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At the start of Soul Eater, Maka and Soul are tasked with hunting the soul of
a Witch to turn Soul into a Death Scythe. The target is normally assigned by
Lord Death as to avoid the Meister/Weapon group from getting killed.

During Maka's/Soul's fight with Blair, Death comments that there's "something
odd" about her (right before he Reaper Chop's Spirit for Spirit's comment on
Blair's body), then we learn she is actually a cat with a lot of magic. As a
consequence, because Maka and Soul messed up the final soul, their previously
collected 99 souls were confiscated.

From what Death said during the fight, it didn't seem as if it was a test to
see if Maka and Soul could correctly identify a Witch. So I am wondering, did
Death know Blair was a cat? If not, why did Maka/Soul get punished when he
himself thought that she was?


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Did Death know Blair was a cat and not a witch?


From what I remember, the 99 souls were not actually confiscated. Because the
100th soul he ate was a cat's, he had to repeat the whole process of hunting
99 red souls again.

Think of this as a "soul-meter", the goal is to fill it up to 100 (99 being
red souls and a soul of a witch). Initially, he had 99 souls already eaten,
and he had one more soul to go. He then mistakenly ate a cat soul, thinking it
was a witch. This caused the gauge to drop back to zero.


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I read through the first volume again, and it's quite clear that Death
believes this to be a witch. Take for instance, the following page:

![Chapter 1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0b1Vi.jpg)

Here Death makes several references to Blair as being a witch. He makes no
mention that contradicts this belief. In fact, I cannot find anywhere in the
manga where Death states there's something odd about Blair, so it appears that
part was actually added in the Anime.

As for why Death "confiscated" them, I believe that is also something added in
the anime. The first volume of the manga ends with Maka asking "Does this mean
we failed?", with the second volume going into Blackstar's introduction. I
couldn't find anything regarding "confiscated" souls after skimming over the
first few volumes.


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