... So you're one of the certain people who gets stabbed when your sword gets to stabbing?

( sounds like some kind of spiritual weapon, if he's honest. but after that deluge of information, he's not sure how much he actually has walked away with learning. it is not, however, failing to register that he's been spoken to on all of it. )

I... would say zombies sound like puppets from back home.

( if infection could be stated as what the curse was, the forcible invasion of resentment of the dead, the lost of control over a mind, the lucky cases recovering after treatments of months. most cases weren't lucky. most cases had died on blades of those who knew them, innocent of anything but what they'd been pulled into doing by the strings guiding them, metaphorically speaking. jingyi shudders, looking anything but happy at the idea. )

Thanks for answering all that, though—what the hell? Someone shoots people to make them fall in love with random other people?

( he sounds horrified.

... he's absolutely horrified by this. )

What kind of curse is that?!