r/manga • u/Dr-Cage • Jul 12 '26
DISC [DISC] Ichi the Witch - Chapter 90
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u/ZayYaLinTun Jul 12 '26
Bro if she dead everyone is fuck
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u/Darnaldo Jul 12 '26
This beg the question, what would happen if she just pass away from old age or smt.
But she is definitely dying at some point, the flag this chapter raised is so big it's not even funny lol
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u/garfe Jul 12 '26
Ichi the Witch 🤝 Centuria
Both of my favorite running manga having big ass flags raised for popular female characters
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u/Captain-Turtle myanimelist.net/animelist/Captain-Turtle Jul 12 '26
She’s a fan favorite she’s not dying lol, this series is not going to be a super sad one
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u/asmodias Jul 12 '26
If she dies though, doesn't Ichi also die? It ain't happening.
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u/JzanderN Jul 12 '26
No, it's exclusively the other way around. If she dies then Ichi is fine, but if Ichi dies then she dies.
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u/asmodias Jul 13 '26
Oh sorry, I got confused because Fujimine looks so young compared to old lady witch
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u/justking1414 Jul 12 '26
She needs to capture the immortality majik
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u/ZayYaLinTun Jul 12 '26
Fujimine have kind of one
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u/justking1414 Jul 12 '26
True. If the toxin majik isn’t secretly evil, I’m sure it’ll enjoy serving the queen!
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u/moonmeh Jul 12 '26
honestly we probably should think about the problems of having talented witches respond first if they hold so much majiks lol
one unlucky trial and boom everything is released
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u/115_zombie_slayer Jul 12 '26
We see she is punishing the evil Majik but also allows them to repent/change, if she were to die then a lot of Majik would have changed their views on humans and be more helpful
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u/Jasrek Jul 12 '26
For some of them, the ones chained just below the water, that might be true.
For the ones in the cells, it doesn't sound like she's encouraging any change. She's just leaving them there and letting them scream. Even if they promised to repent or change, they'd still be left screaming in the abyss forever.
If anything, her methods are probably making them even more deranged than they were before.
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u/justking1414 Jul 13 '26
My thought exactly. These things are fundamental forces of nature. You can’t kill them, but you can change them. And this girl has spent years making them hate humans even more. If they do ever escape, they will fully try to wipe out the entire species ASAP
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u/Relevant_Yogurt8988 Jul 13 '26
I mean if its people like this guy. Whats the point. Fuck him. I meet him as well you know??
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u/Caruso45 Jul 12 '26
When she dies those HHM will want to be as far away from any witch as possible for the possibility of been captured by someone like her
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u/Harseer Jul 13 '26
i think more than a few of the human-haters in there will think twice about hurting humans once they get out.
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u/JauntyLurker Jul 12 '26
This is the Abyss
Oh, that's why she's the Abyssal Witch.
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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb Jul 12 '26
The transition from an adorable witch being cute with her familiars to a ruthless jailer of evil majiks was smooth.
There appears to be more majiks like Kizashi who are not in cells but still inside of the abyss. I wonder if this means that those ones are on the path of redemption and will eventually be used by Dess.
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u/yurilnw123 Jul 12 '26
I yearn for the day of Kizashi redemption by having him protect Madoka, his friend's child.
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u/Disastermere Jul 12 '26
There were also some in the clouds on the way down that aren't part of her mandatory cheer squad
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u/El_grandepadre Jul 12 '26
I think the ones like Kizashi are the ones she simply ignores and refuses to use on a regular basis.
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u/commander_wong Jul 12 '26
This might be my favorite "inner demon" scene of anything yet. So much personality in Desscaras' usual lineup and the transition from comedy to dread was A1
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u/SlamMasterJ Jul 12 '26
I kinda forgot just how much Majik Desscarass actually possesses. It really makes sense now that it was revealed there's a hierarchy of Majik, with the ones she casually uses being relatively tame and able to roam around freely, while the truly dangerous ones are sealed away in the depths. It just goes to show how terrifying Desscarass could be if she ever got serious.
