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Have you realized why you so thoroughly killed your enemies and intentionally spread so much fear? It wasn’t because that was the most efficient method or because kindness is not a part of that small field. You simply could not afford to let your enemies live because you were so weak. You were afraid of having them take revenge and you were afraid of having them band together against you, so you killed them. Even if they were far below you, you could not sleep at night unless you crushed them underfoot. How very pathetic. If you were truly strong, you could have been merciful to your enemies and let them live. Just like this.
~ Shikimi to Mai

Summary

Hishigami Shikimi is the founder of the famous Hishigami line. Having lived for centuries due to her eternal youth technique, she ended up joining Majina's Hyakki Yakou due to a desire to be useful to someone else instead of merely bringing destruction. Her specialty as a Hishigami woman is war, being also really skilled at fighting Youkai.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 9-B physically, at least 8-B, possibly 7-C with supernatural powers

Name: Hishigami Shikimi

Origin: The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village

Gender: Female

Age: Over 1000 years old

Classification: Human, Hishigami Woman, Specialist

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, expert hand to hand fighter, Magic, can turn any surface she stabs her vajra into holy ground, can freely influence any object, phenomenon, or life form in that holy ground in multiple ways, such as Matter Manipulation, creating explosions, Gravity Manipulation, manipulating sources of light, Magnetism Manipulation, Petrification, Ice Manipulation, inducing fevers, etc; Summoning, Immortality (Type 1)

Attack Potency: Wall level physically (Comparable to Hishigami Mai, casually killed the Deadly Dragon Princess with her bare hands), at least City Block level (The specialist with the most amount of raw power in the series, so she should be superior to Hishigami Shitsu. She has powers more suited for war than for one-on-one battles; instantly froze all the molecules of a large water dragon), possibly Town level (Stated that she had to hold back when fighting the Aburatori so as to avoid destroying the neighboring Noukotsu Village, her ability can cover an entire city or region under the proper circumstances) with supernatural powers.

Speed: Subsonic with Supersonic reactions (Can fight Mai and the Aburatori)

Lifting Strength: Superhuman

Striking Strength: Wall level

Durability: Wall level (Can fight Hishigami Mai)

Stamina: High

Range: Standard melee range, varies with supernatural powers

Standard Equipment: Vajra, bamboo pipe

Intelligence: High, Shikimi is the founder of the Hishigami family and has been alive for centuries, so she has plenty of experience as a fighter and specialist

Weaknesses: Normal human weaknesses, has some trouble aiming her powers when close to allies or fighting a single person, someone who knows how her power works can interrupt her attacks by destroying the surface she's using before her holy ground is fully established.

Feats/Statements

“My specialty is war, so I don’t like spending a bunch of time gathering intelligence or setting everything up just right.”

“Ha ha. And how do you expect me to do something that the founder of the Hishigami line can’t?”

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi is the founder of the Hishigami line and the Hishigami woman that specializes in war

“What are you talking about? As the founder of the Hishigami line, I used to have an impressive body. It’s just that my eternal youth technique is a little too effective and I shrink on a daily basis.”

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi has an eternal youth technique, although it's too effective and causes her to slowly become younger/smaller

He released a scream that only amounted to sound and ran straight toward the Aburatori.

“Oops.”

I heard Hishigami Shikimi’s voice from the trees and looked up to see the giant flower of her white hair.

She was no longer empty-handed. Her hands were stuck into her kimono’s pockets and she was clearly holding something.

“What should we do, Majina!? My specialty is war, so I can’t aim quite so accurately!!”

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi's power is strong but she cannot aim it too accurately, so when child Shinobu got near the Aburatori she was forced to stop her attack on the Youkai

I heard the sound of the Aburatori’s back teeth cracking in his mouth and then countless metal skewers appeared in his hands.

Once they were released, Shinobu would be completely helpless.

But that never happened.

A white shadow suddenly dropped down from above.

