Shiori Sekine

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"Promises are my way of making sure I keep things the way they are. Otonashi, even I am aware that you and I are selfish. We both can only go so far to protect our dearest before it becomes unbearable. At that point, we will kill ourselves to keep it the way we want."

- Shiori Sekine

Shiori Sekine (関根 しおり Sekine Shiori) is a character in Angel Beats! A Step Closer and the bassist of Girls Dead Monster.

Appearance
Sekine has multiple sets of appearances in A Step Closer.

In her Afterlife Battlefront civilian uniform, she wears the standard uniform for females with the Girls Dead Monster accessory on her left thigh with her socks going all the way up to her thighs. The uniform holds a removable Afterlife Battlefront patch on her left shoulder. When in public or performing, she removes the patch.

Combat Gear
Sekine doesn't typically go for active combat with the rest of the top brass given her role in Girls Dead Monster to serve as a distraction. While there are times she goes out on deployments, they are mostly rare. As a result of rare deployments, it is unknown whether or not she prefers to wear any sorts of combat clothing.

Headgear
It is unknown whether Sekine has a preference or dons specific headgear.

Plate Carrier
It is unknown whether Sekine has a preference or dons specific plate carriers.

Battle Belt
It is unknown whether Sekine has a preference or dons specific battle belts.

Weapons
It is unknown whether or not Sekine has a specific type of weapon she prefers or carries.

Personality
Hisako claims Sekine to be a spontaneous little rascal, often having ideas that tend to rub people the wrong way. Whenever Sekine comes up with any sort of plan, it often is mischievious, usually causing trouble for the target person or group of people. She often brings her close friend Irie alongside her whenever she conducts her plans, using her for no particular reason.

While Hisako's claims for Sekine as a spontaneous little rascal is more or less the truth, Sekine has a lot of trust with the members in Girls Dead Monster. Specifically to Irie, she feels pity due to Irie's personality, notably her shyness. As such, she often puts her on a pedestal for various guys, despite Irie's protests.

Sekine tends to be hyperactive when around other people or engaged in conversations, which most likely stems from the fact that she had been deprived of normal human connection in captivity, and why she tends to be more comfortable around females and thinks about dating or sex when around males. Unlike Yusa, she doesn't bare hatred to men and seeks a more positive outlook from her experiences even if one could argue there weren't any.

Alongside Irie, she commonly complains about training alongside the Top Brass despite their exclusiveness to distraction.

Background
Prior to the Afterlife, Sekine was a teenager like any other with her own unique features and tastes.

As some of the Battlefront members disclosed their backgrounds, she had the opportunity to listen to them. As she listened to the stories of others or heard it by earshot, she recognized that the life she had lived before was too brutal, compared to what possibly Yusa and Yuri have experienced. With the ability to think sanely in the Afterlife, Sekine made the decision to play hers off by falsifying a fake story for the sake of maintaining relationships.

Sekine was a victim that had left the world with no hope. She was kidnapped and placed in a room, to where her captors who assumed normal lives used her in various ways, which ranged from mostly sexual violence to physical torture and dismemberment.

As her captors began to gradually pay attention to their own lives, Sekine was left on her own in the room she was kept in, with one of them only returning occasionally to do whatever is they wanted and to feed her.

Eventually, she died from septic shock and blood loss. She was discarded by her captors in the ocean. Her body had been effectively separated in order to prevent any chance of discovery by law enforcement, hoping the ocean would decompose her. Upon her arrival in the Afterlife, she had forgotten everything and was able to act in that mischievious manner. After regaining her memories and some time away from Girls Dead Monster, she maintained a journal that she uses to document her thoughts and interactions to which she continues to this day. She thinks it's a lightweight form of release compared to many what others have gone through, but believes that a higher power gave her such ability to not be affected as harshly in order to receive some sort of favor or payment.

Sekine's regrets are not currently known.

Deployments/Operations

 * Operation Tornado
 * Operation Serpent's Guard (ongoing)

Miscellaneous

 * Investigation of APT51 (target of operation)