User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 373: Life or Death?, Review./@comment-5598380-20140301112244/@comment-4829046-20140302145328

Sorry but I need to interject there. It may have been a curse, but the fact remained that it was with the snake theme in mind. Certain snake venom have the ability to completely shut down a limb even if it doesn't kill you and usually needed to be amputated since it starts rotting. Here you can consider that the curse did an enhanced version before bursting out of the dead limb that had fallen off from the point of puncture. Sure its a bit off, but hey, logic meets magic needs at least some space.