Remake Sacchin has a part-time job at a family restaurant and Shiki visits her sometimes
About Mario's brother, based on what Ciel described he is a whole lot different from Mario. The guy once told Ciel to go easy on his younger brothers if she ever met them because despite their bitter personality on the outside, they're actually immature and righteous at heart.
Day 8: Reverse Hatching II
Shiki wakes up, feeling worse than the day before. Hisui greets him. She tells him she knows he went out last night, but offers to keep the doors to the mansion open. She comments he looks worse than before. Shiki says it's the usual. As Hisui leaves he cleans his face. The person in the mirror doesn't look familiar.
Shiki talks to Akiha, who is a bit curious about Arihiko. The two talk for a bit, but one of Akiha's words stick out to Shiki. "What does he want to do". He thinks about Ciel and Arcueid.
When Shiki arrives at school, he founds Ciel talking to Arihiko in his classroom. Ciel's mood sinks when she sees him. Arihiko offers to teach Ciel one of Shiki's weakpoints if she'd forgive Shiki. Apparently, Shiki gets really upset when doing shiritori, to the point of tears. Ciel's mood gets better. Classes start and she leaves.
During class, Shiki feels some strange flashes in his head. He thinks he's fine, but collapses. He has a strange dream. The corpse of Arcueid is there. His mind reduces him to an insect, looking up among the pieces of gore. A voice tells him that no matter the circumstances, he's still a murderer.
When Shiki wakes up, he's in the infirmary. Noel and Ciel are talking about Dead Apostle's outside the curtain of his bed. They think Shiki's condition is severe. He tells them he can hear them, assuring them he's fine. Noel proposes that Shiki help out fighting the vampires to Ciel.
Ciel bluntly refuses, then leaves the room. Noel stays behind to rest, while Shiki goes back to classes. At lunch break, Shiki spots Ciel about to leave school. He decides to head after her, but her speed makes it difficult. He runs all the way to the station before losing her.
Ciel pops up at his side, wondering what he's up to. Shiki says he just wanted to follow her, because he's interested in her, not in her work as an Executor. Ciel accepts for him to follow her. She's going to investigate one of the lairs.
The two take the train 2 stations to an abandoned hospital and start looking around. Ciel tells Shiki a horror story. "What if you woke up one day, and realized you were the villain, and suddenly had killed all of the protagonists." When Shiki tells her to stop scaring him, Ciel says its just from a movie.
The search yields no results, the lair has been long abandoned. The two start heading back. On the way, Ciel notices his hunger, since he skipped lunch. She brings him to an indian curry shop. The two share a curry together.
Ciel asks Shiki why he's so insistent on the vampire case to which he says its because of her. Ciel asks about why he can kill vampires again, to which Shiki finally reveals his eyes. When he reveals how he got them, Ciel is stunned, suddenly remembering something she has to do, and trying to leave.
Before though, she makes Shiki promise to not go out and fight vampires alone again. Shiki in return, asks if vampires can get colds which Ciel denies.
Shiki returns to the mansion, talks a little with Akiha, before pretending to sleep. He slips out and meets with Arcueid at the park. The two search for a bit but find nothing. They return to the park. Shiki looks at Arcueid and realizes that while he feels affection for Ciel, he feels infatuation with Arcueid.
Shiki asks about her sneeze the other day; it wasn't a cold, right? Arcueid admits that it's because she's become more human-like, for him. Shiki lets slip that its just like Ciel told him, and Arcueid freezes up. She tells Shiki not to involve himself with "that woman". She asks of Shiki to choose, who is his ally, Ciel or Arcueid? If he gets too close to Ciel, she'll kill him.
Shiki eventually answers that though he really does care a lot about Ciel, there's something about Arcueid that is many times more harder to just ignore. Arcueid is overjoyed, and leaves in excitement, telling Shiki to meet her again the next day.
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Noel has gathered 14 vampires in a storehouse with the false promise of salvation. She begins slaughtering them with glee, and they're unable to escape due to a holy barrier. The last survivor asks why she's so cruel to massacre such weaklings as them. She says the weak can only fight things weaker than them, and she's weak.
