I Can Copy Curses

Before anyone could react to the voice, a hand suddenly emerged from Orion's stomach. It was completely gray, unlike the usual skin color.

"Woo!"

Rosaline gasped in surprise and took a few steps back when she saw it.

"What the hell is that?!" Even Merlin seemed shocked by what he was witnessing.

Only Kane stared intently at the gray hand that had come out of Orion's stomach before a look of understanding dawned on him.

Forget the others—Orion himself was shocked to the core when he saw something emerging from his body. But when he recognized the gray hand, a terrifying realization struck him.

"No! How is this possible? How is he here?"

However, before he could grasp what was happening, another hand shot out from his stomach.

"Is there a small pocket dimension inside his space?" Rosaline exclaimed when she saw the second hand.

Merlin, equally perplexed, recalled the dimension Kane had mentioned to Orion earlier. "I heard that Orion moved his family to a separate dimension to hide them, so maybe the dimension is sealed in his stomach."

Rosaline shook her head and pointed at Orion's face. "Look at his expression. He's just as anxious and confused as we are, so whatever is coming out of him, he must know nothing about it."

Merlin nodded in agreement.

As they talked, Orion was desperately trying to move his hands to push whatever was coming out back to wherever it came from, but being tied up with a rope made all his efforts futile.

'What should I do?'

Orion felt a surge of anxiety. He was powerless to stop what was happening and could only watch as the figure continued to emerge from his body.

'Damn it!'

He cursed silently.

Soon, a head popped out of his stomach and turned to face him directly.

"How's it going, buddy?"

A chill ran down Orion's spine as he saw the head of the Gray Orion. Though he had anticipated this, seeing it with his own eyes still left him shaken.

Rosaline and Merlin were more shocked to see Orion's face emerging from his own body, but before they could react, Gray Orion fully emerged and laughed as he took in the world around him.

"Hahahahahaha. I've finally succeeded. I've finally reached the real world."

Orion was speechless, unable to comprehend how this was even possible. How did this figure come out of his body? Wasn't it supposed to only exist in that gray world?

Countless questions raced through his mind, but there was no one to answer them.

"Seeing you like this makes me sick," Gray Orion mocked when he saw Orion tied up by Rosaline.

"How did you get here? How?" Orion asked, his voice trembling slightly. "Aren't the clones unable to leave that place? Then how?"

Gray Orion shrugged with a sinister grin. "I found it mysterious too. The last thing I remember is something happening to you. I felt like I died, but in the next moment, I was inside your body."

He added, "I could have come out earlier at any time, but I didn't. I feared you might have a way to stop me from fully emerging. And if you managed to stop me once, you'd definitely seek help from Father and Sister to seal me away forever. So, I bided my time, waiting for the right opportunity."

Looking at Rosaline, Merlin, and Kane, he smiled. "And they gave me that chance. By trapping you here like this and making you unable to move, they paved the way for me."

"Who are you?" Rosaline asked, still bewildered. She could see he had Orion's face but couldn't understand why he was gray and had emerged from him.

"Me?" Gray Orion laughed. "Haha. I am an improved, more powerful version of this guy here."

Rosaline frowned. She still couldn't grasp why he looked like Orion or why he was completely gray.

"Allow me to enlighten you."

Kane, who had been silent since Rosaline's arrival, stepped forward.

"This is what I believe to be Orion's clone from the Null Void. Somehow, it managed to come into this world from inside Orion, and I'm very curious to know how."

"Clone from the Null Void?" Rosaline was shocked. She understood the Null Void and its mechanisms well, so she found it hard to believe that his clone could come to this world when other clones could only take form temporarily when their curses were activated—and even then, they lacked sentience, unlike the one before them.

"How did it come out here? And how does it have its own thoughts?" Rosaline asked, curiosity burning in her eyes.

Kane shrugged. "That's the mystery. In fact, this kid Orion is surrounded by too many mysteries, some of which have even caught my attention. Once, I saw him fighting an Apocalypse-level monster; another time, I heard about his clone wreaking havoc in the Null Void, killing thousands. And his never-ending abilities are hard to forget."

He added, "And now his clone has emerged from the Null Void. I wonder what else we'll witness today. I'm very interested to see where this is going."

Rosaline felt a headache coming on as she thought about Orion. So many problems had arisen just because of him, and now his clone had somehow arrived in this world from the Null Void.

She sighed and turned her attention to Gray Orion.

"Anyway, you're coming with him to the Celestial Court."

"Are you kidding me?" Gray Orion laughed. "Didn't you hear what I just said?"

He added, "You can trap him, but that doesn't mean you can trap me too. I've already told you—I'm much stronger than this guy here, so don't think about trapping me or taking me anywhere."

He then pointed at Orion and continued, "And he won't be going anywhere since I'm here."

"Are you going to stop us?" Rosaline asked with a smile. She could see that the clone's strength was similar to that of the original, making it impossible for him to prevent them from taking Orion, even if he was a rare genius.

At most, he could turn intangible and escape. But she only had one rope, and it could be used on only one person or thing at a time.

Gray Orion smirked when he saw Rosaline's doubt.

"If I wanted to escape, with or without him, nobody here could stop me—no one. But that's not my intention." Your story continues on m_vl_em_p_yr