Cain

Cain
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Deep Violet
Eye Color	Green
Race	Jinrou
Status	Unknown
Relatives	Abel
Debut	Episode 8 : Eighth Night

Plot

One of the two characters in Seishin's book entitled: "Shiki".

In his story, the Earth had been frozen over and hardened up and down, many times over. The dark and gloomy sky hangs low, where the clouds and the Earth has the world beautifully divided into two. Cain has been cursed and exiled. When night comes he comes to a wasteland. His younger brother who had already been slain, that corpse should have been buried together with his grief. Yet tonight, it comes again; resurrected from its grave. Abel is a shiki.

In the story, it is said that Cain was cursed and exiled. In the story, Cain tills the land whilst his brother Abel is a Shepherd. Out of jealousy for his brother, one day in the Shepherds field, Cain killed his younger brother with a pitchfork and was banished from the lands by the people. Following him across the lands was his risen brother, and during that time together, Cain became a Jinrou.

Whilst travelling, Abel eventually admitted that he was actually waiting for Cain to kill him and seemed to be grateful that he was killed. After that, unlike how Shiki normally die, Abel just simply vanished into thin air like a ghost, as if he never even existed.

Once his brother had disappeared, Cain came to the realisation that he and Abel were in fact, the same person. Stating that it was he who had died, as well as being the one who commited the murder of himself. In short terms, suicide.

Trivia

• Cain has multiple similarities to Natsuno. Both share the same blue-ish violet hair, become Jinrou's and commit suicide.
• The story itself is highly based off of the Biblical tale in Genesis. In which the main characters: Share the same names and jobs. The elder brother kills the younger. Etc.
• Two main differences between the biblical tale and "Shiki" are that, Cain was not directly punished by God, he was banished by civilians, and that Shiki and Jinrou don't exist in the Bible.