Misaki Sakimiya

Misaki Sakimiya (崎宮ミサキ Sakimiya Misaki), known professionally as Zaki, is the former heiress to Sakimiya Steel and the assassin hired to kill the original Polka Shinoyama. In the aftermath of her own premature murder and subsequent resurrection as a Zombie—respectfully the accidental and purposeful doing of the Corpse God—she moves in with the Corpse God and assists him with his fortune-telling endeavors.

Misaki has since evolved to become a Vampire Larva per the Corpse God's magic, her newfound powers allowing her to better assist him as an offensive agent.

At the start of the series, those with the Evil Eye would have been able to see the spirits of Misaki's victims haunting her.

Appearance
Misaki usually keeps her brown hair tied back in two medium-length micro braids, with the shorter, chin-length locks left to frame her face. Three alternating locks of her bangs are red, and she wears red semi-rimmed glasses over brown eyes. Her chest size is uncommonly large. Upon becoming a Vampire Larva, she acquires an upper set of fangs and a pair of bat wings that grant her flight capabilities; the length of each wing appears greater than her height.

Misaki's typical outfit includes a traditional schoolgirl sailor shirt, a short black skirt, black thigh-high stockings, and platform shoes that give her an extra nine centimetres of height. The chain that dangles from the back of her red choker is not for show, for it hooks and supports the weight of her black sleeved shawl. The shawl itself appears to be cobweb-themed: its looped fringes resemble a web's threading; its back sports a white spider-web graphic overlaid by a small cartoon heart; and under its spider-web print are the words, "get hook'd."

When attending a formal meal at the Shinoyama manor, Misaki wears a simple summer dress and thin belt, and arranges her hair in a half-up half-down style via a flower knot. The simple elegance of her outfit is a marked departure from her everyday attire.

Personality
To be added.

Childhood
Misaki is a delight in her early childhood, cheerful and quick to smile under the watch of her loving parents. As her parents head the wealthy company Sakimiya Steel, she is able to enjoy a comfortable life with the expectation that she will inherit the family business. Both her present and future are shattered when a serial killer breaks into their home and murders her parents in her presence. The sight of the killer laughing while stabbing her mother's corpse leaves her questioning whether killing can possibly be that fun—a question that follows her all the way to the orphanage in which she is placed.

One day at the orphanage, Misaki is drawing smiling faces in a sketchpad when a visiting teenager—Lisa "Clarissa" Kuraki—asks if there is anything she can help Misaki with. As other children laugh nearby, Misaki replies she has forgotten how to smile and wants to learn how to smile again; she wants to smile "a lot more." When Clarissa suggests she try copying what others "seem to enjoy," Misaki recalls the serial killer's laughter and concludes, "killing people."

During her own teenage years, Misaki becomes an assassin; having decided that killing assassins had the potential to be "kinda funny," she earns a reputation as Zaki, a killer of killers. Having been taken under Clarissa's wing she also enters Clarissa's employ, accepting contract jobs through Clarissa's freelance agency Youtoukorou. One such job is to assassinate the same serial killer who killed Misaki's parents—a personal request from Clarissa, who explains the man has been killing too many innocents as of late.

When Misaki confronts the killer with a nail gun, she straddles him, nails his left hand to the floor, and asks if he remembers her. He realizes she is Zaki and warns her being Clarissa's favorite will not keep her from getting away with his murder, but she reveals Clarissa personally requested the hit; then, she remarks that he seems to enjoy killing and asks if she looks as happy as he did "back then."

Finally recognizing her from their shared past, the killer asks if this is her idea of "revenge and justice" and, nettled, accuses her of hypocrisy. Misaki immediately denies the accusation, shoots a few nails through his other hand, and credits him with inspiring her to follow in his footsteps. She then asks if he thinks she kills 'good' people—if he is a 'good person; the man hesitates before deciding to say he is good, but Misaki slams a pipe into his mouth before he can finish. Clarissa's request goes fulfilled.

Present
On a certain day at Youtoukorou, Clarissa presents Misaki with a photograph and file on an individual a client of the agency wants dead: Polka Shinoyama, age sixteen. Misaki—herself only seventeen—accepts the job specifically because Polka is "just a kid"; this, she believes, is an opportunity to test just how "fucked up" she can really be. Whether her additional reason—that she has "already achieved [her] life's goal" is referring to killing her parent's killer is not entirely clear.

With Takumi Kuruya providing technical support, Misaki tracks down the runaway teen on the streets of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward and slits Polka's neck with her prybar—a fatal wound. She then abandons the corpse in an alley to self-reflect atop a high chain-link fence guarding a building's rooftop. Musing that her ability to kill both the wicked and the good means she not only "shouldn't" be allowed to live but that no one can really be happy, she determines the one thing she has yet to test is whether she can kill herself. So saying, she steps off the fence to plummet over the building.

