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[FILE NAME : KIRIE'S DIARY 1]
While I was looking out the window today, I saw somebody walking in the garden. He didn't notice me. He was just walking around leisurely, gazing at the trees and hills.

I saw him again today, walking in the garden. He saw me once, too, and waved to me. I don't know why, but my face got hot, and I ducked out of sight.

When I told the chief priest about it, he was terribly surprised. He told me I wasn't to look out the window again for a while.

[FILE NAME : KIRIE'S DIARY 2]
Today is the day I get to walk outside. I was walking in the mansion's atrium when he suddenly appeared from out of the guest room.

It's the first time I've talked to an outsider since I came here. It was so much fun !

He came to see me. He let me out of the room, and we went outside. He taught me the names of all the flowers.

Everything about this is so new to me ! My face got hot again today. But I didn't want to hide this time...

[FILE NAME : KIRIE'S DIARY 3]
He came to see me again today. The chief priest said we mustn't go out into the garden, so we just stayed in the room and talked.

He told me so many interesting things about the outside world. I feel so happy when I'm with him...! So very, very happy !

I walked in the garden with him today. How beautiful the cherry blossoms are !

He's taught me so much since we've met.

I never even feel lonely anymore.

[FILE NAME : KIRIE'S DIARY 4]

It's been five days already since he stopped coming. When I asked about it, the chief priest told me he'd gone back to his home village. Why would he leave all of a sudden like that...? Especially now, when I soon won't be able to see him anymore at all...?

I had a dream about him.

He was looking at me with sad eyes. Such sad eyes ! His eyes looked like they wanted to tell me something...

He didn't go home. The priests did something to him... But why ?

[FILE NAME : KIRIE'S DIARY 5]

The priests hid him because they thought I wouldn't have been able to properly be the Shrine Maiden otherwise...

What did I get him into...?

It's all my fault !

I just wanted to be with him...

I wanted us to be together forever and ever !

That's all I wanted...

I didn't want him to get hurt !

[FILE NAME : KIRIE'S DIARY 6]

The Strangling Ritual will be held soon. The master and the priests are performing their ablutions. And it looks like the whole family has gathered here at the mansion for the ritual. This mansion is usually so lonely... But for today, anyway, it's bustling with life.

One of the priests was staring at me today. He looked so sad.

I'm the Rope Shrine Maiden...

I have a very important obligation to fulfill...

But how can I perform my duty as the Shrine Maiden now, feeling the way I do ?

Now that I've found out the true joy of living ?

And now that I've gone and gotten that poor man involved...?

[FILE NAME : MAFUYU'S NOTEBOOK (NOTE 1)]
Himuro Mansion Investigation

Himuro Mansion was once the home of a large landowner that controlled vast areas of land. They also say that the site held some special significance that had to do with Shinto rituals of the region. (I couldn't find any detailed books about these Shinto rituals, though.)

The last master of the Himuro family line massacred his entire household. Later, another family that tried to live there disappeared.
Because of incidents like these, nobody visits the mansion today, and it lies in ruins.

Maybe that's why there aren't any accounts of the Shinto rituals, and why the exact location of the place isn't recorded anywhere.

September 24th
I've had a bad feeling ever since I came to this mansion. I'm leaving notes in this notebook just in case anything happens to me.
I've got to find Mr. Takamine and the others fast... I hope it's not too late !

[FILE NAME : MAFUYU'S NOTE 2]
I must have been passed out. I'm afraid it's too late to help Mr. Takamine... If only I had come to sooner ! The spirits in this mansion are very powerful. The force behind this curse must be here somewhere... And I'm going to start looking for it right now !

[FILE NAME : MAFUYU'S NOTE 3]
The mansion has started to change. As far as I can figure out, the ghosts are trying to pull me back into the past. The spirits are using their power to make parts of the mansion revert to the way they were in the past. The ghosts of that era are beginning to stir.

Just what exactly happened in this mansion, anyway ? And just what do the ghosts want me to do about it ?

[FILE NAME : MAFUYU'S NOTE 4]
I felt some especially powerful energy off of that woman in the white kimono. I think she's probably the one behind the mansion's curse. I have to appease her spirit somehow, before anyone else falls victim to this mansion !

I have to find out what exactly is keeping her drawn back to this world. And why did she let me go when she had me, I wonder ? Maybe that had something to do with it...

[FILE NAME : MAFUYU'S NOTE 5]
It looks like the ghosts of the women with the gouged-out eyes react strongly to sound.

If I'm really quiet, I can get away without being noticed.

[FILE NAME : MAFUYU'S NOTE 6]
Dear Miku

I know it's weird, but I see you sometimes here in the mansion. I run after you, but I always end up losing sight of you... There must be some kind of warp in time here now. We'll probably never be able to find each other... Were you worried about me ? Is that why you came ?

