*slurp*
*munch munch*
*mun-
Let's sever the noise!
Kara no Kyoukai
The Hollow
March 1996
I'll open the door.
What's her condition?
Her consciousness level is JCS3 and blood pressure is 60 by palpation.
Secure an infusion line and get an electrocardiogram.
Okay.
Ryougi-san? Can you hear me, Ryougi-san?
I'm sorry. Please wait here.
One, two, three!
Line secured.
How are her vitals?
Her blood pressure is low, but everything else is stable.
Can you run a cross-match test?
Yes.
She's intubated. We'll start preoperative treatment.
Ryougi-san, I'm cutting your kimono.
She's bleeding badly...
Let's prepare some extra blood packs.
Okay.
I'm taking an X-ray photo with the portable.
Okay.
There was no end.
All right, your leg is next.
Is this death...?
graduation
Nice to meet you, Mikiya-kun.
Thank you, Chief Aozaki.
What's wrong?
Um... I just thought that you seemed different when I spoke to you on the phone.
Like this?
Yes, that's...
In a business like this, there are times when you need to change as the situation demands.
It's a simple charm.
I'm switching my personality depending on how I view things.
Are you making yourself look more important or playing innocent?
I'll leave that to your imagination.
Ryougi Shiki
Black...?
The rain season starts today, but summer's approaching! Hang in there, Shiki! -- Kokutou Mikiya
No way...
Doctor! Please come quickly!
Ryougi-san is...
Ryougi-san is...!
How do you feel, Ryougi-san?
Does it hurt anywhere?
This is a rare case.
But it's a miracle that she regained her consciousness.
This is great.
I'm going to take your pulse.
We'll arrange your rehabilitation plan after a diagnostic work-up.
We'll contact your family for now.
No Visitors
Kokutou-san!
Ryougi-san has regained her consciousness.
But she just woke up and she's still confused...
We're not allowing any visitors except her family members.
Hey, did you hear?
A new counselor is coming starting today.
She's replacing Araya-sensei from today on, isn't she?
Jeez, I'm nervous.
I hope she's nice.
She's in charge of "that" girl, right?
Are her eyes all right now?
She didn't lose her eyesight.
I hear she's starting to settle down.
Then puppy-kun will be able to see her soon.
Oh, you mean "that" puppy-kun, right?
I'm concerned too.
It's been two years, you know?
He's been waiting for a whole two years.
She's so lucky.
Yeah. I want someone who'd love me like that too.
I'm Aozaki, the speech therapist.
I've been expecting you. She's in the room over there.
Hi, what's up?
Wow, I thought you'd look worn out, but your skin is quite smooth.
I pictured you to be like a ghost under a cherry tree when I heard about you, so I wasn't really up for this job, but...
You're just my type, cutie. Aren't I lucky?
How do you do? I'm Aozaki Touko, a speech therapist.
I came to help you recover from your aphasia.
Pleased to meet you.
Who has aphasia?
It's all right. I know...
I know that it's a misdiagnosis and that you're lazy.
But you're at fault too, you know?
After all, you injured your brain in the accident.
It's natural that they think you have aphasia if you don't say anything.
So... Why am I here?
It's a long story, but...
That was close. I was about to lose my job only a minute into it.
You...
Yes?
You're not a doctor, are you?
Nope, I'm actually a sorcerer.
I have no business with a magician.
You're right.
A magician can't fill the hole in your chest.
The only ones who can fill it are normal people.
The hole in my chest?
That's right.
You've already realized that you're alone now, right?
I guess I came here too early, so we'll stop here.
I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.
Is Shiki doing okay?
Yeah, at least for now.
What do you mean by "for now"?
Oh, it's so cold.
Let's have some tea upstairs.
Hey, Touko-san.
You've already realized that you're alone now, right?
It's not like you'll die.
You shouldn't go see her yet.
She's okay, right?
Yes.
I'm going in.
It's so beautiful here.
It's so happy,
but humans are so alone.
Please give these to Ryougi-san.
All right, I'll take them.
The woman who called herself a counselor visited me every day.
I realized that I had become dependent on my conversation with her.
I see.
So it's not that SHIKI-kun didn't have initiative over the body, but it's just that he didn't use it.
The two of you are getting more interesting.