Then her cell phone rings. Catching the fence, she hops back onto the fence and answers Takumi's call: the kid with the slit throat, he says, is walking it off. Her assignment is neither done nor done in.

Surprised, Misaki returns to Shnjuku's streets and spots Polka—sporting a bloody neck wound, but very much alive—speaking with two policemen. Upon joining them, Misaki expresses relief that Polka is "all right," grabs his arm, and tells him to run. Murderer and victim flee until they reach a far less busy side street, at which point Misaki introduces herself and asks if Polka remembers her. Upon frisking him and finding his body warm, she congratulates him on being alive ("not a ghost") and declares she will be killing him again.

With that, she brandishes the offending prybar and demands to know how he is still alive. Polka bolts. During the subsequent chase to and through a certain Abandoned Building, Polka puts up a fight: he deflects her prybar with his pipe and yanks a metal projectile out of his right calf rather than surrender. However, Misaki soon pierces his right thigh with a second projectile once he stumbles into a large room filled with hooks, ropes, and other unsavory equipment.

As he scoots away from Misaki's approach, Misaki relates the building's history as an execution site and its haunted reputation. Where Misaki is amused by the value Polka sees in human life, Polka—or rather, the Corpse God necromancer possessing him—is unamused by her apparent disregard for human life. Misaki has no time to react to what happens next, nor comprehension: the Corpse God exorcises the spirits who haunt the building and who haunt Misaki, thus replenishing his magic; and, via that magic, impales Misaki through her stomach with a single digit of a monstrously large, skeletal hand.

Misaki dies instantly. When she wakes some time later to the sight of "Polka," one of Takumi's drones, Lisa, and Lisa's people holding them at gunpoint, "Polka" high fives Takumi's drone in acknowledgment of their success. Upon discovering her stomach is intact, Misaki asks why she is alive and—referring to Lisa and company—what is going on. Lisa hugs her to check her pulse and temperature as Misaki had done earlier with Polka: where Misaki had taken Polka's warmth as a confirmation of life, Lisa now takes Misaki's chilled skin and lack of pulse as confirmation of death.

As the only person surprised by this, Misaki is left asking for an explanation while two of Lisa's employees frisk her—again just like Misaki had done with "Polka." in the meantime, Clarissa offers to be the Corpse God's intermediary and assigns Misaki and Takumi to help acclimatize the Corpse God to life on earth.

Included in Lisa's "welcome to Shinjuku" deal is a place for Corpse God to stay—i.e. the Abandoned Building, which Lisa owns and is in reasonable proximity to both Misaki's and Takumi's residences. Takumi joins Misaki in person to help Corpse God move in to his new residence the day after Misaki's death, but with Corpse God's animated skeletons take care of the manual labor, Misaki instead spends time catching up on the Corpse God's existence and the Shakuzawa Building fire that took place when she was deceased: a fire from which Corpse God had rescued several children and their caretaker.

Watching video footage of the fire on her phone on Corpse God's new couch, Misaki expresses amazement that monsters exist after all. Takumi questions if Misaki is fine interacting with her murderer, but she seems more enamored over having been killed for the first time than distressed. Corpse God, meanwhile, pores over non-fiction books pertaining to Earth's biodiversity and other subjects. The trio's discussion turns to the real Polka's family, to Corpse God's theory that his world and this world used to be joined, and the unresolved issue of someone out there wanting "Polka Shinoyama" dead.

Takumi states outright that neither he nor Misaki know the client's identity. Corpse God decides to investigate the matter himself, having taken Clarissa at her word that she will refuse any more hits on him. His and Takumi's discussion briefly turns to Misaki—busy playing with the animated skeletal arms—before the Corpse God reveals the real Polka's soul is currently possessing Takumi's drone.

Just as the Corpse God is wondering what manner of job he might acquire in this world, a man appears on Takumi's live feed of the building's front entrance. At Takumi's deduction the man is here for Misaki, Misaki heads down to speak with her visitor outside. The man begs her to dispatch the yakuza hunting him, claiming Lisa told him where to find her—the assassin-killer—but Misaki demurs rather than accept on the spot. When Corpse God—suddenly crouching beside her—accepts, however, Misaki immediately agrees to help after all.

That night, Misaki follows her client to the abandoned factory in which he claims the killer is lurking. Her client has no end of context and explanations for the killer's actions—no end until several men round the corner and attempt to deal Misaki blunt force trauma. As soon as Misaki kicks one of the men, her client shoots her torso. She collapses. The job was a setup; her client and his allies, it seems, are attempting to save face and take revenge for the death of their boss.