Hishigami Shikimi used the three-pronged vajra she held to knock down the skewers like a bolt of lightning.

How exactly had she done it?

I was watching the entire time, but my understanding couldn’t keep up. A three-pronged vajra was a weapon used by Buddhist monks…or was it called a Buddhist instrument? Basically, it had sharp spikes on either end and you held it in your fist at the center. The only usable portions stuck out from the ends by her thumb and little finger, so how had she knocked down dozens of metal skewers with just that?

She let down her long white hair, let the kimono fall from her shoulders, and revealed the undershirt below. The scent of incense filled the area.

[...]

As the threat of tension vanished, the Aburatori launched dozens if not over a hundred skewers.

However, Hishigami Shikimi used (what looked like) a single swing of her arm to deflect them all on her three-pronged vajra. Not a single one made it to Shinobu behind her.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi protects young Shinobu from the Aburatori's skewers

“This is no time to be holding back, Hishigami! Kill me!!”

“I can’t help it. If I went all out, I could easily destroy this entire village…not to mention this kid.” She grinned. “More importantly, I too am only a side character. I may not be used to fighting a defensive battle, but I only have to buy some time for her to arrive and persuade her foolish master.”

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi mentions that if she went all-out she could easily accidentally destroy a village next to the mountain forest she's fighting in

“What a pain. The Hishigami Women have really fallen a long way.”

She suddenly heard an experienced-sounding voice from directly behind her, so she released the Deadly Dragon Princess before even turning around.

A great sound burst out and she used the slight time this bought her to jump as far away as she could. By then, the Youkai she had artificially designed was dangling from a hand on its neck and that hand had crushed even the bone.

The hand belonged to a woman with long, pale hair worn up like a giant flower. The woman wore a kimono that should have been poorly suited toward high-speed combat, she was barefoot, and she wore a thick shimenawa around her waist instead of a sash.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi sneaks up on Mai Hishigami and stomps Deadly Dragon Princess

Mai fired again and again, but Shikimi used the Deadly Dragon Princess as a shield to block all of the bullets. Mai had not expected that to work, so she used the moment her opponent was focused on the “shield” to charge in like a bullet herself.

The two Hishigami Women tossed aside the empty handgun and the irregularly twitching Shikigami and then crossed paths.

That was all.

Hishigami Mai’s body seemed to entirely ignore its previous vector by vertically rotating twice through the air. It looked something like a metal pipe had been held out from the side of an F1 racecar to perform a full-speed lariat on her.

She landed on her back and could no longer breathe on her own.

“Bah…!! Gah…gbh!!!???”

“Just give up. I founded the Hishigami line, so how could I possibly be inferior to the latest generation?”

Shikimi sounded exasperated and she kept her back to Mai after crossing paths with her. Without making an additional attack on her fallen prey, that monster among monsters kept her back defenselessly turned.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi easily defeats Mai

“So if the younger sister specializes in fighting humans, does the elder sister specialize in fighting Youkai? You probably wanted to think that, but unfortunately, that simply isn’t true. After all, when it comes to a direct fight against Youkai…or battles in general, I’m second to none. That spot is already filled.”

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi claims to be second to none compared to other Hishigami women in fighting Youkai or even battles in general

Mai ignored that and charged toward the back of Shikimi’s kimono. Her body was like steel and her fingers like blades. She transformed her entire body into a weapon and cast aside all thought not focused on piercing this woman’s heart in a single blow.

With her back still turned, Shikimi reached into her kimono’s pocket and pulled out a giant three-pronged vajra.

She released the giant flower of her white hair.

It looked like she was undoing the ribbon on a present. She let the kimono fall from her shoulders, revealing the undershirt below, and an oppressive smell of incense filled the air.

[...]

With a clear metallic sound, the golden three-pronged vajra in Shikimi’s hand began to glow.

“If you were truly strong, you could have been merciful to your enemies and let them live. Just like this.”

