And no one considered to check the body? Or wondered who killed her? Or there are just so many murders in this village that the villagers can’t keep them all straight to begin with…
Oh she’s almost certainly dead, and what Tono seeing is just a doll induced hallucination. There’s no winning checkers against this village, let alone 4D chess!
But without a 4d chess character we just have a bunch of clueless children running around in circles in different time periods and occasionally getting sacrificed; there's nothing moving the story forward without some unrealistic genius talking charge...