As she leaves the scene Mario confronts her. He tells her Ciel has given up Noel to him. He intends to have her sent to a convent, where she'll be investigated. Noel protests, in her head panicking. Anything but an investigation. Mario leaves and Noel throws a fit in frustration, she still hasn't gotten her revenge. A deep buried instinct tells her she need to kill more vampires, its the only way God would save her.
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Shiki gets home, and sneaks into his room. Once again, he's unable to sleep, getting up to read a book.
It is a story about a girl. She was born in 1989 to a normal family. She had abnormal violent urges, but always kept them in check. It became too much to bear, so she shut herself into her room. One day, she emerged, killing her parents.
In her was another 'self'. His last reincarnation had been hasty, not able to abide by his usual priority of 'good connections'. But this randomly selected body was beyond good. It's magical circuits were greater than anything he'd had before. He understood the error of his ways, this is what he had ought to have been prioritizing from the start.
She gradually infected her city, holding in the urges of her 'self' as much as she could. Before long it became time. her 'self' began the Sixth Ritual, inviting other beings of death with her. The Princess appeared, killing her. Her 'self' left to his next reincarnation. While her body was entrusted to the papacy.
Last edited by Petrikow; September 1st, 2021 at 12:10 PM.
Cute.She asks of Shiki to choose, who is his ally, Ciel or Arcueid? If he gets close to her, she'll kill him.
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Noel's very hopeless, isn't she?
Originally Posted by Arashi_Leonhart
The Sixth Ritual \o/
don't quote me on this
That one remark from Noel kinda gives me Amari's vibe.
Lol interesting.. I don't remember Arcueid being this hateful towards Ciel in the past.She tells Shiki not to involve himself with "that woman". She asks of Shiki to choose, who is his ally, Ciel or Arcueid? If he gets too close to Ciel, she'll kill him.
It's all to set up Arc as the final antagonist of the Ciel route, isn't it?
I don't remember this being different in the old Tsukihime tho.
That's true... I remember her bursting into rage near the ending or climax of Ciel's route but have no memory her being so hostile this early in the story. I might go back and refresh myself on Ciel's route again in original Tsukihime.
Also, does Roa's new backstory make him way less of a pathetic yandere towards Arcueid? It seems like it to me. Arc seems to have simply been a means to an end this time, and Tsuki Roa seems more personality-wise like Fate Roa. Unless he actually wasn't that much of a pathetic yandere in the original.
Reading this again got me thinking; This means some DAAs, including Vlov should've recognized Ciel from that Ritual.
Noel descend is a story worthy of kirei mind, still my favourite new character I realied she is technically a lancer....you cant help it. Happy she just came to melty
Having actual clothes would help Ciel to retain some anonymity.
Day 9: Bow of the Skies I
Shiki wakes, feeling terrible. He tries to remember the book he read last night, but can't. Hisui greets him, recommending he stay home for the day, but Shiki declines. He washes his face, and notices the mirror is gone. Hisui apologizes, not having been able to replace it yet.
At breakfast, none of the food has any taste. Kohaku desperately prepares more food, but none of it works for Shiki. He's about to be late, and heads out. Hisui, when sending him off, notes he forgot to wear his glasses. Shiki puts them on and leaves.
When Shiki gets to school he sees Ciel when climbing the stairs. He instinctively tries to sneak up on her, but gets dodged when trying to close up on her. Ciel is surprised, but forgives him. She says she has something to talk to him about, asking for him to visit her in the Tea Ceremony club room at lunch.
In his classroom, Arihiko tells him that today they'll have a vaccination; for a recent infection that has been going around. In addition, Noel is absent, so the students have nothing to do.
When the time comes, Shiki enters the infirmary and notices that Dr. Arach is the one administering the vaccines. Arach is happy to see him, teasing him incessantly. She asks if he'd want a vaccine that hurts and has little effect, or one that doesn't hurt and has a great effect.
Taking the other injection (leads to a bad end on day 11)
Faced with such an obvious choice Shiki does not hesitate, and goes for the one that doesn't hurt and is effective. As he leaves, Arach tells him that his easy days should be soon over.
