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OKAY I’ll try to put this short!!
Megumi’s mind is artificially forced to adapt to the world of curses and Yōkai due to an accident, of which Yuji and Nobara drag him into it. After they realize this, Yuji and Nobara explain that if they don’t wipe Megumi’s memory, then his mind will collapse on itself due to the overload of info and he’ll die. They go on adventures, killing creatures and growing closer as a team to try and figure out a way to wipe Megumi’s memory.
Megumi’s a casual high schooler who’s had a nostalgic bond with the supernatural and urban legends because of Tsumiki, who used to tell him all sorts of stories about them. He himself didn’t care for that stuff, but he would still listen to it all. One day, as he’s walking home, he spots Kunekune (In the urban legends, Kunekune is a flowing white creature that’s found usually in rice fields from afar. They say that if you see it up close or get a clear view, either you die or be mentally destroyed permanently!) in a rice field, but he had no idea what it was, so he hopped over to get closer. Right as he’s about to look at it clearly, he hears a voice telling him to stop and he turns to see Nobara and Yuji running towards him. He had NO idea who they were and he was about to back up but Yuji slipped and crashed into Megumi, facing him right in front of Kunekune. Megumi’s head was mentally destroyed and he could see the supernatural now, but he had no idea and just thought it was a crazy headache. Yuji and Nobara freak out but pretend to play it off, getting outta there quick. Megumi’s headache gets worse and he sees unusual things, but assumes their hallucinations, until a few days later, he catches Yuji and Nobara fighting an Acrobatic Sarasara and is dragged into the fight. After they’re safe, they finally admit that Megumi’s mind was artificially forced to see the supernatural, and because of the overload of new info, his brain would collapse in on itself and he’ll die in a few months of he doesn’t wipe his memory. The rest of the story is them trying to find some type of way to erase his memory and fighting a bunch of yokai on the way!!
They figure out a way to wipe his memory but before they do, Megumi realizes that he’s come to love Yuji and Nobara dearly, and wiping his memory would mean he would forget who they were. He decides that he would have no point of living if he were to erase them from his life, and chooses to reject the memory wipe, despite Yuji and Nobara’s pleads. For the remaining time, he traveled with them and lived his life to the fullest, finally happy for once. When he died, he was kept in a little shrine, tied up to a chair with spider lilies growing on his corpse to represent his final goodbye. The shrine was to prevent his mind from consuming his body and turning him into a mixture of all the yokai he ever fought. Yuji and Nobara visit Megumi often and everytime, more and more lilies grow over his corpse until he’s nearly unrecognizable. Both kids carry a spider lily each to always have a part of him by their side
- After Yuji and Nobara tell Megumi everything, he freaks out and runs to the bathroom to vomit from shock, but as he’s trying to throw it all up, he meets Aka Manto and starts his first fight (Aka Manto is an urban legend that appears in public bathrooms and asks if they want red or blue toilet paper. If they pick red, they’re sliced to death. If they pick blue, they’re choked, so that their faces turn blue too)
- Their abilities are based off other urban legends/yokai! For Nobara, she has Kuchisake-onna’s power (Kuchisake-onna is a popular legend. She’s a beautiful woman who roams streets wearing a surgical mask, and asks people if she’s pretty. If they say no, they die, but if they say yes, she removes her mask and asks again if she’s pretty. Her mouth is typically sliced open in a grotesque way. If they say no, they die, and if they say yes but are lying, they die) and Megumi’s “ability” is using Tomino’s Hell (Tomino’s hell is a poem that’s said to curse someone to do horrendous acts or die if they read it)
- folklore and urban legends from other cultures are in it too, such as Loch Ness monster (western) and Beijing bus 375 (Chinese)
- Tsumiki did tell Megumi how she could see the supernatural, but Megumi always thought she was bluffing
- the supernatural only see you if you see them
- when Nobara gets Kuchisake-onna’s power, instead of the mouth, the slit is in her right eye, and is covered by an eyepatch
1st- Megumi sees Kunekune from afar!!
2nd- Nobara’s fight with Kuchisaki-onna, right before her temporary death
