Yashiro Nene/Synopsis

Table of Contents

Home • Hanako-san of the Toilet • Faeries (Yousei-san) • The Boy Exorcist • The Misaki Stairs Arc • The Confession Tree • The 4PM Bookstacks Arc • The Donuts • The Little Mermaid Arc • The Tea Party Arc • The Three Clock Keepers Arc • Searching Arc • Reach Out Your Hand • The Hell of Mirrors Arc • Delivery • The Summer Light Arc • Mokke of the Death • Picture Perfect Arc • Esoragato Arc • Study Camp Arc

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Hanako-san of the Toilet
Upon hearing about the rumors of Hanako-san of the Toilet, the superstition who would grant any wish in return for a price, Nene tried to summon him. She was surprised when it actually worked and was even more surprised when she realized that Hanako-san was a boy. She started off by accidentally insulting Hanako but soon won him over by calling him cool. She explained that her wish was for the boy (Minamoto Teru) she had a crush on to love her back. Hanako, despite what the rumors stated, could not do this, so instead, he pulled out a love strategy book. Nene was annoyed at this but Hanako explained that if he used magical items then she would've had to pay a larger price. She told him that she wanted her wish to come true, no matter what the price was. In response, he then told her that he didn't have any magical items on him so he couldn't do it anyways. Nene contemplated for a bit, finally deciding to go along with his suggestion, based off the idea that Hanako must've granted wishes about love all the time. Hanako chose to focus on Method 78 of the book, titles "capatilize on your special abilities."

Nene and Hanako then headed to the garden as one of her "special abilities" was gardening. At first, Hanako was disgusted. Nene revealed that she started gardening, as well as cooking and sewing, because a guy she liked for three years said he liked "feminine girls." She confessed to him around month ago, only to be rejected and insulted. Despite saying that she was over him, the way Nene acted said otherwise. She quickly covered it up by saying that she liked someone else and would make her previous crush regret rejecting her by getting together with someone great like Minamoto Teru. Hanako then told her that that meant that basically anyone would do for her, which she cheerfully denied, saying that Teru was the only one for her. However, he pointed out that she didn't seem to know much about him. Hanako asked her whether or not she even knew Teru's first name, a question in which Nene avoided.

Hanako gave her a heart-shaped card and, telling her to write a thank-you note to Teru for picking up her pencil case and to leave him a few of the things she grew, thinking that they would be flowers or something of the sort. Following up the next day, Teru walked into his class, which was making a huge commotion. They were all crowded around his desk where Nene had placed the note and her "gift", which turned out to be vegetables. Seeing Teru's friends making fun of her gift, her spirit sank, but she still listened along to Hanako's other ideas. The next attempt they try is for Hanako to steal Teru's button and for Nene to sew it back on, however Teru gets surrounded by other people trying to give him their buttons. Nene then makes a character bento for him, only to go overboard and for it to turn out terrifying. Another attempt, although being in no way linked to her abilities, is for Nene to run around a corner and "accidentally" bump into Teru, this fails as she accidentally runs into Kou walking next to him.

As all these fails, Nene tries to ask Hanako for a quicker way. He suggests for her to just confess to Teru. When she reacts by telling him that that's impossible, he slips and reveals that he's new at this. Hanako tries to prove that he's not by trying to find "unpure items" and in the process accidentally drops a bag of mermaid scales. She asks him to explain what they are and Hanako replies that they're for matchmaking. He then panics and tries to get her to give them back only for Nene to put one in her mouth and threaten to swallow it. Hanako explains what they are and that when two people ingest scales from the same mermaid they will be cursed yet bound together. Nene proceeds to swallow it. He panics again and tries to explain that she'll be cursed. She states that she doesn't care if she's cursed if she'll be with Teru. She storms away, believing that Hanako lied to her.

Nene finds Teru being confessed to by another girl and him turning her down as he has liked someone for a while and doesn't want to be with anyone else. Nene thinks she's lost all hope until she remembers about the scales. She is about to run towards him when she becomes covered in scales and loses consciousness. She sees herself falling through a sea of thoughts about how much she had invested in the wrong things and how selfish she had been.

She regains consciousness to the sound of Hanako's voice. She is confused as to why she is surrounded by water until she looks in the mirror she is being held in front of and realizes that she's become a fish. Hanako reveals that this is the Mermaid's curse and that having someone else swallow the scale only splits the fish between you and that it's only for "matchmaking" as people who share the same curse are bonded together. Nene reflects on how she really felt about Teru, she didn't like him, she just wanted romance, not caring who it's with.

She hears a voice coming from underneath the classroom when the floor opens up and reveals a fish with a human face (the mermaid) trying to make Nene her servant. She watches Hanako and the mermaid fight, Hanako pulls out a knife and easily defeats her.

Hanako offers to eat the other scale and humanize Nene as her true wish ( again with a consequence). Nene begs him to turn her human again. Hanako eats the scale saying that she'll have to pay him back with her body. He moves on top of her, implying something sexual, when he states that he'll just be taking her physical labor. He teases her for taking it dirtily only for her to push him away and being surprised when she realizes she can touch him now. He flirts with her, saying that being bound to someone is the same as being with someone, and points out the newly appeared scales on her arms, saying that they'll go away if she dries them.

