Garden of Sinners
1995
March
• Mikiya meets Shiki for the first time on a snowy night.
April
• Shiki enters high school and gets acquainted with Mikiya.
• Shiki duels with her father, using real katanas. It was tradition for a samurai household to fight with the master using real blades at the beginning of every month. Her servant Akitaka, remarks that Shiki is the real successor of the family over her male brother.
• Something like this is unusual as the male is the successor in traditional Japanese families. In Shiki's case she was chosen as the heir to the Ryougi's because she had inherited the bloodline strength while her brother did not.
• What she inherited was the multiple personality disorder of the Ryougi's. She had a dormant male personality within her self who was also her complete opposite.
• Shiki couldn't control him any longer so she began to have thoughts of killing the innocent.
September
• Murders begin to occur in the city. The most likely suspect is Shiki solely because; she often walked alone at night. Also because she was spotted at a crime scene. The police decided to question the Ryougi family about this.
• However the Ryougi household complained and then told them to leave. In the end they didn't get very far, and they still didn't have any leads to a suspect.
• Mikiya, couldn't bring himself to believe that Shiki was the murderer.
1996
February: Murder speculation Part I
• Mikiya went to go visit Shiki for various nights. His objective was to create an alibi for Shiki as she was still under heavy suspicion. He didn’t want her to find out in the process as she would have probably taken it wrong way.
• One night Shiki discovers Mikiya hiding in a forest near her house. She attempted to murder Mikiya on sight, however she couldn't bring herself to do it.
• Shiki tried to run away from him, but she got herself in a car accident instead.
• Shiki spent the next two years recovering in a coma.
• Mikiya visited her very frequently, leaving rose bouquets in the process. Time passes and Mikiya graduates from high school. He then meets Touko Aozaki in a doll exhibition, who hires him for a job.
1998
June: Void Shrine
• Shiki awakens. Shiki's male half sacrificed himself in order to keep her dominant soul alive. She finds Mikiya's 'recover soon' note along with a bouquet of roses. However, at this moment Shiki does not recall Mikiya's name. As she looks at the bouquet, she sees cracks running through the roses and right at the moment she touches those cracks, the roses begin to whither and shatter. While being treated by the medical staff, who are unaware of Shiki's new ability, Shiki is able to see the cracks on them and on herself and visions appear where people and even herself are being sliced through those cracks. She was confused and frightened, so she injures her own eyes.
• Mikiya is told Shiki has regained consciousness but visitors other than family members will not be allowed to see her. Touko, disguised as a therapist, visits Shiki, who has both of her eyes bandaged due to her self-inflicted injury. Touko introduces herself as a sorcerer and points out that Shiki's feelings of loneliness and hollowed heart can only be cured by the care of other people. Touko tells Mikiya that Shiki is okay, but he should not visit her yet.
• Touko comes back the next day and tells Shiki that her slight memory loss was due to her male personality's sacrifice. She wouldn't be able to recall her involvement in the murders of 1995.
• Shiki, still having her eyes bandaged, is told by the medical staff she has recovered and can go back home, but she refuses as she is deeply frightened by the world full of cracks she sees with her eyes. Later in the night she tries to stab her eyes with her fingers but is stopped by Touko, who speaks with Shiki about the 'Mystic Eyes of Death Perception'. Touko tells Shiki she can teach her more about her new ability, which allows Shiki to 'perceive' and also 'touch' the 'death' of things. Shiki feels that is unnecessary as she does not feel the desire to live. Touko points out that Shiki does not want to live but she is also scared to die and something like that would be wasteful.
• Shiki's despair causes surrounding ghosts to become aggressive. Touko tries to use her ignition sorcery on the spirits, but she isn't successful. Shiki decides to pull off her bandages and Touko gives her a knife to fight with. Shiki cuts her hair and uses the knife along with her 'Mystic Eyes of Death Perception' to slice the ghost.
• Shiki erases the spirits and Touko offers to teach Shiki how to use her mystic eyes. In exchange, Touko asks Shiki to work for her as a mercenary for Void Shrine.