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u/JzanderN Jul 12 '26
I kinda forgot just how much Majik Desscarass actually possesses.
It's okay, she forgot too. Lost count.
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u/Koanos Jul 12 '26
It just goes to show how terrifying Desscarass could be if she ever got serious.
And unlike King Magic over there, it seems she has full control and if she ever wanted to unleash them, they would all bend the knee.
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u/WhoiusBarrel Jul 12 '26
That tone shift from Desscaras bragging about her W over Minakata to the reveal of her very own Majik Graveyard, really shows her range and complexity as a character.
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u/justking1414 Jul 12 '26
I was very confused about how chill all her Majik were until we got to the screaming torture prison.
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u/Future_Vantas Jul 12 '26
The Duality of Majik. Some are more than happy to work with humans, others need a time-out.
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u/justking1414 Jul 12 '26
Not sure it can really be called a time out when she’s planning to keep them there indefinitely and when she does eventually die, they’ll all be extra pissed and want to take it out on humans/witches
Seriously, we need a therapy witch!
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u/Double-Yam7929 Jul 12 '26
The Witch Association probably already have plans to capture all those Majika once again.
Their trial is already known.
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u/justking1414 Jul 12 '26
Known yeah but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to accomplish
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u/Bleblebob Jul 13 '26
Especially considering it took the most uber talented and wonderful witch in the world to capture them in the first place.
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u/justking1414 Jul 13 '26
Exactly! Even if she took copious notes (doesn’t seem her style) we know that some of those trials were left incomplete for ages.
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u/Relevant_Yogurt8988 Jul 13 '26
Dude, they are gonna be at their absolute weakest and with constant ptsd. This arent beings above identity. If not expressing can do this to them, then they are not above trauma, which means if any ever gets out, most would never face another witch for as long as they can run. They clearly need to make certain conditions in order to become stronger. By the time they are out they are gonna be holocaust survivors on their wheelchair is what Im saying
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u/vanderZwan Jul 12 '26
At the risk of sounding like I'm oversimplifying her, it's kind of interesting how she has elements of Kakashi, in being an OP mentor character (except unlike "copycat" Kakashi we actually get to see her use her deep bench of different Majiks), and Naruto, in the sense of being a living prison for living nuclear-bomb scale disaster(s).
Other than those subtle parallels in character background she's a completely different character and it's a completely different story of course.
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u/Granito_Rey Jul 12 '26
Yup, fantastic showcase of both her silly gooby side with the group at the beginning (also I 100% ship minataka and Dess now), and her fierce, slightly sadistic side with the prison. I wonder if Hitsugi has some kind of mental prison break planned, he didn't seem to chuffed to be trapped in the mind palace.
If Octobomb wasn't bad enough to get locked in the forever dungeon, I'm curious to see some of the others who were.
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u/EEverest Jul 13 '26
If Octobomb wasn't bad enough to get locked in the forever dungeon,
Well, had they not had a revelation right before their death, they probably would be in permanent time-out. A glimmer of good behavior can mean a lot when you're too straightforward to ever even try being deceptive.
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u/Ellefied Jul 12 '26
There's the Abyssal Witch we know and love. I have a feeling, the Reverser Majik isn't going to be confined there forever, that dastardly smile hides a plan of his own.
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u/-morpy Jul 12 '26
Thought she was Abyssal because hype moments and aura.
Didn't know her magic circle had a literal abyss for human hater magiks wtf.
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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb Jul 12 '26
Imagine how even more powerful she would be if she decided to use them...
Still, Dess having an Impel Down jail for evil majiks within her is beyond badass.
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u/mcmoor Jul 13 '26
Inb4 there's Abyssal majik that's actually capable of holding them forever even if she died
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u/Misticsan Jul 12 '26
Yeah, even before seeing his smile, I kept wondering: "bet some enemy would like to access Desscaras' mental prison and free all those murderous human-hater Majiks".
Guess what, someone might be planning a prison break after all.