After an unimaginably loud sound, the entire area exploded like a scene from the end of the world.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shikimi uses her powers to cause an explosion, intentionally sparing Mai's life

Hishigami Shikimi was the founder of the Hishigami line.

That woman had truly lived for more than a thousand years and yet was still active.

Her anti-aging techniques were so effective that her physical body apparently grew younger as the years past.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi has lived for more than 1000 years thanks to her techniques

I had lost to her once and she had easily swept me aside. But unfortunately, this field didn’t allow me to just say no because I was no match for her.

[...]

But the real problem was Hishigami Shikimi.

Just like me – if not more than me – she was the worst of the Hishigami Women.

Her raison d'être was to destroy stable organizations and societal systems, so Hyakki Yakou would be the ultimate bait.

If she was caught in a giant explosion, she would undoubtedly fake her death and make a comeback.

Sending in the Top 5 with their ridiculous firepower would let her manipulate them and lead them toward self-destruction.

Not to mention that Hyakki Yakou was caught between father and daughter at the moment. They didn’t know which one to follow, so they would definitely collapse if they tried a traditional attack.

And if I could figure that out, then Hishigami Shikimi’s mind had to be filled with far, farrrr more gruesome methods.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Mai admits she's no match for Shikimi in a straight fight, and thinks she would defeat even Hyakki Yakou's Top 5

Both of them charged forward in perfect unison. Based on the speed and strength, they were probably about the same as a three hundred kilogram grizzly. A normal human wouldn’t have stood a chance, but I was an exception.

[...]

Suddenly, a great power struck those full-power monsters and they crumbled to the ground.

No one had touched them.

It was blatantly paranormal, as if a shockwave had forced them down from every direction.

“What a pain.”

I heard a voice from overhead.

A woman said to have overdone her anti-aging to the point of shrinking stood on the wood and bamboo scaffolding arrayed in three dimensions. She had long white hair that seemed out of place on what otherwise looked like a girl. The hair was worn up like a giant flower, she wore a colorless white kimono, and she used a shimenawa in place of a sash. Stabbed in the ground was a golden three-pronged vajra that glittered to an ominous extent.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi uses her power to knock down two Kasha zombies, which are comparable to grizzly bears

After those words, all illumination vanished from the large underground space: the bare lightbulbs, the candles, and the hanging lanterns. Like a switch had been thrown, everything went dark.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi shuts down all light sources

In the conflagration, Shikimi twisted her hips inside the white kimono. The golden three-pronged vajra in her hand fell like lightning. No matter where I ran, I would be forced to the ground like Enbi and the detective had been.

That was not what I needed to do.

I twisted my own body around and used the great strength I had acquired from the technology of those sickening Hishigami Men. And it was all to swing my shovel down.

I half-forcibly destroyed the ground at my feet, creating a crack between Shikimi and me.

That was all I did, yet it stopped Shikimi’s attack.

“Oh?”

“You’re the Hishigami Woman that specializes in combat. None of your attack methods are going to require targeting each individual person!!”

“So what!?”

She swung the vajra and I blocked its tip with the metal part of the shovel. Orange sparks flew.

I immediately noticed something invisible covering the surface of the shovel, as if crawling up the wooden handle from the point of contact.

I quickly let go and grabbed a hammer that was as long as a wooden sword. I swung it to smash the mysteriously infected shovel in midair.

A bursting sound came after a short delay.

“Your method is a terrain effect. It’s probably something like the ‘fill’ tool in image editing software. You desecrate a surface based on the points of contact to remake it into your own field. Then you can freely influence any object, phenomenon, or life form in that field. Since you’re using a three-pronged vajra, I’m guessing it’s based on Kobo Daishi’s Flying Vajra. In that story, he threw a three-pronged vajra to determine the proper site for his headquarters and it stabbed into Mt. Koya!!”

So if there was a crack in the ground, the “fill” would be interrupted.

So if I stuck the shovel in the way before it hit me, the target of the “fill” would change.

While I had strengthened my physical body to face Youkai, she created a “killing territory” that weakened her target.

