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:Marie is the main protagonist of the first story, "[[#Mesomeso-san|Mesomeso-san]]", and is a recurring character thereafter. She is introduced as a student who is bullied by her classmates and molested by her homeroom teacher. While despairing over her predicament in the bathroom of an abandoned school building, she becomes the subject of an eighth urban legend involving a youkai named Mesomeso (derived from the Japanese onomatopoeia for weeping and sobbing) that haunts the bathroom. The school's youkai offer her the chance to become a youkai herself in order to fill a new rank in their hierarchy, which she does after being strangled to death by her teacher. As Mesomeso, she appears before the series's other protagonists to support them if they are victims of bullying, or to confront them if they are bullies themselves.
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:Higanbana is the third-highest ranking yōkaiyoukai in the school, also known as the "Dancing Higanbana". She is a girl who takes the form of a Western doll that sits in the school infirmary and, according to her associated legend, dances on its own at night. She is the yōkaiyoukai who directly offers Marie the chance to become Mesomeso, and later treats herMarie as her personal assistant. She regularly torments cruel or weak-willed students, and is depicted as either an antagonist if she targets a story's hero, or as an antihero ifdepending sheon targetsthe a villainstory.
 
== Plot ==