"Toilet-bound Hanako-kun"
Nene...
You're so brave and so lovely.
You clean the bathrooms every day, you confront vicious apparitions!
What superhuman feats!
"Handsome" What superhuman feats!
"Handsome" I will reward you with a kiss.
Close your eyes.
All right.
Oh?
Do you want a kiss?
No!
E-Excuse me.
"Apparition 5: The Confession Tree"
"Gardening Practice: Assemble in the garden!"
"Gardening practice"
Look, Ao-chan!
My weeding is perfect!
Thank you, Akane-kun. I knew you could do it.
Ao-chan!
I love you.
Hmm.
Three points.
Damn it all!
It needed more of a twist!
What're you doing?
That was so embarrassing.
It's been almost a month since I met Hanako-kun.
I don't think a single good thing has happened to me since.
I wonder when I'll be able to turn my body back to normal.
Don't be pessimistic!
I can't disobey Hanako-kun, so I should look on the bright side.
That's right! It hasn't been all bad!
This is our field.
--I got to know the cute little Mokke.
--Let's grow candy. --I got to know the cute little Mokke.
"Stamp, stamp, stamp" --Let's grow candy. --I got to know the cute little Mokke.
I wonder which is best.
And I managed to save Aoi.
And...
It's a charm to make you feel better.
No! There was nothing good about that!
"Glug, glug" No! There was nothing good about that!
It's Hanako-kun's fault.
I mean... no one's ever k-kissed me before.
Why would he suddenly...?
Don't tell me...
"Click" ...he likes me?
"Click"
Now that I think about it, it makes sense.
There was that.
Stay with me.
And that.
You've got me.
And that!
I'll save them.
W-Was that why he saved me from the mermaid, too?!
Nene-chan.
What are you making faces for?
"Wham" Aoi! Listen!
That sounds...
"Eek!" That sounds...
"Eek!" ...like he likes you, Nene-chan!
I knew it! You think so, too?
"Eek!" I knew it! You think so, too?
Kissing you out of the blue can't mean anything else!
B-B-But he's not really my type.
What's he like?
Huh?! Well...
I can't tell her he's a ghost.
He doesn't stand out much, he's shorter than me,
a-and he's surprisingly good at fighting!
That...
...definitely isn't your type, is it?
"Beaming" Oh no. What will I do if he c-c-confesses to me?
Well, still,
why not try going out with him?
Huh?!
I mean, you don't have much experience with guys, Nene-chan.
You always get fooled by a pretty face.
"Thud"
"Class 1-A Girl You Want to Date No. 1"
That's a popular girl for you.
"Class 1-A Girl You Want to Date No. 1" Her advice is spot on.
"Class 1-A Girl You Want to Date No. 1"
Either way, you should get mentally prepared.
At this rate, he'll confess his feelings soon.
Really?! You think so?!
Yup. Everyone's doing it.
Huh?
You mean everyone's... confessing their love?
Look.
Over there.
The Confession Tree.
Rumor has it it was raised by a god of love,
and if you confess your love to someone under it, you'll become a couple for sure.
"Confession Tree" and if you confess your love to someone under it, you'll become a couple for sure.
"Confession Tree" Talk about sappy.
Wait... Was that tree always there?
Oh, look! Someone's there!
No way!
Ao-chan, I...
"Hmm?" "Ao-chan" Hmm?
...love you!
Please go out with me!
Okay.
Sure. Whatever.
"Huh?" Huh?
Take this seriously!
"Pant, pant"
I guess it was a rehearsal.
"Pant, pant" I-I guess so.
"Pant, pant" That's a popular girl for you.
Those two aside,
don't you think there are more couples in our class lately?
Now that you mention it...
Most of them got together after a confession under that tree.
He might ask you to meet him there soon, Nene-chan.
Y-You're kidding.
There's no way, right?
"Cleaning in Progress" "Girls' Bathroom"
Hey, Yashiro.
After school tomorrow, would you mind coming to the big tree by the garden?
"Shock" You--
You mean the Confession Tr--
Oh, you already know?
Great, that saves time.
Okay, then, see you there.
N-No way.
"The next day"
Aoi, listen! I...
Nene-chan.
A-Aoi? What's wrong?
"Chatter, chatter" A-Aoi? What's wrong?
"Chatter, chatter" That.
Yamabuki.
Stop it, Aoi. Everybody's watching.
What are they doing?
Ever since you helped me rehearse my confession of love yesterday,
I've begun to have feelings for you, Yamabuki.
Me, too, Aoi.
So...
We've decided that we're a couple now!
Wh-What?!
Akane-kun always said that he loved me, and now this.
Did you like Akane-kun, Aoi?
No, we were childhood friends, but that's all.
Plus, if we got married, my first and last name would be the same. It would never work.
"Akane Aoi" Plus, if we got married, my first and last name would be the same. It would never work.
"Akane Aoi" Yeah, you'd be Aoi Aoi.
"Aoi Aoi" Yeah, you'd be Aoi Aoi.
