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　　Welcome to the World of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni - Matsuribayashi-hen
Welcome, to the world of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni ~ Matsuribayashi-hen~.
　　In this world, you get to see the world being rebuilt from the eyes of Hanyu.
　　Your goal is to create the best possible outcome for "June 1983." In order make that ideal world a reality, you must collect many pieces.
　　However, Takano's ideals are also powerful as well. You must endure heavy toils and collect as many pieces together to overturn her resolve.
　　I must warn you in advance, that this task is both daunting and exhausting. Hanyu has tried this for over a hundred years and at once given up to let fate take its course.
　　Overthrowing Takano's goals will not be so easy. The task awaiting for you in this world will provide you with the same agony that Hanyu had went through.
　　As you find yourself being defeated despite the number of pieces you have, you may end up forfeiting yourself into submission just as Hanyu had done once before. Should you submit yourself to surrender, you may quit this game at anytime. If you do so however, that means that you are forever trapped with your friends in the worlds ranging from "Onikakushi-hen" to "Minagoroshi-hen." And you can also uninstall this game to create a complete "death" to the entire story, just like Rika's world.
　　Your ideal "June 1983" can be made by putting together the fifty pieces that you can find spread out in this world. In order to put the pieces together, you must find the piece that matches with it. ...With fifty pieces in all, you might feel a faint at the tremendous work that you must need to do.
　　However, this world is not that merciless. In order to relieve a bit of your task, you have a bit of a help to assist you. Should you incorrectly choose a piece that can't be put together, your only friend will put a mark on that piece telling you that you can't do so yet. That mark will then stay there until you are able to put that piece together with the others. Hence, you may start searching for the other pieces while the mark stays there.
　　As you start putting the pieces together, you will begin to notice that there will be pieces that you once could not align to be enabled to do so once again. She will place a mark on those as well. Once you put that piece together, who knows? Perhaps that might've just unlocked the path to another piece.
　　And so once you've collected and put all fifty of the pieces together into one giant piece, ...you've created the ideal "June 1983." What lies there is the world that we've been yearning for - "Matsuribayashi-hen."


　　Rather than peeking through each and every one of the pieces, it might be best to peruse through the titles of the fifty pieces. Besides, since most of the pieces requires you another piece beforehand, there would only be several pieces that you can peek in them to begin with. Let's find one of those pieces to start off with. Other pieces will require prerequisites which you can check when you scroll your mouse over them. So, it is best if you start off with those pieces which require no prerequisites.
　　...This trial will be long and arduous. I've said it before and I'll say it again but, Hanyu had tried this for over a hundred years and had at once quit doing so.
　　But if you have the strong feeling to believe in the miracles just as your friends... And if you can believe in what they want to achieve despite you being from a different world where Hanyu lives...
　　Then welcome.
　　To the world of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni ~ Matsuribayashi-hen~.
　　This world will put you to test to see if you believe in the same outcome of the world just like Rika and her friends. Miracles only occur when everyone's power come into unity.
　　Takano's vision of her June 1983 world is too strong. She has the powerful backing of the government supporting her, and she has many other skills which normal people do not have the privilege of having with them. Even if you roll one hundred dices and they all show up as one, you cannot topple her.
　　Hence, the only way to win is to have a miracle to occur. And miracles only happen when everyone's power comes together. By everyone, that includes you too.
　　...So, are you ready?
　　Of course, I know that I am. The pointer to travelling a long a journey is not to pack things too tightly. So let's just relax and enjoy the long journey, shall we? I'll be helping you along as I drink my favorite wine.
　　Let's begin, shall we? We have all the time in the world here...

　　Local Project Meeting (Piece #26)
　　Government official: "So the dam construction will bring in new jobs and re-vitalize the local industry..."
　　Hinamizawa residents: "That's not the fuсking point!!" "We're asking you who the hell gave you the right to build the dam!" "Hey hey hey, you take all of our taxes and this is how you treat us?! Who do you think pays for your salaries!!"
