A few days after performing the Shadow Reading work at the abandoned inn.
Hisoka did not return overnight without leaving word of her whereabouts.
Although Yuri was worried about Hisoka's safety, she had no clues and could only wait at the shop for her return.
Just then, a young girl named Fuyuhi Himino, who claimed to have 'commissioned Hisoka to find someone,' arrived at the antique shop...
Location: Antique Cafe Kurosawa
Antique Cafe Kurosawa
In other words, while Yuri was alone at the cafe counter, a short-haired girl in a white dress suddenly walked through the door.
Girl: 'Is Ms. Hisoka Kurosawa here?'
Yuri: 'I'm sorry, she's out at the moment.'
Girl: 'I'm the client, Himino. I just wanted to know her answer, regardless of whether she has accepted my request to find someone.'
Fuyuhi Himino
Yuri: 'Find someone...?'
Himino: 'I'm afraid she has already gone to the mountain. Mt. Hikami.'
Yuri: 'Mt. Hikami?'
Himino: 'Someone saw Haruka near Mt. Hikami. That place is a notorious suicide spot... right? Haruka must have gone to a place like that, but she didn't tell me anything...'
Yuri: 'I'm sorry, once Ms. Kurosawa returns...'
Himino: 'No, if it's too late, then never mind. I'll go and check myself.'
Himino left the cafe.
Yuri also felt uneasy since Hisoka hadn't returned for days... wondering if it was connected to this missing person request?
Thus, Yuri began searching for clues inside the antique cafe to find Hisoka.
In the study, she found documents: Mt. Hikami, Mountain of Death and Legends of Suicide on Mt. Hikami.
In Hisoka's room, she discovered documents: Search Request for Lost Item, Shadow Reading Memo, Letter from Fuyuhi Himino, and a token: Photograph of Two High School Girls.
Yuri deduced that Hisoka had gone to Mt. Hikami to look for Haruka Momose, and since Fuyuhi Himino was heading there too, Yuri decided to climb the mountain as well.
Location: Pool of Cleansing
Pool of Cleansing
Yuri: 'Ms. Himino must already be on this mountain. I should be able to use this photograph as a token to trace her traces.'
Following the trace, she picked up the Mt. Hikami Sightseeing Brochure by the stream. Arriving at the Pool of Cleansing, she obtained the Camera Obscura, Type-14 Film, Upgrade Lens: Crush, and Equip: Switch.
Yuri: 'Hisoka's Camera Obscura must have drifted down to this place from upstream, which means Hisoka must be somewhere on Mt. Hikami.'
As soon as she acquired the weapon, two hostile spirits appeared: Akira Oonuma and Mizue Fukatsu.
After defeating them, she walked up to the edge of a cliff and saw a specter: Woman Standing near Cliff Edge.
Advancing further to the wire fence before the Unveiled Forest, she spotted a trace: Fuyuhi Himino Entering Forest. On the ground where the trace stood, she picked up a document: Fuyuhi's Note 1.
Passing through the wire fence, she entered the Unveiled Forest. Location: Unveiled Forest
Using the newly acquired Fuyuhi's Note 1 as a token, she followed Fuyuhi's trace. Before a broken bridge, she saw Fuyuhi's trace: Fuyuhi Himino Heading Deeper Inside.
Yuri: 'This means Fuyuhi is at the Doll Shrine on the opposite bank.' Walking to the edge of the broken bridge, she encountered a hostile spirit: Akira Oonuma. To the southeast, she found a tent containing a document: Note in Tent.
Following the trace to the Hanging Tree, she saw a trace before the massive tree: Fuyuhi Himino Looking Up at Tree. Left at her feet was a document: Fuyuhi's Note 2.
After reading the note, Yuri intended to use it as a token to continue searching for Fuyuhi. A specter appeared on the tree: Hanging Woman, and behind the large tree, she obtained a document: Crumpled Note.
Moving forward, two hostile spirits materialized: Masayuki Tsujiura and Nao Miki.
On her way toward the Doll Shrine, she crossed a river, where a specter, Exiled Maiden, drifted past...
After crossing the bridge, she saw a trace: Fuyuhi Himino Standing before Shrine. Walking right to the back door of the shrine revealed another trace: Fuyuhi Himino Checking Gate.
Attempting to open the door, she found it locked... and discovered a document at her feet: Fuyuhi's Note 3. Using this note as a token, she resumed her search for Fuyuhi.
In front of the shrine, she saw specters: Boy and Girl Watching Someone Leave.
Following the trace to the water's edge, she was ambushed by three hostile spirits at once: Masayuki Tsujiura, Nao Miki, and Mizue Fukatsu.
