Hell Teacher Nube Oneshot : Hell Teacher Nubo

He came from the depths of hell to protect the students of Doumori Elementary. But not everything about the beginning is as straight as it has been made out...as may come to be revealed with this second prelude to the Nube story!

One-Shot (Second Pilot): Hell Teacher Nubo
(TN: In the first and second pilots, Nube was known as “Nubo”, but the scripts will continue to refer to him as Nube…the Youkai encyclopedia actually will explain further the change between “Nubo” and “Nube”)

154.
Voice: This school is cursed.
Sign: DOUMOURI ELEMENTARY
Principal: It’s been called “The Haunt of Spirits”. We can’t suppress any further the damages to our students by these calamities of evil spirits.
Principal: Therefore…we wanted to have come that sort of teacher…
SFX: GOROGOROGORO
Principal: At any rate it’s because this teacher is the only one in Japan
SFX: KA

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Principal: That is a spiritually-powered teacher…
Caption: HELL TEACHER NUBO (SPEICAL ONE-SHOT)
(TN: As I mentioned before, this is sort of the second Nube pilot, appearing in Jump issue 27, 1993, 11 weeks before the first actual Nube chapter, thus it feels semi-complete and close to how the series will be depicted…well compared to the first chapter and the “first pilot” we’ll be seeing in vol. 3)

156.
Caption: A New School Term
SFX: WAA—WAA—
SFX: BASHU
Soccer Player 1: Nice! That was!
Hiroshi: Well, will my position be Center Forward!?
Soccer Player 2: Yep! It can only be you, Hiroshi!

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Hiroshi: And yet that toad advisor—it’ll be better that I bump him off. I’ll cut open your eyeholes! (Ribbit ri—bbit)
(TN: Hiroshi actually croaks like the “soccer advisor” using the “gero” sound akin to a frog croaking)
Boy: Ahaha
Hiroshi: Hahaha…(Haa haa haa)
Soccer Player 1: Hey are you alright Hiroshi?
Soccer Player 2: If it your heart again?
Hiroshi: I’m fine, that’s all.
Soccer Player: He—y, Hiroshi! They’ve published the class assignment! You’re in class 3---!
Soccer Player 1: Is Class-3 the class with the new teacher Nueno!?
Soccer Player 2: Tha—t’s co—ol, he’s the rumored spiritually powered teacher, Hiroshi!
Hiroshi: Chi, a bad teacher has come!

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Voice 1: Hey hey, what sort of teacher is Nueno-sensei!?
BG: ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA (AHAHAHA)
Voice 2: I saw him during the appointment! He’s a nicely handsome and cool guy!
Voice 3: Can’t he really do exorcisms!?
Voice 4: Is he for real?
SFX: WAKU WAKU
Kyouko: Well—well—come and ask me!
Kyouko: Teacher lived next door to me long ago--! (Ehen!)
Boy: Hee
Hiroshi: Ke
Kyouko: The home of teacher’s family was a candy shop! The elderly woman there was the “town divination granny” and famous in the neighborhood”—
(TN: The type of shop that Kyouko mentions Nubo lived in was “dagashiya”, which is a shop that sells cheap sweets for children. BTW: though Kyouko called the “elderly woman” as “obaasan”, I really couldn’t call her Nubos’ grandmom so I just kept it as “elderly woman”)
Boy: Eh!? He wasn’t at a temple? What sort of connection are a candy shop and spiritual power?

