of Hinamizawa killing anyone even their own families and committing suicides in Japan. She became a detective to find their parent's murderer who was an arsonist who burnt down the Minai household in 1971, killing only their parents except Tomoe and Madoka who were the only survivors back then. Her deceased father, Yusuke was also a dedicated police officer and close friend with her superior, Yamaoki. Tomoe's younger sister and also a police officer like her. Unlike Tomoe who projects a serious and no-nonsense attitude, Madoka is cheerful and easygoing. She developed pyrophobia after a traumatic incident in 1971 where their parents died in their household fire by an unknown arsonist with Tomoe and Madoka, the only survivors which stills exists now as shown in Tokihogushi-hen as they are leaving a restaurant after dining there to get back to Madoka's car, they both nearly died when the car suddenly explodes in front of them which upon seeing the flames, she screams in terror. She's also Yamaoki's fiancee despite Tomoe's fury over their relationship but eventually respects them. The member of Kakiuchi Police Department as a detective and Tomoe's colleague and close friend. A 57-year-old police chief, whom Tomoe, Shingo, and Madoka work for as their superior. He and Madoka are in a romantic relationship and engaged to each other as fiances despite their thirty-years age gap which infuriates Tomoe who's opposed to this unnatural relationship but eventually relents and accepts them. Yamaoki knew the Minai siblings since their childhood as one of his fellow colleague, the sibling's deceased father, Yusuke was his close friend and stills miss him. Yoigoshi-hen A freelance writer set on unraveling the mysteries of Hinamizawa with Ryūnosuke. It turns out that she's actually Miyuki Akasaka, Mamoru's daughter as an adult (Sorimachi is her married name.) and is actually an undercover police officer who was assigned to hunt down Mifune, the renegade member of the Sonozaki family and his underlings to arrest them after the failed assassination of Akane Sonozaki who later died in hospital. Kotohogushi-hen One of Rika's ancestors and the heir and the Shinto Priest of the Furude House. He was found as a baby by Hanyū in a house fire after a battle with demons in his deceased mother's arms and was given to the villagers to raise him and met him once again as an adult twenty years later. Riku marries Hanyū, and