Type-Moon Society, among the four male protagonists created by Nasu Kinoko, namely the Four Heavenly Kings, Toono Shiki has the most complicated life experience.
Shiki was born into the Nanaya family, a family of assassins and demon hunters. His father is Nanaya Huangli, the head of the Nanaya family, the best fighter in the family, and one of the strongest in the Japanese mysterious world. Shiki has been taught various killing techniques by Huangli since he was a child.
One day, Nanaya Huangli received a piece of news that the patriarch of the Saiki clan, a famous mixed-blood family in Japan, was dominated by the evil nature of inhuman blood and did a series of evil things that were against the will of heaven and earth, and he needed to deal with it.
When the blood of non-humans exceeds that of humans, the power of the hybrids will approach that of non-humans. As a price, the basic appetite and sexual desire for survival will be strengthened, and human moral values will become unrestrained under the influence of external forces, and killing and plundering will become the basic means of survival.
The Tono family, also a mixed-blood family, calls this phenomenon "reversal", while various demon-exorcising families and organizations define this phenomenon as "demon" that must be exterminated.
Nanaya Huangli, who had the command "destroy the non-human" engraved in his blood, immediately went to the Saiki family to exorcise the demon. The exorcism operation went very smoothly, but there was a little accident at the end of the operation.
The excitability of the demon was aroused, and Nanaya Huangli, who was in an excited state, killed the chief of the Saiki clan and severely injured Tono Makihisa who was beside the chief. If it weren't for the strong immortality of the non-human blood mixed in by the Tono clan, Makihisa would have died.
Makiku, who managed to save his life, developed a great fear of Huang Li and the Nanaya clan behind Huang Li. After annexing the Saiki clan - the Saiki clan leader's reversal was originally revealed to the Exorcist Organization by Makiku in order to annex the Saiki clan, and the Exorcist Organization then sent Nanaya Huang Li to exorcise the demons - Makiku began to deal with the Nanaya clan.
He first persuaded the various half-blood branches under the Tono family, and then invited the reclusive person who had a grudge against Huang Li, the head of the branch family Zama, the strongest person in the Tono force, and the combat power of Zama Hongma, who was at least at the level of a second-rate servant. Finally, on a night when the Nanaya clan members were not out on a mission, Makihisa led them to raid the Nanaya clan's base camp, Nanaya no Sato.
After a fierce battle, the raid ended with the killing of Nanaya Huangli by Zajian Hongma, and the Nanaya family was wiped out. At the end of the destruction of Nanaya Village, Makihisa found Nanaya Shiki, who was only 7 years old.
Because Shiki's pronunciation is the same as that of Makihisa's son Shiki, and in order to use Nanaya's blood to control his own inhuman blood, Makihisa did not kill Shiki, but sealed his memory before the age of seven, and adopted him as the Tono family's adopted son to grow up with his son Shiki and daughter Akiha.
As an adopted son, Shiki lived a rare happy life without training, killing, or hatred. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and Tono Shiki had a reversal impulse.
The desire that a hybrid experiences when approaching reversal is called "reversal impulse". If it cannot be suppressed, the hybrid will be dominated by non-human blood.
Controlled by the inhuman blood, Shiki fell into madness and wanted to kill his sister Akiba. In order to protect Akiba, Shiki fought with Shiki and was killed by Shiki.
In order to save Shiki, Akiha used his special powers and gave half of his life to Shiki.
Meanwhile, Makihisa, who arrived, followed the family rules and killed Shiki, who was dominated by the "reversal impulse". However, before dying, Shiki used his special ability "communion" to establish a spiritual and life connection with Shiki, thus taking Shiki's life and surviving.
At this time, Makiku couldn't bear to kill his own son, so he locked Shiki in the basement and sealed Shiki's memory of this aspect. At the same time, he announced to the public that his adopted son Shiki died accidentally, but in fact, he exchanged Shiki's identity with Shiki, and Shiki became the eldest son of the Tono family.
"You all know what happened next. Shiki either survived or came back from the dead, and thus awakened the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. However, due to his lack of vitality and weak body, he was eventually sent by Makihisa to be raised by the branch family Arimaka. This is Shiki's story."
While recounting this past event, Shinji sighed several times, with the last sigh being the heaviest.
"The relationship between the Tono and Nanaya families has long been unclear. Makihisa killed Nanaya but spared Shiki. Shiki protected Akiha and was resurrected by Akiha. It would be better if Shiki didn't know about this mess. At least he can live a happier life this way."
Mikiya nodded in agreement, "Indeed, if it were me, I wouldn't know how to face the Tohno family either."
"I have a headache. I don't want to think about it anymore." Shi lazily leaned on the railing. Her animal-like thinking mode could not accept things that were tangled and confusing.
"Shinji, how do you know all this? Many things are only known to the head of the clan, Touno Makihisa. I don't think he would leave any traces."
The more detailed and truthful Shinji's story was, the more suspicious Orange became. Although it was a taboo to dig into the mystical world, Shinji and Orange had known each other for such a long time that they no longer had to worry about it.
"There really are traces left. Tono Makihisa has the habit of keeping a diary, but it's not very detailed, so I can't guarantee that there are no mistakes or omissions in what I said, but the general direction is definitely correct. If you are interested, you can try to sneak into Tono's house. The diary is in Makihisa's study. If I remember correctly, it should be hidden in a locked cabinet."
Hearing Shinji's explanation, Orange couldn't help but recall her recent tour of Japan.
"So, the last time we passed through Tokyo, you sneaked out at night just to sneak into the Toono family? And the other times you separated from us were also to investigate things?"
"I guess so." Shinji covered up his guilty conscience with a smile.
Tono Makihisa did have the habit of keeping a diary, but Shinji had never sneaked into the Tono family, let alone read the diary. He only remembered it clearly because the moon landing work (Iru-Moon Pit) was "Tsukihime", and Shiki's condition also proved that the information related to "Tsukihime" was not biased.
His night outing had nothing to do with the investigation, but since Orange connected them, Shinji just went with the flow.
"I'm increasingly confused about what you're thinking." Orange glanced at Shinji with a strange expression, "Do you have anything else to say about this expression?"
"Well, there is one thing I am undecided about. I don't know whether I should intervene or not. Ah, why are all matters related to the Tohno family so troublesome?"
Every time Shinji thought of this extremely weird family, he would scratch his head. It was okay before he didn't have the ability, but now that he has the ability, he doesn't want to turn a blind eye to it, but he doesn't know how to manage it.
Sometimes I really want to use Indra's thunder to strike this family.
PS: The Tohno family is such a mess, with all kinds of things entangled together. Huang Lizhen should have killed Makihisa completely at the beginning, so that there wouldn't be so many troubles.