Rin-ne (境界のRINNE)

What is that?

That thing spinning in the sky.

Is it a Ferris wheel?

Can we go on it, Ma'am?

Once you go on, you can never come back.

Walk the rest of the way home by yourself.

Ma'am?

Somewhere, neither in this life nor the afterlife,

lies Kyoukai, a border world between this and the next.

There, it is said, is a great "Rinne no Wa," the Ring of Reincarnation,

which channels the flow of life.

Ma'am!

Ma'am!

Ma'am!

Ma'am!

You mean "Miss."

Ow, ow.

And you better forget everything you saw here.

Rather, you will forget.

Ow, ow.

I thought things would be different once I started high school.

Morning, Mamiya Sakura-san.

However, nothing changed.

Hey, you hear me, don't you?

Let's talk.

Please don't talk to me.

Ow...

The Mysterious Classmate

Everyone, take your seats.

Hey, Sakura-chan, your neighbor is absent again.

Oh yeah.

I wonder why; it's already May.

Rokudou.

Is Rokudou Rinne absent again?

Looks like my neighbor's here, Miho-chan.

So this is Rokudou-kun.

But what's up with his weird outfit?

And his hair's bright red.

We'll have to think of something if he's going to be absent any more.

Maybe he's refusing school.

He might not come anymore.

Sakura-chan, what do you mean "he's here"?

Can no one else see him?

Which means... he's a ghost?

Crap, our eyes met.

Dog food?

All right, let's begin the morning homeroom.

Um, what is this?

It has huge eyes and it's always shaking.

Oh, right, a chihuahua.

So-called Chiwatarou,

abandon your earthly regrets

and take to the flow of the Rinne no Wa immediately.

Now.

It's all right.

Don't be afraid.

H-He got eaten.

You kind of look off somewhere, don't you, Sakura-chan?

Is it a habit?

Yeah, I can't fix it.

See you later.

Okay, bye.

I thought something would be different in high school;

that I might grow up a little and stop seeing strange things.

Are you heading home, Mamiya Sakura-san?

Hey, Mamiya Sakura-san.

Hey, come on.

Sakura-chan, he's here.

Rokudou-kun, the guy who sits next to you.

Huh? What about yesterday?

Rokudou, right?

Why are you in a track suit?

This is from junior high.

You haven't bought a uniform?

If I bought something so lavish,

I'd go to Hell.

Huh? Are you really p—

I'll go to Hell.

I-I feel bad. Sorry, Rokudou.

Yeah, never say it again.

Hey, Sakura-chan, have you ever talked to Rokudou-kun or anything?

Not at all.

He's a bit weird, isn't he?

Hey, Rika-chan is that a new phone?

Yeah, I bought it just last week.

It's cute.

Y'know, though, I get wrong number calls.

Wrong number?

Every day.

At the same time every day, after school. It sucks.

Saying what?

It's some guy I don't know...

"Be behind the gym at four o'clock!"

I don't know his voice,

and I don't remember doing anything to get called out.

Huh?

Something weird just came out of the phone.

Maybe he'll stop eventually.

I hope so.

But it's too weird! I can't take it!

What, the phone calls?

He still calls me, even when I block his number.

I called him to complain earlier, and...

"The number you have dialed is not in service."

I don't believe it!

Could it be a spirit or something calling you?

Don't!

Like, a call from

the afterlife?

Stop it!

You should cancel your cont—

I know of someone

you can talk to about those kinds of things.

There's a instrument shelter

in the schoolyard that isn't being used anymore.

Write a letter about your problem,

and put it in there along with money and an offering.

It's a legend that's been passed down in this school.

Have you heard of it?

My sister went to this high school, but I never heard about it.

Rika-chan, are you actually going to ask for it?

I have to believe.

I'm out of options.

No, you aren't.

You could try changing your number or something.

Please.

Wait, it just opened by itself!

The letter and the bread disappeared!

I'm so scared!

Rika-chan dropped her phone.

Say something!

Mamiya Sakura, was it?

Just who are you?

That's my line, Rokudou Rinne-kun.

Why are you sometimes visible and sometimes not?

What's up with this flashy haori?

Do you think you're overdressed?

Don't tug on it.

It's high-quality.

You can't buy your school uniform, but you can buy a haori?

This the Haori of the Underworld.

It's an awesome item that essentially turns the wearer into a spirit,

giving them the same physical essence as a spirit.

Normal people shouldn't be able to see me when I'm wearing it.

Oh yeah?

I guess I get it, for now.

Never mind that, what do you think you're doing?

Never mind?

The legend of the instrument shelter.

You made that up, didn't you?

What if I did? I need it to make a living.

A living?

You call tricking people into giving you offerings a—

I'm not tricking them.

I do what I have to do.

What you have to do?

That phone...

I sense the presence of a spirit that can't

rest in peace because it has regrets in the mortal world.

Miho

Hello?

Are you the one that picked up my phone?

If you don't mind, could you please bring it to the café by the station?

A curse upon you!

That'll stop her from asking for her phone back for a while.

Th-That's awful.

She's persistent.

A cur—

Be behind the gym at four o'clock!

He's not here.

Maybe that spirit isn't necessarily from this school.

One thing that's certain is that

the spirit couldn't meet with the person

he had called to meet behind the gym at four.

That means he died before he met them, right?

I wonder where they are, and where they're calling from.

The best thing would be to ask him directly.

Huh?

A tin can phone?

Spirit World Tin Can Phone

This is a spirit world tin can phone.

It's a handy tool that lets you talk to a spirit of your choice.

70 yen.

Give me the phone number of the querent Rika.

Sure.

Thanks.

Now go home.

But I'd leave you alone here, and...

Don't worry.

I mean, you might swipe the phone.

I'll give it back.

Really?

I've decided to never steal or defraud.

Okay, then.

Is there nothing I should help with?

Help?

You seem to be able to see spirits,

but you've never exorcised one or fought one, have you?

What happens next is my job.

Your job?