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Kyouko: I don’t know well, but these very normal uncle and auntie possessed spiritual power.
Kyouko: These sorts of people were folk exorcists, but they didn’t take a yen of money; even so, they would battle evil spirits to protect the children by betting their lives. This blood of justice of these folk exorcists flows in teacher!
Kyouko: As proof, teacher has come to possess the “Oni no Te” as his left hand, which was spiritually harmed when he fought an “oni” long ago…! Therefore, he’s always wearing a glove on his left hand!
Boy: His left hand has…an “oni”?
Boy 1: He’s coming! Hurry into your seats!
SFX: WAA--!
SFX: WAKUWAKUWAKUWAKUWAKUWAKUWAKUWAKUWAKUWAKUWAKU
Hiroshi: Ke!
Voice: (speaks sutra)
(TN: The Kanji that you see here is the Chinese rendition of the Heart Sutra, also known as the “Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra”, a sutra popular with Mahayana Buddhists and one of the most well known and popular of all Buddhist sutra. What you are seeing is the Chinese version of the Sutra, made up of 260 kanji, compared to other versions including a 14 shlokas version in Sanskrit or 16 sentences in English. Since I really can’t find any real readings of it in Japanese, I won’t translate this like I translate Nube’s typical Byakue-Kannon sutra)
Hiroshi: Wh…what’s that…?
Boy: A sutra…
Voice: (continues with Heart Sutra)
SFX: SU—

160.
Nube: Nice to meet you. I am Nueno, your homeroom teacher from today.
Nube: Welcome to this spiritual classroom of mysteries and terror, the illusionary and the bizarre. (FU FU FU)
Voice 1: Ooh—indeed he feels like a spiritualist teacher…exactly--!
Voice 2: He’s floating hitodama…
Voice 3: He’s a teacher as I imagined…!

161.
Voice: It’s real: the glove on his left hand…that’s the rumored “Oni no Te”?
Nube: Fufufu…they’re all chattering; magnificent if I say so myself.
Nube: This production…
SFX: KON! / BO
Nube: WAAAA~~~~!! OWOWOWOW
SFX: BURN BURN BURN / GOOOOOO
Nube: Haa~~that was surprising.
SFX: JUU~~
Students: You’re the tanuki of Kachi-Kachi Mountain!
(TN: The students are referring to a fairy tale involving the “tanuki dog of Kachi-Kachi Mountain” (or in Japanese: “Kachi-Kachi-Yama”) In the tale, a tanuki tricks a poor couple who capture him, killing the wife of the couple and transforming into her while serving her flesh to her husband in soup. He ultimately got his just desserts by way of a rabbit who burned his flesh when he set fire some kindling the tanuki was carrying on his back)
Boy: Wh…what…? He’s surprisingly stupid…
SFX: CHATTER CHATTER
Makoto: He’s slightly different than we imagined.
Nube: Eh—and so, I’ll be your homeroom teacher from today.

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Nube: Nueno Meisuke! People call me “Hell Teacher Nubo”; nice to meet you!
Boy 1: He’s Nubo.
Boy 2: That’s a strange nickname!
SFX: YE—P!
Boy: Teacher--! A que—stion!!
Nube: Alright! Go—ahead!
Boy: Are you really spiritually powered?
Nube: N?
Kyouko: What’s with you; you’re not confident of my story!?
Boy: N…no, there’s a reason.
Kyouko: Nubo’s spiritual power is for real! Because he saved me from spiritual possession long ago!
SFX: HO—HE—HA HA HA!

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Nube: Right, right! She peed outside at Inari Shrine though she’s female and was cursed by it! She ran around town every night while screaming stark naked!
Students: AHAHAHAHA…!
Kyouko: Eh~~let’s put the jokes aside! From here he’ll show us an exorcism performance!
Students: AH~~THAT’LL BE FINE!
Nube: But it’s true.
Nube: Hey hey, what exorcism…
Kyouko: It’ll be fine: I’ve pro—perly prepared this!
Nube: That’s!
Kyouko: (Fu fu fu…) Her hair grows in the dead of night…it’s the cursed Ichimatsu Doll! (Ah~~scary!)
(TN: An “Ichimatsu Doll” or “Ichimatsu Ningyo” is a typical antiquated Japanese doll, usually sold naked to be dressed as desired by the person who owns it)
“Black Hair”: This is a doll that was important to my cousin. But she died in a traffic accident last year…
(TN: We haven’t come across this character yet but keep an eye on her: she may appears in regular continuity)
Nube: Uwa, the doll talks!
Kyouko: That girl is human!
Nube: Understood: I can deduce that that child’s attachment dwells in the doll.
SFX: GASA GOSO
Boy: We’ve waited for this: this will be the exact item.