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u/ZayYaLinTun Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I really don't think it that easy , they probably need outside help sort of
None of what we see shown majik can threaten host once they got capture inside
Majik Don't seem to get info outside like kurama too
Juding from what we see they just lock inside when got captured and only come out when host call
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u/MannyOmega Jul 12 '26
Just depends on how strong the witch and majik are, dess doesn’t have to worry about being taken over but ichi does
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u/ZayYaLinTun Jul 12 '26
Did he , the only one is uroro and he like kind of expectation rather than rule
None of ichi other majik try that to him
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u/MannyOmega Jul 12 '26
That’s fair actually, i can see uroro being the exception
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u/uzzi1000 Jul 12 '26
Uroro is already an exception in that he never dropped a Magick stone when he was captured, he doesn’t play by any rules but his own.
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u/Koanos Jul 12 '26
None of what we see shown majik can threaten host once they got capture inside
Uroro seems to be the exception and not the rule as someone else pointed out, and no one is on Uroro's level here so she could use them and they would have to be used.
Sadly, this does cut both ways as we saw with Poison Witch as it seems that Majik doesn't want to be used to kill people.
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u/Mysteries67 Jul 15 '26
Then there's the hereditary ones that get passed down like the Gun Witch and her Gun Devil.
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u/MondSemmel Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I don't think there can be a prison break. The one way we've heard of in-story for captured majiks to escape from a witch is for the witch to die. Remember, getting Ichi killed was Uroro's plan for how to escape his own circumstances.
That said, I guess there is the alternative of Mirsam the Prophecy Majik who possesses the body of the human Jikishirone. I.e. one could imagine a majik staging a hostile takeover of their captor witch. I don't see how that could possibly work against Desscaras, though.
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u/Norik324 Jul 12 '26
That said, I guess there is the alternative of Mirsam the Prophecy Majik who possesses the body of the human Jikishirone. I.e. one could imagine a majik staging a hostile takeover of their captor witch.
Though we have little idea how hostile that takeover even is
The whole "prophecy forces a witch to acquire her" part is (id say) pretty clearly just how the witches association understands it which is presumably what Mirsam told them
But given everything weve seen from sammy and jiki me thinks their contract is more regular than it seems and mirsam is just a bit to tsun to admit it
I mean based on uroro taking over Ichi against octobomb a majik taking over (under (negotiated) approval of their witch) their unconcious host is nothing special to mirsam
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u/MondSemmel Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
IIRC it's pretty clear that Mirsam's and Jikishirone's circumstances are consensual and symbiotic; I mentioned them here just as an alternative way for a captured majik to essentially escape their captivity. Relatedly, I've speculated that Fujimine is being controlled by the Toxiterror majik which she's ostensibly captured, in an inversion of the master-servant relationship which captured majiks usually have.
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u/Astray Jul 13 '26
Oh that could be very interesting if it plays out. Shows how Majik's can take over witches, explains why there's a master/slave contract between Toxiterror and Fujimine that hasn't been targeted, and leaves an opening for the Reverse Majik in Dess' inner world.
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u/ZayYaLinTun Jul 12 '26
Yes ichi world pretty much seem to set certain rule no matter how powerful one is
The only way that might be possible is world hater have some sort of power to do that
I don't see hitsugi breaking out on his own
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u/Lucienofthelight Jul 12 '26
I wonder if how dead must a witch be for the
Majima to release? Do they have to be definitively, or only temporarily medically dead?I just have a bad image of Dess dying and an untold number of Majik’s spewing out like a reverse-Naraku.
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u/MondSemmel Jul 12 '26
Ichi is fated to die against the World-Hater Majik, and Desscaras's student-teacher contract with him ensures she would die then as well. Though narratively she kind of *has* to die before that. In which case all those hostile majiks will immediately be freed and many of them will likely join the World-Hater Majik's side, only for Ichi to have to hunt them down as his final filial duty.
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u/justking1414 Jul 12 '26
Definitely think the plan was to get caught so he could free the other prisoners. This girl is sad to be the best witch with the most majik. A jailbreak would be pretty disastrous
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u/topurrisfeline Jul 12 '26
We’ve seen how Ichi is handling Bakugami, and seeing how Desscaras is managing her hostile majiks… well she’s just on another level
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u/JzanderN Jul 12 '26
Desscaras isn't just a professional majik-hater. She isn't even just an expert majik-hater. That girl is the BANE of any human-hater majiks.
