Hinamizawa Bus Stop 3

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Rika: Oyashiro-sama does "exist"...
Chapter 3: The Erased Past



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Tonegawa: ...Such rumors, I haven't heard them yet...
Rika: ...I'm not surprised.
Yoshimura: As the nature of Japanese people, they shutted their mouth on things of abstention. / ...By unspeaking to, they tried to pretend it didn't happen. // ...But it happened again. / ...There were second and third incident... / Whenever the bizarre occurred, they got scared by Oyashiro-sama's curse, and increasingly shut their mouth. // It seems the management worried about situation, they planned to conceal the truth as much as possible.
Tonegawa: That's ridiculous...! // ...The staff members died, and they concealed them! It's unthinkable!
Yoshimura: Particularly, they didn't do such things like hiding their dead body.



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Yoshimura: They controlled information in full field, made consideration that it won't reach to unrelated people. / That's for preventing the morale in the office doesn't drop more. // ....But, people who know of them do know them. / Right? Arakawa-san.
Tonegawa: ...Arakawa...-kun...!
Arakawa: ......That was... ...an accident! / Just an accident...
Mion: Haha...



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Mion: Ahaha... / ...Hahahaha! ...Oh please-!
Rika: ...What's so funny?
Mion: B- because... it can't no laugh. Something like a curse in nowadays... // Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! Laugh it, laugh it!
Arakawa: I laughed at them! // I suspected how such stupid things could be existed! / I did! My colleagues did! // Everyone! Everyone! Everyone! Everyone too!!



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Yoshimura: The next victim was Kakinuma-san in Urban River Office.
Mion (aside): Au au, he gets angry!
Arakawa: Numa-san's case was an accident! ...It was not the curse!
Yoshimura: Oh... / He was your friend...?
Arakawa: ......... / That person... // Numa-san was a big laugher, liked sake and gambling. / ...He was my direct predecessor in work. We were apart in age, but we always went drinking.



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Arakawa: Numa-san had a beautiful wife that looked younger than him 10 years old. // In spite of a social status like that, he drunk the night way, every every day! // ...Once in a while, "don't you think you should go home early?", I told to Numa-san. // He said, "Listen! Ara-chan, marriage is like hell~!" / "Be single with a lot of free time is the best!" // One day... / It was late for me to go home from work, and Numa-san drove me...
Arakawa: Numa-san, look like you're very tired.



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Kakinuma: ...I haven't slept well lately... / It's difficult to get to sleep.
Arakawa: ...Hahahaha! / Numa-san, come on! / ... Does it appear... even at you place!? That thingy.
Kakinuma: ......... // Ara-chan, do you not feel anything... / ...At night...?
Arakawa: Feel? At night...? Hahaha! How dirty your talk-!
Kakinuma: ...Truely, it "exists". / ......Yeah.



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Kakinuma: ...I felt uneasy and turned up the light... but only my wife and kid were in the room... // ......But I know... / It "exists".
Arakawa: ...Oh please, Numa-san... / ...You say it exists, it exists, it exists, it exists... but what is "it"?
Kakinuma: ......... // ......Do you remember Kondou-san? ...About one month ago, he also said those words...
Arakawa: About Kondou-san... you know, he was a bit of! ...I wonder how I say... It was true that he used to say them...
Kakinuma: Perhaps...... the "thing" was at Kondou-san's place... / ...is the same at mine...



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Arakawa: ......... / ...Please, let's not talk about Kondou-san!
Kakinuma: ...I know. / ...Probably, the thing that Kondou-san's said "it exists"... is that guy. // ...No doubt, that guy really exists. / As days go by, the feeling becomes strong.
Arakawa: Please stop it. This talk... is no fun.
Kakinuma: But, Ara-chan. // My feeling about his presence becomes strong day by day. It's the truth! // ...Whenener I open my eyelids suddenly... / It's like he's standing there.



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Kakinuma: I think... / I'll "meet" him soon... / ...that Oyashiro-sama...