There's nothing interesting about a dual personality.
The two of you don't exist as something as simple as a dual personality.
The two of you exist at the same time, each having their own experiences and will.
And yet, the actions you take are the same.
There isn't any other case of such a complex and bizarre personality.
It should be called composite individual personalities.
Composite individual personalities...?
Yup, but that still leaves some unanswered questions.
If it's composite individual personalities, there's no need for SHIKI-kun to sleep.
You say he's always sleeping, but that's what bugs me...
His name is the only name I can't remember...
She's empty.
Her chest is open, just like a hole.
But no matter how much she can't feel herself, she's still Ryougi Shiki.
She probably doesn't even have a sense of being alive,
but there will come a time when she'll realize that she's Shiki.
A rose is born as a rose.
It won't turn into another flower just because it was grown using a different kind of soil or water.
Touko-san...
Ultimately, you have to fill the hole with something.
Not with memories. You have to build on the present and start building a new self.
No one can help her build that "temple".
Basically, you just have to interact with her like you've been doing.
Yes. As long as he's gone, you can't regain the lapse in your memory.
Now we really have no way of finding out how Ryougi Shiki was concerned with the murders two years ago.
But there was no reason for SHIKI-kun to disappear.
Eh?
Because you, Shiki-san, would have disappeared instead if he didn't do anything.
So why did he wish for himself to disappear?
I don't know.
Anyway, what about the scissors?
Oh. As I expected, they didn't let me bring them.
You have a previous offense, so they're prohibiting any kind of blades.
By the way, what do you want with them?
I just want to cut my hair.
Then I can call for a hairdresser.
It'll be a celebration for your recovery.
I can bring a skilled hairdresser.
No.
I don't even want to think about someone else touching my hair.
You're so cute.
I'll get going now.
I may come as a different person starting tomorrow, so please give her your best regards.
Your resilience continues to surprise me.
You're fine now.
You can leave the hospital tomorrow.
Congratulations, Ryougi-san.
And we can take the bandage off your eyes by tomorrow morning...
No.
So please take care for the rest of today.
No...
No.
No!
I don't want to see such a world again!
I'll do anything except fall into that darkness.
Hold it.
You make decisions too quickly.
What did you see?
Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, huh?
It'd be a waste to lose those eyes, Shiki.
First of all, even if you poke your eyes out, you'd still see what you're meant to see.
Are you human?
I'm a magus.
Is that you, Touko?!
I thought...
I thought I'd teach you how to use those eyes.
All things have flaws.
Nothing is perfect, so everything has a desire to break down and rebuild from scratch.
The accident two years ago caused your eyes to be able to recognize such flaws.
You can see lines that others can't perceive, and since you've been close to death for so long,
your brain understands what they mean.
As a result, you can see deaths.
Not only that. You should even be able to touch them.
That's right. Wake up already, Ryougi Shiki.
You're originally a person from my side of the world.
Don't dream about ordinary happiness or trying to live normally.
I don't have the will to live.
Is that because your mind is empty?
I can understand your discomfort after losing SHIKI and reviving as a different person.
But that's all there is to it.
Even though you have no will to live, you say that you don't want to die.
You don't have a reason to live, but you say you're scared of death.
You can't choose between life or death, and you're balancing yourself on the boundary.
Of course your mind is hollow.
Don't talk like you understand me!
See? You're bothered by contact like that because you show an opening.
You're a top quality container for the stray thoughts drifting around this hospital.
They'll possess and kill you if you don't wake up.
I don't care.
If those things are going to possess me, then let them.
How pitiful.
Rune protection is useless like this.
Do whatever you want now.
But did SHIKI-kun really die for nothing, Ryougi Shiki?
Did SHIKI-kun really die for nothing, Ryougi Shiki?
I'm going in.
Ultimately, you have to fill the hole with something.
Not with memories.
You have to build on the present and start building a new self.
No one can help her build that "temple".
Basically, you just have to interact with her like you've been doing.
I'm singing in the rain.
Just singing in the rain.
What a glorious feelin' I'm happy again.
I'm laughing at clouds.
So dark up above.
The sun's in my heart.
And I'm ready for love.
Let the stormy clouds chase.
Everyone from the place.
