Talk:Dark Matter/@comment-25095137-20140717162645/@comment-25035274-20140723221731

Actually, Floddy(Sorry, I know it reads silly but there's no elegant way to shorthand your user name. xD), it doesn't absorb and/or kill the man. It's closer to the other way around. It merges with him, with him being the one doing the absorbing. He basically gains the ability to wield the Elemental equivalent of Darkness. For a better explanation see the Elemental Handbook.

Unfortunately, translating from Japanese isn't always an exact science, and one small misunderstanding of what the original author meant can result in a drastic deviation in how the translation is rendered.