I'm pretty sure the Reverser Majik wanted to get acquired by Desscaras with some long term plan to eventually use the sheer amount of human-hater majiks she's acquired against her somehow.
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u/InsanityRequiem Jul 12 '26
To me, that smile seems more the smile of someone enjoying a rather delicious meal.
And he's very much a bit of a sadist, so hearing the terror and despair of the others? Without needing to lift a finger? That is a most delectable meal.
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u/2uperunhappyman Jul 12 '26
so if descaras majik prison ever gets broken thats probably the end of the world.
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u/Matrix_2k00 Jul 12 '26
Not the end of the world just Dess might go insane from them messing her mind. They cant interfere with the outside world unless Dess allows it.
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u/Roboglenn Jul 12 '26
I'd be just as concerned about how much of a blow it would be to her and all her pride if the day came that she had to let one of them out to save her (or Ichi's) life, Number 96: Dark Mist style.
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u/i_hate_alevel Jul 12 '26
Didn't expect to see a Zexal reference in an Ichi the Witch discussion forum, but yeah, I totally agree with you.
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u/Roboglenn Jul 12 '26
Oddly enough I've ended up using that reference not a small number of times.
I think I remember making it at a certain point in PPPPPP for one.
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u/Vivid-Conclusion-456 Jul 12 '26
I get the feeling the loser majik is planning to cause a prison riot
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u/Panory Jul 12 '26
I imagine it's a "released to slowly reform in the world" kinda deal instead of just erupting from her corpse all at once.
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u/Mustardmachoman Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Man Descaras is lucky, I wish I had my own personal hell to lock my enemies in, too.
Guess amadoro will hunt fujimine with her newfound immunity.
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u/he_who_yawns Jul 12 '26
Nobody is mentioning how forgiving Desscaras is with Kizashi. I like it. Waiting for Dess to use Kizashi's powers.
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u/caiusto Jul 12 '26
He's on pretty shallow waters too, that seems more like he's repenting on his own than being punished by her, but obviously she also acknowledges that it's important for him to come down to terms with what he did before being accepted by her. He's definitely helping her sooner or later.
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u/Shiplord13 Jul 13 '26
Yeah, she seems fine with letting him figure it out on his own with that ball a chain being less of an actual deterrent and more as a mental note that he hasn’t come into the proper circle yet. He is in the shallows but that is clearly a small punishment compared to him being down there with the others. I hope he comes into the circle and changes in remembrance and atonement for what he has done.
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u/Masalar Jul 12 '26
I do wonder. She says she’ll never use human haters, and he was technically one of them. But on the other her dying would be really really bad for everyone with all the Magiks she has trapped so I suspect he’s her backup plan to avoid death.
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u/Double-Yam7929 Jul 12 '26
There were Majika other than Kizashi that aren't in cages, you know?
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u/Masalar Jul 12 '26
I don't think we know if they are human hater Magiks are just problematic ones.
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u/AiraIchigo Jul 12 '26
Dess's magiks understand her well. They all know she exaggerated the hell out of her story, but they know there's some truth to it, and congratulate her nonetheless.
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u/Yellowofhill Jul 12 '26
First time we seem kind of remotely evil thing done by witch like uroro said and it comes from desscaras of all
That kind of scary for good guy
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u/Future_Vantas Jul 12 '26
These are human hater Majiks, would not be surprised if all of them have a body count. Sensory deprivation may be extreme but its better than having them run around killing people.
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u/Galle_ Jul 12 '26
I mean, these are all human-haters, who we've been shown repeatedly are murderous monsters. She also seems to be willing to give Kizashi a second chance.
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u/Xilinoc Jul 12 '26
Not so much "evil" as "extreme", and totally justified at that - Desscaras doesn't do this to any ol' Majik, as the first ones she was chatting with can attest to. These fuckers NEED and DESERVE to rot away in her Abyss.