I hope you get this note, I need you to help me. The force behind the curse of Himuro Mansion is a woman named Kirie. She was sacrificed in a ritual, and her sad spirit was exposed to the Malice that spilled out of hell when the Calamity happened.

Now she's a miserable creature that taunts everything she comes into contact with.

Apparently, I remind her of the man she was in love with. I somehow just knew that when she touched me... I plan on going to see her now. If I don't, this mansion will keep right on claiming victims...

Kirie laments her ill-fated life but, at the same time, she also regrets not having been able to fulfill her duty as the Shrine Maiden. I saw the image of Kirie as a child. She was looking for somebody to help her-- to help her other, tortuned self.

Kirie is like a person divided in two...

Miku, I want you to help Kirie if you can.

You have to seal off the Hell Gate with the Holy Mirror...

[FILE NAME : MAFUYU'S NOTE 7]
I've been thinking about the camera Mom left us. I know it was Mom's, and she left it to us when she died. But it used to belong to Grandma Mikoto. They say it was the only thing Grandma brought with her when she was adopted by the Hinasaki family.

In some documents I found here in the mansion, there were notes about a little girl named "Mikoto" -- the same name as your grandmother--finding a camera with an uncanny power. And then I found out that Mikoto's mother, the folklorist's wife, died the very same wau Mom did.

Mom was no match for the ghostly power of that camera. It drove her mad, and she had to leave this world. Now, if that camera is the same one Mikoto's mother had... ! Anyway, I don't know all the specifics, but I'm pretty sure that camera is strongly connected to the curse on this mansion.

[FILE NAME : PRIEST'S WRITING 1]
Kirie has been acting strangely ever since she met the young guest. I do not suppose she is attracted to him... ? If she becomes too deeply involved with this world because of him, she may lose her potential as a proper Shrine Maiden. We will have to do something, and quickly.

[FILE NAME : PRIEST'S WRITING 2]
We followed the master's orders and hid the guest. I told Kirie our guest had gone home. We will have to carry the body far, far away, so that Kirie never finds out. I felt sorry for the poor man, but what else could I do ? We priests must protect the Rope Shrine Maiden at all costs.

[FILE NAME : PRIEST'S WRITING 3]
I believe now that the master's decision was a poor one. Kirie has realized that we hid the guest.

Kirie is depressed and anxious. The day of the ritual is fast approaching. I hope and pray everything goes well...!

[FILE NAME : PRIEST'S WRITING 4]
The ritual failed. The mansion is filled with the Malice. And that Malice has made the master lose his sanity. Who would have thought this Calamity would happen... ? It is all over now. There is no telling what will happen unless we find a way to close the gate before it opens completely !

[FILE NAME : LADY'S DIARY - FOLKLORIST'S WIFE'S PAPERS 1]
June 10th
Mikoto really seems to like this mansion. She's playing Demon Tag here with her neighborhood friends again today. I guess a big mansion is the perfect place for kids to play. But for people in my sickly condition, it's a little bit too big...

June 15th
Today was a wonderful day. My husband, my daughter and I took a walk in the mountains. I'm feeling pretty good these days, and I was even able to walk quite a distance today.

I had so much fun !

[FILE NAME : LADY'S DIARY - FOLKLORIST'S WIFE'S PAPERS 3]
June 24th
Mikoto is missing. She said she was only going to play Demon Tag here in the mansion. I don't think she would have gone outside... She had that camera with her... None of Mikoto's four friend have come home, either. It's as if they've all been snatched up away by ghosts...

June 27th It's been three days since Mikoto was snatched away from us. Everything has been so strange ! Ever since we moved to this mansion...

Ever since we got that camera... If I lost my sanity now, too, I wouldn't have to think about it anymore. I could be free...

I can see them... I can see them now even without the camera...

[FILE NAME : YAE'S DEATH NOTE]
Death Note

Dear Ryozo, it's all my fault... It's all because I let Mikoto use the camera that day ! And now evil spirits have gone and taken her away from us... It's all my fault. I'm sorry.

[FILE NAME : CHILD'S WRITING]
Isn't Mikoto ever going to come find me ? We're playing Demon Tag, and she's supposed to be the "Demon". Did she quit, maybe ? Hey, I wonder if Mikoto likes me ? If she ever comes and finds me, maybe I'll just ask her.

[FILE NAME : BLACK NOTEBOOK SCRAP - NOVELIST TAKAMINE'S NOTES 1]
Plot of My Next Work
- Junsei Takamine

A series of murders in a country village. Dead bodies turn up one after another. Murders that resemble cruel Shinto rituals of legend in the area. The acts of a man sworn to revenge, and the strange correlation between those acts and the folklore.

