Cigarettes
Chocolate
Please do not smoke.
How is it, mistress?
Please stop.
It feels very unpleasant.
Oh, she's saying you suck.
Shut up.
She's frigid.
Man.
Hey, Keita. You wanna go pick up some other chick?
Yeah. I'm getting tired of her.
Wait up guys.
I'll make it a little more interesting.
Kara no Kyoukai
Remaining Sense of Pain
Hey you, what's wrong?
Does your stomach hurt?
No, um... I...
Does your stomach hurt?
No.
Yes. It really, really hurts.
I'm about to cry.
Can I cry?
Yeah.
The scene of the crime is an underground bar that has been abandoned for half a year.
The victims were witnessed going in and out of this place frequently.
The limbs of the corpses were torn off by someone,
and the police are investigating the method of murder along with the whereabouts of the killer.
What do you mean, wait until next month for my pay?
Even if I wanted to pay you, I don't have the money.
No way.
You had like 10,120,000 yen transferred to your bank account yesterday!
What on earth did you spend it on?
You added an extra zero.
Well, it's a trivial item.
It's a Ouija board from the Victorian era.
I'm not expecting much out of it, but since it's over a hundred years old it may not be entirely worthless.
No matter how trivial it may be, if it has traces of magical energy and a long history-
I don't care about explanations.
I just so happened to see it on sale, so I bought it on impulse.
Don't get so mad.
I'm broke now too.
So, what?
Seriously now, I'm not getting my pay this month?
Right. Each employee is to obtain money themselves.
You bet I will.
Oh, Kokutou.
What is it, Touko-san?
Could you lend me some money?
As you can see, I'm broke.
I absolutely refuse.
Geez. People get petty when they run out of money.
Touko. Continue with it.
Oh, right.
I didn't want to accept this kind of job, but I had no choice since I need the money.
Well, about the incident last night...
You don't have to talk about it anymore.
I get it for the most part.
Oh? I only told you about the scene of the crime.
You catch on quickly, don't you.
The client has an idea of who the killer is.
Your job is to secure her if possible.
But if she shows any signs of fighting back, you are to kill her without hesitation.
I see.
What do you think? I think this job is perfect for you.
I don't even need to answer that.
You're pretty impatient, Shiki.
Are you that hungry?
Here, this is her photo and her background.
What are you going to do without even knowing what she looks like?
I don't need it.
She's my kind.
We'll definitely try to kill each other the very moment we meet.
What? Hey now.
You call for me because you need to borrow some money?
Are you really Kokutou Mikiya-kun?
Even I'll do anything if I'm cornered.
That's the situation I'm in.
But still, isn't it easier to borrow the money from your parents instead?
We got into a fight when I dropped out of college, and we've never talked since then.
How would I be able to go back to them now?
You're stubborn in weird ways.
Did you get into a big fight with your dad or something?
My circumstances don't matter.
So, will you lend me the money or not?
Oh, you're in a pretty bad mood, huh?
Thanks.
You know the proverb, one hand washes the other.
Do you remember Minato Keita?
He's a junior.
He was that guy who was really attached to you back in high school, right?
What about him?
Apparently he hasn't been home since last night.
Help me look for him.
It seems he's gotten involved in something dangerous.
Something dangerous?
Would you happen to know where Keita-san might be?
I need to see Keita-san, no matter what.
Otherwise, I...
I guess that sarcasm-drenched superintendent really doesn't like students going out at night.
So I told her, "If the other kids started going out at night like Fujino and me, who have the best grades,
they might just start getting better grades."
Fujino?
Are you nervous?
You don't have to worry.
My brother is like the personification of the word harmless.
But he's always been good at searching for people, so I'm sure he'll find that upperclassman you admire.
Okay.
Azaka.
Ryougi Shiki.
I'm meeting my brother.
I have no business with you.
I have a message from your brother.
He says he can't come today.
He stood you up.
Shiki...
This is your doing, right?
Huh? That's a false accusation.
I'm a victim too.
He left a message on my phone saying, "I can't see Azaka, so send her home" and hung up abruptly.
Um... Kokutou-san.
What?!
Um, everyone's staring.
Oh, no. I just...
I'm sorry, Fujino.
You...
Doesn't... it hurt?
No, it's not you.
Hey!
Criticizing my brother wasn't enough, now you're criticizing my friend too?
No, that wasn't my intention.
It's just on my end.
You keep getting on my nerves.
What do you mean by "just on my end"?
