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_Disclaimer: I've only watched the anime._

When Yato gave Yukine a name, he immediately started suffering from all his
"sins" and eventually an Ablution had to be performed to save both's lives.

Then why is it that he is not affected by Nora's actions? Unless he un-named
her, which hasn't been mentioned. Either way, why doesn't he seek to kill her
and end all these side problems that emerge because of her?

I am not entirely through with season 2, but similarly Kugaha's case confuses
me too.

If anyone has answers, I'd appreciate them. Also, I don't care about spoilers,
rather the opposite, if possible I wanna understand everything beforehand.
This show sure is good, but it makes some mistakes in regards to explaining
basic logic.


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Why does Nora's darkness/corruption not affect Yato (or any other God that has named her, for that matter)?


As ton.yeung and I have stated in our comments, the
[Blight](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Blight) forms based on the guilt of
the [Shinki](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Shinki), therefore, if the shinki
was committing sins under the notion that it was wrong, blight would occur,
like in Yukine's case of destroying the school windows and stealing. But in
Kugaha's case, he believed what he was doing to be for Bishamon's sake as
shown in this scene.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uahin.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uahin.png)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0b5T.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0b5T.jpg)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vv09d.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vv09d.jpg)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U77va.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U77va.jpg)

Therefore, in [Hiiro](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Nora)'s case, she
believes all the horrible things she did was for the sake of Yato and
therefore was justice, so she was not blighted.


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Blight occurs when Shinki commit a sin and they know it's wrong. Yukine, as
example, regardless of how much he screamed in his Ablution that he did the
right thing, HE knew it was not. That's why Kugaha didn't affect Bishamon in
all his mad plan.

But, there's another point: Nora won't hurt their master. Including, that's
why Ebisu used so many in his quest to control the Ayakashi.


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I think what Astral Sea said is true that if the shinki was committing sins
under the notion that it was wrong, blight would occur. But in Kugaha's case,
I don't think that him not blighting Bishamon was necessarily only because he
thought his action were for Bishmon's sake. I think the reason was that he had
no remorse because he thought that he was doing the right thing altogether.

Look at it this way, Nora was literally manipulating Rabo and Ebisu and as
such not really doing things for their sake. But she never blighted them
because she never thought that she was doing some thing wrong. Thus, she
wouldn't have blighted Yato.

Of course the theory that Noras can't blight their masters at all could also
be true. Because if not, the father will have more ways of hurting others (not
Yato as he already released her), by manipulating Nora into thinking she did
something remorseful, in turn blighting all of her masters.


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