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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 TWO: THE SIGN

{OP}

{Episode}

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 the safety.

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.

Hello, Oishi-san. What an unusual place to meet.

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 the door right now.

Stop! Police!

A...Are you Inukai Toshiki-kun?

Yes.

Who the hell are you?

Don't resist anymore.

Just give up.

Hand over the kid, you bastard!

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 back.

I want my retirement bonus, same as anyone else.

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!

AKASAKA MAMORU

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 not.

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 plan of Hinamizawa dam.

Freezing? It's being canceled?

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 met there

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 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-paa.

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"

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?

Akasaka-san!

How many years has it been?

Oishi-san, long time no see.

One day, a few years after the kidnapping,

I reunited with Oishi.

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 landed 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.

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 Furude Rika 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, Furude Rika, was killed,

so the village instigated their 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 had been 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.

Furude Rika?

Yes, she predicted all the serial, mysterious deaths to me.

Right, the primary purpose of my trip this time

was to find the link between the Oyashiro-sama serial murders

and Furude Rika, 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, Furude Rika was killed.

The girl knew about her own death.

Then why didn't Furude Rika 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...

Rika-chan...

I don't want to die.

Even now, this year,

the Hinamizawa district blockade has not been lifted.

{ED}

{Preview}

NEXT EPISODE

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 One: First Love."

Can you believe it?