Stop picking on me.
Aren't you being overly self-conscious?
Who're you calling overly self-conscious?
I don't want to hear that from someone walking around with that on.
It's none of your business.
Leave me alone.
Well, that's all.
Do you have a message for him?
Please tell him one thing.
"Brother, please cut your ties with this woman."
Good. I'll tell him that.
Bye.
I'm sorry, Fujino.
I'll talk to Mikiya myself.
She was beautiful.
Yeah.
But I...
...hate her.
I think it was the night before last.
Sakuya-kun got a call from Keita-kun, and he was saying something like "I'll be killed!"
"I'll be killed"?
Keita-kun's friends were killed one after another, right?
I hear he was really crying.
I don't wanna say this when I'm the one selling drugs, but they're brutal.
Everyone said they'd get stabbed one day.
It's a big hit to me because my biggest customers are gone.
Oh, how about it?
If you're Gakuto-san's friend, I'll give you a bargain and sell you a package for 2000 yen.
Kouhei? Wasn't he outside the store?
Damn, is he at it again?
Some rich-looking girl came and said she needed to talk to him.
Was it someone he knows?
Well, I don't know.
He knows a lot of people, that guy.
He'll come back right away. He's fast after all.
Please.
Tell me where Keita-san is.
H-Help...
M-My leg, it's t-twisted.
What's wrong with my leg?
My leg turned into a screw...
Bend.
I'm sorry...
But I have to do this.
Only doing this can I finally be like everyone else.
In truth... I don't wish to kill people.
That's not true.
Asagami Fujino.
I see, you were related to Asakami.
Shiki-san? Since when were you there...
Since the time you lured that piece of meat out here, I've been here.
Please do not say "piece of meat"!
He's human.
He's a human...
Hey now, humans don't die like that.
A person who didn't end his life like a human isn't human anymore.
A person removed from the boundary line is deprived of all his meaning.
Common sense can't deal with things like that corpse, or like you.
No. I'm normal.
I'm not like you.
We're birds of a feather.
Asagami Fujino.
Don't be ridiculous.
Again?!
What the hell's going on with you?!
That's it. What a turn-off.
It's worthless to kill you now.
Hurry up and go home.
That way, we won't ever see each other again.
When I was small, I once cut my hand while playing house.
There was a real blade mixed in the small cooking utensils.
Fujino! What are you doing?
There's so much blood...
It must hurt.
I didn't understand her words,
but I was so happy she embraced me...
Fujino, the pain will go away once the cut heals.
I didn't understand what her words meant...
Because not even once did I feel any pain.
But I finally understand.
My stomach really hurts.
I finally acquired pain, I'm alive.
W-What the hell is she saying?
I really don't want to, but I don't want anyone to find out I'm a murderer either...
So I have to kill you, Keita-san.
Stop! Please stop!
Kokutou, please help me.
She's crazy.
She was weird from the start, but she's a monster...
A monster!!
Monster?
I don't think you'll believe me,
but she would just stand there and everybody would be twisted.
I heard the sound of their bones breaking...
Everyone...
Everyone was killed!
All right. I'll believe you.
Eh... But...
You shouldn't force yourself to accept something you don't understand.
Anyway, what do you mean by being strange from the start?
W-We first did Fujino... half a year ago.
It was weird.
It was like she was acting.
All of her reactions were slow.
She didn't make a face when we threatened her.
She didn't change even when we drugged her.
She acted like nothing happened even when she got punched.
She looked great, but it wasn't fun to do her.
It felt like I was fucking a doll.
But...
Well, it was different that one time.
It happened recently.
One of my friends hit her in the back with a baseball bat.
She was blown away and her face was twisted in pain.
I was actually relieved to see that.
I found out she also felt pain.
I remember it because she acted like a human that night.
You...
Shut up.
You're too nice.
Yeah, I knew you'd make fun of me like that any time now.
Protecting Keita after you heard his story...
You should be called stupid.
It can't be helped. You know the circumstances.
It is indeed a peculiar case.
But what are you going to do now?
I think the only thing to do is to go see her and talk.
You're an idiot. That's why you're too nice.
You can't get through to her.
She's beyond help.
She won't stop until she accomplishes her goal.
No, I don't even know if she'll stop then.
Shiki, you sound like you know Asagami Fujino.
I know her, and I've met her.
She was with Azaka yesterday when I went to see her.
With Azaka...?
So... she's still going to school?
No. She hasn't been back to her house or her dorm since the night of the incident.
