I Can Copy Curses

58  58. Miira

Orion frowned when he saw nothing in the sky after waiting for a long time.

'They should be fine, right?'

A look of concern appeared on his face as he thought of his friends. He hadn't seen them in quite a few days, and now, after not getting any response from them, he felt a little worried about them.

'What should I do?'

Pondering for a moment, he once again sent his flaming sword flying in the sky like a red streak of light and waited after the sword returned to him.

However, after waiting for a few minutes, he didn't see anything in the sky that could resemble a signal.

"What are you doing?"

At that moment, someone couldn't help but ask Orion what he intended to do here.

Turning around, Orion saw that the one who asked him the question appeared to be Liira, but he saw that everyone seemed to be looking at him, waiting for his answer.

Liira, who had been watching Orion wait and send his flaming sword into the sky, felt confused about his motives. Therefore, she couldn't help but ask.

Orion's brow furrowed with concern as he turned to Liira.

"You know Famir and Ryfin, right?" he said, his voice tinged with worry. "After they escaped from your team, I told them to lay low and wait for my signal, but I've received no response after sending two signals just now."

Liira then recalled how two of his friends escaped from their team.

Orion's worried gaze then shifted to the group gathered before him.

"So, do any of you have any talents that could help in searching for someone?" he inquired, his voice betraying his anxiety.

As soon as Orion voiced his inquiry, a girl who appeared to resemble Liira waved her hands at him. But unlike Liira, her hair was short enough to only reach her neck region. She appeared to be the same age as Orion.

Looking at her, Orion remembered that he had seen her when the group of pirates descended with their boat here.

She was among the captured people the pirates had gathered.

"You are?" Orion then asked her.

Although he could see some resemblance between her and Liira, he thought it would be better to directly ask her.

"Hehe, I am Miira, and Liira is my big sister," she happily introduced herself.

Orion nodded at her and got to the main topic.

"So, help me find my friends here," he requested.

However, as Miira heard his words, she narrowed her eyes in a funny way.

"You are very rude," she playfully said to him. "You ask a girl's name and don't even introduce yourself."

"Miira!" Liira yelled at her sister as she made fun of Orion.

As for Orion, he didn't know what to say to her. On Earth, he hardly had any contact with the opposite genders, and those he did contact were his teachers and staff, so he was pretty much quite dense when it came to ladies.

But it seemed he couldn't ignore Miira, as she looked at him with very expectant eyes. In the end, he sighed and also introduced himself.

"Ah yes, I'm Orion Darkwood," he stumbled, his words awkward as he extended his hand. "It's nice to meet you, Miira."

Miira nodded as he shook hands with Orion.

"Now, can you help me?" Orion asked after seeing her satisfied.

Miira didn't say anything to him and only kneeled down on one leg and touched the ground with her two hands.

A moment later, she stood up and pointed in a certain direction.

"I sense the heartbeat of three people from that direction," she said to Orion. "But I don't know if they are your friends because there are three of them, not two."

"Three?" Orion frowned as he heard her.

'Are there more people who haven't entered the temple?'

If it was as he thought, then that would explain how one appeared to be extra here.

"It must be that guy."

At that moment, Runo said this to Orion.

"Who?" Orion asked.

"The one that I went to capture after seeing you three that day," he said with a visible frown. "But that guy is unreasonably strong. He could withstand my gravity like it was nothing."

Orion nodded. He concluded that it must be one of the transmigrators who had escaped from Runo's clutch.

At that moment, he turned his attention to the captain of the pirates.

"I don't know your name; what is it?" He asked him.

"You can call me Ralf," the captain of the pirates hurriedly answered.

Seeing the timid behavior of Ralf, Orion thought that this guy sure knew when to show off and when not.

"Your boat can fly, right?" he then said as he pointed to his boat in the distance. "I want you to take us to my friends, and after that, we will use the boat to fly to the boss monster."

"Yes, my boat can indeed fly," Ralf said in a very  flattering tone. "Just say the command."

Orion nodded at him as he looked at the whole group.

"Everyone," he said in a loud voice. "We will first look for my friends and then kill the boss monsters and leave this place. So, let's go to that boat over there; this will be our transport in the meantime."

No one said anything over it and silently walked in the direction of the boat after hearing Orion.

But Orion felt a little strange as he looked at them. They appeared to do whatever he said, and nobody asked him any questions aside from Runo's group or objected to his decision since he came out of the temple. It was as if they feared him.

'Why are they so afraid of me?'

He hadn't thought that becoming the strongest among them would bring about such a change.

But then, as he thought of the scenario from someone else's point of view, he understood it was his strength; they feared him.

It was the same situation as when he appeared on the pirate's ship after transmigration. At that time, he also felt fear looking at those pirates.

But one thing he understood after this short interaction with them was that the world he transmigrated to respected strength more than anything else.

As he saw everyone arriving at the flying boat, Orion didn't waste any more time and also went inside the boat.

After that, he turned to look at Ralf, who also looked at him; his eyes looked like a dog when a dog looked at his master.

Orion felt helpless about that.

"Fly the boat in that direction," he said to Ralf as he pointed in the same direction Miira hadn't earlier.

After that, he turned his attention to Miira.

"Miira," he called out to her. "You go and help Ralf pinpoint the exact location of my friends."

Miira nodded as she happily jumped around the boat as she went towards Ralf. But Orion also noticed Liira quickly following behind her.

Looking at Miira and her worry-filled big sister, Liira, who followed behind her, Orion recalled the family he had in the Magus Kingdom.

Although he understood why the original body's father disowned him, he couldn't help but feel conflicted and heartbroken about that.

He couldn't fully comprehend those feelings because, on one hand, he felt that it didn't happen to him but to someone else's body that he now occupied, so it shouldn't have anything to do with him.

On the other hand, he experienced those emotions with such intensity that it felt as if he himself had endured the nightmare when his father disowned him.

But one thing he didn't like about that.

'The body's father shouldn't have disowned him just because he didn't possess any talent. He also sealed his memories, causing me to also not remember anything about his life.'

However, as he thought of this, another thought crossed his mind.

'According to the dream I had, this body didn't have a talent and only had a curse when his father disowned him, so the question here is, was this body only born with a curse and not a talent?'

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