　　G.O.: "That's what I've been trying to say! So...!"
　　H.R.: "We don't want to hear your excuses, we want to know when this project is going to be cancelled!!" "We've had enough of you! Bring the big-shot Minister of Construction here from Tokyo and let's settle this one-on-one!!" "Shut yer yap, you yuppie!!" "Besides, who the heck do you think you are talking down to us from the stand! Our taxes pay for your salary, come down and talk to us face to face!!"
　　The auditorium was filled with roaring angers.
　　The placard at the front door was read "Hinamizawa Dam Construction Local Project Meeting."
　　But whenever the government official at the stand was about the say something, the residents shut him up with their roaring angers.
　　The official gave up and began to continue on his explanation on the pros of the construction as if he couldn't hear their anger. This act further angered the residents as it showed that the government didn't care about the complaints of the locals.
　　There was a empty no-man's land protected by a po1ice squads between the stand and the residents. If it weren't for this, it was certain that the residents would've jumped onto the stands and started a riot...
　　...I was looking at this event unfold from everyone's back. I can clearly see from their colors that they are giving into their anger.
　　...They began to be filled with blood-red rage, ...the anger that was born out of a certain goal, turned into the goal itself, and is starting to create a vicious cycle where anger leads to more anger.
　　...Anger is not an unneeded emotion. People face hardships as the live their lives. It is anger that forms the basis of people's resolve to fight and conquer such hardships. ...With that in mind, anger is an essential part of life itself. Hence, I'm not going to deny that anger is unnecessary.
　　However, an over-the-top anger leads people to forget their focus. ...When that happens, it is not about life anymore. Recklessness ensues as the blood rushes to the head, which causes people to forget what they have done.
　　...Such emotions like these hurts and saddens us deeply. I can see clearly how the villagers who live with us are becoming saturated like they were "demons."
　　I understand the rules of the human world. There is not much one individual can do in order to fight against the big government. ...In order to fight such an opponent, one needs a larger unified power. But it is difficult to lead such power in the right direction.
　　...The cycle of anger leads to more anger. By then, anger is not for survival - anger is exposed in order to release anger. ...When that happens, then it's just the same as a demon.


　　And this anger gives us a rough awakening as we were sleeping peacefully.
　　Everyone is being immersed into their own anger. We learned to live and sleep in peace with the villagers.
　　...But we are awakened...to find that the situation where the myths say that the demons began to pour out from the Onigafuchi Marsh was trying to repeat itself once again...
　　I shout and cry out to everyone to calm down.
　　But in the intensified roars of anger silences my mute screams and reaches no one... Yet all I could do was to still cry out in hopes that someone would hear my voice.
　　If it goes on any further....the demons would awaken. ...The demons that went into a deep and long sleep might awaken again with all this commotion...
　　That's when the atmosphere of the clamor changed.
　　It seems that the temper exchange between the residents and the stand turned into a civil strife between the residents themselves. ...What...is going on here?
　　Houjou: "Shut up you old hag!! Those are your own reasons, not ours! Don't pull us into this as the whole!!"
　　Oryou: "The hell you say you little bastard!!"
　　Sonozaki family member: "Hey hey hey!! You know you're talking to Oryou-san aren't you! You've got some guts eh?! Who the hell do you think you are!! Huh!!"
　　Houjou: "Fuсk you!! Sonozaki my ass, I'm Houjou. Get your goons away, I'm talking to you bitch!!"
　　Anti-dam H.R.: "Hey hey, Houjou! How dare you say that in addition for wanting to sink the village!! How much did they pay you, huh?!"
　　Houjou: "Shut up geezer!! There's a bunch of poor people in Hinamizawa too ya' know! Not everyone is wealthy to own such a huge plot of land like you have in your back mountains!! I was well satisfied with the generous government compensation and they even provided me with public housing!! What else is there to say!! But you had to come in and ruin all of it, you assholes!! Stop dragging us normal folk into all you rich landowner's selfish reasons! If you guys wanna go up against the government so much, why don't you do it by yourself!! Besides, who's gonna pay for this, eh!! You!? We're poor and we also have two kids to look after. It was my plan to start a new life by leaving this place in peace by getting just compensation from the government and finding a new job elsewhere. But you!! Since when did you become the representative for me, eh!! You think you're that of a big shot, huh?!"
