Chapter 1

**Chapter 1** is the first chapter of the Suicide Girl manga and the first chapter of Volume 1.

## Summary

Kirari Aokigahara introduces herself as a high school student and is shown to be running late for an important appointment. She races out of her house to the "Seaside Cafe", where she is met with three extremely downbeat people with dead expressions. She proclaims that's shes glad she made it on time and shows the establishment's website “The Suicide Cafe”. She and the three other customers are greeted by the Manager, an older man that explains that he will help them commit suicide. To free himself from the legal burden of assisting suicide, he asks them for their wills - the other customers curse the people in their lives and express their desire to die, but Kirari jumps up from her chair and says that being here was her dream, and she has no other final wishes.

With the wills set, he takes the customers to the back, where there's a sealed van with a charcoal briquette. Inside, they all take a pill and the Manager sets off the briquette, wishing them farewell. Within a second, all the customers are unconscious due to carbon monoxide inhalation; here, Kirari’s phone falls out of her hand, revealing a picture of her with a man her age. Kirari has a dream of a high school girl standing at the edge of a train track, where she violently shakes her head and jumps in front of a train, where the image of a seven-pointed star flashes for a moment.

Kirari wakens in the van, and she eagerly steps outside, initially thinking she's in heaven. However, she is brutally disappointed when she sees the other three customers thanking the manager, now claiming that after they fell unconscious, the idea of suicide “seemed very silly”. After they leave, Kirari approaches the manager and accuses him of being a sham, wondering why the smoke didn't kill them - to which he replies it simply didn’t work on her. Kirari, disappointed, leaves to kill herself at home. As she leaves, the Manager mutters that he's “found one”.

At home, Kirari tries to hang herself with a belt, but even after several minutes of it squeezing her carotid, she feels fine. Confused and impatient, Kirari attempts to stab herself in the neck with a kitchen knife, but the knife shatters as it touches her skin. Starting to panic, she tries to set herself on fire with her stove, but the flames move away from her. Finally, she decides to jump off the roof of her apartment building, but several feet before hitting the floor, she stops midair and is laid down safely.

Suddenly, the Manager appears, and congratulates her for being chosen out of the thousands of suicide volunteers and can no longer die on her own. He tells her this is her chance; he mentions the dream she had was a vision, and that the girl in it will commit suicide if Kirari doesn't do anything about it- saving that girl is her new mission. He then leaves.

Kirari initially wonders how she's supposed to find this girl, before she conveniently passes by her on a bike. Kirari asks if she's thinking about killing herself, which scares and drives her off. Kirari chases the girl to school and eventually to the train station, where she tells the girl that throwing herself in front of a train is a bad way to commit suicide, explaining the repercussions of how several people will be traumatized and her family will be forced to pay for damages, so she should think of a better way to kill herself- to which the girl replies that Kirari is weird and just wants to change how people kill themselves instead of stopping them.

The two girls sit on a bench, where the student says how much pressure she feels in her life and that her mom doesn't love her, and that it would be better to just die instead of putting up with her mother's expectations. Kirari says that her mother does love her, and she loves her mom, even if it's hard to see at times; she tells her that if she's going to die anyway, she might as well talk to her mom first to see how it goes. The student agrees and says she’ll look for a better way to die.

Kirari starts walking away wondering if she can kill herself now, but suddenly, the girl starts shaking her head, and before anyone can take a step, she's jumped in front of an oncoming train. Kirari falls to the ground, confused as to why this happened. Looking into the crowd, she sees a strange woman no one else seems to acknowledge. As she turns to face Kirari, she appears to be an eyeless corpse with her mouth stitched shut, and on her right palm is the symbol of a seven pointed-star.

## Characters

* Kirari Aokigahara (first appearance)
* Mr. Manager (first appearance)
* Phobia (first appearance)
* Taiyou (first appearance) (flashback)

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