388:(Japanese word for black) after finding Nijuku and Sanju. Kuro found her former name to be unfitting with her cursed state because it was lady like and feminine. Personality-wise, she is calm and collective, and takes the role as Nijuku and Sanju's guardian. She is searching for the witch who cursed her and her friend, Sen. Her curse isn't well described at first, but it is made known early on that she wears bandages beneath her clothes in order to help slow the effects, and that it colors her skin black. Whether this coloring penetrates into her internal organs is debatable, but in the second volume, another girl a nearly identical curse is found in a flashback, whose body was dissolving where the black has taken hold. It is revealed that Kuro's curse worsens whenever she feels a strong emotion. However, the part of Kuro's curse that set it apart from that of other individuals is that she is unable to die. Hifumi took that upon their first meeting to help "complete" herself. Several times other people have attempted to murder Kuro, but each time the weapon they are wielding will malfunction, killing them instead.
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620:. She gave the volume an overall rating of a C− calling the reading experience "annoying". She went on to praise the artwork however, and the color of the pages. John Rose from the Fandom Post gave the third and fourth volumes a passing "A" grade, calling them a "phenomenal read" with "gorgeous art". Katherine Dacey from PopCultureShock gave the first volume an A− rating. She says in her review that the "mixture of melancholy and humor" make for a good read, she also goes on to say that the story is sticks in your mind after you have finished reading it.
523:. This apathetic outlook on life changes when he meets a woman whose aura he perceives as "black". The Professor then combines this woman and her two sisters in a vial, resulting in "Hifumi", the witch that cursed Kuro and Sen. The youngest sister was Kuro's mother. He also experimented with two dying girls and two kittens, resulting in Sanju and Nijuku. These were The professor's only successful humanoid creations. It is implied that one of his failed experiments ended up killing him, as he was found dead when Kuro arrived, rescuing the twins.
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