HSHK Chapter 16

Nightmare is the sixteenth chapter of the spin-off Houkago Shounen Hanako-kun.

Summary
The story starts at summer season when the three started to hang around the school rooftop. Hanako plays with a Mokke, as Nene and Kou goes to eat their meals. Nene reveals that she had been having bad dreams up to recently. She explains that it was the same nightmare every day, usually showing her hamster multiplying with her every blink. She shies away and start to question her abilities as a pet owner due to her unsuccessful attempt to identify the real one. Hanako scrolls through a dream interpretation book, and tells Nene that only those with super perverted desires have had nightmares during the summer. In irritation, Nene throws the book off of the rooftop, turns around and says that anyone could be having nightmares in the summer. She asks Kou for his affirmation to this, to which Kou reveals that he has also been having nightmares similar to hers, but this time it was two versions of Mitsuba coming to ask him to determine who is the real one. After this, they began to survey their friends and schoolmates and asking them what they dreamt about. Nene, relieved, describes that the warm summer had made it harder for everyone to sleep well. Kou adds that they may also have had been getting more nightmares easily as well because of it. Hanako having retrieved the book from earlier, determines that the reason this is to be the case is because the school is a den of perverts. Hanako went on to suggest that the only way to stop her from having those hamster nightmares is to renounce all her worldly desires in favor of focusing all her thoughts on him. Kou questions the validity of his statement, suggesting that Hanako only could've said this so he can appear in Nene's dreams. Hanako comes to admit that as leader of the school mysteries, he figured that nightmares and other things pertaining to this should be a territory of his. He says that he wants Yashiro to think of him, whether she's awake or asleep. He then starts to get closer to Nene and proceeded to ask whether Nene does want to to see him in her dreams. Teru suddenly interrupts, prompting Hanako to flock to a farther distance. Kou tells Teru that Hanako wanted to use their topic about nightmares as an excuse to have Nene dream about him. Teru confronts Hanako. A frailing Hanako indicated that his actions were justified as he only wanted to shift Nene's focus to something else due to the nightmares she has been having. Teru ends up using this idea to shift Nene's focus on him, by laughing at her fear of nightmares, and telling her she's cute. She became ecstatic that day and seemingly have had a very amazing dream later that night. In the end when he was asked by Kou on why he said that, Teru answers that not only is their job to expel supernaturals, but to also to expel nightmares.
 * Yokoo says that he dreamt of having a yandere girlfriend.
 * Satou says that he dreamt of having been eaten by sweets.
 * Lemon says that he dreamt of his smartphone becoming a parasite.
 * Akane says that he dreamt that Teru had multiplied.
 * Aoi says that she hasn't been dreaming much lately.
 * Nagisa says that he dreamt of seeing Tsuchigomori's arms grow longer.
 * Yako says that she dreamt of becoming a Tanuki.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Yashiro Nene
 * Minamoto Kou
 * Hanako
 * Mokke
 * Mitsuba Sousuke
 * Yokoo and Satou
 * Yamabuki Lemon
 * Aoi Akane
 * Akane Aoi
 * Nagisa
 * Tsuchigomori
 * Yako
 * Minamoto Teru

Events

 * Nene dreamt that her hamster, named Black Canyon, multiplied.
 * Kou dreamt of two Mitsuba's asking him to determine who the real one is.
 * The three (Hanako, Nene, and Kou) went to survey Yokoo, Satou, Lemon, Akane, Aoi, Nagisa, Tsuchigomori, and Yako about what dreams they've been having.

Trivia

 * It is revealed that the Minamoto Clan is also tasked in exorcising nightmares.
 * When the two Mitsuba's confronted Kou in a dream, the outfits seem to indicate that the one with the black scarf (on the left) is actually the School Mystery Mitsuba, while the one with a camera (on the right) seem to be the original Mitsuba.
 * Hanako seemed to have been able to retrieve the dream interpretation book, despite the fact that Nene threw it away.