Hell Girl

Season 3: Three Vessels

Akie's father Takasugi was the one who summoned Yuzuki. He wants to send Azusa to hell because she took away Akie's life, the joy of his own life. Yuzuki was eagerly awaiting for Takasugi to pull the string, but Takasugi backed out, saying Azusa would go to hell after she dies anyway. Angered by this, Yuzuki pays no heed to Wanyudo's warning and decides to send Azusa to hell herself. Ai Enma appears to stop Yuzuki from violating the laws of underworld, but Yuzuki attacks her in a fit of rage by her new-found powers. The Lord of Hell then steps in taking the form of a spider. He decides to send Yuzuki to hell for breaking the rules, but Ai and her companions intervene just in time to save Yuzuki. When Yuzuki asks why Takasugi refused to pull the string, Ai shows her the truth: Takasugi saw Azusa taking care of her paralyzed father, who would have no one in the world to rely upon and die if he sent Azusa to hell. Seeing this, Yuzuki breaks down into tears as she realizes that Azusa's life mirrors that of her own, when no one offered any help and she alone had to look after her ill mother. The Lord of Hell reappears and says that in return for saving Yuzuki, Ai will have to be the Hell Girl forever. With Ai's second kiss she transfers her memories to Yuzuki, whose soul is finally freed. As the credits roll, Ai returns in her sailor uniform, sending people to hell again, showing that the cycle of hatred still has not been resolved. After the credits, Azusa meets Tsujinobashi's son at the airport and stabs him with a knife before she suddenly disappears. The people at the airport scream in horror and flee as they witness the murder of Tsujinobashi's son. It turns out that Takasugi's servant Haruko sent Azusa to Hell for Akie's sake.

Yuzuki thinks that the skeletal body lying in her room is just an illusion cast by Ai to coerce her into becoming the next Hell Girl and does not believe her words until she shows Yuzuki the world that she grew up in. In the distant past, Yuzuki lived happily with her parents, until her father, a bus driver, died in a bus crash due to faulty brakes. The family of the victims and later the whole town accused the Mikage family of murder and being irresponsible. Yuzuki's mother did her best to keep Yuzuki alive and happy, working at the Oikawa Store, but she was eventually forced to quit. Sick and without a means to support herself and Yuzuki, she decided to leave and does so with Yuzuki. It is implied that close to her death, Yuzuki's mother planned to kill Yuzuki so that she could be spared from suffering any longer, as she appears to be reaching for her neck as she rests in her arms. She stops, however, when a couple of girls show up at the shrine they were staying at. After her mother dies, Yuzuki buries her corpse beneath the full-bloomed cherry blossoms. Yuzuki's eyes turn deep red at that moment. As she walks away, her last moments as a child are seen, lying on the floor embracing the teddy bear her father gave her as an early birthday present. The now older Yuzuki picks up pictures from the floor next to the skeletal body. She now realises that the corpse is hers and accepts her fate as Hell Girl. As Ai disappears, Yuzuki is clothed in a red kimono similar to Ai's. Akie somehow returns and acts as Yuzuki's aid. At the end of the episode, a mail containing Azusa's name arrives onto Yuzuki's personal computer, signaling that someone is summoning her. Yuzuki prepares for her first mission as the new Hell Girl.

Yuzuki realizes that nobody at school or in her neighborhood knows who she is. Ultimately, it is only Tsugumi Shibata who still recognizes her. Tsugumi has given up her hope of stopping Hell Girl and the cycle of hatred. She concludes that Yuzuki is not a person of this world anymore after realizing that all this time, Yuzuki's life was an illusion. When Yuzuki returns home, she finds her apartment in abandoned state with a corpse of a girl lying next to a stuff animal. Ai Enma appears and tells Yuzuki that the latter had died a long time ago.