To the northwest, a glowing document caught her eye. As she went to pick it up, a specter, Wandering Soul, plunged down... She collected the glowing document from the ground: Suicide Note-like Paper.
Continuing along the trace, she finally found Fuyuhi Himino.
Finding Fuyuhi Himino
Yuri: 'Ms. Himino!'
Fuyuhi: 'Haruka is somewhere on this mountain...'
Yuri: 'Did you see her?'
Fuyuhi fell silent for a moment...
Fuyuhi: 'But she's here. If we don't find her quickly...':
As Fuyuhi turned to leave, Yuri grabbed her arm, suddenly triggering a Psychic Resonance revealing Fuyuhi's past.
Resonance via Touch
In the past, Fuyuhi, Haruka, and three of their classmates made a pact to commit suicide together by drowning in the river. In the end, only Fuyuhi and Haruka survived...
We promised we would all die together... After this... when can we finish it?
Five Classmates Pact to Drown Together
Discovering Fuyuhi's true intentions, Yuri told her that she would find Haruka, urging her to return for now. Having promised Fuyuhi to head back, the two began their descent.
The Promise to Head Back
On their way back, they passed the area where the specter Woman Pushed Down had appeared. The hostile spirit Yukiho Tohmine ambushed them!
This spirit attacks by leaping off cliffs; when she initiates the leap, point the camera upward and wait for her to fall. In the southwestern area of the map, two documents could be found: Waterlogged Note and Soggy Note.
Upon reaching the shrine, Fuyuhi sensed Haruka's presence and suddenly bolted toward the back gate alone.
As Yuri pursued her, she encountered the three child specters from earlier, turning into hostile spirits: Shizuma Amaki, Koto Okudera, and Yurine Udono. These three are easy to defeat, often tripping over themselves as they run...
Reaching the shrine's back door, she spoke to Fuyuhi, who insisted Haruka was behind the gate. Yuri urged her that they should still head down the mountain first.
As they crossed the bridge, Yuri picked up a token near the edge: Hisoka's Jade Bead, along with an item: Equip: Evade.
The moment she touched Hisoka's Jade Bead before the fight, a vision flashed: Hisoka was being dragged into the water by spirits, and her camera slipped from her grasp, drifting away.
Hisoka Dragged into Water by Spirits
Yuri realized that since Hisoka's personal jade bead was by the stream, she must be somewhere upstream. Snapping back to reality, she discovered that Fuyuhi had vanished...
Following Fuyuhi's trace to find her, the distant echo of Fuyuhi singing a song of memories could be heard. When she found Fuyuhi, she discovered her holding a knife... and with a trembling hand, Fuyuhi slit her own throat right before Yuri's eyes...
As Yuri stood frozen in shock, Fuyuhi's hostile spirit manifested!
Fuyuhi Slitting Her Throat
Hostile Spirit: Fuyuhi Himino
The hostile spirit Fuyuhi Himino has two phases:
Normal Phase: Slow movements, relatively weak.
Throat-slit Phase: Highly aggressive, and her primary weapon is the knife, requiring extreme caution.
After defeating Fuyuhi, Yuri approached to perform a Fatal Glance (看取), discovering that her death was not a suicide, but a 'forced suicide'...
After picking up a knife by the river, Fuyuhi witnessed a vision of a woman slitting her own throat with the same blade. At that moment, the knife in Fuyuhi's hand forced itself toward her own neck. Fuyuhi resisted desperately, her hands cut and bleeding...
Suddenly, Fuyuhi saw Haruka ahead and wanted to reach out to her. Breaking her concentration for a split second, the blade sliced through her throat... Lying on the ground, Fuyuhi silently gazed at Haruka, who then transformed into a shrine maiden drenched in rain.
Picking Up a Knife
Vision of the Forced Suicide
Resisting Desperately
Turning into a Maiden of Black Water
As soon as Yuri finished viewing the memory, the rain-drenched shrine maiden suddenly appeared!
She declared: 'You will never leave this mountain alive. Dissolve into the mountain.'
Battle against the hostile spirit: Inori Mizukago (Alive). Watch out for her Fatal Glance attack (lifting her blindfold); if you fail to evade, you will immediately enter the Tainted (夜泉濡) state, which requires a Purifying Embers to cure.
After defeating the Maiden of Black Water, Yuri whispered softly that Fuyuhi had been dragged into the Other World by this maiden to slit her throat... Exhausted, she began her walk back down the mountain.
As she passed the Pool of Cleansing, Yuri witnessed a mass of shrine maidens' corpses floating out from the waterfall...