assembly hall from the Yakuza members coming to dispose of every one of them, she, Akira, and Arakawa work together to find the heirloom but as they set foot into the Sonozaki household, Mion ends up fatally shot by one of Mifune's henchmen who's also her deceased mother's assassin and kills him in retaliation but since it is Mion's spirit now possessing her sister's body, she magically heals her, promises her that they will reborn together as twins once again before leaving her body permanently so that Shion will live on as an heir to the Sonozaki family. A tabloid reporter who travels to Hinamizawa to write the occult article about it accompanied by Miyuki only in the console adaptation when its lockdown ended in the present day. It's revealed that his real reason is to discover his estranged father's death as a journalist when he was investigating the Great Hinamizawa Disaster which ended with him interviewing Keiichi who became mentally ill after surviving the school's explosion who cursed him to die 12 years later in the boating accident according to the cassette tape-recorded by him that Arakawa listened to. A young woman who visits Hinamizawa with her boyfriend, Takumi whom she met in college and fell in love after the lockdown ends. She and Takumi stay in the Furude Shrine assembly hall for the night and the lights attract the attention of the others, causing them all to meet. Though Takumi is believed to still be alive and just sleeping at this point, he is actually already dead. The group eventually realizes that she is the one who killed Takumi, having finally grown tired of his constant abuse of her. When she hears his plans to fix their relationship and his sorrow over how he treated her, she falls into a state of despair and chooses to stay behind with his body. The group leaves her with a gun, and it seems she might commit suicide. In the end, she instead chooses to come to Otobe's rescue with the gun. She plans to turn herself in once they leave the village, and start her life over again. Takumi visits Hinamizawa with his girlfriend, Yae, at her urging. He and Yae first met in college and fell in love with each other. After graduating and living together, Takumi, a genuinely kind man pursued his music career as a guitarist in