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Hideki Sohta
Sohta
Gender
Male
Occupation
Teacher
Relationships
Aki, Misao, Tohma, Yoshino, Tohma, Saotome, Kudoh, Ayaka - Students Takano - Former crush
Status
Alive (Reincarnated)

Hideki Sohta (颯太 秀樹 Sōta Hideki) is the overarching antagonist of the game. He is the former teacher of Aki's class. He was born December 6th, 1986.

Starting with version 3.03 of the freeware version, his surname was changed to Kurata (倉田 Kurata) instead of Sohta. This change carries over into all paid versions the game, including Definitive Edition (2017) and 2024 HD Remaster.

Appearance[]

Sohta is described as a suave and handsome man with neck-length sandy brown hair parted in the middle and swept to both sides. He has brown eyes and light skin.

While he was still attending high school, Sohta was considered unattractive that he was bullied for it in school.

He wears a dark gray suit and a pine green tie.

Personality[]

Sohta is known as a "kind and caring" teacher that makes him extraordinarily popular with the students. However, this is revealed to be an act; he is self-entitled and twisted enough to assault Misao. Since he was bullied during school, Sohta may have persistently low self-esteem that may have contributed to his behaviors.

History[]

Before the Curse[]

Sohta is first seen scolding Aki after she is caught staring out the window in a daydream instead of paying attention in class. After reprimanding her, he returns to teaching while Aki's classmates giggle at her.

The Curse Begins[]

Like the other characters, Sohta was mysteriously transported to another location once Misao enacted her curse. He ends up teleported to the Class 2-A locker, trapping him there until the Aki releases him. Once free, Sohta heads to the Infirmary and can be found there with Ayaka after.

Finding Misao's Dismembered Parts[]

When entering the infirmary, Aki finds Sohta tending to a distressed and traumatized Ayaka. He tells her that Ayaka was attacked by a monster and asks Aki to go to the Staff Room to find a tranquilizer to calm her down. When Aki returns, she finds Ayaka's corpse on the floor and Sohta wounded, who tells Aki that the monster returned and he couldn't save her. Shortly after, Sohta gives Misao's arms to Aki.

Ending[]

Once Aki finds all of Misao's body parts, they learn from Onigawara that one more person must be killed in order to end the curse; either Sohta or Tohma must die.

Should the player decide to kill Sohta, Aki will bash him with the bat, leading to the good ending of the game - sparing Sohta results in the bad end.

After making the final sacrifice and offering Misao's body parts on the six tables, the curse is effectively broken. Aki learns from Misao's flashback that Sohta appeared to comfort Misao after she was bullied and blackmailed by Yoshino and several other girls. This flashback directly contradicts Sohta's earlier claim to Aki that he ignored Misao after saying he didn't have time to listen to her. However, Misao's memory reveals that she divulged to Sohta that her heartbreak was the reason why she was crying in bathroom corner. The real reason, however, was that Misao was raped by a fellow classmate on Yoshino's orders. In reference to the heartbreak lie, Sohta replies that he had experienced something similar before. Misao glowingly says that his gentle and popular nature makes this hard to believe. Sohta, pleased by her compliments, proceeds to wrap his arms around Misao. Uncomfortable, Misao asks him to stop. Sohta grabs one of Misao's hands. He notes how beautiful they are, confirming the 'hand fetish' mentioned about him in the game prior. Misao becomes increasingly uneasy. He calls her beautiful and kisses her hand. Misao, horrified, pushes him away before backing into a corner. Sohta pursues her, questioning why she's running. He also asks why she would reject him considering the praises she just gave. The exchange leads to Sohta approaching Misao, with her screaming, as the screen fades to black. Off screen, heavy breathing is heard, implying that Sohta has raped Misao as well. Outraged by her rejection during and prior to the assault, he shouts at her in frustration. When the screen returns, Sohta is standing over her body, panting. It is unknown if she died during the assault or after what happens next. Sohta drags Misao's body to the bathroom stall where she had been raped before. He pulls out a large saw and cuts her body into six pieces. He later would disperse these parts around the school, keeping her hands to himself in his desk. The last thing Sohta says over Misao's corpse is that she belongs to him.

If Tohma is killed instead, Sohta is released from the curse and discovers that Aki learned the truth. Aki begs to not be killed and tries to run, only for Sohta to catch up to her while the screen fades to black; he presumably kills Aki to silence her. In the next scene, Sohta is seen comforting a girl named Miho who got into a fight with her friend and offers to take her home, who agrees.

Truth[]

Sohta's Grave[]

Hideki's Room

Sohta's House from the Definitive Edition

If you touch Sohta's grave in Truth mode, you'll first find yourself in Sohta's room. You'll learn on the computer that he was happy to be loved by all, but it was actually a "mask" he wore that everyone loved. Afterwards, you'll see he apparently hates that "everyone goes on" about his appearance. In a flashback of his featuring Ayaka and some of her friends, Sohta eavesdrops on them and hears them go on about how great-looking he is. He walks away, frustrated, but after he leaves, Ayaka's classmate says that Sohta is kind and reliable, and his biggest charm is that he is not all appearance - however, Sohta did not hear this part.

