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  1. Ryougi Shiki ( Kara No Kyoukai ) Feats:
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  3. Shiki Ryougi was once a relatively healthy individual with a sort of genetic-curse dissociative identity disorder. Like quite a few other members of her family, she had two personalities - a feminine one (Shiki) and a masculine one (SHIKI). Unlike most of her family, she didn't go insane or commit suicide. Two years after a traffic accident sent her in a coma, she woke up and found that her masculine personality had disappeared - dead. In place of her personality she received a strong disassociation with her past memories as well as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. She likes wearing kimonos and also is a little more than fond of murder (and has a natural desire to kill). She wields a 7-inch long knife (Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenery, Page 26) but is actually more skilled with the Katana.
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  5. Mind
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  7. Shiki is broken, and not just in the power sense. Mentally she lost memories, her connection to those memories, and a personality. Her unique situation of growing up with a potentially insanity-inducing second personality and an innate desire to murder have hardened her uniquely.
  8. Finds meaning in life through murder
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  10. “I went out to kill.”
  11. Unable to form any sort of appropriate response to her, I only nod my head to acknowledge what she said. She seems to take it as a sign to continue.
  12. “Useless. I couldn’t find anyone I wanted to kill. When I opened the door and you were there, I thought that you could satisfy me for a time, but you couldn’t. Killing you would’ve been meaningless.”
  13. “I honest to God thought you were going to kill me right then and there,” I reply hesitantly but truthfully.
  14. “I want to feel like I’m alive. But I know a simple murder has no meaning. It’s why I drift aimlessly at the late hours, trying to find a reason to live. It’s almost like being a ghost. One day…I just know I’m going to kill someone for no reason.”
  15. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 72
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  17. Understands the motivations of a homicide with the only the crime scene report
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  19. “Well, about that incident last night—“ Tōko starts saying.
  20. “I don’t need to hear any more on that. I get it, for the most part.”
  21. “That so? Crime scene description only, and you can already read this girl? Sharp one, aren’t we?” Tōko looks at Shiki with eyes laden with meaning. Tōko has only described the details of the crime scene to Shiki, and yet Shiki understands that the girl’s story is writ large all over that vivid scene: proof, if anything, of her natural intuition when it comes to these matters. Tōko knew she’d understand; they come from the same dirty side of the world, after all.
  22. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 102
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  24. Identifies deception of killing intent
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  26. “Are…you okay? You look kind of—“, I involuntarily say. She answers only by looking in my direction. The way her eyes pass over me feels as if she’s looking at something beyond me, like I was just an insect on the ground to be ignored. My gut tells me she’s dangerous, and my mind itches again. My reasoning tells me that there’s no way a girl like her could do anything like what happened to the victims in that underground bar, and the itch recedes.
  27. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 110
  28. My attention drifts back to the girl Azaka was with at Ahnenerbe. I’m still mostly groping in the dark with the brand-new capabilities of my Eyes, so I ended up accidentally seeing her lines— the traces of death that ran over all things—when I looked straight at her. That was careless, even for me. She looked normal enough, very much like your average stuck up rich kid. But she was hiding blood in her past; of that much I’m sure. Her eyes told her story well enough: hers was a liminal existence, tied by one fragile string to one side of her life, and being pulled like a metal to a magnet to the other, as if she belongs there. I mean, fuck, of all people, I should know the feeling.
  29. We read each other like two predators back there, and my gut tells me she’s the one, but I can’t entirely be sure. I don’t see, or at least I don’t yet see, a reason for her being someone who enjoys murder as much as I do. But then, since when did killers in this town start needing a reason to enjoy killing?
  30. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 117
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  32. Calls out a person's change in thinking
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  34. “You’re the one that said you thought I was going to kill you.” Her voice is a cold sing-song tune that latches itself onto the nape of my neck, tracing a chokingly smooth line around it, and for a moment, I am forced to wonder if the person lying behind me is truly human. “See? You’re thinking it again..."
  35. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 73
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  37. Within moments of receiving a telekinetic attack, understands the nature of the attack and retreats to advantageous terrain
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  39. In that brief clash on the bridge, Shiki had already read Fujino’s spell, and withdrew to a place where she could have a fighting chance.
  40. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 147
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  42. After Souren manages to evade an attack from her, she is now able to read how he is going to dodge
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  44. The girl in the white kimono reveals a smile, the first truly gentle smile she has performed; a smile that signals the end. Returning to her original hard posture, she runs toward Alaya like a loosed arrow. He knows that Shiki can read him now, knows what to expect, and so he won’t be able to dodge this next strike.
  45. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 219
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  47. Resists Mental Commands that caused eight other girls to jump to their deaths = https://gfycat.com/FemaleDiligentAdouri
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  49. You can fly. When the woman points her finger at me, I hear a voice intruding in my consciousness; perhaps hers, were she able to speak. It buries itself inside, digging in, and telling me I can fly. The mental assault makes me lose balance for a moment, but with only one step I regain composure. Overhead, the woman hesitates. Now I see.
  50. You must fly. She tries again, this time stronger, more assertive. It is met with similar resistance. And then, finally, finally, my Eyes look at her.
