Jiyūjin Shinkirō (蜃気楼自由人, Shinkirō Jiyūjin) is a Shinigami and seventh year student at the Shinō Academy. His actual origins lie within the World of the Living, there he existed as a human teenager till he was killed after being hit by a car. After his death he was brought to the Soul Society and taken to the slums of the Rukongai where he lived as a street rat. When he accidentally discovered that he possessed spiritual energy, he immediately decided to join the academy without a second thought. He is ranked at the very bottom of his class and is considered to be unskilled as he cannot even control his spiritual energy.