　　Anti-dam H.R.: "Yo, yo, yo Houjou!! You've got some balls eh, you traitor!! Why don't you leave town then!!"


Houjou: "Hell, I'd leave this place immediately! But you're gonna pay me for what I was entitled for, right?! You'd better give me the money that I was about to get from the government, cuz even though I'd like to get the hell out of this place, I don't have the money to do so. So fork it over bitch, and I'll leave!!"
Pro-dam H.R.: "Yeah, yeah Houjou's gotta point there! There are residents here who doesn't mind leaving this place! The gosankes shouldn't get into our own personal matters!"
Anti-dam H.R.: "Hey, hey, who the hell said that? Come out and say your name?!"
Pro-dam H.R.: "If you want to stay, fine!! Leaving here is a right too! Who the hell are you to stomp over our rights eh!!"
Houjou: "That's right, that's right!! Stop representing us as a whole old hag!!"
G.O.: "..Uh, of course we will compensate for the people who are in support of the dam project as this isn't expropiation..."
Anti-dam H.R.: "SHUT UP, YOU ASSHOLE!! WHAT THE FUсK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?! TRYING TO SPLIT THE VILLAGE BETWEEN ITSELF?!"
Anti-dam H.R.: "Die, Houjou! You have no right to breathe village air. Stop breathing and die now!!"
Houjou: "Screw you!! I'm gonna kill you right now. Step up you old bitch!!! Hey hey, move over you cop!!"
Oryou: "Gooood to hear.... That was the last straw. I, Sonozaki Oryou, haven't been this pissed for ages. You're gonna get what you're gonna deserve. You'd better watch you back....!!!"
Pro-dam H.R.: "Yeah, go go, Houjou!! The government must provide us with new jobs, shelter, and just compensation!!"
Cop: "There there!! Stop this violence!! Cut it out! Quit it!!"
Houjou: "Yeah?! Show me what you got!! Come on, give it to me!!"
More and more people are becoming tainted in red anger...
All I could do is just stand there useless and watch them give in to their ugly side...
The only thing I can do right now, was to continuously apologize for the tragedy that was about to happen starting now...
...I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry....
And this became the vital day...
...After this date, the Houjou family and the Sonozaki family would wage a feud with the other, leading to the isolation of the Houjous within the village. This saw the downward spiral of Satoko and Satoshi's lives of tremendous hardships...

　　Furude Rika (Piece #40)
　　Mom asked me to do some grocery shopping for her, and I was on my way to the supermarket when I ran into Satoko.
Apparantly, Satoko was also asked to do the shoppings, just like me.
Since that was the case, we ending up going together.
Showing off each other's shopping list, it was fun to be able to imagine the dinner menu of the other person's family.
　　It looks like Satoko's family is having fish and ѕimmered dishes.
By the way, it looks like my family's having hamburger meat steak.
　　"Oh my, steaks, how lucky...! I don't mind the fish, but I'm a little frightened of the ѕimmered foods, you know? There's still a big chunk left of the pumpkin that we bought the other day."
　　"......Tonight is going to be a full course of ѕimmered pumpkins for sure. Poor poor Satoko☆"
　　"Knowing beforehand that it's going to pumpkins is quite depressing too, isn't it? Haa."
　　"......Mi~☆ Here's a picky Satoko who would be angry even if the pumpkins were a surprise anyway."
　　"R, Rika must have at least some foods that she doesn't like too, right?! Now that you mention it, Rika, wasn't it true that you disliked sweet foods like bean paste rice cakes or cream cakes?!"