  51. - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenary, Page 27
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  53. Gradually increases resistance to it to the point of being completely unaffected
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  55. I can fly. I can fly. I loved the sky since I was a child. I flew yesterday too. I can fly higher today. Freely. Peacefully. Smiling. I have to go quickly. To where? To the sky? To freedom? Let’s escape from reality! Yearn for the sky! Fight gravity. Be restless enough not to stay in one place. Fly unconsciously.
  56. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go.
  57. GO!
  58. “You gotta be fucking kidding, right?”
  59. I raise my free left hand. The mental suggestion doesn’t work. I don’t even lose my balance anymore.
  60. - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenary, Panorama 2, Page 27
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  62. Completely disregards her strongest mental attack = https://gfycat.com/TheseWillingAndeancat
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  64. The woman’s expression changes. She tries her last, vain hope of controlling me, trying her best to put as much power into her suggestion.
  65. FALL!
  66. And again, I disregard it completely. With all the firmness in my voice I can muster, I answer her back.
  67. “You fall.” - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenery, Page 28
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  69. Uses stealth and terrain to her advantage
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  71. It only takes her a leap and a moment’s sprint to recede back into the shadows that concealed her well only seconds ago. A good opponent: she knows when to retreat.
  72. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 147
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  74. Her instincts, while not precognition, allow her to make a prediction of the future
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  76. “The hell? If you can know even without a reason, then that’s not seeing the future. Isn’t that just instinct?”
  77. Even I can do that, said Employee’s Friend A, and Aozaki Touko smiled bitterly at her.
  78. “Don’t group others with the likes of you, Shiki. What you have is a sixth sense that can reel in the future just by hearing and imagining, whereas precognition has both foundation and proof.
  79. - Future Gospel\2
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  81. Eyes
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  83. I was in a traffic accident two years ago, and because of that I spent those last two years in a coma. After waking from that coma, I began to…see things that weren’t there before. Tōko would say that what I’m doing isn’t so much “sight” as it is “perception.” In other words, it seems my senses have “awakened” to a higher level of perception, but it’s all technical magical gobbledygook that I couldn’t care less to understand.
  84. - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenery, Chapter 2, Page 8
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  86. She's also able to perceive normally invisible stuff without form:
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  88. Passing by it some days ago, I happened to see a spectral figure in that looked quite human. If Azaka saw it too, then it must mean it’s real.
  89. My second sight, the ability to see these types of events, has its roots (as much as one can point out a definitive origin to this weirdness, at least) in one event, a point in time that feels simultaneously distant and recent.
  90. - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenery, Page 8
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  92. She sees "lines of death"
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  94. And then, finally, finally, my Eyes look at her. And there they are. One on each leg, one on her back, a little one in her left chest. I can see the lines, separating her body into little sections. The one in her chest is likely the best target. Hitting that’d mean instant death. This woman could be some sort of image, some delusion, or a ghost. But in the end it doesn’t matter. Because with my Eyes, even gods can die.
  95. - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenery, Page 27
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  97. Shiki Ryougi at the beginning expresses a desire to get rid of them:
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  99. In the dark, I brush the bandages wrapped around my eyes lightly with a finger. It won’t be long now until my eyesight recovers. There remains one thing to do before that happens, however: to destroy my eyes; this time, with no room for error.
  100. Without sight, I cannot see them, but it’s only a matter of time before they are revealed again. If having sight means to keep seeing those…things that must not be seen, then the choice is obvious. It’s much, much more preferable to never see the world than to ever see those things again. Still, maybe there is some other way. It’s the last resort until I can find some other means to live.
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  102. But even if her eyes were destroyed, she would still see the end of existence:
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  104. “Arcane Eyes of Death Perception, huh? Destroying that’d be a huge waste, Shiki. In the first place, even if you destroy it, reality will still make you see what you were meant to see. Curses come home to roost too.”
  105. - Volume 2, The Hollow Shrine, Page 29
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  107. Later on, even while blind, she still can see the lines of death:
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  109. The mental block he induced in my mind still presses down on me, and makes it difficult to focus the spell of my Eyes. I try to bring it to bear. If I can’t see him, then maybe I can see his lines of death.
  110. “But you cannot win against me.” The voice enters my mind unbidden. But it’s useless. I’ve seen the lines of death, right in front of me.
  111. “Found you, bastard,” I spit out. I close as fast as I can, before the advantage is lost, not planning on letting him get away.
  112. - Volume 3, Oblivion Recorder, Page 91
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  114. A related protagonist in the same narrative universe (also named Shiki "Tohno") with a less powerful ( Powerfull in the future ) version uses special glasses to block out seeing the end of existence. The human mind was not meant to see such things, and it will wear him down until the mental stress causes his brain to burst.
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  116. Unlike him or her first experience with it, she grows used to it and is able to use them without apparent strain or damage...sometimes.
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  118. Sees... something else on Souren Araya. = https://gfycat.com/MadAstonishingAnkolewatusi
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  120. Though Shiki hides it quite well, she is in fact quite worried when she realizes that her Arcane Eyes of Death Perception finds a line on everything…except the man; no trace of the lines of death, the mark of entropic finality that everything and everyone carried, and she could will into vision any time she wished.
  121. Shiki focuses on the man, just as Tōko taught her, trying to envision the lines harder than she’d ever willed before. Though her mind strains and groans at the force of will, for a moment she finally sees…something else. Square in the man’s chest is a mark, a line swirling outwards like a child’s drawing to form what seems like a hollow, empty hole.
