OOC: History and point taken from in canon
History:
Up until her third year of high school, Shiina lived the life of an average teenager. (It was sometime in 2000s, though the actual year is never outright stated.) She studied for exams, hung out with friends and crushed on boys-one boy in particular, Shou Hazama. He was sort of the school idol; a class clown but at the same time extremely cool. Shiina wasn’t afraid of talking to him, but like any girl she feared rejection from her first love so she kept her mouth shut on the matter. Then, a miracle happened-Shou Hazama was rejected by a girl he confessed to and Shiina saw it as a chance to strike.
While he was dejected she gave him some advice; “…why don’t you get your ear pierced? You know they say if you do, your fate’ll change.” The truth was she planned to be the one changing his fate, thinking she would confess to him the day they went to get his piercing done… but that wasn’t to be. The night before her plan could be put into motion she heard her parents talking about their financial issues. She realized quickly that it wasn’t just a matter of falling into a slump. Her father’s business was denied crucial loans from banks. They weren’t just in debt, they were likely to be bankrupt and lose everything. And it was at that moment that Shiina realized she could help her parents, but at a terrible price. She would have to become a prostitute; the only job she knew would guarantee her good money fast. It was a hard choice to make, but one she felt was necessary.
The day she had planned to meet up with Shou to confess became the day she would say goodbye. She didn’t want to leave on a cheerless note, so she kept her troubles and plans a secret. She had only one last wish before she left, and that was to have her first kiss with someone she liked. Without pride or fear to hold her back, she caught Shou by surprise and quickly gave him a kiss before running away. She fully expected to never see him again. Her story should have ended there but fate had other plans.
That night she found herself working for an escort club called Shangri-La and the clientele that night was a group of high-ranking corporate officials along with the retired vice-minister of Finance, Counselor Shozou Iwasaki. Working for this particular group of men would certainly gain her the money she needed to pull her family out of trouble, but in her mind she was screaming and begging for someone to come save her. And that someone did.
A masked man appeared wielding both a gun and an axe approached the table of Iwasaki, distracting him long enough for Shiina to escape his grasp. She continued to watch from a few yards away, unable to look away even if she wished. She recognized the voice and he even winked at her-no doubt about it, the masked man was Shou Hazama.
While wearing the mask Shou called himself “Akumetsu.” One that destroys evil.
Shiina watched from the sidelines as Akumetsu questioned Iwasaki. Akumetsu brought to light that it was taxpayer’s money that was used wrongly, to pay for pensions and retirement bonuses while the hardworking people of Japan suffered. He expressed his determination to eradicate all evil from Japan then brought the axe in his hand down on Iwasaki’s head. In a panic everyone fled, leaving only Shiina, Shou, and one of Iwasaki’s peons-a man named Yaguchi. Turning to Yaguchi, Shou held up Iwasaki’s lifeless body and threatened that if he were to start walking the same evil path then he would face a similar fate. Then Shou began dragging Iwasaki’s body away towards the elevator.
After taking a few moments to recover from the shock, panicked thoughts shot through her head and she began to move. She wanted to stop him and perhaps run away with him. She knew if he didn’t escape, he would surely be convicted and executed for murder.
Shiina used the same blood-soaked elevator to get to the first floor, but when she finally found Shou it was too late. He was walking out the entrance of the hotel. Police had surrounded the building, opening fire upon him. Bullets ripped into his skin, the mask on his face exploded… and that was how Shiina saw her first love die before her eyes. All that was left of Shou Hazama was a headless corpse.
Shiina didn’t go home that night. The next morning, Shiina didn’t understand why she continued on to school. Life would never be the same, so how could she go back to acting normal? Overwhelming guilt flooded her when her teacher called out the name “Hazama” and there was no responding voice. But a few minutes later, the door to their classroom swung open and, to Shiina’s utter astonishment, Shou stood before them, apologizing for his tardiness. He even had the audacity to wink at her as he moved to his seat.
Throughout the day he was up to his usual antics, just his normal, goofy self, but Shiina was miserable. She tried to push last night’s events out of her mind-after all, he was fine! But after school when they walked home she demanded to know what was going on, but his only answer was that she should not to worry and that he would take care of her and change Japan.
