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>>21164896
Higanbana is not that hard as a character. She's evil, so others don't have to. She's a good girl at the core, but sees that her duty is to test people, cull the evil, weak, and deluded. She makes the night darker in order to make the day lighter.

She cares very much for Marie, in large part because Marie is a sweet child with not an evil bone in her body. She just pretends not to care in order to tough her up and to not lose face. Don't look at what she says, look at what she does. Her overreaction to any harm done to Marie is a clear proof of that.

One Girl's Day is an important chapter if you want to understand Higanbana. She's very cruel in that chapter, but it serves only to further Yoko's passing. She put Yoko in the infirmary, but it only served to prove to her that the life of ghost is not a good thing. At the end she released Yoko's soul, even though she didn't need to.

If Yoko had been evil or defeatist on that day Higanbana would have eaten her soul without problem. But she passed with flying colors, so Higanbana didn't.

Higanbana is only a difficult character to understand because she says one thing and means another. Her entire mask is one of indiscriminate cruelty. Marie saw through that mask, and that's another reason why they're so close.