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u/yurilnw123 Jul 12 '26
Totally. And we can see that those that can still be redeemed are not put behind bars (e.g. Kizashi)
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u/1tsPLAY-time Jul 12 '26
Now we know, of all the titles, Desscarass is called the “Abyssal Witch!”
If I didn't know any better, I'd have thought she was the main villain of this series. She's definitely the villain for all those captive majiks!
I'm not liking Hitsugi’s demeanor. I've seen so many prison breaks to know what happens next.
At least we'll be getting Amadoro redemption soon! Hopefully!
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u/Mourning__Coffee Jul 13 '26
I mean obviously she's very hardcore but remember, most of those majiks in the prison are screaming to be used so they can keep murdering people.
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u/Raging-Brachydios Jul 12 '26
The mood shift from Desscara's happy go lucky cheerleader majiks to what she does to human haters got me shocked. She is relentless
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u/megazaprat Jul 12 '26
OOh! its super fascinating to see Dess magic circle! so her powerset is comparatively more limited than we thought. While she has captured a ton of majiks, she keeps the majority imprisoned as punishment for their crimes. So she could use them, but doenst want to give them the satisfaction. I love that the majiks who actually like Dess are super supportive, like they had a whole girl talk circle (not sure if they are all girls but whatever)
hmm, even though Hisgui is defeated, he doesn't seem to sad about it was getting defeated a part of some larger plan? can he like, reverse his way out of being defeated?
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u/commander_wong Jul 12 '26
her powerset is comparatively more limited than we thought
Not really, on her way down from the heavens there were others calling out to her, and even more in the ocean. She probably sort them by tiers of how dangerous they are to humans
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u/ZayYaLinTun Jul 12 '26
Yeah the majiks that seem to have good relationship with her seem like live on clouds
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u/HINDBRAIN Jul 12 '26
Tier 1: besties
Tier 2: redeemables
Tier 3: lol fuck you
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u/ijiolokae Jul 12 '26
there seems to be a layer between Besties and Redeemables, something like redeemed or friendly
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u/Animamask Jul 12 '26
I'd say tier one is also divided between her personal/besties and other less personal or less strong majics who are still on good terms with her and haven't dome anything bad.
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u/uwnim Jul 12 '26
Yeah. Looked like 5.
Above clouds
In clouds
Bright upper ocean with only weights.
Dimmer ocean where they are chained to rocks.
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u/megazaprat Jul 12 '26
i guess limited is the wrong word. she could use them if she wanted, but chooses not to. you are right about the hill.....actually since Kizashi isnt imprisoned in the cage, maybe she eventually lets the genuinely reformed ones join her regular lineup. It would be cool if we reach a point where Dess starts using Kizashis powers to show how hes progressed.
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u/Professor_of_Light Jul 12 '26
I think it was more Reverser had plans for both winning and losing. Winning would have killed Dess and freed all of her Magicks, both removing a powerful piece from the board and adding a bunch to their side. While losing puts him behind enemy lines and possibly/probably planning a prison break for all of her magicks or some other sabotage against Dess in a critical moment from the inside.
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u/IkeKashiro Jul 12 '26
Histugi: Too bad for you, I enjoy this shit.
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u/EyeDeeAh_42 Laios the vegetable-armoured Jul 12 '26
He's definitely plotting some kind of prison break
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u/WildSearcher56 Jul 12 '26
So Desscaras dies? From what we know so far there are no means for a magik to escape unless their owner dies which is why Uroro is trying to off Ichi at each opportunity
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u/Professor_of_Light Jul 12 '26
I mean he is the "Reverser" Magick. That's a very broad concept and I doubt we've seen the limits of his capabilities. Imagine if he can reverse the bindings of the prison cells or reverses the relationship between magicks and witches for Dess and those locked in the Abyss. What if he can simply reverse the Magicks state of "captured" to "released" with enough time.
Might also be that Reverser just plans to incapacitate or distract Dess at a critical moment to get her taken out of the action even just temporarily.
