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According to our first look,

it seems like the victim clawed at his throat with his own fingers.

This is a very strange way of killing oneself.

Was he on drugs?

I've never heard of a drug that drives someone to claw at his own throat till he dies.

Oishi-san!

What about this plank?

I think the victim swung it around.

We also saw several bruises on Tomitake-san's body.

He was attacked by someone after the festival on his way home to Okinomiya, huh?

Speaking of which, Takano-san...

Oh, the nurse at your clinic?

I think she was with Tomitake-san.

Kuma-chan, please check with the department if she was home.

Yes, sir.

Oh, also...

Check with the local police if any unidentified female body has been found tonight.

Yes, sir.

Are you saying Takano-san has also been killed?

Well, I'm not sure.

However, if she is not found, then this will be the fifth year.

Hinamizawa's serial mysterious deaths.

Also known as "Oyashiro-sama's curse."

ATONEMENT CHAPTER THREE:

DOCUMENT 34

{OP}

{Episode}

The syringe has all the hints to the mystery.

You're pretty good.

If Satoko is serious, then I have to become serious too.

Then I'm gonna get serious too.

Good, good! It's getting heated up!

I'm sorry to interrupt when you're having fun.

Ryugu-san, there's a visitor for you.

Okay.

Are you Ryugu-san? Ryugu Reina-san?

Who are you?

Since my car has air conditioning, let's talk in there.

What do you want from me?

Do you know anything about this man?

Isn't this Tomitake-san?

Then do you know this woman?

This is Miyo-san. Takano Miyo-san.

When was the last time you saw these two?

At the night of the Cotton Drifting Festival.

Did something catch your attention at that time?

Anything is fine.

Did something happen to them?

SHISHIBONE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Oh, it's Rena-chan, right?

Miyo-san.

Hello.

It's rare that you're at the library.

What brings you here?

I wanted to research something.

The serial mysterious deaths?

Shh.

I'm sure you've heard about it, right?

Hinamizawa's serial mysterious deaths.

Yes.

It will definitely happen again this year for the fifth time.

You know about the belief in Oyashiro-sama, don't you?

Yes.

These serial mysterious deaths are carried out by fanatics that worship Oyashiro-sama to show off his power.

That's my speculation.

A fanatical organization?

Ever since the village's name changed to Hinamizawa,

many longtime Onigafuchi Village customs have ceased.

I believe there's a group trying to revive those customs

and bring back fear of the name Onigafuchi.

I see...

For example, the three great families of Hinamizawa.

Demons gushing from Onigafuchi Swamp attacked the village.

Oyashiro-sama couldn't bear it, calmed them down,

and gave them human forms to coexist with the village.

Is that the legend of Oyashiro-sama?

What can you derive from this legend?

Um, it's about Oyashiro-sama, but...

What?

I've met Oyashiro-sama before.

Really?

Yes.

Before I entered grade school, I lived in Hinamizawa.

But due to my mother's work, I moved to Ibaraki.

Um...

You're saying that

you broke Oyashiro-sama's taboo of not leaving Hinamizawa, right?

Yes.

And then a lot of bad things happened.

In desperation, I did bad things.

Because I wanted to break myself,

at times I placed a blade on myself.

When I cut my wrist with a razor,

several maggots came out mixed with blood.

Plus, in order not to come out,

they tried to go back in the wound.

I scratched it.

I clawed at the cut and tried to dig them out.

It was...

It was so itchy.

Rena-chan.

That's when Oyashiro-sama appeared.

And Oyashiro-sama said there was only one way for me to survive,

and that was to return to Hinamizawa.

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

I will believe it.

This is my treasured scrapbook. I'll lend it to you.

I feel you won't make fun of it, and you'll take it seriously.

Let me hear what you think.

There might be things that only you can understand.

Also, keep the scrapbook and my research a secret.

A secret?

Because if those guys find out that I'm researching this,

then I might be erased.

"Those guys?"

See you later.

On Cotton Drifting night,

Tomitake-san and Takano-san died.

"Homing instincts and homesickness?"

CONCERNING MAGGOTS AND OYASHIRO-SAMA'S CURSE

Ouch...

What are you doing, Rena?

It seems like I'm being watched these days.

By the cops?

I don't know, but it's been ever since Cotton Drifting night.

What do you mean?

I think those guys are after Miyo-san's scrapbook.

Miyo-san...

Oh, you mean Takano-san?

Takano Miyo-san got killed.

What? When?

On Cotton Drifting night right after we met her.

Tomitake-san was also killed.

Tomitake-san too?

No one knows that!

It's because the police are investigating without disclosing it.

W...Why?

I believe it's because of her research.

Through the research,

she found out an important secret about this village.

What secret?

I only borrowed and read a few of Miyo-san's scrapbooks,

but it's so surprising, and I'm in the process of verifying it.

Verifying?

Car.

Could that be who's watching you?

Maybe.

I've seen it several times on a street where cars rarely pass by.

Are they the ones who killed Takano-san and Tomitake-san?

Probably.

I'm sorry.

I do want to help you,

but I don't understand the whole story.

Most likely

the people who killed them are Hinamizawa's three great families.

To be more specific, Mi-chan's family, the Sonozaki family.

No way!

You also know about the serial mysterious deaths, right?

Yeah.

The consecutive mysterious deaths

seem to be aiming at reviving religious belief of Oyashiro-sama.

But why did Takano-san have to get killed?

That has to do with the important secret that the three great families

have been hiding since long ago.