At lunch break, Shiki visits Ciel. When he enters the room, a pilebunker sits next to Ciel. She explains its specs, and says it made for punishing sinners, such as liars who break their promises. Shiki reads the mood and realizes Ciel knows he has been out at night with Arcueid.
Shiki says he's sorry about the promise, but Ciel understands Shiki still intends to go out at night with Arcueid. Shiki wonders how she knew, to which she says Noel saw him, not her. Shiki then asks why Noel is absent, but Ciel doesn't know.
Ciel starts to talk about Arcueid's enemy; Roa, the vampire responsible for the city's troubles. She explains the way his reincarnation works, how he chooses his next form, how his soul infects another and becomes a part of them, turning them into a vampire.
Ciel further tries to explain why Arcueid is dangerous, how the True Ancestors work, their connection to the planet and their Bloodsucking Impulse. They and humans weren't meant to get along, rather, they were created as enemies. The subject makes Shiki's head hurt, a voice inside of him further elaborates upon Ciel's claims about the True Ancestors being enemies of humanity.
With all explained, Ciel expects Shiki to break his relations with Arcueid, but he refuses. Eventually Shiki gets so mad, he starts yelling at Ciel, about how she doesn't know the real Arcueid. Ciel yells back at him, equally furious. Eventually, their tension comes to a head, and Shiki runs out of the clubroom in a fit.
Shiki gets back to Arihiko in the classroom, handing him his spare curry bread. Classes end, and Shiki unexpectedly gets a message from Noel, asking him to meet her in an abandoned part of the city. When Shiki arrives, Noel's voice is as cheerful as usual, but when he enters, he stumbles upon a gruesome sight.
Noel has bound two vampires, the ones that tricked Shiki and her into Vlov's lair, onto a pair of chairs, their feet stapled to the ground with Black Keys, a holy barrier keeping them restrained as well. The two desperately beg for their lives, but Noel is unrelenting. She tells Shiki that as one of their victim's, he has a right to see them die.
Noel starts to brutally dismember one of them with a jigsaw, eventually stuffing the pieces into a box for disposal. She looks over to Shiki, and hands over the jigsaw. It is now his turn. Shiki hesitates.
Follow Noel's example (leads to a bad end on day 13)
Shiki refuses, and so Noel snaps at him. Is he going to forgive these vampires, just because they're a bit human-like? She says she'll do it herself, and in a rage starts to dismember the last vampire, even more brutally than before. Vampires are less than cockroaches. Anyone who becomes a vampire should just beg forgiveness and let themselves be killed, right, Shiki? She finally calms down, saying she did not intend to scare him so much.
The two leave the place behind. As they're leaving the scene, Noel tells Shiki about Ciel. Ciel became an executor at the age of 13. A genius, whose only purpose in life was killing vampires. She became a part of the Burial Agency; a special agency with only 7 members. She relates a tale of how Ciel hid for 1 year in a sewer, just to kill a single vampire. She calls Ciel a monster, who has a body more immortal than any vampire.
She explains she herself is different, only after several years of training was she accepted as an Executor, and paired with Ciel mostly because of their shared birthplace. She explains how Ciel used her suggestion magecraft to trick Shiki and everyone at school. Ciel is not the good person Shiki knows, she says. She asks of him to be quiet about their meeting to Ciel, and leaves.
Shiki returns to the mansion. He lies in bed, thinking about Ciel and Arcueid, and their mutual hatred. Shiki leaves the mansion to meet with Arcueid, but on the way, he finds Ciel standing on the road. She asks if he still going to meet Arcueid, which he affirms. When Shiki tries to leave, Ciel starts to follow him.
Eventually, Shiki starts running, trying to throw her off, but it doesn't work. He turns around and asks why she's following him, but she denies it; she's just going the same direction as him. Ciel further tries to persuade him to not go, but Shiki refuses, asking her to stop following him.
The two arrive at the park, and a furious Arcueid immediately confronts Ciel. Ciel says she has no business with Arcueid, she's just there to make sure the 'general populace' is not harmed. Shiki tries to butt into their arguing, but is shot down. Ciel eventually asks why Arcueid insists on Shiki's help; it's not like she needs it.
