao

... This is an old computer...

Sunao

(This absolutely shouldn't be found in this village...)

Sunao

............

Sunao

It is usable...

Sunao

Password...

Sunao

............

Sunao

Oh gosh!

............

Sunao

There are many followers in this room... and outside too...

Sunao

which shouldn't be surprising since this is Mikoshiba's home...

Sunao

It's like the followers don't come out until they gather in groups...

Sunao

(Anyway, I'm contacting Shizuka for help when fighting...)

Sunao

And I must defend the computer to the last.

Sunao 6

Sunao

Disappear from here!

............!?!?

Sunao

Hah... Hah...

Sunao

Though I messed pretty much everything up...

Sunao

It seems that... the computer... remains intact...

Sunao

Huh...

Sunao

(Password...)

Sunao

............

Sunao

(1234...)

Sunao

(Of course it isn't...)

Sunao

(Though I guess at such an age, what she can remember is limited...)

Sunao

(The common sense when a computer this old should be pretty outdated too...)

Sunao

(Somehow I don't think it should be that complex...)

Sunao

............

Sunao

(Information that I have collected for revenging someday...)

Sunao

(Seemingly complex things that I have remembered somewhere, like words... numbers...)

Sunao

(The number of the safe box...)

Sunao

—!?

Sunao

It logs me in...!

Sunao

(There aren't many files...)

Click, click click...

Sunao

(It's connected to the internet...)

Sunao

(Mail...)

Click...

Sunao

(Nothing... Neither any in the recycle bin...)

Sunao

............

Click

Sunao

(But there isn't much free space left...)

Sunao

(Commonly accessed folders)

Click

Sunao

Ah...

Sunao

(There are many audio files...)

Click

Sunao

............ It's muted?

Sunao

Ah, earphones...

Sunao

............

Sunao

This is...

---

Shizuka

I'm sorry, Sunao! There are many followers on my way too!

Sunao

It's okay. Take it easy. I already defeat them here...

Shizuka

... But, you don't look well?

Sunao

Because I experienced a struggle.

Shizuka

You got hurt...?

Sunao

I'm fine.

Sunao

(Is it something that I can say out easily...?)

Sunao

............

Shizuka

Can you help me with my searching later...?

Sunao

Searching?

Shizuka

Yeah.

Shizuka

My mom and Charu's mom went missing...

Sunao

How coincidental that they are you two's...

Sunao

That aside, do you have any idea about where to search...?

Shizuka

That's exactly what I want to know...

Shizuka

—!?

Shizuka

Wait, I got telepathy from Charu...

Sunao

(May as well... carry it to the grave ...)

Sunao 7

Chiharu's mother

............ Hah

Shizuka's mother

Ms. Hiroe...

Chiharu's mother

The existence of both diviners and Tokime Clan... I haven't settled for them till just now.

Shizuka's mother

... I understand your feeling.

Shizuka's mother

It's hard for me to imagine that the whole village lies inside a labyrinth...

Chiharu

I'm sorry for the abrupt comment...

Chiharu's mother

You don't have to, Chiharu. We are just a bit surprised.

Chiharu's mother

As your mother, I already prepared for the worst the time when you became a diviner.

Chiharu's mother

It's okay for me to challenge my common sense to accept them.

Shizuka's mother

Plus, it is harsher for you diviners...

Shizuka

However, we still have no idea about how real they are...

Shizuka

Though I know it clear that I was almost killed my Mikoshiba,

Shizuka

that Sunao was threatened by Mikoshiba to become an assassin,

Shizuka

and, that followers suddenly emerge from nowhere in the village...

Sunao

What about that we may... someday become devils...

Shizuka

Just read it as that Mikoshiba was fooling us and attempting to kill us in a nefarious manner...

Shizuka

It makes sense to think so, so I don't think it is the fact.

Shizuka

............

Shizuka's mother

What's wrong, Shizuka...?

Shizuka

... Just now, I became worried after some consideration.

Shizuka

If, I mean if the village really is a labyrinth of the devil,

Shizuka

The sceneries and people that I have seen might be no more than phantoms...

Chiharu

I and my mother came from outside, I can guarantee we are real!

Chiharu

And Shizuka-chan's mother was also attacked by followers,

Chiharu

so she can't be fake either!

Shizuka

Charu...

Shizuka's mother

Then from whose womb were you born?

Shizuka

That's...

Sunao

Don't think too much about the weird stuff, just focus on the here and now.

