Considered the personal enemy of Lucy, Kurama is a man who's carried more than his fair share of burdens as his life spirals further out of the norm. In any other story, he would be the hero, born from tragedy, rising up to defeat a threat against humanity the likes of which it has never seen before. In Elfen Lied, however, Kurama is merely a man, yet he is a man who has both suffered and inflicted suffering upon others. The decision to kill the newborn Diclonii himself is the birth of Kurama's aloofness and his dissociation from the crimes he'd only then just begun to commit.