Cursed Energy

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Rules

• Cursed Energy is negative energy. Reverse Cursed Technique multiplies this negative energy into positive energy, enabling healing and purification effects 41.
• In the jujutsu world, a person’s Cursed Energy reserves and innate technique are generally determined at birth; major post-awakening growth is considered extremely difficult 2.
• Ordinary people possess Cursed Energy, though their levels may be too low to perceive or handle Cursed Spirits 4 12.
• Jujutsu sorcerers and Cursed Spirits commonly judge an opponent’s threat level by their Cursed Energy output. This can be misleading against fighters such as Morien, who can convert his energy into other systems, or Maki, who possesses almost none 19 20.
• Morien’s synchronized Cursed Energy can transform into Spirituality and Path Power, while those energies can also be converted back into Cursed Energy 4 24.

Applications

Reinforcement and Release

Released Cursed Energy appears around Morien as blue flame-like aura; when infused with Propagation and Elation, it becomes blue-violet and particle-filled 4 14.

• Reinforces the body’s strength, speed, reflexes, and durability 4 31.
• Covers the body as a defensive coating capable of deflecting bullets from period firearms 4.
• Allows physical attacks to affect Cursed Spirits and other supernatural targets 19 20.
• Can be concentrated into explosive movement or close-combat strikes 4 20.

Resonance Curse Technique

Resonance transmits Morien’s voice directly into a target’s mind. Its defining exchange is near-certain comprehension by living beings regardless of nationality or species, in return for lacking direct offensive force 2 14.

• Initially has a straight-line range of barely over 100 meters, consumes heavy amounts of Cursed Energy, and cannot be maintained for more than three minutes 2.
• Cannot create sound-based attacks or amplify speech into “sound bombs” 2.
• When combined with Propagation, Morien replicates his words within a target’s mind, flooding Haruta Shigemo with overlapping messages and overwhelming his ability to process them 14.
• Can interfere with instinct-driven Shikigami by making Morien’s words feel like their own thoughts; Dagon’s summons become confused or attack their master 21.
• Morien uses synchronized commands of “Stop” to introduce a competing instinct into Toji Fushiguro’s mind 24.
• A Binding Vow makes the technique permanently active at low power around nearby beings, at the price of continuous energy consumption and an inability to speak normally 45.

Binding Vows and Energy Conversion

Binding Vows exchange a self-imposed limitation for a compensating benefit 14.

• Morien can convert all Cursed Energy into Spirituality, preventing Domains that target Cursed Energy from recognizing him as a valid target 19.
• This conversion leaves allies or summons behind if they cannot perform the same transformation; Rabbit Escape remains inside Dagon’s Domain when Morien exits 21.
• Against Toji, Morien vows to reduce his Cursed Energy to zero for an hour in exchange for three minutes of comprehensive physical enhancement equal to his then-current Cursed Energy 24.
• By immediately converting the vow-enhanced Cursed Energy into Path Power, Morien retains combat output while technically paying the vow’s cost 24 25.

Black Flash

Black Flash is a high-level phenomenon that can draw out 120% of a user’s potential and deepen their understanding of Cursed Energy and their innate technique 24 48.

• Fortune-Collecting Mother Insect triggers Black Flash against Cursed Spirit Haruta, gaining a deeper understanding of her miracle-collection and propagation abilities 23 24.
• Morien and Toji land Black Flash simultaneously during their battle, with the collision shattering nearby windows and damaging surrounding buildings 25.
• Morien’s Black Flash in the fog-covered forest annihilates a mounted creature and creates a crater in a cliff wall 47.
• Repeated Black Flashes allow Morien to comprehend Resonance well enough to divide his body into a swarm 48.

Reverse Cursed Technique

Reverse Cursed Technique creates positive energy from Cursed Energy, allowing healing and purification 41.

• Morien’s white positive-energy flames can heal wounds and purify Cursed Spirits 41.
• He uses the technique to restore Thops’s exhaustion, malnutrition, hidden injuries, and most damage caused by Glintstone research 50.
• Qiu Si develops Reverse Cursed Technique Emission through the shared knowledge of the Swarm Network 41.

Cursed Technique Reversal

Cursed Technique Reversal uses positive energy from Reverse Cursed Technique to invert an innate technique’s normal effect 43.

• Morien’s Resonance Curse Technique reverses from voice transmission into Mind Reading 43.
• Mind Reading works on targets regardless of strength, but requires physical contact rather than Resonance’s remote delivery 43.
• The contact requirement makes it impractical against stronger enemies who cannot safely be approached 43.

Interaction with Domains

• Domains can apply guaranteed-hit effects by locking onto Cursed Energy; Dagon’s Domain automatically targets all beings within it who possess Cursed Energy 19.
• Converting Cursed Energy into Spirituality prevents this lock-on, forcing summoned attacks to manifest physically before they can harm Morien 19.
• Morien’s permanently active Resonance is compared to a Simple Domain in its constant area of influence, but it cannot neutralize a Domain’s guaranteed-hit effect 45.
• Within a closed Domain, Morien can safely draw upon the limited Wish Power of its occupants without risking contamination from a wider population 21.

Documented Practitioners

• Morien — Uses Cursed Energy alongside Spirituality, Path Power, Propagation, Elation, Monsterification, and Binding Vows; his unusual conversions make his output difficult to assess conventionally 4 24 25.
• Fortune-Collecting Mother Insect — Lands Black Flash and uses the resulting insight to improve her miracle-fueled propagation 23 24.
• Qiu Si Mother Bug — Contributes to Reverse Cursed Technique research through the Swarm Network and inherits a portion of Morien’s Cursed Energy 40 41.
• Toji Fushiguro — Though originally without Cursed Energy, his resurrected vessel possesses it; a Black Flash lets him access the core of his body and briefly regain sanity 25.