Hinamizawa Bus Stop 2

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Yoshimura: ...Oyashiro-sama... Do you know it?
Mion: Oyashiro-sama...
Tonegawa: ......... // Yoshimura-san... / What might that be...?
Chapter 2: The begining of the curse



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Tonegawa: ...Sonozaki-san, you know? / ...About that something...
Mion: Eh? // Um... I knew at elementary school... Well, first of all... // Oyashiro-sama is the name of this Hinamizawa's guardian god. / Every local people must know about her.
Arakawa: I'm tired to hear about Oyashiro-sama! Do you intend to tell us? About that stupid story!?
Tonegawa: Arakawa-kun know about her too?
Rika: ...It's a fairy-tale about Oyashiro-sama. // ...If you try to pollute Hinamizawa...



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Rika: .....She will curse you!
Arakawa: That's ridiculous! / There's always one, two stories like that in any hometown!
Yoshimura: The number of folklore about god's curse all over Japan is uncountable. / ...But, this curse of Oyashiro-sama is totally different with others.
Rika: ...She really does it.
Mion: ...Haha...



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Mion: Ahahahaha-! / Are you kidding? Something like curses is out-of-date in these days! // Rika-san too, you scared us too much~
Yoshimura: ...Mion-chan, it seems like you don't know about it huh.
Mion: Eh?
Yoshimura: ...No... It maybe understandable. Since full story was not covered on newspapers. // ...Let's use a concrete number. / ...It's four people. // ...Four staff members of Construction Ministry who attempted to make Hinamizawa dam... have died already. / They died in unusual way.



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Arakawa: How stupid! It was just a coincidence of misfortunes that often come one after another! // Just think! Our job is always related with this such dam project. / When we die on duty, it's believed to be a humble curse? We do not deserve suffering all those!
Yoshimura: If they died in a common way, I wouldn't say strange things as well. // ...But, they died abnormally.
Mion: ...Abnormally...?
Tonegawa: That's... about Kondou-san... who lived here last year...?
Yoshimura: Yeah. // ...It was big hits on newpapers.



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Yoshimura: An incident happened in the middle of the night, on 20th November last year... // ...Using a kitchen knife, a man stabbed to dead his family one by one, when they were sleeping...



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Yoshimura: About him, he cut off his own throat and dead too... That was a tragic incident.



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Yoshimura: His name is Kondou Yoshiyuki. // He was a member of Development Division in River Bureau of Construction Ministry, like Arakawa-san and Tonegawa-san. // Because he was one of first staff members of Hinamizawa dam project, he visited Hinamizawa many times.
Mion: ...That's because he overworked...?
Yoshimura: And finally, it settled down with that reason. // However...



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Yoshimura: No matter how many investigation had been done, / The police couldn't find out the main reason. // ...Did he get involved in kind of drug? / Such things had been rumored at that time... // However, in autospy result, it's reported they couldn't detect any effect of drugs... / His schedule at the time of the incident was overloaded, so the police made conclusion that was a spasmodical crazy act due to being overworked.
Arakawa: ...I think that was a tragic incident. / Surely it wasn't normal! // ...While it maybe true that, linking it with the curse of Oyashiro-sama immediately is too hasty!
Yoshimura: ...So true.



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Yoshimura: If the incident happened only one time, / I wouldn't link it hastily with things like curse as well.
Tonegawa: Which reminds me, Yoshimura-san. You said that there were four members have died?
Yoshimura: Yeah.
Tonegawa: ...But besides Kondou-san's case, I absolutely haven't heard about others? / If members were dead, we should have received reports definitely. / Right...? Arakawa-kun!
Arakawa: .........
Yoshimura: ...Excuse me, Tonegawa-san. You transferred in this April?
Tonegawa: Eh... Yeah. / Until April, I was in Slope Conservation Division of Erosion Control Department.
Rika: ...They're hiding it.



