Chapter 2

Chapter 2 is the second chapter of the first volume of Suicide Girl.

Summary
Depressed after failing to save the girl in the train station, Kirari sits at the Seaside Cafe with the Manager, who offers her a cream soda. The Manager asks why Kirari feels so depressed, given she was cheerful even when she intended to kill herself. Kirari tells him she once had a fiance named Taiyou whom she admired greatly; there were childhood friends and had gotten engaged in their second year of highschool - but Taiyou killed himself the next day. Because Taiyou always loved her smile, Kirari vowed to keep smiling for the rest of her life and then kill herself to join him in the afterlife.

The Manager says she indeed has a “talent for suicide”. He then hands her a noose with a pink bow. At first she thinks that she can now kill herself, but the Manager tells her her mission isn't over. He asks her about the strange figure she saw on the platform. He says they are called Phobias, malignant spirits that drive people to suicide. He explains that almost all suicides are caused by them and they are one of humanity’s greatest enemy and how he set up the Suicide Cafe to save people from their Phobias. He tells Kirari she can fight Phobias because she wanted to kill herself for her own reasons and wasn’t driven by a Phobia. She can still save the dead girl: if she kills the Phobia within 4 hours 44 minutes and 44 seconds of death, time will rewind to shortly before the person’s death with only her and the Manager being able to remember the events.

In a morgue, the girl’s mother looks at the bodybag with her remains, unseen by her, the same Phobia that killed her daughter hovers over her, amplifying her negative emotions. Suddenly, Kirari breaks into the room and using the noose the manager gave her, she hangs herself. When the rope tightents around her neck, a bright light envelops her for a moment and revelas her in a new outfit, her Suicide Girl Costume: Hanging Maiden. When the Phobia sees this, it reacts violently and punches her through a wall; to her surprise, Kirari doesn't feel much pain from the hit, and jumps to dodge another strike, sending her dozens of meters up in the air. Phobia follows and strikes her repeatedly, Kirari starts hearing several voices in her head, feeling intense negative emotions. She becomes enraged at the things that killed her fiance and with the Manager’s instructions she hangs the Phobia with her noose.

She suddenly finds herself back at the train station and sees the girl and her mother argue and then cry together. The Manager informs her that today’s mission was a total success.

Characters

 * Kirari
 * Mr. Manager
 * Phobia
 * Taiyou