I Can Copy Curses

The girl in the mask was surprised to see Orion appear on the wall. Mistaking him for a guard, she attacked without much thought.

"What are you doing here?"

She then asked while her hands shuffled through the desk, as if searching for something.

"You almost killed me." Orion glared at her.

"You can't blame me," she shrugged. "I thought it was some guards who came from the wall."

Orion nodded, understanding it was just a misunderstanding. He then looked around and noticed that the room they were in had a desk with two chairs on its left and one on its right. The setup reminded him of the office structures he had seen on Earth.

There were also two large cube-shaped boxes placed at the end of the room where Orion emerged. He wondered what might be stored in those boxes.

His attention was then drawn to the girl in the mask. She appeared to be desperately searching for something on the desk the whole time.

"What are you doing?' He asked, seeing that.

"I am looking for a teardrop," she said, her attention fully focused on the desk.

"A teardrop?" Orion tilted his head in confusion.

"It's one of the cosmic wonders of the three domains," she said, looking at Orion. "Don't tell me you aren't even aware of the cosmic wonders."

"I really don't know," he said embarrassingly. "So, why are you searching for the teardrop, and how did you escape from the prison?"

She looked deeply at Orion, wondering if this guy had been living in a cave or something.

"The teardrop is called Space Tear. It's one of the cosmic wonders. Legend has it that the Space Tear was formed from a tear of a god itself," she said. Her expression was one of fascination.

"Tear of a god?" Orion wondered if that was true or not.

"Space Tear has many uses, and one of its uses is to restrict a part of space from the other side. If that happens, no beings could come and go inside that restricted space except for the individuals marked by the Space Tear," she explained its uses. "It has been used here in this place, and if we can't find the Space Tear, we won't be able to leave this place."

Orion thought carefully about what she said and realized why he couldn't move into the other dimension.

He felt that a domain and a restrictive space formed by the Space Tear had the same working mechanism, except a domain was controlled by individuals while restrictive space was controlled by the Space Tear. He thought that because he was inside the restrictive space, he couldn't move into the other dimension, similar to how he would be restricted if he were in someone else's domain.

He felt that this was likely the reason he couldn't use his dimensional travel ability.

As for what she said about this place being restricted by the Space Tear, he felt that if it were true, then they would have found themselves in huge trouble this time.

"You didn't answer me about how you escaped from the prison," Orion asked her.

"Tell me how you did." She looked at Orion. "After that, I will tell you about myself."

"Alright." Orion awkwardly nodded at her as he pointed at those boxes he had seen earlier. "Have you checked those?"

"I have almost checked the whole room but didn't find the Space Tear," she said, looking around.

Orion pondered for a moment before looking at her.

"If Space Tear is so precious, then it could very well be with General Dray," he said. "There is no point in searching here."

"No, you don't understand," she said, shaking her head. "Space Tear is very difficult for individuals to carry, even more so in its active state. If I'm not wrong, then it should be somewhere in this castle."

Orion nodded as he looked around, but at that moment, he heard the sounds of footsteps coming into this room.

"Some people are coming here," he quickly warned the girl in the mask.

The girl in the mask stopped searching, and her body became invisible as soon as she heard Orion.

Orion was surprised to see her disappear all of a sudden and understood how she came here without anyone noticing.

"What will you do?" Her voice sounded at that moment.

"I will hide," he said as he moved forward and disappeared into the wall, but he didn't go past it.

The girl in the mask already knew Orion could pass through walls since he arrived that way, but seeing him do it with her own eyes still surprised her a little.

A moment later, three people entered the room. One was an old man, and the other two were individuals Orion had seen before—the woman in armor and the round man from their journey to Aethelgard City. It was they who transported them here.

As for the old man, he appeared to be around forty years old. His hair had specks of white here and there. His face was clean-shaven and appeared decent despite his age, except for the long scar mark on his forehead.

After the trio entered the room, the old man sat in the only chair on the other side of the desk, while the other two occupied the remaining chairs.

"I didn't see Dray here on the way, and not here either," the old man said, looking at the other two. "Where is he?"

"He told me he was going to the core," the lady replied. "He also mentioned that the operation was almost complete and you could expect the result in another week."

"What about the Zenithans?" He asked.

"Almost all the Zenithans of planet Sadola had been transported here to Aethelgard City except for the ones who rebelled," she said, her face turning sinister. "They were all killed."

"Father, you still haven't told me what you are going to do with this planet's core?" She then asked the old man.

The old man pondered for a moment, wondering whether he should tell this to his son and daughter or not.

"It's a top secret mission, so remember to keep your mouth sealed about this," the old man warned them.

The man and the woman nodded solemnly.

"The core of the planet Sadola is alive. But it is still in the early stages. So, we want to extract the power of the core and use that for ourselves," the old man said, looking at the other two.

Hearing the old man's plan, the other two appeared shocked, and not just them—the girl in the mask, who was standing beside them, also gasped at their plan.

"Who?"

The old man's eyes scanned the whole room as he shouted upon hearing her gasp.

Orion, who had been listening to the whole conversation, didn't quite understand what they were talking about. However, hearing the commotion, he feared the girl in the mask would get caught.

At this moment, all three of them appeared to be looking around the room, searching for the source of the voice. They were sure they heard someone, so they definitely didn't want to let that person go.

Meanwhile, the girl in the mask understood that they would find her sooner or later if she were to just stand there and do nothing. She had become invisible, but her body was still present. They could touch her if they were to search around the area where she stood.