Under the right conditions, this could cover an entire city or region at once. Then she could instantly kill every single soldier standing there. Even if a 6000 shots per minute Vulcan cannon or a cruise missile were fired her way, she could shoot them down, break them apart, remake them, destroy them, or neutralize them. She specialized in taking on large groups and her firepower was so great that accurately targeting a single person was difficult.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Mai uncovers Shikimi's power, a terrain effect spread through her vajra

I ignored her and threw the giant hammer at her.

The blunt weapon rotated horizontally, but she made no move to avoid it.

“But have you forgotten? The Flying Vajra covers a surface based on the points of contact, but why does that have to be limited to the ground?”

“Kh.”

“And I rule over a territory, not the land itself. In other words, my rule extends to the airspace directly above that surface as well.”

As soon as I threw the hammer, I forced myself into a leap despite my unnatural stance. I felt my entire skeleton screaming in protest, but I had more to worry about. I left my body to the custom Yozakura that seemed like a creaking mass of rubber and springs.

After all, Hishigami Shikimi had slammed her vajra into the wall of a shack.

A dull sound burst out as the flying hammer crashed into that wall as if it had been pulled there by a powerful magnet. It also turned to stone. If I had stayed there, the same would have happened to me.

When she struck the ground, it affected the area above it.

When she struck the wall, it affected the area “above” it but in the horizontal direction…in other words, straight ahead.

It was like being targeted by the invisible spotlight of an electromagnetic weapon.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi demonstrates she can use surfaces other than the ground to establish her power, attracting and then petrifying a hammer

But what exactly was this attack based in?

Earth, ground, territory? No!

“A certain concept exists in almost every religion around the world.”

Shikimi slowly turned her gaze toward my airborne body.

“Namely, holy ground. Just like the land on which Kobo Daishi chose to build his headquarters. And what is the greatest power that ties people to the earth?”

I kicked left and right off the burning shack walls to escape upwards like a pinball.

“Tch. Universal gravitation!?”

“Precisely. As the planet pulls at us, we too pull at the planet. So you will pull power of this holy ground to yourself and cause it to burst inside your body. …No human body can escape the power of the planet itself.”

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi's technique is based in the concept of holy ground

“Did you think you could reach safety by fleeing high enough above the holy ground? But have you forgotten, final generation?”

“?”

“This is the depths of the earth. It is a single space surrounded in all directions by dirt.”

“…!!???”

The three-pronged vajra had left her hand.

She had thrown it to her feet where it stabbed into the ground.

An instant later, I heard a high-pitched sound and something invisible spread out in no time at all. Shikimi’s territory began at her feet, continued up the nearby wall, and instantly reached the darkness overhead. It was just like choosing the wrong spot and filling up the entire image.

This ridiculous universal gravity attack had me pull the planet’s disaster into myself and it rushed in at me from all 360 degrees.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi spreads her holy ground across an entire hole

The instant she showed any sign of movement, countless giant cracks ran through the entire underground space. Water poured out like a dam had burst and the solid bedrock crumbled. Cracks had cut apart and broken up Shikimi’s territory.

Then the murderous amount of water swirled, became a great dragon, and rushed toward Shikimi.

“Did you mess with the water vein?”

The founder of the Hishigami line pulled the three-pronged vajra from the ground using its decorative thread and then grabbed it in one hand.

“But did you really think that would be enough to kill me?”

All sound vanished.

First, the Deadly Dragon Princess’s fierce deluge froze over in an instant. As soon as the water dragon entered what little remaining territory she had, all of the water molecules froze in a chain reaction.

The crumbling underground space stopped moving, like instant glue had been dumped over everything.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi instantly freezes the Deadly Dragon Princess' water dragon and stops the underground cave she's in from crumbling

By the time I heard an explosion, Hishigami Shikimi was already five centimeters in front of my face with vajra in hand.

By the time I realized she had used her incredible leg strength to launch herself forward, she had taken her next action.

