Shiki Natsumezaka

**Shiki Natsumezaka** (棗坂シキ, *Natsumezaka Shiki*) is a male protagonist from the anime series Dance with Devils. He is the student council treasurer of Shikō Academy and is revealed to be a fallen angel. He is voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa.

## Appearance

Shiki has slightly messy very dark violet hair and bright orange eyes. Two locks of hair stick on both sides which looks much like bat ears. He is usually seen wearing his school uniform consisting of an unbuttoned navy blue vest adorned with gold and red embellishments worn over a white dress shirt and royal blue pants. He wears a dark blue tie around his collar and brown ankle boots. He has four black wings.

## Personality

Shiki is usually quite aloof and strange. Judging from what he says, he seems to be somewhat sadistic. Mage describes him as creepy.

## History

Not much is known on about Shiki's past, except that he used to be an angel.

In the game, Shiki past and feelings of how he drop to a fallen angel was revealed. Shiki was a lone angel who do not have any friends during the time when he was an angel. He wanted to connect to somebody but did not know how to.

During a mission when he was supposed to save humans together with another angel partner, due to certain reason, they couldn't save some of the humans resulting in his partner angel to be upset and depressed at that moment. This caused a feeling being stirred up in Shiki heart. Shiki feels that, in order to connect to his partner, he needs to kill him. After he killed his partner, he feels a sort of connection with the angel and wanted to feel more so went on to kill all of the human. When questioned by the head angel, he asked this question. " Please tell me how different I am from the god who created human and kills them using disaster?"

This resulted in the head angel's anger and replied he is no difference to devil and drop him from heaven without any answer. All along in the school, he enjoyed being bullied was not because he was a masochist but because it makes him feel wanted and needed in the devil team. He enjoyed inflicting pain was because he can feel a connection of similarity since he was also always in a depressed state of always being alone and sad. Even as a devil or as an angel, he wasn't welcome to the team with an open heart and always stood out, having nobody on his side due to his different thinking. It's wasn't until he met the heroine who always stand up after getting hurt by Shiki (good ending) that he learned that the true way to connect with other is not through pain and killings.

## Abilities

**Flying:** Using his wings, Shiki has the ability to fly.

**Teleportation:** He is able to teleport by engulfing himself in his wings.

**Exorcism Immunity:** Despite being a fallen, he still has the blood of an angel and so, Shiki is immune to exorcism.

**Feather Manipulation:** Shiki is able to create and use his black feathers to attack. He may control as much as he wants and is able to damage his enemy severely.

**Illusionary Environment/Memory Projection:** Shiki can create an illusionary museum filled with pictures of the target memories. It was also shown that he can do so only if the target showed a moment of weakness state in the heart. If focus on one picture, one can recall what was lost and remember what happen on that event.

He can also create an illusionary hell with small devils that represent each fears and negative thoughts that the target is feeling.

## Songs

* Warera Shiko Gakuen Seitokai
* Renbin Youranka
* Gensou no Kyrie

## Trivia

* Just like Ritsuka, he belongs to the art club.
* In the game, in all the route, it was noticed that nobody in the devil team actually helped him.
* He enjoys hurting Roen which resulted Roen fearing him more than Rem and others.
* He is in the art club, same as the heroinr
* He is proud of his wings.
* From various episodes, it seems as though he enjoys pain.
* In Dance with Devils Blight, he is the main love interest rather than Rem.

**CHARACTERS**
**Main Characters:** Ritsuka Tachibana, Rem Kaginuki, Lindo Tachibana, Urie Sogami, Mage Nanashiro, **Shiki Natsumezaka**, Roen  **Supporting Characters:** Maria Tachibana, Azuna Kazuha, Jek