Suddenly Ren Ichimoku appears and empties her bag, revealing lots of unpaid items. One of her friends replies that she's evil and will be sent to hell, catching Hayase off guard.

Later Hayase is seen looking for a CD and, when she finds it, informs her friends she'll have Mari buy it for her. Ai prepares to send her to hell, but is interrupted by Hayase's friends and she disappears. The next day Ai corners Hayase in the bathroom and Hayase admits that she was the one who put the CD in Mari's bag, hoping to blackmail her. Ai arrives and Mari agrees to her conditions, sealing Hayase's fate. That night Mari tries again at midnight and is successful this time. Ai then comes across her and insists that there is a hell. Mari attempts to contact Hell Girl but is unable to and decides to give up, believing that hell doesn't exist. Unable to do anything else she begins looking for a job, until a friend reminds her of the Jigoku Tsūshin. She is then pressured by Hayase to steal things for her if she unable to pay for them.

When she runs out of money she attempts to steal some from her parents, but is caught and winds up in a lot of trouble. From then on it continues as such, with Hayase taking money from Mari, making her clean up for her and borrowing her homework to copy. Hayase then drags Mari along with her friends to eat and makes Mari pay for the food. In the background Ai Enma can be seen watching the events unfold. Mari starts to object but Hayase quickly reminds her that if anyone discovered what had happened previously she wouldn't be allowed to enter the top school she wanted to go to. Mari agrees to this and hands over the essay, which Hayase and her friends begin copying from. The next day at school Hayase asks to borrow Mari's essay in return for saving her yesterday. She is saved when her classmate Satsuki Hayase begs the employee to let her off this one time, to which he agrees and lets the two girls go. He searches her bag and finds a CD which, despite Mari's pleas of innocence, he believes she tried to steal.

She realizes the store doesn't have what she's looking for and begins to leave, only to be stopped by a shop employee. 5 Chapter 5: Dangerous Extracurricular ActivitiesĬhapter 1 begins with a young schoolgirl named Mari Shimizu looking for a new CD in a store.

Hell Girl 1 by Miyuki Eto