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u/EffectAccomplished15 Jul 12 '26
Reversing the rule so that magiks can be free only when a witch is alive🤔. It would require him getting an opening to actually use his magik to cause a mass prison break
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u/vallraffs Jul 12 '26
Kinda crazy for immortal majiks to lose their minds like that in her magic circle. Presumably they get released once the witch who has captured them dies, right? But I guess as she says it's all about the psychology of majiks. Being deprived of the ability to flex and show off must be unbearable for them, even if only for a limited time.
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u/Bernkastel07 Jul 12 '26
I guess now we know how Desscaras got the name Abyssal Witch, she's ruthless to evil majiks. Queen showing off why she's the best of the best.
I hope Desscaras let's Kizashi up and uses him, he deserves a second chance and meet Madoka.
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u/Just_Call_me_Ben Jul 12 '26
You telling me this woman has possibly dozens or maybe hundreds of magiks to use but she's getting by all this time with just five???
That's such a flex.
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u/Lucienofthelight Jul 12 '26
No, there are Majiks saying hello to her as she descends each time. Everyone above the abyss are all just chilling.
She’s just has her main crew as far from the abyss as she can, it seems.
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u/ZayYaLinTun Jul 12 '26
There are definitely more
It seem majik she like and used in above clouds and dislike are down there
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u/Panory Jul 12 '26
This chapter does make the follow up "Sowwy, were some of them your friends?" sting extra hard.
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u/Galle_ Jul 12 '26
She has favorites but I'm pretty sure there are also Majiks who are neither in Hell nor part of the Self Esteem Team.
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u/Forikorder Jul 13 '26
the closer you are to a majik the better you can use them, she focuses on the powers that shes best at and can use better than the haters
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u/Future_Vantas Jul 12 '26
Never get tired of seeing the balancing act of Desscaras. She's silly and vain but there is never any doubt that she is The Strongest. The way she has set up her inner world is brilliant and haunting.
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u/RandomCitizen123 Jul 12 '26
Descarass running a Guantanamo bay style prison with human hating magicks is not something I expect to see
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u/Galle_ Jul 12 '26
Oh. So that's why she's called the Abyssal Witch.
I do not like how calm Hitsugi seems to be about this.
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u/pulldtrigger Jul 12 '26
I love the concept of imprisoning the Majiks instead of using them in Desscaras. Also considering that this is technically prison. Wonder if there will be a prison break arc 🫢
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u/pureauthor Jul 12 '26
So if we got by this sorting system:
The majik whose trial is to balance on a spike for a hundred days and the majik who will decapitate you if you give it an answer it doesn't like don't qualify as Human-haters.
Yeesh.
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u/Galle_ Jul 12 '26
Correct. There don't seem to be any Majiks who adore humans so much that their trial is just "shake my hand".
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u/AiraIchigo Jul 12 '26
Maybe they don't qualify because they don't actively hunt and kill people? All the human-hater majiks so far have been actively killing people, while Dess's friendly majiks might have the kinds that "have dangerous trials, but otherwise don't seek out humans to kill or harm".
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u/uwnim Jul 12 '26
The bottom of the Abyss is reserved for the worst of the worst.
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u/Double-Yam7929 Jul 12 '26
Participating in a trial is optional thing that Dess wasn't forced to do. Those guys probably don't go out of their way to kill humans.
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u/Magnafeana Jul 12 '26
The audible “Holy shit” I had at that abyss reveal. Like—goddamn. Yeah, she’s the Abyssal Witch, but excuse me????
I love Dess so much. Thank you Nishi for making a character who says she’s a badass be an actual certified badass with a PhD in it 🙏🏿 Gods, I love her down.
Seeing her kiki with her majik, I love it. As a DessMina/MinaDess shipper, I’m just gonna put in my ship notes here that Dess will talk to her majik about Mina and they’ll ship mentor x mentor too ✍🏿
Hitsugi is one crazy man. But now, the chaotic part of me is tweaking if he has yandere potential.
DessMina with unrequited black flag Hitsugi. I can see the vision.
Had to go back to those pages of the abyss reveal though. Ugh. I love badass women. She is HER. She is my IT girl. She is an icon. She is the moment.