Shizuka

Yeah, sorry.

Chiharu

Anyway, there is a devil, make no mistake.

Chiharu

Let's punish it hard and find out the old woman!

Chiharu

Or we may lose the chance to question her.

Shizuka

If manipulated by the devil, she might lose her memories.

Sunao

Ah, that's...

Shizuka's mother

... You all should go now.

Chiharu

It's evening already...!

Chiharu

If we don't defeat it before the sunset, it will turn out the way that night did!

Shizuka

Right, when darkness falls, it enables the devil to do whatever it wants...

Chiharu

But, is it okay to leave behind our mothers?!?

Shizuka's mother

If it just comes the devil's followers, I am fully capable of dealing with them.

Chiharu

Even when the sword is broken!?

Shizuka's mother

So I want you to do me a favor before leaving

Chiharu

What...?

Bang!!

Chiharu

—!?

Chiharu

A lot of swords... In the wardrobe...

Shizuka's mother

Can you infuse the power of diviners into these swords?

Shizuka

I see.

Chiharu

What does it mean?

Shizuka

The power of diviners can be infused to different items.

Shizuka

If you infuse the power to weapons like these,

Shizuka

they become weapons that can be used to fight against the devil.

Chiharu

Ama—zing!

Shizuka's mother

So please come and infuse your power before leaving

Shizuka's mother

We have techniques, but not your power.

Chiharu

I see! We'll put it all in!

Shizuka

Sunao, you can come and help too!

Sunao

O—okay!

Shizuka

The only question left is where is the devil...

Sunao

Well, there is one sword left though.

Shizuka's mother

It's the treasure, so I guess we should leave it there?

Shizuka

It was infused the power of generations of Tokime's diviners.

Sunao

I see. It's an important thing.

Shizuka's mother

But the further story of the sword

Shizuka's mother

shall be told to Shizuka when she comes back.

Shizuka

What is that feeling of being "halfway" there...

Shizuka's mother

Be cautious.

Shizuka

... Okay, I understand.

The end of Sunao branch

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Shizuka

So, got any idea after you both patrolled around the village...?

Chiharu

Nothing at all here...

Chiharu

Still, I feel the shrine smells wrong.

Sunao

I went to Mikoshiba's home and find nothing in particular either...

Shizuka

The same to me, actually.

Shizuka

I checked if it was safe and patrolled there, but found nothing worth mentioning...

Shizuka

Do all of us really feel nothing...?

Sunao

I did feel the atmosphere of the devil.

Sunao

But, how can I put it properly... I think it's flat or even...

Sunao

It has some weeny changes, but the intensity of the reaction remains the same...

Chiharu

I guess feel the same.

Chiharu

Just feel "it doesn't quite change" and meanwhile search for everybody.

Chiharu

What about Shizuka-chan?

Shizuka

Unfortunately, the same...

Shizuka

Even an idea about whether it is approaching or leaving would be good...

Chiharu

Yet the distance remains the same even when we are moving...

Sunao

It doesn't make sense with three of us all feel so...

Chiharu

Hmn, right...

Sunao

It has some weeny changes because it is hiding somewhere...

Chiharu

Hiding... Hiding... Hmn, it somehow feels right.

Sunao

............?

Chiharu

It is time to ask Todoriki Kouichi

Shizuka

Who?

Sunao

Ah, a character in a drama?

Chiharu

Sunao-chan knows him!?

Sunao

Just the name and nothing else.

Chiharu

I see...

Shizuka

So, what can that Mr. Todoriki do?

Chiharu

Become Mr. Todoriki who solves cases in my mind and then ask him.

Chiharu

Hmnーーー

Chiharu

Mr. Todoriki, the reaction remains the same however I move,

Chiharu

what should I do at this point!?

---

- Todoriki (Chiharu) -

The culprit is lurking around you That's for sure You can try removing the map in your mind

- Todoriki (Chiharu) -

The world perceived as a flat plain actually comprises three-dimensional structures like mountains and the sky You should know that

- Todoriki (Chiharu) -

Try considering based on that

- Todoriki (Chiharu) -

In this world the so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity

---

Chiharu

Huh... That's what Todoriki told me.

Shizuka

You said "told"... But it's all your self-performance...

Chiharu

I feel impersonating make my mind smarter.

Sunao

But I do believe that there are some perspectives that we have so far missed out...

Sunao

Considering the differences between two- and three-dimension...

Shizuka

Got any idea...?