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Rika: ...Actually, there were more deaths.
Tonegawa: A- Arakawa-kun!? Is that true!?
Yoshimura: Right after Kondou-san's case, around the person in charge of Hinamizawa dam, one rumor took rise. / That rumor had been whispered before the incident. But until at least things happened, it was not a mere fairy-tale anymore.
Mion: That tale... by any chance...
Rika: Right...



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Rika: ...It's Oyashiro-sama's curse......!



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Tonegawa: Umm... / What does it tell? // I mean, Oyashiro-sama's tale...
Rika: ......... / ...Once upon a time... in this Hinamizawa village... // There was a poor old couple live with their three sons...



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Rika: On contrary to two elders working hard on the field... // ...Their three sons didn't give a care to farm work, and they yearned for a life in luxury. // One day, they left also parents and ancestral fields behind, began a journey to capital.
Mion: All three men ran away at once. / ...Well, because of that, the grandfather and the grandmother had to keep up their work, / To protect ancestor's homeland just by two old people...
Rika: ...However, it won't work, right? ...After all, one day, both collapsed and stayed in bed from then on. // To protect ancestor's homeland they surely need helps from their sons. / ...Then the old couple prayed to Oyashiro-sama. / "...Please tell the sons to come back..."



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Rika: ...Oyashiro-sama went to oldest son's side at first. // ...And she appeared in his dream, admonished him to return. / ...However, the oldest son who was tainted by glamorous life at capital, firmly refused. // Oyashiro-sama appeared in his dream for seven days seven nights. / ...But he didn't return to Hinamizawa.
[T/N: The text means counting 1 to 7]
Mion: Being stood by bedside every night is severe, isn't it? / ...This's just an area of harassment.
Tonegawa: ...And so?
Arakawa: In the end! / The oldest son was dead by curse...!



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Rika: Next, Oyashiro-sama appeared in second son's dream. / ...But he didn't return too...
Arakawa: The second son became strange similarly in seventh day, and died after that!
Yoshimura: And... the third son became to fear by his brothers' unnatural deaths. / To run off it, he came back. // ...And parents and son unite their strength to protect the fields. / ...The story ends. // The fairy-tale is considered to tell us a custom... / Approved, people who were born in the village, to live and die in the village.



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Yoshimura: ...That custom itself is not so rare.
Tonegawa: ...But... on the side... Kondou-san is not originally from this place, do you agree?
Yoshimura: Yeah, but it's not just that. // ...The point is the god called Oyashiro-sama is strict to villagers who try to leave Hinamizawa... / And outsiders who try to come in Hinamizawa. // ...Because she's the guardian god, right?



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Arakawa: Do you know why the old people in dam opposition faction, every one of them like to talk about this story? / ...They were first amused. // ...Because they didn't think they still could hear a fairy-tale like this in modern society!
Yoshimura: That's right. It was a fairy-tale.
Arakawa: ...Up until Kondou-san's incident happend, // ...He had always said this before he died. / ..."It's been difficult to sleep recently"... / ..."Whenever I try to lie down, I don't feel at ease and wake up"...
Tonegawa: It's just he overworked?
Arakawa: Not only that...



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Arakawa: He felt something's presence. / He turned on the light and searched, but nobody was here. // ...However, when he turned off the light, he felt it again... // ...Everyone was amused, put up the curse of Oyashiro-sama. / That, Oyashiro-sama appeared in his dream. // ...Kondou-san's state... ...was not a laughing matter just before he died.
Kondou: It exists... / It... exists...
Arakawa: .........He said "it exists". / ..."Every night when I try to sleep... it's there."



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Arakawa: And then, the incident happened... / At that time, the fairy-tale was no longer a mere funny story.
Text: Murder scene photos (A) / "What happened to the happy family!?" Mystery behind the bizarre murder case!
Arakawa: After that, the office became a haunted house for a while! // When they worked overtime, "someone" stood at their back! / ...They got suspicious whiff in nap room! / Even on electric train, "something" followed them! / Everyone said similiar things! ...There's a limit to how stupid they can be!
Rika: They're not any stupid.



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Rika: ...She really "exists"... That Oyashiro-sama...