Ayushiki

"Even if you forget me, I'll never forget you, Kishinuma-kun!"

Ayushiki is the het ship between Ayumi Shinozaki and Yoshiki Kishinuma from the Corpse Party fandom.

Corpse Party Blood Covered
On one stormy night, the Kisaragi class were at school with their class representative, Ayumi Shinozaki, telling horror stories much to Satoshi's dismay as well as cowardice. After the story was over, Mayu Suzumoto, one of their classmates becomes very upset knowing that she'll have to transfer schools due to her father getting a new job. Ayumi uses a paper charm called "Sachiko Ever After" that she found online as a way to show Mayu that no matter what happens they will be friends forever; the other classmates and homeroom teacher join in the chant for her sake.

Suddenly the floor cracked open, causing everyone to get transported to a Multi Dimensional Nexus known as "Heavenly Host Elementary". Ayumi appeared in the same closed space as Yoshiki Kishinuma, the class's former delinquent and Yuishido who is their homeroom teacher. Yui decided to look for the other classmates while Yoshiki and Ayumi stay in the classroom they started in to stay safe. Ayumi hyperventilates in response as despite her love for the occult, she's rather frightened by the dreadful and twisted environment. Yui puts Yoshiki in charge of taking care of Ayumi and gives the pair a power stone 《an item that can ward off spirits》 as a form of protection before leaving the room.

Several minutes passed and Yui still hasn't returned leading to the pair writing on the desk a note in case Yui came back to the class before them as they roam the hallways looking for her. Ayumi brainstorms an idea, laying out her special candles to alert anyone that passes by them that the two are in the vicinity. Yoshiki agrees saying as long as it makes her feel safe (then giving a snarky response saying "You kidding? There's not a student in our GRADE who hasn't seen them at least once. People call you the horror rep of Kisaragi for a reason!" much to Ayumi's amusement.

Worst comes to worst when the two students encounter one of the three children spirits, Ryou Yoshizawa, makes eye contact with him. The Piano wire trap was activated as Yoshiki sees Ayumi get sliced in half, he cries heavily from her demise before meeting the same fate as her. Ayumi calls out to Yoshiki as he wakes up, realizing that what he saw was an illusion as in reality he was chocking himself as a result of the spirit's possession. With him eventually breaking out of it as a result of Yui's power stone given to him from earlier. Ayumi proclaims she's happy Kishinuma is alright but then quickly changes gear to if Mochida-kun is doing fine since he's generally a coward much to Yoshiki's annoyance.

All of sudden, Shinozaki's attitude shifts into a catatonic and destructive state as it is revealed that she's now possessed by one of the many spirits that roam this dimension. Yoshiki tells her to snap out of it as he's unsure what to make of the situation. Ayumi turns around as acts as if nothing as happen much to Yoshiki's confusion; Kishinuma's glad that Ayumi is back to normal smiles with a light blush "ah great shinozaki". The next time Ayumi gets possessed, Yoshiki embraces her with hug while telling her to fight the spirit off. Ayumi comments ("Urrrng... So...warm") before being embarrassed and wondering what was going on.

Frequently throughout the game whenever Ayumi is panicking and hyperventilating, Yoshiki will continuously offer her some comfort. There's a flashback since where Yoshiki thinks back to when he was a stubborn delinquent who had no future. His gym teacher claimed Yoshiki was wasting here and tried to provoke him into getting into more trouble than its worth. This was until Ayumi stopped him and made up a lie that principal wanted to speak with him causing the gym teacher to leave. Yoshiki offers his thanks only for Ayumi to chastise him for stooping down to his level saying he should just try to make it graduation in one piece. The two were introduced to eachother at that point; Yoshiki internally monologs that he hasn't properly thanked her since that day for crying on his behalf and with this resolve in mind he'll protect her no matter what happens.

After following a ghost into an infirmary room, they find Mayu who is surrounded by two of children ghosts. Yoshiki and Ayumi plead for Mayu to get away from them but Mayu refuses out of sympathy for the ghost's demise in life. The kids form a barrier that blocked the two from getting closer forcing them to retreat out the room, meeting a new face Naho Saenoki, a paranormal investigator who died in Heavenly Host along with Ayumi's biggest fan. Naho brings the two up to speed on the severity of the school and presents a way to save Mayu through a doll they can use to appease the children's souls. The conflict arise between the two when Yoshiki finds a door that they can escape the ghosts through to no avail; meanwhile Ayumi gets fed up with him thinking mainly on survival instead of finding their classmates leading to the two to argue for a bit. Shinozaki later reiterates wanting Mochida to be by her side instead of Yoshiki.