But I can't believe he turned to Yamabuki-kun instead.
Talk about complicated.
Hey!
"Then, after school..."
I never got a chance to ask Aoi's advice.
I never expected it to turn out like that.
The Confession Tree is scary.
Wait, I don't have time for this!
I've got to focus on my own problems.
I'm about to get a confessed of my own!
Still...
"Classifications of Guys" "Nene's Type" Still...
"Classifications of Guys" "Nene's Type" Hanako-kun honestly isn't my type at all.
"Classifications of Guys" "Not Nene's Type" Hanako-kun honestly isn't my type at all.
Oh, if only he got taller and turned into a handsome guy when his hat came off.
Hey there.
Well, some sides of him might be kind of cool.
All right!
"Festival" "Bang" I'll let him confess his love to me!
"Festival" "Bang" "Nene gets completely carried away."
Hanako-kun!
There you are.
Well...
"Squeeze"
...I know this is sudden, but...
"Squeeze" "Ulp" ...I know this is sudden, but...
"Ba-dump" ...I know this is sudden, but...
"Ba-dump" Th-This is too fast.
"Ba-dump" Yashiro...
Yashiro, I love you!
Go out with me!
This...
This is it!
My first confession!
My first boyfriend!
--Congratulations! --He's not my type...
He's really not my type, but I'm happy!
So this is how it feels to be confessed to.
Yashiro?
What are you doing?
"Whisper..." What are you doing?
Hurry up and say "no."
Huh?
Say "sorry."
Huh? But...
--Hurry up! --S-Sorry?!
Well now, we can't have that!
If someone confesses their love to you, the proper thing to do is accept!
Get back.
Wh-What?
Love is what leads people to happiness!
It would be preposterous to refuse it!
I shall assist you to find happiness!
Wh-What is it? It's creepy!
How rude!
What?!
"Seven" What?!
"Seven" This is...
"Seven" ...a protective charm!
There you are, kodama.
Thank goodness I have an assistant,
since you're an apparition who only appears to couples.
Huh? What?
A School Wonder!
I have done nothing to be ashamed of!
I merely worked to make everyone happy!
That's called...
...being a busybody!
"Compact"
What disgrace!
I worked so hard to save up that power from the students' rumors.
Cheering on love is one thing, but you overdid it.
Umm, Hanako-kun, what is this?
"Kodama" Umm, Hanako-kun, what is this?
"Kodama" A kodama.
"Kodama" As you can see, he's a tree apparition.
"Kodama" He's the reason for the recent unnatural increase in couples here.
Oh.
I mean, isn't that why you agreed to help me out?
"Twitch" Oh, yeah! That's right!
I'd been thinking it was weird!
Oh, so that's what this was about.
I just got the wrong idea and worked myself up.
Oh well.
Hanako-kun was never my type, anyway.
What should the new rumor be?
We have to decide on one for the Misaki Stairs, too.
Yashiro?
Oh, I know.
You're disappointed it wasn't a real confession, aren't you?
Hanako-kun...
"Bam" ...you jerk!
Hey, Yashiro?!
I'm so embarrassed.
I feel so stupid.
Why did you kiss me on the cheek the other day, anyway?
W-Well, you were tired out,
so I put a charm on you so that apparitions wouldn't attack you for a while.
"Seven" so I put a charm on you so that apparitions wouldn't attack you for a while.
"Slap" so I put a charm on you so that apparitions wouldn't attack you for a while.
"Slap" Talk about misleading!
Sorry!
I'm leaving.
Wait!
Umm...
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to make you cry.
With his hat off,
Hanako-kun looked like a normal boy for the first time.
That was what made me realize.
I called him my friend,
but I never tried to get to know him.
Not about the crime he committed,
or why he died,
or his real name.
And...
Stay here until you stop crying.
...today, this moment,
for the first time,
I felt like I wanted to know more about him.
"Kodama"
What?
"Squeeze, squeeze" What?
"Squeeze, squeeze" What do you want my personal information for?
"Squeeze, squeeze" Something dirty, I bet.
"Love and Trouble Compatibility Readings OF THE END" "Squeeze, squeeze" Th-There's nothing dirty about it!
"Love and Trouble Compatibility Readings OF THE END" "Squeeze, squeeze" It's for a compatibility reading!
Umm,
why am I stuck between you two?
Because Yashiro's being pushy.
Hanako-kun's just being stingy!
I only want to know your real name, blood type, family structure, and date of death!
Why do you need my date of death for a compatibility reading?
Calm down.
Anyway, you should do a compatibility reading on someone you like.
Like Minamoto-senpai.
Minamoto-senpai?
I-I don't so much like Minamoto-senpai as idolize him!
"Eeeeek!" "Minamoto-senpai!" I-I don't so much like Minamoto-senpai as idolize him!
"Eeeeek!" "Minamoto-senpai!" He's like an actor or a pop star.
"Eeeeek!" "Minamoto-senpai!" He's out of reach, but I'm happy just looking at him.
