"Increase their emotions?" Kaito asked.
"It is difficult to explain, how about this? If you survive, I will explain everything."
Even though Kaito did not understand what he meant before, he did not need an explanation for this, he felt it.
Two new people had just appeared in the courtyard of the Shinomiya mansion and were waiting there, knowing that their target would go straight to them.
Kaito killed Gan'an quickly and went to the courtyard to find out who they were.
When he arrived, he found two peculiar people.
One was a man, with short brown hair, a bulky build, and nothing special or memorable beyond that.
The other was a woman, with red hair, a dominant gaze, and a pair of "peculiar" eyes, Kaito recognized her immediately.
"Lucifer, you arrived quickly, as expected of you" said Makima.
"Rushing to your death must be the greatest stupidity I have ever seen someone do" mocked Mark, the bulky man.
"You are the one I have to survive?" Kaito asked, looking at the man in front of him, although for a normal person his build would cause at least some fear, it was not the same for a Lord.
"Survive? Ha, as if you could" without understanding what Kaito was talking about, Mark simply mocked him.
"Now listen to me, self proclaimed strongest Lord, from now on you will work for the government."
"And why would I do that?" Kaito asked, not understanding where his confidence came from.
"Do you not know who I am?"
"I have no idea."
"Ha... hahaha, that is right, even you do not know who I am" Mark laughed, confusing Kaito even more.
"Could he be crazy?" Kaito thought and looked at Makima, who was also looking at Mark as if he were an idiot. Noticing his gaze, she gave him a smile and said nothing.
Already annoyed, Kaito released his aura over Mark, making him kneel on the ground immediately and even spit blood.
That he was even weaker than Gan'an greatly surprised Kaito, especially after the nonsense he said a moment ago.
"I-if you kill me... you will die" he said, barely managing to speak.
Kaito released the pressure with curiosity, and as soon as he did, Mark's arrogance returned, after quickly wiping the blood from his mouth with one hand, he spoke confidently again.
"Haha, even the mighty Lucifer is nothing before me."
"Mark, shut up and speak."
Makima, beside him, could not stand him anymore and ordered him directly.
Despite Makima's contradictory orders, Mark coughed while recovering before speaking.
"Fine then, Lucifer, allow me to enlighten you.
I was born with an ability, the ability to curse others, the most powerful curse allows me to link my life with that of my killer, making anyone who kills me, no matter their power, end up dead.
On top of that, I can curse others just by having seen them once. For example, right now you should have multiple curses on you weakening you" Mark explained confidently.
Kaito felt himself, sensing no curse on him, completely normal, which only confused him more, he was starting to feel that maybe Mark was just crazy and he was wasting time talking to him.
"My curses are undetectable, do not even try" said Mark, knowing what Kaito was thinking. "Now that we have you under our control, let me ask you some things, Lucifer."
Truthfully, Kaito did not really believe what Mark was saying, but he decided to pretend for a while, Mark seemed too peculiar to just be crazy.
"First question, what year do you come from?"
"...what?"
"Do not pretend, we know you are a regressor, otherwise why would they send me here?
I was raised as a special countermeasure against regressors, I will never be deployed unless there is a confirmed regressor, ensuring that they do not know my abilities beforehand."
"Wait... you think I am a regressor?"
"How else would you know so much about the tower worlds?" Mark mocked, believing he was pretending.
"Come on, do you think you are the first regressor? Do not think so highly of yourself, how do you think we secured control over the superna..."
"Mark, shut up" Makima interrupted him.
"Fine, just answer the question." Mark backed off at Makima's orders, although he knew why she did not want him to talk about it, with his confidence, he believed Kaito was already completely under his control.
"Sorry, I am not a regressor" Kaito shrugged.
Even though it seemed like he had important information, his peculiar personality meant he probably could not be made to talk, and since he could not kill him, maybe, Kaito decided to ignore him and leave to continue searching for Ai instead.
"Damn it, you are leaving? When have I, Mark, been igno... kughhh!"
Kaito, about to leave, stopped when he heard the sound of flesh being pierced.
Mark looked at the knife piercing his heart from behind and turned toward Makima with a gaze full of desperate disbelief.
"Why?" were his last words before falling lifeless to the ground.
Even in death, he did not understand why he died, his brown eyes never stopped looking at Makima, confused, remaining open even in death.