September 1998: Overlooking View:.... Thanatos
Suicides begin to occur at the Fujiou Building. It's an old and abandoned but young girls have been jumping off of it. At least 7 of them have committed suicide within the last week. While the police were investigating, they found nothing wrong with all the victim's lives before they passed away. They real question was why would they commit suicide without a reason? Shiki decides to go and investigate the Fujiou building. If the victim had no reason to commit suicide, then there must have been a disturbance in the area which caused them to fall. It turns out that the Fujiou building had been inhabited by ghosts. When Shiki reached the top of it she found the mastermind Kirie Fujiou: a ghost. Shiki goes back to Void Shrine to report what she saw at the building. She came out injured with a broken arm due to the spirits attacking her on the way back.
Touko creates her a new arm that allows her to grab spirits, it was needed in this situation. If Shiki decided to go back, she could finish her job without any problem. The next night Shiki goes back to the haunted building. She successfully slays Kirie Fujiou and the suicides stop occurring.
November: Spiral Paradox
• In the middle of the night, Tomoe Enjou stabs his parents to death in a fit of rage, before escaping his apartment in a panic. Sometime later, Shiki helps fend off some school bullies that were attacking Tomoe. Seemingly taken by Shiki's presence, he quickly asks her to help hide him, ecstatically claiming that he is a murderer. Shiki agrees, and simply cites she “is the same as him” when he is surprised by her easy acceptance of his status.
• For the next month, Tomoe stays at Shiki's place, their life punctuated with Shiki's nightly sojourns, and Tomoe waiting for the news report of his parents' murder. During this time, Tomoe notices a strange man in a red hat and coat following Shiki. Tomoe warns her of this fact, which she idly dismisses. When they get into an argument over this, Tomoe claims he loves her, and as he lacks any worth, he'd be willing to die for her. Shiki refuses the offer, and asks him to consider where he feels his real home is. Tomoe feels then that he cannot hide any longer with Shiki, and leaves.
• Tomoe is shocked to see his mother still alive.He was confused so he returns to Shiki. To confirm Tomoe's murder, Shiki accompanies him in returning to his residence at Ogawa apartment: an ominous, circular complex colored red, which was completed recently.
• When they enter the elevator, Shiki notices they are ascending in a spiral. Reaching the 4th floor, Shiki insists on not ringing the doorbell, and simply entering Tomoe's home. Inside, they are met with Tomoe's abusive family, even another Tomoe, and watch the family's final moments as Tomoe's mother succumbs to murder-suicide. Shiki explains that these are simply imitation puppets that are revived in the morning and are forced to relive their final day alive repeatedly. Because Tomoe did not ring the doorbell, they continued to act as if they had no visitor.
• Shiki then brings Tomoe to the opposite side of the apartment, his “real home”. She explains that when elevator began operating, due to the construction of the complex, none of the residents realized the rotating elevator made them exit 180 degrees, into another set of flats. When they enter Tomoe's original residence, they find the rotted corpses of the parents. This side of the apartment is used to store corpses. However, this intrusion also causes the undead puppets of the other deceased apartment residents to attack them when they exit. Shiki easily cuts them down, but afterwards she is confronted by Araya Souren.
• Souren explains that he controls the apartment, as part of an experiment that uses the building to simulate a “miniature world that concludes in a day”. After driving all the occupants to kill one another, he has been making them repeat their deaths over the past half year, hoping for a deviation in their deaths.
• Shiki's mystic eyes are unable to perceive lines on Souren's body, due to his great age. She soon gets defeated by him and gets absorbed into his closed space.
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• Touko asks Mikiya to investigate the Ogawa complex as the police are finding disturbances around it and couldn't find the cause though a normal investigation.
• Mikiya complies to her request and gathers up the necessary information needed to investigate.
• Mikiya is also given a katana by Shiki's family to deliver to her.
• Touko and Mikiya begin to search though the complex. They frequently got lost, despite Touko creating some of the floor plans. After figuring out the complex works Mikiya went to Shiki's place.
• He's shocked to find Tomoe there and Shiki missing. They decide to team up to save Shiki from Araya after Tomoe explains his situation to Mikiya.
• They agree to split up; Mikiya would be bait while Tomoe delivered the katana to Shiki.
• Tomoe distracted Araya during their fight, allowing Shiki to destroy his closed off space while he wasn't looking. Araya kills Tomoe. He passed away without any regrets because he managed to save Shiki like he wanted to. He left Kasaneda Kuji in a spot where Shiki could access it.
• Shiki completely crushes the whole apartment complex once she regained possession of the katana.
• The chapter ends in Araya's defeat as the building fell along with his body and he was later stabbed by Shiki to confirm his death.
• She decides to go home after completing her task and I'm going to take her from here assuming she fell asleep.