: The team successfully lifts the curse. While the students are technically hit by the "returned" energy, Naru manages the ritual so they suffer very little physical harm, effectively ending the haunting. Characters in Team SPR

: To save the target, Naru and Lin perform a dangerous "return-the-curse" ritual. This process is designed to send the negative energy back to those who cast it.

: Naru (Kazuya Shibuya) and Lin discover that the seemingly harmless game was actually a cleverly disguised death spell. The instructions were designed so that every student who participated unknowingly contributed energy to a curse aimed at a specific target within the school.

The investigation focuses on a high school where a "game" called Orikiri-sama (a ritual similar to Kokkuri-san or a Ouija board) has gone horribly wrong.

The seventeenth episode of the anime , titled "File 6: Forbidden Pastime, Part 4," marks the chilling conclusion to the "Orikiri-sama" curse arc. The Story of Episode 17

: The 17-year-old narcissistic manager and lead researcher.

At this point in the series, the core members of Shibuya Psychic Research (SPR) are well-established:

: The spirits summoned by these rituals were intended to "devour" one another until only the strongest remained to possess the school and demand human sacrifices.