She's chosen to forego this responsibility for a fast-paced city life, much to the disapproval of her family. Yumi Shimizu - As the first daughter, Yumi Shimizu is the rightful heir to the ryokan. Is the ghost just a ploy she's using to help subvert an ancestral custom? But as the youngest daughter, she, according to tradition, can't inherit the inn. Miwako Shimizu - Miwako Shimizu takes the ryokan very seriously and helps out by running the front desk and virtually everything else. Nancy finds letters written by Kasumi that contain clues towards solving this puzzle. Before her death, Shimizu created an elaborate puzzle hoping it would encourage her family to work together. She is often mentioned by other characters. She drowned one night in the baths at the inn, and now her ghost supposedly haunts the ryokan. Kasumi Shimizu - Kasumi Shimizu was a member of the family who owned the Ryokan Hiei. Along the way, she uncovers tangled family relationships that play a part in solving a complicated puzzle left by the dead woman. Unable to resist a mystery, she works to discover who is pretending to haunt the inn. One by one, the guests leave the Ryokan Hiei, until Nancy is left only with the secretive family that owns the inn.
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Strange events, supposedly caused by a woman who died mysteriously at the inn, are scaring away guests. Once she arrives at her ryokan, however, she discovers that not all is as it seems.
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If Nancy gives Miwako the newspaper scrap informing Kasumi's death, then she will kick Nancy out of the ryokan and the player will get a game over.In the game, Nancy Drew travels as an English teacher to Kyoto, Japan with friends Bess and George as a reward for solving the preceding mystery in the game series ( Trail of the Twister).Kasumi described her eldest daughter as a "free spirit".
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When Kasumi was Yumi's age, they apparently shared very similar personalities.Takae felt extremely guilty over her daughter's death and firmly believed that Kasumi's ghost was haunting the ryokan to take revenge on her.Luckily Nancy found it and was able to show the girls their mother's note, leading the two girls to form a better relationship with one another.
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Unfortunately, she died when Yumi was fifteen, meaning she never got the chance to give Miwako her half. To reach the letter, the girls would have to work together to solve a nonogram puzzle, and to ensure that they would, Kasumi planned to give each of them half of the numbers needed to solve it on their fifteenth birthday. She goes on to say that she wants them to be closer together and that if she had her way, she would be with them always. In 2010, Nancy discovers a letter from Kasumi to her daughters that says neither of them have to run the ryokan if they don't want to she wants them to be able to live the lives they want to lead. Tourists from all over the globe would come to Ryokan Hiei to try and see her ghost, but the phenomena they encountered was so frightening that even the ghost hunters couldn't stand it. Kasumi slipped, possibly hitting her head, and ended up drowning.Īfter Kasumi's death, the ryokan started to attract rumors of being haunted by her yurei. It was Takae's job to clean the older of the two baths, a task she never before allowed Kasumi to handle since it can be very slippery, requiring knowledge of precisely where to walk. Takae didn't like Maryanne because she always wound Kasumi up to leave the ryokan and see the world, so Takae pretended to be sick in order to prevent Kasumi from seeing her friend. Nancy eventually learns from Takae that the night Kasumi died, she was going to see her friend Maryanne. The family then blamed themselves for her death, since no one was with her because they had all grown so far apart. When Kasumi was 42, she drowned in one of the baths in the ryokan. This may have been especially influenced by her absentee sister, whom their mother Takae notes did not even come for Kasumi's funeral. She lamented in her letters that she wished that her daughters would be closer. Kasumi was the manager of the Ryokan Hiei and often wrote to her penpal, Maryanne.
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Before her death, Kasumi created an elaborate puzzle hoping it would encourage her family to work together. Though the player never actually meets her during the duration of the game, she is often mentioned by other characters. She drowned one night in the baths of the inn, and now her ghost supposedly haunts the Ryokan. Kasumi is the late mother of Yumi and Miwako and the daughter of Takae.