HIGURASHI WHEN THEY CRY: ATONEMENT ARC – RYUKISHI07-KARIN SUZURAGI

Rena has taken extreme measures to protect her and her father s happiness, but such drastic actions have terrible consequences. When her friends learn of her crimes, they feel no revulsion toward Rena, but rather a sense of regret that they hadn t been able to help her and avert this tragedy. But even if they had sensed Rena s desperation, would her classmates pity have transformed itself from sentiment into action? Hadn t they had the same opportunity to prevent tragedy a year earlier, when Satoshi Hojo was suffering abuse at home, and failed to prevent his desperate act of murdering his aunt? How much can Rena afford to trust in a place like Hinamizawa?