  122. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 133
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  124. Nature of Lines
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  126. “There’s a flaw for everything in the world,” says Shiki. “Air, intent, and even time. Humans need not even be said. If there’s a beginning for everything, then there’s also an end. My Eyes see that end, the death of everything. And once I see that death, all anything needs is a single, light push, that sends it barreling off into entropy. Magic, just like yours.” With those sinister Eyes, Shiki glares at Fujino. “That’s why, if there really was a God, he would fall just as easily against me.”
  127. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 150
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  129. Wounds do not regenerate:
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  131. “This? Shiki Ryōgi again, if you haven’t already guessed. I expected it to start healing in short order, but so far that hasn’t happened. I suppose it’s the nature of her spell of death. A wound will heal, but this arm is now truly ‘dead.’ Alaya did say to me that life in its true and pure form was the domain of sorcery beyond him.”
  132. Volume 3, Murder Speculation (Part 2), Page 169
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  134. Stabs have absolutely no physical resistance:
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  136. With the impact of steel lightning on my chest, I awaken. It was a staggering attack, one that proved how strong my opponent was, if one can drive through a person’s chest that easily. But it wasn’t a strike born out of anger, or desperation. A singular thrust delivered with no wasted energy, one that would slide easily in between bone and sinew.
  137. Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenary, Page 29
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  139. If the target has an exceptionally large weight of existence (lived a long time) then it takes longer for non-existence to erase them.
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  141. —Her enemy isn’t dead yet.
  142. “Fuck! Why—” she shouts, though only finishes in her thoughts. Why? Why aren’t you dead? The mage maintains his characteristic dour face, with the notable exception of his eyes, gleaming with satisfaction. If eyes could smile, his are certainly doing so.
  143. “I have lived for two hundred years on this Earth, and not even the Arcane Eyes of Death Perception will lay that span low so instantly. Entropy already acts on me, faster than you might know, but if that is the price that must be paid to capture you, then it will be so.”
  144. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 140
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  146. While having her skull crushed, she finally is able to force herself to see lines of death on Souren Araya.. = https://gfycat.com/AromaticComfortableFossa his is despite Souren's sacred Budhist Sarira from a guy who was in a weird state in-between live and death (or something).
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  148. “I will not die,” he continues, “for I have awakened to my origin of quiescence. It rules me. How would you kill what is already at rest?” Shiki’s eyes dart around frantically, making use of the minute field of vision still afforded her by trying to find anything…just one of the lines of death on his body, however faint. Desperately trying to will away both the cold fear moving within her, as well as the pain of the continuous pressure applied to her face, she searches for an opening. But before that happens, the mage comes to a conclusion. “I would take your body. But perhaps I do not need the head.” Suddenly, Alaya channels a decisive, crushing force through his hand. Shiki can hear the groan of her skull and jaw starting to break. Her eyes widen as she looks and looks. There! Faint, but it is there in his right arm. Acting fast, Shiki pours all of her remaining strength to cutting that line, and it works. The arm is cut.
  149. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 139
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  151. Notable Things she has Stabbed and/or Sliced
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  153. Stabs a ghost girl with exquisite style = https://gfycat.com/SimpleDistortedCaecilian (This is just as weird as it sounds, because she is completely intangible)
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  155. As she comes toward me, I plunge the knife deep into her chest, as naturally as I do stabbing a fruit, and so exquisitely performed that it gives even the victim pause for admiration. The knife runs from front to back, clean through her.
  156. She doesn’t bleed. Unable to move from the shock of being stabbed straight through, she convulses just once. With only a nudge and a slight movement of my right arm, I fling away the useless “corpse”, and the incorporeal body slips through the fence without a sound into the shining city below. Her hair still lies motionless, and her dress embraces the darkness, a white flower sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
  157. And with that, I depart from the roof, the ghosts still floating in the air behind me.
  158. - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenery, Page 28
  159. In truth, I’ve actually been thinking that as well. This woman keeps saying the name Shiki, who I assume to be my assailant. How was that person able to stab me? The me floating in the Fujō Tower can’t touch anything, but also cannot be affected in turn. Yet this Shiki slashed me as if that was my real body.
  160. - Volume 1, Overlooking the Scenery, Page 32
  161.  
  162. Able to see invisible, formless, telekinetic attacks after witnessing it a few times:
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  164. “Things without form are difficult to see,” Shiki begins to say. “But thanks to you firing that spell all over the place too much, I can finally see it. Your spell’s nimbus is a spiral of green and red. Really quite beautiful, if I do say so myself.”
  165.  
  166. Kills said telekinetic attacks = https://gfycat.com/SimpleRingedEmperorshrimp
  167.  
  168. “You’re insane to come out of hiding like that,” Fujino says. She wastes no time, immediately focusing her will on working the spell. Her vision begins to distort. She wills one axis of rotation each for Shiki’s head and legs, and bends. Like cheap cloth, Shiki’s body is torn apart into so many bits and pieces.
  169. Or at least, it was supposed to be.
  170. Before any such damage could be dealt, Shiki raises her right arm, and with a single slash, excises Fujino’s “distortion.” The points of rotation Fujino had created are warded away by the knife, dying as easily as any living being.
  171. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 150
  172.  
