The episode begins with a normal day, when after school Yuzuki and her classmates are cleaning the classroom. The "Hell Boys Club," however, use, the broomsticks to duel each other, throwing water at every direction and causing the dismay of the rest of the class. They are interrupted by a classmate of theirs who passes between them and stating that their game is dangerous. Yuzuki recognizes him as Yukawa, and thinks of how he has changed, since a few years ago he used to be extremely shy as a person. We also have a quick scene where Ichimokuren and Hone Onna discuss their roles as teacher and suggest to Wanyuudou that he try becoming a teacher.
After the opening we see what the situation was like a few years ago. Yukawa was getting bullied every day by three classmates of his, who were making him buy them items, as well as taking money directly from him. When asked for 30,000 yen, he protested that he did not have that much and was beaten badly. Still he did not try to defend himself. He even rejected the nurse's offer to inform his teacher of the situation. During winter we see him tied on a tree, without wearing any clothes and getting thrown snowballs by his bullies.
As one is about to shoot him in the face with a snowball and a rock hidden inside it a man in a fighting uniform steps between them and redirects the snowball to the bully's shoulder with a wooden sword's swing. The bullies attack him enraged but are quickly beaten and run off. The man unties Yukawa. Later when his savior asks him of if he has any relation with the famous fighter Yamato Takeru, Yukawa answers that his family forbids him of shaming that name. Nishida tells Yukawa that he's in the kendo club and that his dream is to become a prosecutor in the future, so he can fight criminalism.
Later in a restaurant, Nishida suggests that Yukawa starts kendo, but Yukawa answers negatively, explaining that he has gotten used to bullying and that this is how society works. After a few months in which Yukawa becomes friends with Nishida, he watches Nishida winning matches in duels. Impressed he congratulates Nishida, and through their talk Nishida manages to convince Yukawa to start training with him. The training goes well.
Back at home Yukawa's family is impressed and happy with the change, and the rest of the family members even suggest that they should somehow thanks Nishida for the change in Yukawa. After that we go to the present, when Yukawa is a lot more popular than he was and the bullies get out of his way. After a usual meeting between the nurse and Yuzuki, the nurse asks Yuzuki how Yukawa has been doing lately. The fact that Yukawa was being bullied accidentally slips through the nurse's mouth. Yuzuki leaves troubled.
In the bus where Nishida and Yukawa sit next to each other Nishida has stress for the exam but Yukawa manages to relieve him of it. The bus driver instantly presses the break as he is about to hit a young girl riding her bike. Kikuri asks a nearby driver to wind her up and then leaves. Weather or not Kikuri being there was accidental is unknown. A passenger on the bus gets up from his sit. His looks is offensive and he seems dangerous. When another passenger complains about getting hit in the head the first passenger threatens him with a knife. For the rest of the ride he keeps cutting hair from the unlucky man with the rest of the passengers trembling. Enraged Yukawa gets up but a look from the armed man is enough to make him sit down again. As Yukawa looks next to him he sees Nishida shaking in fear.
In the bus the armed man forces the driver to pass a stop where Yuzuki and Akie were waiting. Akie bursts into a comical crying. In the bus the armed man has made the unlucky passengers hair round-cut, and the passenger is forced to thank him for that. In the stop the armed man needed he gets off the bus forcing the unlucky passenger to follow him. The rest of the passengers are terrified and the bus driver is relieved that the bully-passenger has left.
Nishida lies to Yukawa that he didn't act to such obvious criminalism because Yukawa was there, but Yukawa sees through it and is enraged. Nishida runs away. Yukawa contacts Hell Correspondence and is given Ichimokuren's doll. Yuzuki sees the whole procedure via a vision. Immediately after Yukawa pulls the string. Once again Yuzuki loses control of her body and Ai takes over.