Despite them putting heads, the two used the doll against the spirits only for them to act unhinged from the action and drag Mayu into a wall at high speeds smashing her body to bits.The two follow the trial and see Suzumoto's corpse on the walls of the hallway as they stand in shock, Shinozaki has a mental breakdown and runs away in fear as Kishinuma goes after her Yoshikazu knocks him out with this hammer & drags his body away. Ayumi shows genuine concern about Yoshiki's safety, even presenting a light blush although she tries to deny it. Yoshiki meets up with Ayumi claiming he woke up in the first floor hallway after Yoshikazu drag his body there. Even seeing Yoshiki okay, Ayumi cries while embracing him leading to Kishinuma blushing hard then after the fact catered to his head wound.

As they entered the locker room to retrieve one of three children spirit's tongues, Ayumi gets dragged into the water by a random spirit. Yoshiki desperate to save her, takes off his jacket and dive into the pool pulling her out successfully. This leads to Yoshiki going to give cpr to Ayumi but she wakes up at the last second leading the two being flustered and embrassed. Shinozaki hesitates a bit but blushes as she grabs Yoshiki saying thank you for saving her leaving him to blush in return.

After sometime the two find all the tongues and appease the three children spirits breaking down the closed spaces around them. This caused Shinozaki and Kishinuma to be sent back to real world back in the classroom 2-9 from the beginning. After they returned, Ayumi albeit reluctantly thanks Yoshiki for helping throughout the madness while hugging leading to the two realizing the situation and blushing afterwards. Yui, one of the appeased children spirits, appears to present Ayumi and Yoshiki the truth of what happened to her and other children by their true murder. In addition, it's revealed that only Kishinuma and Shinozaki made it back and in order to save the others, they must travel to Heavenly Host again. Yoshiki refuses the plan for the sake of Ayumi's life and starts to think Ayumi is only accepting the deal because of she loves Mochida-kun and states "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU GODAMMITT!!!".

Despite the confession, Ayumi gets offended by the notion as she truly wants to save her classmates's lives not only just Mochida and before she leaves with Yuki, she says "Goodbye Kishinuma" with a look of sadness and disappointment. Yoshiki later arrives to meet her as a result of asking Yui to follow Ayumi back to Heavenly Host. Yoshiki swallows up his pride and states he feels the same way about his classmates and couldn't have been the same guy without them in his life. Ayumi cries tears of joy that the two were finally on the same page. Yoshiki mentions "oh after this, I haven't given up on you" leading Ayumi to think about his love confession from earlier causing her face to turn as red as a tomato.

Two then decided to confront Naho on her deception and opening up her eyes that she killed her beloved sensei. This unfortunately leads Naho to be hostile due to the revelation with Yoshiki attacking her with a chair to save Ayumi only for both to be quickly taking down by her. Kibiki at the last second saves the pair and snaps Naho out of the darkening but the two quickly get extinguished by Sachiko leaving the survivors to fed for themselves. In the aftermath, Yoshiki states "I'll be with you no matter what anytime anywhere" leaving Ayumi blushing while the doki kanji is highlighted around her. For context ドキドキ (dokidoki) is essentially the sound of a heart beating at a quickened pace.

The remaining survivors band together and appeased Sachiko's spirit allowing her to rest in peace; they then decide to use their paper scraps to cast the chant that'll sent them home. In the Manga version, Yui lives a bit longer and makes the sacrifice of giving up her scrap so Ayumi can go home since she lost hers; it's also important to note that Yoshiki was fully willingly to give up his life via his own scrap if it wasn't for Yui's last minute decision. After a somber goodbye to their teacher, they left Heavenly Host to the real world.

In a wrong ending, after Yoshiki gets burned alive by the anatomical model in an attempt to save Ayumi, he appears a ghost and draws on the chalk board to get her attention and shows great sadness that he couldn't protect her. Yoshiki almost declares his feelings for her during Ayumi's emotional outburst saying "haha you've always worn your heart on your sleeve, it's one of the things I lo-"' Before stopping his sentence. Yoshiki laments that he can no longer touch her due to ghostly appearance but Ayumi states that she doesn't care if he's a spirit now and that he wants him to be by her side until the very end. Yoshiki accepts as he has now decided that he'll do his best to protect Ayumi even with the current circumstances.

