It is said that life's encounters are governed by fate.
Tangled up in the threads of fate...
...are the ill-fated blossoms, pitiful and frail.
Lost in anger, sorrow, and tears...
Beyond the veil of midnight,
the retribution that you are helpless to reap shall be yours.
Itsuka hikari ni mukau sakasama no chou
Kimi to kami o kiru kagami no naka
Jugyou-chuu no rouka hibiku ashioto
Taezu ame no oto ga tsuite-kuru yo
Kanjiru mama no katachi wa mabushii amai hana ni naru
Doku no mi ni mo naru
Kyou mo ame
Ano hi to ima o sora to sora de tsunagitai no
In this craziness, uncertainty
Hitori hitori no omoi o bokura wa dokoka ni nokoseru darou ka
In this craziness, you gave me life
Hitotsu no omoi o bokura wa doko made mamoreru darou ka
In this craziness, uncertainty
Hitori hitori no katachi o bokura wa dokoka ni nokoseru darou ka
In this craziness, you gave me life
Sorezore no katachi o bokura wa doko made mamoreru darou ka
"Spilled Bits"
Sawai!
Sawai, why don't you come to school?
Everybody's worried.
Could I at least just talk to you?
If you won't say anything, we can't even find a way to resolve this.
Come on, Sawai!
Sawai!
Mr. Fukazawa, that's enough for today...
But...
It is true that she isn't feeling well.
Sawai, I'll come again tomorrow.
Well, then, please excuse me.
"Secret Place"
I have found a very wonderful place.
I have uploaded a picture of it to the message board,
so please take a look at it.
It truly is wonderful.
I would like to go there.
I ended up staying home from school again today.
The teacher has no regard for my feelings, either.
I just cannot bring myself to like my teacher.
I can't understand why he goes to such lengths for me.
It makes me uncomfortable.
"Anemone"
Come on, Sawai, could I at least just see you?
Sawai!
The teacher must have his own various troubles.
I go to that place often myself on my way home from school.
It brings me peace.
I could never tell anyone things like this in real life.
This is our secret, just between you and me.
A secret just between the two of us.
Please promise me.
Sawai, at least let me hear your voice!
-Sawai! Sawai! -It's so strange.
That such a place could bring such peace.
I would like to go there, too.
Lately, I feel like I don't belong, even in my own house.
Sawai! Sawai!
I am writing this e-mail in the yard of that abandoned house.
Something bad happened at school that has made me depressed.
Maybe I'll stay home from school tomorrow, too.
Do you know about Hell Link?
Sawai! Sawai!
I've heard of it.
That if you write in the name of the person you have a grudge against,
Hell Girl will supposedly avenge you.
I found the site the other day.
I cannot make up my mind whether to write in my teacher's name or not.
Sawai!
I think it would be okay to write it in.
"Your grievance shall be avenged. Send"
Are you feeling sorry for your teacher?
You never know, the teacher might be wishing for it to happen, too.
"Yoshiki Fukazawa"
"Send"
You called?
Well, I don't know if someone such as myself could be of any use to you.
Mr. Kashiwagi told me you were an extremely passionate teacher.
Being passionate does not mean I am capable.
I will not trouble you overly much.
Ah...
This is it.
Okay, everyone, quiet down!
This is Mr. Shibata and he's a journalist!
He's researching educational issues, so all day today,
he'll be observing class and talking to you guys,
so everyone be sure to cooperate with him.
Got that?
Um...
Uh, um, I'm Hajime Shibata.
Uh, I'll try not to get in your way, so I hope we can...
Come on now, be quiet!
Curses come home to roost...
Ai.
What's the matter, Ai?
No, it's nothing.
It's nothing at all.
You're all so quiet.
It's just that you seem so normal now.
When you were so noisy this morning.
That's kind of like socializing...
Socializing?
Right?
If your friends talk to you, you sort of end up paying attention to them.
But I mean, your teacher was talking.
The teacher is an adult, so we think he'll be able to take it.
We're kids, after all.
If we quietly listened to what the teacher was saying,
you never know what people might say about you later.
You're fine with this, Mr. Fukazawa?
Well, children these days are all pretty much like this.
By the way, you guys, have you heard of Hell Link?
I have, but...
It's just a rumor, right?
I tried searching for it, but I didn't find it.
Have you heard any rumors of any kids who have accessed it?
We're all stressed out, so...
Everyone's got one or two people they feel like cursing.
Maybe that's the reason a rumor like that has spread.
They're good kids at heart.
You try not to be too impertinent, too, eh?
Yes, Sir...
"Fire Hydrant"
Did you know about Hell Link, Mr. Fukazawa?
Oh, I had heard about it in a casual way.
You've never seen it?
Why do you ask?
Well, I thought you might have one or two people you'd like to curse, too.
Mr. Shibata, are you sure that wasn't what you were really researching?
Oh, no, not at all.
Someone I'd like to curse, huh?
Well, there might be those who'd like to curse me, though.
Thank you very much.
-Please excuse me... -Mr. Fukazawa.
I hear Sawai in your class still hasn't been attending.
We cannot have this. We need you to counsel her properly.
Yes, Sir...
She can stay in the nurse's office if she attends.
Attendance is attendance, after all.
Non-attendance is an issue.
It affects the reputation of this school.
Can't we just dismiss her from school, once and for all?
Guess I got nothing.
Akane.
Everyone lives a life where not everything goes their way.
And that applies to you even more at your age.
There's no way you can keep this up forever.
You know that, too, don't you?
Why don't you come to school?
If you come, you'll feel that much better.
You'll wonder what you'd been agonizing over all this time.