The next morning, before Shiina left the house for school the news came on announcing the murder of the Chief of Police from Kanayama Prefecture. He had been killed by a masked man during a clash between the police force and a large biker gang. The mask had also exploded, resulting in the suspect’s death. Shiina was glued to the television set, horrified. She knew it had to be Akumetsu. Even if they had no evidence, she was sure in her heart it was Shou.
The newscast then switched to a recording of Iwasaki’s funeral where an important congressman was giving a eulogy. Then, on live-feed television, Akumetsu appeared again and grabbed the congressman. The Akumetsu seemed intent on addressing the camera while at the same time questioning the congressman, similar to the way he was interrogated Iwasaki. Everything seemed to be confirming Shiina’s fears but she had one more sliver of hope. If Shou was at school then he wasn’t the Akumetsu! She raced to school, intent on finding out the truth, the entire time begging that it would prove false. Shiina came into the classroom late, but even so Shou’s seat was empty. Heart sinking, she asked after him but he rest of the students just claimed it was probably his usual tardiness. She tried to continue on with school like before, but it was nerve-wrecking.
She was called in to the principal’s office later in the day where a strange man awaited her. The principal left them to talk in private at the man’s request. At first she didn’t recognize him, but he revealed himself to be Yaguchi, the man who witnessed the murder of Iwasaki. He had retrieved her information from the escort club she had signed up with that night and used it to track her down to her school. He explained that he had heard her use the name “Shou” when talking with Akumetsu and demanded that she reveal all she knew about his identity.
Shou Hazama appeared just then to save the day, walking in the door of the principal’s office like it was just an everyday thing. After brain-breaking Yaguchi a bit with his jokes, Shou got serious and flipped the TV in the principal’s office to the station where the Iwasaki funeral was being broadcast. Akumetsu still had the congressman at his mercy, and after forcing more incriminating confessions out of the man, the Akumetsu jumped from the building for all the cameras to catch on screen. Shou sat back in the principal’s chair and laughed, while Shiina and Yaguchi stared in terror. After a few threats from Shou, Yaguchi finally ran, leaving Shiina and Shou alone together.
Shiina demanded to know what was really going on, and that’s when Shou decided to reveal everything. On screen, the Akumetsu continued to slaughter the corrupt and force the truth of their corruption before the public’s eyes. Shiina even witnessed a recorded account of her father being cheated by the system that was aired by the Akumetsu. When she turned back to Shou he was no longer laughing. He explained that in a normal setting a kid would have to work hard to change a corrupt system, going through all the years of schooling and the political red tape before gaining power to really change anything. But Shou said that waiting to get to that point was just as bad as giving up.
Then he asked her a question; What would she do if she had the power to become greater than any hero? Would she run away? Or would she try to help one person at a time? No, because that would be such a waste of power when you could help the masses. However, he was the only one with the power to help anyone now. But the price was death of hundreds of clones of himself. He said she was the same, that she had already done all in her power and that in going to that hotel, willing to sell her body to help her parents, she had in a sense killed herself for them. But she shouldn’t have to be the one to die, he believed. Instead, it ought to be evil that paid the price and died.
Shina was at a breaking point, but she believed him. He was killing people, and she understood why, but what she found truly horrible was that he had to keep dying over and over again. He, on the other hand, was determined. There was nothing else he wanted to do but take down evil. She begged to help him if he couldn’t stop, but he said that was unnecessary and all he needed was her support.
With tears streaming down her face, Shiina said that if she had the same power, she would do all she could to destroy evil, just like Shou.
Even so, when he turned to leave she reached out towards him. She couldn’t bear the thought of him dying again. No matter how much he reassured her that he was immortal, it was still death in her eyes. He left her there to cry. No matter how much she had wanted to change his fate, to become his girlfriend, it was useless. His fate had already changed.
Time passed and the Akumetsu invasion continued without much more concerning Shiina. She kept her eyes on the televisions, watching the news religiously. But she always turned her eyes away when it came for an Akumetsu to die. Her classmates continued to debate the Akumetsu issue, but she stayed out of it. Only now and then would she turn her worried eyes to Shou, who laughed and joked just the same as always.
On the marker of 21 days left for the Prime Minster to get his act together, the Akumetsu held an enormous coup and took out hundreds of corrupt bureaucrats and officials. The murders that day were too great, and so Japan went under martial law. For nearly three whole weeks the world waited to see Akumetsu’s next move. But Akumetsu replied with silence, giving the government its chance to change.
