I Can Copy Curses

Orion stood on the roof of the dormitory, staring blankly into the void. Kane's warning made him angry, but it also left him feeling helpless.

Luna was at the top of his killing list. She was the one he wanted to kill the most. She had been the catalyst for everything that had gone wrong at the banquet. If it weren't for her, his family wouldn't have had to go into hiding; if it weren't for her, everything would have been fine.

'I will kill her... one way or another.'

Orion clenched his fists in determination. He wouldn't let her go.

'And then there's the Rollins Family. I will eradicate this family from the face of the Limitless Void.' he thought ruthlessly, consumed by rage.

'But first, I need to find out about that Archon cadet who ordered his minions to attack his sister.' Orion thought as he headed down and messaged Zeref for the cadet's identity.

Zeref didn't ask any questions and promptly replied with a name: "Leone Rollins."

'Talk about luck.' Orion smiled coldly as he quietly disappeared into his dimension. Once there, he took out a golden page and wrote:

"Tell me everything about Leone Rollins."

The paper immediately displayed information.

"Leone Rollins, one of the four direct heirs of the Rollins Family, alongside Carl, Zosh, and Vina. He is currently heading toward the Cadet Council Hall in a rage."

Orion frowned upon seeing the message and quickly moved toward the Cadet Council Hall. He couldn't allow Leone to disclose anything about what happened to the Cadet Council; otherwise, things would turn ugly.

Teleporting within his own dimension a couple of times, Orion arrived at the front of the Cadet Council Hall, only to discover he was too late.

The door to the hall was open, and he saw Leone Rollins walking toward the vice president of the Cadet Council.

The council hall wasn't large, but it was an octagonal-shaped room, with President Veronica sitting at the center, signing and issuing orders while Vice President Roan stood by her side. Other cadets were present, conversing with various council members.

A moment later, Leone reached Roan.

"Roan, I have to tell you something about the investigation happening at the entrance of the academy," Leone said seriously to Roan.

Roan and Veronica exchanged glances, their interest piqued. "What is it?" Roan asked.

Orion frowned and felt a surge of anxiety upon witnessing this. 'Damn, this is worse. I can't let him talk to Roan here.' He thought, scanning the area for anything that might help him. To his relief, he noticed there were no security cameras or anything of the sort in the council hall.

Seizing the opportunity, Orion quickly activated the Curse of Detonating Flesh and conjured a purple explosive ball in his hand before throwing it at the wall of the hall.

Bang!

The wall exploded, sending smoke and debris flying.

"What happened?"

"Is that an enemy attack? A demon attack?"

"Are some cadets fighting in here?"

"What's going on?"

"The wall just exploded. Someone must be fighting on the other side!"

No sooner had the explosion occurred than chaos erupted in the council hall.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Roan and Veronica, the vice president and president of the Cadet Council, took immediate action to investigate the disturbance, leaving Leone alone among the other cadets present.

Amidst the chaos, Orion quietly appeared behind Leone and pulled him into his dimension.

"Who? Who is this? What is this place?" Leone panicked upon suddenly finding himself in a black-and-white council hall where he could see no one.

"It's me." Orion materialized before him at that moment.

"You! No! How could you be here?! No, no, no." Leone's shock turned to panic as he recognized the face his family despised most.

"O-Orion Darkwood, how could you be here? How did you arrive in the Limitless Void, in the Dollas Academy?" Leone's heart raced with terror.

"Why am I here? Isn't that simple?" Orion smiled coldly. "I want to eradicate the Rollins Family from this world." But at that moment, his expression narrowed as he realized something. "Wait a minute, if I eradicate your family, wouldn't that make the prophecy about the cursed family come true? But doesn't that mean—"

He looked at Leone in shock as he suddenly came to a startling conclusion. "It was your family that killed the Elven Family. Your family eradicated the Elven Family, but you couldn't stop the curse because you failed to kill all of them. You failed to kill Alice Elvin."

Orion understood everything in that moment. Why Alice had desperately wanted to kill Carl Rollins, the mysterious disappearance of the Elven Family, and the curse affecting the three families.

'I need to pay a special visit to the Rollins Family before I eradicate them. I need to know why this curse exists in the first place.'

Orion thought, but then another idea crossed his mind. 'How do they know the curse exists? The Elven Family didn't just disappear mysteriously; they were killed by the Rollins Family, who also wanted to do the same to my family.'

He frowned, recalling something. 'I remember Carl mentioning their family possessed a Devil Flame, and if that flame stops burning, then their family will disappear from the Limitless Void. They have one year before the flame extinguishes... calculating the time, they would still have about half a year.'

'But what about my family? I know my family has that sacred wood, but it's fading just like the Devil Flame of the Rollins family. So, even if my family does nothing, will they survive the curse, right?' Orion thought, but uncertainty gnawed at him. What if the curse was real, and if one of the two families wasn't eradicated, would the cycle repeat itself like it had with the Rollins and Elven families when the Rollins failed to eliminate every member of the Elven Family?

So many questions flooded Orion's mind that he completely forgot about Leone, who was trembling in his dimension. The poor guy couldn't even move or speak; tears streamed down his cheeks.

Orion looked at Leone and asked, "What do you know about the curse of the three families?" He adjusted the void around Leone so that he could speak.

"Will you let me go if I tell you?" Leone asked, sniffling, his face streaked with tears.

"Of course I will let you go. I'm not as bad as people say I am," Orion replied with a bright smile on his face.

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