We tell her that we know now it was an accident, but it seems like everyone at the ryokan blames themselves. So hey, let’s roll up to Miwako and open the conversation with, “I know what happened to your mother.” Smooth, Nancy. “She would have been quite fond of you - she always loved people who think for themselves, and she loved stubbornness.” Hee! I mean, interesting stuff, but are you gonna tell us about her gory death or not, Takae? Instead we can ask for more information about Kasumi, and Takae will just tell us that she had a strong sense of justice. Somewhat weirdly, we can’t ask Takae about the article. Well, I’m sure that wasn’t traumatic for her at all, and I bet she loved Nancy repeatedly bringing it up to her! Yumi was the one who found her and called the police. The article says that Kasumi Shimizu was found unconscious in the baths, apparently drowned. We get a text from Logan, translating that super mysterious article that nobody would talk to us about. Why do our suspects gotta fuck with me like this :( When we bring that up, and that she brought Savannah Woodham in to cleanse the place, she says she doesn’t know who that is. But then when the lights come back on, she’s like, “Ghost? What ghost?” What? I thought Takae was the one who believed in ghosts here. Dude! This is the first time it’s happened in the middle of the day, and Takae’s just as freaked out as we are. Takae’s inflating Nancy’s ego some more by complimenting us on our mad tea ceremony skills, when all of a sudden the lights go out and we see another shadow pass over the wall. I don’t usually advocate for making puzzles more difficult, but it wouldn’t have hurt to put the names in hiragana - the player has to pick up some of the syllabary to navigate the rest of the game anyway. Takae will walk us through what all the various components of the ceremony are named, and then we have to match the names to the utensils. Nancy’s like, “Actually, I’m just here to interrogate you,” but Takae’s like, “Stop saying words.” There shall be no crime fighting until we master the art of tea ceremony! Over in the cultural room, Takae is holding lessons in the art of the tea ceremony. Welp, see you later, Rentaro! “Peace out!” he chirps. “A few of them…” he starts, but then refuses to finish. Nobody ever figured out what she saw, but soon people were coming looking for spirits and all that junk. ~*~Spooky~*~ Rentaro also tells us about when the ryokan first got its haunted reputation: a few summers ago, a woman saw something in the baths and was so freaked out that she went into shock. We ask what happened to the Williams’ room Rentaro doesn’t know, but the entire room was trashed, and the shoji had turned the color of ash. Only the movie restarts every week.” I bet somewhere back in River Heights, Ned’s like, “I feel that, bro.”Īnyway, back to the hauntings. Kyoto has a population of 1.5 million! We try to nose up in his relationship business, and he tells us, “You know how in the romantic movies, the couple is only happy together for like a minute at the very end?…That’s how our relationship is. Uh… what city? You guys are in a city already, Rentaro. Still, he hopes that this will get her to “come to her senses” and move to the city with him. We nudge the conversation in the direction of Miwako, and Rentaro says that she’s stressed over how all the guests are flipping out and leaving the ryokan. In the meantime, let’s check in with Rentaro. When we come back, we drop off our mail for Logan and George: Logan is going to translate that mysterious article about Kasumi Shimizu for us, and George’s inventor friend will help us get past Suki and into the front desk. This subplot is so incredibly pointless.Īfter all the scary shit that happened last night, we wake up the next morning and head off to teach English. Oh, yeah, somewhere in between all this ghostbusting and nosing around the Shimizus’ tragic past, we’re still teaching English and grading papers. But we’ve been distracting Logan with Bess’s feminine wiles, which is probably the most attention he’s gotten from a girl in ages, so he really shouldn’t complain. We got in touch with ex-ghostbuster Savannah Woodham, who has agreed to help us, to the chagrin of her beleaguered assistant, Logan. Previously on Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Edge: The ryokan’s final guests have left, leaving Nancy alone in the spooky, haunted inn with that creepy-ass family.
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