The Faeries (Mokke)
While cleaning bathroom stalls, Nene begs Hanako to let her go for the day and points out how hard she has been working for the past week as his assistant. He immediately denies her request and questions her motive to leave. Nene reveals that she had been asked on a "date" by the attractive Fuji where the pair would organize papers; however, Fuji had left halfway and she was left to work by herself. Realizing Nene was being taken advantage of, Hanako unsuccessfully tries to convince Nene to stay with him. When Nene tells him she'd rather do paperwork, Hanako threatens to turn her into a fish which immediately makes her change her mind.

The following day, Nene sits in class and laments her task of cleaning toilets for Hanako. The teacher suddenly calls on her and she jumps up to answer, however, she notices her books and brooch are missing. Later that day, Aoi sees Nene's melancholic nature and tells her that perhaps "the faeries" were the culprit of her missing belongings. She describes their rumor: the faeries are beings that steal items. One must never look at them, otherwise they'll face death.

As Aoi finishes telling Nene the rumor, they see many of their classmates frantically look for missing items such as a towel, locker doors, and Akane's hanitaro. Their classmates' panic results in an object accidentally hitting Aoi, who spills her water can over Nene. Terrified at the prospect of someone seeing her scales, Nene immediately runs all the way to the old building.

Relieved at her narrow escape, Nene decides to dry off and head back. She spots a clean towel on the ground and sees a trail of missing items her classmates had lost earlier. She follows the items to an open room and glances inside, comimg face-to-face with a giant figure: the faeries. Nene cowers in fear as she remembers Aoi's words of how the faeries would take the life of anyone who sees them.

Suddenly, Hanako appears and commands his hakujoudai to strike the faeries, splitting it apart. He approaches a frightened Nene and tells her to be more careful given how easily she engages with supernaturals. Hanako introduces the now-split faeries as the mischevious "Mokke"—a type of weak supernatural—and they tell Nene that they were forced to attack her in order to abide by their rumor. Hanako explains to a confused Nene that supernaturals must follow their designated rumor, otherwise they will cease to exist. He then requests Nene to help change the Mokke's rumor so they can continue living peacefully among humans and preseve their relationship. Convinced, Nene hugs the Mokke and agrees to help out, thanking Hanako for saving her.

The pair make their way outside, and Nene questions Hanako if helping out the Mokke was the task for her he had in mind earlier. He responds that it was, in fact, something he had planned and an excited Nene asks if this meant she no longer had to clean toilets, quickly disappointed by Hanako deny. He wonders about her hate for the job and tells her that personally, he enjoyed being able to talk with someone like a friend. Hearing his words, Nene happily gives him the new nickname "Hanako-kun," stating that this way, they'd be more like friends.

Later on, Nene returns to the school and overhears some girls talking about their missing items and the chance of losing their lives to the faeries. Nene interrupts and gives them candy, telling them that the faeries would exchange the missing items for candy peacefully without any threat of death. She leaves to go clean toilets and when questioned over her new busyness, she describes the activity as hanging out with a friend.

The Misaki Stairs Arc
Nene is seen watering flower with Aoi while thinking about Hanako expression when saying she can be friend with a killer, and at that moment, Aoi calls her and tell her the rumors of The Misaki Stairs

"...Have you heard?

There is a rule regarding that staircase that you must never break. You must never set foot on the fourth step. Why? Because...

...you will be taken to the other side."

Afraid because all rumors that Aoi tells her come true, suddenly Aoi got called by her homeroom teacher to art room, that is right in front of The Misaki Stairs. the next day, Nene saw that Aoi chair and flower that she's been take care of disappeared, Aoi had also disappeared.

Nene immediately asked the homeroom teacher about this, and answered that no one knew who Aoi was, hearing this, Nene came out of her class and called Aoi's family, however, they also did not know who Aoi was, Nene complained about this to Hanako, and go to The Misaki Stairs with Hanako and Kou

after entering The Misaki Stairs boundary, they received a call to find Misaki's left hand to be able to open the door to the next stairs, they continued to take the call and continued to search for parts of Misaki's body, in order to reach the highest part of The Misaki Stairs that Hanako think as the innermost part to break The Misaki Stairs Yorishiro.

After they reach the highest part of The Misaki Stairs they meet the body parts that they collect became one, and a beautiful woman who self-assumed herself as "Misaki" she rush up to the body parts that Nene collect and describe it as a wonderful body,

she asked the body to walk, that seems to be failed, again.

Nene soon asked that beautiful woman about where are the missing student's go? and suddenly a pile of a human doll appear around them that turns out to be the missing student's. Nene runs out to one of the dolls that is Aoi, and hugs her head.

