Hajikira Flower

## Info

For the drug, see Sukiga

The Hajikira flower is a red flower containing a poison to naturally prevent animals from consuming it by having a bitter taste in the leaves, and eventually inducing a heart attack if the animal makes it to the center of the flower. The liquid poison is produced in the center of the flower and flows out through the many flat petals. No human has ingested the liquid directly from the center of a flower and survived. You would be surprised how many people have attempted to do so. Growing, selling, and possession of hajikira flowers is illegal and punishable by up to fifty years in prison.

When you ingest this liquid, there are two stages of effects that can both lead to death.

## Stage One Hajikira Poisoning

Stage one will last for roughly one week, during which patients who consumed natural hajikira poison experience the following:

* High blood pressure
* Tachycardia (rapid heart rate)
* Insomnia
* Restlessness/Shaking
* Photophobia (sensitivity to light)
* Migraines
* Hyperosima (sensitivity to smell)
* Hyperacusis (sensitivity to sound)
* Sensitivity to taste
* General hyperesthesia (increased senses)
* Chest pain
* Dangerously high metabolic rate
* Frequent nosebleeds
* Burst blood vessels in eyes
* Skin bruising
* Panic/Derealization

Roughly 90% of patients die within the first stage, most often from heart attack. People in this stage have also been known to act irrationally, using self-destructive means to relieve symptoms. There are reports of patients gouging their eyes out, suffocating themselves to induce unconsciousness, and attempting to drain their own blood to reduce the effects of high blood pressure. These self-destructive tendencies can result in death.

## Stage Two Hajikira Poisoning

Stage two begins after about a week of ingesting natural hajikira poison, and may continue for up to nearly a month, and will continue indefinitely until death. During stage two, patients experience the following:

* Low blood pressure
* Dizziness and confusion
* Loss of taste and smell
* Hearing loss
* Cloudy vision
* Extreme fatigue
* Immunocompromising
* Endocrine failure
* Depression
* Memory loss

These patients will within a month often die from organ failure or go into a permanent coma as their systems slow before dying. After stage one of hajikira poisoning begins, the patient will likely not sleep until death. However, if a patient does manage to sleep, it is almost certain they won't wake up. Nobody has survived the second stage of hajikira poisoning.

## Ekida's Variant

Scientist Ekida Dortchle manufactured and sold sukiga as well as making his own variant of hajikira poison. Hajikira typically has a very bitter taste, and so in order to use it to poison the food of enemy troops in war, he worked to create a variation that was flavorless and amplified the effect of high blood pressure. This variant took effect very quickly after consumption. The immediate effects are solely dangerously high blood pressure, while infertility is a long-term effect on any survivors. There are twenty-four confirmed cases of this variant being consumed, with eighteen of the subjects dying from the poison. In one twenty-six-year-old otherwise healthy female who consumed a large amount of Ekida's variation, she began seeing bruises all over her body before losing consciousness. She was given an antidote and had to rest to heal as the extreme pressure had torn holes in her skin and made a small nearly fatal tear in her heart. Her survival was nothing short of a miracle, as by all medical logic, she should have died.