p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Chapter 1- As If I Met The Demon In My Dream/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""So with that, please look forward to our next story-'Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni- Watanagashi-hen!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""But seriously, it's not the curse." said Rika. "Right now, I'll explain everything-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""And why can't you just accept the truth?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"What was that? Who was that? At the door./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" /p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"At the door./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"At the door was... Hanyuu./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Hanyuu suddenly barged in... wait, was that her? It... doesn't look like her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"The eerie spirit had the shape of Hanyuu, but with a more shadowy outline. It's voice was also.. deeper. It sounded more like a male demon./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Yet it proclaimed: "This was all the work of Oyashiro-sama, and you're all blind!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Hanyuu?!" said Rika, clearly dumbfounded./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Looks like you lost." said the spirit./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Everyone around them muttered in confusion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Listen here, Rika. I've been... watching you. And I really wanted to play with you. But you lost! Listen here- your mission was to find out who killed you. And now you know- the great Oyashiro-sama did it!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Impossible! You were nothing but friendly to me!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Can you really trust me, though? How do you know I have not been plotting behind your back this whole time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""What? I...You! Who are you?! Because you are cretainly not her!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Everyone around them exchanges confused glances, as they of course were even more clueless as to what to make of this. Everyone except Takano, who was strangely absent. Not that Rika noticed- she was too busy with the strange apparition that dared to pose as her friend./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Listen, Rika." said another, taller purple-haired one, the one called Featherine. "I regret that she seems to not have fully explained the rules of this game."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Hanyuu? Game? What?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""A game of chess. In a way. So, Lambdadelta here," ah, so it's that pink stalker, "has proclaimed that the culprit behind the incidents is Oyashiro-sama. To win, we must prove to her that her theory is false. We must find and expose the true culprit. We must explain everything through human tricks or something of that nature. Should we fail to do so, she will become the new Oyashiro-sama."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Okay...? I'm confused."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""You'll get it in time." said the shadowy one. "You'll go through another kakera, where different events will unfold, and you'll try to figure it out, okay?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Meanwhile, I'll continue to follow Keiichi around and see what I can uncover. I'll need your help, of course, to stop this imposter."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Very well. I trust you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""The rest of you, begone!" And with a finger snap of Lambda, the other residents dissapeared back into the next kakera. "Of course, none of you will retain your memories of this. That includes Rika and Hanyuu. Gotta keep the game fair, after all."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""*huff* I'm ready." said Rika./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""As am I." said Featherine./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"They ventured into the next world.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"xxx/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Where is Keiichi? I'm over here, performing for the festival-goers, and he's not here?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"...Well, I'm sure it's nothing too bad./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"xxxx/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""So with that, please look forward to our next story-'Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni- Watanagashi-hen!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""But seriously, it's not the curse." said Rika. "Right now, I'll explain everything-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""And why can't you just accept the truth?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"What was that? Who was that? At the door./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" /p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"At the door./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"At the door was... Hanyuu./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Hanyuu suddenly barged in... wait, was that her? It... doesn't look like her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"The eerie spirit had the shape of Hanyuu, but with a more shadowy outline. It's voice was also.. deeper. It sounded more like a male demon./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Yet it proclaimed: "This was all the work of Oyashiro-sama, and you're all blind!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Hanyuu?!" said Rika, clearly dumbfounded./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Looks like you lost." said the spirit./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Everyone around them muttered in confusion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Listen here, Rika. I've been... watching you. And I really wanted to play with you. But you lost! Listen here- your mission was to find out who killed you. And now you know- the great Oyashiro-sama did it!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Impossible! You were nothing but friendly to me!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Can you really trust me, though? How do you know I have not been plotting behind your back this whole time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""What? I...You! Who are you?! Because you are cretainly not her!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Everyone around them exchanges confused glances, as they of course were even more clueless as to what to make of this. Everyone except Takano, who was strangely absent. Not that Rika noticed- she was too busy with the strange apparition that dared to pose as her friend./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Listen, Rika." said another, taller purple-haired one, the one called Featherine. "I regret that she seems to not have fully explained the rules of this game."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Hanyuu? Game? What?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""A game of chess. In a way. So, Lambdadelta here," ah, so it's that pink stalker, "has proclaimed that the culprit behind the incidents is Oyashiro-sama. To win, we must prove to her that her theory is false. We must find and expose the true culprit. We must explain everything through human tricks or something of that nature. Should we fail to do so, she will become the new Oyashiro-sama."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Okay...? I'm confused."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""You'll get it in time." said the shadowy one. "You'll go through another kakera, where different events will unfold, and you'll try to figure it out, okay?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Meanwhile, I'll continue to follow Keiichi around and see what I can uncover. I'll need your help, of course, to stop this imposter."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""Very well. I trust you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""The rest of you, begone!" And with a finger snap of Lambda, the other residents dissapeared back into the next kakera. "Of course, none of you will retain your memories of this. That includes Rika and Hanyuu. Gotta keep the game fair, after all."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""*huff* I'm ready." said Rika./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;""As am I." said Featherine./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"They ventured into the next world.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"xxx/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"Where is Keiichi? I'm over here, performing for the festival-goers, and he's not here?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"...Well, I'm sure it's nothing too bad./p