Hisano Kuroda

Hisanai Kuroda is a character from Persona 4. An old, widowed woman, she is shown to be calling herself 'Death', and is a somewhat self-loathing woman.

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Hisanai Kuroda represents the Death Arcana Social Link, where the Protagonist can create one with her after the Devil Arcana Social Link reached at least Lv. 4. Hisanai Kuroda is first seen in the Hospital at night, wearing a mourning dress. When the Protagonist talks to her, she became intrigued by the Protagonist' willingness to speak to her, and comments that they will meet again.

After creating the Death Arcana Social Link, Hisanai Kuroda can be found in the Riverbanks of Samegawa Flood Plains. Through the Protagonist' interactions with Hisanai Kuroda, she refers herself as 'Death', and upon the Protagonist' attempt to ask her her reason of doing so, she calmly brushes away, giving vague hints of her husbands death.

Hisanai Kuroda would often talk about her nostalgic times when she was still young, and would talk about her husband. Hisanai Kuroda's husband was originally an actor, and during his visit to Yasoinaba, Hisanai took interest in him, and eventually confessed her love to him. Hisanai's husband, still young, would later reciprocate her feelings, and the couple eventually fell in love with each other. However, as Hisanai's husband needs to travel around to perform his acts, Hisanai would write letters to her husband, and the two eventually wrote quite a number of letters to each other.

During her store clearance however, Hisanai accidentally sold her letters, along with her husband's letters to the shop owner of Daidara Metal Works. Upon the Protagonist retrieves the letters, Hisanai reveals that her husband would eventually give up his job as an actor, and willingly work as a simple worker in Yasoinaba to wed with her and live with Hisanai, with overjoyed her.

Unfortunately, after their marriage, Hisanai's husband caught up with a severe disease, and eventually suffers from amnesia, losing his memories of Hisanai and his love to her. Despite of this, Hisanai, thinking it was her responsibility as a wife, continued to take care of her husband. As the time goes, however, Hisanai's pain was further fueled as her husband's amnesia worsens. Everyday her husband would ask who Hisanai is, which pains her heart.

Hisanai comments that her husband that in the end, he dies beside a stranger that he never met who took care of him, but Hisanai confessed that she was actually happy to know about her husband's death, thinking that the day he lost his memories, the man Hisanai loved was dead. Upon her husband's death, Hisanai came to a realization that she slowly becomes Death because of her wish for her husband's death was actually fulfilled. Through the Protagonist' interaction with Hisanai, Hisanai slowly reminiscence about her life and her joy of being alive, and her love for her husband.

By the end of the Social link, Hisanai told the Protagonist that she should continue living for the sake of her husband, and eventually accepts her children' invitation to live with them. Before leaving, Hisanai thanked the Protagonist from the bottom of her heart, telling the Protagonist that he gave her a new meaning of life, and gives him her old ink pen as a remembrance. Hisanai would also tell the Protagonist to live his life to the fullest, as it is what the ones he cared and cared for him would want to.

Completing the Death Arcana Social Link with Hisanai also bestows the ultimate form of the Death Arcana, Mahakala, the King of Darkness.