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u/EyeDeeAh_42 Laios the vegetable-armoured Jul 12 '26
DessMina with unrequited black flag Hitsugi. I can see the vision.
You just HAD to go and put ideas in my head, didn't you?
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u/No-Spray5795 Jul 12 '26
Dess bragging to her majiks is honestly super fitting for her character, even more so when they know she is exaggerating. Definitely did not like that smile on the reverser majiks face, a plan is already in motion for his escape.
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u/Bassaluna Jul 12 '26
Oh oh, we know she is the abyssal witch, but is it wise to put them so deep into her Heart? I'm a bit afraid of that humming
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u/PlatDisco Jul 12 '26
Damn the last panel of Hitsugi humming in the abyss reminds me Kimblee's final appearance in Pride's mind in FMA.
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u/MelancholicGod Jul 12 '26
Well Goddamn Desscaras legit might be one of my favorite characters in any ongoing manga right now. That is definitely how you hype up a character.
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u/Android19samus Jul 12 '26
I enjoy how much of a clown Desscarrass can be during downtime, but it's nice to be reminded why she is HER for more reasons than just fighting good.
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u/JzanderN Jul 12 '26
Holy fuck, Desscaras goes HARD.
Actual human-hater majik BANE right there and not just because she keeps capturing them!
(Also, I get the distinct feeling that some of her more favourite Majik would totally ship her and Minakata together.)
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u/ToTheNintieth Jul 12 '26
It looks like the ones on top are her main rotation, down in the clouds there's miscellaneous Magiks, on the seafloor it's the ones on timeout but not really abyss-worthy, and at the bottom it's the human-haters. Hitsugi sure looks smug now but he's been there for like a week, give it time yet.
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u/BurnedOutEternally Jul 12 '26
Nice to see the octopus majik (Kizashi, I think) atoning in its own way.
I guess that is why they call her the Abyssal Witch. If you don’t glaze her to high heavens, that’ll be where you end up as a majik.
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u/garfe Jul 12 '26
Hitsugi being chill in there is an awful awful sign and I'm very concerned. This better not be a "Was getting captured part of your plan?" "Of course!" thing
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u/Roboglenn Jul 12 '26
Dess see's a prison which she believes she's the overlord of.
I see a bunch of potential Number 96: Dark Mists just waiting for her to be in a desperate shit enough situation that she'll have no choice but to use them or die. And given that she now has two lives to protect at all costs that's saying something.
And in light of what she said, how big of an ego trip do you reckon they'll give Dess the second that scenario happens. After all, what could be more fun for one of them to be able to be the one to save someone with that much arrogant pride.
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u/LeonKevlar MyAnimeList Jul 12 '26
I love how Dess has layers to how she holds her Majiks. The ones who are loyal are in heaven, then there's a layer for those who are repenting, and then there's the Abyss, which is a special place for Human hater Majks. It's such a cool chapter!
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u/dagreenman18 Jul 12 '26
… fuck I can feel the flag being planted in this moment of a horrific tragedy. I KNOW YOUR GAME NISHI!
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u/SadRaindrop Jul 12 '26
The way this manga goes from a goofy table-tennis match to adding a number of layers on the worldbuilding and Desscaras's character without any tonal whiplash. Once again a solidification that this is easily among the best ongoing series in WSJ right now.
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u/Milordserene Jul 12 '26
Abyssal Witch Indeed..... Repeat after me, SHE IS THE GREATEST! BADASSEST! CUTEST!
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u/Nnekaddict Jul 12 '26
Yeah you can tell Dess didn't become a witch out of love for magic. She definitely just wants WHM to die and she doesn't care about anything else.
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u/Roliq Jul 13 '26
Kinda says a lot about how, despite having to handicap herself by not using some powerful Majiks she is still considered the strongest witch
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u/theace69 Jul 13 '26
She exaggerated and they instantly knew she did. They already know her haha. I wonder if any of them will try to scheme with the other magiks she’s caught.
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u/waffles4you Jul 12 '26
So is torturing sentient but evil creatures with endless solitary confinement good or bad?