　　"......I don't really dislike them or anything. I'm just not eating them to be mean. If I wanted to eat them, I could eat as many as I wanted. I can even eat pumpkin pies deliciously too, nipa~☆"
　　"uUuu, how cheap for Rika to be the only one with no dislikes--!!"
　　These conversations were so fun to have.
　　Satoko is my best friend to me.
　　Just by being with Satoko, even the grocery shopping trip that I thought was bothersome quickly turned into an enjoyable evening walk.
　　Lined up near the supermarket are some other grocery food shops, making up Hinamizawa's little shopping street.
　　It's the busiest time of the day right now, with people buying groceries for dinner.
　　Hinamizawa's housewifes gathered and did their shoppings lively.
　　Anyway, since Satoko and I had different things to buy, we split up and went off on our own to buy the things we came for.
　　"Hey, welcome welcome!! Oh, Rika-chama, welcome! You're doing grocery shopping? What a good girl!"
　　"......Nipa~☆ I am a good girl who can do grocery shoppings."
　　"I see, I see, Rika-chama sure is a good girl! Here, let's give you this for being such a good girl."
　　A colander used to carry loose change hangs down from the store eaves, inside it were some candies for the shopkeeper's husband, who has asthma sometimes.
　　One of them was taken out, and tossed to me.
　　It's my favorite kind of candy, with a strawberry milk flavor.
　　I put it into my pocket on purpose without eating it right away, so that I could gloat in front of Satoko later about how I was the only one who got candy.
　　For me, teasing Satoko and making her feel jealous was a very fun thing to do.
　　Satoko would always overreact to these kind of things.
　　She was my best friend, and I never felt bored when I'm with her.
　　"Well there, what is it for Rika-chama's family today? Minced pork, hmm~"
　　"......It's hamburger meat steak. You put flower-shaped fried eggs on it and 　　you draw with ketchup."
　　"O-ho-ho-ho! That sounds nice!"
　　While enjoying such conversations, my grocery bag slowly filled up.
　　...At that time, the housewives' murmurs entered my ears.
　　The contents were... a little cold.
　　.........They were comments directed towards Satoko, who's here to shop for groceries.
　　These traitors who tried to sell the village to the government, just how long do they plan to stay in the village anyway?
　　They should just leave already.
　　And they don't even have the guts to come out and shop for groceries themselves, making their daughter do all the shopping... *complain complain*, *complain complain*....
　　Ever since that big fight at the local project meeting for the dam project, which caused the Houjou family and the Sonozaki family to completely oppose each other, Houjou family's isolation within the village has worsened.

　　In the beginning, there were at least some retreatists who sympathized with the Houjous.
　　But after the Sonozaki Main House aimed for a complete change in village opinions, and took up a totalitarian stance, the retreatists gradually quieted down.
　　Also, public displays of harrassment from the influential gosankes such as the Sonozaki and Kimiyoshi family has also had a big effect.
　　It appears that Sonozaki Main House's strategy is to stop similiar retreatists from appearing by continuing to bully the Houjou family as an example.
　　To the residents, whose ancestors have been living in this village for generations, with they themselves likely to be buried in this village as well, this was an incredibly powerful harrassment.
　　Just who was the one who symphathized with the steaming Houjou back at the local project meeting and said something fierce like making them the leader of the retreatists anyway...?
People like that have quieted down completely, and joined in on the cold treatment of the Houjou family, like stepping on a painting they once supported....
　　The persecution of the Houjou family has now become a form of pressure from the entire village.
　　Since the Houjous were not a rich family, they have been late with their village council fees for a long time.
　　Back during the peaceful times, they were let off in the spirit of friendliness, with the council being generous enough to allow them to pay it all off in the future. But now that we're here, the wind suddenly changed direction, and the council demanded the Houjou family to pay off all their late council fees immediately.
　　Although it was not an amount that the Houjou family could not afford to pay, when a fight was brought to them like this, the Houjou family would end up taking it on.
　　As if to taunt them, the Houjou family withdrew from the village council.
　　......However, by doing so, they have only stepped right into the villagers' malicious plan.