A boy named Fumio Mizuhara is constantly bullied by Tomohide Matsuda because Fumio is born in a rich family while Tomohide is from the poor background. After Tomohide overhears that Fumio is going to high school, he feels unfortunate and continues to bully Fumio. Fumio access Hell Correspondence to get rid of Tomohide and receives Wanyūdō as a doll. Tomohide's younger sister has been asking what their father is like. The mark of Hell is seen on Tomohide's chest and it is suggested that he might have send his abusive father to Hell. When he physically assaults Fumio, Fumio pulls the string off the straw doll out of desperation and sends Tomohide to Hell. As he is ferried to hell, Tomohide apologises to his sister that he failed to return home. The next day during the final year exams, the teacher notices that Tomohide is missing. His friends break down into tears and blame Hell Girl for sending him to Hell. After the examination is over, Ai appears to Yuzuki once more. After sensing about more people being sent to Hell, Yuzuki confronts Ai. Ai then reveals Yuzuki's hidden desire to send Ai to hell using the Hell Correspondence website. Upon hearing this, Yuzuki runs home, unable to face the possibility that she too has been consumed by the feeling of hate and the desire for vengeance.

Yuzuki, overwhelmed when she realizes she has no plans for her future, tries to contact her mother for support, but cannot reach her. Fainting, she wakes up in the school infirmary and asks Tsugumi for advice, but Tsugumi does nothing to help, explaining to Ai's companions that only Yuzuki can save herself. On her way home, Yuzuki meets Sumika, the reserved twin of the famous model and actress Yuika, who offers to help Yuzuki plan her future. Although her twin-sister Yuika wears the facade of being upbeat and peppy at work, in reality she is quite cruel. She always forced Sumika into doing all her own work, such as taking the college entry exam to Sumika's college, while still having all that Sumika desires - fame and a boyfriend named Masato. Only a birthmark on Sumika's side distinguishes the two. After a drunk Yuika fractures a bone in an accident, she orders Sumika to take her place in an important photo shoot. However during Yuika's convalescence, Sumika begins to thrive in the role, doing the job even better than her sister. She even proceeds into a relationship with Masato. However Yuika's arm heals and both sisters, now indistinguishable, begin arguing over who should continue the role of model and actress. That evening, an unspecified sister accessed the Hell Correspondence site and types in the name of the other sibling, receiving Hone Onna as a doll. They are next shown leaving their house in opposite directions, with one (again unspecified) sister confronting Masato on a break-up, following which she pulls the string on the doll. After the sequence of Ai Enma sending one of the sisters to hell, the scene changes to that of a press conference which the remaining sibling is attending. The camera pans to the area where the birthmark should (or shouldn't) be, but the woman's arm obscure's the viewer's sight. The final scene is that of the candle bearing the name of the sibling who had accessed the Hell Correspondence site, but a trickle of wax over a portion of the name (it reads Misono -ka) leaving the true identity of the doomed sibling vague.

Yuzuki arrives at the conclusion that she could escape her fate of becoming the next Hell Girl as she believes Tsugumi had. She comes across a young boy named Kaito who then collapses. When Kaito first met his stepmother Nanami, she presented a hat to him that he treasures before announcing her intent to marry his father. However, ever since she became pregnant with a girl who she names Mao, Nanami begins to fawn over her daughter and unreasonably punish Kaito for the smallest of infractions. She eventually throws out Kaito's beloved hat, embarrassed by the laughter of neighbors due to its worn appearance and three years of use. In tears, Kaito retrieves his hat from the garbage, accesses the Hell Correspondence website, and types his unborn stepsister's name in, receiving Yamawaro as a doll. He explains to Yuzuki that he only desires to return to those earlier days of happiness when Nanami was a much kinder person. Promising to help, Yuzuki confronts his father. However, he refuses to acknowledge the domestic violence against his son in front of her as he is already well aware of it but unable to act. He confesses to Kaito over a game of Frisbee feeling that their family would not be happy should things remained the same and almost kills his son; he however stops when Kaito pulls the string of Yamawaro and sends Mao to Hell. Although Nanami expresses disappointment at losing Mao, she returns to her old, kind self.

After awaking in Tsugumi’s health office, Yuzuki asks her about Ai Enma but Tsugumi refuses to give her a clear answer. Later, Yamawaro and Kikuri approach a large mansion belonging to a client but are unable to enter due to an encircling barrier. At night, the owner of that mansion, Mizuragi Shōgo, accesses the Hell Correspondence website and types Tsugumi's name in. Each sensing the request, Yuzuki, Ai, and Tsugumi make their ways towards the mansion. Once they gather, he explains that he initially gained interest in Hell after his mother used Ai's services to send his father to Hell. After a great deal of research on Hell, he yearned to meet Ai. Learning that she had once more regained her body, he nurtured a grudge against Tsugumi through hypnosis in order to meet Ai. Ai agrees to give him Ren as a doll, however just before Shogo can completely pull off the string, he is instead sent to Hell by his assistant Kikyō using Yamawaro due to the grudge that the many children bore whom Shōgo treated cruelly for the sake of his research.

