Talk:Misaki Fujioka/@comment-173.89.128.147-20121020041536/@comment-6052796-20140702103400

The curse works this way. The classroom seats are arranged in away that no matter how properly set up they are, there is always gonna be one extra  that needs a seat. Said extra is usually someone who used to be in Class 3-3 in the previous calamity and died in the curse. As a result, a student is chosen by lottery to cease to exist in Class 3-3. The teachers outside this class work to the best of their ability to cooperate with 3-3 no matter their own personal beliefs on the matter, but other than that, nothing bad would happen if they acknowledge the Non-Existent outside of school. How long this person should continue to not exist is unknowned but judging by Teshigawara's talk to Koichi, it doesn't last very long as he told him he would explain next month. Of course with the deaths occuring he doesn't. That's pretty much how the calamity works. As for Death itself that's another story. To make that one short, The Reaper in this continuity follows George A. Romero's rules regarding death, not being completely supernatural and treated like a natural disaster.