　　To make the village council your enemy means to have underhanded bullying occur to you.
　　For example, the place where the Houjou family would throw away their garbages was at the temporary garbage dump designated by the health board and the village council.
　　According to the village council board rules, only families who are in the village council may use the dump site.


　　...Starting from the day after the Houjou family withdrew from the village council,
　　before they knew it, all the garbage bags that the Houjou family discarded at the garbage dump were returned to their front door.
　　Not only that, the bags were all ripped up and their contents spilt out.
　　Also, a sign board was put up at the hedge path near the Houjou residence.
　　"Private road, no trespassing. Non-members of the village council are forbidden to pass through".
　　A stubburn old man stood there day and night, and would not allow anyone from the Houjou family pass through.
　　...A private road is a private property opened up to the public as a road, its appearance was no different from a normal road.
　　However, it is still very much a private property, it's not unreasonable to forbid people other than the land owner from passing through.
　　Et cetera, et cetera...... The bullying from the malicious village groups came one after another.
　　This ostracism-like horror spread throughout the village, ...creating fear in people, thinking they might end up the same if they sympathize with the Houjou family, ...causing the Houjou family to become more and more isolated.
　　......The adults did not tell their children about such a dirty fight occuring in the dark, so Satoko was at least not bullied at school... But it's not hard to imagine that she must've had to endure a suffocating level of tension every day....
　　Right now, the housewives murmuring these malicious comments aren't saying them in Satoko's face either.
　　......But still, there was no way Satoko would not notice the occasional spilled comments, or the cold looks.
　　......Since when did this village become so cold towards Satoko? As Satoko's best friend, I was really sad.
　　Now that I look at her, I can see that Satoko's shopping experience is completely different from my peaceful ones.
　　If I greet people or shop for groceries, I would get extras or special deals, and yet... Satoko gets none.
　　No, forget that, ......She would be served last on purpose, shopkeepers would pretend they can't hear her, ......It was clear that people didn't want to have anything to do with Satoko.
　　...Squeezing in between the stampeding housewives, Satoko kept on saying what she wanted to the fish shop's owner, and yet, she was kept waiting until the very end.


　　......Satoko made a strong looking smile, and pretended she didn't mind at all, ......but I know.
　　Just how much of a painful pretense that is....
　　All of a sudden, Satoko dropped her coins on the ground.
　　Maybe the returned changes were accidently caught by her fingers as she tried to put them back into the wallet.
　　Since I was standing at a distance from Satoko, I slid between the housewives to help her pick up the coins.
　　.........But, there, I realized.
　　......Satoko dropped a lot of coins, and is running left and right, trying to pick them up, and yet,
　　.........Nobody's helping her.
　　No, rather than saying they're not helping, ...It's more like everyone's acting as if Satoko isn't there.
　　...Since the coins were dropped because of her own miss, Satoko's probably not expecting anyone to help her pick them up either.
　　............But, ......but still.... ...There's all these people coming and going, .........and yet, not a even single one of them tried to help....
　　"......Satoko, I'll pick them up too."
　　"Ah, .........a, i, it's alright, Rika...."
　　Just from that little movement, I could understand the pain of her wounded heart.
　　On top of that, ...when I started picking up Satoko's coins, the other housewives began picking them up too.
　　With an expression on their faces like it's the obvious thing to do.
　　......If I, the miko of the Furude family, began picking them up, then it's alright to help out?
　　We all know that if I didn't pick them up, all of you would've just pretended you didn't see anything until the end....
　　And, ....the fact that people would help if "I" was the one doing the picking... just how much is Satoko's heart wounded by that....?
　　I grabbed the coins that the housewives picked up without saying any thanks....... Forget thanking them, I feel like spitting at them.
　　"th, ......thank you very much, Rika, everyone."

　　...Probably because if she doesn't express her gratitute here, people might go off somewhere saying something again like "Houjou's daughter has no manners".
Satoko said those words of gratitute bitterly.
　　In return, the housewives looked down at her with blank, unconcerning expressions, ......I couldn't take it anymore.