Yuzuki meets a woman named Kaori Nakiri (Cherry Blossoms) who recounts to Yuzuki her duty of having to succeed having succeed the Nakiri school of flower arrangement. Despising the predetermined future, she had run away from home after high school, but has now returned due to her father's death. Invited to tea, Yuzuki is surprised to find first three of Ai's companions working at the funeral despite being staff for her school. After learning that Yuzuki can see through her companions' magical disguise, Ai states that she must inform Yuzuki that she will awaken soon. The next day, a woman named Yukina Kurozaka (Snow), the result of the father's affair with another woman, demands that Kaori fulfill her late mother's desire of becoming part of the family by giving her the position of head of the Nakiri school. Tsukio (Moon), Kaori's childhood friend and love interest, discovers Yukina planning to poison Kaori so as to inherit the land and sell it for a fortune. When Kaori is served with a drink later, Tsukio quickly drinks the poisoned concoction in her place and collapses. As a result, Kaori accesses the Hell Correspondence website and receives Ren as a doll. After several family secrets are revealed to her, one of which is that Tsukio is her brother, she finds what she has been searching for, finally accepting her role as the head of the family, and then pulls the string off Ren, sending Yukina to hell. At his deathbed, Tsukio asks that Kaori use his body for her first project as heir. Later, Yuzuki visits a graveyard where Ai appears and tells her that she is destined to become the next Hell Girl.

While studying late at night Yuzuki listens to the radio, which features a popular show named "The Midnight Silence". It is revealed later that even Ai Enma and Kikuri are regular listeners of the show and compete against each other for their own letter to be read by the DJ host whom they admire, much to the annoyance of Hone Onna, who dislikes the host and considers him to be "cheesy". However, most of the mails read on the show are from a frequent sender calling herself "Chi-chan", who suggests an idea to create a corner called "Mini Hell Correspondence" where people can let others know of what annoys or angers them. Chi-chan, whose real name is Chiriko Hamano, has fallen in love with the DJ host Joutarou and his sweet-talking romantic ways over the radio. The next day after Hamano had submitted this idea for a corner she is approached by another girl asking her if she is indeed Chi-chan. She soon becomes the talk of the school and life seems to have taken a good turn for her. On her way home she is approached by a girl named Kaname who claims to be "Frog-princess", another well-known mail sender in "Midnight Silence" and who has had her mail read much more than Chi-chan has. The two quickly become friends, bonded by their love of the radio show and the DJ host, calling each other by their mail names Chi-chan and Frog-princess as well as admiring each other's letters when they are read on air. Wanting to thank Joutarou for all his touching words, the two of them go down to the radio station to wait for him. The first person to arrive is a woman Yume who works as a radio scenario writer. Frog-princess jumps in to say that she wants to be a radio scenario writer too which surprises Chi-chan. Furthermore, she announces that she views Yume as her idol. Yume lets her have a script of the radio broadcast that was aired the day before, shocking Chi-chan and crushing her fantasy of the DJ Joutarou. She gains a hatred towards Frog-princess for crushing this fantasy and contracts with Ai to send her to hell. After this it is shown that Chi-chan returns to how it was before, without competition. Her mail is read almost always on air and she refuses to accept that Joutarou's words are scripted, returning to a fantasy.

