He then offered her a house with magic, which she will use to her advantage to kill off countless "friends", offering their souls to The Demon.
Before directly meeting her he studied her, claiming he "fell for Ellen at first sight".Īfter Ellen had brutally stabbed her parents to death, the demon ate their souls and tied a contract with Ellen, promising to cure her incurable disease in exchange for offering him, countless souls. It is classified how long he stayed with his first contractor before meeting Ellen. The Demon spent an unknown amount of time analyzing and eating people before meeting his first Witch. Shortly after his rebirth he met The Crow, where it guided him and taught him the laws of his existence. Enraged by this, he was reborn as The Demon where his anger converted into nothing more than an appetite for human souls. However it soon turned cold, as he and his mother were killed by a roaming person. In his true demonic form, he is a ghostly purple haze.īorn in what can be assumed as the highlands or a cold forest, he lived a quiet "warm life". In that form, Ellen describe's his voice to be like a young boy. In his host body, the demon takes the appearance of a black cat with golden eyes. Gooni/Akuma revealing his true form to Ellen after she accepts who she is The Black Cat Appearance Pretty cat bodies like these ain't just lyin' around." I quite like a black cat's body." "It'll be a pity when you're gone. He also mentions his liking for a cat's body, which he uses as his form on earth since demons do not have true forms. As a demon, he is true to his contract and will protect it no matter what, which may make him quite reliable. He also genuinely worries about the player sometimes, telling them it wasn't a smart idea to come into the house. Although he seems quite cruel, he mentions how it was mean of you to kill the white flower, though this could be a mere ironic jest. Sometimes he even cracks jokes, mentioning that he's following the player "for laughs", perhaps because he knows the player will win no matter what, rather than that he finds their deaths or struggles amusing. His only motive is to ensure that the contract is fulfilled. The Black Cat seems perpetually neutral about the abnormal situation in which the player participates. In exchange for more souls, I will tell you a spell that cures your sickness. The cat holds a contract with Ellen, and this is further explained in the novel. It officially reveals that the cat was actually a demon with whom Ellen had a contract, from which her powers originated. The ending itself does not change anything story-wise, but it gives you far more information than the other two endings, revealing and explaining more backstory. If the game is completed without saves, you get a Secret Ending.
True to their contract, the Black Cat will reset time in case anything happens to Ellen until he can fulfill his contract with her. He appears as an unnamed talking cat to whom Viola talks in order to save the game. The Demon ( 悪魔, Akuma), more commonly known as the Black Cat (黒猫, Kuro neko), is the tritagonist as well as the subsequent villain of The Witch's House and Diary of Ellen. But when you put something like that in a world of humans, it quickly loses its color." ―The Black Cat describing Ellen