Thread:HoundTheDestroyer93/@comment-25808351-20170821013859/@comment-31049256-20170901145644

The minor brain washing is because of the Bond.

The Bond is needed for a few things, but the most important is ability. With it, MI'S can guide their wielders on how to uses them properly without the years of training normally required for such endeavors. For example a farm boy chosen by a longsword would pick the fighting skills of an order military vet in under a month or two.

There are some situations that take longer, and it only works when the MI is close by (so if a MI was confiscated and taken far enough from her wielder they'd be much less effective (though bits of the training go past the Bond so they aren't helpless).

Other things the Bond influences is communication between MI and wielder, the transfer of energy needed for skills, the desired uses towards a certain target (such as whether it's a strike meant to prevent monsterization or one meant to cut a rope etc.), and the minor brainwash.

On Monsterization, they can only reverse very early cases (as in if the Band were hired to defend Lescatie many of the men and women monsterized there wouldn't be so now, but by now it's too late). Still to answer in full they are mamono, and as such creatures primarily of DE.

However unlike most mamono, they can survive on both energy types, and by stage 2 (the most common and simple to reach stage) they can consciously pick which they take from any given target. As such if they are used against a target undergoing monsterization, if the victim is attacked with them they can focus on removing the DE before it overwhelms their SE (something DRS weapons and even cursed swords aren't capable of doing since they cut away energy rather than take it).

For example: say Baku and Kittycut were walking down a path, and they found a woman being gange raped by a demon and a few devils. After they kicked their tails, the poor girl shows signs of becoming a lesser succubus from how long the others had been goin at her. Kittycut would simply run her through and hold her there as she drains away the DE, and once it is all gone give her a Holstaur potion to revitalize her depleted SE.