...I couldn't, take the pain that Satoko is carrying, in her heart right now....
　　"......If we're done with shopping, then let's go, Satoko."
　　"Eh, ......yes...."
　　I grabbed Satoko's arm, and pulled out from that place.
　　...How upsetting, sad, painful.
　　Just what sin did Satoko commit....?
　　This coldblooded reality is so, vexing and sad.
　　I'm loved by others like a mascot.
　　But, I can't provide Satoko with the same thing....
　　 ......Right now, ...Satoko must be stunned, wondering why herself and Rika, who are the same age, receive such different treatments....
　　 .........If Satoko had to experience this because of me, then I shouldn't have shopped together with her..., no, wrong. I should've just bought her groceries for her....
　　 "......Satoko."
　　 "...Wh, ......what is it, Rika?"
　　 "......You dropped all your coins, poor Satoko. ...Therefore, here is a consolation prize for you."
　　 Wanting to heal the wound in Satoko's heart, even if only for a little bit, ...I took out the strawberry milk candy I received earlier.
　　 But, ...Satoko did not take it.
　　 "......That candy, wasn't it something given to Rika?"
　　 My hand froze with a jerk...
　　 ...Satoko was watching.
　　 She watched me accept the candy.......
　　 "...The person who gave Rika that candy must've gave it out wanting Rika to eat it too. .........So, if I ate it, it would be rude......."
　　 ...Satoko then turned her back on me, and stayed that way until we parted....
　　 Without even a parting goodbye, ......Satoko held onto the grocery bags and left in quick steps.
　　 ......I, ...I only wanted to heal Satoko's heart, ......and yet, I ended up rubbing salt in it until the very end..........
　　 How can I call myself Satoko's best friend?
　　 If only I had the gripping power, ...I wanted to just crush the candy in my hand..........

　　Operation Halt Dam Project (Piece #09)
　　Irie: "I'm sorry for being late for the meeting. I was tied up with lots of patients today."
　　Tomitake: "Thanks for coming, Lieutenant Colonel Irie!
　　Tomitake suddenly jumped up and saluted as Irie came into the room.
　　Irie: "Oh no, no, please stop with that Lt. Col. thing...! I'm just a doctor. I can never get used those rank prefixes like the military. Would you mind settling for calling me director (of the clinic) instead...?"
　　Tomitake: "No problem, Director Irie. Ahahahaha...!"
　　Tomitake and the rest chuckled as they knew that Irie disliked being called a Lt. Col. On the other hand, Takano was fed up by this lame joke. She grew tired of the same joke over and over again, and she sincerely wanted to snap at Tomitake to quit that Lieutenant Colonel bit. However, she hand a feeling that Tomitake's feelings might get hurt, so she didn't say it all this time.
　　Also, due to Tomitake's slurred pronounciation, his way of saying "Lt. Col." (pronounced "Nisa" according to Japanese SDF rank), it sounds like he's actually saying "Lisa." Ever since then, all she could hear was Tomitake calling out "Irie Lisa," "Irie Lisa." She once told this to Irie, and he got a great laugh at this...
　　Anyhow, today was just a formal greeting. The actual meeting was to be held tomorrow. Although Tomitake is here today, more auditors were to arrive from Tokyo tomorrow to attend the meeting where we are to explain the progress of our research in this facility.
　　Tomitake: "Changing the subject though, it seems the village is all up and arms with this dam construction project."
　　Irie: "Oh, you've only seen the tip of the iceberg! I attended the local project meeting as a member of this community, and the hall was filled with roars and profanity. It was quite a spectacle."
　　The residents of Hinamizawa all burst in anger when they first heard about the Hinamizawa Dam Project. The government quickly retracted their compromise and decided to go up against the locals. It seems the government didn't want the locals to take advantage of them by showing signs of weaknesses through compromise.
　　However, the government underestimated the residents of Hinamizawa. The people are here are historically tied strongly with their land. Such an act by the government only lead to strengthening the bonds between the community to form a league of their own. Both the government and the village were at a complete deadlock as neither wanted to back down.