  173. Slowly advances as Fujino tries to barrage her with telekinesis = https://gfycat.com/GiganticCriminalAlabamamapturtle
  174.  
  175. Bend! Bend! Bend! Bend!
  176. With each repetition, a new manifestation of the spell appears in the air in front of Shiki, but she dispels it each time with a swing of her knife, and each time the pain in Fujino’s stomach is pushed further and further to its limit.
  177. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 150
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  179. Sees and kills disease in a body:
  180.  
  181. So I said to myself, ‘what the hell, why don’t I just kill her disease while I’m here’. So I saw the lines on her disease, cut ‘em, and here we are. If you hurry and get a hospital on the line, she still might make it.”
  182. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 160
  183.  
  184. Sees the death of the air:
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  186. Death: Maybe it’s a time and a place. But it’s also a concept, formless and shapeless. I lived through it, and now I can literally see it. When I opened my eyes for the first time in two years, the first thing I took notice of wasn’t the nurse who rushed to my side in astonishment. It was a line, running across her throat. It only took a moment for me to see the rest: a line in every person, in every wall, even in the air itself, all of them across everything I could see. They were never still, always flowing and slithering in accursed serenity.
  187. - Volume 2, The Hollowed Shrine, Page 28
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  189. Sees lines on an undead corpse, and cuts it with her finger:
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  191. She sees everything now. She sees the corpse and how it raises a hand to strike her as she approaches. Shiki is only barely able to duck under it. Most especially now, she sees the lines, no longer as threatening as before, but inviting, throbbing and pulsating to an invisible rhythm. She sees the lines on the corpse, and with one hand traces one of their number, stretching from right shoulder to left hip. Though her hand seems to slip easily into the line, the attack costs her a broken finger, a minor inconvenience compared to the injury dealt to Shiki’s enemy, who is now cut in half.
  192. Like a puppet being cut from its strings, the thing collapses in a heap, its one arm the only part of it still able to move, grasping Shiki’s leg like a writhing insect. Without mercy, Shiki quickly stomps on it with her foot.
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  194. Sees and kills the spirits trying to possess her without doing any damage to herself:
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  196. At once, it beats a hasty retreat…not away, but into Shiki’s body. She falls to her knees as if in a trance. In the moment that Shiki lost herself to the ecstasy of murder, it is then that they make their move to possess her, when the sense of self is weakened.
  197. ...
  198. “Now there’s nowhere for you to run,” she speaks to no one but herself. Shiki directs the spellbound sight of her Arcane Eyes inward to see the death of the spectral thing that plagued her, willing and weaving her magic to kill it and only it. Believing only that she won’t be injured from what she was about to do, she gathers her strength.
  199. “I’ll kill the weak part of me. And you will never have Shiki Ryōgi ever again.”
  200. She presses the knife downwards, the blade sliding smoothly through flesh.
  201. The few seconds that pass before she moves again carry the air of a ritual, and when she does move, she withdraws the knife from her chest. No blood runs from her breast, nor are there any traces of it on the blade. But she feels the phantom pain of that knife all the same. She takes a swing at the air, violently, as if to remove the invisible taint of the spirits on the blade, and then speaks to the mage.
  202. - Volume 2, The Hollow Shrine, Page 36
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  204. Kills a Ward fairly easily = https://gfycat.com/PassionateWaryGiantschnauzer
  205.  
  206. At that, Shiki takes her knife and plunges the knife downwards to the ground, striking fugu, the outermost circle of Alaya’s quickly approaching protective wards, whereupon it fades and disappears, “killed” by Shiki. “A foolish observation,” the mage says in rebuke, but even so, he quickens his steps. But this time, having reduced Alaya’s barriers to two, Shiki is ready. And the mage hadn’t considered that totality to which Shiki’s Arcane Eyes can apply. To think that it could even kill something formless and lifeless like a ward formed by the Art is something beyond even his most pessimistic predictions.
  207. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 139
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  209. Kills a pocket dimension to free herself:
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  211. “Yes. True. Perfect weaving, for any mage’s spell. But think back, Alaya. What if your assumption itself was wrong? You isolated Shiki not in a room in this building, but within the building itself, didn’t you? A spell bordering on sorcery that cuts her off from regular space, trapping her in a lemniscate space, rendering anyone incapable of escaping. A prison that won’t break no matter which weapon one uses. It’s a finely woven pattern for one versed in the arcanum of the wards such as you. You think you have trapped her, and your guard slackens. But you see, Alaya, it is no proof against her. We mages might be an abhorrence of reality, a paradox on the pattern of the world, but Shiki is a reaper for beings as uncommon as us. Even now, she works against you!”
  212. ...
  213. Without form, Alaya thought the space would keep her safe from anything that would extract her physically. But the Arcane Eyes that Shiki Ryōgi holds grants her power over that formlessness as well. And so, Alaya realizes too late.
  214. “Now is your blunder obvious, Alaya? It might actually have been better for you to trap Shiki in a concrete cell. Matter with form takes its toll harder on her when she weaves entropy, and is the reason she uses a weapon. Though I doubt even a material prison would have kept her for long. But your flimsy cage is not so solid. You treated her as you would a mage, but now your oversight is costing you, as she now tears it apart tooth and nail slowly but with the ease of shredding meat. And soon, you will be witness to her escape!”