Sunao

Yeah...

Sunao

To be frank, I think it's underground.

Shizuka

Underground...?

Sunao

If you think about it from a two-dimensional perspective,

Sunao

your distance to the devil should have been approaching zero meters sooner or later,

Sunao

yet, if it is somewhere 200 meters below the ground,

Sunao

The difference of the reaction as you move, if any, won't feel quite significant.

Chiharu

With nothing in the sky, so it must be underground.

Shizuka

But, under the ground of the village...

Shizuka

——!?

Sunao

Do you know that...?

Shizuka

Yeah... Just one...！

---

Shizuka

By the way, have all the villagers gathered here?

Shizuka

Since this is an emergency, has anyone evacuated to the Great Sanctuary?

No, everyone should have been here.

---

Shizuka

The Great Sanctuary...

Chiharu

Where is that?

Shizuka

Deep inside the Holy Music Stage that Charu entered, that's where the ancient sanctuary locates...

Chiharu

The place that smells awful...！

Shizuka

Charu probably felt something at the very beginning...

Shizuka

The so-called truth may be lying in the very unexpected vicinity

Chiharu

Exactly!

Sunao

Then, let's go.

Shizuka

Okay, we are running out of time. Hurry to the Great Sanctuary.

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Chiharu

It smells stronger just as expected...

Shizuka

Is the smell Charu talked about exactly a case-related feeling?

Shizuka

For example, feeling the power from a devil, is it relevant?

Chiharu

Well... Not something that should be called power.

Chiharu

It's a feeling that awful things are going to happen, and the unpleasant feeling nauseates my chest.

Shizuka

You have always felt it from here, right...

Sunao

We can't know what it really is until we go inside...

Chiharu

Yeah...

Chiharu

By the way, what is the Great Sanctuary Shizuka talked about...?

Shizuka

The Great Sanctuary is a place to worship the god,

Shizuka

like Cubey who realizes wishes

Shizuka

and diviners that have fought for the Land of the Rising Sun.

Sunao

Have you Shizuka entered it?

Shizuka

Nope...

Shizuka

People who became dancers have been summoned in,

Shizuka

but I don't think most people have been there.

Shizuka

Though it was designated as an emergency shelter, the emergency has never happened until today...

Sunao

I see...

---

Shizuka

We've arrived. Go into the sanctuary and we should be able to go downstairs.

Chiharu

...

Shizuka

Charu?

Chiharu

Ue... It sucks...

Sunao

Wait, are you okay!?

Chiharu

Sorry... But I think I will be able to get used to it a bit later...

Chiharu

I don't understand... What is this... ...It's malice, probably.

Sunao

Malice?

Chiharu

You feel disgusted when seeing a person who does bad things, right?

Chiharu

I guess, it feels just like that...

Shizuka

If there's no reaction from the devil, can that be someone to arrest...

Sunao

Not only the devil, but also Mikoshiba might be there...

Chiharu

... I am well now. I've calmed down

Sunao

Then, let's start descending...?

Chiharu

Okay...

Shizuka

The reaction can be felt right in front of the staircases.

Chiharu

We did it. This is the right place...

---

Katsu, katsum katsu

Pata, pata, pata

Don, don, don

Sunao

How far should we go down...

Shizuka

I don't know... It's the first time for me to go in too...

Sunao

There are a lot of things that Tokime Clan's head family don't know either...

Shizuka

Rather, nobody but Mikoshiba know them all...

Chiharu

Maybe because the old woman is manipulated.

Chiharu

It will be a formidable enemy.

Sunao

True, we must be prepared...

Shizuka

If we die, everything will be buried into darkness...

Shizuka

It's our duty to go back alive and expose everything under the sun.

Chiharu

... I can see the light.

Sunao

Huh...

Chiharu

... Formidable malice and

Shizuka

... formidable... power of the devil...

---

Chiharu

............ What is this place...

Shizuka

Such a magnificent place... built without anyone knowing...

Shizuka

Mikoshiba...

Mikoshiba

Little girls... Ye actually know it's here...

Shizuka

Charu has long felt the smell.

Mikoshiba

Troublesome, it's troublesome.

Mikoshiba

I should have killed thou earlier.

Shizuka

Don't ever talk about killing at ease.

Shizuka

Tell us, everything so far, no one less!

Mikoshiba

Even if thou never askest, I shall tell thou at thy last breath.

Mikoshiba

Well, why not come and play with the devil to decorate the conversation?

