Yet the "transformation" was unsettling, maybe "overloading" a cupid with the magic bullets fills them with such envy that they might totally lose control ( the redding of the skin, the eye widening ) and unleash nefarious powers.
Which may have a "price" to pay losing the cupid status and became....well.... wathever Sae is now.
I think it was either Ena saying "How does it feel when someone fights back" or something to that effect, triggering Sae's memories of her own death that did it...
It's in the realm of possibility, the frames show a girl with a cutter which is presumably before Sae dying for the first time in the starting timeline of events, from what I could understand Sae( Sugimoto as the girl said) bullied a girl similar to Harumi to the point of no return and thus getting killed herself by the person who she bullied.
Then as "vengeance", probably subconsciously at the start, Sae as cupid kills Ena, raise her as a cupid trainee and starts to bully her to the same breaking point, triggering the memories of her death and the consequential falloff.
OR
Ena shot Sae with her own gun. A cupid being hit by another cupid's gun gets envious of not finding love, a cupid hit by their own gun might have that magic get... I dunno, 'inverted' or something. Because what Sae says after cursing Ena...
"I hate you." For angels who spread love, I feel like one that feels 'hate' might be the exact opposite of a cupid... whatever that might be.
Here you can see Sae pointing herself in the head with her own gun yet SHE DID NOT FIRE:
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch16#13
Anyway it's possible that 1 bullet froom you own gun is not enough, at some point we see Sae screaming of envy by Ena own gun barrage, but after she get shot with her own gun point blank again and again she starts to break and spits the opposite of love, in this case "hatred" towards her lookalike killer in her precedent life.
You can literally see the character in the same pose in the two pages:
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch16#20
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch16#21
Harumi and the girl who killed Sugimoto both had the same glasses, that's why Sae choose to mock Ena with heart shaped glasses, she subconsciously remember her and this hates her.
Ena is a substitute to her "vengeance" against her killer.
The culmination of such hatred is the unleashing of the loop curse withe blackness pouring from herself.
I saw this as a mix of hatred, envy and despair nullifying all the gifts of the love goodness and transforming her in a "fallen angel" (?).
I love this kind of storytelling where not everything is explained right away, it really helps expand the world... there's more than what we see. Inee's a great storyteller!
Amen, considering this was at risk of getting axed...shivers.
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