Corpse Party Book of Shadows
Book of Shadows deals with one of many different timeline loops throughout the series. In the Chapter 《Demise》, it follows Kishinuma stumbling upon Suzumoto who in turn helps him look for Ayumi-san who's spiritual affinity left her vulnerable to possession. Yoshiki lashes out at the possessed Ayumi claiming he'll never give her up, embracing her with his arms and calling her by her first name for the first time.

In Japan, addressing someone by their nickname or first name becomes a sign of a close relationship. Ayumi's face becomes bright red and gets upset yet confused being unaware of what happened during the possession. It should be noted that Mayu's internal dialogue says this; "Whoa! I didn't expect that. If circumstances were different, this could be the start of a really heartwarming, romantic scene".

Almost immediately, both Kishinuma and Shinozaki sat down, closed their eyes, and fell fast asleep on one another. Mayu comments to Nana that Kishinuma has it rough as he has a rival for Ayumi's affections as Nana replies by saying they're cute together. Suzumoto deduces that Shinozaki and Kishinuma are alike in so many ways they don't even realize ("They are a lot alike in many ways". "Particularly in their complete inability to be honest about how they feel.").

The narrative parallels their relationship with Mayu and Morshige (with Nana putting Mayu on the spot saying Suzumoto is not as honest with her feelings for Morshige). Their fates are often connected given how if one of them loses their mind or dies, the other suffers a Grim fate as seen a majority of their wrong endings.

Songs
Follow you |  Bring me Horizon

"The Ayushiki Song" within the fandom. This lyrics symbolize the core of their relationship where Yoshiki is so devoted to ayumi that even if he has to go through hell to save her; he'll do it for her sake and it goes a step further with the two characters separating causing multiple bad ends that lead to a death of one of them making the fates intertwined.

"So you can drag me through hell If it meant I could hold your hand I will follow you 'cause I'm under your spell And you can throw me to the flames I will follow you, I will follow you"

Safe and Sound | Taylor Swift

This song's lyrics focus on how Ayumi and Yoshiki feel a sense of comfort even when they trapped in the confines of life and death with heavenly host swarming with vengeful spirits.

"When all those shadows almost killed your light I remember you said don't leave me here alone But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight"

Fanon
Ayushiki is pretty widely received by large groups in the fandom due to the major emphasis the story has on their relationship these two share throughout all mediums of Corpse Party. With tons of ship tease of both blushing or feeling at ease with each other's presence but can't be honest with how they feel for each other also fueled the ship's popularity. Ayumi's tsundere-ish tendences and Yoshiki's deliquent with a heart moments often shine through for fans of the pairing.Despite the tragic fate of Blood Drive's ending, fans make AUs with the two lively domestically together with Ayumi escaping her condition and living a happy life without sorrow. Ayushiki is the most written ship in Corpse Party with it having a total of 96 works in AO3 and the most written ship for both Ayumi and Yoshiki. At the same time, it is rivaled by other Yoshiki and Ayumi ships such as Satoshiki and Ayutoshi.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION
 * Yoshiki/Ayumi on FanFiction.Net
 * Yoshiki/Ayumi on FanFiction.Net


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Trivia

 * In Corpse Party 2U: Sachiko's Hysterical Birthday Bash, Azusa notices the closeness the two share and gave Yoshiki the nickname "Knight-kun" in response to his actions to save Ayumi time and time again. When Azusa introduces the two to Ran, she calls Ayumi Yoshikis’ “girlfriend” but no one responded to it or mentions it again.
 * In Tortured Souls, Yoshiki almost confessed his love for her but died to protect the remaining survivors against Yoshikazu's wrath.
 * Ayumi and Yoshiki are both 17 in Blood covered, 18 in Blood Drive and 23 In the 5 year timeskip in the events of Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient.
 * in Book of Shadows, Mayu often compares her relationship with Morishige to Ayumi and Yoshiki (they show mutual feelings for eachother albeit unaware of how the other feels).
 * Ayumi, throughout Blood Covered, would point out how warm Yoshiki is when she embraces him.