Chapter 160

## Chapter Guide

**"Margaret"** (マーガレット, *Māgaretto*?) is the one hundred sixty chapter of the Shadows House manga series.

## Summary

In Margaret's past, her debutante classmate and friend Peter first took up gardening with her. However, he was pulled into Douglas' Team and stopped contact with her. Mirabelle and Isabelle rejected Margaret's hobby, calling her muddy from the conservatory soil. Due to these betrayals, Margaret rejects anyone that attempts to befriend her out of fear. One night, Margaret attempts to get disposed of by cutting Maggie's face while she sleeps, but stops when the doll begins to stir.

When Margaret first met Patrick, she was refreshed by his kindness to her and her hobby. Margaret planned for Patrick to use the evidence she found to become a Star Bearer, only for Kate to become one instead. In her grief, Margaret deduces that Patrick has been corrupted like Peter and resolves to destroy everything to save him. In the present, Margaret gifts him a daisy, and Patrick realizes the source of her sorrow. During this, soot forms into a heart above Patrick's head.

## Plot

Margaret reminisces of her past, wondering why people can't live without pure hearts. She had made friends with Peter, her debutante classmate, who liked tulips, but they quickly grew apart when Peter was assimilated into Douglas' Team. In private, Peter tells Margaret that he won't grow flowers anymore as they get in the way of his team activities. When Margaret attempted to participate in her team activities as well, Mirabelle and Isabelle rejected her, showing disgust to her clothes which had soil from the conservatory. They also rejected her desire to go the conservatory as they saw it as muddy and dirty to Margaret's misery. The twins eventually ignored Margaret in favor of currying favor with Susanna, leaving Margaret depressed. Back in the conservatory, Lyndsay attempted to befriend her, but Margaret rejected her out of fear of being betrayed again. Due to her past betrayals, Margaret adopts a pessimistic outlook on everything, even when she is no longer on the same team as the Belle twins. One night, Margaret attempts to cut Maggie's face in her sleep, to escape her despair, but quickly stops when the doll shows discomfort.

Her life began to take a better route when she met Patrick, who praised and accepted her flowers. She began to see him as her charming prince due to his kind and protective personality. Her jealousy began to grow when she found the evidence to prove Douglas team's role behind the hunt on the powerless, and gave it to Patrick. She had planned for Patrick to become a Star Bearer and lead the children to becoming more pure-hearted, except Kate became one instead. Reaching the conclusion that Patrick has become tainted by Kate like Peter, Margaret falls into despair. Giving off a massive amount of soot, she decides in her grief that everything must be destroyed to protect Patrick from his surroundings.

Back in the present, Margaret gifts Patrick with a daisy with her soot ivy. Patrick realizes the source of her despair and claims to be a fool, as soot forms a heart above his head.

## Characters

* Margaret
* Maggie (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Peter (Flashback)
* Pete (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Laurence (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Larry (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Douglas (Flashback)
* Doug (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* James (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Jim (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Isabelle (Flashback)
* Mirabelle (Flashback)
* Belle Twins (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Susanna (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Susie (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Lyndsay (Flashback)
* Lyndsay's Face (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Elizabeth (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Liz (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Patrick
* Ricky
* Kate (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)
* Emilico (Flashback)(Non-speaking Role)