It depends if he ever uses Malice the same way as Lady does
Being empowered by Malice and Will lets Johnny manipulate those forms of energy to however he wants. He usually uses this to channel it into his knife, acting as a lightsaber. He can use this to transform into his Awaker form, further boosting his stats, and comes with a double-bladed lightsaber.
This would all be in character, Johnny’s job is to resolve problems, survive, and hopefully get the best ending. He replaces Touma as in he takes his spot as a student, resident, etc.
Being empowered by Malice and Will lets Johnny manipulate those forms of energy to however he wants. He usually uses this to channel it into his knife, acting as a lightsaber. He can use this to transform into his Awaker form, further boosting his stats, and comes with a double-bladed lightsaber.
Malice has its own world/realm. When it influences people or creatures, it drives them insane and corrupt, eventually turning them into monsters. People with this power can use it as magic, like channeling it into weapons, firing energy blasts, opening dimensional portals, summoning monsters, healing and resurrecting people.
Will is the counterpart or antithesis of Malice that can be used to repel, negate and cleanse any power of Malice. Johnny needed this to get complete control over his Awaker form.
Johnny at his strongest is universe level and mftl+. The description of his Awaker form has the power to destroy the world, and his sister Lady almost succeeded in destroying the world.
Awaker can do this shit.
The franchise does make a distinction between world and planet as Johnny’s ultimate weapon Cherry Bowie a short sword with enough strength to cut through the planet.
Johnny’s party member Shania's strongest Fusion form Tirawa, the sun spirit can call down solar flares from the sun.
His other party member is a Brazilian ninja Frank who gets a legendary sword Zondeek that was created at the same time as the world and can cut the Earth in half.
His vampire party member Hilda defeated her brother Joachim, a party member from Shadow Hearts 2, who created a pocket dimension containing countless stars inside his Sushi Restaurant.
Both of them can yeet people or monsters into space.
Joachim’s party fought against gods that can move quadrillion times the speed of light, and destroy worlds with a stray thought.
This would all be in character, Johnny’s job is to resolve problems, survive, and hopefully get the best ending. He replaces Touma as in he takes his spot as a student, resident, etc.
The Judgement Ring also has two personifications the Ring Soul and his daughter the Ring Spirit. Characters can also empower their Judgement Rings with a God of Creation, a Messenger of the God of Death, and Medusa.
It would be redundant if both meant the same thing. Especially when there are beings that can create a sun with planets gathering around and then makes the sun go supernova, manipulating and fucking around with the sun and stars, and nuke a galaxy. There are regular monsters in Shadow Hearts that are embodiments of stars, and others that survived an explosion of their homeworld that sent them rocketing towards Earth. The main antagonist Masaji Kato in Shadow Hearts 2 succeeded in destroying the universe through space-time by destroying the present and remaking the past by using the power of the God, Susanoo.
What sort of spells does Index have? How did Touma stop them himself? Can you give me the context of those scenes?
Index has a spell on her that makes her unable to use magic and kills her should her memory not get erased once a year. To save index that spell needs to be lifted. Touma lifted it by figuring out that the spell is engraved somewhere inside her mouth and touched it with Imagine Breaker, negating the magic.
What sort of spell is it? Also, it depends on how potent it is. Johnny could probably attempt to purify with Will or remove it with Heal that cures status and Ring abnormalities like Seal (seals magic and special arts). Magic is very powerful in Shadow Hearts universe. Or if she does die, Johnny could possibly bring her back to life with Raise Up or Resurrection or using his Malice. His sister, Lady, could get the deceased back to life with her kiss. Johnny wouldn’t have to worry about corrupting Index if he could purify that corruption with Will.
Johnny should be able to kill it with his speed, and his Malice that corrupts the mind. Pretty much anyone in Shadow Hearts is able to harm souls. One of Johnny’s knives is able to cut spirit forms.
Or equip Instant Death onto his Ring Judgement.
How did Touma come across this enemy magician? Johnny could probably come across him with the same circumstances. Maybe Johnny could purify her with his Will. In Shadow Hearts, Malice is used to create a body with primal emotions, and Will is used to give the body a soul. If there is no other way to help her then Johnny would just kill her.
Johnny defeated a crazy professor and a serial killer, both empowered by Malice. He would have no qualms killing them both.