The man is gradually more and more influenced by the legends. The work will be the story of this man, proceeding in parallel with the tales of the local lore. Records of the past discovered after an earthquake. The story gradually blurs the boundary between the present and the past.

July 24th - About Himuro Mansion
Himuro Mansion is known as the home of a large landowner that controlled this region. But they say it was originally the place a shrine was built for performing a certain Shinto ritual, passed down through the generations.

But the people of that time kept the ritual a deep, dark secret. They were even forbidden to speak its name aloud. Today, almost no accounts of the ritual exist, aside from a smattering of folklore legends.

[FILE NAME : BLACK NOTEBOOK SCRAP - NOVELIST TAKAMINE'S NOTES 2]
September 13th, 9:30 am
We found Ogata's body. His head, hands, and feet were strangled off... What happened to him is just like the strange deaths that occurred here long ago.

There was a photo of Ogata near him. In it, there was something that looked like ropes on his neck, arms, and legs.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the Rope Shrine Maidens in the legends around here, the girls that had ropes tied to their necks, arms and legs, too...?

September 13th, 12:10pm
Tomoe is acting strangely. She's been mumbling nonsense all morning. Something about ropes... And mirrors... I can't blame her for going to pieces, though, after seeing what happened to Ogata.

[FILE NAME : BLACK NOTEBOOK SCRAP - NOVELIST TAKAMINE'S NOTES 3]
September 13th, 3:00 pm
Tomoe's condition is getting worse and worse. She can't stop shaking, and she keeps mumbling the same word over and over. I don't know if what's happening is anything supernatural or not. But in any case, I think we'd better leave as soon as possible.

Tomoe is in such bad shape, she can't even move. I guess I'll have to look for a way out of here myself. Even if we waited for help, I doubt anyone would ever come looking for us...

[FILE NAME : BLACK NOTEBOOK SCRAP - NOVELIST TAKAMINE'S NOTES 4]
September 14th, 10:00 am
That woman that Tomoe called "Kirie" looks just like the descriptions of the Rope Shrine Maiden in the legends. And there's a strong resemblance, too, between the way Tomoe and Ogata died and the manner of the deaths in the folklore.

So that woman is the Rope Shrine Maiden, is she...?

[FILE NAME : BLACK NOTEBOOK SCRAP - NOVELIST TAKAMINE'S NOTES 5]
September 14th, 8:00 pm
In the materials Tomoe gathered for me, there's a paragraph about five pieces of mirror passed down through the Himuro family for the generations. These pieces were said to seal off the Hell Gate and protect the region from a great disaster. They might have something to do with the current hellish situation.

Five Holy Mirrors in shrines around the area all broke in a small earthquake the other day. When I heard about it, it gave me the idea for this next work of mine. I think I brought a news article about it with me when I came here.

It says there were only five Holy Mirrors in existence.

But according to some legends, there is another--the True Holy Mirror. The folklorist also mentions this in his research documents, the ones I found here in the mansion. (I think I dropped the research documents somewhere when I was trying to escape that cursed woman.)

Here are my theories. I think that the five mirrors that were destroyed in the earthquake the other day had the role of "watching over" the True Holy Mirror. I don't think it was the earthquake that broke the five Holy Mirrors in the shrines.

I think it was a signal that the seal on the Hell Gate that the Himuro True Holy Mirror provides had broken for some reason. The five mirrors were trying to warn us.

[FILE NAME : BLACK NOTEBOOK SCRAP - NOVELIST TAKAMINE'S NOTES 6]
I'm about to go to the shrine deep within Himuro Mansion, where they say a piece of the True Holy Mirror is kept. The curse has already left its mark on my four limbs. There's no escaping it. About the only thing left now that I can do is try to reseal the Hell Gate. It's my last hope.

I've already found four of the Buddha statues I need to get a piece of the mirror. And I've managed to find an old document that tells of the location of the fifth statue.

"Make observance to the Buddha," At the base of the large gate, "So that the souls of the piteous maidens", "Can reach up to the heavens."

If all goes well, no one will ever have to read these notes, and I can use them toward the content of my next book. In closing, I would like to thank my assistant and my partner, Tomoe Hirasaka.

If it weren't for the words she left with me, I wouldn't have been able to complete this, my final work. If I don't return, please give her a decent burial.

Signed, Junsei Takamine, September 15th.

[FILE NAME : RED NOTEBOOK SCRAP - ASSISTANT HIRASAKA'S NOTES 1]
August 20th
It seems a folklorist named Ryozo munakata was studying about the various rituals passed down at Himuro Mansion. He supposedly left a book of research, but I can't find it anywhere. I wonder if there's a copy in a library somewhere ?

August 30th I still can't find the book. I'll have Koji Ogata from the editing department do a search for it. I doubt he'll be able to find it, though.

