Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni 15 - Rika, the prophet
This episode really shocked me. But well, let me tell about it. We start todays episode with the kidnapped brat. He has pain, so the kidnappers make sure that a docter arrives. Irie arrives, he checks him, and the brat happens to have a surgery scar. Of a traffic incident. More isn’t told about it. Meanwhile, Akasaka and Oiishi go to the same place to find some trails that can be found with the lost wallet. They run into Irie, and Irie tells them that he has seen the kidnapped brat. He tells them the hide-out place, and Oiishi and Akasaka go to that place to suprise.
Akasaka tracks down the one that carries the kid, and after some commotion, he is shot. When things really look bad for Akasaka, Oishi is to the rescue and saves his life. The kidnappers run of, and Akasaka faints.
When he wakes up, he is in the hospital of Irie. Oiishi pays him a visit and they talk about what happened. The kid is rescued and is being taken care for, the damn project has stopped, the minster has the project cancelled, because his grandson was taken hostage. In other words, the two didn’t have to bust in to the criminals, because the kid was going to be released anyway. That’s isn’t such a nice thing. Further, it appears that the two criminals were trained, because they shot precisely, and they couldn’t have pulled of such a fight. Oiishi leaves.
In the evening, Akasaka tries to call his wife because he wants to know what’s going on with her. But, the hospital phone line has been cut. And so is the one outside, so is the phone cells line been cut. Akasaka doesn’t understand it, and he meets Rika once more. 
She says that he doesn’t have to call, because he only will be sad. She wants him to go back to the hospital, and they are going to take a walk back. This is the night of the Watanagashi, and they take a look. They are all just drunk. Rika says thatthe Watanagashi isn’t right to be this way, and they go to the highest place of the Shrine, to talk a bit. And then, it is getting shocking.
She says that it’s been decided that in a few years, she is going to be murdered. Just think of it, what shall she be? 5? That you know when you are 5 that you’ll be murdered in another 5 years. That’s a true nightmare. Akasaka doesn’t understand it, he is shocked too, but Rika says that it has already been decided.
A few years later after the year 1983. Oiishi is retired, Akasaka and him have a reunion. What appears? The wife of Akasaka died that night that Rika cut all the phone lines. The child could be saved, but, she died herself. She was looking at the sunset that evening, and when she walked down the stairs, she tripped and fell. She didn’t survive the fall, but she said that she wanted to look at the same sunset as Akasaka, even if he were far away. That’s why Rika told him to go back to Tokyo, or he would serious regret it. It wasn’t a hint for his own death, no, but for the death of his wife. And most of us were fooled that way. I was too.
The reason of his visit to Oiishi is to understand more about Oyashiro-sama and more about Furude Rika. What happened? In the year 1983, after Rika was killed, the village was murdered by the gas. It was because of the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama was killed, people lost their fate in the god and they mocked the death. Then, the whole village was killed. Just like in the previous arc. The death of Rika is also the same and so on. Then, it’s really getting sad, because we get a flashback of Akasaka what happened more on that night that Rika predicted her own death. 
She predicted all the victims of the Watanagashi! How can a kid do such a thing, it was too sad to see, and Akasaka was getting more confused every second. 
Even her own death came to the topic. But the strange thing is, that Rika is against the dam project. So why has she has to die? She tells Akasaka that all she wants is to live happily. That’s her only wish. She doesn’t want to die.
Can you imagine? When you are about a year of 5, you know that you have only 5 years more to live, and then that you’ll be tortured to death. It’s horrible. I wonder where the next episodes will be going, there are some people that have survived the gas, like Keiichi, maybe will Akasaka visit them to learn more about the death of Rika. He is too shocked by it. I’m too. It’s horrible.
