Seventh Holy Scripture

The Seventh Holy Scripture (第七聖典, Dainana Seiten^?) is a powerful holy relic weilded only by Ciel.

Original Lore

One of the most powerful weapons of the Holy Church, said to be "one of the apocrypha that must never be removed from its resting place." It is a Conceptual Weapon Ciel is authorized to carry, created almost one thousand years ago by the Church to act as an iron hammer to renounce the heretical doctrine of transmigration. Created by felling a Unicorn, a beast said to consume souls, they used its horn as a key, inscribing it with "tightly-packed complaints" with every possible impeachment of reincarnation criticism. Crossing it with the deceased spirit of a girl, it was made to prevent reincarnation. Its age is enough that it has an elemental within it named Nanako, though the essence of her personality was warped by Ciel's modifications. Ciel is the first wielder of the Seventh Holy Scripture powerful enough to allow this spirit to manifest in physical form.

It is a scripture that was sanctified over the course of many years that previously had some dignity, but drastically changed after being used by Ciel. With thoughts of "A horn!? That's not practical at all. The higher-ups are totally out of touch!", she set to improving it without holding back. Previously only effective against spiritual entities, it also became a physical weapon, a scriptural canon and pile bunker with a weight of sixty kilograms. It is a lump of iron capable of pounding vampires to death with only physical attack power. Swinging it is enough to easily break bones, and she can manipulate it with great strength and speed. With optional attachments increasing its maximum weight by double, it can be called a "Gatling scripture." Ciel has "customized" the weapon, adding four dots to it to make it look more industrial.

As something that is a scripture, apocrypha, and weapon all at once, it is a powerful weapon that needs an incredibly strong wielder. She uses reinforcement to make herself strong enough to swing it combat, and she is better at utilizing it than Riesbyfe Stridberg can use her own Scripture. It would take an entire team of magi to utilize it constantly like she does, all due to her innate abilities. It is an "Immortal Killer" that will disperse the soul of its target into nothingness. When attacking with the bayonet and driving it into her opponent, pages of the holy scripture are ejected from the magazine instead of empty cartridges.^[1][2] The bayonet is replaced with a new one instantly, while the fired one falls, turns into pages, and scatters. It is damaging to vampires and keeps them from healing normally, as it is no different than being directly injected with the holy scripture itself. It is like a fatal poison even to Shiki when he is only a partial Dead Apostle, and being hit solidly with it blows him far away. After killing him with it, he feels Roa's soul disperse.

In the Melty Blood series, the weapon could also fire missles from a compartment in the back.

Remake Lore

A treasured holy relic created by the Holy Church to demonstrate the Lord's power, though for a long time there was no one to use it. The embodiment of a miracle crafted by human hands. A conceptual weapon structured into a scripture a thousand years ago by luring a rare phantasmal species still lingering on the surface and forging divine iron by casting the girl who served as a lure into the fires of the furnace.^[3][4]

Soul-smashing ー that is, starting with execution, all the possible causes of death that may befall a human are inscribed, while the divine iron's natural frequency chants a baptismal admonition against them.^[3][4] While it requires an enormous amount of magical energy, it is viable battle style for Ciel, who has the magical power of a hundred magi.^[5]

As an anti-vampire weapons platform it can assume six basic weapon forms, using the horn of a unicorn as the backbone. It can operate as a gunblade form, a bayonetted-form, a segmented-whip greatsword form, and an armour form, while it can also be deployed as a ballista form. ^[3][4] Within the Holy Church's doctrine, there is no concept of cyclical reincarnation. At death, there is only whether one falls to hell or is invited to heaven, depending on one's deeds in life. Under no circumstance is one reborn unto the earth once more. That thing, with such a doctrine cast as its foundation, is a reincarnation denying Holy Scripture. Death by Conviction(Punishment) via pile bunker. In being hit by that, the soul itself disperses.

Each form of the Seventh Holy Scripture is associated with a specific cause of death, with the seven in question being immolation, illness, blood loss, collision, insanity, torture, and conviction. Its form as a sword is associated with blood loss, its form as a rifle is associated with immolation, and its form as a pile bunker is associated with conviction. Ciel is able to combine the different forms together to use the weapon in more unorthodox ways, being seen to combine the rifle, sword, and an unknown weapon associated with collision into a single multi-purpose weapon. She has also being shown to somehow create temporary copies of each weapon form in order to dual-wield in certain attacks, such as wielding the rifle and the sword in each hand, using two identical versions of the rifle, or wielding the sword and a smaller shortsword form. When changing the form of the weapon into a sword, Ciel uses the incantation "In the name of our Lord, come forth, O' third cause of death", and when changing the weapon into a pile bunker, the incantation instead mentions the seventh cause of death. The other forms presumably use a similar incantation.

The weapon is fed with ammunition using pages of sacred scripture, and its output varies depending on which texts are used. When fighting against Roa, Ciel is seen to use scriptures which make reference to the denial of reincarnation, and later changes the scriptures to those from the New Testament relevant to the study of angelology^WP. The weapon can also change the type of physical projectiles it fires, with the options including both "reactive light" manifested by the horn of the unicorn that forms its backbone and depleted uranium shells.