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Nov 2008

Misaki City

Flame Haze Organization

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Misaki Highschool

Mystes

Flame Haze Organization

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Shakugan No Shana

Aries

I'am Yuji Sakai a high school student, expected my very normal life to last forever. However, this expectation is quickly shattered one day while I'm on my way home.

The world suddenly freezes in time, leaving myself to watch in horror as blue flames engulf the people around me. Soon a monster resembling a large doll appears and begins sucking the flames into its mouth, until it notices me. Surprised with myself insusceptibility to the time-stop (fuzetsu), it jumps with glee.

Just as the monster prepares to consume me, a sword-wielding girl in black attire with flaming red eyes and hair appears, swiftly and confidently destroys the monster, before noticing me moving freely. The girl calls herself a "Flame Haze" who hunts the "Denizens of the Crimson Realm" and the "Rinne" they send to do their bidding. When I notices a blue flame in my chest, the Flame Haze tells me that the "real" I died some time ago, and that I was a "Torch", a temporary replacement for erased humans. Torches take on the forms of those erased persons, but after a period of time, they will vanish from existence and the memories of the living. Unfazed by my apparent death, I befriends the strange girl and names her "Shana" after her sword. The reason I was able to move in the fuzetsu is that he is not a normal Torch, but instead a special kind called a "Mystes": I have a treasure inside me, known as a "Hougu", a device possessing special abilities of sorts, and an extremely powerful and valuable one at that. The hougo inside me allows me to remain in existence rather than fading away like other torches. Shana resolves to prompt me from the Denizens, who would use the treasure to disrupt the balance of the world, and I decides to join Shana in her fight.

Shana's fight is actually a long-standing struggle between the Lords and Denizens of Guze. The Denizens steal Power of Existence, the energy that forms the basis of the world, from living people and utilize it for their own selfish ambitions. Some Lords inhabit humans creating Flame Hazes in an attempt to retain balance by hunting renegades from Guze. Flame Hazes create Torches in place of the consumed to save the world the disruption of many existences being lost at once, allowing the Torches to gradually burn out over the course of time.

I'am the main character of the story, is just an average high school student. However, my world is turned upside down when I discovers that I was already dead and does not have much time before I disappears. Fortunately, I'am a Mystes who contains a treasure known as the Reiji Maigo (零時迷子, Reiji Maigo? "Midnight Stray Child"). Unlike normal torches, the treasure inside me restores my Power of Existence every night at midnight. With the Reiji Maigo, I have the possibility to live on like an average human as long as I make sure that my Power of Existence does not run out before midnight. Later, I begin to learn to use the yet untapped potential of the treasure kept within me. I cares deeply about Shana, but has yet to reveal if I truly has feelings of love for her; also in the first season anime leading up to the final episode, I starts to see Shana as her old view of the world, where I is just a Torch and she is just a Flame Haze. With this going on, I distanced myself from the closeness than the two originally shared, leaving Shana hurt with the new feelings of love she has developed but cannot explain. However, Shana and I have since repaired the damage to our relationship.