[Wanderer]

Originally Posted by LostBlue

For your amusement, I roughly TL half of Mion's confession to Keiichi. None of this is relevant, but if you guys want to the rest of it, I guess I'll post it later in the week. This is where Mion talks about Takano's past works.

Spoiler:

The day after Keiichi has his phone call with Rena, he decides to confront Mion about it as Keiichi didn’t want to believe that Mion was involved in such a conspiracy.

M: 「……What, …what’s up…?」
K: 「Do you know, ……there are people who are trying to revive the Faith in Oyashiro-sama. 」
M: 「…………huh？　What, Kei-chan? What are we talking about?」

This, of course, is just me prying.
I wanted to see what reaction Mion will have if I came at her directly.

But, Mion really really starred at me blankly.
……When someone hits the nail on the head, most people can’t keep their cool. Most definitely they will show some, even a little, reaction.

Unless Mion is a gifted actor, ……Mion really had no connection with the words, revival of Oyashiro-sama.

……I decided to come clean.

K: 「Mion. Your household, the Sonozaki Family, holds extreme influence over all of Hinamizawa. …………but is there …some type of secret plan to revive the faith of Oyashiro-sama？」

M: 「……Revive？　Why？」

K: 「Yeah, I mean. The current Oyashiro-sama’s Faith is pretty thin, compared to the ancient times, right? Meaning, ……there are orthodox advocates wanting to bring the faith to the level it used to be like long ago like in Onigafuchi with some secret plan or something.」

M: 「Wha？　Wait wait, what’s that. What are we talking about?」
K: 「………So really, you have no idea what I’m talking about…？」

M: 「Of course I don’t. Yea, that’s an interesting story, kinda like those American Best Sellers.」

Mion’s reaction was very natural.
It was impossible that she was pretending to act that she didn’t know when she really knows. ……But, I still continued.

K: 「Well, I mean…… There seems to be people like that in this village. Mion, don’t you know?」

M: 「The Oyashiro-sama Faith, to the level of the Onigafuchi era…？　Is there something good that will come out of that？」
K: 「……Well, ……obviously to the strong fanatical believers, it may have some profound meaning to them……」

M: 「But Kei-chan. No one is going to be happy, going back to the old strict ways. Now in the present, if someone said you can’t leave the village, they won’t be able to make a living, you know.」
K: 「Fo, for example, you know, ……Rika-chan!　It seems that Rika-chan been pampered being that she is said to be the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama, right? So probably within followers of senior citizen crowd there might be a fanatical group existing……、」

M: 「By Rika-chan’s followers you mean, like Kimiyoshi-no-Ojichan?

Well, …I certainly believe that they have heavy beliefs but, I don’t think you can call that fanatical.」

K: 「No, but there is! People who plan to once again revive the true Oyashiro-sama Faith!」

M: 「Ah ha ha ha ha!
　…Okay okay. We’re going nowhere with this, so let’s say I believe you. And?」
K: 「And, they realized that Oyashiro-sama true identity is an unique local endemic disease in this region, and they are researching to determine the pathogen.」

M: 「Where?

Anyway what’s this endemic disease? What the heck is a pathogen? Stop being so smart.」

I don’t even know what I’m trying to say anymore…

Last night, I was completely inspired by Rena, buying into this crazy story but,……Now that I say it out of my mouth, I begin to understand how inconsistent it is…

M: 「What happen? Did Miyo-san indoctrinate you with these strange talk?」
K: 「……！　…You know?！」

M: 「It’s well known。That person, is an occult mania, so she’s always coming up with these tremendous tall tales. Once in a while there will be someone who takes it seriously, and heavily becomes influenced; it’s pretty famous around here.

I also, long ago, heard her stories, and it was quite fun. Ah ha ha.」
K: 「…………Is that, ……for real？」

M: 「Kei-chan, I’m sure you heard of this somewhere, but this village long ago had quite an unique tradition. And those traditions were rather on the grim side, with strict percepts and strict penalties, and harsh customs, become somewhat famous amongst the occult crowd it seems. Miyo-san is just one of those maniacs.」

K: 「Then……、the story about this village being under the control of mysterious parasites are…,」

M: 「Ha？！　Parasiiites？！

　…Is that, Miyo-san’s new story？」
K: 「What do you mean by new story?」

M: 「I told you, Miyo-san is an occult mania. She’s been researching into the outrageous legends of Onigafuchi village, and with this and that legends she pulls, she analyze them, and has fun creating these fantasies.

That’s why, she has all these other literally works besides that village mind-controlling parasites theorizing stuff. The one I heard long ago was the UFO theory. This was quite interesting as it was pretty consistent!

In the ancient past, a UFO crash lands in the Onigafuchi Marsh, and from there the aliens that came out started this war with the villagers…and it started something like that, kinda like a B-Class SF Horror flick. The one Satoko heard, was the underground citizens theory, I think it was?　With the change in the Earth’s crust, an Underground Kingdom and Onigafuchi became connected, and what happen,

……yes yes、the Princess of the Underground Kingdom and a youngster from the village fell in love, and restored the communion of the society, it was an SF Romeo & Juliet.

And then, this new work seems to be the parasite theory that you heard Kei-chan. Yep yep, I would really want her to collect this all in one book sometime, ku ku ku!」

Yeah, this totally makes sense. Takano seems like she is always having so much fun when she talks about this kind of stuff.

As far as Shion being the one covering for Keiichi in Tatarigoroshi-hen it makes some sense too, since Mion would have probably been busy at the matsuri. Still, why would Shion be at Mion's phone number? And of course, it is not like they can hide the fact that Teppei is at least missing from Satoko. Although I think Satoko goes paranoia-crazy in Tatarigoroshi-hen anyway...

Originally Posted by lostblue

Apparently, according to Mion, Rena isn't the first of Takano's victims. Takano picks a lucky child every year to tell her stories to Years before, Satoko believed there were mole people running around for a while.

This wouldn't happen to be three years ago, would it?

I have had a strong suspicion since all the way back at episode 13 when Satako pushed K1 off the bridge that that was not the first time she had done something like that.