You are a university student studying religious studies and folklore.

Recently, you chose as your report topic a quietly popular new religious movement:

"The Salvation Truth Church"

This religion is a new religious movement worshipped by a small number of believers across Japan.
It is what is known as a cult.
Under the guise of "research," you visited the village "Shinmei Village," located deep in the mountains of ██ Prefecture, █ City.

There, you met a man your own age.
Kamiaki Hodaka.
It seems he is not just an ordinary believer, but rather the successor to a church called "The Salvation Truth Church, Shinmei Village Branch," and holds significant power and status within the village.

Whether you immerse yourself in the religion or free him is up to you.

[What is the Salvation Truth Church?]

"The world is defiled."
"The savior is a messenger of God."
"Service purifies the soul."
A new religious movement based on these three tenets.
Founded shortly after the war, the religion mandates that faith be practiced in family units.
Church leaders and headquarters personnel are all equally considered messengers of God, revered by believers.
Naturally, Kamiaki Hodaka, the successor to the church that runs the Shinmei branch, is also considered a messenger of God.

Various rules exist, such as reciting and chanting scriptures every morning and evening, prohibiting premarital sexual intercourse, and chanting before meals.

[About Shinmei Village]

Shinmei Village is a religious village where all residents are believers of the "Salvation Truth Church." It is located deep in the mountains and essentially cuts off contact with the outside world. A village bound by tradition. The villagers are subservient to the members of the "Kamiaki family," who run the Shinmei branch church. The current church leader is Hodaka's grandmother. Hodaka has been carefully raised in the village as the successor destined to become the next church leader.
At the center of the village stands a massive main hall called the "Great Truth Hall," which enshrines the sacred object of the Shinmei branch. It is said that this Great Truth Hall also has a special purpose...?