
Unfortunately, because the police told Shion's identity to the Sonozaki family, she was forced to go to the main house. In order to help Satoshi's alibi, Shion reveals her identity to the police, and the two are taken in. The next morning, Shion hangs out with Satoshi until he is investigated by the police for Tamae's death. However, on the eve of the Cotton Drifting Festival, Satoshi calls Shion and apologizes for the incident and leaves Satoko to her care, since he went to kill his abusive aunt, Tamae Houjou. Satoshi was furious on how the Sonozaki family was always criticizing his family.

The next day, Shion went to school and horribly bullied Satoko as she was furious on how she is always clinging to her brother, but was eventually stopped by Satoshi, Rika, and Rena. This causes Shion to despise Satoko and Oyashiro. Later, Shion meets one of Mion's friends, Rena Ryuuguu, and during their conversation, she learns from Rena that Satoshi is exhausting himself as he is taking care of Satoko, and may have been cursed by Oyashiro. Soon, Shion supports Satoshi in baseball games, until he leaves the team to focus on his part-time job and take care of his younger sister, Satoko Houjou. However, she is saved by a young boy named Satoshi Houjou, whom she started to fall in love with. Angered by this, Shion kicks the motorcycles, until she nearly gets in trouble by their owners, the gangsters. One day, Shion was going back home from shopping until one of her shopping bags get ripped from motorcycles. She asks her uncle, Yoshirou to let her work in the restaurant Angel Mort, and Yoshirou agrees.

Starting from the next day, she disguised herself as Mion to work in Hinamizawa so that her family won't notice. Since she had to hide from her family, Shion lived in a separate apartment and called her sister Mion from Hinamizawa. Lucia Academy, thanks to the help of her bodyguard, Tatsuyoshi Kasai. Shion acts as the main protagonist of the answer arc of Watanagashi-hen, Meakashi-hen. Though she tried desperately to get her family to believe that she was Mion, she failed, and the Sonozaki family unknowingly gave Shion (current Mion) the tattoo, causing Shion to become Mion while Mion became Shion.ĭuring two of the eight main arcs in the series, she is portrayed as a villain, killing off most of the other characters, excluding Rena Ryuuguu and Kuraudo Ooishi. However, both of them were unaware that this was the day where Mion (current Shion) was supposed to get her demon tattoo to obtain the role of the heir of Sonozaki. Mion (current Shion) obliged, and the two switched places. One day, in the twins' childhood, Shion (current Mion) wished to eat sashimi and begged Mion (current Shion) to let her go to the family meetings in her stead. It is revealed in Meakashi-hen that Shion is actually the older twin, and was therefore born with the name "Mion". However, Oryou Sonozaki, the head of the Sonozaki family (and Shion and Mion's grandmother), did not kill Shion, but instead banished her by sending her away to St.

Since having twins as heirs of a family was considered a taboo, the older twin, Mion, becomes the sole heir while the younger twin, Shion, gets killed. Shion and Mion are twin daughters of Akane Sonozaki.
