Okamisama

The Okamisama creatures appear as wriggling babies with bald heads, half-open eyelids, and flattened noses. They are the size of a human thumb at most. Instead of legs, they have six arms. Their body resembles an insect's, and their skin shimmers with an emerald-green sheen, similar to a scarab beetle. Humans would naturally find their appearance repulsive.↗↗

Okamisama operates with a mechanical and impartial sense of duty, functioning as enforcers of an immutable financial system. If one invokes their name to manipulate fate to avoid paying for something, Okamisama treats the transaction and debt as absolute laws that must always be balanced. They will relentlessly pursue their target until the target's debt is collected.↗

Okamisama speaks with a tone of absolute authority when demanding that balance is upheld. They do not engage in negotiations, refusing to make compromises with Rohan Kishibe. Human value standards are irrelevant for them, as they reduce time and money to interchangeable commodities without regard for individual worth or effort. Similar to how rights and debts are inherited in society, if a debt cannot be paid by one individual, Okamisama simply transfers the obligation to their victim's parents and relatives, showing no concern for the consequences of their debt collection.↗

If they are attacked and fall to the ground, they let out an ear-piercing shriek that sounds like "Ogyah!" (オギャア). Although each infant speaks individually, they speak in short, fragmented phrases. They complete each other's thoughts in a synchronized manner, as if they are a single entity. They don't typically show emotions, but even they are bewildered when Rohan is suddenly beaten up by his taxi driver. If their target's debt is successfully paid off, they hop away and vanish.↗↗

Fate Manipulation

When Okamisama is handwritten in katakana (オカミサマ) as the recipient on a receipt, contract, or any document that records a financial transaction, Okamisama manipulates fate for that payment to be negated. The way fate is manipulated differs depending on the situation. For example, when Rohan uses the method at a bookstore, the cashier suddenly tells him that he is the 10,000th customer and won't need to pay for his books. Rohan considers the skill absurdly powerful, fitting for a main villain in a manga to have.↗↗↗

The fate manipulation continues after its first use, even if the user didn't use it again. Future transactions will be automatically added to the user's initial receipt or financial document with Okamisama's name on it. When Rohan pays for an orange juice using e-money on his smartphone, the payment gets negated without his knowledge and added to his receipt. Additionally, when he wants to pay for a dinner course he eats at his hotel's restaurant, he is told that he would only be billed when he checks out from the hotel, but that fee is then added to his Okamisama receipt. The effect only stops once the debt on the receipt is paid off to Okamisama, either with money or time.↗↗

Debt Collection

Once Okamisama is used, the repayment deadline is the end of the day. At that time, hordes of the infant creatures swarm their target to balance the transaction. There is no escape from the infants, and they are only visible to the debtor. Although they crawl, they move quickly at about 8 to 9 kilometers per hour, matching the speed of a running person. Even when Rohan gets into a taxi and drives far away from them onto the highway, the infants pour out from the receipt printer of the taximeter.↗↗

Okamisama collects payment either through money or through time itself, extracting days, months, or even years from the debtor's lifespan. They latch onto their target's body, sucking out their body's time like a leech. The more money a person avoids paying through Okamisama, the more time is taken from their body, at a rate of one day of lifespan for every one yen spent. For example, if the debt is 80,000 yen, the victim owes 80,000 days, which is approximately 220 years of their life. Victims rapidly de-age, regressing physically as their biological clock is reversed.↗↗

Okamisama can sense how much money its target has. It knows when Rohan does not have enough money in his bank account to pay off the debt when he tries negotiating. Nonetheless, Okamisama's debt can be paid off through definite future earnings. If its victim can guarantee a future where they would earn money, Okamisama will accept that as payment and vanish, giving back any time they drained from their target. However, just as the victim erased the fact that they owed money, they would lose the fact that they were ever going to make money from those future earnings.↗↗

Damage Redirection

The infants possess a strict sense of balance, preventing their target from committing fraud to escape their debt. If a victim attempts to destroy the Okamisama receipt or otherwise cheat the system, the consequence is instant and severe. Any damage done to the receipt is redirected back onto the debtor's body, making it impossible to escape their grasp. When Rohan tries tearing the receipt, he gets a deep wound in his forehead.↗↗