Upon receiving a job from an elderly woman who writes her husband's name in the Hell Correspondence section in a newspaper, Yamawaro begs to be the doll. Yuzuki goes to the mansion asking to speak to the elderly woman she saw in her vision, but a much younger woman and her husband answer the door and claims that there is nobody there who is like that, and Yuzuki leaves seeming quite confused. The woman claims that Yamawaro, now in doll form, is their son. Yamawaro explains that in the past he watched them when they were younger and witnessed them lose their child named Hikaru who looked similar to himself. When the couple grew much older, he decided to appear before the dying who exclaimed in thanks that her son had returned. However the man used Yamawaro indiscriminately, due to his non-human origins, for the sake of researching a way to achieve eternal life. Yamawaro agrees, only wanting to be of use in save the woman's life. When the man feeds the resulting potion he names ambrosia to his wife it works incredibly well as she regains her youth. However in order to avoid further unethical experimentation, she urges Yamawaro to run. Now, several years later, unable to forgive her husband for his treatment of their 'son', she takes Yamawaro and pulls the string. She later commits suicide by crashing the mansion and buries herself as seen by Yamawaro, and she embraces the soul of her real son in the smoke. The flame on her candle is quenched.

In a daze, Yuzuki wanders through town, soon sensing a man on a bridge about to pull the string on one of Ai's straw dolls, Wanyūdō. As Yuzuki rushes to stop him, Ai suddenly appears and stops her, telling her that her attempts are futile. Ai shows her his future. Instead of meeting women along with his coworkers after working hours are over, Naowa has always instead played with a young girl names Kaya next door to the factory at which he works because he honestly enjoys it in spite of what his coworkers say. In Ai's future, he pulls the string to send his friend and fellow worker, Nakajima, to hell because of his suspicious and disturbing behavior towards Kaya. When he suddenly disappears, his girlfriend, Yuki, joins their company to investigate. Knowing that Naowa was good friends with him, she begins to form a relationship with him while keeping silent about her relationship with Nakajima. One night, when Yuki appears at Naowa's flat and offers to make dinner, he claims he has no right to be with her because, as he hesitantly admits to her, he sent Nakajima to hell. The next day, Yuki invites him to her house and there, she sends him to hell after he discovers that the two were a close couple. Despite seeing this future, Yuzuki still tries to save Naowa after Ai lets her through.

Although Yuzuki senses that a girl named Usagi has contacted the Ai, upon confronting her, Usagi claims to know nothing. Shinohara Usagi, nicknamed 'turtle', is a schoolgirl who is always being helped by her friends because she is too slow at making any kind of decision. One day, a boy named Endo asks her to date him inspiring glowers of jealousy from her friends. However in jealousy, before anything can develop, Endo is forced to cheat on her by her brother Michito, and he breaks up with her, believing he has lost the right to be with her. When Usagi questions Michito, she reveals she has accessed the Hell Correspondence website by pulling out a straw doll (Yamawaro) intending to send her brother to hell. Shocked, he too reveals that he has done the same by revealing a similar straw doll (Hone Onna). The two have a heartfelt talk about their individual sufferings and subsequent hatred of one another. They walk to the nearby bridge and drop each of their dolls into the water, both vowing to try their best in the future. However when Michito leaves, Usagi secretly retrieves the doll from the river and pulls the string and sends her brother to hell, believing that even she can do her best despite being a 'tortoise'.

Convenience store worker Tsuzuki Kinya offers to take care of Kashiwagi Hidemi (who Yuzuki briefly sees at the end of the last episode) after she misses the last train home. As they are walking together, someone takes a picture of them and posts it online. Because Tsuzuki looks like a delinquent the people around Kashiwagi become suspicious. Kashiwagi will send the person who uploaded the picture to Hell for giving her a bad reputation. Yuzuki can now sense people who are about to contact Ai, and seeks out Kashiwagi to try to persuade her to stop her revenge. Kashiwagi and Yuzuki try to locate Tsuzuki's store only to find that he has been arrested for assault. Kashiwagi types in Tsuzuki's name on the Hell Correspondence with her mobile phone instead since his assault charge may land in the newspapers. Tsuzuki breaks out of jail with a gun and takes Yuzuki hostage. Kashiwagi tells him to stop hoping he will recognize her, but he doesn't at first. Saddened, she pulls the string. The next day, Kashiwagi is seen afterwards with a changed appearance, wearing excessive jewelry, make up and tattoos. Yuzuki's resolve to stop vengeful people wavers as she senses many people about to contact the Hell Correspondence.