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Nube: THE BYAKUE-KANNON SUTRA: an item written with the “Sutra of Byakue-Kannon” used by just folk exorcists!
Nube: By giving a scolding with this, a typical spirit will rest in peace! Namu Daiji Hikyuu Gunan Koudai Reikan Byakue Kannon
Nube: Return—this is—n’t the place you should be! Rest in peace! Cling to the compassion of Buddha--!
SFX: BASHI BISHI BASHI BASHI
Student: Ooh! Amazing spirit!
SFX: !

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Nube: THERE! WITH THAT, HER HAIR WON’T GROW ANYMORE!
SFX: BARA BARA
Doll: I’ve been cursed…
SFX: DOWAA~~N!
Kyouko: Well—a written apology for his spiritual methods! Generally Nubo’s exorcisms have a success rate of 30%!
(TN: Kyouko “spiritual methods” comment is in Japanese “Koubou”, which translates to “the spreading of Buddhist teachings”…since this is more spreading an exorcism, even with the Buddhist methods, I changed it appropriately)
Voice 1: Taking that, you have an excuse to return him!
Voice 2: Chie, what a bogus…
Boy: So then, hasn’t he had many failures!
Voice: Stop, stop you fraud exorcist!
SFX: GATA—N!
Hiroshi: What is this spiritually-powered teacher; this steams me up! Don’t think you can mock children, fool!
Boy: Awawa…
Kyouko: Hiroshi! Ah, don’t mind him; he’s a leftover whose only skill is soccer.

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Nube: Hahaha! Well, whether you believe me or not, I’m an ally of your class from today. Let’s be friends—(here, a handshake)
SFX: SLAP!
Kyouko: Hiroshi!
SFX: HAA HAA HAA
SFX: GURA
Nube: He…hey, Hiroshi, what’s—wrong!?
Kyouko: Hold on!! HIROSHI!!
Sign: INFIRMARY

167.
Kyouko: Nubo! Th…that’s!?
Nube: Kimori…a Sentourei that causes heart troubles!
(TN: “Kimori” literally translates into “liver raccoon”, thus why I really should stop literally translating some of these youkai…BTW: “Sentourei” = “assisting spirit”)
Nube: It absorbs spirit by parasiting a human’s heart, growing and, before long, having the person come to their death…
Kyouko: UGE…
Nube: How could it have become this large and be ignored!?
SFX: PIKUN PIKUN
Hiroshi: I didn’t ignore it. I know that this pain that can’t be healed by any doctor is the act of an evil spirit.
Kyouko: Eh?
Hiroshi: Therefore, I endlessly went around to various exorcists lead by father. I don’t know how many I’ve gone around to!
Signs: Evil Warder / Spirit Investigators / Exorcisms

168.
Hiroshi: But they…! Just requested outrageous costs.
Bald Man: Evil-Spirit Warding Charm – One Million Yen!
Woman: Evil-Warding Jar – Three Million Yen!
Hair Man: Miraculous Buddha Statue – Five Million Yen!
Hiroshi: Those habits aren’t clearly effective or anything!
Hiroshi: My father worked without sleep at night to pay their price and eventually collapsed and hospitalized! I don’t believe in spiritualists: all of them are bogus swindlers!
Nube: I understand your circumstances, but at this rate…
Kyouko: Right, you’ll die.
Hiroshi: Shut up!
SFX: DA!
Nube: Hiroshi!
Hiroshi: How can I believe them! They’re all lying fakes. That teacher…that evil spirit! I’ll drive it away with my own power!
Nube: ………
Coach: From here we’ll be starting the soccer club’s red-and-white match! Since we’ll be watching the aspects of this match for deciding the players for the next opponent, don’t relax on this!
Players: Right!

