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Daichi (大智) is a former ghost hunter currently possessing Soejima Rie. Due to his grudge towards his murderer, he is unable to leave the mortal plane.
Soejima Daichi (副島 大智, 副島 㬃祐 [alt kanji]) is a former ghost hunter currently possessing his little (half-)sister Soejima Rie in an attempt to protect her from their rabid dog of a father. He refuses to leave the mortal plane until he gets revenge on his father for murdering him and ensures the rest of his family is safe.
| Personal Information | ||
| Age | d. 17 | |
| Birthday | ?? | March 12 |
| Birthplace | ?? | Nagoya, Japan |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Family | Soejima Daisuke (father)
Soejima Rie (landlord) |
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| Professional Status | ||
| Occupation | Ghost hunter
Rie's part-time personality |
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Little concrete information is known about Daichi's past due to both his unwillingness to discuss it and his tendency to devolve into PTSD-riddled reminiscing about dead bodies anytime memories leak through to Rie. What he will confirm is as follows: he was a ghost hunter, he killed significantly more living people than a ghost hunter should have any reason to, and he cannot pass on until he enacts revenge on the rival ghost hunter who killed him.
Born to ghost hunter Soejima Daisuke and novelist Lin Luoye, Daichi was very young when his mother died and readily accepted his aunt Lin Luoxia as his stepmother. After Daisuke and Luoxia's divorce was fully processed, Daichi was left in the custody of his father along with his siblings Rui and Denji. His father, desperate to pass on his ghost hunting legacy and no longer shackled by Luoxia nagging him over such minor details as "child abuse," immediately named Daichi his successor and began training him in earnest.
The following years culminated in his developing a convoluted revenge scheme alongside Xun with no less than twenty backup plans for his backup plans. As with most overcomplicated plans, it all fell apart about halfway through when his baby sister Rie came over to celebrate her and Denji's seventh birthdays. His father attempted to start some sort of violent introductory ghost hunting course with Rie, but Daichi, already armed to the teeth with spiritual loopholes, stepped in and took a fatal blow to kickstart his plan early rather than let his father hurt Rie.
His cause of death was beheading, as evidenced by the scar Rie gained upon his awakening. When exactly he died is indeterminate, though he states "it was a while ago." His awakening on Rie's fourteenth birthday was several years after he'd died.
He did die on the day of Rie's birthday, but forgot the dates due to having more pressing matters to worry about, such as waking up ten years instead of ten days in the future and accidentally possessing his sister instead of someone with the physical prowess to take his father down.
Sleeping in a little too much was an annoyance, but decent amounts of his plan had more or less worked: everyone had forgotten who he was, meaning his father wouldn't be able to hard counter him based on memory so long as they didn't get into a fight before Daichi could take him down for sure; Rui and Denji were out of the house and almost impossible to find; and, thanks to his accidental presence, Rie was safe from their rabid father.
Despite existing as a malevolent ghost and being motivated largely by revenge, he cares about Rie's wellbeing and frequently constructs complex plans of attack during ghost encounters to keep her out of danger. (This does not stop her from ignoring all of them to whack the problem over the head with a broom.) As a general rule, he has no issue playing civil with Rie's friends and family up to enjoying some of their companies, but his hard-earned emo angst background quickly dictates his actions the moment he deems someone a threat to his and Rie's safety.
大智 is a common kanji combination for the name Daichi.
Soejima Daisuke (i.e. Daichi's father) took charge of giving everyone normal names. Luoye, refusing to let her professional status as a published author of the most incomprehensible novels known to man go for the sake of giving her children normal names, cracked open a dictionary or four with her sister and created alternate kanji sets with ridiculously obscure characters for Luoye's expected twins and possible subsequent children. Luoxia inherited the list upon her sister's death.
Daichi's alternate name, which was a collaboration between both sisters, was 副島 㬃祐. The Japanese reading is still Soejima Daichi.