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On the eve of her wedding, Miyo's best friend, whom she had invited to the party, cuts her off. Realizing that friendships have a shelf life, Miyo thinks back to the days when they were young and joyful.
Its their first year at Honcho Junior High and things get off to a very shaky start when students left and right begin having strange experiences. While Miyuki visits her teacher Saeki to attend to a finger cut, she has visions of a somber-faced girl in an outdated school uniform. At that very moment, panicked students run into the office announcing that another student, Mizudani Sachie, has fainted while in the "Hanako stall" of the girl's bathroom, the rumored location of the haunting spirit of a young girl. When Sachie fails to regain consciousness, she is taken to the hospital, where she later awakens with no memory of the incident. Upon her return to school, however, Sachie now seems to have full insight into other things such as the manner of death or serious injury each student will face.
First-year junior high students Mai and Miyuki naturally huddle together during their transitional year from classmates of elementary school. Once in their more metropolitan junior high school, however, they are soon introduced to a wider and more exciting exposure to the world. On the positive side, this includes independent ventures into the more culturally notorious elements of Tokyo such as Harajuku with slightly drunken upperclassmen. Unfortunately it also involves being thoroughly initiated into their new school's rumored history of an omen-filled death three years prior on the school's rooftop and stories of hauntings by the ghost of a young girl.
牢を出たばかりの座頭市は、漁師・儀肋の家にやっかいになった。その小さな漁村では五右衛門一家が賭場を開き、市もつきに任せて遊んでいた。跡目を継いだばかりの若き五右衛門は宿場一体を仕切るために八州取締役に取り入ろうとしていた。大勝ちした市を撫然とした五右衛門一家が取り囲むが、女親分のおはんが取りなした。帰り道で市は刺客に襲われるが、得意な居合い斬りで片づけた。市は旅先で絵を描く浪人と知り合い、色を教えてもらった。その間も五右衛門一家の刺客が襲いかかるが、市の居合い斬りの前には歯が立たない。八州取締役は赤兵衛に五右衛門と対抗するために銃を買うことを勧めた。しかし、赤兵衛は五右衛門と八州が通じていることを知っており、市を用心棒に顧った。一方五右衛門は浪人を新しい用心棒に顧っていた。赤兵衛の宿場で八州は薄幸の少女おうめを手込めにしようとするが、市に斬られた。浪人は湯治場で一度市を見逃すが、五右衛門一家はついに赤兵衛一家を襲う。壮絶な斬り合いの末、赤兵衛は五右衛門の前に倒れた。その時坂の上から早桶が転ってきて、中から現われたのは八州の首を持った市だった。そして市は数十人の五右衛門一家の子分を絶滅させ、最後に五右衛門と浪人も倒すのだった。