When her client turns to tell his comrades to finish her off, he spots Corpse God behind them and shifts his gun accordingly. Misaki crushes the closest man's ankle in response and uses her newfound preternatural strength to counterattack, easily taking on multiple men at once. in the next minute, two monstrously large skeletal hands erupt from the ground to enclose the client and his comrades, twisting their limbs together whilst packing them into a compact sphere of soil. This incident is hereafter known as the "human knots" incident; though Misaki is not aware of the footprint she leaves behind at the (crime) scene, it is documented during the subsequent police investigation.

Upon returning to the Abandoned Building, Misaki inspects her torso for evidence of the bullet wound. She finds none. One hour and a pizza delivery later finds the trio having dinner, over which Takumi asks what will happen, exactly to Misaki's body. Comparing Misaki's existence to Earth's notions of Zombies, Corpse God explains her body can self-repair, has enhanced strength at the expense of muted senses, and that her saliva should contain a powerful paralyzing agent. Misaki immediately puts it to the test via biting Corpse God's collarbone, rendering him collapsed and immobile within seconds. Her offer to do the same to Takumi is vehemently rejected.

After Corpse God recovers and rejoins the conversation, Takumi asks him if spells from his world would still work on Misaki's body; once again, Corpse God wonders if their worlds really are connected. He soon reveals that the men with knotted limbs are still alive.

The next day finds Takumi and Misaki once again at Corpse God's new residence. Takumi is relieved when Corpse God transfers the real Polka's soul from his drone to a shark plush; seconds later, Misaki enters the living area, spots the plush, and hugs it for its sheer adorableness. Corpse God meanwhile remarks that he could make the real Polka talk with enough magic and a fresh set of human vocal cords, choosing to focus on the former, Takumi recalls Corpse God should be able to turn Misaki into a vampire with enough magic as well.

Corpse God assures Takumi he 'simply' needs to obtain a bucketload of "magic-storing stones"—that is, jewels—for replenishing his magic; Takumi promptly has Misaki accompany Corpse God to an upscale jewelry store for a little "reality check." The discovery that jewels are expensive on Earth (whereas they were cheap in Byandy Empire) leaves Corpse God utterly dejected; he and Misaki soon rejoin Takumi's drone ouside the store without purchasing anything.

As Misaki and Corpse God walk down a side street, they encounter Kōzaburō Arase: a man who snatches Takumi's drone before Takumi can pilot it to safety, and then addresses Takumi via the drone's mic. Misaki whispers to "Polka" to be careful; Corpse God, however, requests Arase leave his friend's drone alone. He does not take ARase's subsequent encouragement to cut ties with a 'lowlife' like Takumi well, reclaiming the drone in a heartbeat.

Arase asks if he can ask the two some questions, but Takumi soon enough rings Arase's cell phone to personally negotiate. Misaki's own phone vibrates while Arase and Takumi talk; eventually, Arase entreats with Corpse God by painting Takumi as a disloyal loudmouth who values his own life before those of his friends. In the brief moment Arase comes to realize Misaki is out of sight, Misaki kicks Arase's abdomen with such force that he crashes into an opposite shuttered storefront—and her footprint imprints on Arase's skin. Later on, Arase will identify this footprint as a match to the one Misaki left at the "Human knots" crime scene.

Misaki grabs Corpse God's hand and takes off running, though, once they are out of sight, Corpse God uses a skeletal hand to carry them away at faster speeds. Once they are a safe distance away, the hand lowers them to the pavement. The duo walk the rest of the way to Youtoukorou, where Misaki loudly, cheefully calls to Clarissa she and her friend have come to "hang out" the second she walks through the bar's front entrance.

A blond man named Tsubaki Iwanome pointedly observes Misaki is underage, himself sat between two of the bar 'bunnies', but Misaki assures him she only plans on ordering milk. Iwanome offers to treat her to juice—in exchange, she can tell him all about what is hip with the youth these days. Soon enough, Corpse God and Misaki have joined Iwanome at his table—Misaki proving the life of the conversation, Iwanome laughing along, and Corpse God quietely having a revelation over the miraculous deliciousness of Earth drinks.

When Arase and several men in suits enter the bar, Iwanome waves Arase over and credits himself for thinking Clarissa's place might provide them with 'leads'. Turning to Misaki, he adds, "Right? Little lady?" After a pause, Misaki yelps in 'realization' that Arase is the "bad guy" who earlier pushed and hit her. Arase denies this. Standing, Iwanome identifies himself and Arase as government officials who would like to ask Misaki some questions.

The electricity abruptly powers off, something Clarissa immediately clarifies was not intentional. Misaki suggests to Corpse God they take the opportunity to escape; agreeing, "Polka" offers to lead the way "this time" due to his Evil Eye—taken aback, Misaki accepts with a bright smile. However, Polka freezes as soon as the two crawl out of the booth: moments later, the urban legend Lemmings drops from the high chandelier onto a table with tremendous force.

Content from Volume 2 onward still to be added.