Curse (カース) is Risu's magic user persona which acts as defense mechanism for his well being. It is commanded by surrounding hostility, sensing "killing intent" when a threat to Risu's life is near.
Appearance[]
Curse appears as a long skeletal mask with four eyes, wears a long, black, torn cloak covering most of his body. Chains with sharp spikes float around him, and he can also float above ground. Risu's body transforms when under the effects of this magic. A second pair of clawed hands peel out of his original palms. These hands have the right-side finger cut off leaving 4 to each. Under the mask is Risu's face morphed to have a second pair of bloodshot eyes as well as a second mouth lined with fangs. Before merging with Risu, it used to have the appearance of a ghostly figure similar to him, engulfed in smoke and fleas, hinting at a relation to decay, pestilence or death.
Personality[]
Uncontrollable fury towards hostiles in his surroundings. Is forced to attack anyone with hostile emotions.
History[]
Released when Risu was killed by the Cross-Eyes' Boss, Curse wandered the Magic User Realm in order to find his killer and curse him to death. The entity searched every place The Boss used to go, killing anyone who tried to attack it. Curse eventually found Kai and pursued him to Hole, causing an important event.
Following Kai through the magic door created by Dokuga, Curse ripped his head off, devouring it, and invaded his body through his neck. At that moment, the remaining movement in Kai's arm broke a bottle of Ebisu's smoke that Dokuga had given him, mixing the "Entity" present in Kai's body, Curse's magic, and Ebisu's magic, canceling Curse's effects and indefinitely trapping it inside of a newly grown head with reptilian features.
Curse's original form
Curse remained inside Kaiman for over two years. At some point, Kaiman learnt of Curse's existence within him, and used him as an improvised interrogation method. By biting the head of Magic Users and waiting for Curse to tell them the same phrase over and over again, "You are not the one", because Curse was referring to the fact neither of them was The Cross Eyes' Boss nor Ebisu, the reason why Curse was trapped inside Kaiman's head to begin with. Asking them what "the man inside his mouth" had said, Kaiman subsequently slaughtered most Sorcerers after not getting a satisfying answer. Upon seeing Ebisu, Curse says "You're the one who got in my way!" but Kaiman never got to ask Ebisu what the man said to her. Curse is the last thing Kaiman saw, through the memories of Kai, standing in the corner of the passage where he later was found by Nikaido. That memory would trigger the constant urge of Kaiman to know who that person was, repeatedly trying to look inside his mouth to see Curse, believing it was, in some form, his former self before his transformation. During its time inside Kaiman it wandered through Kaiman's mind and saw the secret of his pseudo immortality.
It was finally released from Kaiman's body (now Aikawa's body) after Ebisu was killed by her doppelganger doll, canceling her magic and leaving Curse to continue where it left off. But since Aikawa was killed around the same time by En, now without purpose, Curse went straight to the now resurrected Risu, trapped inside the Cross-Eyes Hideout, and merged with him in a similar way to its attempt to kill Kai, entering his body through his mouth. Causing excruciating pain to him, it forced Risu to morph into a reaper-like creature with a skeletal mask and chains growing from his back attached to the stakes of his clothes, as well as a new set of hands grown from his palms.
Curse Merged with Risu
Curse possessed Risu for over a month, aimlessly patrolling the Magic Users Realm and killing anybody who had killing intents towards them, until he sensed the resurrected Cross-Eyes' Boss, flying straight to him until, once more, it was about to kill him when it was interrupted by Haru's song, as the only thing capable of destroying a Curse-type magic is the song of a Devil. Curse calmed down, leaving the control of the body to Risu, and only activating itself on sensing killing intents towards Risu, until the latter was able to control Curse at will.
Risu (transformed into Curse) is present in the battle inside The Central Department Store, showing how powerful Curse's magic actually is by redirecting a direct slash of the Store's Kitchen Knife against the now Devil-ascended Kai. In this arc, Curse is no longer rampant as Risu is able to take back control and become one with his magic in order to keep it at bay. When Risu's appearance is that of Curse, he still has full control of his thoughts and body.
After Risu fulfilled Ai/kawa's dying wish, slicing his head with the Kitchen Knife to ensure Hole's death, Curse was finally dispelled, showing how it vanished in the air and leaving Risu to fall to the ground. This made Risu really desperate and angry, knowing that once again, he was a useless person unable to produce magic, though this made Kawajiri laugh, who made fun of him for it.
Transformation process[]
