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Originally Posted by immblueversion

Could someone please divulge the plot summaries of "鎮守神さまの祠" (The Tutelary God's Shrine), "ハメルンのカスタネット" (Hameln's Castanets), and "とある少女の一日" (One Day for a Certain Girl)?

I'm almost done reading the VN. It takes me a while since my Japanese is pretty weak, but I've read these 3 stories.

I'm mostly going from memory, so I may leave out a few things...

Spoiler for The Tutelary God's Shrine:

This one was really short.

The main character is Michiru Sakurada. She has an eyepatch and claims to see spirits (she can, to a degree), so other other students think she's kind of creepy.

One day a female student gets injured in a strange accident (I think it was a chair, a fire extinguisher or something; some kind of heavy object falling from a window).

Then, when Michiru visits a small shrine on campus, which was recently damaged, one of the injured girl's friends shows up to consult Michiru. It turns out that these two girls and some more of their friends are the ones who damaged the shrine (by accident; it was a sports ball or something). Normally people don't like to talk to Michiru much, but since a bunch of strange and scary things have been happening, this girl is afraid that curses might actually be real, and wants to ask Michiru for help.

Michiru says that yes, they are actually cursed. The Tutelary God was once benevolent, but has been neglected for a long time and his shrine being broken was the last straw. The only thing that might quell his anger is if all the girls responsible for breaking the shrine come and apologize to him together. However, this will be difficult, since one girl is already in the hospital, and another stubbornly refuses to believe in spirits. Michiru says that in the meantime before everyone involved can be convinced and gathered, that the girl should seek protection from other spirits.

Michiru guides the girl to the old schoolhouse where many spirits reside. As they walk through the hallways there, they plead for help spiritual help. Marie hears them and decides to help them (although there is no two-way communication between Marie and the 2 human girls).

Marie goes to the Tutelary God's shrine and finds the school nurse/doctor is repairing it. Higanbana shows up and Marie tells her about the vengeful Tutelary God. Higanbana is skeptical of this story. Then the Tutelary God shows up, and he is clearly harmless (he has a different name, which I don't remember, but he has the same portrait and personality as Sakutarou from Umineko). He's not vengeful; instead he was really scared when his shrine was broken. He's quite happy now that the doctor is repairing his home.

So the girls who damaged the shrine all get together after school and talk about apologizing, except the one stubborn girl gets mad and leaves. But right before she exits the building she has doubts (the exit is the same place the other girl was injured). Meanwhile, a chair (or some other object-I don't remember) is readying itself to fall on her when she exits.

And here's the twist:

Suddenly Marie says to stop, and we get a surprised portrait of Michiru, who was about to drop the chair (?) at the girl. It turns out Michiru was the one responsible for the accidents all along, because she wanted to scare the girls into apologizing (she's not actually trying to kill or seriously hurt anyone). Apparently, her spiritual sense is not that strong, but she was still able to feel Sakutarou's shock when his home was broken and wanted to get the girls to apologize to him.

Marie tells Michiru that the shrine is repaired and convinces her that everything is OK, Sakutarou is happy, and that she should stop. It also turned out that the hospitalized girl didn't end up in the hospital because of the accident, but because of appendicitis.

So, in the end nothing really serious or sad happened.

That's all I'll do for now. I'll do the others later, if I feel like it.