"Miss Lili, when will Kaka and the others be back?"
"It should be soon, I trust Kaka and the others."
"But, Miss Lili, we don't have much time left..."
"Believe me, Kaka will definitely bring us New World, just like he did back then."
In the prayer hall, Lili comforted the inquiring crowd, then spoke loudly again, "Don't you believe Kaka?"
When Kaka was mentioned, the guards and civilians standing around raised their hands and shouted in unison.
"Loyalty!"
The solemn and resounding shouts finally quieted the commotion in the prayer hall.
As everyone continued to kneel quietly on the ground in prayer, Lili maintained her gentle smile.
However, when he turned his head, the sky darkened.
The more the Death Note is used, the more the people of the Calamity Curse Realm will suffer the backlash of the curse, and the situation is becoming increasingly critical.
As the administrator of the Calamity Curse Realm, she had to keep these people in check to prevent a riot before Kaka returned.
Kaka was able to overthrow the Emperor's rule, and similarly, once she loses the support of this group, their Death Note will be overthrown without anyone to use it.
That hateful magical girl...
Lili hates magical girls.
The more powerful the magical girl, the more she disliked her.
In the Calamity Curse Realm magical girls cannot be born, every time a magical girl is seen, it is a disaster.
If it weren't for magical girls, the Calamity Curse Realm would have already found a foothold long ago, instead of still suffering here.
What brought about the miracle of the kind girl?
They're nothing but a bunch of selfish monsters.
A miracle that even a curse couldn't erase, a kindness that never cared whether they lived or died.
This is what's called a magical girl.
These innocent little girls, living in the gentle embrace of their parents, have no idea what the world is truly cruel like.
Why should they be able to live in that safe world?
And yet, we who strive so hard must struggle to survive in such a cruel world?
No matter how hard we try, is despair and death all that awaits us?
Especially that Mujin.
Lili can never forget that, even though she was still young, she and Kaka were already struggling to survive on the brink of death.
I witnessed my compatriots kneeling before the Mujin, begging her to spare their lives.
The Calamity Curse Realm is no longer habitable; they need a new world.
Even the Land of Mirrors would be fine.
However, the magical girl was only feigning sadness, saying that if they To Live, they would spread the curse and only bring disaster to other places.
Then they killed all their compatriots in the New World.
Just thinking about Mujin's sad and self-reproachful expression...
Lili felt an uncontrollable nausea, and resentment and hatred began to grow, which intensified the curse on her body.
These curses only intensify once they give rise to negative emotions.
Calamity Beast will not be born in the Calamity Curse Realm; these negative emotions will only deepen the curse until it leads to death.
Pain and the fear of death spread through Lili, and she closed her eyes to calm herself down.
Then he prayed earnestly:
You absolutely have to succeed, Kaka!
Even if the curse spreads to other worlds, we must survive!
We shouldn't be the only ones suffering like this!
While they were praying, the entire hall suddenly began to shake!
Lili, who was unsteady on her feet, grabbed onto a nearby pillar for support.
The once quite stable hall was now being shrouded in falling rubble.
Even the pillars began to tremble.
Thick gray fog slowly rolled and surged towards the main hall!
"Seal the gate!"
The guards outside shouted, but they were too late. The gray mist had already poured into the hall. Although the members of the Calamity Curse Realm at the front were fully dressed in protective suits, they were still corroded by the gray mist.
Terrifying red runes began to appear on his face and in his eyes, and he collapsed to the ground, convulsing!
Lili rushed forward, a jet-black Grief Seed in her hand. Filthy Magic Power emanated from her hand, suppressing the spreading gray mist. "Isolate the cursed personnel! Everyone else, to the safe house!"
The guards standing around picked up harpoons, impaled the two convulsing members, and then dragged them toward the passage on the left.
The others were about to riot, but then the guards each drew their pistols and aimed.
They all became obedient and were pushed and shoved by the guards towards the safe house at the back.
