thehunterhunted

That's right, that should be a rule that if one violated it one's name should be written in the death note.

must be good to be a native speaker huuh you don't think about the rules unlike us everything is about rules if there's only one thing that are wrong or vague it makes us think 'what whatttt's this why's this like thiiiiis ' , Thanks for taking the time to answer me .

Yes it is in past tense. And the excerpt if fine to me, and I was going confirms it is in past, they're all the thoughts of the protagonist ( narrator ) but there's difference between narration and inner thoughts like ( ...I was walking home and I ran into some guy he insulted my , '' Why did you insult me ? '' The guy : '' I wanted to '' , This's just a fool I'll just ignore him or so I thought but that's not how it passed...) you see the italic sentence that's a inner thought from when the event was occurring the rest is the narration is the current thought of the author since he's narrating.. but in higurashi there's nor italic they all are in bold one sometime cannot know if they're the thoughts of the protagonist at the time like the dialogues basically or they're narration to me it's wrong to use second conditional to narrate about the past unless it's an inner thought from past and that's what I want to know.

I don't think so we narrate about things that have already happened . Look at the last line '' from today onwards, I was going to go to school alone '' it is ''I was'' not ''I'm going to go''.

That's what I'm talking about If I had waited for her to make , If I had done that it would have raised the chances. those are what I'd use to narrate. but well since the the translator is using second conditional I'll just understand it as his thoughts at the past and he's saying them as they were. because he use second conditional a lot even if he's talking about things that had already happened.

Hi guys, I'm reading the visual novel "Higurashi" it's my first visual novel in first person and I like it. I just have a little question why the narrator ( protagonist ) uses "second conditional*" when he's narrating about something that has already passed like here (See the screenshot to understand what I'm talking about) http://imgur.com/a/nRfiW ? as a non-native English speaker I was taught to use "SC*" to talk hypothetically about the present or the future not the past so even if I understand what it means it seems weird to me, maybe those lines are his inner thoughts at the time so he doesn't change them when narrating ?. I don't know if this's the appropriate section of the forum to talk about these kind of questions (I'm new here) if not a moderator can just move it elsewhere. Thank you.