"Caw Caw—"
"No, Tomie, Tomie is mine!"
"Don't leave me!!!"
...
As crows descend in Itomori, a small mountain town 15 kilometers north of Takayama outside of Tokyo.
A group of men was wailing.
Not far from them, a group of women breathed a sigh of relief.
Because everything changed after that woman—Tomie—appeared.
The man was so crazy about her that it scared them...
That woman is definitely not a normal person; she's a youkai!
This was their unanimous opinion.
The happiest person among them at this moment was Mitsuha Miyamizu.
As the protagonist of [Your Name], she is the daughter of Toshiki Miyamizu, the mayor of Itomori Town.
She is also a successor and priestess of the Miyamizu Shrine at Itomori Town.
When Tomie arrived, people initially just thought that a beautiful girl had come to town and they simply admired her beauty.
But soon, by the time some people realized something was wrong, many had already been bewitched by Tomie.
Faced with such a bizarre monster, people naturally thought of the town's faith first—the Miyamizu Shrine.
They began to plead with Miyamizu Shrine to deal with Tomie, and Mitsuha was also forced into the role.
However, as a beautiful but ordinary girl who could at most perform ritual dances to worship gods, she had no knowledge of exorcism techniques.
But it was impossible to let her grandmother, who had difficulty walking, face that monster.
As everyone's faith, Mitsuha had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it.
What surprised her most was that the land god she worshipped, whom she herself didn't even believe in...
It actually exists!
However, even with the help of the gods, her abilities were still limited.
She saved some men who sensed Tomie's danger but hadn't completely succumbed to her charms, but she couldn't save the many more who were completely obsessed with Tomie's beauty.
At the same time, the gods also warned her of Tomie's danger. Under her guidance, she worked hard to organize everyone to control their emotions, prevent malice towards Tomie from erupting, and stop Tomie from being dismembered.
But she can't maintain this situation for long.
That monster named Tomie seems exceptionally terrifying; even with the power of the guardian deity, it's impossible to completely eliminate her...
Just as they were desperately trying to maintain this state, some were even considering fleeing Itomori Town.
The mythical crow has arrived and took Tomie away!
"Thank you…"
Watching the crows fly away in the sky, Mitsuha felt grateful. In her mind, they must be messengers of another powerful god.
After all, their own deity has been confirmed to be real.
The one who can handle Tomie must be another expert.
"Lady Mitsuha! What am I going to do about my man?!"
Suddenly, an older woman next to Mitsuha asked her a question.
They might have called her "Little Mitsuha " before, but after Mitsuha protected them from being corrupted by Tomie and rescued some men, she became " Lady Mitsuha ".
"And my family's too..."
"I..."
Under the expectant gazes of everyone, Mitsuha looked at the group of men who were wailing in despair.
Itomori Town isn't very big; these people are all uncles and elders who watched her grow up.
I will do my best to save them!
Mitsuha was somewhat troubled. In truth, she wasn't sure if her own deity could heal the men who had been deeply bewitched by Tomie.
However, before Mitsuha could struggle for long, a group of men in black quickly took over the town.
One of the men, Satou Kazuma, seemed to be the leader. He said that in order to protect everyone's cognitive safety, their previous memories needed to be erased.
Those deeply contaminated by Tomie will be isolated and treated under the guise of an infectious disease.
As for Mitsuha, because of the Itomori deity, she didn't need her memories erased and was invited to join them as a shrine maiden.
Judging from their credentials and organizational structure, they should be a genuine official entity.
After consulting with her own deity, Mitsuha readily agreed to join the organization.
'Once Tomie's matter was resolved, everything would be over.'
At night, inside the Miyamizu Shrine, Mitsuha, who had been on edge for several days, fell asleep as soon as she settled her grandmother, who remembered nothing, and her little sister Yotsuha.
In the dead of night, a sudden, overwhelming fear jolted Mitsuha awake from her deep sleep.
Whoosh—!
"Kami-sama?"
This familiar feeling... is it her own god giving her a warning?!
What happened?
"Don't blink, run..."
A divine thought appeared in Mitsuha's mind, followed by a crisp sound, as if a neck had been snapped...
The sound sent chills down Mitsuha's spine, sending a shiver down her spine, making her feel completely cold.
After that, no matter how much she called out in her heart, even after drinking the kuchikamizake sealed in the shrine, she could no longer contact her local land god.
At the same time, an endless sorrow filled her heart, making her feel uneasy...
'—Something may have happened to the god I serve!'
The thought plunged her into endless panic. She didn't know what was happening, but the sound, like a neck being snapped, pierced her ears like a youkai whisper, filling her with dread.
Without bothering to change her clothes, still wearing a white shirt, Mitsuha looked up and saw a courtyard so quiet that she could hear the moonlight falling.
She left the room.
The pale moon hung high, washing the vermilion torii gate in a lifeless dark red. Mitsuha stepped onto the stone steps, a chill creeping up her spine from the soles of her feet, her breath condensing into white mist.
The once-familiar shrine now filled Mitsuha with fear.
'Escape!'
A divine warning flashed through her mind.
Trusting in the gods, Mitsuha ran straight to her grandmother's and sister's room without stopping.
Mitsuha had no intention of waking them up. Instead, she planned to carry her grandmother on her back with one hand and her younger sister in the other and then run away.
But when Mitsuha grabbed her grandmother and sister, one in each arm...
She was stunned!
Because what she touched wasn't her grandmother's skin, which was full of wrinkles yet warm.
It wasn't like her sister's smooth and elastic skin either.
Instead, it was a chill, an icy cold.
Like…a stone!
Looking down, Mitsuha was horrified to discover that her grandmother and sister... Had turned into stone statues...
Their necks seemed to have been snapped in their sleep by something terrifying.
"Grandmother, Yotsuha—! You…you mustn't scare me!"
Mitsuha's voice trembled, her expression filled with fear. She couldn't believe what had happened to her, unable to accept that her loved ones, whom she had just said goodnight to and settled in, had turned into cold stone statues.
"Kami-sama..."
Subconsciously, she looked up in the direction of her family's deity's shrine.
Suddenly, Mitsuha's pupils contracted.
There, in the place where Itomori gods were originally worshipped, the statues belonging to those gods have had their heads twisted off.
"..."
With trembling lips, Mitsuha stood frozen in place, staring blankly at the headless statue, completely unaware of what had happened.
Behind her.
The stone statues of her maternal grandmother Hitoha and her sister Yotsuha have stood up.
Her neck snapped silently, her head drooping behind her.