  215. ...
  216. It has been severed, he thinks in protestation, unbelieving. But he is now face to face with the truth of the matter. For he senses the place, somewhere in this building, where something has just torn its way free. It is the closed space he’d constructed, now destroyed in a single unwavering stroke.
  217. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 212
  218.  
  219. Sees and kills the pre-determined future = https://gfycat.com/InfamousImperturbableAkitainu ,this also kills the ability for the guy to see the future (as well as his eye).
  220.  
  221. Combat
  222.  
  223. Describing her fighting style:
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  225. “How about you, Ryōgi? You must have studied aikidō or something.” “Just a passing interest in aikidō, actually. I’ve only been really serious with one style that I’ve been into ever since I was a spoiled brat.”
  226. “Since you were a kid? No wonder you could plant a roundhouse in the back of a running guy’s head. I’m guessing that’s not all there is to your style, though.” Though I only intended it to be a casual statement, Ryōgi takes my last sentence to think on seriously.
  227. “Kind of. It’s sort of a style of my own. The key to it is the mindset. You rethink everything about yourself. Your breathing, your footwork, your perspective, how you think—even the way you move your muscles changes, and it’s almost like becoming someone else. All of it is honed towards taking down your enemy as economically as possible. I mean, I suppose all martial arts touch on it to some extent, but I guess we…I mean, I took it too far.”
  228. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 70
  229.  
  230. Bursts very quickly to kill through some ghosts = https://gfycat.com/ForcefulHappyCoati
  231.  
  232. Does a backflipping, spinning attack = https://gfycat.com/SpeedyAngelicCopperbutterfly
  233.  
  234. Killing another ghost = https://gfycat.com/FrenchSparklingFattaileddunnart
  235.  
  236. Throws her knife very quickly to hit a point of death and kill a ghost = https://gfycat.com/DisguisedFortunateAnnelida
  237.  
  238. Moving from ghost to ghost, killing each one = https://gfycat.com/DelightfulVibrantFruitfly
  239.  
  240. Jumping very high into the air and stabbing a ghost-girl = https://gfycat.com/IncomparableImpoliteGadwall
  241.  
  242. Gracefully kills four enemies without stopping:
  243.  
  244. But that’s Ryōgi’s cue to meet his steps and dispatch him easily with one stab of the knife. A second later, another one—wait, no, three—no, four people pile inside the room, clearly with the same intent, but Ryōgi wastes no time. Moving towards them, she slashes and stabs with a dancer’s grace, reminding me of the spectacle on the night we first met, now made deadlier with the knife in her hand. In a few moments, it is over, and the entrance to the living room is soon covered with four corpses. She grabs my hand and urges me to go.
  245. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 131
  246.  
  247. Mowing through a hallway of enemies at high speeds = https://gfycat.com/GranularFailingKangaroo
  248.  
  249. Frees herself from being grappled and takes out more enemies = https://gfycat.com/GreenPersonalKillerwhale
  250.  
  251. Killing more zombies = https://gfycat.com/KlutzyEntireJohndory
  252.  
  253. Dancing through more enemies = https://gfycat.com/HeartfeltInfamousGalah
  254.  
  255. Parrying attacks from a golf club with her knife = https://gfycat.com/WideScrawnyGrunion
  256.  
  257. Cuts a guy in half = https://gfycat.com/PeriodicMassiveEastsiberianlaika
  258.  
  259. Context: Lio is absurdly quick, acrobatic, and has good reflexes = https://gfycat.com/SecondhandHoarseGannet , I mean jeez, look at this guy = https://gfycat.com/ConsciousAbleFulmar
  260.  
  261. Parries knife attacks from an enemy moving too fast to reliably track = https://gfycat.com/SmoggyYawningDamselfly
  262.  
  263. More knife fighting skills = https://gfycat.com/SpitefulRigidChimneyswift
  264.  
  265. More close-combat skills = https://gfycat.com/SilverBiodegradableChihuahua
  266.  
  267. Blocks an attack from him launching at high speeds = https://gfycat.com/NiftyVariableAnkole
  268.  
  269. Gets her knife to Lio's throat = https://gfycat.com/AbleNiceCockatoo
  270.  
  271. While he was distracted, she cuts his arm off faster than he can react. = https://gfycat.com/DelayedSafeDinosaur
  272.  
  273. “Tell me—,” Shiki said menacingly. Her Eyes glow unlike before, blue and rich with the power of magic. She rushed toward the man, her movement so fast, and the man so distracted by his own revelry, that he never saw her. “—who’s going to kill who, now?”
  274.  
  275. Matches pace with Lio = https://gfycat.com/AdoredImperturbableFinnishspitz
  276.  
  277. On the verge of death, she still cuts off Lio's remaining arm, both legs, and stabs him in the chest before he lands = https://gfycat.com/JoyfulShockedBee
  278.  
  279. "My enemy is coming, reckless and complacent in victory. It will be an easy thing to kill him. I shift my feet slightly. The floor is water. And I need to be light as a swan upon it. Then the end will be mercifully quick. There it is. Shirazumi’s one arm is extended, and upon it dances one of the lines of death. I let him come close, close enough to smell him. And when his arm is almost upon my neck, I swing the knife that lies just below it upward, sweeping the arm and casting it aside effortlessly as it loses strength and dies. No time to spare. I shift just to his left, bringing my knife arm around and down in a wide swing at the line on his left leg, killing it. He begins to stumble as he loses the balance on his dead leg. Then his right leg in one swift motion. Then, in the moment that he is still in the air, I plunge the blade deep into his chest in one clean and solid stroke, finally pushing him to the ground."