169.
Hiroshi: Ku…again…
SFX: ZUKIN ZUKIN
Player: Hey, Hiroshi, your complexion is terrible; are you alright?
(TN: The boy talking to Hiroshi here is another one to sort of pay attention to for later)
Hiroshi: I’m fine. So then we’ll do our best and go out in the match together!
Player: Ah…alright.
Hiroshi: Will I lose this? Father will be pleased with me active in this match. I absolutely will become a player!
Coach: KICK OFF!!
SFX: ZAN
Player 1: To the side!
Player 2: Turn, turn
Player 3: I’ll take you!
Assistant: Hiroshi’s movements aren’t clear; is something the matter?
Coach: Hmm…
Hiroshi: S**t…I’m losing my breath but…can I lose this! I have the guts handed to me by my father! I absolutely…
Voice: HI HI HI

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Kimori: HEY, HIROSHI: ARE YOU ENERGETIC?
SFX: NURU~~
Hiroshi: UWAA~~~
Coach: What’s wrong, Hiroshi!!
Hiroshi: It…it was nothing! (Haa haa haa)
Kimori: Hi hi hi…there’s no need to hide me…my form can’t be seen by normal humans.
Hiroshi: DAMN THIS…
Kimori: But do your best…if this was typical, you’d already be dead, yeah.
Hiroshi: Can I lose this…
Hiroshi: CAN I LOSE THIS!
Kimori: Hihihi: you have guts. But can you have them forever? With this worn-out heart?
SFX: NITAA—
Kimori: But even your heart will steadily become tired!
Kimori: And steadily I will finish you off, there!
Hiroshi: GYAAAA

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Voice: HIROSHI!
SFX: PI—
Coach: Hiroshi…
Hiroshi: I’m…I’m alright. Please continue.
SFX: SLAP!
Coachi: Don’t say such bad things. Give up.
Hiroshi: That’s…
Hiroshi: Aren’t I always collapsing? Because I’m going all out in the games…
Coach: Continue everyone.
Hiroshi: Uh!
Player: Hey, can I escort you?
Hiroshi: I’m fine.

172.
Hiroshi: Haa haa haa
Hiroshi: HAA HAA HAA HAA

173.
Nube: Shall we have an exorcism?
SFX: NIKO…
Hiroshi: You’re still saying that? It’s already past the end of school long ago. Hurry and go home, you fraud!
Kyouko: He’s not a fraud! Nubo is the worst being a clumsy, stupid teacher, but only his spiritual power is for real!
Nube: Um~~
Hiroshi: Shut up, ugly!
(TN: Hiroshi calls Kyouko “busu”, which specifically is an “ugly woman”)
Hiroshi: What’s so real with a 30% success rate? That’s not funny.
Kyouko: He does it when he does it! Did I tell you the story of the Oni no Te!? (Whose ugly, you)
Hiroshi: What Oni no Te? That was made-up! What’s with this glove…
SFX: BA!!
Nube: This hand became not of this world when spiritually harmed fighting an “oni”. It can’t be seen.

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Nube: How’s that: don’t you believe it? I think it’s not a loss.
Hiroshi: Can you really do exorcisms?
Nube: Yep.
Hiroshi: Can you really save me!?
Nube: Yep!
Hiroshi: I really
Hiroshi: ……Believe you. So then…save me, teacher!
Nube: --So from here, the spirit will be summoned to this place and we’ll test in persuading it to rest in peace. Whatever happens never let your heart get disturbed. We can’t create an opening that will be taken advantage of by the spirit!
Hiroshi: Right!

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Nube: So let’s begin: we should be prepared! Namu Daijihi Kyuugu Kyuunan!
Nube: Koudai Reikan Byakue Kannon. Kara Ha~~ta Sobaka!
Hiroshi: Uaa
Kyouko: Hiroshi!
SFX: Moko moko
Nube: Evil spirit possessing Tateno Hiroshi: my name is exorcist Nueno Meisuke. Borrowing the name of Byakue-Kannon, you will rest in peace! Show me…
Nube: YOUR FORM!!
Kyouko: GYAA~~~~
Kimori: Gyagyagya: noisy noisy noisy! Stop chanting that sutra, it hurts my head--!
Nube: Get out, Kimori! Let go from Hiroshi and quietly rest in peace!
Kimori: I REJECT!

