Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni: Nan Demo-Hen

3. The Revelation

The funeral ended normally. Me, Shion, and Satoko were crying our hearts out by the loss of both of our closest friends. To think this tragedy had happened.

That night the police had the scene on investigation, and the director had some of his other assistants bring the bodies away.

Currently Kei-Chan's parents were putting bouquets of flowers on his grave, while Rena's father puts them on both Rena and Kei-Chan's graves.

Their fathers shake their hands, and hugged.

After the funeral ended I met up with Oishi-San, who asked me to come with him to the police station.

"So, what is it?" I asked.

"I've done investigating those tapes, that camera and notebook you found on Tomitake-San's corpse during Watanagashi. Care to see whatever's in them?"

"Yes."

We went to the evidence room to play the tapes one by one.

"Here's the first one, a witness recorded this in Ibaraki."

The first tape was played and it showed....

A younger Rena, shattering a dozen of windows at a school with a metal baseball bat, before it cuts to when she is brutally torturing 3 boys with the same bat. 2 of them were out cold due to sharp blows to the head by Rena's swings.

"Please! I beg of you! I'm sorry to have teased you!"

Rena didn't answer, but she grinned and tilted her head to the right, further scaring the boy.

The boy then tries to crawl away, but was stopped by Rena as she lunged onto the boy's back (after dropping the bat), and wrap both hands around the boy's face and pulls back, which applies pressure to the neck and shoulder area. Her legs trap the boy's left arm.

She pulled back so hard that the boy's face became blue and he began to choke.

The tape ended as Rena took a glance at the person recording, and the person ran away out of fear.

We took out the tape and inserted the second one.

The second tape played, which is when a handcuffed Rena was interrogated by some psychologists.

"So, what drives you to do those things to them?" The psychologist asked.

"Well... I'm not driven by fear, I'm driven by anger obviously. The tease and the ways they lie... Just like... Stumbled on my mind... The fear and hope inside me..."

"Tell me."

"The fear changed into courage, and my hope increased, I can have revenge on them! I hit them here, And there!" She pointed to her head, and abdomen. "You know what? I think you're next!"

The tape ends as suddenly Rena lunged onto the psychologist, with an insane laughter, and she choked him with it.

"I don't want to watch anymore!" I yelled out, scared senseless.

"Alright then... Here is some of the pictures Tomitake-San's camera captured. It's during Watanagashi, just before his death."

I looked at the printed pictures.

They were wide arranged, but one picture catches my attention.

The picture depicts a silhouette of Rena yelling something at Kei-Chan, and the next one, she buried her face passionately on his back.

"I don't understand... Why did she do all these? She's not the Rena I knew..."

"Well the things I'm going to explain to you was coincidentally all written inside that notebook."

I swiped the book out of his hand, and opened it.

File No. 7
Ryugū Rena

Ryugū Rena is a sweet young girl with a sinister side inside of her. She is highly unstable and can easily snap.

So far from what info I can get, her parents were divorced, due to Rena-San's mother marrying an ice cream seller. The same day at the divorce, Rena-San had demolished all of her mother's belongings and gifts given to her at home.

She went to elementary School in Ibaraki, where she is teased and lied to by many of the other boys there. It is said that she finally snapped one day and brutally tortured them all... Which is a fact that I have discovered from a witness's VCR tape.

She went back to Hinamizawa since she said that 'if she didn't, then Oyashiro-Sama will banish her for good.'

After she got back, she acted normal and cheerful, and collects items she deemed cute and take them home.

One day a newcomer which I met days before I finished this note, by the name of Maebara Keiichi, moved in due to his father's work.

He is a very kind and selfless boy. Rena-San seems to be very infatuated with him... Probably because that she never felt such kindness for so long.

The note ends here.

"Also, Our autopsy team already gave in the results. Her brain is badly damaged. Did you tell me that she had a concussion the day before Watanagashi?"

"Yes."

"Because that's not the first time she had a concussion. That's probably the 140th time she did that."

I widened my eyes.

"What? No... You're joking aren't you?"

"Do I look like I'm joking? Her mental state caused her to attack people using her head... Literally, not just with a billhook around like the one you found next to Maebara-Kun's corpse."

"How bad is it?"

"It's 90% damaged... And it almost resembled a brain of an 85 year old Alzheimer's patient."

Tears were now flowing out of my eyes.

"So... This is not a murder... This is murder-suicide..."

I cried, with Oishi patting my back trying to comfort me.

-To Be Continued