The tides changed 4 days before the end of the Prime Minister’s grace period. Akumetsu claimed they would be sending out information of who and what Akumetsu truly was via satellite. Meanwhile, a group headed by some powerful yazuka known as the Takimaru group had wormed their way into some of the higher places in the government and Special Defense Force. The leaders of this movement, Kitagami and Takimaru claimed their plan was necessary, a patriotic move on their part to take Japan away from the clutches of Akumetsu. They had discovered the truth behind Akumetsu and plotted to use it to change Japan in their favor.
The next day, the SDF controlled by Takimaru surrounded Tatehama High School and took over Shiina’s classroom in particular. Their reasoning for taking over the school was because Akumetsu had maliciously taken the class hostage; a lie that had the public confused and afraid. Shou managed to slip away and hide, but the SDF members threatened to kill his classmates if he didn’t surrender himself. Shiina held strong, even when the rest of her class panicked and her teacher was killed. Shiina defended her friend Mari and found herself staring into the barrel of a gun. And once again, her life was saved as Shou announced he was giving himself up.
Shou strolled in not long after with angry words for the SDF and apologies for his classmates. The SDF handcuffed Shou to a chair and used a radio to contact Takimura. The yakuza interrogated Shou, intent on gaining his cloning lab and information on how the clones worked. Shiina and her classmates were horrified. They understood that if a yakuza organization gained control of the lab, it would mean the end for Japan as a democracy. However, Shou willingly gave the information, in exchange for the SDF allowing all the first and second year students to go free.
The SDF killed another student when Shou’s information led some of the yakuza’s forces into a trap. The SDF became more agitated and Shou took advantage of the situation to escape the handcuffs and wrest guns from the corrupted officers. Shots were fired from both sides. Shou managed to take out five of the soldiers, but four students were killed. Several others were injured, Shiina included. Unable to move and bleeding out, she already knew she was dying.
Moments later, a broadcast from the police outside the school announced that the yakuza group leaders had been taken out by the Akumetsu. The SDF officers were forced to surrender, but the leader of their group wanted to go out with a bang. Shou ordered the students to run, but he hung back, determined to save Shiina. The lead SDF officer set off a bomb then, and Shiina passed out.
She regained consciousness minutes later. Shou was carrying her through a dark tunnel, to a secret minilab the Akumetsu had used for experimental cloning. They had perfected the technique of cloning people other than Shous here, and Shou was determined to use it to reclone Shiina back into life. He placed the cloning mask on her face and held her in his arms. He explained that the mask would explode upon her death, killing him and freeing up his body to be used as raw material in bringing her back to life. He managed to smile and told her to think of it as repayment for that kiss she’d given him a month ago.
Just before she died, she managed to smile. After her last breath, the mask exploded, and she was born anew, a perfect clone and in perfect health.
Point of canon from which she is taken:
I’m taking Shiina from near the very end of canon, after she was killed or, more specifically, after she was cloned at Shou’s specialized lab. She will be waking up from directly after the rebirth, so she will have no memory of what Japan was like after the incident at Tateyama High School. The last thing that she will remember before is dying and Shou Hazama’s smiling face.
At this point in canon, Shiina is not the only one privy to information about the Akumetsu, nor the only one to have complete faith in what they stood for. While she cannot have the same memories as Shou she will undoubtedly have been touched by what he did, not only for Japan as a whole but for her classmates and herself at the end, so she will be a much stronger person than she was before her death. She also won’t fear death quite the same way as a normal person would. She’s experienced it and she knows the pain, but the idea of dying again will be less traumatizing and therefore she will have sufficient courage to travel around the institute at night, which is more than the average high school girl could likely muster.
As far as making friends, Shiina will be fairly friendly to the people around her. Though, due to her influence from Shou, she’ll have less trust for people who seem to have once or currently hold authority. And as for other canonmates, if it’s a Shou she meets she’ll likely be overjoyed (since she thinks they’re all dead at this point) and do everything in her power to keep him alive. If it’s another from her series (a classmate, one of the corrupt politicians, a member of the police force or anything like that) she’ll probably be a little wary of them. Not only is she miraculously alive, but she was whole when they found her-not even the smallest hint of a bullet wound. If they want information about the Akumetsu, she’s probably going to hide it even more painstakingly than she did before. She’ll also feel a little more out of place among familiar faces. She’s no longer the normal high school girl they once knew. She’s experienced death, and that’s not something just anyone can get away with without changing.
