During this vision, brief scenes of a woman in a white kimono is shown, laughing maniacally, an event that is also described in Miyako's diaries and is implied to have been an influence in her mental disintegration before being found by her boyfriend and killed. Upon finding her final diary, the woman's ghost attacks the sisters in anger, forcing Mio to use the camera to exorcise her.Īfter defeating the female ghost, Mio passes out and learns in a vision that the ghost, Miyako Sudo, was trapped in the village and then strangled by her boyfriend's ghost, seemingly an act of madness after he was also trapped in The Lost Village. Inside they find the abandoned Camera Obscura, as well as the diaries of a woman who came to the village in search of her missing boyfriend, which the twins assume to be the ghost they viewed previously. The two sisters discover a newspaper clipping and photo of a couple on the outskirts of the village and decide to investigate before leaving by entering one of the nearby family houses after seeing a female ghost entering it. Unknown to the twins, the village is the site of a mysterious ritual that failed, causing the village to be trapped in continuous night and to disappear from the region, destined to relive the events of the ritual's failure forever.
"The Lost Village" and "Minakami Village".) She sees Mayu chasing a crimson butterfly and, after following her, the two are spirited away into All God's Village (a.k.a. While remembering an accident in the forest that left Mayu's leg weak, Mio notices that her sister has disappeared. The area is soon to be a dam site and the two sisters reminisce about the times they spent there. Mio and Mayu visit a spot in the forest that they used to play at during their childhood. For more details see: Fatal Frame II Chapters. Mayu is lead to the lost village by crimson butterflies.
However, Mio learns that in order to save her sister and escape the village, she must delve deeper into a ritual that was performed in the village: the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual, where one twin must kill the other. Mayu is eventually led astray by the ghosts and Mio becomes determined to save Mayu and escape before they meet the same cursed fate as the village's former residents. The village is curiously empty, and it is revealed to have been cursed by some past event, trapping the village in perpetual night.Īs the Amakura twins investigate, they discover the Camera Obscura and are set upon by the ghosts of the past villagers.
Mio, concerned for her sister, follows Mayu, and the two girls are led to a lost village. The twin sisters, Mio and Mayu Amakura, are visiting a childhood play spot when Mayu, who walks with a limp after a childhood accident, follows a mysterious crimson butterfly deep into the woods. Mio using the Camera Obscura for the first time.