Keiichi agrees to cooperate with the detective in order to find out the truth.įearing his friends, Keiichi feigns sickness to skip school, and he learns from Ōishi that all of his friends are connected with the previous Festivals' victims. On the day after the Festival, Keiichi learns from the local detective Ōishi Kuraudo that Tomitake was killed on the previous night. Keiichi tries to ignore Hinamizawa's past and return to his peaceful life, but as the day of the Watanagashi Festival approaches he learns about Oyashiro- sama's curse from Tomitake's friend, Takano Miyo. Keiichi questions his friends about the incident but they unwaveringly deny it, elevating Keiichi's doubt in them. However, Keiichi's happy days come to an end as he learns from the visiting nature photographer Tomitake Jirō that there was a bloody murder in Hinamizawa. Keiichi becomes a member of a club where his new friends Sonozaki Mion, Ryūgū Rena, Hōjō Satoko, and Furude Rika play games after school. This chapter mainly focuses on Keiichi's and his friends' happy days. If you are sensitive to spoilers, proceed with caution.Īt first the reader is shown the happy life of Maebara Keiichi who recently moved to the rural village Hinamizawa. It implies a possible supernatural influence on him as well influence from paranoia-induced hallucinations. This first arc does not reveal the cause of Keiichi's paranoia and eventual violence. It is told from the perspective of Maebara Keiichi, who grows increasingly paranoid and eventually violent as he progressively feels that his friends are trying to kill him. Oni kakushi-hen (鬼隠し編, Spirited Away by the Demon Chapter) is the first arc in the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series, released on Augand preceding Wata nagashi-hen.

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