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Sōma is a memory-eating demon held in check by an ancient seal that has bound a cursed bloodline for centuries. Generations after that first binding, it breaks free once more and menaces the home of a young woman named Remon.

Japanese Voice: Ryō Nishitani
Status: sealed
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Appearance

This demon has no solid body, appearing instead as a ghostly deer skull ringed by a blue glow.

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Abilities

The creature drains the memories of anyone it makes contact with. It can just as easily seize control of a person, twisting their personality to serve its wishes and routing its power through that host. Because it exists only as a spirit, it stays intangible, and most strikes pass straight through, though sealing techniques can still harm it.

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History

Four hundred years back, Sōma comes close to wiping out the Daidai Village, whose people wither under its presence, until a shrine maiden by the name of Kuen stands against it and locks the demon away inside her own body. Yet as her memories bleed out too fast, she cannot cut off both of the sprouting horns that would finish the binding, so the demon lodges instead in a rock nearby while a sliver of it remains within her. Kuen loses her memories permanently, and the same curse also threads down her bloodline. Once any two who carry it turn twenty, a mark rises on their palms to mark them as Sōma's tie to the living world, and their memories begin to seep away. Each passing century the binding loosens, letting the horns push out from the rock as the demon regains strength, and the only way to lock it back down is for a cursed man and woman to marry and renew the seal.

When the seal weakens yet again, Sōma baits Kankitsu Akitsuki, betrothed to Remon Yoimura, into its chamber and takes him over, then uses that puppet to shatter the binding and get loose. Boruto Uzumaki and Konohamaru Sarutobi arrive to stop its rampage, and though they cannot bring it down, Remon calls on the very seal her ancestor Kuen once wielded to bind the demon inside herself. With Konohamaru's grudging help the rising horns are cut through, finishing the seal and caging Sōma for good, a triumph that costs Remon every memory she carried beforehand.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Soma in Naruto?

Soma is a memory eating demon held in check by an ancient seal, one that breaks free again generations after the shrine maiden Kuen first bound it and menaces the home of Remon Yoimura.

What are Soma's abilities?

Soma drains the memories of anyone it touches and can seize control of a person, twisting their personality and channeling its power through that host, while remaining intangible to most physical attacks.

How was Soma first sealed?

Four hundred years earlier, a shrine maiden named Kuen sealed Soma inside her own body, though she could not finish the binding since her memories bled out too quickly, leaving a piece of the demon in a nearby rock and cursing her bloodline.

How does Soma break free again?

Soma lures Kankitsu Akitsuki into its chamber and possesses him, using him as a puppet to shatter the weakening seal and escape.

How is Soma finally defeated?

Remon Yoimura, a descendant of Kuen, invokes the ancestral seal to bind Soma inside herself, and with Konohamaru Sarutobi's help the demon's rising horns are cut through, caging it again at the cost of all of Remon's memories.

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