"I... killed the weak me. 　　 I won't let you have it———————— Shiki Ryougi" 　　 Two years since the accident. 　　 Shiki Ryougi, who had been in a prolonged coma, had always been touching "death" while simultaneously fearing "death." 　　 Finally, she awakened. 　　 But what awaited her was a landscape filled with profound loneliness and despair. 　　 What she lost was the fragment that had always been together with her in the same vessel—"SHIKI." 　　 What she gained was the aberrant power to see the lines of death in all things—the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception." 　　 Carrying a result even the Ryougi family was unaware of, all to reach the outcome of nurturing Shiki as an existence. 　　 SHIKI, who loved to dream. 　　 SHIKI, who harbored deep murderous impulses. 　　 Now, they are nowhere to be found. 　　 Even as an indescribable sense of loss and the touch of death left the girl hollow. 　　 Even as she realized that, for spirits, such a vessel was the ultimate prize they sought—. 　　 There was a boy who wanted to protect such a girl. No, he should be called a young man now. His name is Mikiya Kokutou. 　　 His superior, a remarkably beautiful puppeteer magician, though now merely the owner of the workshop "Garan no Dou." Her name is Shizuki Seo. 　　 One day, Seo wanted to meet Shiki. Under what pretext would she go to see her? 　　 For now, as a life counselor. Why did she want to meet her? It was fate. 　　 They met, and time passed slowly. But eventually, it came to an end. 　　 One night, for the sake of the hollow vessel, spirits came to attack for the flesh. 　　 In that instant, what appeared in the girl's eyes were the lines of death—a凶煞静谧 that could be grasped. In her hand was a small knife. Her eyes shone. And so, the girl resolved to take her first step with her own limbs.