Back at Sohta's house, it is revealed that he was considered unattractive in his high school years and was bullied because of his appearance. Every time he made contact with something, the others refused to touch it afterwards, even if they owned it.

We learn that later on, he took a wounded cat to a veterinarian who told him it couldn't be saved, so Sohta dug a tomb for this cat.

He used to have a friend at that time named Takano. He had a crush on her, and she didn't mind being teased about being around Sohta. They met daily but didn't talk a lot, and they were happy that way. However, when he confessed his love for her, she refused harshly before apologizing. Takano didn't want to get that close to Sohta, but was feeling pity towards him. She told him they should stop meeting. Sohta was angry. The sprite action leaves some doubt, either Sohta was trying to kill Takano, or was going to rape her. He was then stopped by a teacher.

Aki then follows Sohta deeper into the house, where he is slashing a dead body (it is unclear whose it is) while lamenting about how no one accepted him as an adolescent. Things turned around when he "changed his face"; everyone loved him, but Sohta says that everyone only loved him for only his face. Aki then comforts him, saying that all his students love their kind and reliable teacher, and that she loves him for who he is and what he is now. Sohta is surprised, and Aki gives him a hug. After this, Aki is transported back to the other world, where the others' graves are.

He doesn't reincarnate, but the cat he couldn't save does. Aki remarks, "This kitty was happy being cared for in its last moments..." It is highly likely that he was reincarnated into the cat he had loved.

Ayaka's Hairpin[]

In Truth, touching Ayaka's Hairpin next to Sohta's grave reveals how Ayaka really died. While she was rummaging through Sohta's love letters in his desk, she discovered Misao's arms. Sohta then catches her in the act and chases her to the infirmary. However, before he can silence her, Aki walks in; Sohta claims that Ayaka was attacked by a monster and convinces him/her to get a tranquilizer from his desk. This gave him enough time to murder Ayaka in cold blood, then inflict a self-injury to make it look like they were attacked by a monster.

Relationships[]

Ayaka - As Sohta was popular with his class, he was also being loved by girls including Ayaka. She is one of Sohta's students. He received a few love letters from her. It is revealed in Truth that Ayaka didn't get killed by a monster but by Sohta himself, after she discovered Misao's arms in the bottom drawer.

Aki - Aki is one of Sohta's students, and one of the few who doesn't always listen to his lectures. She apparently is one of Sohta's favorite students, but it could have been a lie to avoid a few doubts from her about him.

Misao - He has seen her before she died. Apparently she had to talk about something, but Sohta was too busy to listen to her. It was revealed in the ending that Sohta actually had some time to talk to Misao, before trying to seduce her. Misao, obviously terrified, turns down Sohta's love. In response to her rejection, Sohta lashes out and rapes her, before killing her and scattering her body parts in various places around the school.

Takano - In Truth, one of Sohta's classmates and his only friend when he was in high school. She used to be Sohta's "protector", before he confessed his love to her. She then rejects him, lashing out violently before slightly apologizing. He breaks down, again with "Why does no one accept me?!". Whether he tries to rape or attack her is unclear, but he is stopped by a teacher.

Rec Room[]

Below are the descriptions for Mr. Sohta you can view in the Rec Room at the end of Truth.

About Sohta[]

"First of all, clowns. Clowns are great. Clowns give me life. I like clowns."

A mysterious, suave teacher. But he's really a murderer with a dark past... Sohta was suspicious from the start. Maybe lots of people predicted he was bad news. Yeah...yeah, probably. This doesn't really impact the story, but Sohta wasn't ever attacked because the evil spirits were too scared to come near. And that's because Misao feared Sohta. Misao and the spirits are linked in a sense. Not completely one and the same, as they attack people she has nothing against...Aki killing Sohta was unexpected to Misao. Maybe Misao thought sacrificing Tohma would make for a happier outcome. By killing Tohma, he'd be hers forever. But killing Sohta puts him in a grave forever. Either way, Misao's spirit is saved. However, sacrificing Tohma, it's likely Misao's spirit would never move on.

Sohta Design Secrets[]

Making the teacher a villain was planned from the start. He was just plain kind from the outset, but soon took on a mysterious air. To be honest, his hair is designed like a young detective from some foreign TV drama.

Etymology[]

  • The name Hideki means "excellent, outstanding" (秀) (hide) and "tree" (樹) (ki).
  • Hideki's surname Sohta means "sudden, quick, sound of the wind" (颯) (soh) and "thick, big" (太) (ta), which literally means "suddenly" or "smoothly" altogether.
    • In the Japanese version, his surname Kurata means "warehouse, storehouse, barn, treasury, granary, cellar, magazine, godown, depository, elevator, storage place, repository, supply shed, grain elevator, stockpile, arsenal" (倉) (kura) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta).

Trivia[]

  • If you open the locker when Sohta is inside and you are covered with blood, he kills you thinking you're a monster. The same thing occurs when visiting him in the infirmary when bloodied.
  • Sohta frequently mentions that his face is "fabricated" or "fake", and that if he would change it he would become accepted, implying that he had cosmetic surgery.
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