Did SHIKI-kun really die for nothing, Ryougi Shiki?
Come on with the rain.
I've a smile on my face.
I walk down the lane.
That can't be true.
Because death is so lonely and worthless.
Death is so dark and ominous.
Death is more scary than anything else.
I don't want that!
I'll do anything except fall there!
I'm happy again!
I'm singin' and dancin' in the rain!
I'm dancin' and singin' in the rain...
Don't hesitate!
It was so easy...
I'm surprised. Are you a cat?
Touko?!
I set up a boundary field around your room so spiritual bodies couldn't enter,
but they went and obtained a body to get past it.
They aren't usually that smart.
This is a mistake on my part.
Then you should do something about it.
All right.
Fehu, Uruz, Thurisaz.
Damn. The Ansuz I had was too weak.
Hey, you fraud...
These things are hard.
If he was alive, I could finish him by burning his heart.
But you can't do that to dead people.
Because they're dead, they don't care if they lose their arm or head.
If you want to stop that thing, you need firepower equal to a crematory or you need to bring a virtuous monk-
Cut the crap.
Long story short, you can't do anything.
You can't do anything either.
A dead person is already dead, so you can't kill it.
Let's run away.
It doesn't matter if that thing is dead.
That thing is a living corpse.
So...
I'll kill it, no matter what it is.
Shiki!
This is in my way.
You mere lump of death...
Begone from my sight!
That idiot. She didn't follow through.
You can't get away now.
I'll kill the weak me!
I won't give you Ryougi Shiki!
You did it.
You said you'd teach me how to use these eyes, didn't you?
Yeah, but under one condition.
I'll teach you how to use Death Perception, and you'll help me with my job in return.
I just lost my familiar, so I wanted someone who would do things for me.
I see. Can I kill people doing that?
Yes, of course.
Then I'll do it. Use me as you please.
After all, I don't have any other intentions.
You don't have any other intentions, huh?
That's pitiful too, but you're still mistaken.
To be hollow means you can be filled without limit, right?
You lucky bastard.
Where else can you find a better future?
What did he receive in exchange...
What did he try to protect by disappearing?
SHIKI is gone.
It's probably to protect his own dream.
His dream to live happy.
He left me a deep loneliness.
I like you, so we'll meet again soon.
Kokutou.
Good morning, Shiki.
Do you know who I am?
Yes, I knew...
That you were the only one waiting for me.
That you were the only one protecting me.
Kokutou Mikiya.
You sound like a French poet.
I'm glad it's sunny today.
It's a perfect day to leave the hospital.
Oh, so there are things that won't disappear.
You gave me a fragment of a dream.
Lurking in the undawning night.
One of the tightly knit stars disappears
and the aria of daybreak echoes.
There's no need to fear yesterday from within this endless rain.
The future that left you has only just begun.
From within the endless darkness,
the fire you gave me is lighting the life
that was born in my hollow chest.
The miserable sky illuminates those who disappeared and those who don't change.
They smile at each other, announcing their farewell and repeating the sad aria.
Hey, how long do the lonely yearn for togetherness?
Your beautiful future has only just begun...
A fragment of a dream.
You...
You're the one who doesn't know kindness, yet the kindness you gave me
is illuminating my hollow chest with a nameless light.
As I row my ship of solitude,
the fire grieves and gathers.
In this hollow world, a myriad of arias echo.
Are you Fujou Kirie?
Are you Father's friend?
I came to grant your wish.
Don't you want another body that you can move freely?
What are you?
What should I do?
I can't go home like this.
What should I do?
Are you Asagami Fujino?
Do you want me to heal you?
All right.
I'll heal the abnormality in your body.
What are you?
Who are you?
A magus.
Araya Souren.
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I just can't tolerate your existence.
I killed someone.
Parricide?
November 1998
Kokutou, do you know of the Ogawa Mansion in Kayamihama?
Ogawa Mansion is two ten-story semicircular buildings standing next to each other.
It's strange.
Are you going to go see your supposedly dead family?
I did kill them! It's the living ones who are wrong!
Why don't you go check?
See that darkness, and recall your name.
What did you do with Shiki?
The Absolute?
To capture the Absolute...
Kara no Kyoukai
Paradox Spiral
I wish this spiral was a paradox.