I Can Copy Curses

'How did this get here?'

The moment he took out the paper, he quickly stored it inside his space bracelet and acted as if nothing had happened, though his mind raced with various thoughts.

'Tracy must have slipped that on me when she left. For her to resort to this method can only mean one thing...'

Orion casually looked around the door to the sphere room, pretending to check when his turn would come, when he noticed a camera installed at the top corner of the hall where they had been sitting.

'She fears we're being watched.'

He understood everything at that moment—why her attitude had suddenly changed and why she suddenly claimed to have mistaken him for someone else.

'For someone to access the security footage of the Hunter Association, that person must be very powerful or part of a very strong guild.'

Orion noted his speculations while feeling more trouble brewing. He didn't want trouble, but it seemed like all the troubles in the world were being drawn to him.

After three months of peacefully living here in the Human Federation Realm, he had started to think his streak of bad luck was over, but he couldn't have been more wrong.

'Has my bad luck still not gone away?'

He sighed and reflected on how it had all happened.

When Orion first arrived in this world and confirmed that it was indeed a futuristic version of Earth, he immediately began planning his route to Dollas Academy.

However, he quickly realized that navigating this advanced society required a valid identity. In a world driven by cutting-edge technology, every individual needed some form of identification to function effectively within it.

Understanding this necessity, Orion spent about a week moving covertly through Masturi City, meticulously gathering information about the identity system and the social structure of this world.

He observed daily life, interactions, and how technology was seamlessly integrated into every aspect of society. His approach was careful and discreet, ensuring he wouldn't attract attention or jeopardize his mission.

His efforts paid off when he learned that every person in this world was assigned an identity badge at birth. This badge acted as a universal identifier, used throughout schooling and in hunter academies. Upon becoming a hunter, this badge was upgraded to a Hunter ID. Without such an ID, Orion knew he would stand out as an outsider and face significant obstacles.

With this crucial information, Orion set out to find someone whose identity he could assume—someone who lived alone, had no close family or criminal ties, and whose disappearance would not raise suspicion.

It was a risky and delicate task, but Orion understood that acquiring a legitimate identity was essential for infiltrating Dollas Academy.

However, finding a suitable individual proved to be far more challenging than Orion anticipated. It took him another week of searching before he finally came across a man named Ray.

Orion discovered Ray in a hospital, confined to a sterile, dimly lit room.

Ray lay on his deathbed, severely injured and covered in bandages. His condition was dire—he was in a state akin to a coma, but even more severe. He was unable to see, feel, or communicate. His life hung by a thread, with no sign of recovery in sight.

The situation presented a grim opportunity for Orion. Ray's incapacitated state made him the ideal candidate for Orion's plan.

With Ray's identity available and his lack of family or criminal ties, Orion could assume his identity without drawing undue attention. It was a morally complex decision, but Orion needed to proceed with caution to ensure his own goals.

But then, something utterly unimaginable happened.

As Orion attempted to copy Ray's curse, he was met with an unexpected and unsettling silence—there was no notification, no prompt asking him to confirm the copying of the curse. He tried multiple times, each attempt yielding the same lack of response.

Orion was deeply shaken. He had never encountered a situation where he couldn't copy someone's curse before. It was a first, and the absence of a notification was both alarming and confusing.

There were only two plausible explanations for this anomaly:

The first possibility was that he had already copied Ray's curse at some point in the past and had lost it due to Burst Mode. However, Orion was certain that this scenario was impossible. He had no memory of ever encountering Ray or copying his curse before.

The second, more illogical yet seemingly plausible explanation was that Ray simply didn't possess a curse. This would mean that Ray had no curse or talent at all, which would be a stark contrast to the norm. If Ray had no curse, it would explain why Orion couldn't copy it.

When Orion reached this conclusion, he was even more shocked. To be sure of his speculation, he searched Ray's space bracelet for his Hunter ID, and what he found overturned his view of the world.

Ray did have a talent—a talent to manipulate wind.

When Orion discovered this information and connected it with his inability to copy Ray's curse, he arrived at an even more horrific conclusion.

Ray's talent or curse had been forcefully extracted from his body by someone, resulting in his current condition.

Orion was in disbelief when he reached this conclusion, but the facts were right in front of him. He had to accept that someone or something in this world could extract a person's talent or curse.

He couldn't understand how something like that was even remotely possible, but he knew that if there was a person who could copy curses, then it wasn't far-fetched to believe there might be someone who could extract a talent or curse from another person and use it for themselves.

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Since Ray was the only person who met the criteria for the identity Orion needed to assume, he had no choice but to wait for Ray to die.

Orion waited for a day, and Ray died during the night. Finding no one in Ray's room and blinding the camera with a bright light, Orion put Ray's corpse in his space bracelet, changed his face and body structure to match Ray's, and laid on the bed.

When the bright flash of light subsided, it appeared as though nothing had happened. Ray was still lying on his bed, covered in bandages, with his eyes closed.

However, the blinding flash of light attracted the guards' attention and brought the doctors to his room.

At that moment, they were shocked to find that Ray seemed to be healed. They couldn't understand what had happened, but they were certain that Ray had recovered.

Naturally, suspicions arose after such an unexpected miracle, so they conducted tests on Ray to see if he was still the same person. The results shocked the doctors.

They confirmed that Ray was indeed the same person who had been admitted to the hospital in a severely injured and critical state.

They took the entire incident as nothing but a miracle, believing that some divine-level expert might have come and healed Ray, not wanting to reveal their identity by blinding the camera with a bright flash of light.

With that, the situation calmed down, though it remained a mystery in the doctors' minds.

The next day, Ray regained consciousness and was discharged after a final check-up confirmed he was fully fit to go. Find adventures at m_v l|e'm-p| y r

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