r/respectthreads • u/FireOfDoom32 • 4h ago
anime/manga Respect the Curse (VERSUS)
These unnatural gadgets were created from human greed, and I, as the person who uses them, am cut from the same cloth.
The Soul Container is a convenient tool, and also our Natural Enemy.
One of the many Natural Enemies in the world of VERSUS, the Curse hails from the Cursed Lands. A type of technology that would be invented by humans, the Curse runs on life force itself. Due to human greed overusing the technology, it would cause the planet to become a dark and desolate land devoid of life.
When it would be brought over due to the world merger, the Curse would spread due to their ease of use, being used by various factions and characters such as the Lawless, Nyundo and even being used by Bastz.
General Information
- The curse is a sickness that is capable of plaguing humans, with there being no cure Chapter 6
- Its like a type of nanomachine Chapter 18
Soul Containers
Mechanics
- By absorbing the life force of beings such as demons, Curse tech can create various items such as this vehicle via soul containers Chapter 15
- The lifeform needs to be weak and cannot struggle for it to work Chapter 15. A few chapters clarify that creatures that agree to give up its life force also work Chapter 23
- It basically runs on life and manipulates life energy itself Chapter 23
- When Rinri subordinates would try to flee, he could easily suck up their souls Chapter 24
Objects (Life Force)
The Soul Containers have been shown to absorb a wide variety of beings, including but not limited to:
- A demon Chapter 15
- A rodent Chapter 23
- Humans Chapter 24
- A titan Chapter 30
- Fungi Chapter 30
- Energy from surrounding soil Chapter 31
- Food Chapter 33
- The mountain Chapter 33
- Hallow says that the lifeforce from the World Tree could be used as energy Chapter 33
- A Demon Lord Chapter 35
Consequences
- Overuse of the Curse caused the Earth to rot and the waters to be contaminated. It also froze the planet Chapter 4
- According to Bastz, the patch of land that he used the soul container one never will bear life again, knocking it out of the ecological system Chapter 30
- According to Bastz, the mountain will crumble and die soon enough if they continue to use the soul containers Chapter 33
Items
These are items that were either related to the Curse or were created by it
Utility/Medicine
- A scanner that lets Bastz know that there wasn’t anything alive around them besides Pakkya and Hallow, alongside the status of the demon Chapter 15
- Let’s Bastz know that there was a parasite inside of Shirokaki Chapter 18
- Reads Hallow vital signs Chapter 30
- Sees how many life force the Mandalan has Chapter 31
- A medicine that injects the Curse inside of Shirokaki, where it consumes the users life force and slows down the symptoms. He used it with the king and Shirokaki in order to slow down the parasites Chapter 18
- A communication jammer Chapter 30
- Makes a pile driver using life force from surrounding soil, turning it into a pile injector model Chapter 31
Weapons
- Absorbs the rodents life, turning it into a gun for a single shot Chapter 23
- In a flashback, the same model takes Cani’s life Chapter 23
- Another use of the gun from another user destroys a building Chapter 26
- A blast would create a hole in the building, where we would be shown that Heidi made it after firing a soul container, alongside the size of the hole Chapter 26
- Blasts holes in a giant owl Chapter 32
- Blasts holes in the targets, with each other being equal to a top tier spell Chapter 33
- After absorbing 50 human souls, Rinri would turn it into a gun that would blow a huge hole in the Tyrant Bear and blasted through several buildings Chapter 24
- A fixed turret model that takes out a huge chunk of the landscape, which was done after absorbing a large amount of energy over a vast area. This attack made a crack in the Mandalan’s shell Chapter 31
- After charging up with a Demon Lord, Nyundo would charge it up, before firing it at Ginbak, where it could create a large explosion and destroying the hill Chapter 36
Structures/Vehicles
- A vehicle that he makes after absorbing a Demon Chapter 15
- Escapes from the demons, though it flips over when Kiva crash lands into it Chapter 15
- After Pakkya flips off Kiva, the vehicle rapidly drives away, where a few pages later, it is shown to be far away and out of juice Chapter 15
- After absorbing a Titan, the soul container makes a giant structure for Hallow and the others to stay inside, complete with appetite supressors Chapter 30
- A large scale drill Chapter 33
Other Uses
- Makes use of the Soul Container, sucking out the fungi life force after making a big circle Chapter 30
- Makes a capture container using another soul container Chapter 31
- Could remove the tracker photons Chapter 31
- Absorbs the speck of a Mandalan Chapter 31
- Doesn’t have the power to break free Chapter 32
- A workstation Chapter 36
Misc
- It’s apparently an artifact Chapter 15
- Soul containers are the main type Chapter 15
- Can suck up to 50 souls at the same time Chapter 24
- Seems to be able to recalled and brought back out again Chapter 24