As the second half of the manga begins and at the end of the anime, Shiina works hard and obtains a scholarship to the prestigious Banda Academy Junior High.
In an attempt to save Takeo and herself from a United States military attack on a nearby escaped dragon, a missile cuts Shiina's body in half.
When she does go to school, because she is linked with a dragon she named Ensof (エンソフ En Sofu), she often relives visions of falling from the sky - her constant passing out and vomiting in the middle of class makes her a serious outcast to the other students.
As a young child, Akira was very friendly and outgoing, but quickly transformed into a hopelessly shy and insecure person after being sexually abused by her father.
She spends the rest of the manga in a juvenile detention center, but later is apparently released and finds Sudo, who shows her what truly happened to Komori.
In Volume 12, when Akira is seriously injured by a dragon battle (she had helped Shiina find Sudo, also pulling her out of a paralyzed state when her father dies and urging her to make peace with her mother) and sent to a local hospital.
Norio experiences a turbulent death: a gang of street punks and city thugs approaches his and Takeo's house.
Norio withstands the torture as bravely as he can, not screaming or crying a single tear even when he receives stabs in his lower parts, while still using Vagina Dentata to help Takeo and Shiina in their mission to aid Jane Franklin.
At some point he starts to pass out from the blood loss which is when the thug gives him an adrenaline injection in the neck, but even so Norio keeps choosing to protect Tsurumaru instead of using his dragon to save his life.
Once a sensational ace pilot for the National Defense Force, his abilities have diminished since an undisclosed incident involving a dragon.
In Japanese volume 6 (English 7), Ishida helps carry Akira into the infirmary after she collapses in physical education class.
Akira, who had been teased that day and desperately wanted someone to confirm her worth, briefly falls in love with Ishida in the nurse's office.
The day Shiina was born, Misho told her then-unnamed little sister she would get a cute name, but immediately after that asked her parents if things would be better when she died.
Misho's death traumatized Misono so badly that she started smoking and once even attacked little Shiina, which prompted her and Shunji's divorce.
She wishes to kill people, but lacks the strength until she finally unleashes Amapola's power on soldiers on the East Fuji military training ground, creating a field of corpses.
Later, while on a school trip, Satomi tries to kill Shiina with Amapola and succeeds in severely injuring her, including breaking her arm, but her plans are ultimately thwarted again.
He is a military fanatic with a great fondness for guns and cannons, handily supplying such weapons to his human allies when needed.
His dragon is named Hainuwele (ハイヌウエレ Hainuuere) and resembles an angel with talons; in its first appearance, it attacks Shiina's father while flying a jet plane.
Though a member of his high school's track team, Bungo often skips practice to spend time with Satomi, whom he still has strong feelings for despite an apparent past break-up.
He is extremely protective of Satomi, having defended her from bullies at least once when they were younger, and his usual cheerful demeanour vanishes completely when he sees her being hurt in any way.
During his second attack on Shiina's father, his dragon gets sucked into Shunji Tamai's jet turbine and is crushed; Bungo himself collapses in Satomi's arms and dies soon afterwards, after experiencing extreme pain.
Sudo's dragon resembles Hoshimaru and Ein Soph, but is significantly larger and possesses a menacing armored faceplate.
At the end of the series he is stabbed in the chest by a man, who, along with a mysterious woman, seems to want revenge for a wrong thing Miyako did to them in the past.
Additionally, Hiroko's parents scold her for not receiving better marks, unaware that their daughter's slipping grades are the price to pay for the bullies to leave her alone.
After experiencing the unfairness of modern society and being separated from Shiina due to her father's orders, Hiroko wishes that everything would disappear.
Hiroko tells her that she has decided to stop enduring and that she still has one more person to kill, Shiina's father, who is held hostage by Oni.
It resembles a traditional European dragon or wyvern, but with a body made of a tangle of wires and cables similar to Robert's life-support equipment.
After the second incident, Aki, dressed only in a lingerie top in the manga (panties are added in the English and German versions) and a nightgown in the anime, and her brother/lover Yasuhito, are sitting in their apartment when Oni breaks through the wall.
The night that the group rapes Hiro with a test tube, Miyoko is late to join them and gets beaten up by the rest of the bullies for her incompetence.
Jane meets Shiina, and though they are suspicious of each other at first, they eventually join forces along with Takeo in an effort to stop Robert's dragon.