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==Synopsis== Twin sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura are visiting the spot where they used to play as children, which is due to be swallowed by a dam soon, when Mayu, who walks with a limp after a childhood accident, follows a mysterious crimson butterfly deep into the woods. Mio, concerned for her twin, follows, and the two girls are led to a village shrouded in fog. While it seems abandoned, the twins soon realize that the tortured souls of the dead roam, forever reliving the day of the failed ceremony that trapped them in this state. Mayu soon falls under the village's spell and, beckoned by the crimson butterflies, she leads her sister deeper into the village. As Mio chases after her, she slowly learns of the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual, the failure of which caused the disaster known as the Repentance, which shrouded the village in darkness. Under the village there is a system of tunnels, and at its deepest point there is a deep hole called the Hellish Abyss, where the souls of the dead collect. In order to keep this hole sealed, a pair of twins born in the village is required to perform a ritual approximately every decade, in which the elder twin strangles the younger<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-folklorist_10_0-0">[1]</sup>, after which the soul of the younger twin stays to guard the village as a crimson butterfly. The last pair of twins, Yae and Sae Kurosawa, tried to escape this fate, aided by Itsuki Tachibana, the Remaining twin of the previous, unsuccessful ritual. During their escape attempt, Sae was caught and brought back to the village, while Yae became lost in the forest. The villagers tried to improvise and complete the ritual with a single twin, and hanged Sae. The attempt failed, and resulted in the Repentance and the disappearance of the village. Throughout the game, several ghosts refer to Mio as Yae and seem to expect her to perform the ritual with Mayu, with the exception of Itsuki, whose ghost tries to help her- believing the two to be the Kurosawa twins, he tries to aid their escape from the village again. Near the end of the game, when Mio is finally reunited with her sister and planning their escape, she discovers a document left by a visiting folklorist concerning the twin order<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-folklorist_12_1-0">[2]</sup>. In the village, the twin born second is considered the elder, as they let the weaker, "younger" twin be born first. This completely reverses Mio's intended fate: instead of being sacrificed herself, she is to strangle her twin sister, a fate which has driven many previous Remaining twins to madness and suicide. '''Endings''' There are four potential endings for the game. '''Crimson Butterfly Ending''' (Easy/Normal difficulty): Mio enters the sacrificial site to see Mayu standing by the stone altar, and approaches her. Mayu says how overwhelmed she felt about having to live and die separately from her sister, but by doing the ritual they could be united as a single being, as the villagers believed. With that Mayu lies on the stone altar, pulling Mio over her and wrapping Mio's hands around her neck as she asks Mio to kill her. Prodded on by Mayu's quiet pleas and the ghostly priests banging their staffs, Mio strangles Mayu. The ghosts of two Mourners pick up Mayu's dead body and toss it into the Hellish Abyss. Horrified, Mio slowly realizes what she has done, only to see the butterfly that is Mayu's spirit rising from the Abyss. She chases it through the village desperately, apologizing. The butterfly that is Mayu flies back, only to graze Mio's finger and then fly off, lost among the thousands of butterflies. At the end of the credits, Mio is seen sitting alone on a bench by the new lake. The mark of the Remaining, a bruise in the shape of a crimson butterfly, can faintly be seen on her throat. '''Hellish Abyss Ending''' (Hard/Nightmare difficulty): Mio uses the Camera Obscura to separate Mayu from the spirit of Sae Kurosawa, the last sacrificed twin, who has possessed her. The two fall back towards the Abyss, but Mio grabs hold of Mayu's wrist. The girl's spirit plummets into the Abyss with a scream. Mio remembers Itsuki's warning not to look into the Abyss, only to do so. Deep below, she sees a mass of damned spirits. Mio manages to pull up her sister and is shown rubbing her eyes. She then narrates how she didn't know how they escaped the village, but she and Mayu were found passed out in the woods. Before the credits, Mio and Mayu are seen sitting together on the same bench as in the first ending. Mio is then shown to have a bandage covering her eyes, indicating that she lost her sight looking into the Abyss. '''Lingering Scent Ending''' (run away in any difficulty, only named in Director's Cut also, a "[[Game Over]]"): Mio realizes she cannot keep her promise to Mayu and runs away alone. While running, she hears Sae's voice asking, "Are you leaving me again?" She hesitates, hearing Itsuki's voice tell her not to look back. Mio hears Mayu's voice say, "Mio... didn't we promise? Together always..." She turns around, thinking it is Mayu, only to see a menacing Sae moving towards her. Mio freezes in shock and fear as Sae approaches her, and all goes black. Afterwards, Mio wakes up by a river alone. Worried, she calls out to Mayu repeatedly, but receives no answer. Both Sae and Mayu vow to wait forever for their sisters. '''Promise Ending''' (Fatal difficulty, Director's Cut only): Mio is running down a tunnel to get to the sacrificial site. When she sees Mayu heading towards the Abyss in a trance, she calls out her name and runs to her. The priests banging their staffs vanish and, as Mio runs, Yae's spirit separates from her body. Yae walks toward Mayu, who takes on the form of Sae as she turns around to face her twin. Yae apologizes for leaving her sister alone and Sae forgives her. The twins join hands and walk towards the pit, promising to be together for eternity. Realizing that they both intend to jump, Mio runs towards to Sae, who is using Mayu as a host. Just before they fall, she wraps her arms around Sae's waist and pulls Mayu to safety. With the ritual succeeding, the crimson butterflies fly from the Abyss and off into the sky. The souls of the villagers and victims of the Repentance are seen throughout the village, watching the butterflies. Mio and Mayu leave the village, hand in hand. Mayu confesses that she was overwhelmed by the fact that they would live and die separately. Mio tells her that, even though that will happen, she'll never let Mayu go again. The sun rises as the game ends.
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