The Six-Coin Lantern Festival will take place soon. For the festival, during the Edo period, the shrine priest would write the sins of criminals who came for expiation and ferry that with a strand of the person's hair down the river; now it used as a means to forget things. A woman named Azusa Mayama feels that chief of investigation, Norihisa who is Akie's father, halted investigation on an automotive accident involving her father and a son of the prestigious Tsujinobashi family, reporting it as an accident and her father as the sole cause to prevent the truth from being known. In order to get revenge, she befriends Akie and causes Akie to move in with her by telling her father's tale. Yuzuki and Akie attend the festival together; Yuzuki writes Jigoku Shōjo on her boat, but Akie blows out her boat with father written in it, deciding not to send it and rushes off to return to Azusa's apartment. Alone, Yuzuki heads towards a light in the distance and sees a reflection of herself across a gate, the gate to Hell. Before she can approach it, Tsugumi warns her that she may not be able to return if she crosses the gate. Yuzuki then realizes that Akie is in trouble and rushes to contacts Norihisa. As Akie is taking a shower in the apartment, Azusa sends a man in to rape her, however Norihisa arrives in time to intervene. Yuzuki prevents Azusa from pulling the string off Yamawaro as a doll, but she escapes. Ai finally separates from her, receiving a whole body once more, and leaves her with the warning that it is up to her to decide from now on, returning to her companions. Yamawaro disappears from her hands. Yuzuki believes that she is finally relieved of torment. When she meets Akie later, Akie disappears before her very eyes as Azusa pulls the string. Yuzuki's eyes flicker red as she screams. The next day at the last part of the show, Yuzuki walk pass by a person and her senses can tell that she is the next client.

Nomura Nobuo works part-time at a food store beside the pool. Every time someone agitates him, he draws stickers for them and puts their face up on his calendar chart. The person who reaches the top of the model in the calendar first will be sent to hell. There are two main candidates initially, the lady who lives near him and steals his bike-parking lot, and a random guy who impolitely takes the drinks from their counter without paying first. When he finds out his crush, Sasayama Kokoro, has a boyfriend, the boyfriend becomes another target to be sent to hell. In the meantime, his manga debuts in a monthly manga book, so although each of his victims in the calendar chart has reached "the point", he decides not to send them to hell since he is in a good mood. It is only when he sees Sasayama Kokoro trying to commit suicide because her boyfriend Ryuu, cheated on her, he decides to send him to hell. However, Nobuo is sent to hell by Kokoro, who believes that he will spread rumours about what she told him.

Kamisaka Rokurou is a novelist whose mystery genre book, "The Skyscraper's Shadow", has received publicity because of real copycat murders resembling its plot. Because of the incidents, its popularity has skyrocketed over the internet, but outside of the internet, it is largely unknown. Kamisaka agrees to be interviewed by a reporter from the Editing Department, Asaba Sumi, but the editor-in-chief changes the final script so the magazine would sell more. Asaba feels it was her responsibility that Kamisaka is being blamed as the murderer's instigator, and goes to apologize. In the meantime the first victim's older sister, Michio Yui, meets with Kamisaka and the murderer, Chouchi Hiroto, to see which one of them is to blame. She intends to send one of them to Hell. Kamisaka, Asaba, and Michio meet together and decide to each send one person to Hell so they can get rid of three people all at once. Michio chooses Chouchi, Asaba chooses the Editor-in-Chief, and Kamisaka chooses his fair-weather friend. After the sending, Kamisaka suggests they all have a drink together, but as he grabs a drink he is sent to Hell by Chouchi Rika, the murderer's mother.

A boy named Ichimura Kazuya is a marathon runner. He does the morning rounds of newspaper in order to support his mother who loves to buy kimonos. His parents are constantly fighting, so his mother uses money that she believes they are from her husband to buy kimonos. Kazuya thinks that it is the salesman Saito Yukihiro's fault that his family is in this state, and Kazuya tries to tell his mother to stop letting Saito into the house. One night, Kazuya accesses the Hell Correspondence website and types in Saito's name. But his mother refuses to listen and continues to buys kimonos from the salesman. Kazuya sends Saito to Hell, but only to find another salesperson replacing him and pampering his mother with flattery.