She's been skipping school too.
Azaka said she hasn't seen her since yesterday.
They came to me to search for her, after all.
She's completely disappeared.
Things are going to get rough, so you are to stay here with Keita.
Get rough?
What are you going to do with Asagami Fujino?
Depending on the circumstances, we might have to fight her.
No way.
It's not like she's indiscriminately killing people.
I think it's possible to talk with her.
That's impossible.
I made Minato Keita confess when I put him to sleep.
On the night they were killed, their leader attacked Asagami Fujino with a knife.
It seems Fujino was stabbed.
That was the trigger of her revenge.
The problem starts here.
She was stabbed in her stomach on the night of the 20th.
Shiki met her two days later.
At that time, Asagami Fujino didn't have any wounds on her.
She was completely healed.
A stab wound on her stomach?
But on the phone, Fujino said her wound hurts, right?
She probably recalls the pain of being stabbed whenever she thinks of the times she was violated,
causing her to kill people.
Who can say it won't happen while we're talking to her?
You're wrong, Touko.
She really does feel pain.
The pain she's feeling is still in her body.
Huh? But you said she didn't have any wounds.
A wound that hurts... even after it's completely healed, huh?
Is the sense of pain remaining in her body?
Perhaps... she's insensitive to pain.
You mean Asagami Fujino?
According to Keita, Asagami Fujino didn't react to anything they did to her.
If that's true, it's possible that she has an abnormal sense of pain.
Insensitive to pain, huh?
If that's the case, was there something that changed her?
Like getting hit in the back, or having lots of steroids shot into her neck?
Back...?
I don't know how strong it was, but I hear she got hit in the back with a baseball bat.
So it's that, huh.
The guy's full swing temporarily cured her insensitivity to pain.
The pain she felt for the first time must be one of the impulses driving her to murder.
The pain is...?
Listen. To feel no sensations means you cannot gain anything, Kokutou.
Right. To put it roughly, it's like not having a body.
I'm sure it's hard to feel that you're alive.
This girl learned of pain. I'm sure she'd want even more of it.
No way...
The sense of pain she finally gained is triggering her revenge?
But according to Shiki, her pain insensitivity's back, right?
I don't care about that.
I can't forgive Asagami Fujino.
Just thinking that she might kill again makes me want to vomit.
Hate for your own kind, huh?
Your type doesn't like to stick together, after all.
I'll investigate Asagami Fujino's past.
It's worth investigating... I guess.
Maybe Asagami Fujino is just a victim.
The question is which was first.
I'll be going far away.
I might not be back today or tomorrow.
All right, go ahead.
Shiki, I'm going now. Don't be too reckless.
You're the reckless one.
Christ.
I guess it's true that stupidity can't be cured.
I'll try.
Okay. So she hasn't been there since the 20th?
What about the prescription?
Asagami
Yes. It's about that accident.
So the driver was dead before the accident?
Eh?
It's just a minor collision accident? Even though his head was twisted off?
No, that's normal since there weren't any passengers.
No detective can solve a mystery in a moving sealed room, after all.
No, that's all I needed to know.
Thank you. I shall repay you for this, Officer Akimi.
Goodbye.
Shiki, it's the seventh victim.
This time it's unrelated, right?
Yeah. It seems Minato Keita doesn't know this morning's victim.
Then I can't wait any longer.
Shiki!
Araya Souren
I made my client make those card keys.
Araya Souren
But the name belongs to an old acquaintance of mine.
I'm sure Asagami Fujino stole cards like these.
It'll be troublesome, so finish this off before Kokutou gets back.
Kokutou didn't make it in time, huh?
Now... Will the storm come first, or will the storm break first?
Shiki might end up being killed instead if she goes alone, Ryougi.
Field Day
Oh, what's wrong, Fujino-chan?
I forgot my towel.
Please go on back.
Okay.
See you later.
Does it hurt?
Let me see it.
I didn't want anybody to know that I can't feel pain.
I'm sure I'll break unless people think I'm normal.
You're stupid.
Listen.
Pain isn't something you bear.
Pain is something you have to speak up about.
Um...
Asagami... Fujino-chan?
Are you all right?
Tell me if it hurts, okay?
Okay. I'm all right.
Come to think of it, it was from that day...
Senpai...
I...
That was fast. It's only been a day.
I heard a typhoon was coming, so I came back before public transport stopped.
I see.
More importantly, Touko-san.
It's about Asagami Fujino.
