That’s right~! [Not that he’s offering the specifics of his time before becoming a ghost but…] Apparitions are influenced by their rumors, see? Mine was… ‘Hanako-San of the Toilet: in exchange for something precious to you, she will grant you whatever you desire’… so really the students were responsible for that!

[Were they though, really? He seems to think so. And yet there’s also evidence that suggests otherwise… but Hanako only knows what he knows. Other than that, nothing else had shaped his rumor in a long time.]