"Misaki" soon trying to cut them with her weapon, a hair scissor, that turns whatever it's cut became a doll, at that moment, Hanako realized that the innermost part were not the highest but the bottom, he soon sends Nene to the bottom part.

when Nene arrived at the bottom part, she founds an shattered paper around her and a diary wich is seemed as someone who is fall in love with her teacher, until that teacher never comes back again.at that moment, “Misaki” arrive in the bottom part and meet Nene, she’s been tried to cut Nene several times, until she is just really close enough to cut her, until Hanako arrive and help Nene. And “Misaki” think that she is makes him hurt that much.

They soon realize that “Misaki” Yorishiro were in the shrine, to break it, Hanako hold “Misaki” and tell Nene to ripe out the white and black talisman that written seal on it, when Nene go to there she was get holded by "Misaki" dolls first, but after that she's jump out to front of the shrine and break "Misaki" Yorishiro.

After That, the boundary seemed to be cracked, and at that time, hanako stab "Misaki" in her chest.

When Nene awake, she is already in front of where The Misaki Stairs were, and Hanako brought her a White Fox that turns out to be the "Misaki" she met before, when hanako tells that fox to apologize, he threaten it that he would cut that fox into an Udon.

After that fox apologize to Nene, she bites Nene hands because call her as "Fox-san", it turns out that it name were Yako.

Yako soon run of to the stairs, and at that moment, Nene says that she is tired, and, Hanako kiss her cheek to make her happy he says,because she get kissed on the cheek, she became red while says:

"Wha--!!!!"

The Confession Tree
After the Misaki Stairs Arc, Nene keeps getting images of Hanako asking her whether she wants to be kissed by him in the middle of her 'handsome prince' daydreams. She starts wondering whether Hanako likes her, and consults Aoi for advice. Aoi suggests that Nene should try dating him because she's not used to dealing men, even though Hanako is not Nene's type, and hints that he's going to confess soon.

Aoi then tells Nene the fourth rumour of the series: The Confession Tree. "They say the God of Romance grew that tree...and any couple that confesses their love under it will be bound together in love." They then observe Akane Aoi practicing to confess to Aoi with Lemon Yamabuki. Nene doesn't believe that Hanako will really confess until....

"After school tomorrow, will you come to the giant tree in the practice garden with me?" Hanako asks Yashiro to come to the Confession Tree with him. Nene agrees with disbelief.

The next day...Nene finds Aoi in tears. When asked why, she points to a crowd of students, who were surrounding Akane and Lemon. It turns out that they have decided to become a couple after the practice confession yesterday. As Aoi was too conflicted to advise her, Nene finds herself becoming nervous as she walks to the Confession Tree to meet with Hanako.

Nene arrives at the Confession Tree. Hanako tells her that he loves her and wants to go out with her. Nene is overjoyed as this is her first time being confessed and getting a boyfriend until....

"Hurry up and turn me down!" Hanako prompts Nene to reject him. Nene, confused, does so, causing the Confession Tree to reveal itself as a supernatural: Kodama

The 4PM Bookstacks Arc
"So you're interested in the seven mysteries?" Asked a mysterious girl to Nene. Nene answered yeah, something like that. Nene was surprised when the girl said that Hanako was like a cat, capricious, selfish, and childish.nNene thinks this girl is Hanako's girlfriend. The girl told Nene to better go to school mystery number 5 if want to know more about Hanako, then the girl left Nene. Nene pursued the girl, but rammed someone and Nene lost track of the mysterious girl.

The next day... Nene seen asking Aoi about school mystery number 5. Aoi answered that school mystery number 5 is The 4PM Bookstacks. "In this school's library, there's a special storeroom you can only enter at 4PM, the room is full of books with people's names. Each of these books contains a record of that person's life at this school. Past, present, and future it's all written in the book...!" Nene thinks maybe that girl's intention is that she should look for Hanako's book. "But... If you do go to The 4PM Bookstacks you have to be careful." "There are three kinds of books in the bookstacks- white, black, and red. The white ones have the records of people who are alive, the black ones are records of people who have died. And those two kinds are okay, ...but the red books...! Those are the ones you should never, ever read. Or your life will be full of blood."

Nene wanted to read Hanako's book, but she didn't want to go alone to that place. Nene also wants to know who the girl was yesterday and wants to discuss with Hanako, but she thinks if she invites Hanako, she can't read Hanako's book. Nene sees Minamoto (Kou) as arguing with someone she doesn't really know. Nene asked something matter and Kou said she arrived on time. Kou said that this guy was his homeroom teacher but he's being mean. Nene asks if Kou made a mistake, then the man replied he hopes that Kou would stop going into the girl's restroom because they got complaints from female students. Kou said he came to the girl's restroom to protect students. Nene do think it's wrong for a boy to go into the girl's restroom. Kou is confused about what he should do because Hanako is not there and how he promised Teru. Nene asks why Hanako kun isn't here, and Kou said when he arrived there was this letter. Then the teacher also just remembered that he also had a meeting and ask what time to Kou, and leave. Nene thinks if Hanako isn't here, that mean she don't have to clean. Then Nene asked what Kou knew about 4PM bookstacks.