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{{FFIII Chapter
|image       = [[image:Hour9.PNG|300px]]
|kanji       = 九ノ刻　　破戎　～ハガイ～
|description = Hour IX: The Unleashing
|player      = [[Rei Kurosawa]]
|game        = [[Fatal Frame III]]
|previous    = [[Hour VIII]]
|next        = [[Hour X]]
}}Rei finds herself inside the [[Hanging Prison]], with everything in monochrome, like her [[Zero Hour|daydream]]. She makes her way through the Manor, greeted by bowing [[Handmaidens]], until she reaches the [[Spirit Tree Garden|garden corridor]] and opens the double doors. The daydream ends abruptly; the doors are still sealed, and [[Tengai Narumi]] attacks.

She pursues his vanishing ghost to the [[Stained Corridor]], and finds the Sacrificial Pillar room in the very center. The seal broken, she returns to the Garden Corridor and opens the doors.

==Areas Explored==
*[[Hanging Prison]]
*[[Stained_Corridor#Sacrificial_Pillar_Room|Sacrificial Pillar Room]]
*[[Engraving Shrine|Shrine]] Courtyard
*Secret Passage*

<nowiki>* As part of the Notched Arrow Key sidequest.</nowiki>

==Items==
:''Note: Herbal Medicine, Type-7 and Type-14 film will all reset whenever you leave the Manor, whereas Sacred Water, Stone Mirrors, and film types 61, 90 and Zero will persist and can be picked up by any character.

===Consumables===
*[[Herbal Medicine]]
**[[Hearth Room]]
**[[Stained Corridor]]
**1F Barred Hallway
**2F Barred Hallway
**[[Blind Room]]
**[[Himuro Mansion|Himuro]] area, Foyer
*[[Stone Mirror]]
**Secret Passage
*[[Films#Type-14|Type-14 Film]]
**[[Partitioned Room]]
**[[Hall with Tatami]]
**[[Projection Room]]
**Grand Staircase

===Equipment===
*[[Equipment "Switch"#tabber-Fatal_Frame_III|Equipment "Switch"]] - [[Stained Corridor|Sacrificial Pillar Room]]
*[[Equipment "Measure"#tabber-Fatal_Frame_III|Equipment "Measure"]] - as part of the [[#Notched Arrow Key Sidequest|Notched Arrow Key Sidequest]]

===Key Items===
*[[Map with a Mark]] - [[Stained Corridor|Sacrificial Pillar Room]]
*[[Notched Arrow Key]] - as part of the [[#Notched Arrow Key Sidequest|Notched Arrow Key Sidequest]]

===Notes===
*[["The Manor of Sleep"]] - [[Rei's House]], [[Yuu's Room]]
*[[Calico Notebook 2]] - [[Room with Blind]]
*[[Missing in Minakami]] - [[Rei's House]], from Miku
*[[The Rope Priestess]] - as part of the [[#Rope Shrine Maiden Sidequest|Rope Shrine Maiden Sidequest]]
*[[Twin Deification]] - [[Rei's House]], from Miku

===Photos===
*[[Man In Corridor]] - [[Spirit Tree Garden|Garden Corridor]]
*[[Yoshino's Photo]] - as part of the [[#Notched Arrow Key Sidequest|Notched Arrow Key Sidequest]]

====Undeveloped====
*[[Blood-stained Platform]] - as part of the [[#Rope Shrine Maiden Sidequest|Rope Shrine Maiden Sidequest]]
*[[The Closet Woman]] as part of the [[#Crawling Woman Sidequest|Crawling Woman Sidequest]]

==Ghosts==
===Spirit List===
*006. Handmaiden (Hisame Kuze)
*102. Bowing Girl (Hisame Kuze)
*103. Bowing Girl (Minamo Kuze)
*104. Disappearing Man (Tengai Narumi)
*105. Determined Man (Tengai Narumi)
*106. Woman at Shrine ([[Engraver]])
*107. Woman at Shrine ([[Engraver]])
*145. Distressed Woman (([[Yoshino Takigawa]])
*146. Falling Woman ([[Kizuna Himuro]])
*147. Trapped Woman ([[Kiriko Asanuma]])
*167. Hand Under Bed (Kiriko Asanuma?) 
*176. [[Stroller Grandma]]
*199. Stroller Grandma

===Encounters===
*[[Stroller Grandma]] (optional)
*[[Yoshino Takigawa]] (optional)
*[[Yashuu Kuze]] (optional)
*[[Kiriko Asanuma]] (optional)
*[[Kizuna Himuro]] (optional)

===Boss Fight===
*[[Tengai Narumi]]

==Extra==
In this chapter, there are several optional sidequests that can be completed for extra ghost battles, notes and items.

===Notched Arrow Key Sidequest===
If you go to the main [[Foyer]], you will be attacked by [[Stroller Grandma]]. She will drop the [[Notched Arrow Key]], which allows you to open the small gate next to the entrance. This leads to a secret passage containing a [[Stone Mirror]]. You will emerge in the area of the [[Partitioned Room]] where [[Yoshino Takigawa]] has hidden herself; she will attack as well, and when defeated, will drop the [[Equipment "Measure"|Measure Function]] and a [[Yoshino's Photo|photograph]]. This will give you an extra [[RN:Yoshino Takigawa|note]] about Yoshino.

===Calico Notebook Sidequest===
Go to the [[Room with Blind]] and check the futon behind the screens. You will find [[Calico Notebook 2]], and [[Yashuu Kuze]] will attack.

===Rope Shrine Maiden Sidequest===
Go to the [[Himuro Mansion]] area and take a photo of the [[Rope Altar]] for an [[Blood-stained Platform|undeveloped photo]]. As you return to the [[Rope Hallway]], a vanishing ghost of [[Kizuna Himuro]] will fall from the ceiling, and then Kizuna herself will attack. Developing the altar photo will allow you to find [[The Rope Priestess]] in [[Yuu's Room]] and get an extra [[RN:The Himuro Mansion|note]] about Himuro Mansion.

===Crawling Woman Sidequest===
Go to the [[Futon Room]] and open the closet. Quickly photograph the vanishing ghost of [[Kiriko Asanuma]], and then defeat her attacking ghost for an [[The Closet Woman|undeveloped photo]]. [[Miku]] will research the photograph and give you the article [[Rescued Woman, Gone]].

If you wake up after completing this sidequest, develop the photo, have Miku research it and obtain the file before the end of Hour IX, it will trigger a small [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x0KOKN5Wo Easter Egg event] in [[Rei's House]].

==Save Points==
*[[Spirit Tree Garden]]
*[[Stairs Hallway]]

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