Thread:Angelo Gabrini/@comment-29781768-20180208183221/@comment-4436931-20180316200505

The story takes place after the Emilia Camp Great Evaluation Meeting. Meili's allowed to go to the former mansion to find traces of Elsa in exchange for being a prisoner and having Garfiel watch her. She has a flashback as she accepts Elsa's death

Elsa's blessing is a curse that was cast on her when she was bought when she was around the same age as Meili. The curse is originally called curse doll (呪い人形). The user carves a curse mark that includes the information of the target they want to kill on someone, and upon activating, the person with the curse mark gains immortality (note: there seems to be a limit to said immortality), but as a cost they lose their sense of self and can't do anything else but kill the target and they'll die when the target is killed

However, there's supposedly a way to cast the curse without the person losing their sense of self, which is what Elsa was, though repeatedly dying turned her into a curse doll (I think it means she eventually lost her sense of self because she died so much)

The vampire stuff apparently refers to one of those immortal people sucking blood in an attempt to die, so Elsa is most likely human. Some speculation but Elsa refers to vampires with female pronouns (彼女達), which may suggest that all vampires are female. Also, the principle behind the blessing that Gusteko temple knights receive is apparently the same as the non self losing version of the curse

I think a more accurate translation of the kanji (神官騎士) is acolyte knight rather than temple knight since (神官) refers to acolytes/priests. What do you think?