The Curse of Balal (バラルの呪詛 Bararu no Juso?), official name Network Jammer Balal (ネットワークジャマー・バラル Netowāku Jamā Bararu?), is a "curse" that hinders humanity's ability to communicate and reach mutual understanding.
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In the distant past, the rulers of humanity, known as the Custodians, remodeled Earth's moon into a device that emitted the Curse of Balal and blocked humanity's shared language. Ever since the loss of the unified language, humanity has suffered through numerous conflicts.[1]
The true function of the "curse" is to prevent former remodeling surgeon Shem-Ha Mephorash's complete dominance over the planet and its humans as a semi-immortal data bank language that infiltrates biological terminals, humans themselves. Through her language existence residing in the DNA of all humans of Earth, a shared language allows Shem-Ha to easily become a language network connected to her human biological terminals, providing her indefinite revival and unlimited control of the biological terminals. With the "curse", Shem-Ha is prevented from dominating the entire world in one thought and easily reviving anytime she dies in one human vessel.
In the distant past, a dying Enki started the "curse" on the moon after fatally wounding Shem-Ha to prevent her revival. However, without informing his lover Finé his reason then, the "curse" ironically caused Finé to seek the Network Jammer's destruction to restore the order the custodians originally allowed.
Right until Shem-ha (who was revived in Miku's body) hacked the terminal room's system by controlling Vanessa's body, the Curse of Balal was deleted and gone forever, causing Shem-ha to be free and seeks revenge once more with her obsessed dominance.
After the Curse of Balal Was gone, Maria, Shirabe, and Kirika became natural canidates, no longer requiring LiNKER to use their gear or having a time limit.
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- The curse of balal is derived from the legend of the Tower of Babel, a tale from the Book of Genesis that attempts to explain why humans across the world speak different languages.
- 'Balal' is a Hebrew word for 'confusion', which 'Babel' in 'Tower of Babel' is derived from.
- The lyrics of the Superb Song appear to be referring to how Finé believed she had brought about the curse of balal, as they mention both the word 'balal', 'ziggurat' (a Mesopotamian word for a large built structure such as the Tower of Babel), and Finé's name.