Mugi

Mugi is the cat of the third game's protagonist from Yomawari 3. She is very close to her owner and extremely attached to her.

## Appearance

Mugi has white fluffy fur. Her tail is long and especially fluffy. She possesses two black eyes with white pupils. She wears a dark red collar with a yellow bell attached to it.

## Background

### Pre-History

Mugi was given to the Protagonist as a birthday gift during her 5th birthday. Over the years, creating wonderful bonds of memories, she also met Kotori, who also met the Protagonist during her preschool years. Until later, Mugi passed away, devastating the Protagonist. Kotori calms the Protagonist's sorrow, that Mugi is resting now. The two of them go to a hidden clearing behind the shrine to bury Mugi. The Protagonist laments that Mugi is not dead, but still "alive".

During the Protagonist's years of elementary, Mugi, as a spirit, continues to visit her owner, trying to cheer her up.

### Yomawari 3

During present time, after the failed dare, the Protagonist continues to suffer from bullying to harassment, until she was fed with worm on a plate, causing her to become nauseated and intoxicated, tempting her into suicide.

After getting out of the Spirit Forest, Mugi greets the Protagonist and runs back home, waiting for her.

As the Protagonist gathers her remaining memories, she remembers her memories, but not the true ones.

### Bad Ending

The Protagonist and Mugi goes to the rooftop to find Kotori, but the Human-Faced Bird attacks them. The Protagonist succeeds in ringing the bell multiple times to suppress and cancel the Human-Faced Bird's attacks, allowing her to reach the shrine.

Kotori is displeased that the Protagonist could not remember, telling her that until she remembers, she will be stuck, dying over and over. They go outside of the building, with the Protagonist convincing Mugi that there is still something that she has not remembered. Mugi, sensing danger coming from the Protagonist, runs away because the curse has started to take effect on her. The flashback shows of what the Protagonist and Kotori have done in their past time, turning on a flashlight, before finally flashing back to the curse-transformed Protagonist.

### Mid-Climax

Continuing from the Bad Ending, the Protagonist performs different actions in her true memories to see the truth (shining a light on a dark fog, ringing the small bell in her imagination), but still misses one more that there is something that she wanted to forget badly. She tries shining the light on Mugi, who lets out a rasp meow, that Mugi was a spirit accompanying her all along. She holds the picture of herself and Mugi to see the final memory. In her past, it was revealed that Mugi passed away, devastating the Protagonist, with Kotori saying that Mugi is now resting due to being tired. Both of them go in the hidden clearing behind the shrine to bury Mugi, Kotori tells the Protagonist to keep Mugi in her heart. The Protagonist continues to lament, saying that Mugi is not "dead", and still "alive", thus leading to the Protagonist realizing that Mugi was a spirit accompanying her all along during her whole years.

She goes to the hidden clearing to find the second bell, and buries Mugi again, before departing to see Kotori. This time, Mugi, as a spirit, helps the Protagonist again to fend off the Human-Faced Bird's attacks, and succeeding to remember everything. Kotori tells her that she will be waiting in the Spirit Forest, before going back.

### True Ending

After returning the bells to the Spirit Forest's God successfully, they return to the shrine archway, performing the same actions as before. The Protagonist is taken back to her town in the real world, and Kotori is nowhere to be seen.

### Aftermath

With the curse finally broken, the Protagonist takes a blue flower and offers it to her deceased pet. As she finds the remaining flowers to make a bouquet, she returns to Mugi's grave again, surprising her with a flower garden. She takes one blue flower to complete the bouquet, and leaves the grave, before meeting Kotori again in the Empty Building.