神川 ひなた

A student at St. Marianne's Academy who frequents Kiyoharu's church every morning for prayers. She is famous at the academy for the accuracy of her fortune telling and is never short of clients both inside and outside the Academy walls. Despite her natural born talents, she is always cheerful and is equally friendly to all which further adds to her popularity amongst her fellow students. Her fortune telling method relies on a standard pack of playing cards. If she wants a question answered, she will shuffle the deck and then draw a card at random. Depending on what she "sees", she usually has an answer to her question. If it's someone else who wants a question answered, she will shuffle the deck and ask the client to draw a card which she will then interpret. Her ability is surprisingly versatile and she can even use it to tell if someone is lying to her. A scion of a clan famous for its spiritual powers, she was considered one of the strongest mediums ever born into the family. Unfortunately her powers made her easily susceptible to possession from malicious spiritual entities so she has considerable experience with exorcists which her family employed to help her. A big reason why she enrolled in the Academy was in hopes of developing a measure of control over her considerable gifts, however at the start of the story she has had little success to date. Nia surmises Hinata's fortune telling powers are her unconscious ability to call upon spirits of nature which briefly possess her allowing foresight into the future. The school board is aware of her talents and keeps other students with similar talents like hers on their student roll. Occasionally she's called upon by corporation CEOs on important business decisions. Depending on player decisions, Hinata either succeeds in ridding herself of the spirits which possess her and the others or her soul ends up fusing with the spirits.