Sunao

The devil!

Sunao

Shizuka, Charu! Behind Mikoshiba!

衆倒令專　方界諸聞　若持後佛

Mikoshiba

Oh, the devil, bury them for me...

Mikoshiba

And then it will be their parents' turn.

All 16

Chiharu

The old woman is manipulating the devil...!?

Sunao

It looks so, and it turns out to be a trick of manipulating devils...

Shizuka

Our enemy is Tokime's priestess.

Shizuka

This isn't too weird considering that even diviners can exist.

Chiharu

But... It's possible that she is actually being manipulated.

Mikoshiba

Go, crush them!

出佛爲應!!

Shizuka

Gu...! This is really the devil overwhelming the whole village...

Shizuka

However!

衆大因非!?!?

Shizuka

I hit it...

得是喜德

Shizuka

Not a critical hit...

Mikoshiba

Ho ho!

Mikoshiba

Ye little girls are generations behind

Mikoshiba

the devils trained for so many years. Go and melt them altogether...

沮名量趣　當南紫一!

Sunao

What is that water...!

Shizuka

Sunao, step back!

者肩金等　其興方利　出一故藐

Chiharu

It's still spraying like crazy!

Chiharu

If we can ascend...!

Shizuka

Alongside the wall...

Sunao

Kick the walls and hit the devil outright...

Shizuka

If so, we will touch its water at the moment we fall.

Mikoshiba

The crying voices of the little girls are pleasing and really good.

歡光吼生

Shizuka

Ku!

喜汝諸勒

Shizuka

Here, I can stop it with my power...

Shizuka

Stop there!!

Sunao

The water flow stop...!

Shizuka

Sunao! Escape to its top now!

Sunao

But Shizuka, you can't move, can you!

Shizuka

Escape to its top when it stops!

Chiharu's voice

Shizuka-chan! Sunao-chan!

Shizuka

Na, the body is wrapped by ropes...

Sunao

A jitte at its end...

Chiharu

I'm pullingーーーー!!

Chiharu

Liaーーーーーー!!

Shizuka

Uwa!

Sunao

Kya!

Chiharu

Success!

Shizuka

Thanks, we are saved.

Sunao

There is such a way of making a difference.

Chiharu

Eh hey hey.

Mikoshiba

Petty tricks...

Chiharu

The stage where we fight is here!

Chiharu

If we occupy the top of the sanctuary, the pouring water won't be threatening!

Sunao

Right. Let attack it here!

Shizuka

We just narrowly escaped from death.

Mikoshiba

It's useless to escape around.

Mikoshiba

Oh, devil,

Mikoshiba

collapsing the sanctuary isn't a matter. Be sure to exterminate them all.

顛不十敎　德威生舍　土空當佛!

All 17

Chiharu

Suffer yourself to be bound!

佛當舌斯!?

Shizuka

I bound it successfully...

Shizuka

Thanks, Charu!

Shizuka

Septuple Swords, finish the devil up!

願合者愍!?!?

Shizuka's voice

Finally, it's your turn, Sunao!

Sunao

If you want to melt us, we will in turn purge you!

Sunao

With this light!

得十佛下!?!?

Mikoshiba

Gu... Nu...

Mikoshiba

What, can't thou move! Art thou a devil like that and no more!

Mikoshiba

Let me see thy potential power!!

............!!

Chiharu

Getting so angry will blow up your head's blood vessels......

Mikoshiba

Dammit... Hiroe's fxxking daughter...

Shizuka

............

Shizuka

Old woman... Wake up.

Shizuka

You probably didn't manipulate the devil. Instead, you were actually manipulated.

Shizuka

If so, you are just killing meaninglessly...

Mikoshiba

Stop talking nonsense, Tokime's daughter.

Mikoshiba

Can I ever be manipulated?

Mikoshiba

All I have done is to follow the Shaman Deity's rules.

Mikoshiba

Everything is real,

Mikoshiba

my manipulating the devil, and the fact that ye will become devils,

Mikoshiba

and in addition,

Mikoshiba

that those who go out shall be abandoned; that those come from outside shall be killed...

Mikoshiba

For they are necessary for the village... Nothing more and nothing less.

Mikoshiba

For the sake of the shadow of the Land of the Rising Sun, all these are necessary.

Shizuka

If so, that thing is too...?

Shizuka

Is it also the village's convention that we became useless after having our wishes granted

Shizuka

and will be killed after being used up?

