Narumi Amanuma

Shadow Priestess Character Narumi Amanuma "...You too, don't make trouble for yourself... please..." Kanji/Kana 雨沼鳴海 Alias — Occupation Student Status Alive Cause of Death — First Appearance Chapter 2

Narumi Amanuma is a character in Fatal Frame: Shadow Priestess. She is a senior in the modern architecture seminar that Sara Washizuki attends. Mr. Koutari selects her and Tooru Nue to be in charge of organising the class trip to Karasawa Elementary. She wears round glasses and rather prim, old-fashioned clothing. She is largely quiet on the first day of the trip, but does make a pointed comment about Sara's "un-Japanese" brown hair on the first night at the Karasawa Shrine.

When the group travels to the elementary school the next day, Narumi is attacked by a ghost that tries to drag her down into an old-fashioned pit toilet. Sara and Tousei Ryuuzaki rescue her, and Mr. Koutari assures her that she probably only slipped and imagined the hands. However, Tousei and Sara are concerned that a bond has now formed between Narumi and the spirit, which might open her to further attacks.

When the group encounters the vengeful spirit of Kumi Suzumori, Narumi and Jun Takakura become separated from the others. Narumi recalls that Sara's camera managed to drive off the spirit that attacked her before, and they decide to go looking for her.

As they search, Jun is tricked by spirits mimicking the appearances and voices of their companions. They lure him into an empty classroom and convince him that Narumi is an evil spirit. Under their influence, he backs her up against a sink and attempts to choke her to death. At that moment, all the taps come on at once, and the water drives the ghosts away. Jun returns to normal, and a child's hand rises from the water, indicating the numbers 3 and 2. Jun attempts to apologise for trying to strangle Narumi, but she reassures him that it wasn't his fault, and kisses him on the cheek, leaving him flustered. She suggests the spirit might have meant them to visit Classrom 3-2, and they set off that way together.

Sure enough, at Classroom 3-2 they meet Sara and the others. At first, an illusion cast by the necromancer makes Jun and Narumi appear in the form of evil spirits, but Sara's Spirit Stone Flashlight shows the reality. Shortly afterwards they are joined by Professor Koutari, Midori, Mozu and Tsugumi. Once everyone is reunited, they decide to visit the Photography Club Room for supplies.

The intensity of the ghost attacks escalate as the group moves on, and once again, Jun and Narumi are forced to split away from the main group. They find themselves wandering through an illusory graveyard. As they walk, Jun reveals that Karasawa Village was his mother's hometown, and she was most likely a student at Karasawa Elementary. He believes it is no coincidence that he has ended up here, and asks Narumi whether she has any similar connection to the area.

Almost as soon as he asks, he and Narumi hear a sound coming from somewhere deep in the graveyard. They find an old man seated in a clearing, and Narumi instantly recognises her grandfather, who died a decade ago. Jun warns her to beware of illusions, but Narumi pays no heed. Jun struggles to reach her, impeded by decaying hands rising from the ground, when Narumi's real grandfather appears in the form of a ragged skeleton. Narumi rejects the impostor, who resumes his true form as an evil spirit.

In moments, Jun and Narumi are surrounded by the dead. Narumi's real grandfather calls out and reminds her of the special charm he made for her, a god pendant carved from stone, which she still wears everywhere. Holding it up, she recites the prayer he taught her: "Please cleanse and purify this place, O gods and uncanny spirits. Bring us good fortune." This repels the spirits and destroys the illusion of the graveyard, returning them to the school hallway once more. There Narumi meets the real spirit of her grandfather, who explains that he was a stonemason who helped build the school, only to be crushed when part of the building collapsed during renovations. Before his form dissolves, he warns Jun and Narumi of a traitor in their group, who can be identified by the "mark of tarak", a Sanskrit letter.

They continue wandering in circles through the maze of the school. At Classroom 5-2, they find a class of young children who surround and cling to them, addressing them as teachers. It is not long before the children are revealed as evil spirits, but they are able to weaken Narumi, and her charm does not work to turn them back. Jun reaches for her hand as the two collapse, but just when all seems lost, Sara arrives, and purifies the spirits with her Camera Obscura. Afterwards, Narumi lies unconscious, and the spirit of Kanon Ohtori takes the opportunity to speak through her body. Narumi is only vaguely aware of a voice in her mind and a sense of warmth and happiness when Sara and Kanon are able to talk again after so long. Just as Kanon is trying to warn Sara about the Necromancer, Narumi wakes choking, and coughs up a purple prayer bead from a rosary.

The three of them set about trying to solve the Necromancer's riddle, several sheets of paper that appear to be children's calligraphy practice. Narumi recognises the name on one of the sheets, Nana Ando, as the name of a girl who used to sit behind her in class, and with this clue, Sara uses the old seating chart to solve the puzzle.

The solution tells them to look under the podium in the home economics room, but on the way there they stumble into another dark seal created by the Necromancer, inside the larger one already enveloping the school. In order to escape it and reach their destination, Sara says they will have to solve yet another riddle.

Meanwhile, Sara notices Jun and Narumi holding hands, but when Jun starts hinting that they have developed romantic feelings for each other, Narumi vehemently denies it and claims she is only making sure he won't get into any more trouble.