delusion brought on by trauma, and that Natsumi was actually the one who killed everyone, and Haruko is presumed innocent. Natsumi's father and Haruko's husband. He's an easygoing and silent person and mostly seen reading a newspaper. Because of his job, he had to move from Okinomiya along with his family. In Onisarashi-hen he helps Natsumi hide her grandmother, Aki's chopped up corpse in the Gifu prefecture mountain area, but because of his moral conscience and courage, he deliberately leaves Aki's decapitated head right next to the open road, and the police find it quickly. After the head was found, he suggests Natsumi to turn herself in but since she's at the last stage of the Hinamizawa Syndrome, she's infuriated and kills him with a fruit knife. Yoigoshi-hen A young man who wanders through the forest of the deserted Hinamizawa. He bears a strong resemblance to Satoshi which surprise Mion when they first met. It is revealed that he came to the deserted village to commit suicide with several others using the method of Charcoal-burning suicide after accumulating a large debt he made as he was studying in Tokyo as a college student to impress his new friends and girlfriend, but he ended up not being able to go through with it and was planned to pay off his debt by stealing a credit card and bank book off a fellow passenger until Mion discovers and reveals his dishonest actions to everyone. Fortunately, due to Mion's stern lecture and summoning one of his deceased friends to talk to him, he decides to atone for himself by giving back her two items, helping Mion who was actually Shion being possessed by the real Mion's spirit to retrieve the Sonozaki family's heirloom, a small golden bell from Mifune, the scheming renegade member of the Sonozaki at the risk of his life and turn himself in afterward after parting with Shion. As a woman claiming to have been in the village ever since the disaster. She is eventually revealed to be Shion, possessed by Mion who had died in the explosion of the school caused by Rena along with Satoko, Rika, and many children 23 years earlier. She arrived in Hinamizawa in search of an item, her family's heirloom that will prove her right to be the next head of the Sonozaki family. As Mion protects everyone she meets at the Furude shrine