If that gets revealed,

then the sacredness of Oyashiro-sama will be lost.

Since those guys found out Miyo-san got close to the truth,

they got rid of her.

What is the important secret?

Well, I need more time

to verify it.

I understand.

Don't tell anyone about what I told you.

Not Mi-chan, Rika-chan, and of course, not Satoko-chan.

Never.

Yeah.

Then I'm going to go now.

Rena!

We're friends, right?

Yeah!

If the Sonozaki family is involved,

then does that mean Mion is as well?

It can't be.

Sorry to bother you, kid. Are you on your way home from school?

Yes, I am.

Kid, on your way on this road, did you see a girl?

She's wearing a white hat and white clothes.

Oh, a purple ribbon is attached too.

You didn't see her?

No, I didn't.

Oh, there's nothing serious about it.

Since we passed a girl, but a boy came instead...

I see.

I'm sorry, kid.

Since we don't come here often, we got lost.

Do you know how to get to the school?

The school?

Those guys are after Rena.

Rena, please tell me.

What's written in the scrapbook that led to Takano-san's murder?

To be concise,

if what's written in the scrapbook is true,

then their god will be looked down upon.

Their god will be looked down on?

Yeah.

DAM SITE DISMEMBERMENT

So those who want to revive belief in Oyashiro-sama

had to keep it a secret.

Sorry, Rena. Can you break it down so that I can understand?

In other words, Oyashiro-sama is not a god.

Not a god?

There are many teachings from Oyashiro-sama,

but they are all based on one thing.

That is not to leave and not to let others in.

To begin with, why was Oyashiro-sama born?

That's because demons emerged from Onigafuchi Swamp

and attacked the villagers.

From this point, there was a misinterpretation.

The demons didn't emerge and attack the villagers.

If one touched what emerged,

then that person became a demon who attacked people.

"What emerged?"

Parasites.

Parasites?

Yeah.

It's a bizarre, contagious disease that emerged from the swamp.

A bizarre parasite makes the infected person insane.

Would it be easier to understand if I refer to it as a virus?

Y...Yeah, that explains the legend well, but...

Then could Oyashiro-sama

be a doctor who came from a foreign country?

I can't be certain,

but let's say he was someone who can be referred to as a doctor.

That person might have tried to treat the contagious disease.

But it wasn't treatment. It was allopathy.

Allopathy?

I think at that time, that was all they could do.

And to prevent the damage from spreading, they created rules.

"You can't leave the village, and you can't let others in."

To not spread the infection, huh?

It seems the parasites can only survive in Hinamizawa

due to the temperature and climate.

When the infected person, the host, tries to leave Hinamizawa,

the parasites cause severe symptoms to stop the departure.

The interference is what Oyashiro-sama's curse is about.

Wait a second, Rena.

I don't know about the past,

but it isn't uncommon for people to leave or enter now.

Yeah.

That is because things went just as Oyashiro-sama planned.

The reason they sealed the village so long

was to lessen the danger of the parasites.

In order words, if a person went insane and attacked another,

then that person was killed along with the parasite.

The strong parasite that made people insane

was also killed together with the carrier.

As a result, only the parasites and people who were compatible with each other survived.

So, you mean natural selection?

This is the truth behind the Oyashiro-sama legend

passed down about how demon and human blood mixed.

I see.

And cotton drifting in the past

was to eat the intestines of the people who became insane.

But this was also necessary.

Was it for vaccination?

You're smart, just as I thought.

In reality, it wasn't a barbaric practice,

but rather something to create vaccines from those who died to bolster the villagers' resistance.

It sounds so scientific that it's interesting.

Yeah...

But for those who worship Oyashiro-sama as a god,

this theory can be disturbing.

True...

If the pathogen of this contagious disease was found

and announced to the public,

their belief in him will end.

If Oyashiro-sama's fanatical organization

is going to revive their god's power,

that means they'll revive a highly dangerous parasite.

C...Could it be that the goal of the organization

is to spread the ancient parasite all over Hinamizawa?

I think so.

The revival of Oyashiro-sama.

That's their ultimate goal.

D...Don't you call that bioterrorism?

Yeah.

Hey, Rena, is the Sonozaki family behind all this?

Is Mion also involved?

I don't know if she or Rika-chan, who are part of those families,

are directly involved.

But...

even if they aren't, if they hear about it,

they might be in danger.

Damn that Takano-san!

How dare she leave such a mess?

But I'm glad that you're on my side.

Of course!

We're friends, aren't we?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Number two!

Correct. Well then...

I told you, Mion, it's not that way.

You have to calculate it this way.

Gosh, it's so tedious!

Okay, from the beginning.

Um...

Oh, I get it!

It's wrong!

Aw, c'mon.

Don't "c'mon" me!

STAFF ROOM

I'll leave it to you.

Yes, we'll take care of it.

Oh, I was also told to hand this to you.

Okay.

I will show you the way.

It sure is hot.

I know.

But on hot days, curry is good.

Oh, really?

OKOKOGI LANDSCAPERS

The number you have dialed is not in service.

Please check the number and try again.

The number you have dialed is not in service.

As I thought, they're...

Did anyone hear about Ryugu-san leaving early?

Mew...

It's worrisome that she left without telling anyone.

Something bothers me.

{ED}

{Preview}

NEXT EPISODE

The blood that oozes out is the memory of the past.

What you noticed is the severity of the sin.

What is there is the decisive future.

When They Cry.

"Atonement Chapter Four: Earth Invasion."

Can you believe it?