  280.  
  281. Kills an invisible spell blindingly fast = https://gfycat.com/EasyApprehensiveEasternnewt
  282.  
  283. “SHUKU!” he roars angrily, clenching his hand into a fist, defining a space around Shiki that he would crush. The lag between the lorica and the weaving of the spell is so small as to be nonexistent, and one casting of it should be enough to dispose of the girl.
  284. But Shiki is fast, anticipating his spell. In a flash the sword is raised high above her head, the speed blindingly fast. With the swiftness with which she raised her sword, she lets it fly downward in a vicious slash. The spell manifests only for a moment, but Shiki kills it, just as surely as the ringing sound of her blade cutting air seems to cancel out Alaya’s booming voice.
  285. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 217
  286.  
  287. Destroys a second ward = https://gfycat.com/SharpPositiveFrillneckedlizard
  288.  
  289. Sprints and destroys two wards before Souren can open and close his hand:
  290.  
  291. The mage attempts to repeat the spell. He need only open his palm again, and then close it. But it is too slow for him to react properly. He hasn’t even spoken, hasn’t even entered the spell’s weaving in his mind, when Shiki displaces from her position. She shifts the sword to her side at waist level—a side stance that allows for wide swings—and sprints to her target. Before the fight, Alaya considered the loss of one ward to be acceptable, thinking to take Shiki with the second. But now her blinding advance eliminates two of the wards in quick succession; two steps forward and two slashes swung gracefully from both flanks. And still she advances. She has just closed the previously six meter gap into zero. One more step, one more breath, timed with one more strike to end the game.
  292. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 217
  293.  
  294. So fast that it appears that time flows as discrete events, rather than measured seconds:
  295.  
  296. The sword comes from Alaya’s right flank, and he sees the blade flow in a diagonal cut. Her speed almost seems to make time flow in discrete events rather than arbitrary measurements of seconds.
  297. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 217
  298.  
  299. Also so fast that he doesn't he even realize his arm has been cut off, despite spacial manipulation to evade faster than normal humans = https://gfycat.com/PlumpAcclaimedIndianabat
  300.  
  301. Alaya lets the right arm rest at his side.
  302. That is, until he realizes there is no more arm. From the top of his shoulder all the way to his right chest, the clear traces of a clean strike can be seen, and on the floor lies his missing arm. His manipulation of space made the backstep he performed faster than any normal human, yet Shiki was still able to cut him with a strike so perfect that even the owner of the arm never noticed it until after the fact.
  303. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 218
  304.  
  305. Trading Attack with Souren = https://gfycat.com/ScratchyJollyBear
  306.  
  307. Cuts a disembodied arm into pieces before it touches the ground = https://gfycat.com/SimpleIllfatedIndianabat
  308.  
  309. Appears to disappear from sight when she bent low and ran to attack:
  310.  
  311. For a moment, she seems to disappear from Alaya’s sight, but she has only bent low and run fast toward him, getting under his guard more quickly than he can react. The sword moves in a blur, and it instantly strikes Alaya right in his center of mass.
  312. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 219
  313.  
  314. Acrobatics and Athletics
  315.  
  316. Leaping across the street, from building to building = https://gfycat.com/ShadyWhimsicalGrassspider
  317.  
  318. Lands stylishly = https://gfycat.com/SinfulLankyEider
  319.  
  320. Leaps quickly to the side to avoid her leg being twisted off = https://gfycat.com/PerfumedWideeyedDiamondbackrattlesnake
  321.  
  322. A faint light glitters in Fujino’s eyes. She focuses on Shiki’s left leg as the axis of rotation, and in only a moment, the spell starts to manifest. In that same instant, Shiki feels the pull of the unseen hand on her leg, and with an explosion of force, jumps quickly to one side, making water splash in the opposite direction. But if the spell slackened due to that, it was not to any reasonable amount. This spell was no projectile. As long as Shiki remained within sight of Fujino, she couldn’t escape it.
  323. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 146
  324.  
  325. The bending distortion she uses is definitely not slow = https://gfycat.com/SecondhandHelplessCockroach
  326.  
  327. Running and jumping off a wall = https://gfycat.com/CompassionateIdealisticCivet
  328.  
  329. Comes charging out to rush Asagami = https://gfycat.com/AthleticLankyAnophelesmosquito
  330.  
  331. Recovers from a missed attack and barely avoids a point-blank distortion = https://gfycat.com/FabulousDefiantBadger
  332.  
  333. Clicking her tongue at her miscalculation, Shiki recovers from her missed attack, readies her knife for another strike, and starts to spring towards the offensive again, but not before Fujino recovers from her daze and weaves her spell at Shiki’s torso.
  334. “GO AWAY!” yells Fujino, unleashing her attack at the same time. Shiki, for her part, decides that she missed her chance and evades the point-blank blast by a hair’s breadth. It only takes her a leap and a moment’s sprint to recede back into the shadows that concealed her well only seconds ago.
  335. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 147
  336.  
