Jiangshi

These are corpses brought back to motion under Mika Adachi's command. Every one looks the same, with a shriveled, mummified face, hollow sunken eyes, a mouth sewn shut, no expression, and hair bound into a single long braid. Their outfits match too, patterned on traditional Chinese dress recalling Qing Dynasty officialdom: a wide-sleeved robe carrying a square chest panel, a flat-crowned hat, baggy trousers, and dark shoes. In a kung fu fight they often cry out, a habit shared by many who practice the style. The group draws on Chinese jiangshi lore, the hopping zombies whose limbs are locked by rigor mortis, leaving hopping as their sole way to move.

Through the Kozuka Knives Arc, the jiangshi turn up at the Juicy Gyoza Manufactory right as Seiko is heading out to track down the Uchide-no-Kozuchi. They boot Kashimoto and Payase aside and then pile onto Seiko all at once, but their numbers count for little against her martial arts and inventive use of the room, which pushes the Minotaur to intervene. Payase and Kashimoto soon repel both the corpses and the Minotaur with their curse powers, ultimately destroying the jiangshi through their spirit guardian and cursed form and driving Adachi to run.

The corpses appear again beside Adachi at school, hidden behind her by masking talismans. Inside Murakami's apartment, where he is paying Adachi to model an erotic outfit, she palms a talisman behind her back and lets the creatures loose, telling them to wait for his guard to slip. The scheme falls apart when a buzzing fly draws his eye and he catches sight of both the jiangshi and an enormous swarm steered without her knowledge by Koki. The insects swallow him up, after which Adachi pulls a kozuka knife and forces him to give in, just before he is wrenched through a window toward the Kami High gym.

The jiangshi work as a faceless, swappable unit instead of a cast of named individuals, every one of them devoted to Mika Adachi and fighting solely through kung fu. They move in step with Adachi's other helper, the Minotaur, during the raid on the gyoza manufactory.