"How annoying, he finally died" Makima complained while looking at the corpse before throwing the knife she had just used to kill him aside with indifference.
However, Kaito did not pay attention to this, he had much more serious problems.
[Warning!]
[You have been cursed with Absolute Death!]
[This curse cannot be removed or resisted by any means. You cannot be resurrected after dying from this curse]
[Remaining lifespan: 09:59]
"What did you do?" he asked, looking at Makima with wide eyes.
"Do you want the long explanation or the short one?" she asked before smiling mockingly. "Well, I do not think you have time for the long version."
"Speak!"
"Your aura is incredibly powerful, huh? But that will not make the curse go away" Makima mocked without changing her tone despite barely resisting the pressure.
"Speak" Kaito did everything he could to calm himself before repeating the question.
"That is better" said Makima once she no longer felt the aura.
"In reality, that fool had no ability" she said while looking at Mark's body with disdain. "He was simply raised to believe he did."
"Raised?"
"That is right, the Death Curse is a sacrifice type curse, the more valuable the sacrifice you give in exchange, the more powerful it becomes.
Since he was born, Mark was told he was incredibly powerful and was showered with praise, treated like a treasure, he was given everything he wanted whenever he wanted it."
"They made him value his life above everything" Kaito deduced.
"Exactly, so now, in exchange for what was most valuable to him, the curse placed on him since birth has been activated" Makima explained.
"And how does knowing this help me?"
"It does not, I just want you to know how powerful the curse is" Makima replied. "Besides... it is also a test."
"Test?"
"That is right, like I told you before, if you survive, I will tell you everything.
I have lived a long time and worked very hard to reach my current position, you know? But I cannot rise any further on this path, so I thought, why not join the opposing side?"
"And that is me?"
"Exactly, but I do not want a ship that could sink, you know?
So, Lucifer, the strongest of all Lords, survive the weapon that was created and cultivated specifically against you, if you do, I will give myself to you, information, my position, my abilities, even my body, they will all be yours if you succeed" Makima said with a seductive smile.
Seeing that Kaito did not care about this and instead turned around, she said something before he left.
"By the way, I will make it so you can find your beloved."
As soon as she said this, Kaito felt something he had not felt before, a powerful malice directed specifically at him.
Kaito did not stay any longer talking with Makima and instead followed the trail immediately.
There, he discovered that there was a completely hidden underground floor.
It was several times larger than the mansion above and had hundreds of Lords with abilities.
But with little time available, Kaito simply killed them all quickly as he passed by, as a consequence of his speed.
Because, despite all his speed, Kaito was in a hurry, very much in a hurry. He did not know if he would die, but he knew that if the countdown reached zero, even if he did not die, he would lose the chance to save Ai at this moment.
"System, do you have any solution?"
[As the name says, there is no way to resist this curse.
But actually, I think this could be an opportunity.]
"An opportunity, do you think we are in a novel?" Kaito mocked.
[Normally I would think the same, but right now you are under the effect of 5000 percent luck, you are greatly underestimating your luck.
Think about this, Mark was raised specifically for decades with a single objective, created to counter a regressor, what are the chances that they would mistakenly identify you as one? Mark is a person with a single curse, which could have fallen on any of the eight billion people on Earth, but it fell right on you.]
After reading the system's explanation, Kaito felt it might make sense, but then he remembered something.
"No, that guy, Mark, I had seen him before in the guild, before activating my luck."
[You underestimate the effect of an SSS class item, host, at that level it could even affect the beings behind Gaia itself, affecting fate before activating the card is nothing.]
"I hope you are right" Kaito sighed, with no countermeasure, he could only hope he would not need one.
After crossing kilometers underground and several floors at full speed, Kaito finally reached the end, a kind of underground dungeon with cells separated by rooms.
Entering the last one, where he felt the one he was looking for, he found Oko transformed into a metallic form.
And there was also the one he was looking for, with long blonde hair, blue eyes, and a maid uniform, Hayasaka Ai.
Without stopping after entering the room, he used all his strength to strike Oko, sending him several meters at high speed before crashing into a wall and going straight through it.
Ai, who was being held by the neck, began to fall, but Kaito caught her before she hit the ground.
"Did they hurt you?" he asked, looking at Hayasaka, especially at the collar on her neck, with concern.
Hayasaka hugged him tightly before smiling and replying.
"No, but kill them anyway."
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