Lili, disregarding the need to appease the crowd, simply pulled out a communicator that resembled a cell phone and made a call towards the outside of the hall, shouting, "Why has the cursed gray mist entered the hall! Where are our seals?!"
However, there was no response from the guards outside the main hall.
All that came through the communicator were pitiful screams.
Lili took a deep breath, her hands trembling slightly.
The seal being broken means that the prayer hall is no longer safe.
If this continues, where will there be any place to live in the Calamity Curse Realm...?
" Kaka..."
She gradually descended from despair into madness, and when she made a phone call to Kaka outside the Calamity Curse Realm, she screamed hysterically, " Kaka, what are you doing!"
"Kill them all! Kill everyone in that world, quickly, let us get out!"
However, there was no response.
Another violent tremor occurred, the surrounding supporting pillars began to collapse, and rubble from above the prayer hall continued to fall.
Until the entire hall collapsed, and gray mist surged in!
The guards around them shouted; some people were buried, while others escaped.
The sound began to fade into the distance, until it fell silent.
Since the safe house is underground, there shouldn't be any danger.
But I'm afraid there won't be enough survivors...
Hopefully, more people can survive; otherwise, Kaka's Death Note will be unusable.
The Death Note can only be used by those from the Calamity Curse Realm; it possesses the life of a cursed person and can be exchanged for the life of any other creature.
" Kaka..."
As Lili called out her friend's name and struggled to grasp the Grief Seed, trying to extract more power, the Filthy Magic Power nourished the curse and eroded her consciousness.
Struggling to climb out of the rubble, Lili finally saw the sky.
The gray, hazy sky was always shrouded in something.
She hadn't looked at the sky in a long time.
From their childhood, the world was in terrible condition, with the sky always covered by a cursed gray fog.
However, the situation actually began to deteriorate drastically after the Emperor's death.
Since they killed the Emperor, the curse on each of them has grown increasingly severe, and the habitable area of the Calamity Curse Realm has shrunk continuously until only this prayer hall remains.
They couldn't even go outside; if they left the prayer hall, they would be cursed to death.
Only Kaka and her few companions were allowed to leave the prayer hall.
If they don't come back and continue living outside, they'll be the only ones who will die...
Kaka, have you abandoned us?
Anxiety began to grow in my heart.
Her blurred consciousness filled her with remorse.
He regretted his past actions in rebelling against the Emperor.
At that time, they believed that the root of all their misfortunes lay solely with that tyrannical ruler.
Because everyone says the curse comes from the Emperor's greed and malice.
Throughout the entire world, only Emperor were not cursed.
Even the Emperor himself proclaimed this, at the cost of a curse upon the entire world.
Grant her immortality and power.
Only her palace is immune to the spread of the curse, and only she can move freely within the curse's gray mist.
They kept sending people out to find New World, yet they coldly watched these people die.
They don't care about other people's lives.
So Kaka and she, with the help of the stolen Death Note, led those dissatisfied with the Emperor's rule to overthrow Emperor.
They believed that such a grand change would surely bring new life to the Calamity Curse Realm.
That was probably the most relaxed time for them.
Because they had a clear goal and an enemy, it seemed that as long as the Emperor was overthrown, everything would be bright.
They only realized the truth when they reached the Emperor.
"Congratulations on your victory. But it's a real shame, everyone, the prize is just this world that's already beyond saving."
Despite being isolated and helpless, the Emperor showed no fear in the face of them.
He simply told them, with a detached yet amused tone, "The inability to give birth to a magical girl named Hope is an innate curse. From the very beginning, the will of this world has abandoned the future; we are all merely stillborn children of this world."
"I have lost interest in this world. Now, you can struggle on, struggle to the very end in despair and pain. Even if it's ugly, even if it brings disaster to others... live on desperately, devour the entire world with your desires."
At that time, they did not know the Emperor's meaning until later.
Even if they find New World, they will still be burdened by the curse, and none of them will live past thirty.
Even the slightest activation of the curse could cause a sudden death.
