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June 2nd, 2018


Everyone in Hinamizawa loved Rika Furude. Like the Grinch, no one quite knew the reason; she was just that way.

Perhaps it was because she was so adorable, like a little green-gowned mountain sprite with a smooth curtain of midnight-blue hair and violet eyes as deep and seeming-dark as a porcelain doll, with her cute little chirps and "mew"s and "nipah"s that she passed out like sweet candy.

Perhaps it was because she was the Furude Priestess, vessel of Oyashiro-sama and his earthly representation. She kept the god smiling upon everyone, kept

–ubject receptive to tsūsensan, reports feelings of slight pain and cranial pressure in the case of other general anest–

the curse from striking down upon good and pious citizens, their direct link to soothing Oyashiro-sama's stirred wrath on Watanagashi and whenever a foolish outsider might create trouble.

Whatever the reason, she was always treated kindly, and smiled upon, and given treats and candy when passed in the street. She never used "-san" or "-sama" or even "-chan" and "-kun", but the most she ever got for this impudence was a fond chuckle and a ruffle of her hair from up on high. Other children looked on this special treatment jealously; Rika Furude seemed to lead a charmed life. But she shared her candy and her treats, and if they were scolded when they tried to emulate her lack of honorifics, they were usually chastised only the once before their own lessons took.

So the children loved Rika Furude too.

–o evidence yet of neutralizing pathogen responsible for–

Rika Furude had to practice for dances and learn about priestly things from her father, but she managed even these things with grace and with dignity, as though she were a shrunken little priestess already, dancing the Watanagashi for an audience her parents couldn't see. They complimented and hugged her and patted her head, and Rika smiled her little smile, and the old women who sewed the costume she used to stand in for her father sometimes on Watangashi if he was feeling tired cooed and patted her head some more.

Rika Furude's influence on the population of Hinamizawa was almost magical. There were some who wondered if her position as Oyashiro-sama's priestess meant she was blessed in such

–ests confirm existence of the Queen phenome within Furude line. Current Queen Carrier, Furude Rika.

Signed,
Doctor Irie
Kyōsuke.


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