Mikoshiba

Precisely.

Mikoshiba

For that reason, ye should be buried

Mikoshiba

so as to make sure that the existence of Tokime is never exposed under broad daylight!

生是目謗　授弗達長　往法當輩!

Chiharu

Whatever you say to the old woman, it's useless now...

Shizuka

Yeah... But I still hold the hope

Shizuka

that she will return to normal after the devil is eliminated...

Shizuka

Though Mikoshiba is an annoying old woman, there were times when she was kind...

Sunao

Halt, Shizuka...

Sunao

Don't hold that kind of hope on Mikoshiba.

Shizuka

... It's really just a faint hope.

Mikoshiba

Oh, devil. This is thy last chance. Don't fail it this time...

忍行實相　稱光三汝　生受門須

Shizuka

Sunao, Charu, let's give it the coup de grâce.

All 18

佛色佛諸　應故至貧　以諸靡乃 彼地如國　意聞淨佛　如甚修覆

Chiharu

We—we defeated it... Victory...

Sunao

Though we consumed much energy...

Sunao

It dropped its ghost, so I think it's fine...

Shizuka

What about Mikoshiba...

Mikoshiba

Gu... Nu...u...

Mikoshiba

............

Shizuka

No way...

Chiharu

Is the old woman fine...?

Shizuka

It would be a big trouble if she dies here.

Sunao

Yes, leaving mountains of questions that we want to ask unanswered...

Mikoshiba

............

Shizuka

... Apparently she has just fainted.

Shizuka

Mom!

Chiharu

Mother!

Chiharu's mother

——!?

Chiharu's mother

Chiharu! Shizuka-chan! Sunao-chan!

Shizuka's mother

The devil was defeated, right?

Shizuka's mother

I suppose so because the followers suddenly vanished.

Chiharu

It was pretty tough, but we three endeavored and defeated it!

Sunao

It was nice teamwork.

Shizuka

Yeah. What about mothers...?

Shizuka's mother

As you can see, exhausted...

Shizuka's mother

Only one sword survives. Another second, and everything would have been over...

Shizuka

Fortunately, we made it in time...

Shizuka's mother

So, did you see Mikoshiba-sama with the devil...?

Sunao

She was manipulating the devil...

Shizuka's mother

In other words, they are collusive...?

Chiharu

That is still unknown.

Chiharu

It looked so, but it's possible that she was actually manipulated.

Shizuka

Chiharu, we will talk about that later.

Shizuka

Just ask Mikoshiba after she wakes up.

Chiharu

Okay...

Chiharu's mother

Then, let's go back to my home for now...

Shizuka's mother

May I also go to the house Ms. Hiroe rented?

Chiharu's mother

Ms. Tokime's home was almost devastated after all...

Shizuka

What...

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Mikoshiba

Mu... uu...

Shizuka

Finally she woke up...

Chiharu

Old woman, are you fine...?

Mikoshiba

............

Mikoshiba

... Ye are diviners'—

Chiharu's mother

Though there is no injury in particular, do you feel unwell?

Shizuka's mother

Ms. Hiroe, you don't have to take care of her too much.

Mikoshiba

Tokime's and Hiroe's...

Mikoshiba

Was that like, I got injured and then fell asleep?

Chiharu

... Don't you remember anything?

Mikoshiba

Sorry... My recent memories are blur...

Chiharu

Huh... Can it be...?

Shizuka

It's possible for one who got a devil's cursing seals to have things forgotten...

Mikoshiba

Thou mean'st, I, by the devil...?

Sunao

... But, rather, it looked like you were manipulating the devil...

Mikoshiba

I can't remember that... Sorry...

Mikoshiba

But it's true that ye saved me, right?

Mikoshiba

I have to express my gratitude to ye three diviners. Thank ye.

Shizuka

Anyway... We have things to ask from you...

Mikoshiba

... What

Shizuka

Whether your memory is blurred or not, I just want you to let us know.

Shizuka

About us diviners...

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Mikoshiba

... They are all that I have said, correct...?

Shizuka

Yeah, you said so.

Shizuka

At the coming-of-age ceremony, you said a diviner eventually becomes a devil.

Shizuka

You also said that as the shadow of the Land of the Rising Sun, a diviner can never go out...

Mikoshiba

They are all things I don't know...

Mikoshiba

But I don't think thou art a dishonest girl...

Mikoshiba

So please allow me to make an apology.

Shizuka

Is that so...