Up until her third year of high school, Shiina lived the life of an average teenager. (It was sometime in 2000s, though the actual year is never outright stated.) She studied for exams, hung out with friends and crushed on boys-one boy in particular, Shou Hazama. He was sort of the school idol; a class clown but at the same time extremely cool. Shiina wasn’t afraid of talking to him, but like any girl she feared rejection from her first love so she kept her mouth shut on the matter. Then, a miracle happened-Shou Hazama was rejected by a girl he confessed to and Shiina saw it as a chance to strike.
While he was dejected she gave him some advice; “…why don’t you get your ear pierced? You know they say if you do, your fate’ll change.” The truth was she planned to be the one changing his fate, thinking she would confess to him the day they went to get his piercing done… but that wasn’t to be. The night before her plan could be put into motion she heard her parents talking about their financial issues. She realized quickly that it wasn’t just a matter of falling into a slump. Her father’s business was denied crucial loans from banks. They weren’t just in debt, they were likely to be bankrupt and lose everything. And it was at that moment that Shiina realized she could help her parents, but at a terrible price. She would have to become a prostitute; the only job she knew would guarantee her good money fast. It was a hard choice to make, but one she felt was necessary.
The day she had planned to meet up with Shou to confess became the day she would say goodbye. She didn’t want to leave on a cheerless note, so she kept her troubles and plans a secret. She had only one last wish before she left, and that was to have her first kiss with someone she liked. Without pride or fear to hold her back, she caught Shou by surprise and quickly gave him a kiss before running away. She fully expected to never see him again. Her story should have ended there but fate had other plans.
That night she found herself working for an escort club called Shangri-La and the clientele that night was a group of high-ranking corporate officials along with the retired vice-minister of Finance, Counselor Shozou Iwasaki. Working for this particular group of men would certainly gain her the money she needed to pull her family out of trouble, but in her mind she was screaming and begging for someone to come save her. And that someone did.
A masked man appeared wielding both a gun and an axe approached the table of Iwasaki, distracting him long enough for Shiina to escape his grasp. She continued to watch from a few yards away, unable to look away even if she wished. She recognized the voice and he even winked at her-no doubt about it, the masked man was Shou Hazama.
While wearing the mask Shou called himself “Akumetsu.” One that destroys evil.
Shiina watched from the sidelines as Akumetsu questioned Iwasaki. Akumetsu brought to light that it was taxpayer’s money that was used wrongly, to pay for pensions and retirement bonuses while the hardworking people of Japan suffered. He expressed his determination to eradicate all evil from Japan then brought the axe in his hand down on Iwasaki’s head. In a panic everyone fled, leaving only Shiina, Shou, and one of Iwasaki’s peons-a man named Yaguchi. Turning to Yaguchi, Shou held up Iwasaki’s lifeless body and threatened that if he were to start walking the same evil path then he would face a similar fate. Then Shou began dragging Iwasaki’s body away towards the elevator.
After taking a few moments to recover from the shock, panicked thoughts shot through her head and she began to move. She wanted to stop him and perhaps run away with him. She knew if he didn’t escape, he would surely be convicted and executed for murder.
Shiina used the same blood-soaked elevator to get to the first floor, but when she finally found Shou it was too late. He was walking out the entrance of the hotel. Police had surrounded the building, opening fire upon him. Bullets ripped into his skin, the mask on his face exploded… and that was how Shiina saw her first love die before her eyes. All that was left of Shou Hazama was a headless corpse.
Shiina didn’t go home that night. The next morning, Shiina didn’t understand why she continued on to school. Life would never be the same, so how could she go back to acting normal? Overwhelming guilt flooded her when her teacher called out the name “Hazama” and there was no responding voice. But a few minutes later, the door to their classroom swung open and, to Shiina’s utter astonishment, Shou stood before them, apologizing for his tardiness. He even had the audacity to wink at her as he moved to his seat.
Throughout the day he was up to his usual antics, just his normal, goofy self, but Shiina was miserable. She tried to push last night’s events out of her mind-after all, he was fine! But after school when they walked home she demanded to know what was going on, but his only answer was that she should not to worry and that he would take care of her and change Japan.
The next morning, before Shiina left the house for school the news came on announcing the murder of the Chief of Police from Kanayama Prefecture. He had been killed by a masked man during a clash between the police force and a large biker gang. The mask had also exploded, resulting in the suspect’s death. Shiina was glued to the television set, horrified. She knew it had to be Akumetsu. Even if they had no evidence, she was sure in her heart it was Shou.