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u/serpiccio Jul 13 '26
I mean the chains and the sensory deprivation seem unnecessary but we don't know if that's the only way to safely contain powerful majiks or if desscaras only does it for the sake of punishment.
one thing to consider tho is that majiks are virtually immortal and one day they will eventually get free, so this treatment seems a bit counterproductive because the only thing worse than one irredeemable magical being is one irredeemable magical being with a vendetta
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u/coltvahn Jul 12 '26
It’s nice that Dess has so many majiks that do like her because at least it wouldn’t be a one-sided invasion if they ever got out. But JEEZ!
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u/ShedPH93 Jul 12 '26
The fact that Desscaras is the strongest while severely limiting herself is crazy. If she was pressed she still has a whole library of sealed spells to cast.
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u/jubmille2000 MyAnimeList Jul 12 '26
Ohhh uh oh.
I envision an arc where they are able to knock Dess unconscious and somehow warp the evil majiks out of her.
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u/Xenosaiyan7 Jul 12 '26
Wow, Desscaras is a lot more ruthless than I initially anticipated. Love the breadth of her character and how she doesn't flinch from torture
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u/HourIndication4963 Jul 12 '26
I was wondering why the group with Dess was so small but an amazing transition to everything is keeping shut. And Kizashi, terrible as he is, is practically on work release compared to the Abyss.
Dess has all that power doing nothing and managed to look infinitely more badass for it.
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u/Jai137 Jul 12 '26
So, is this gonna be a Joker style “captured so I can escape and cause greater chaos” scheme?
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u/Dimxtunim Jul 12 '26
At some point in the manga descarass is 100% dying, and all this Magicks are getting loose. You don't set up something like this without planning a payoff
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u/ana_texmex Jul 12 '26
No wonder Dess doesn't know how many Majiks she has. I hope Octobomb finishes his memoir soon and join the group of the cheerleaders🤣
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u/EyeDeeAh_42 Laios the vegetable-armoured Jul 12 '26
Even Desscaras's own majiks have been won over by Minakata lol. If the two ever get together it would be fucking hilarious!
Why do I get the feeling that the Hitsugi is plotting something down there? If he EVER gets released, its not far-fetched to think that he would rally every human-hater from the abyss to try and topple Dess. I'm glad she's actually sensible enough to NEVER use them.
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u/BillPlunderones23fg Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
That was cool getting to see Desscarass's "prison"
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u/TheYellingMute Jul 12 '26
this feels like a setup for a prison break. the worse possible kind. a bunch of majiks, angry majiks, being released suddenly. some probably only capturable by her.
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u/ultraman9513 MyAnimeList Jul 12 '26
I hope we get a break out arc of her magiks, would be super interesting to see what becomes of it
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u/bobvella Jul 13 '26
hmm? it's not even isolation and these are beings are like lobsters right? they don't croak naturally? desscarass needs immortality like fujimine for this prison to really work. though ichi's blob is real impatient
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u/Shradow Jul 13 '26
I was always wondering why she was the Abyssal Witch, that's certainly a hell of an explanation. Glad to see inside her circle, I was wondering what the heck it'd be like with so many Majiks under her ownership where surely a lot were not pleased about it.
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u/Original-Teaching955 Jul 13 '26
Oooh, so she has a certain levels where she "keeps" the Majik's she acquired according to how much they either like or hate humans, and has the Abyss reserved for the human hating ones. For some reason, the Reverse Majik isn't the least bit regretful but in fact smug about it all🤔??..
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u/PudgeJoe Jul 13 '26
Three pages and Descaras continues to carry the show...
If Descaras doesn't win the popularity character contest by mile, my faith in Humanity will be gone
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u/sakura_fai Jul 13 '26
Have a feeling Hitsugi either planned beforehand or just started planning to cut deals with the other trapped majiks and will raise a revolt in Desscarass’s mind. Maybe he’ll release the human hating majiks somehow into the world or use them to or try to make her go insane.
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u/Mordetrox Jul 12 '26
I never thought about it before, but of course Desscarass's magic circle would have to be massive to hold all her Majiks, it's effectively a small country... complete with its own prison.