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Originally Posted by unsuspectingvisitor

Spoiler for Chapter 1:

After reading chapter one, I have a nagging feeling that Marie was still alive. I don't know how she survived or any evidence what so ever. But seeing that the teacher manage to strangle her again after he killed her made me doubt that she's dead. I mean it's impossible to strangle a spirit right?

Spoiler for cha1:

As I've come to understand it, it was meant to represent a more "abstract" fight, to see who would become Mesomeso-san. I don't think we should take the second time strangling at face value - after all, Marie basically crushes all his bones after that, and that shouldn't be possible either.