Curse Devil

Curse Devil
Name
Japanese	呪 (のろ) いの悪 (あく) 魔 (ま)
Romaji	Noroi no Akuma
Biological Information
Species	Devil
Gender	Unknown
Status	Alive
Professional Information
Contracted Humans	Santa Claus Aki Hayakawa
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 24
Anime Debut	Episode 8
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Yūko Ueda
English Voice	Stephanie Young

The Curse Devil (呪 (のろ) いの悪 (あく) 魔 (ま) , Noroi no Akuma^?) is a Devil that embodies the concept of curses.

Appearance

When summoned, the Curse Devil manifests as a large, two-headed skeleton with horns, its right skull appears human while the left skull has three eye slits and longer, mandible-like teeth. The Curse Devil has clawed hands and a large, distended ribcage.

Whenever it speaks to someone the Curse Devil appears as a dark pair of lips hovering in darkness or as a monstrously large mouth. In episode 10 of the anime, this is changed, with the Curse Devil physically appearing behind the one he speaks to.

Personality

The Curse Devil's personality is currently unknown.

Plot

Eternity Devil arc

Aki considers using the Curse Devil's sword to defeat the Eternity Devil but Himeno restrains him with the Ghost Devil's arm.

Katana Man arc

Curse Devil helping Aki fire his nail sword.

During his battle against Katana Man, Aki pulled out his Curse Spike to pierce Katana Man's body three times. This trigger served to summon the Curse Devil on Aki's behalf who manifested behind Katana Man and picked him up before biting him and killing him.

Aki later asks the Curse Devil how much life span he has left after using the Curse Devil's power, and the Curse Devil states that he has two years remaining.

International Assassins arc

Tolka's master uses a nail to stab Denji three times without him noticing. She explains her contract with the Curse Devil to her apprentice and entrusts the fourth and final stab for him to perform as a test. If he succeeds then she will reveal her other Devil contracts to him.

Tolka lays a trap and manages to stab Denji by having him step on the nail. The Curse Devil appears and picks up Denji, violently biting into him and killing him.

Abilities

Denji under the effects of the Curse Devil.

As a Devil, the Curse Devil possesses all of the standard devil abilities. As a contract Devil, it showed its abilities based on its contracts.

Curse: Upon its contractor stabbing their target a few times with its nail, the Curse Devil will manifest itself, pick up the target by their arms in a cross position, and mortally wound them by biting into their shoulders and necks while crushing their arms. The contracts with it seen so far are:

• In exchange for some of his lifespan, Aki Hayakawa can curse his targets by stabbing them with his nail-shaped sword 3 times. Each time he stabs his target, he shouts Fire! and a finger of the Curse Devil manifests to flick the nail.

• In exchange for the loss of sensations on several of their fingers, Santa Claus can curse their targets by stabbing them with a nail 4 times.

As revealed by Santa Claus, the stabbing can also be done by another person, and not necessarily by the contractor themself as their contract was activated even when it was Tolka who stabbed Denji instead of them.

Invisibility: When the Curse Devil appears, it appears to have the power to make itself invisible and not be seen by others, as when Denji was killed by the Curse Devil, neither he nor Beam could see the Devil, and it looked as if Denji being crucified while hovering in the air.

Chapter Appearances

Katana Man arc
23. Gunfire	Absent
24. Curse	Debut
25. Ghost, Snake, Chainsaw	Absent
26. The Gun is Mightier	Absent
27. From Kyoto	Absent
28. Secrets & Lies	Absent
29. Perfect Score	Appears
30. Bruised & Battered	Absent
31. The Future Rules	Absent
32. Over and Over Again	Absent
33. Mission Start	Absent
34. Full Team	Absent
35. Minor	Absent
36. Katana vs. Chainsaw	Absent
37. Train, Head, Chainsaw	Absent
38. Easy Revenge!	Absent

International Assassins arc
53. In a Dream	Absent
54. To Go to Enoshima	Absent
55. Let's Go	Absent
56. A Curse and A Fist	Mentioned
57. Suddenly	Absent
58. Yutaro Kurose	Absent
59. Mess	Absent
60. Quanxi and Fiends' 49-Person Massacre	Absent
61. News Reporter	Absent
62. Super Mess	Appears
63. Trip To Hell	Absent
64. Welcome To Hell	Absent
65. The Darkness Devil	Absent
66. Woof!	Absent
67. The First Devil Hunter	Absent
68. Dark Power	Absent
69. Shining Power	Absent
70. Pinch	Absent

Anime Appearances

Season 1
1. Dog & Chainsaw	Absent
2. Arrival in Tokyo	Absent
3. Meowy's Whereabouts	Absent
4. Rescue	Absent
5. Gun Devil	Absent
6. Kill Denji	Mentioned
7. The Taste of a Kiss	Absent
8. Gunfire	Debut
9. From Kyoto	Absent
10. Bruised & Battered	Appears
11. Mission Start	Absent
12. Katana vs. Chainsaw	Absent

Trivia

• The Curse Devil's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
  • The Curse Devil ranked 43rd in the First Popularity Poll with 178 votes.
  • The Curse Devil and Taiyo Hayakawa ranked 62nd in the Second Popularity Poll with 1,279 votes.
  • The Curse Devil and Tanabe ranked 118th in the Third Popularity Poll with 71 votes.
• The Curse Devil derives its power from Deprecophobia (from Latin deprecor: "curse"), the fear of curses and being cursed.
• The Curse Devil's use of rituals involving nails is likely a reference to Ushi-no-Toki-Mairi, a Japanese cursing ritual involving the insertion of a nail into a sacred tree or effigy.
• In the manga, the fingers used to flick Aki's sword appear from slightly outside the manga panels. In the anime, they suddenly appear from offscreen.