[FILE NAME : RED NOTEBOOK SCRAP - ASSISTANT HIRASAKA'S NOTES 2]
August 27th
The more I find out about Himuro Mansion, the creepier it gets. I'm sure it's the perfect subject matter for Mr. Takamine's next book, but, to be perfectly honest, I don't like this assignment one bit. It gives me a bad feeling...

There's no way I want to go to that mansion. But it's my job, right ? I guess I'll have to go. And I wouldn't want to waste the chance to work with Mr. Takamine just because of a little bit of uneasiness, either.

It doesn't help I have this sixth sense for the supernatural, either. There's such a thing as knowing TOO much, sometimes...

[FILE NAME : RED NOTEBOOK SCRAP - ASSISTANT HIRASAKA'S NOTES 3]
September 10th, 8:00 pm
I clearly saw the image of a woman, in front of the mirror near the entrance. She had long hair and a white kimono. There were ropes tied her arms and legs, and she dragged them along when she walked. I think I heard Koji talk about something like that, too.

There's something VERY wrong about this mansion.

[FILE NAME : RED NOTEBOOK SCRAP - ASSISTANT HIRASAKA'S NOTES 4]
September 11th, 6:30 am
I saw that woman in the white kimono again. She's trying to tell me something. She knows I have this special sense for ghostly things... The woman's name is... Kirie. So, it's Kirie, huh ?

I shouldn't get any closer than this. I don't want to get any closer... I'm scared.

[FILE NAME : RED NOTEBOOK SCRAP - ASSISTANT HIRASAKA'S NOTES 5]
September 12th, 1:45 pm
My sixth sense is telling me some children are playing here. I can't see them, but they keep calling to me. Are they playing tag ? Or hide-and-seek, maybe ? They might be the children in that photo.

September 12th, 4:30
There were human heads in that room... so many of them ! They were cut off by the Himuro family master... They were all trying to tell me something.

I never should have come here. I should have trusted that sixth sense of mine.

[FILE NAME : RED NOTEBOOK SCRAP - ASSISTANT HIRASAKA'S NOTES 6]
The mirror is breaking... Smash ! A broken mirror... People on the floor, all over the mansion. So many people. All those people ! What are they running from ? And then at the end, with such desperate looks on their faces...!

Something's coming this way ! From deep within the mansion... A coldness... It's colder than anything I've ever felt ! I don't know anymore if this is a dream or real...

[FILE NAME : RED NOTEBOOK SCRAP - ASSISTANT HIRASAKA'S NOTES 7]
A little girl in a white kimono keeps pleading to me. I can't keep my mind focused, but her voice rings my head and won't leave. But what does she want me to do for her ? I can't even get out of this mansion anymore...

Broken, Five pieces...
The mirror...!

Tell Mr. Takamine...
...the way to break the curse...

[FILE NAME : RESEARCH NOTES - EDITOR OGATA'S NOTE 1]
August 20th
Mr. Takamine needs some background material for his next work. There's a book about Himuro Mansion by a certain folklorist, and I'm supposed to look for it. A book about Shinto rituals and legends from every part of the country.

Author : Ryozo Munataka.
Title : Unknown.

August 22nd
I can't find the book, but I did some checking on the folklorist. I found out he moved into Himuro Mansion to do research on it. But after some certain event, he and his whole family disappeared.

I couldn't find the book, but I found a news article from that period about it. It's a small missing-persons story, but it might be helpful as background material.

[FILE NAME : RESEARCH NOTES - EDITOR OGATA'S NOTE 2]
September 10th, 11:00 am
It looks like the earthquake last month and the murders in that village have something to do with Himuro Mansion. This stuff is probably all going into Mr. Takamine's next book. He really seems to be into this subject matter ! His output rate should be good.

September 10th, 4:00 am
The entrance door is broken.
When in the world did that happen ? It won't open. I'll have to find another way out.

[FILE NAME : RESEARCH NOTES - EDITOR OGATA'S NOTE 3]
September 11th
I haven't been feeling well since two nights ago. Actually, it's more like ever since Tomoe took my picture... What in the world does the rope in this photo mean, I wonder ?

[FILE NAME : RESEARCH NOTES - EDITOR OGATA'S NOTE 4]
September 12th
Now there's another rope !
And another rope...!

[FILE NAME : RESEARCH NOTES - EDITOR OGATA'S NOTE 5]
September 10th, 1:10 pm
There seem to be a few devices in this mansion that are engraved with old characters. When I asked Mr. Takamine about them, he said they correspond to numbers. I understand the first few.

They're the old characters of the numbers 0 though 3. But I don't get the rest.

They're characters that have the same readings as 4 though 9, but mean something different.

(The characters are shown here.)

I guess each one has a special meaning. I'll figure out the rest later.


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