A low-profile girl named Inao Kaede claims to be a fortune-teller, telling fortunes by contacting Gon, a spirit by playing Spirit of the Coin, a fox spirit that she claims resides within her. As she begins to build her reputation with a continuous streak of correct predictions, more students begin to ask her to perform tasks, for example cursing the school counselor. Inao reluctantly accepted these requests due to fear of losing the never before gained attention. At the sign of her continued success, a female student named Nishino apologizes to Inao for previously making fun of her fortune telling and requests she kill a college student who she claims is stalking her every day. Eventually Inao reluctantly accepts the request. No matter what she tries over the next few days, the 'stalker' still lives. Threatened to be exposed as a fake, she finally resorts to using the Hell Correspondence website. She pulls the string by sending him to Hell, only to find out that she was cheated the next day that Nishino wanted him dead because he was disgusting.

When Yuzuki returns a lost dog named Momo to her owner, Mioi Hatsumi, a woman named Shintani descends from her apartment room to show off her newest bracelet that she brought at a high price. However, she quickly leaves in quiet rage once she notices the same exact bracelet being used by Momo as a collar. Shintani begins trying to get the apartment management to evict Momo by leaving false evidence of Hatsumi's inability to take care of Momo and finally feeding it something dogs should not eat. Finding out that Shintani poisoned Momo, she rushes to the vet and then types in Shintani's name into the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Ren as a doll. The next day, Hatsumi confronts Shintani in order to take back a package she stole that was delivered early that day containing Momo's training pads, but Shintani refuses and scatters them all over the roof. As she gathers them, Hatsumi accidentally pulls the string of the doll sending Shintani to Hell before falling off the building herself. She survives the fall and is admitted to a hospital, where she wonders whether Momo was missing her.

A new boy named Inuo Atsushi has transferred to Yuzuki's school and makes friends with another boy, Washizu. Although Inuo claims that he moved from Tokyo because his dad is constantly traveling and his mom is ill and needs to be away from the city, in truth, his dad left his mother and, ashamed of talk of their neighbors, the two left Tokyo. Due to the stress of lying and being scolded for his late returns to home in order to keep the pretense of the lie, Inuo frequently visits the Hell Correspondence website, never typing in a name. However, after he reveals the secret to Washizu and is subsequently beaten by his mother for doing so, realizing her suffering, he types in Washizu's name, receiving Hone Onna as a doll. Out of good faith, Washizu spreads news about Inuo's real situation and tries motivate him to seek help. However, for continually meddling with his family business Inuo takes out the straw doll and pulls the string, sending Washizu to Hell. The next day, he starts to speak about his father.

Yuuna Serizawa, a third-year student, holds a grudge on Ren, and tries sending him to Hell but was rejected by Ai; she is infatuated with Hone Onna and sees him as a rival. Yamawaro causes her to trip, to allow Hone Onna to correct her misunderstanding of their relationship, offering a band-aid for her injured knee. She shows up in school the next day with the same band-aid on her neck, flaunting it to her classmate who bears a similar affection for Hone Onna, Kira Moroboshi. Enraged, Moroboshi accesses the Hell Correspondence website typing in Serizawa name, receiving Wanyūdō as a doll. At school the next day, when Moroboshi finds her shoes thrown into an unsanitary bucket by Serizawa lying blatantly that she was acting under Hone Onna's instructions, she pulls the string and sends Serizawa's to Hell. Ironically, she announces that she is no longer after Hone Onna, but Wanyūdō.

Yuzuki accidentally bumps into a first-year student, Katase Ririka, causing her to break a beaker. The two of them report the damage to science teacher, Mio Niiyama, who lets the two off without punishment. Later that night, Mio receives a silent call from an unknown person. The next day, Ririka's grandmother shows up at school and accuses Mio of picking on Ririka despite Yuzuki being at fault and continues to verbally attack her over the phone that night. The situation intensifies as Ririka's grandmother hands out leaflets that defame Mio and announces that she will be keeping Ririka at home until Mio resigns. Mio visits to get Ririka to promise to vouch for her and clear her name, however when Ririka's grandmother returns, Ririka goes against her word and deliberately slanders Mio's intentions, labeling them as harassment. Ririka earnestly explains that because Mio is a teacher and an adult, Mio is able to deal with it herself. Mio types Ririka's name into the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Yamawaro as a doll, and pulls the string sending her to Hell.