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Kimori: I won’t live in that world that stinks of incense in boredom. I love the misfortune of humans, watching their pained, saddened forms.
Nube: So if you’re like that, you’ll rest in peace by force.
Kimori: Kekeke…that won’t be; I want to have much more fun! Well…now I’ll taste the heart of this girl--!
Hiroshi: Kyouko!
Nube: Watch out, Kyou…Gufu!
SFX: DOSU DOSU DOSU
Kyouko: Teacher!
Kimori: Kekeke, what a stupid story; the spiritualist has been captured by the spirit. I’ll taste your heart. (Ke ke ke)
Hiroshi: This guy—let go of teacher—
SFX: SUKA!
Kimori: Kekekekeke
Kyouko: Please stop, Hiroshi! He’s a spirit, you can’t hit him with a bat!
Hiroshi: Let go! This is a problem of me and the evil spirit. There isn’t a connection with teacher!

178.
Nube: Not connected: why are you saying that lonely thing, Hiroshi!
Hiroshi: Huh!
Nube: Aren’t you my student? I am your teacher. (Haa haa)
Nube: I’ll protect you. Even in exchange of my life.
Kyouko: Nubo’s exorcisms truly have a 30% success rate. But he can’t lose fighting for the protection of a person’s life.
Kyouko: Though his own body became sacrificed, he fights to protect his students: Nueno Meisuke is that sort of man!
Kimori: Kekeke: Protecting him is funny. What can someone like you do!
Nube: Namu Daijihi Kyuugu Kyuunan Koudai Reikan Byakue Kannon
SFX: GA!
Kimori: That sutra again! You can’t use that thing on I that doesn’t fear Buddha…

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Nube: “Oni” sealed by Byakue-Kannon: now show YOUR POWER—
Kimori: Wha! What is~~this intense aura!?
Nube: Long ago…I exorcise an “oni” possessing a sole child. But he wouldn’t rest in pease due to having too powerful an aura. Unavoidably, I sealed the “oni” into my own body…

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Nube: This is this left hand! Since then, I’ve used this left hand against spirits that won’t accept persuasion no matter what. This isn’t for resting in peace…this is for erasing them from existence!
SFX: DOKUN DOKUN
Kimori: My existence…will be…erased!?

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Hiroshi: He can’t be joking: what can he do with one arm? This so-called avenger will be killed!
Kyouko: Teacher—
SFX: GOOOO
SFX: ZUBA
Nube: !!
Kimori: Giee~~I’ve been cut~~it hurts~~how~~!? I’m a spirit, so how could I be cut! Why does it hurt~~~!? (For real~~!?)
Nube: You don’t know? So then I’ll tell you! This left hand is a similarly spiritual body as you!
Nube: Therefore, it can inflict physical attacks on spirits. It can cut, it can strike, and it can kill!
Kimori: !

182.
Kimori: Uaaaa, stop this—I love the pain of people, but I hate pain to myself--!
SFX: GOOOOO~~
Nube: Evil spirit Kimori! Where you’ll be won’t be in this world or that world! RETURN TO NOTHINGNESS!

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SFX: SHUUUUUU—
Hiroshi: Teacher.
Nube: V!
Hiroshi: Thi…this teacher is…for real!
Caption: The next day—
Voice: Eh!? Hiroshi is appearing in the match!?
Hiroshi: Yep! Last night Nubo made a call to the toad from there. I’m not a starter, but I will be on the bench.
Kyouko: You did it!
“Grubby”: But I can’t believe it—that Nubo was so cool.
“Bully”: Weren’t you dreaming? (Kekeke)
Hiroshi: That wasn’t some dream or anything, it was real!
SFX: GARA
Boy: Ah! He’s here.
Girl: Order! Than—ks!