　　Takano: "*chuckle chuckle chuckle* The people of Hinamizawa are quite short-tempered. Maybe they do have demon's blood in them."
　　Irie: "It's nothing to joke about... You should've been at the spot where I had to be in. I stayed at the meeting all night with all the shouting and the bawlings."
　　Tomitake: "I feel sorry for you. Hahahaha...!"
　　Irie: "No, this is serious, Tomitake-san. How is the Dam Project going on? Will this village really go underwater beneath the artificial lake from the dam?"
　　Tomitake: "Well, pressure is being put at Tokyo as we speak. Even though it seems that the project is still intact from the outside, the foundations of the proposal should be starting to crumble by now."
　　Irie: "...I do hope that pressure works really soon. The village is very raucous night and day, and the villagers themselves are starting to show signs of discontempt. It's not unusual for an elderly person to come into my office for a simple check-up, all in the while I have to subject to listen to their thoughts on the dam project."
　　Takano: "*chuckle chuckle* Director Irie is just too kind. Why don't you just quit putting up with them then?"
　　Irie: "I can't do that. Even though I am a researcher, I'm also a doctor to begin with. Listening to them is an essential part of mental care."
　　Tomitake: "Well said. I hold high respect for that."
　　Irie: "Even though we know that the people in Tokyo are putting pressure so that this project will be gone away, the villagers don't know that. They live in constant fear that they'll have to relocate leaving behind this beautiful place where they have lived for generations."
　　Takano: "Even if they are forced to leave, many are old and have no money to do so. Perhaps some of them might've wanted to have the government increase their compensation. ...But the government immediately reversed their stance and became all out war. ...I don't think they are going to resolve this matter easily."
　　Irie: "There were some people who supported the proposal with the just compensation, but the gosanke Sonozaki family was firm in their cause against it. They took became the de facto leader to fight against the government. Now you see blaring announcement vans everywhere. Poster and flyers even comes attached to the circulation notices."
　　Tomitake: "Their actions are understandable. It's their homes they are talking about."
　　Irie: "...Whether or not what everyone's care is about, we sincerely desire to have this dam project withdrawn as soon as possible, for the sake of the residents in this area. As soon as the project is called off, this place will become the peaceful village it once was."


　　Tomitake: "I understand. We are trying very hard along with Tokyo on this matter, so please let us take care of this."
　　Takano: "...I heard a rumor from Tokyo that you guys are having some trouble in making connections to place pressure onto the Minister of Construction?"
　　Tomitake: "Well...hahaha... A low officer like me wouldn't know the details, but I have heard that they are snagged in fine-tuning certain things..."
　　The people supporting Takano are very powerful indeed, but they do not control all of Japan. There are certain places where they are strong at, yet there are also sections in which they cannot touch as well. ...And it is assumed that they aren't well established in being able to place pressur onto the areas under the Ministry of Construction.
　　Takano: "This isn't a joke. Are you certain that we're not going to have to relocate because a dam is going to be constructed, right...?"
　　Tomitake: "Of, of course. You have my word on that. We're just taking a little bit of time, so please don't let any of this bother you and continue with your research. And, if things can't be worked out peacefully, there are also opinions where drastic measures might have to be taken."
　　Irie: "Drastic measures...? What do you mean by that, Tomitake-san?"
　　Tomitake: "That is part of our domain. You don't have to a worry a thing, Director Irie. Let us handle this."
　　Irie: ".......Fine. ...I understand. Thank you for your help."
　　Takano: "It's okay, Director Irie. The dam project will definitely be withdraw. ...It's already been laid out. ...chuckle chuckle."
　　Takano chuckled and Tomitake put on a slight smile along with her. ...Only Irie couldn't understand what was funny, and he felt left out.
　　.......It was only when Irie was called to the outskirts of the town check onthe condition of a young boy that he hasn't seen from this area, did he realize what they meant about "drastic treatment."