"Minamoto-senpai!" I mean, he's student council president and handsome and kind and smart.
Oh, Minamoto-senpai.
What a wonderful gentleman.
Thank you very much.
"Smile"
Hey.
Umm... Did I startle you?
Mi...
M-M-Minamoto-senpai?!
Nii-chan!
"Nii-chan"?!
I've been looking for you, Kou.
Wh-What's going...
Are you Yashiro-san?
I don't believe we've met.
Huh? I thought you said he picked up your pencil case.
Nice to meet you!
I'm Minamoto Teru.
Thank you for looking after my little brother.
Y-You're welcome.
Now...
...for you.
Kou, come with me. We need to talk.
Oh, sure.
"Lovestruck"
"Oh!" "Minamoto-senpai" "Minamoto-kun" Come to think of it, they have the same last name! Minamoto!
"Minamoto-senpai" "Minamoto-kun" How slow can you be?
Didn't I tell you, Kou?
You're to exorcise the Seven Wonders as soon as you encounter them.
I've tolerated them because they didn't cause fatal harm to students,
but lately, there's been a change in the school's apparitions.
The Wonders, in particular, are the most powerful apparitions in the school.
Danger should be nipped in the bud.
But...
...lately, he doesn't seem like a bad apparition to me.
He pisses me off, and I can't let him get away with hanging out in girls' bathrooms,
but he's helped me and everyone else.
Maybe he's--
Kou.
There's no such thing as a good apparition.
B-But...
I left this to you because I hoped it would help you grow as an exorcist,
but it looks like that backfired.
Stay away from the Seven Wonders from now on.
I'll take care of the rest.
W-Wait, Teru-nii!
All right.
I'll wait just a little longer.
Do your duty.
I will.
"Library"
"The Seven Wonders of the School 2"
Nothing.
I thought I might learn something about Hanako-kun from a book,
"Apparition 7: Hanako-san of the Bathroom" "School Ghost Stories" "Scary School Rumors" I thought I might learn something about Hanako-kun from a book,
"Apparition 7: Hanako-san of the Bathroom" "School Ghost Stories" "Scary School Rumors" but it's all stuff like you read in elementary school.
"Is Hanako-san actually a girl who died in the girls' bathroom?" but it's all stuff like you read in elementary school.
"Is Hanako-san actually a girl who died in the girls' bathroom?" And I can't find anything about a boy Hanako-san anywhere.
I knew that was weird.
Why is Hanako-kun the only one?
Oh, just my luck!
Th-Thank you...
...very much.
Tell me...
...are you interested in the Seven Wonders?
She looks like a doll.
And she has such slender legs.
W-Well, something like that.
"Hanako-san of the Bathroom" W-Well, something like that.
Hanako-san.
Oh, yes.
The cat-like kid.
"Meow" Huh?
"Meow"
Meow, meow.
Cat-like...
Willful, selfish, and needy.
Is yours the same way?
Does she... know about Hanako-kun?!
Willful, selfish, and needy.
He's never acted needy to me.
Hang on, isn't this situation...
I don't believe it.
You don't know, do you?
A mysterious woman appears before a couple!
He acts like a spoiled child around me.
An immediate roadblock!
"Roadblock" An immediate roadblock!
"Roadblock" I've seen this in manga.
Who is she?!
Don't tell me she's...
...Hanako-kun's girlfriend?!
Such purretty, slim legs.
You're so needy.
If you want to know more about him,
visit the fifth of the Seven Wonders.
Huh?
W-Wait!
"Wham!"
Ow.
Wh-What do you think you're doing?
N-No running in the librar--
I'm sorry!
She's gone.
"The next day"
The fifth of the Seven Wonders?
I know that one!
You do?!
Wh-What kind of rumor is it?
The fifth Wonder is the 4 O'clock Library.
The school library has a special repository that you can only enter at 4 PM.
The books inside it have the names of people on them.
They contain records of those people's time at this academy.
What they've done and what they're going to do.
Both the past and future are written in them.
Records of everything...
They even say what's going to happen.
Doesn't it make you curious?
I might want to read other people's books, too.
Like Minamoto-senpai's.
If you want to know more about him,
visit the fifth of the Seven Wonders.
Did she mean...
...to find Hanako-kun's book in that library?
But... if you ever go to the 4 O'clock Library,
you have to be careful.
Of what?
The library has three types of books: white, black, and red.
White books are records of living people.
Black books are about people who have already died.
And the red books?
They say the red books are the only ones you must not read.
I suppose we won't need to interfere.
"Next Episode Preview"
"Listen, Hanako-kun: The Revelation"
"Shock"
"Listen, Hanako-kun: The Revelation" "Shock" "Huh?"
"You turn into a fish when you get wet, Senpai?"
"Just like 'The Little Mermaid'...!"
"Wham!"
"You're quite the dreamer, boy."
"Fantasy" "Sparkle"
"Next Time: Apparition 6: The 4 O'clock Library"