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Nube: Eh—this is immediate but I must apologize to everyone. Actually, it’s about the Ichimatsu Doll I failed to exorcise yesterday but
Nube: Afterwards I brought it back home and exorcised it once more. I failed once again.
Nube: IT GOT ANGRY AND BECAME A PUNCH-PERM!! (I’M SORRY!)
Doll: I’ve strayed.
Students: NOO~~!!
“Black Hair”: My doll—
SFX: DODODODO
Nube: This time! I’ll be successful this time! Right!?
SFX: BOO—BOO—
Hiroshi: Uuuh, it was a dream last night—I can feel it.
Kyouko: The difference is way too intense!
Narrator: The next day, the doll became furthered strayed and became a punk. Right there, Chan-Chan.
(End of one-shot)

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NUBE-SENSEI’S GREAT YOUKAI ENCYCLOPEDIA

7. Sendourei

Long ago, medicine and exorcisms were the same thing. When a person became sick, a priest from the temple would come, chant a sutra and drive away the disease demon. But usually there wouldn't be an effect and the sick person would die.

Afterwards, medicine progressed and the connection of sickness and spirits split apart. However, even if medicin can hold back the progress of an illness, it can't prevent the outbreak of the illness. The saying "Illness is from energy" is that the outbreak of illness has a mental and spiritual element for certain.

Well then Kimori, who was introduced in this book section, is a youkai that increases abnormally in the cells by way of spiritual effects, creating an weird species-tumor. A species-tumor created like such is called "cancer" in medical terminology. The cause of the outbreak of cancer hasn't been elucidated now, but even so it should be because it's an act of a spirit. (recently they have started research on the correlation of personality and cancer. People with characters taht make them easy to be possessed by spirits make them easily affected by cancer)

While we're at it, this "Kimori-chaper" was a yomikiri before the start of serialization, but with many questions speaking of why "Nubo" became "Nube", we'll answer that. Frankly "because it's the same name as a candy". Not much of a story. Tohoho...

(TN: Side Notes:
1. "Disease demon" is in Japanese "Byouma", which either is an "illness demon" or a "disease"
2. "Species-tumor" is a combination word: the word originally is "shuyou", which is merely "tumor", but the first kanji was changed to the "shu" for "species", thus to explain the "lizard-like" nature of the youkai.
3. I know I have heard tales before about "Nube" being named after candy...sadly I really don't know what the candy is that he was named after)

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Nube: Let’s meet again in Vol. 2!
(TN: This is actually rather neat: the side-cover character also has the “final say” in each volume. This time it’s Nube…obviously)

TN: Alright, I know I keep going over it over and over, but I guess now is the perfect time to get into it: it's really hard to determine what the true "intro tale" for Nube is considering the circumstances regarding the chp. 1 that we saw...and this pre-series one-shot. The main reason should be known for those of you who may have seen the first Nube anime episode...well more particularly, this chapter, not chp. 1, was the first episode! You could sort of see why looking over this chapter: having Nube as the new teacher arriving in Doumori for the first time makes it way easier to introduce him to the students...than instead have Hiroshi as the newbie while Kyouko is the only one who still knows the truth of Nube. The strange thing is that both this chapter and chp. 1 both work as pilots and can both work in respective ways...but as you'll see from here on out, elements of this chapter does eventually work it's way into the actual series. We saw some of it through the same basic plot from this pilot and the first chapter mirroring: Hiroshi meets Nube, can't believe in him while a certain brazen redhead obsesses with him, gets harmed by a youkai, finally has Nube help him, then is saved by the power of the Oni no Te. But as you'll see, little cosmetic moments from this chapter, from Nube's "infamous" Hitodama entrance when meeting the class for the first time...to a bit about why Kyouko knows Nube first...to even the "Ichimatsu Doll girl" reappearing in a different facet will eventually be revealed properly and expanded upon from what you see here. So in a way, chp. 1 is chp. 1, but the second pilot has a lot to take from it as well from this point. (especially if you're an anime watcher). So with the first volume done, it's finally time to move on to vol. 2 next time...where we finally meet one more crucial student (and another memorable character alongside him) and count down to...well, someone I can't mention yet.