
She is shocked to hear the voice of her sister. When Kasai objects, she claims that she has discovered ways to prevent being discovered. She explains that she plans to obtain a part-time job to at least cover her living expenses.

As she quickly devours the meal, Kasai, wearing an apron, asks her to tell him what he will need later. In an apartment, Shion enjoys a packaged meal. She laughs and accepts that "things may get pretty bad." As Oryō is revealed to be the owner of the hands, Shion adds a "but," then ends her musing by dismissing it as "What a story." Kasai interrupts her reminiscence by reminding her that if she returns to Okinomiya, relatives will recognize her, and her family will eventually find out. By her family custom, she explains over a view of two hands, if twins are born they are strangled before their first bath. She declares that, from the start, her very existence has been an abomination to her family. Two potential heirs would be trouble. While they are the same in everyway, Shion laments that she was sent away to a school located far from Hinamizawa while, in her mind, the smiling Mion was raised as the heir to their family. Kasai confirms that she moved in with Ōryo around the same time Shion enterred her school.Īs Shion stares at the night sky as they ride, she narrates that she and Mion are identical twin sisters. Shion muses that Mion no longer lives "at home" and now lives with their grandmother in Hinamizawa. She asks Kasai how her sister is doing (お姉元気?・ Onee genki?). As they ride, Shion lounges back in her front seat. She briefly flashes two fingers then leaps to her freedom. Shion runs, nimbly climbs a tree, then lands on the wall surrounding St. Shion continues to drag the unconscious Mion with her.Īt night, outside of a church, a girl in a school uniform looks about warily.

Near the door, in a wheelchair, sits their grandmother Oryō motionless and silent. Thus, much of the truth of Watanagashi-hen will be included in these episodes.Ī smiling Shion drags her sister Mion by her collar into the viewing room in the bunker of the Sonozaki estate. Pages for the episodes that reveal the truth will contain an explanation and link in their respective Referbacks and Forwards section. Those who wish to avoid spoilage should not clink links until viewing the entire arc. So, if Furude Rika is really Ōishi "in disguise" the link will be Rika. This includes the rendering of character links: a link will read the character other characters and the viewer believes the character to be. As in the Synopses for the Watanagashi-hen episodes, to avoid spoiling the entire arc events are described as characters and viewers see them. Meakashi-hen is the first "answer arc" of the anime, and it is the answer arc to Watanagashi-hen which is an arc where things are not what they seem.
