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When Shun became a Karmic Demon, he realized that his powers were always
leaking and affecting the world around them, mutating animals such as sea
slugs into
[Minoshiros](http://shinsekaiyori.wikia.com/wiki/False_Minoshiro#Forest_Minoshiro).

Considering that the sign that a child has gained their powers is the presence
of a Blessing Spirit, this would be an indication that their powers are
already leaking at this point.

So does this mean the Blessing Spirit is just another mutant? If so, what
creature was originally a basis, and did they all end up looking the same?


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Are Blessing Spirits mutants as well?


Blessing Spirits aren't _actually_ a physical thing. Rather, the agglomeration
of bizarre phenomena that the people in the show describe as a "Blessing
Spirit" is simply a subconscious/unconscious manifestation of the child's
latent powers. To the uninformed observer, it _looks_ like what we might call
a "poltergeist" - but as we know from the narrative, the real explanation
doesn't entail a separate physical being causing the strange phenomena.

I don't know why they refer to it as though it were a physical being. Perhaps
it's a fiction the adults maintain to keep the children from understanding the
true nature of their powers and the damage that power leakage can cause? (Keep
in mind that the students are never taught in school how karma demons _really_
originate.)


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