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Originally Posted by Malkuth
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Well, they'll touch more on this later, but to give you an explanation suggested by chapter 4 in the novel:
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Shiki was originally both Shiki and SHIKI at the same time. They may have been able to "switch" between the two of them, but in the end they were always not only watching each others actions, but in fact acting in unison. That's why their ability can't be called something as simple as dual personalities; they had unison of will and purpose. In a way, you could consider the two Shikis closer to different "moods" than "split personalities".
So when SHIKI dies, it's basically the same as killing the whole. For example, if you remove half a book, can you still say you're reading the same story? Continuing that train of thought, the Shiki in chapter 4 is no longer the composite being known as Ryogi Shiki, and that's why she feels completely separated, even from her own memories. By removing the part of herself that is SHIKI, it's like she's lost half of her own will, and thus she's become a different person from one 2 years ago. Now in general that may sound like sophistry, but because of the way her bloodline ability works that fact is far more pronounced in her mind.
To get a basic idea for it in the movie, rewatch the section where Shiki and Touko are talking about how they'd classify Shiki's two personalities (composite individual personalities or whatever it was) or SHIKI's explanation of the two sides in movie 2.
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Originally Posted by Malkuth
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For simplicities sake: Because Shiki's head connected with a moving vehicle.