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Arakawa: ...And late at night of that day... his car crashed against the dump trunk on opposing lane and he died... / It was an accident! // I had got off about 10 minutes before... but I saw everything right after that! ...I can say it was an accident! // But... I could never tell to his wife! / ...There's no way I can tell... that foolish story!
Yoshimura: At first, I really thought he fell asleep at the wheel. / But actually, it wasn't... On Kakinuma-san's corpse, his throat was scratched off. // The nails on both hands' fingers were peeled off and coverred with blood.
Mion: ...I can't understand the situation too much...



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Rika: ...In other words... Right before his death, he thought of something and began scratching his own throat. // ...Even the fingernails can be peeled off... That must be with a terrible force.



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Tonegawa: ...Why did such thing happen...
Rika: That man "met" him... // ......met Oyashiro-sama.
Yoshimura: Do you know Mori-san and Katou-san?
Arakawa: I don't know! / I really don't know about those two! // I only heard Katou-san's incident... but I don't know much about it! // At Nishifunabashi station in Chiba prefecture, Katou-san dove into a train and died. / Right before his diving, station attendant had witnessed his strange behavior, but I don't know any details.



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Arakawa: I don't know! / I don't know! I don't know! / I don't know anything!
Yoshimura: How about Mori-san? His case was in the office... You should have been working there.
Tonegawa: The office!? // I didn't know it! What happened!?
Arakawa: I don't know! / I went out to have lunch! // When I came back, the office was noisy... It came to an end! / When I went there, he had already...



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Arakawa: That's why I don't know! I don't know anything!
Tonegawa: This's the first time I hear it! ...I must have known if there were such thing in the office!
Yoshimura: ...As I expected, Mori-san was the fourth person. / I heard they had come to an agreement with highest offices in the police in advance about "special" circumstances. So, everything such like on-the-spot inspection was done in secret. / ......Do you remember this story? ...One day, there was an accident while replacing gas valve, and it became a scandal.
Tonegawa: Now that you mention it... Really, there was such thing.



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Tonegawa: About... staff members got injury while observing the gas fitter and they were carried out... / ...Seemed like a tumultuous day...
Yoshimura: Of course, it was a coverred story. The truth was quite different.
Mion: ...Coverred story? // What is that?
Rika: ...A false story... They lied to hide the truth.
Yoshimura: I'm not sure about many details since it's very hard to get them from mouths of related people. However, the following can be confirmed.



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Yoshimura: An incident happened around 1:00 PM on the X day of O month...
Man: Oh man... Mori-san's sleeping again... / I'll wake him, wait me a minute...
Arakawa: Okay.
Man: Mori-san, the lunch break has ended already. // If you still sleep, you will be late. / C'mon! Mori-san, wake up. // If you don't cut it out, the team leader will yell at you from behi---



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Man: ! // M-... / Mori-sa... // Gu-... / Ha... // !
Arakawa: What's that? What's going on there?



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Man: What's with you? Was there something?
Mori: ...It exists... it... exists...
Man: Eh? // ! // Gah-!



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Man: Gaaaaah!!!
Mori: Don't come... here... don't... come here. // Begooone!



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Yoshimura: Suddenly going berserk with an awl in hand, Mori-san attacked three staff members... // Before being captured, he had thrusted his own throat. It looks like he breathed his last... That incident happened only in one, two minutes...
Arakawa: I said I went out to have lunch! So I don't know! // Mori-san! Please stop! Mori-san!!



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Arakawa: What are you doing!? // Mo... Mori-san...? // Gah!! // Ngh... Why do you... / !?



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Mori: Aaarghhh!!!
Arakawa: !! // Mori-san! It's enough, please wake up!



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Arakawa: He does "not" exist! Noone does exist! / No way he can exist! He doesn't exist! So please, calm down! / That's a fairy-tale! ...So he doesn't exist!
Mori: It... exists... / ...exists...
Arakawa: That Oyashiro-sama! // Does "not" exist!!!



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[Nothing, just he screams.]



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Arakawa: ...It's behind here? The rest room... I'm sorry... I leave a minute.
Tonegawa: I didn't know... such thing like that...
Yoshimura: We don't know the identity of the curse of Oyashiro-sama. // ...However, definitely it is real. // And the key to solve those mysteries should be in this Hinamizawa. / ......So I come to investigate... that something.
Rika: You will die...
Yoshimura: Eh?



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Rika: Yoshimura-san... // ...You will die too.