Jinmen Giant Toad

The **Jinmen Giant Toads** (ジンメン大蝦蟇, Jinmen Oezo) are a species of mutated demons that inhabits the Evil Universe. These demons are known for their ability to keep there victims alive by devouring and assimilating them. The absorbed victims' faces will pop out from their back, and they will be fully conscious of their situation. A Jinmen Giant Toad will become stronger for each new person it assimilates, as the monster can add its victim's spiritual/magical energy to its own. These hostile creatures were the creation of Mikoto Kiryuu who was commission by Edwin Black to test the properties of "fusion magic", as he planned to eventually use this form of magic to merge with the Taimanin Asagi Igawa. In the Evil Universe's timeline, most of the Exorcism Club, including the Vice President, Mio Kusanagi, would fall victim to a Jinmen Giant Toad.

## Appearance

As their namesake would suggest, Jinmen Giant Toad are toad demons that can grow several meters big. A fully grown Jinmen Giant Toad tends to be much larger than an adult human and can easily swallow a person whole. Their tongues can be stretched out to be many times longer than their bodies. They are very similar in appearance to regular giant toad demons, however the differences between the two species become very apparent once a Jinmen Giant Toad is able to successfully devour a person with high spiritual energy.

Should a Jinmen Giant Toad devour a person with high magical abilities, especially if they are a human female, then instead of being killed and digested, the unfortunate victim will by assimilated. The still living victim will become a part of the demon, usually resulting the person's face popping out from the back of the giant toad. Although there have been a few cases where the back of a person's head, or just their nose and mouth would appear on the monster instead. The Jinmen Giant Toad that devoured most of the Exorcism Club was able to assimilate 10 of the club members, including Mio Kusanagi, whose face ended up on the center of the demon's back. Faces on the back of a Jinmen Giant Toad will be absorbed into its body when starts the process of laying eggs. Most eggs produced by the Jinmen Giant Toad are spherical in appearance and have an average circumference of 60 cm. However, eggs that were created using an assimilated victim will have the person's face protruding out from underneath the membrane. The eggs will eventually change into large tadpoles, with the assimilated victim's face now attached to the back of the creatures. The victim's face will remained covered under the tadpole's membrane until it reaches maturity, at which point person's face will pop out again from the newly formed toad's back.

## Behavior

The Jinmen Giant Toad can be unexpected and aggressive. They are primarily found in sewer systems. These demons would instinctively search out people with high magical abilities in order to devour and assimilate them. After a person has been assimilated by the monster, the Jinmen Giant Toad would generate a powerful aphrodisiac from within its body and continuously infuse the substance to the assimilated victim. When exposed to the substance, the victim's spiritual energy would gradually increase, but they would be left in a state of endless orgasmic pleasure. The Jinmen Giant Toad would absorb the spiritual energy from its victims in order to sustain itself and increase it own powers. Several victims that were fused to a Jinmen Giant Toad find the feeling of being forced to endure continuously pleasure to be torturous. After gaining enough spiritual energy, the Jinmen Giant Toad would then begin the process of laying eggs. Part of the process involves transforming the people the demon has absorbed so far into those eggs, before being "birthed" from the original toad. The victims would continue to live as a part of the newly formed Jinmen Giant Toad throughout its life cycle until its death or until that toad finishes the process of laying its own eggs that would result in the victim becoming a part of a new toad. Mikoto Kiryuu has theorized that an assimilated person could potentially live past their natural lifespan by going through several life cycles, and was performing a long term experiment using Mio Kusanagi and several Exorcism Club members as a test subjects to prove this theory.

## Abilities

* **Absorption**: These demons are best known for their ability to physically devour living beings and add the victims' faces to their backs. The assimilated victim will remain alive and aware of their situation. A Jinmen Giant Toad can add its victim's spiritual/magical energy to its own. The faces can provide psychologically attack against the victims' allies. Naturally, the more faces the monster has on its back, the stronger it is.
* **Aphrodisiac Creation**: Jinmen Giant Toads are capable of generating a potent aphrodisiac and dopamine-like chemical that they infuses into their victims. The sustains is capable of increasing a person's spiritual/magical energy, but would force them to feel constant pleasure. The effects of the substance are so strong that victims find it difficult to talk, and often can only let out moans.
* **Transfiguration**: Once a Jinmen Giant Toad has enough spiritual/magical energy, it gains the ability to physically transfigure the people it has assimilated. The Jinmen Giant Toad would absorb the faces back into its body and transform them into living eggs. The "eggs" would them be expelled from the body and eventually become new Jinmen Giant Toads. The victim's face can still be identified during the process, and would remain alive throughout the life-cycle.

## Trivia

* The Jinmen Giant Toads are based on the infamous turtle demon, Jinmen, from Go Nagai's Devilman, as well as Terror Toad from Power Rangers.