who's also her employer for the Angel Mort and third with Satoshi because she was interacting with a family member of the Hōjōs whom the villagers despise for supporting the dam construction in Hinamizawa. Believing that doing so will cause Satoshi to be spared, an event personally overseen by Mion, which drastically strains their relationship. This, along with a demonic alter-ego she manifested in her grief, eventually drives her to mass murder, which led her previously latent paranoid schizophrenia to eventually develop into a full-on psychosis. One of the last words that they exchanged before he disappeared was a promise to take care of Satoko. In Watanagashi-hen and, more explicitly, Meakashi-hen, her resentment toward Satoko for her role in his disappearance causes her to forget this promise and murder her in cold blood. In Meakashi-hen, she inadvertently blames her family and friends for Satoshi's disappearance. But in Minagoroshi-hen, Upon remembering Satoshi's promises in this world. She exhibits strong love and protection for Satoko as her older sister figure. She works as a waitress at the Angel-Mort Cafe and is the manager's assistant for the Hinamizawa Fighters little league team. Shion wears a yellow ribbon in her hair, and wields a taser for emergency situations and guns in Matsuribayashi-hen. Played by: Erena Ono (film), Reina Seiji (TV series) One of Keiichi's best friends, Satoshi's younger sister, and Teppei and Tamae's niece. She has a distinctive style of speech, ending all of her sentences with ~wa, and is known for her boastful laugh. In spite of her young age, she temporarily has an impressive strength, sometimes lure them with traps and likes to practice on Keiichi. Although her personality is quite energetic and mischievous during the events of the games, her past was full of trauma. In Matsuribayashi-hen, Irie learns that Satoko accidentally shoved her parents from the cliff to their deaths below the river. Satoko suffers with the syndrome at that time and though Takano wanted to dissect her alive for study, Irie fought to save her life. She is one of the few characters to ever recover from the fifth level, but has to take shots on a regular basis. Though she greatly misses Satoshi, and feels that by being strong he will return, she comes to regard Keiichi as her new , and once even regards Shion as . She dislikes kabocha, and confuses cauliflower with broccoli. The mysterious