Cursed Woman

The Cursed Woman (呪いに侵されの女性) is a minor character of the Three Stories Arc, and the motivation for Yamisaka Ouma's actions during the final part of the arc.

Appearance
She is a brown haired, wheelchair-bound woman. She is extremely skinny, has a fair complexion, and looks like she would collapse if left out in the sun too long. She is two to three years older than Yamisaka Ouma, old enough to no longer be called a girl.

Background
In the past, the woman was put under a Curse under unknown circumstances, so it is unclear if it was done by a Magician with a grudge or by someone related to her. From an Eastern perspective, the curse resulted from Jugondō (呪禁道) voodoo magic using mirrors and swords, while from a Western perspective, it was from a type of sympathetic magic, an imitative curse.

Regardless of the truth and origin of the curse, the fact remained that it was incurable and she could die at any moment. The curse was like a tree, with its roots buried deep in her body, slowly draining her life away. She ended up in a hospital, assigned to Room 1205, but modern medicine couldn't cure her, and, despite clear evidence that something was wrong with her weak body, all the tests even concluded that she was perfectly healthy. Because of this, she had been in the hospital long enough to practically live there, and had resignedly accepted her death.

It was in the hospital's courtyard that she and Yamisaka Ouma met and talked for the first time as Yamisaka was visiting someone else, though the woman had seen him a few times before. She didn't realize he was a magician, in fact she thought he worked for a funeral home because he always wore a suit. The two would continue to occasionally talk to each other in the garden of the hospital, and the woman never asked for his help, but Yamisaka would fall in love with her and go look for a cure, all the while denying to himself that he was doing it for her.

Three Stories Arc
She's the reason Yamisaka Ouma sneaks into Academy City, as he plans to kidnap the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and extract Baopuzi, a Chinese grimoire that supposedly has a way to create a miracle drug that can cure any illness, from her mind in order to save the cursed woman. When Index finds out about his reasons for his acts due to his memories bleeding through during the painful process, she tells him that his rationalizations are wrong, as he truly wanted to save the cursed woman because he had fallen in love with her, but because of the sins he committed, he refused to acknowledge this out of fear that he would end up blaming her for his actions. Index chides him for this, telling him that him dying would make the woman just as sad. After beating him, Kamijou Touma also chastises Yamisaka for getting depressed all on his own and almost sacrificing his life for the person he wanted to save when it would just make them sad. Touma then offers Ouma to dispel the curse on the girl's body using his Imagine Breaker, and they leave the city together. The details are not given, but Touma was apparently successful in dispelling the curse.