Dead Account (デッドアカウント)

I was having a terrible dream.

My little sister, Akari, died and turned into a ghost that came out of my phone.

Then this freak dressed all in black showed up to exorcise her.

In the end, I activated some kind of superpower and took Akari down.

What a crazy-ass dream.

A hotel room? In a ryokan?

So glad it was all just a dream!

You wish it was.

Yeah, couldn't be that easy.

Who the hell are you?

What is this place?

Your love nest or something?

Did you take advantage of me?!

My love nest? What is this, the 60s?

Is Akari...

My sister... What happened to her?

Your smartphone.

I charged it up.

This account does not exist

Try searching with a different keyword

Akari...

Ghost accounts are the result of dead social media accounts getting possessed.

When the ghost is exorcised, the account is deleted.

So I can't even text with her anymore?

No.

Yeah, right.

She's... dead, after all.

Well, tough luck for me!

The illness took her.

People die sometimes. You just gotta accept that.

Besides, I made a promise to her!

I said I'd learn to manage by myself.

Can't keep my word if I get all weepy about it!

Well, since we're at a ryokan hotel,

maybe I'll take a nice hot bath before I go!

You ass.

Beg pardon. I didn't mean to swear.

This is painful to watch.

You're so obviously putting up a front.

Listen, man, you're the one who said I have to do what it takes to live on!

It's Kasubata.

I'm Kukuru Kasubata.

Kukuru Kasubata

But do not use my first name.

Follow me.

I'll show you to the baths.

Thanks, man!

I gotta say, this hotel looks pretty pricey.

It's not a hotel.

This is Miden Academy.

Miden Academy

A school for exorcists.

Th-This is a school?

It's totally a ryokan hotel, though!

I mean, the room we were just in...

It even had a little nook by the window!

That was my room.

All students live on campus.

They fashioned it after a hot springs hotel

to emphasize the "cleansing" aspect of exorcisms.

That guy there is Aoringo.

The flamebait MyuTuber.

I find his videos quite aesthetically displeasing.

Word is he awakened last night.

Hey, Kasubata.

You really stepped in it, huh?

Shut up.

Even the saintly Kasubata screws up from time to time.

How humbling for someone who always acts so high-and-mighty.

Wouldn't you say, Kusaba-chan?

Kasubata-kun...

I feel bad for him.

I want to comfort him!

K-Kusaba-chan?!

Flamebait streamers are the lowest of the low.

For one to darken our academy's doors...

I'm a flamebaiter too, Minoru.

The boy with the blue hair...

is pretty handsome, too!

K-Kusaba-chan?

I also love Kasubata-kun, of course!

Title: "The Rotten Blue Apple."

No, that's no good. Nothing aesthetic about it.

I'm an Aoringo Channel subscriber!

This is hype as hell!

Hiyori Haijima

That dude stirs up all kinds of drama.

Man, I don't even wanna be near him!

Naruhiko Emoto

What does Azaki-sensei want him for?

Renri Hasumi

Who the hell cares?

Kiyomi Urusugawa

Creeps me the hell out.

He's got the same powers as him.

Where are we, anyway?

Kusatsu.

So this is a ryokan hotel!

The recreation room.

It's a ryokan!

The shop.

Convenience Store

We have Denmi-chan goods!

It's a freaking hotel!

Those manju look great!

The hot spring.

You're really not beating the "hotel" allegations here...

My wound's healed up?

Man, it's warm.

Careful now. If I relax too much...

I might cry.

Where the hell is that shitty monk?

Yoimaru Azaki

Ta-da!

The sea monster has arrived!

Surprise! Did I get you?

Listen, even in a school for exorcists, you won't see any sea monsters!

I'm more of a sea monkey. Because I'm a monk!

Azaki-sensei, good morning.

But it's not safe to stand up too fast in hot water.

The expansion of the blood vessels can cause fits of anemia.

Good point.

Hey, uh, you sure got me good!

Yeah, thanks.

I'm Azaki.

I'm one of the teachers here.

Sensei, I showed him around as you ordered.

Great work!

Cheer up, Kasubata-kun! Don't treat this like a punishment!

What else could it be?

He's a flamebaiter. I don't want to spend a single second with him.

And his flames are blue, at that.

Enishiro-kun! Whaddya think of our school?

I love the hot spring! It's awesome!

Isn't it just?!

Please put on clothes.

So, can I assume you'll be enrolling?

Enishiro-kun, be an exorcist with us!

You trying to get me again?

Yeah!

Azaki-sensei...

Are you doing this to rub salt in my wounds?

What? No way! I'm inviting him in good faith!

This kid awakened his cyberkinesis, remember?

Cyberkinesis?

Yeah, I bet you're curious!

Allow me to explain.

It's a rather long story, though.

Ready?

The exorcist profession goes back millennia

in the constant battle against malevolent spirits.

The exorcists employ techniques

for unleashing spiritual energy called "psychokinesis."

However, everything underwent a major revolution just a few decades ago.

The introduction of the internet

turned cyberspace into a place where the dead could form attachments,

and the nature of ghosts changed accordingly.

The exorcists were in a panic!

The psychokinesis they'd spent generations honing didn't work on ghost accounts!

So the conservative world of exorcists was forced into upheaval!

In the end, they found a way to use electronics to digitize their powers!

It transformed psychokinesis into cyberkinesis!

Kusatsu, huh? So I'm in Gunma Prefecture.

Maybe I'll check out the Yubatake hot spring.

That's so mean!

I thought we were really hitting it off!

You even played along with my whole "gotcha" gag!

Don't you want to know about what happened to you?

Sorry, but I really don't!

I don't want to be involved in this "ghosts and exorcists" business any more.

I don't really care about cyberkinesis either.

I want to leave hauntings and flamebaiting behind me.

I want to work a normal job, eat one sweet thing per day, then sleep.

That's the life I'm after.

Helping Akari get better was the only thing I had going.

Now I've got nothing. I'm totally empty.

So I'd better get moving!

Hey, I'll buy a manju from the store on my way out!

Manju! Manju! Manju! Manju!

Aw, you're really just gonna go?

Without even learning what really took your sister?

Finally caught your interest, have I?

That's right. Your sister didn't die from her condition.

She was killed...

by a powerful ghost account.

Big Brother!