She's indeed insensitive to pain, but she used to be normal.
What?
The young Asagami lady is a bit unusual.
She can bend things without touching them.
I hear the people in the town found it creepy and harassed her.
Her father was concerned and came to me for help.
Well, I didn't do anything.
I just prepared the medicine he wanted.
Is the treatment the cause of her insensitivity to pain?
Insensitivity to pain?
I don't know about that.
But at the very least, when I first met her, she would cry every time she fell or bled.
It's not congenital or acquired...
I've never heard of a case of insensitivity to pain like this.
No, it's not even correct to call it insensitivity to pain.
Asagami Fujino's sensitivity was artificially taken away.
It's the exact reverse of Shiki's case.
Fujino's father decided to seal her ability by sealing her sensitivity.
It's the complete opposite of the Ryougi family, which tries to develop successors with power.
But how sad... Fujino's ability became more powerful because of that.
The Asakamis' blood and the Ryougis' blood.
Touko-san! Where's Shiki?
She's... already left.
Touko-san, is she treatable?
Her wound won't heal.
It'll only continue to hurt.
You see, she was never wounded to begin with, that girl.
Think about it.
If you get stabbed in your stomach, does the wound heal by itself?
In just a day or two, at that.
It all started with a trivial misunderstanding, Kokutou.
Misunderstanding?
At the time, Fujino thought she was going to be stabbed.
No, I'm sure she was really about to be stabbed.
Her sense of pain was already back at that point.
The stab or the twisting.
Fujino was faster.
Fujino must have thought she had been stabbed in the stomach.
That's strange!
If her sense of pain returned, she wouldn't have had that misunderstanding!
If she didn't get stabbed, it wouldn't hurt!
Fujino was in pain from the start, really.
We finally meet again, Asagami.
Ryougi... Shiki.
You're a beast that learned the taste of blood.
You're enjoying murder.
That's you.
I'm not enjoying it at all.
There's a proverb in this country, third time's the charm.
The way you are now, I can kill you.
That's not enough...
...to get away from me.
What an absurd person...
But...
I'm... the stronger one.
I heard from her current doctor.
She has chronic cecitis, commonly known as appendicitis.
The pain in her stomach isn't from a knife wound, but the organ itself.
So it's a misunderstanding?
The wound itself is.
But the fact doesn't change.
Whether the knife was there or not,
her only way out was to kill them.
She would've been killed if she hadn't.
Not her body, but her mind.
But unfortunately, Minato Keita escaped.
It wouldn't have come this far if her revenge had ended then.
Or if I had kept my promise to see Azaka that day.
Shiki's right. Either way, Asagami Fujino is beyond help.
Beyond help? Why?
Shiki was talking about her psychological state.
Fujino's acts were murder up till the 5th victim.
Killing anyone beyond that was not murder, but massacre.
Shiki's mad because she sees no justification for massacre.
You're better than me...
Shiki-san.
But... if I can't see you...
You sure like to talk.
Go away!
What a person...
I even destroyed her arm...
Why didn't she stop?
That was bad.
Shiki has a taste for murder, but she still unconsciously understands how serious death is.
That's why she doesn't kill indiscriminately like Asagami Fujino.
Shiki probably can't forgive Fujino because she's doing as she pleases.
But I mean "beyond help" in the physical sense.
If left alone, the appendix ruptures and peritonitis develops.
If this reaches the duodenum, she'll die in half a day in the worst case.
It's been five days since the 20th. It should long have ruptured already.
It's unfortunate, but it's definitely fatal.
It's not too late yet. We have to quickly put her under care!
Our client is Asagami Fujino's father.
He must have known about the powers she had as a child.
So upon hearing about the incident, he recognized it as Fujino's doing, and told me to kill that monster.
Her father, the only one who can protect her, is wishing for her death.
She has no salvation at all.
You idiot...!
You're great, Asagami.
You're the greatest.
I know it's useless now, but still...
Let's go.
I already see the trick behind your magic!
As I thought, you're insane.
Bend.
Things without form are hard to see, but you used it too many times.
Thanks to you, I can finally see them.
Your power is a spiral of red and green.
It's truly very beautiful.
Who are you?
Everything in creation has a flaw.
Humans don't even need to be mentioned.
Air, intent, and even time.
My eyes can see the death of things.
They're special, just like yours.
Bend.
So I can kill anything that lives,
even if that thing is God.
Bend!
Bend-
Are you going... to kill me?