  337. Leaps quickly at her enemy = https://gfycat.com/CelebratedSlimFlyingfish
  338.  
  339. Briefly breaks free being frozen in position due to Souren Araya's bounded field/ward = https://gfycat.com/ShamefulFatalCottontail
  340.  
  341. Tackles Souren after slicing his ear off, giving him no time to react and breaking bones.
  342.  
  343. The mage grunts in pain, not from the injury in his ear, but from the shock of impact of something hitting his body full on, a white mass that his attention can’t quite yet parse after the suddenness of the knife. By the time he realizes it is Shiki who hit him, the duel is already decided. Shiki had delivered a shoulder tackle with all the speed and brutality she could muster—enough to break at least a few bones—before she deftly maneuvers her knife in a thrust towards Alaya’s center of mass.
  344. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 140
  345.  
  346. Jumps really high off the bridge = https://gfycat.com/AbleSeriousDiplodocus
  347.  
  348. Lands down through the Glass Parking Lot Roof = https://gfycat.com/UnconsciousAlienatedBanteng
  349.  
  350. Jumps off the edge of a 10-story building = https://gfycat.com/FirstAcrobaticAphid
  351.  
  352. Nothing I can do about whatever magic he uses to move around, thinks Shiki. If he wants to run, I’ll let him run. She runs to the edge of the hallway, with the view of the outside, and puts a hand on the railing as she casts her eyes below to find her target.
  353. But he’s not gonna get away this time. Without hesitation, Shiki leaps over the edge.
  354. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 220
  355.  
  356. Hits Souren outside while falling and cuts him into pieces before he even knows she's there:
  357.  
  358. He looks up and extends his remaining arm skyward to point to the very top of the cylindrical structure, opening his palm.
  359. The next thing he knows, a vicious cut goes straight down and through his left shoulder.
  360. The next thing he knew, a vicious cut went straight down and through his left shoulder.
  361. “Shiki…Ryōgi,” he manages to gurgle out with difficulty as he looks up at the night sky. “You damned…fool of a woman.”
  362. ...
  363. Alaya had emerged in the grounds outside the building, looked up at the structure to work his spell, only to meet the fleeting sight of Shiki Ryōgi falling rapidly from the tenth floor. Which means there was little interval between the mage’s weaving of his relocation spell, and the girl’s thoughtless descent from the highest floor of the building. What confidence possessed her at that moment, he will never know. He suspects he would never be able to know. How could Shiki have known that he would appear in the grounds outside? And even given this, who would even think to jump off and think they would land safely? To aim and hit a lone man from that height at that nearly uncontrolled fall is an act that has gone well past recklessness and into the realm of some miraculous foresight. As if she’d known.
  364. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 221
  365.  
  366. And in that 10-story jump attack she actually cut his line of death:
  367.  
  368. The last bit of his energy has been expended in kicking Shiki away, and now he can’t do anything. For he feels that the slash has struck more than just the body: one of his lines of death must have been cut.
  369. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 222
  370.  
  371. In the anime, she stabbed him through the chest during free fall = https://gfycat.com/FoolishBewitchedEmperorshrimp
  372.  
  373. Jumps away from an point blank bomb explosion = https://gfycat.com/AdvancedPastApe and lands safely into the river = https://gfycat.com/DefenselessWelltodoCamel
  374.  
  375. Running fast likely faster than cars = https://gfycat.com/DependentFewAustrianpinscher
  376.  
  377. Throwing Knives
  378.  
  379. Predicts where her enemy is going to land, nails him with a throwing knife in the air, then follows up on his landing = https://gfycat.com/HealthyTerrificGuineafowl
  380.  
  381. Throws her knife at high speed, bouncing and hitting the lines of death on two circular wards before hitting the ear of her target = https://gfycat.com/FlawedGraveEmperorpenguin
  382.  
  383. Durability
  384.  
  385. Keeps charging while her arm gets ripped out = https://gfycat.com/DentalTepidHen
  386.  
  387. “I have you!” Fujino exclaims, and sets her sights on the phantom clad in white. Shiki continues her charge, her bloodied and battered left arm outstretched.
  388. There is a moment’s hesitation from Fujino, and then she works her spell. With a sickening crunch of ripped sinew and bone, she bends Shiki’s already wounded arm, and finally breaks it. But when Fujino casts her eyes on Shiki’s neck to finish the job, she finds that the girl is but one solid pace from her.
  389. - Volume 1, Remaining Sense of Pain, Page 147
  390.  
  391. In the anime she gets kicked, thrown, and slammed into a wall = https://gfycat.com/GoodnaturedPleasingChihuahua
  392.  
  393. Gets sent flying through a wall, comes back, then gets kicked away and recovers = https://gfycat.com/ShowyIllegalFalcon
  394.  
  395. Shakes off space crushing her:
  396.  
  397. “Shuku!” He clenches his fist, and tightens space yet again. Shiki feels her body crumpling with a compelling force seeming to come from all places at once, and an audible grunt of pain finally escapes her lips. The leather jacket is torn away, and she is forced away from where she stood, Alaya having manipulated the space to compress to a size far smaller than it appeared to be.
  398. At first, Shiki actually looks like she will fall hard to the floor from the attack, but she catches her footing just in time. Quickly, she redoubles her attack, the corridor funneling her into a singular path directly toward Alaya again and again.
