... An insane boy named Tatsuya Sudou happened to find it. He was the one setting fires around the city at the time. Tatsu... he tried to protect me, and got stabbed by him. I... ended up trapped in the shrine, and I didn't know any of this happened until later. I couldn't even see him... just fire, everywhere...

[ ... She touches her arms again, folding them over each other, almost out of instinct. ]

His Persona saved his life... but I had to go to the hospital after that. The kids--they... never found out I hadn't died because it wasn't really reported and they were so young, so they went on for so long believing they'd killed me...