In the foretelling of his punishment, Nishida is forced by Ai's assistants to keep hitting a Kong. The whole process requires a lot of muscles and is tiring. Nishida begs for another chance but Ai appears. We next see Ishida in the boat that sends him to hell, crying because he was the only one from the passengers that were punished. A few days later Yukawa stopped kendo and is getting bullied again. He answers the nurse's question on why he stopped that even if he changed a little, nothing in society would change, and even smiles at that statement. The hell-bound tattoo has appeared on his chest, and by his smile, it is clear that he is happy with Nishida being sent to hell.
This episode contains examples of:
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Nishida begs Ai's lackeys for a second chance at life to redeem himself during his torture sequence, but it falls on deaf ears.
- Ambiguously Gay: Yukawa. For all his blushing and Ship Tease with Nishida, it's unclear if his feelings for him are romantic or just strong admiration.
- Broken Pedestal: After the incident on the bus where Nishida fails to do anything to help an innocent man being assaulted by a thug, Yukawa's image of him as an epitome of justice and manliness is shattered. His inaction is enough to make Yukawa send him to Hell.
- The Bully: Yukawa was bullied by three older students in the episode's flashbacks. It ends up being one of the most horrific cases of school bullying in the series, as they strip him down nude in the snow, ties him to a tree, and hurl snowballs at his naked body. One of his bullies attempts to throw a snowball with a rock in it at his head, but Yukawa is rescued by Nishida just in time.
- Bystander Syndrome: While clearly perturbed by what's happening, the passengers on the bus Nishida and Yukawa were riding on avert their eyes as a thug brutally assaults and cuts off the hair of an innocent man with a knife. Even the bus driver continues driving as if nothing is happening for fear of drawing attention to himself. Yukawa is the only one to stand up to try and do anything but quickly sits down when the thug turns his attention to him. He then looks over at Nishida, possibly the only one on the bus capable of doing anything to help, but finds that he's as fear-stricken as the rest of the passengers, if not more so. After the bus stops to let the thug off, he picks up the man and drags him off the bus with him, threatening to cut his throat next. None of the passengers so much as phone the authorities, and the bus driver drives off, leaving the man to an uncertain fate while sighing in relief.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Yukawa sends Nishida to Hell for his inaction in saving the man on the bus, despite the fact that everyone that was present, including himself, failed to do anything.
- Downer Ending: Nishida is condemned to Hell by Yukawa for failing to stand up for the man on the bus and Nishida willing undoes all of his Character Development, reverting back to the shy, bullied boy he was before befriending Nishida.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Nishida after Yukawa pulls the thread on the straw doll.
- Face Framed in Shadow: One of the methods used to hide the nurse's face for the majority of the episode.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: A major plot point in this episode. Yukawa goes from a frumpy-looking, bullied boy to a handsome guy that is respected by his peers after training with Nishida.
- Karma Houdini: Downplayed. Yukawa gets his comeuppance in the form of reverting back to the person he was before befriending Nishida, bullying and all, but he does this of his own volition, as he believes that even if he does change, society at large, where people stand idly by as others are picked on, will remain the same.
- Manly Tears: Nishida cries as he's being ferried to Hell.
- Never My Fault: Downplayed. Nishida acknowledges that his inaction was wrong, but he doesn't take full responsibility and says that everyone else on the bus was the same in their failure to save the man.
- Sanity Slippage: Implied by Yukawa's Slasher Smile at the end of the episode.
- Ship Sinking: After Nishida reveals himself to be a coward, Yukawa sends him to Hell with virtually no hesitation, rendering the Ship Tease between them moot.
- Ship Tease: Between Nishida and Yukawa. From their first onscreen interaction, it's implied that Yukawa has feelings for Nishida, and they have a moment while laying on the ground that's framed like a kiss. It doesn't last, as Yukawa sends Nishida to Hell before the end of the episode.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: After stopping in front of the bus Yukawa and Nishida are on, Yukuri asks someone to wind her up. A random bystander that just happened to be riding by on his electric scooter obliges without questioning it and doesn't look too fazed when she speeds away.
