In the beginning, the main conflict in their relationship was their differing opinions on Celty's head. He then cuts the link between Celty's head and her body (as she gets her memories back before anything else) when she catches him-with Kujiragi's Saika, which he rented from her. The next night, when Celty learns that the resemblance between Mika Harima's face and her own is the result of surgery by an underground doctor, Celty storms home and yanks Shinra up by his collar. He later sold the sword to an acquaintance who was an antiques dealer, … Currently, the only real source of conflict between the two, as stated in the previous section, is Shinra's over-obsessiveness toward her. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works She believes the slasher is inhuman because of a feeling she gets around fairies and other supernatural creatures. Shinra comforts Celty after she is chased and intimidated by As he is walking home from Russia Sushi, he is swarmed by the paparazzi, who had earlier seen him leaving Kasuka's apartment building. As a doctor and a scientist, Shinra is interested in what he considers interesting phenomena, such as Shizuo's strength and Celty's body. One night, Celty brings home the demon blade called Saika. The next night, Celty comes home upset, telling him that she found her head on a other human's neck. The next day, when Anri is about to leave to meet Throughout the novel, the chapters are separated by "the lovey-dovey prattles of an underground doctor" which are basically just Shinra's commentary on the events that transpire though out the books but he always steers it to a conversation about Celty. It is later revealed that he performed plastic surgery on the body of Mika Harima to make her head look like Celty's in order to prevent Celty from finding her head an… During the couple's stay in Akita, Shinra spots It is shown that Shinra is still in the possession of the Saika blade that he received from Kujiragi, which he keeps in the form of a scalpel. Shizuo and Celty would often be seen talking to each other in their spare time and would often confide in each other about their problems and give advice. Later on it becomes a big influence on color gangs in Ikebukuro but nobody knows at this point. Shinra awakes in one of Kujiragi's apartments. While not being aware of her existence until over two decades later, Kasane is responsible for Celty losing her head and going to Japan as Kasane was the one who sold the info about her location and Saika to Shingen. The blade is wrapped in her shadows, and she warns him not to touch it. It is revealed that he was the one who stole Celty's head, using the demon blade "Saika" to sever the soul that connected her head and body.

Celty doesn't appear to like Izaya in general. Likewise, Shingen considers Celty to be a monster as well as an idiot, as shown when he objects to her and Shinra's plans to get married and when he taunts her after revealing that he stole her head. This is mostly due to the fact that, even after he saw her true nature, he didn't treat her any differently than anyone else and met her appearance with wonder instead of fear. Celty saves Shinra and herself with her shadows. The next morning, Celty asks Shinra what dreams are. As a doctor and a scientist, Shinra is interested in what he considers interesting phenomena, such as He is responsible for introducing Celty, Shizuo, and Shinra has brown hair and eyes. Still, the two remain on positive terms since Mika and Seiji have started dating, with Mika teaching Celty how to cook and joining Celty's and Shinra's alliance.

After several hours, Celty soon arrives to drop off Anri and Shinra lets her stay for the night. Shinra is first seen carrying a video camera and filming people around Ikebukuro, asking them if they know anything about the Black Rider.

He openly confesses to performing the surgery and states that he knew Celty's head was at Yagiri Pharmaceuticals all along. He is shown to be a determined person, whether in winning over Celty or dissecting Shizuo, and he frequently switches among the Japanese first-person pronouns, believing that the pronouns a person uses for himself should change depending on with whom he is talking.

There is always a tinge of awkwardness in their conversations, but Celty also enjoys taking jobs from Emilia, mostly due to the fact that she usually pays well. He describes Shizuo as violent and Izaya as "shady as hell," so no girl was willing to approach them.

Shinra Kishitani (岸谷 新羅, Kishitani Shinra) is a young underground doctor who lives with Celty Sturluson.

Having just lost her head, he happened upon her stowing away on a ship he and his father were aboard. Durarara!! It's where your interests connect you with your people. Summary: in high school, he … Shinra expresses unfounded jealousy over Celty's closeness with and trust of Shizuo. When Celty asks him to read it aloud, he quickly eats his fortune and claims his cookie did not have one. He offered Celty a place to stay in exchange for being able to dissect her, to which she agreed. The worst part was the trauma she’d received from the dissection. Shizuo also seems to care about Celty a great deal, as shown when he gets fired up about how Celty was attacked by the slasher. In truth, she may have all of her memories back, together. The two of them formed a biology club together but the members rarely ever did anything. The two first encountered each other in the chatroom, but neither knew it at the time. Celty and Emilia do their best to take care of him but his naturally energetic personality keeps reopening his wounds. Shinra threatens them with violating his likeness rights and pushes his way through the crowd of reporters, running all the way home. Shinra gets progressively more irritable with each call. This most likely due to both of them being incredibly abnormal compared to the average person.