Hurm... Not feeling very inspired or enthusiastic towards this anymore right now, and haven't been feeling exactly great for a few weeks (been really stressed out and was so sick the other day I had to spend the night in the hospital) so I'm going to drop out since trying to figure stuff out for this is just piling on even more stress. Sorry. Vita can continue to use Shiki as an NPC if she needs to, but otherwise assume he's not really important anymore. Sorry.