alright, after reading chapter 10 I have a great theory: I think the author is trying to combine the story of Otsuyu and Kasane since both stories are written by the same author and was published rather close to each other.
I'm assuming the ghost that's haunting our dear Ryou-chan is in fact, the servant of Otsuyu, and she is Kasane herself. Which explains why she's so powerful but she's not Otsuyu.
That's just my theory though, I could be completely wrong lol
I liked this idea. Specially since on the chapter's cover the creepy-looking servant holding the peony lantern and hunching seems like a pretty menacing figure. And no, it's not supposed to be Ryou and Okiku cosplaying as them (i thought that was the case before seeing Otsuyu is now a gyaru), but checking the second panel here with Otsuyu and the "cover"* side to side, it's the same face and expression, so the art is, in fact, showing us the actual characters of the story and portraying the servant as a mysterious, faceless and BLACK-HAIRED figure. The black hair matches the vision we see of the ghost confronting Ryou and the creepy ghost we've been seeing up to chapter 9.
*It's an actual artwork, and the servant does have a face (it's not a skeleton or anything), so putting a shadow over it was a deliberate choice.
Completely unrelated but Oiwa just straight-up made BL fanart of the MCs. A true chad.
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