That's just how it is.
In point of fact, you behaved cheerfully early on.
Please say something.
I won't know anything if you won't talk.
Even if I told you...
What?
Even if I told you, I don't think you'd understand.
Why not?
You can earnestly do your work without any doubts
and live a normal life,
and I don't think someone like that could understand my feelings.
The social environment of the classroom is very hard.
Even if I know it's wrong, I still have to do what's expected.
Even if I know it's bad, I still have to play along.
Over and over and over. That's what I don't like.
You've never even imagined it might be like that, have you?
You thought everyone behaved whatever way they wanted, right?
People might seem to be having fun, but that's just appearances.
That's why I say you can't understand.
Please leave me alone already!
Why do you bother with me so much?!
Isn't it because it's a problem for you that I don't go to school?
If you have a student who doesn't attend,
it damages your position, so...
Don't talk like you know anything!
Don't think you're the only one who's special!
I'm sorry.
It's exactly as you say.
I wasn't thinking of you, but of my own position.
Even today, the reason I came here
is because the vice principal pressured me about you.
It's about appearances...
It's all about appearances.
I'm sorry I yelled at you.
What?
I'll come again.
You shouldn't worry your mother too much, okay?
I do not know what I should do anymore.
Am I in the wrong or are those around me in the wrong?
I don't know anymore.
What a coincidence.
I was thinking similar thoughts. I do not know what I should do.
Maybe I really will quit going to school, once and for all.
"Faculty Room"
I was surprised.
I'm the one who kept pestering you to come to school,
but when you actually came, it made me feel even more worried.
How stupid is that?
What is it? Did something happen?
I don't really know myself... what I should do, so...
But...
Because you revealed how you honestly felt yesterday, that's why...
I'm sorry.
Mr. Fukazawa.
Hold on a minute.
Can you guess where I am right now?
At school! I can't believe it myself, either.
I'll e-mail you again when I get home.
"I'll e-mail you again when I get home. Anemone"
"Anemone"
What are you doing?
Did you know?
Were you exchanging e-mails with me, knowing that I was Anemone?!
What?
What is the meaning of this?!
W-Wait a minute.
Well, what about it?!
No, that's not true!
What?
That's not true.
I'm shocked.
I had no idea you were Anemone.
I didn't mean to trick you. Please forgive me.
I had no other outlets.
It was the only way I could take it anymore.
When I was a student,
I couldn't understand why someone wouldn't come to school,
but when I became a teacher, I understood for the first time.
It's so ironic.
But my correspondence with you was my salvation.
Same here.
I'm sorry. I wrote in your name on Hell Link.
You met her? You met Hell Girl?
What kind of girl was she?
Somehow, she seemed like a lonely person.
I see.
I wish I could meet her, too.
Say...
Won't you send me to Hell?
What?
I'm tired. I want to be out of my misery.
I'm sick and tired of it all.
Please.
If you really want retribution,
untie this red thread.
However,
once you have your retribution,
you will have to pay the price for it as well.
Curses come home to roost.
Fukazawa's so pathetic.
He acts like he's understanding, but he's sort of off the mark.
Seriously, it's like, stay away from me.
If you enter into the covenant, your soul will also go to Hell.
So how many times must I tell you?
Being considerate of your students is fine,
but what the parents are most concerned about is career paths!
If you cater to the bad students, and the entire class's grades...
All that remains is for you to decide.
Your grievance has been heard.
This is...
I can go straight to Hell from here, right?
I'm right, aren't I?
Mr. Fukazawa...
Do you know the meaning of what you've done?
What?
Look.
Sawai...
Any human who has entered into the covenant with me
will never see Heaven,
and after death, their soul will wander for eternity in pain and agony.
You didn't know that, did you?
You were too wrapped up in yourself.
Thinking you'd take a pleasant trip out to Hell?
No...
Sawai...
Mr. Fukazawa, I will be coming later as well.
So please wait for me.
In the depths of Hell...
Sawai...
I consign this grievance to Hell...
Missing?
Mr. Fukazawa is?
Yes, and he was such a passionate teacher, too.
Perhaps he took things too much to heart.
I hope he does not do anything misguided.
How'd it go?
I guess you can never tell with people.
They say that enthusiastic teacher's gone missing.
And he seemed so earnest...
Maybe the kids these days...
Tsugumi?
Hey, you okay?
Tsugumi?!
Is it all right this way?
With Hell being Heaven...
What?
It's all right, Ai.
If they're all right with it, then it's all right.
There's no need for you to give it any further thought.
But...
It's so strange.
That such a place could bring such peace.
This is our secret, just between you and me.
A secret just between the two of us.
Please promise me.
Your grievance shall be avenged.
"Akane Sawai" Your grievance shall be avenged.
"Akane Sawai"
ltsudatte yukidomari de
Keshite nigerarenai
Sora no tori e kanashimi nose
Tobasu no
Koko wa karinui
Watashi o shibaru eien
Yuki mo kaeri mo
Sugite yuku wa yume
"This is a work of fiction and any similarities between the names of characters or organizations in this story and actual names are entirely coincidental."
Tsugumi had another mysterious vision.
Not only that, but this time, it wasn't of a future incident.
The man wrote that story shortly after the war.
Did you meet her?
And did the same thing happen to you as what happened in the story?
Please tell me what happened 50 years ago.
Tell me why Ai Enma has her gaze on you now.
"Hell Girl Purgatory Girl" Tell me why Ai Enma has her gaze on you now.
"Hell Girl Purgatory Girl" Next time, "Purgatory Girl".
"Hell Girl Purgatory Girl"