I Can Copy Curses - Chapter 88. Looming Death

Chapter 88. Looming Death

Orion turned around when he heard the voice and saw that it came from a kid about eighteen years old.

At that moment, he also noticed the group of transmigrators. They were standing among five separate groups, each led by someone he hadn’t seen before.

Observing them, Orion realized why Famir had appeared angry when he mentioned them. The situation was more complicated and tense than he had initially understood.

‘It seems they joined another group. But it’s fine for me.’

He felt that it was better this way. He wouldn’t have to worry about them anymore.

As for the one who had just shouted, he belonged to one of the groups standing there.

However, Orion ignored him and turned to look at Vance, who was smiling apologetically for reasons unknown.

“Vance,” he called out to him. “Let’s go.”

Vance nodded and was about to say something to him when another mocking remark sounded before everyone.

“Look at these trashes; they think they can get enough mana crystals with their measly group. I bet they will spend all their time fighting the monsters there and won’t have the time to mine.”

Orion sighed, hearing the taunts. He didn’t like violence, but that didn’t mean he would allow anyone to trash talk him. Once was fine, but doing it again was challenging his guts.

He didn’t know what they wanted from him, but he could tell they were intentionally trying to provoke them.

Moreover, with his anger issues, it would be a miracle if he didn’t get angry after being mocked repeatedly for no reason.

Therefore, he turned to the guy, who couldn’t control his mouth.

“What are you looking at?” The guy sneered when he saw Orion turn to look at him. “You trash wh—”

However, he couldn’t complete his words because a hand suddenly came out of nowhere and held onto his neck.

The teammates of the guy Orion was holding by the neck were shocked when they saw this. But they soon came to their senses and started shouting at Orion.

“Let go of him!”

“What are you doing?”

“How dare you do this to one of our gang members?!”

Orion smiled at them as he heard them.

“Why was he trash talking?” He asked, looking at them. “Who told him to do something like that?”

Nobody said anything about what Orion asked, but one of the people who appeared to be the leader of the team stood out.

“But what you are doing is wrong,” he said, looking at his teammate, who appeared to be struggling to breathe. “Just let him go, and we will forget about this.”

Orion was about to say something when he felt a sudden surge of fear, causing all the hairs on his body to stand on end. In an instant, he sensed death looming over him, prompting him to swiftly turn around. There, before him, was a needle the size of his finger, poised just inches from his forehead.

Realizing he had no time to react with his usual curses, he knew he had only one option left. He could use a curse, but it would require him to apply it directly to his head since he didn’t have much time to apply it to his whole body.

Thinking of that, he swiftly activated the curse of Dimensional Dissonance and only made his head tangible, causing the needle to pass right through his head.

He sighed in relief, thinking he had escaped death, and was about to look who had attacked him when he heard an angry shot.

“What did you do to him?”

Orion felt puzzled, but when he turned his head to look at the guy he was holding, he saw the needle he just avoided had pierced the guy’s neck.

“What the!”

He felt shocked when he saw that, and before he could react to it, the body of the guy he was holding, started to have cracks appear all around his body, and a moment later, his body turned to bloody mush and fell down to the ground, causing Orion’s hand to turn bloody while a small river of blood flowed down the ground.

Looking at his hand dripping with blood, Orion trembled a little. He couldn’t believe the guy he was holding ended up dying because of that needle.

While he was shocked by the sudden turn of events, the people in the area who were watching the little play were also shocked to witness the guy turn into a pool of blood all of a sudden.

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“How could you kill him over something like that?!”

“You are a monster.”

“You are a ruthless killer who kills without batting an eye.”

Everyone felt scared of Orion as they saw that before they started shouting at him for killing a guy just because he mocked him.

Even Famir, Ryfin, and Lisa couldn’t believe that Orion really killed him. They all felt shocked.

From everyone else’s point of view, it appeared as though it was Orion who killed him, as he was the only one who was holding the guy when he ended like that.

Moreover, the needle was too fast and too small to be noticed by anyone here.

Meanwhile, the person in question, Orion, was in a blank state. He still couldn’t believe what happened just now. He only wanted to scare that guy into talking about why they were mocking their team but he never thought things would suddenly take an unexpected turn.

‘Did I kill this guy?’

He questioned himself as he heard people blaming him and when he turned to look at Famir and Ryfin, they were also looking at him in a strange way. From their look, Orion could tell that they also believed he killed him.

“I didn’t kill him,” he shouted, looking at them, looking at everyone. “It was…it was a needle—a needle that killed him. That wasn’t me.”

However, his shout was met with nothing but disgust, as nobody seemed to believe him, and a little bit of doubt about whether Orion really did kill him or not faded away when they heard such a stupid reason from him.

Looking at their suspicious faces, Orion felt helpless and didn’t know what to do. Although he himself felt a little guilty about that guy’s death, but that was it; he didn’t feel anything else. After going through so much blood and death in the dungeon, he was starting to get accustomed to it.

Earlier, he was just shocked when that happened, but now that he had calmed down, he knew he didn’t do anything wrong. If he hadn’t dodged that, then maybe it was him who would have turned into a pool of blood, so what he did was only for self-defense.

He then turned to Vance, who suddenly looked away, not wanting to meet his eyes.

‘So, nobody believes me, huh? But it doesn’t matter anyway. I don’t need anyone. I just need to know where the mines are.’

Thinking of that, he took one of his flying swords, hopped into it, and flew away.

“Stop him!”

Someone shouted, but Orion was too fast, and before they could do anything, Orion disappeared from their sight.

***

A moment later, Orion arrived before the shade of a building, and after looking around and finding no one, he used the curse of Dimensional Dissonance and disappeared from that place.

After that, he once again headed towards Market Street.

Upon arriving there, he waited—waited for Vance to take his ‘friends’ to the mine.