The newscast then switched to a recording of Iwasaki’s funeral where an important congressman was giving a eulogy. Then, on live-feed television, Akumetsu appeared again and grabbed the congressman. The Akumetsu seemed intent on addressing the camera while at the same time questioning the congressman, similar to the way he was interrogated Iwasaki. Everything seemed to be confirming Shiina’s fears but she had one more sliver of hope. If Shou was at school then he wasn’t the Akumetsu! She raced to school, intent on finding out the truth, the entire time begging that it would prove false. Shiina came into the classroom late, but even so Shou’s seat was empty. Heart sinking, she asked after him but he rest of the students just claimed it was probably his usual tardiness. She tried to continue on with school like before, but it was nerve-wrecking.
She was called in to the principal’s office later in the day where a strange man awaited her. The principal left them to talk in private at the man’s request. At first she didn’t recognize him, but he revealed himself to be Yaguchi, the man who witnessed the murder of Iwasaki. He had retrieved her information from the escort club she had signed up with that night and used it to track her down to her school. He explained that he had heard her use the name “Shou” when talking with Akumetsu and demanded that she reveal all she knew about his identity.
Shou Hazama appeared just then to save the day, walking in the door of the principal’s office like it was just an everyday thing. After brain-breaking Yaguchi a bit with his jokes, Shou got serious and flipped the TV in the principal’s office to the station where the Iwasaki funeral was being broadcast. Akumetsu still had the congressman at his mercy, and after forcing more incriminating confessions out of the man, the Akumetsu jumped from the building for all the cameras to catch on screen. Shou sat back in the principal’s chair and laughed, while Shiina and Yaguchi stared in terror. After a few threats from Shou, Yaguchi finally ran, leaving Shiina and Shou alone together.
Shiina demanded to know what was really going on, and that’s when Shou decided to reveal everything. On screen, the Akumetsu continued to slaughter the corrupt and force the truth of their corruption before the public’s eyes. Shiina even witnessed a recorded account of her father being cheated by the system that was aired by the Akumetsu. When she turned back to Shou he was no longer laughing. He explained that in a normal setting a kid would have to work hard to change a corrupt system, going through all the years of schooling and the political red tape before gaining power to really change anything. But Shou said that waiting to get to that point was just as bad as giving up.
Then he asked her a question; What would she do if she had the power to become greater than any hero? Would she run away? Or would she try to help one person at a time? No, because that would be such a waste of power when you could help the masses. However, he was the only one with the power to help anyone now. But the price was death of hundreds of clones of himself. He said she was the same, that she had already done all in her power and that in going to that hotel, willing to sell her body to help her parents, she had in a sense killed herself for them. But she shouldn’t have to be the one to die, he believed. Instead, it ought to be evil that paid the price and died.
Shina was at a breaking point, but she believed him. He was killing people, and she understood why, but what she found truly horrible was that he had to keep dying over and over again. He, on the other hand, was determined. There was nothing else he wanted to do but take down evil. She begged to help him if he couldn’t stop, but he said that was unnecessary and all he needed was her support.
With tears streaming down her face, Shiina said that if she had the same power, she would do all she could to destroy evil, just like Shou.
Even so, when he turned to leave she reached out towards him. She couldn’t bear the thought of him dying again. No matter how much he reassured her that he was immortal, it was still death in her eyes. He left her there to cry. No matter how much she had wanted to change his fate, to become his girlfriend, it was useless. His fate had already changed.
Time passed and the Akumetsu invasion continued without much more concerning Shiina. She kept her eyes on the televisions, watching the news religiously. But she always turned her eyes away when it came for an Akumetsu to die. Her classmates continued to debate the Akumetsu issue, but she stayed out of it. Only now and then would she turn her worried eyes to Shou, who laughed and joked just the same as always.
On the marker of 21 days left for the Prime Minster to get his act together, the Akumetsu held an enormous coup and took out hundreds of corrupt bureaucrats and officials. The murders that day were too great, and so Japan went under martial law. For nearly three whole weeks the world waited to see Akumetsu’s next move. But Akumetsu replied with silence, giving the government its chance to change.
