Mom, we're home!
Sorry to disturb you, sir.

　We follow Miu and enter her house.
　Since it would be too much for all of the Elnor family, it was decided that me, Tina, Seira, Citry, Kikyou, and Sylph would be allowed into the house first.

'Welcome back, Miu. Where have you been?　And then ... who are those people over there?

　Miu's mother was in the kitchen, trying to make lunch. A few black streaks could be seen on her neck.

'Mom, you're not feeling well, you need to sleep!'

　Miu ran to her mother and forced her to sit in a nearby chair.

'It's okay. I'm kind of feeling better today.

　He said, but Miu's mother's complexion was not good.

''I'm sorry to bother you unexpectedly. My name is Hurt, the adventurer. They are my friends.

What are you doing in the house, Mr. Adventurer?

Miss Miu asked me to investigate the cause of your condition.

She's asking for the Adventurers' Guild?　So, but what about the money?

'I paid for it with my pocket money. I just want my mom to feel better soon!

Oh, no...

　Miu's mother looked troubled by her daughter's selfish behavior, but she seemed somewhat happy about it.

''Um, did you have enough money for the request?　I don't think her allowance would be enough to pay for the request to hire you all.

　I guess they saw Sylph and Seira wearing good quality, clean clothes and thought we were the higher level adventurers.

''We're fledgling adventurers, and our request money is cheap. But you can rest assured that we will definitely find out the cause of your malfunction.

　We already know why.

Mr. Hurt. You need to take care of your mother.
''I'm sorry. I don't want to worry this girl any more than she already is, so please bear with me.

　Miu's mother agreed to let us work on the healing process.

'Yes. Leave it to us.

　The request from the guild is to investigate the cause of Miu's mother's ill health. The scope of the request is to heal her if possible.

　I want to make sure she is properly cured.

''Then let me first examine your physical condition. Sitley, Sylph, take care of you.

Yes, sir.
Yes!

　Perhaps the cause of the disorder is the curse of an evil god.

　I don't know what kind of curse it is without looking into it thoroughly, but I have to get them to take off their clothes, so I go outside Miu's house for once.


　A short time later, Sitri came outside.

''Master. As I thought, it was the curse of the evil gods.

Yeah, I see. So what kind of curse is that?　Do you think Ceira and I can turn it off with our magic?

I don't think it's possible.

　If Citry, who fully understands our power, says so, then so be it.

''The curse that he touched is a calamity-grade curse that threatens to halve the population of this world.

What...

　Miu's mother was under a curse that was gradually robbing her of her physical strength. Moreover, the curse is said to spread the same curse around the cursed person when he or she dies.

　It takes about a month for the cursed one to die.
　Then the curse is spread from the place of death to an area the size of a city.

　Like Miu's mother trying to get up and cook, this curse allows her to act even though she is under it.

　Furthermore, by the time you become aware that you're not feeling well, the status board becomes 'Status: curse', but we don't know what kind of curse it is.

　To begin with, ordinary citizens in this world rarely look at the status board.

　That's why this curse can easily spread around the world.

　Twice in the past, this curse had spread across the world, but the threat of the curse didn't disappear until the world's population was cut in half.


''Based on the strength of the curse, there is no doubt that she is one of the first.

Yeah. That's good to hear.

　The fact that Miu's mother is the first person to be cursed means that all you have to do is break her curse and the world will be saved. All you have to do is save Miu's mother.


　But it's not that easy.

"Mister. I am very sorry to say this, but...

What?

'I suggest that you take that person to the space between the spaces, the demon world, etc. and kill him there.

What?

　I don't know what Sitley is talking about.

'Halt. That curse you can never break it.

　The sylph came out.

'Not once in the past have we been able to break the curse, except for the spontaneous disappearance of that curse.

　Both Sylph and Citry say that Miu's mother's curse is a thing that cannot be broken. Even if they used elixirs, World Tree Fruits, and other items to recover this world's highest class of abnormal state, they could not break the curse.

　Furthermore, it was troublesome that it was a curse that was rooted in the soul.

　The method that they tried to use to save the Beast King Leo, who was cursed with the Black Death Curse by a demon - the method of forcibly breaking the curse by eliminating the curse with his entire body and reviving him with a reviving spell - is also impossible to do.


"I hate to say it, but I don't want to say this, but in order to save this world...

　Sylph was about to cry.

'She alone will have to make the sacrifice.

　If Miu's mother dies in the space between spaces or in the magical world, the curse will disappear without spreading to anyone else.

　But I don't want to do it that way.
　I can't choose between one person or the world.

　I don't think I'm willing to sacrifice one person in order to save the world. I'm not going to be able to tell you what to do, but I'm not going to tell you what to do.

　Miu, who told me that my transition magic is awesome and Tina is beautiful.

　She came alone from this town to the guild in King's Landing, far away from here, and appealed to me to use all the allowance she had saved to help her mother.

　I accepted the plea.
　I promised her that I would help her mother.

　So I need to get rid of the curse of the evil one.


Hey, White, what do you think? Do you have a way to do it?

　From my senses, it was an evil god who created the curse that Miu's mother is under. That's why I thought that Shiro, the God's messenger, might know something about it.

I'm not that familiar with the curse. How about you, Luna?

Luna?
Wow, is that me?

This is the book Luna showed me earlier. It was written in the book of Genesis by the ritualists.

　The dungeon of the ruins in Bestieth (Beastman's Kingdom). There was a special room there that only otherworldly people could enter.

　The book White mentions is the one that was placed in that dungeon's privilege room. Now it was Luna's possession.

That book may contain something about this curse.

'But there was very little about curses in that book, wasn't there?　It's almost all about the drugs...

The thing has the ability to show the owner whatever information they want.

'Oh, really?'

'Hmm. It's a tremendous amount of information. Usually, it shows the things that interest you the most.

　For some reason, Luna's face was flushed when she heard this statement from White.

''Luna. I want you to find out if there's a way to break the spell in that book.

'Yes, sir!　Okay. I have a book in my room, Mr. Hurt. Could you use your transposition magic to retrieve it for me?

Whoa!

　The transfer connects the space to Luna's room and touches the book in the example. At that moment──.
　

　My instincts kicked in.

　I was worried before, but now I'm all right.

　This book has the answers.