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Ouri Hagami finds a girl lying dead and covered in blood in the Buddhist shrine that's also his home, late one night. Hiding in the shadows, he watches as a monk from the head shrine, Keisei, arrives on the scene and, after performing a ritual on the girl, manages to revive her. Ouri is convinced that the girl was dead, beyond revival - so just what is going on? Meanwhile, a serial killer is reported to be loose in the area - police had uncovered seven corpses in his home, but he'd managed to escape arrest by jumping from the balcony of his 27th-floor apartment - and surviving. Unusual, yes? Just like the girl, perhaps? That's because they're both Shikabane - already dead, but not yet ready to give up the ghost, so to speak. The girl is Makina Hoshimura, the Shikabane Hime (Corpse Princess), on a mission to destroy her own kind if she's to ever find peace for herself. Our serial killer is her latest target, and Ouri's about to find himself drawn into her world of death and violence...