The tides changed 4 days before the end of the Prime Minister’s grace period. Akumetsu claimed they would be sending out information of who and what Akumetsu truly was via satellite. Meanwhile, a group headed by some powerful yazuka known as the Takimaru group had wormed their way into some of the higher places in the government and Special Defense Force. The leaders of this movement, Kitagami and Takimaru claimed their plan was necessary, a patriotic move on their part to take Japan away from the clutches of Akumetsu. They had discovered the truth behind Akumetsu and plotted to use it to change Japan in their favor.
The next day, the SDF controlled by Takimaru surrounded Tatehama High School and took over Shiina’s classroom in particular. Their reasoning for taking over the school was because Akumetsu had maliciously taken the class hostage; a lie that had the public confused and afraid. Shou managed to slip away and hide, but the SDF members threatened to kill his classmates if he didn’t surrender himself. Shiina held strong, even when the rest of her class panicked and her teacher was killed. Shiina defended her friend Mari and found herself staring into the barrel of a gun. And once again, her life was saved as Shou announced he was giving himself up.
Shou strolled in not long after with angry words for the SDF and apologies for his classmates. The SDF handcuffed Shou to a chair and used a radio to contact Takimura. The yakuza interrogated Shou, intent on gaining his cloning lab and information on how the clones worked. Shiina and her classmates were horrified. They understood that if a yakuza organization gained control of the lab, it would mean the end for Japan as a democracy. However, Shou willingly gave the information, in exchange for the SDF allowing all the first and second year students to go free.
The SDF killed another student when Shou’s information led some of the yakuza’s forces into a trap. The SDF became more agitated and Shou took advantage of the situation to escape the handcuffs and wrest guns from the corrupted officers. Shots were fired from both sides. Shou managed to take out five of the soldiers, but four students were killed. Several others were injured, Shiina included. Unable to move and bleeding out, she already knew she was dying.
Moments later, a broadcast from the police outside the school announced that the yakuza group leaders had been taken out by the Akumetsu. The SDF officers were forced to surrender, but the leader of their group wanted to go out with a bang. Shou ordered the students to run, but he hung back, determined to save Shiina. The lead SDF officer set off a bomb then, and Shiina passed out.
She regained consciousness minutes later. Shou was carrying her through a dark tunnel, to a secret minilab the Akumetsu had used for experimental cloning. They had perfected the technique of cloning people other than Shous here, and Shou was determined to use it to reclone Shiina back into life. He placed the cloning mask on her face and held her in his arms. He explained that the mask would explode upon her death, killing him and freeing up his body to be used as raw material in bringing her back to life. He managed to smile and told her to think of it as repayment for that kiss she’d given him a month ago.
Just before she died, she managed to smile. After her last breath, the mask exploded, and she was born anew, a perfect clone and in perfect health.
Point of canon from which she is taken:
I’m taking Shiina from near the very end of canon, after she was killed or, more specifically, after she was cloned at Shou’s specialized lab. She will be waking up from directly after the rebirth, so she will have no memory of what Japan was like after the incident at Tateyama High School. The last thing that she will remember before is dying and Shou Hazama’s smiling face.
At this point in canon, Shiina is not the only one privy to information about the Akumetsu, nor the only one to have complete faith in what they stood for. While she cannot have the same memories as Shou she will undoubtedly have been touched by what he did, not only for Japan as a whole but for her classmates and herself at the end, so she will be a much stronger person than she was before her death. She also won’t fear death quite the same way as a normal person would. She’s experienced it and she knows the pain, but the idea of dying again will be less traumatizing and therefore she will have sufficient courage to travel around the institute at night, which is more than the average high school girl could likely muster.
As far as making friends, Shiina will be fairly friendly to the people around her. Though, due to her influence from Shou, she’ll have less trust for people who seem to have once or currently hold authority. And as for other canonmates, if it’s a Shou she meets she’ll likely be overjoyed (since she thinks they’re all dead at this point) and do everything in her power to keep him alive. If it’s another from her series (a classmate, one of the corrupt politicians, a member of the police force or anything like that) she’ll probably be a little wary of them. Not only is she miraculously alive, but she was whole when they found her-not even the smallest hint of a bullet wound. If they want information about the Akumetsu, she’s probably going to hide it even more painstakingly than she did before. She’ll also feel a little more out of place among familiar faces. She’s no longer the normal high school girl they once knew. She’s experienced death, and that’s not something just anyone can get away with without changing.