Chiharu

The old woman is lying...

Mikoshiba

That's troublesome...

Mikoshiba

Considering what I have done, it's natural for thou to say so...

Chiharu

It smells wrong... Still...

Sunao

............

Sunao

It's no longer possible. I can't tolerate anymore...

Mikoshiba

Toki's daughter...

Sunao

I thought you might admit all of them, but now it seems impossible...

Sunao

To protect Shizuka and Charu from being hurt by the truths, I had held back from telling about them...

Sunao

I thought if Mikoshiba would be punished, may as well bring them to the grave.

Sunao

But, but no longer!

Mikoshiba

What—what arr thou talking about...

Shizuka

What are those things that you held back from telling us...

Sunao

...!

Sunao

I, I went to Mikoshiba's home, right?

Sunao

At that point, of course, I didn't find Mikoshiba there.

Mikoshiba

If so, where was I...

Sunao

At the Great Sanctuary...

Mikoshiba

You fool, you mean I was there...!? At the holy place, with the devil!?

Sunao

Don't avoid the topic!

Sunao

You don't remember threatening to kill my parents, do you?

Mikoshiba

Sorry...

Chiharu's mother

Then, you shouldn't remember asking me to come and threatening me either...

Mikoshiba

That's... true...

Sunao

Since when...? Since when did your memories become blurred?

Mikoshiba

............

Mikoshiba

I see... Since Sunao's case, I guess.

Mikoshiba

One year... Or maybe... as long as two years if not less...

Sunao

If so, at least you should remember one case as normal...

Mikoshiba

Which... one...?

Chiharu

Sunao-chan... What are you talking about...?

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Sunao

I went to Mikoshiba's home, and found something...

Mikoshiba

............

Sunao

A computer, which shouldn't be here in this village...

Mikoshiba

............

Sunao

I entered the same number to the number of the safe box and logged in it.

Sunao

Then, I found some audio files...

Mikoshiba

... So what?

Sunao

The files were at least 2 years old...

Mikoshiba

... Thou listenedst to them?

Sunao

Yes... Clearly with my ears...

Mikoshiba

............

Mikoshiba

So... So... Thou listenedst to them...

Sunao

What are they... Tell me...!!

Mikoshiba

Thou'd better not to know.

Mikoshiba

Ignorance is bliss.

Sunao

Are you trying to bluff it out!

Mikoshiba

... Yeah, I shouldn't have allowed people from outside in...

Mikoshiba

Let me tell ye, there is no written documentation,

Mikoshiba

so no villager would be able to read about them.

Sunao

Mikoshiba...!

Creak...

Sunao

Eh...

Mikoshiba

Gu...

Sunao

Mikoshiba...!?

Chiharu

Old woman!

Shizuka

Wait, what's up...!?

Chiharu

Mom!

Chiharu's mother

Leave this house!

Chiharu

The old woman, is dead, really...？

Shizuka's mother

Yeah...

Shizuka's mother

Poison was put between her back teeth.

Shizuka's mother

Perhaps she attempted to escape to Hades.

Chiharu

Even if she didn't...

Chiharu's mother

Charu...

Sunao

That means she admitted them... Her wrongdoings...

Chiharu

But... but... He said any bad guy can be reformed...

Chiharu

Mr. Todoriki said so...

Shizuka

It's quite possible that people who can't exist...

Chiharu

............

Sunao

I can't forgive that...

Sunao

Doing malicious things at her will, and even burying them in the darkness when dying...!

Sunao

Sorry... I shouldn't have said like that...

Sunao

I should have... ask more from Mikoshiba before saying that...!

Shizuka's mother

Sunao-chan, calm down...

Shizuka

Probably, I would have interrogated even if Sunao wouldn't...

Shizuka

Because the dead bodies I saw underwater weren't accumulated within just a couple of years.

Shizuka

She had always... always...

Shizuka

been simply killing diviners, regardless of devils...

Shizuka

...Son Sunao, what did your heard about...?

Sunao

... I don't even want to talk about that.

Shizuka

Something to do with me and Chiharu, right...

Shizuka

Just let me know...

Sunao

Don't. You will regret it!

Shizuka

But it's about us, right?

Shizuka

It's unfair if you carry it to the grave.

Chiharu

Yeah, Sunao-chan

Chiharu

We want to know about our things, so let us bear it too.

Sunao

............

Sunao

What I heard... what I heard was

Sunao

...!

Sunao

The pricing of lives...