First, she kicked the Deadly Dragon Princess away. Like two balls on strings clacking together, the kinetic energy was transferred over and the Shikigami stabbed into the bedrock like a shell or a missile. I didn’t have time to gasp. Shikimi spun around in midair and swung her three-pronged vajra down toward the center of my face!

“…!!!!!”

I immediately pulled my handgun from my boot, but the vajra shattered it. Not only that, I was forcibly slammed into the ground directly below me.

“Gah…ah…!?”

I broke through a shack wall, smashed a pile of wooden boxes, and rolled along the ground.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi approaches Mai high up in the air in one leap, kicks Deadly Dragon Princess into bedrock and shatters Mai's gun while simultaneously launching her into a shack in the ground

“That is my territory left over even after all those cracks. That is the holy ground determined by the vajra.”

Something twisted near my spine, the contents of my head swelled up like a balloon, I felt like I was wrapped in intense heat, and I could not tell front from back, left from right, or even up from down. I frantically moved my arms and legs, but I could not stand up or even sit up.

Damn. Is this what they call an unexplainable fever?

It was a stereotypical form of divine punishment or curse. It was the judgment given to those who rudely violated divine land.

[...]

Things were not looking good. The inside of my head was boiling and I was having trouble figuring out which way her voice was coming from.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi attacks Main with intense fever

A deafening roar and shockwave exploded from nearby. I could barely move and Shikimi was standing boldly above me, but we were both blown away. We were thrown through the air as if gravity had vanished.

[...]

Before she could, I grabbed at her shoulders in midair. My thumb traced along her slender collarbone and then forcibly grabbed it. It broke with a dry sound.

[...]

One of her arms was unusable.

The vajra slipped from her hand and vanished into the pitch black abyss.

We crashed into the roof of a different shack a good distance away. I couldn’t breathe, but I raised two fingers on my right hand. We had escaped her territory and the mysterious fever was gone. I held her to the ground and our arms quickly crossed paths as we targeted each other’s vitals.

The air audibly split apart.

My fingers stabbed into her throat and her finger slipped just past my temple.

“Gah…gh…?”

She looked up at me with a look of surprise.

Her mouth flapped like a goldfish’s and she forced her voice out with her windpipe mostly crushed.

[...]

Shikimi was approaching death, but her eyes widened for just an instant. At the very, very end, she utilized her muscles rather than beg for her life. She was not trying to escape and she was not trying to get back up.

She was going to kill me.

[...]

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Shikimi tries to kill Mai after being thrown into the air by an explosion, having her collarbone broken and her neck stabbed

“Our original destiny was to die and this incident was the result of us fooling history for ten years. To put it another way, correcting history to its proper form will erase the tragedy we created. It isn’t actually that simple, but my technique can forcibly twist it in that direction. Of course, it will be a joint effort borrowing my wife’s power.”

“Majina…?”

“You returned yourself to human with your own power and your human wounds will be healed by the historical corrections brought by my disappearance. This way you can survive to see the world of the Bloodstained Zashiki Warashi.”

“Wait. But then what happens to all of you!?”

“Ohatsu-san and my wife Mei are both Youkai. They were always paranormal beings, so they have some resistance to interference from history and destiny. Shikimi-san is probably 50/50, but she was always something of a living legend and it’s worth seeing if she can escape her destiny to die. The most unnatural one here is me, a ‘mere human’ who has continued to live in defiance of destiny. So once the distortion of history has concentrated at that weakest point, I will intentionally correct that distortion. That will leave me as the only sacrifice. No one else will be affected.”

[...]

(We never did find Hishigami Shikimi.)

The current Hyakki Yakou was still searching through Mikuchi-sama and Bozen City, but Mai doubted they would find her.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Majina mentions as he's about to correct history to its proper path, which would undo Shikimi's life being saved, that Shikimi might have a shot at escaping her original destiny. She indeed returns to life like all other people killed during the novel

The giant white flower smoothly answered him and lightly waved a diagonally-cut bamboo pipe she pulled from her kimono.