Why are you going to kill me?
I was only killing because my wound hurt.
You're lying.
Then why are you smiling?
Back then and even now...
Why do you look so happy?
No way.
In the end, you're enjoying it.
You can't help but enjoy hurting other people.
That's why your pain will never go away.
That's the answer?
I told you. We're birds of a feather.
BEND!
I have to get away.
This place will crumble.
No... I don't... want to die.
It hurts.
I want to... live on.
I want to... talk more.
I want to... keep loving him.
I want to... continue being... here...
It hurts.
It hurts, senpai.
It really... hurts.
It hurts so much that... I'm going to cry.
Can... I... cry?
Is it painful?
If it hurts...
If it hurts, you should've said so.
You should've said so.
Shiki!
Yo. I thought you'd be here, somehow.
Shiki, that wound...
All you lost was an arm, Shiki?
Touko, she even developed the ability to see through things in the end, and destroyed the bridge.
She'll become incredibly powerful if left alone.
See through things? Clairvoyance, huh?
She'll certainly be invincible if clairvoyance is added to her powers.
She can make a fulcrum even if you're hiding behind something...
Wait, leave her be?
Her insensitivity to pain returned at the very end.
It's unfair.
I can't kill that Asagami Fujino.
I couldn't help it, so I killed the disease in her stomach.
You might be able to save her if you hurry.
Oh, I killed my left arm because it was useless.
You can make an artificial arm, right, Touko?
...I need an ambulance for a girl who...
All right. That'll be your pay for this job.
I always thought that your body was too normal when contrasted with your Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
I'll make the arm capable of grabbing spirits.
Yes. Thank you.
An ambulance is heading here now.
All right then, let's go back. It'll be troublesome if we stay here.
I'll stay here since I called them. I'll report what happened.
You can go ahead, Touko-san.
I see. Let's go, Shiki.
I'll pass.
Shiki, don't kill Kokutou just because you couldn't kill Asagami Fujino.
Shiki, can you still not forgive Asagami Fujino?
I'm not interested in someone whom I've already killed.
What about you?
You say murder is wrong no matter what the reason may be.
Yeah.
But I feel for her.
To be honest, I don't feel anything about what happened to the people who attacked her.
That's unexpected.
I was hoping for your general opinion.
Really?
But, Shiki...
Even though she lost herself, Asagami Fujino is a normal girl with common sense.
She'll accept what she's done while not being able to gloss over the facts.
The wound in her mind will never heal and will continue to hurt her.
It will never heal, just like how her sense of pain was remaining.
It pains me.
You're such a nice person.
But...
But I don't have things like common sense.
Can you let a person like me run free?
I see.
I guess it can't be helped.
I'll bear your sins in your place.
Now I remember.
You always joke about that stuff with a straight face.
I confess, Shiki had a hard time dealing with those jokes.
I see.
I think I can carry at least one girl with me.
I want to confess another thing.
I think today's incident burdened me with a sin.
But I found out something in return.
What I want.
It's vague and fragile, but I'll have to depend on it for now.
It turns out what I'm depending on isn't as ugly as I thought.
I'm a little happy because of that.
A slight... Just a slight murderous impulse that's leaning towards you.
Come to think of it,
that was the first true smile she showed me ever since she woke up.
July, 1998
Remaining Sense of Pain
Walking from the silence towards the scenery of love I have yet to see
I want to believe in this pain through the night
The chest you touched has a gentle wound
The hidden tears drop onto the crimson
Petals finally light up on the cold skin
I'm here, I'll sing the blessing
The dream is about to end
When the stardust disappears
Hey, embrace me so that I know I'm alive
Born from the silence, unknowing of warmth
I just want to reach life through the night
Please see me off, oh sweet summer rain
So I can cry until mutual trust begins
I want to engrave happiness and sorrow deeply
I'm here with you
In the traces of the blessing
When the stardust disappears
In the light I see for the first time
With those eyes and kisses
Please give me proof of love
I want to cry, pierced by life
Walking from the silence towards the distant daybreak I have yet to see
I just want to grant my wish through the night
Next Episode
It has been two years since that night
June, 1998
Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, huh?
It's a waste to lose those eyes, Shiki.
It's so beautiful here.
It's so happy.
But humans are... so alone.
Do you know... who I am?
Did Shiki-kun really die for nothing?
Ryougi Shiki.
I'll kill the weak me!
I won't give Ryougi Shiki to you!
Kara no Kyoukai
The Hollow