<p>In <em>From the New World</em> (episode 18), during the Summer Festival attack, Koufuu Hino is protecting the people:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/YPO0U.png" alt="I&#39;m a fan"></p>

<p>And he got killed by a sneak attack from the Monster Rats.</p>

<p>Upon his death, uh, his eyes kind of shot a beam of light into the sky, and a figure of a woman appeared. Apparently, she smiled at Saki.</p>

<p>What exactly happened there? Who was that woman supposed to be?</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/UBaZz.png" alt="I&#39;m a face"></p>

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2014-06-12T20:04:05.490Z
I checked the corresponding part of the novel (part V-3, p. 667 of the one-volume version) a little while back in hopes of answering this question, but the novel didn't contain much extra detail. Hino Koufuu is only mentioned a few times after that in passing, with no mention of this woman.
senshin
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2014-06-18T23:06:55.253Z
"There was the image of a woman holding a child in the dying flames of the mobile library. But in the same episode, there was also the figure of a woman holding a scythe in the storm created when the monk released his cantus.
In retrospect, we never did get an explanation for that." - from Reddit so this & senshin's search sound like there isn't a direct answer.
Daz C
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2014-06-19T16:12:26.880Z
@DazC The image of a woman that arose when the moving library (the false minoshiro) died was explicitly a defense mechanism designed to trigger death feedback in whoever attacked it. In the novel, Saki speculates that false minoshiro triggered the image too late (i.e. after Rijin had already delivered a fatal blow), suggesting that ordinarily, the false minoshiro would project that image as a pre-emptive defense.
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What happened to Koufuu Hino?
# What happened to Koufuu Hino?
Posted by: username_0 on 2013-10-24
In *From the New World* (episode 18), during the Summer Festival attack, Koufuu Hino is protecting the people:

![I'm a fan](https://i.sstatic.net/YPO0U.png)

And he got killed by a sneak attack from the Monster Rats.

Upon his death, uh, his eyes kind of shot a beam of light into the sky, and a figure of a woman appeared. Apparently, she smiled at Saki.

What exactly happened there? Who was that woman supposed to be?

![I'm a face](https://i.sstatic.net/UBaZz.png)
**Tags:** from-the-new-world
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I checked the corresponding part of the novel (part V-3, p. 667 of the one-volume version) a little while back in hopes of answering this question, but the novel didn't contain much extra detail. Hino Koufuu is only mentioned a few times after that in passing, with no mention of this woman.  
> **username_2**: "There was the image of a woman holding a child in the dying flames of the mobile library. But in the same episode, there was also the figure of a woman holding a scythe in the storm created when the monk released his cantus.
In retrospect, we never did get an explanation for that." - from Reddit so this & senshin's search sound like there isn't a direct answer.  
> **username_1**: @DazC The image of a woman that arose when the moving library (the false minoshiro) died was explicitly a defense mechanism designed to trigger death feedback in whoever attacked it. In the novel, Saki speculates that false minoshiro triggered the image too late (i.e. after Rijin had already delivered a fatal blow), suggesting that ordinarily, the false minoshiro would project that image as a pre-emptive defense.  
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