Arcueid says that since Shiki cares for Ciel, maybe she'll consider letting her go. Shiki is her destined partner. She wants all of him for herself. Ciel suspects she's lost to her Impulse, but Arcueid denies it. Arcueid bites her finger, a single drop of blood turning into a sanguine carpet in the park. She charges at Ciel.
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Ciel tries to devise a plan to overcome the situation. All she needs to do is restrain Arcueid enough to take Shiki with her and run. She rains down Black Keys upon her enemy, but they are easily deflected. But injuring Arcueid is not her goal. She uses them to activate a barrier.
She further adds on more Black Keys, using Magecraft to make a stronger barrier, called Tower Ring, a technique developed specifically for use against Arcueid only. She prepares her next blow, she's going to use the same barrier she used against Vlov, and compress it down upon Arcueid. She calls out: "Idea Blood Nr. 22 Chromcray Petastructure!". But before it can activate, Arcueid breaks out, asking Ciel to take her seriously.
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Shiki watches the two fight. Ciel is at a disadvantage, being continuously mauled by Arcueid's claws, but fighting on. Ciel is thrown onto the ground, prompting Shiki to get between them, asking Arcueid to stop. Arcueid threatens to kill him if he doesn't stop covering for Ciel. Arcueid says he might have killed her once, but it's not happening again. Shiki's instincts tell him the same thing.
Shiki realizes he has to solve it with words, and yells at Arcueid that he'll stop liking her if she continues. To Ciel's shock, this works. Ciel tells Shiki to stand back, and the two start to bicker about who is protecting who. Arcueid looks on, becoming miffed at being ignored. She calls Shiki a dummy and jumps off, warning him not to get his blood sucked by Ciel.
Ciel looks up at the sky in disbelief. The two start to talk about their behavior the last day, apologizing to each other. Shiki asks if Ciel is alright, wondering about Arcueid's last statement. Ciel's face turns dark, her voice takes a low tone. She starts coldly scolding Shiki for trying to "save" her. She'd rather die than be saved by him.
Shiki doesn't understand; "rather die"? Ciel takes out a Black Key and cuts her throat open. A stream of blood rushes out, but then reserves direction, with the wound returning to the same as before. She tells him she doesn't regret their relationship until now, but bids him farewell.
Shiki heads home. His headache is getting worse, much worse. He falls into bed, sleeping coming to him quickly. He sees a dream. A man talks about his past. His current 'self' is too weak. He drowns himself in research, not about how to save his body, but how to "inherit" it.
Though immortal, vampires have a fault. They cannot birth offspring. Their kin are meant to be nothing more than servants, they don't inherit any genetic information. He decides on his theme. The curse which the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors bear, he's going to develop a way of "inheriting" it.
As he dies, he glimpses upon eternity and ponders on his existence. He sought "completeness", something said to be only allowed to God. But he disagrees, "completeness" is not something which is, it is somewhere to reach. That is the purpose of humanity.
Last edited by Petrikow; October 15th, 2021 at 07:25 AM.
Wait, wait, wait, is Shiki becoming Roa's host now? It kinda seems like it.
Well.
Yes.
At lunch break, Shiki visits Ciel. When he enters the room, a pilebunker sits next to Ciel. She explains its specs, and says it made for punishing sinners, such as liars who break their promises. Shiki reads the mood and realizes Ciel knows he has been out at night with Arcueid.Cute.Shiki is her destined partner. She wants all of him for herself.
RIP Mirror-kun. Seems like these next few segments will be unpleasant to read.
This is so Nasu. If you were to gather all the characters that have had said things similar to this, you'd need a large hall.As he dies, he glimpses upon eternity and ponders on his existence. He sought "completeness", something said to be only allowed to God. But he disagrees, "completeness" is not something which is, it is somewhere to reach. That is the purpose of humanity.
don't quote me on this
So did Roa inventSpoiler:
Pretty sure he's talking about reincarnation.
don't quote me on this
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