Yukawa is constantly bullied by a group of three classmates until one day, he is saved by a stranger named Nishida Shin who knows Kendo. Nishida begins teaching him Kendo, causing him to become more active, outgoing, happy, and cool, and to no longer be bullied. However, one day when they board a bus, a man begins threatening another man for staring at him, going to the extent of cutting the other man's hair and dragging him off to bus. Yukawa's image of his hero is shattered when Nishida fails to intervene, supposedly afraid of putting Yukawa in harm's way. He accesses the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Ren as a doll, and sends Nishida to Hell. Feeling that the world cannot change even if he himself changes, Yukawa quits Kendo and reverts to his former timid self.

Yuzuki and Akie meet an idol named Jun Moriyama during the filming of a show. After rescuing Jun from a stalker who was harassing her, Yuzuki and Akie are rewarded by Jun and her talent agency with an invitation to dinner. Before entering the restaurant, the two of them meet a woman named Masako Momota who asks them to pass an envelope to Jun containing photos of Jun Moriyama in outrageous costumes of the time when she was a cruel person. Previously, the two attended the same talent agency as aspiring singers. Jun bullied Masako until she could take no more and left, sacrificing her dream of becoming a singer. When the two meet, Masako makes Jun kneel and apologize, and demands that Jun, a rising star, support her own debut in Jun's agency. Jun refuses, stating her abilities as a singer are insufficient. Enraged, Masako seeks by accessing the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Hone Onna as doll. The next day, at her concert, Jun attempts to make a public apology, which however falls short of her expectations, causing Masako to pull the string and sends Jun to Hell.

Yuzuki continues to be troubled by the experience involving Ai, Tange, and Itsuko's recent transfer to a new school. On her way home, Yuzuki passes by Akira Kitayama, a middle schooler, who is rushing to an electronic appliance store in order to see the shopkeeper, a middle-aged woman named Mitsuko, with whom he is in love unbeknown to her. Their short conversation is cut short when her husband appears in the doorway, furious. Akira later sees him beating Mitsuko and wrongly accusing her of romantic involvement with Akira. That night and the next, Yuzuki receives a vision of Akira accessing the Hell Correspondence website twice, a second time due to not having known the husband's first name, Seiji. He later consults Yuzuki about Seiji's abusive actions towards Mitsuko for advice who suggests that he tell Mitsuko to cut her connections with Seiji. The next day, Akira tries persuade Mitsuko to leave her husband, and he prevents her from answering the phone. An angry Seiji appears and attacks the both of them. Akira sends him to hell. Mitsuko tells Akira to come to the store the next morning; however, Akira finds the shop abandoned. He finds under the phone a photo of one of the couple's happy memories together. The phone rings.

Ai makes her first appearance as a blue butterfly after having seemingly died and visits her companions in the form of a glowing blue butterfly unknown to them. Since her apparent death, they went on their own separate ways, working as ordinary people: Ren is scrubbing the floor of a small shop; Wanyūdō is working at a construction site; and Hone Onna is a bartender. Ai's new companion, Yamawaro, is first introduced when meeting Ren. Kikuri returns by possessing a doll and announces Ai's return. Once all of Ai's companions gather together, they enter a high school as staff and faculty where a girl with slightly rebellious tendencies named Itsuko Hiraishi is upset with her teacher Tange not only because he is strict but because he records every fault and mischief act he finds in a small black notebook. She attempts to get her friend, Akie Takasugi, to ask her father to fire him, but to no avail. That night, Ai visits a girl named Yuzuki Mikage, Itsuko's friend, where they kiss, allowing Ai to inhabit her body. As her dislike for Tange increases, Itsuko decides to frame him but her plan backfires. She decides to type his name into the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Yamawaro as a doll. After he confiscates her mp3 player, Itsuko leaves the classroom. At the end of the school day, Itsuko tries to find her MP3 player, and asks Mr. Tange where he put it, but is told that he threw it away. Hesitating after learning of the price involved, she finally snaps after another argument with him, pulls the string, and sends him to Hell, only to later regret her decision upon learning that he was not actually a cruel teacher. It turns out her mp3 player had been given to a friend to return to Itsuko, and the notebook that she thought Mr. Tange wrote in, was actually blank. Itsuko transfers the following day.