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I'm not too far in the series but I can't see any use in the prayer yet.  
First I thought the prayer either weakened the infernal or boosted the
firefighter.  
Then I thought the soul needed the prayer to be "freed".

For example, on D.Gray-Man:

> A soul can either be freed when killed by exorcist innocence or destroyed
> when killed using a different method.

Does it make a difference if they pray or not in Fire Force?


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What is the purpose of the prayer in Fire Force?


The people in Fire Force believe that an Infernal is a person who is on the
verge of passing on to the next life, and that they are suffering heavily with
their body on fire.

By having a Sister say the prayer, they are blessing the soul of the Infernal
so that when the Fire Force destroy their physical body they can pass on to
the equivalent of Heaven and be at peace. In the first season, the Captain
explains how the bright lines on the Fire Force uniforms are both practical
(making it easier to see them in smoke) but also symbolic of the Force's role
of guiding souls to the next world.

There is at least one point in the second season (and I believe once during
the first season as well) where they discuss destroying an Infernal without
saying the prayer, and those present are aghast at the idea of doing so since
it would condemn the soul of the person - the instance in the second season
was a case where they weren't sure that the Sister could arrive in time to say
the prayer in a situation where there were many non-Infernal lives at stake so
they were weighing up the danger of waiting long enough to do things properly


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Great pressure is pressed on people if they feel they are killing people (or
at least I think so). The Fire Force was set up to save people instead of
killing, although they may be literally killing all the time.

In order to maintain a sense of justice and mercy, prayers are needed, not
only to confort the family and relatives of the dead, but to ease the feeling
of guilt of the firefighters.


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