“By the way, this is my Shikigami. Her name’s Enchanting Full Moon Flower. As you can see, she’s based on Kaguya-hime. Her hobby is eternal youth and her special skill is a long lifespan. As long as it doesn’t conflict with my orders, use her however you like. If you’re trying to win her over with food, I recommend ohagi or rice balls wrapped in bamboo leaves. Nice to meet you.”

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 09 - Shikimi's Shikigami

The white witch let go of my arm and tossed me my badge and gun.

I was shocked.

I had assumed she would keep the gun for herself.

“Are you sure?”

“You can’t kill me with that. You can’t use it to kill the other Hishigami Women either.”

[...]

I checked out of habit and found I still had my police badge and gun. They may have thought they weren’t worth confiscating.

[...]

And I had not been thinking about defeating Hishigami Ama in the first place.

She had messed with my inner ear and she was a Hishigami Woman. Even at my best and even with a handgun, there was no way I could beat her.

~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village (Bonus Track): Hishigami (♀) All Stars Psychedelic Live!! - It's repeatedly mentioned that none of the active Hishigami women see a handgun as a threat, to the point the Hishigami sisters don't even bother confiscating Hayabusa's

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

  • Sacred Ground: Shikimi's ability is a terrain effect, based on Kobo Daishi’s Flying Vajra and the concept of holy ground. She desecrates a surface based on the points of contact to remake it into her own field. Then she can freely influence any object, phenomenon, or life form in that field. For this, she uses a three-pronged vajra tied to a cloth wrapped around her right arm that she will throw and stab into the target surface. Upon activating her ability, an oppressive smell of incense fills the air and something invisible will quickly begin covering the surface, making it holy ground. Her rule doesn't only affect the things in contact with the surface, it extends to the airspace directly above that surface as well. This can be used to affect something directly ahead of her by stabbing her vajra in a vertical surface like a wall. Under the right conditions, her ability can cover an entire city or region at once. Then she can instantly kill every single soldier standing there. Even if a 6000 shots per minute Vulcan cannon or a cruise missile were fired her way, Shikimi can shoot them down, break them apart, remake them, destroy them, or neutralize them. However, her firepower is so great and she specializes so much in taking on large groups that accurately targeting a single person is difficult.
    • Explosion Creation: Shikimi's vajra will start glowing and cause an unimaginably loud sound. After the sound, the entire area will explode.
    • Gravity Manipulation: Shikimi can cause a great power to strike her enemies and force them towards the ground as if a shockwave had forced them down from every direction.
    • Light Manipulation: Shikimi can automatically shut down all sources of illumination in an area, such as candles, lanterns, and lightbulbs.
    • Magnekinesis: Shikimi can create magnetic forces to manipulate metallic objects.
    • Petrification: Shikimi can turn anything affected by her abilities into stone.
    • Ice Manipulation: Shikimi used this ability to instantly freeze all the water molecules of the Deadly Dragon Princess' water dragon.
    • Fever: Shikimi can cause an unexplainable fever on her enemies, making them feel severe pain and distorting their sense of direction so that they cannot fight or even stand properly. This is a stereotypical form of divine punishment or curse for those who rudely violate divine land.
    • Unknown Power: Through an unknown method Shikimi was able to stop the underground cave that was crumbling around her from moving any further as if instant glue had been dumped over everything.
  • Eternal Youth: Shikimi has an eternal youth technique that has allowed her to live for more than 1000 years. However, she has mentioned the technique is a little too effective, as over the centuries she has grown younger and smaller.
  • Enchanting Full Moon Flower: Shikimi's shikigami, based on Kaguya-hime and summoned through a diagonally-cut bamboo pipe Shikimi keeps. Her exact capabilities are unknown, though Shikimi has mentioned her hobby is eternal youth and her special skill is a long lifespan, so it might be related to Shikimi's immortality technique.

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