  399. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 219
  400.  
  401. Swordsmanship
  402.  
  403. Has a sword style unique to her family:
  404.  
  405. At the beginning of each month, it is customary in the Ryōgi dynasty for the head of the family and the heir to have a sword duel with live steel. In the past, different swordmasters would be invited to participate in the duel, and to teach their craft. But then, tiring of such acts, one of my ancestors stopped this practice long ago, and created within the manor his own school of swordsmanship. Into such a tradition was I born, and even a girl of the Ryōgi dynasty must bear a certain standard with the sword.
  406. - Volume 1, Murder Speculation (Part 1), Page 50
  407.  
  408. When wielding a katana, she enters into a trance and fights without limits:
  409.  
  410. “You change with the weapon you hold,” the black-coated mage observes in astonishment. It is the reason she seems so different. Her extensive training in the dance of the sword changes her, forcing her into an almost trance-like state. Her mind compartmentalizes much like, as Alaya suspects, the past warriors did by training their mind to shape their bodies as a weapon. The fight was killing and survival, outside it was normalcy. “Hmph. A form of autohypnosis, as mages do when working the Art,” he mutters, his voice struggling to hold back the pain from his right arm. Shiki shrugs. “Whatever you wanna call it, I guess.”
  411. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 218
  412.  
  413. Her sword (Kanesaeda Kuji) has the ability to break bounded fields/wards that it comes in contact with:
  414.  
  415. “Shiki, I know that’s an old piece of history. Don’t even think of pulling that out unless you want to cut down the ward around this place.” Shiki freezes as soon as she says that. “It’s impressive and all, and I can even read the Kuji: ‘let the warrior-god light my way.’ It’s cool. But the wards that I’ve put up won’t be a match for a sword with that kind of history.”
  416. ...
  417. “Old swords build up their own mystery and belief around their ancient history, and so become weapons capable of even cutting spells shaped from the Art,” explains Miss Tōko. “So don’t take that thing out again. I won’t be responsible for any eldritch horrors you may unleash spiriting you away.”
  418. - Volume 2, Paradox Spiral, Page 109
  419.  
  420. Void/God Ryougi Shiki = http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/a/af/Kara_no_Kyoukai_-_Void_Shiki.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160126230826
  421.  
  422.  
  423. http://kissanime.io/Anime/Gekijouban-Kara-no-Kyoukai-The-Garden-of-Sinners.57273/Movie-Epilogue?id=25643
  424.  
  425. Watch it from 2:29 to the end, its a long explination from Ryougi about her existence and why she is "Omnipotent" as she state.
  426.  
  427. "it is possible those who end up there "become God" in a sense, so there is no reason for them to come back. It is also possible they cannot come back because "being God" isn't truly such a wondrous event as humans may think. - Type Moon Talking about the Root."
  428.  
  429.  
  430. Ryougi in the end of Kara no Kyoukai becomes one with the Root / The Void.
  431.  
  432. While Shiki can see the death of everything, Void Shiki can do so much more. = http://pastebin.com/e2h5TZDV
  433.  
  434. She claims the ability to do anything she wishes, as being connected to it makes her an equivocal existence. She can also kill a concept such as the distance between her and an enemy, universal bending, sickness, mental weakness, time, etc. Beyond that, she can kill multiple things within a single motion.
  435.  
  436. She also claims that it would be trivially easy for her to annihilate reality, change the very structure of elementary particles. I can transmute evolution itself. = http://pastebin.com/BPHfvbv1
  437.  
  438. Thats all, the Ryougi bieng Omnipotent topic can be drop If anyone wants cuz for me its drop, its that I wanted to show why I belive she is what Tyoe Moon stated thats all.
  439.  
  440. Others
  441.  
  442. Tohno Shiki from Tsukihime have shown to do everything that Ryougi can do exept the Swordmanship, later it was stated and confirmed that Ryougi is superior than Tohno, in skills is "Debateable" but in Potential and Raw Power ( Stats ) Tohno is "Beyond" Ryougi = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVdE92nNFE&index=88&list=PLDFCCLBtLd-_uFxn2zCfmWjmke4Ey41H1 ( Start from 5:28 to 8:48 )
  443.  
  444. Type Moon stated that Ryougi can hold herself against "Average" Servants for a few moments/seconds before she dies by them, and MEODP ( Mystic Eyes of Death Perseption ) cant Not kill Servants nor True Ancestors + Types & God.
  445.  
  446. Overall:
  447.  
  448. Ryougi Shiki is Wall Level to Wall Level+ to Low/Bulding Level near+ with Hypersonic to or near Hypersonic+ Speed.
  449.  
  450. Void/God Ryougi Shiki is stated to be Omnipotent but was then confirmed by Type Moon to be a Match for the Servants to Top Tier Servants ( Like Saber, Gilgamesh, Archer etc. ) were they defeats/kill her with some little problems, as Void Ryougi Shiki is "Debateable" below 100% Arcueid and "Legit" obviously both her ( Void Ryougi Shiki ) and 100% Arcueid as some of the Servants are below ORT = http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/e/ed/ORT.png/revision/latest?cb=20140703150351 ( Who is God of Nasuverse ).
  451.  
  452. Ryougi Shiki's Theme = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqilifv67zo
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