From the very beginning, it was just searching for despair within despair.
Even Emperor merely used oppressive rule to conceal the cruel truth.
There is only one reason why it is not cursed.
The Emperor wrote himself into the Death Note from the very beginning.
The highest level of curse rendered all other curses ineffective; Death God would not allow her to die from any other curse.
The moment the Emperor left the throne, his magnificent golden robes vanished, and his dazzling golden hair returned to its dull black-red hue. Only his golden-red scorpion-like eyes remained unchanged.
They then realized that the Emperor, who had stepped down from the throne, looked no different from any other ordinary girl.
The girl, who had given up resisting, was hit on the head by a stone in the main hall in an accident.
After the Emperor's death, the ultimate curse began to spread.
Because after the Emperor wrote himself into the Death Note, he absorbed most of the world's curses into himself.
This pervasive gray fog once condensed on the body of only the Emperor.
She bears the curse of the world, yet is suppressed by the rules of the Death Note.
A battle against Death God, day and night.
Since her death, no one has been able to sit on that throne again, no one has absorbed so many curses, and no one has been able to survive under the rules of the Death Note.
The Calamity Curse Realm was utterly destroyed.
To prove they were right, they buried the throne underground. The power of the Emperor legacy could delay the arrival of the cursed death. Relying on this power, Kaka kept going out to seek a place to survive in New World.
But the harder they tried, the more they realized that the Emperor was right.
The extended period of time became a curse left to them by the Emperor.
It was as if they wanted to see how the insects would move around.
They struggled ugly, resorting to any means necessary to survive.
But it's meaningless.
Somewhat dazed, she felt only sadness and a helpless exhaustion.
Clutching the Grief Seed that he had possessed since childhood, his body began to mutate, and scales seeped from his skin.
The ultimate form of the curse is the loss of self, utter spiritual death, and becoming a monster...
However, when a purple light descended, the mutation actually stopped.
Lili struggled to lift her head and looked up; cracks were spreading across the gray sky.
The violent tremors caused cracks to continuously spread across the sky above.
Faintly, Lili heard the ancient, melodious sound of bells echoing in the sky.
And an indifferent voice:
"Heaven and earth are ruthless."
"Treating all things as straw dogs."
boom!
Cracks instantly covered the entire sky!
The colors overflowing from the cracks were a light she had never seen before.
Beautiful, radiant, vibrant.
That was a color never before seen in the Calamity Curse Realm.
Perhaps it existed before, but when the curse spread throughout the world, only gray fog remained here.
The light was so dazzling and warm that Lili couldn't help but reach out her hand, wanting to catch it.
As the warm sunlight enveloped her, Lili suddenly remembered something.
People who had traveled there before told her.
There is actually a warm, large fireball in the sky called the sun.
She had never seen the sun, nor could she have imagined it.
I've always been curious and puzzled about what the sun actually looks like.
But now, holding that warm purple glow, she suddenly understood.
So this is what they meant by the sun!
It turns out, the outside world has such wonderful things.
Until the crack in the sky suddenly widened.
First, a beautiful purple boot stepped out from the crack, and then a petite figure emerged.
The scattered purple sunlight couldn't stop Lili from seeing the other person's face clearly.
She reached out her hand with a look of contentment, as if to cradle that small figure, and sighed inwardly:
Wow, the sun is so beautiful, yet so small.
The dispersed gray mist began to surge again, converging towards the sun in the sky, and its purple radiance began to be obscured.
The sky turned gray again.
The purple light was gone, and the ground was once again shrouded in the shadow of the curse.
The gray fog continued to pour in, as if trying to bury the purple sun completely.
Lili struggled to climb towards him.
Then they heard the purple sun murmur softly:
Why aren't the lights on?
Her mind went blank for a moment; she didn't know what turning on the light meant.
In this vast world, where are there any lights?
Then the girl stretched out her finger, and her pale pink fingernail landed on the gray mist in the sky.
"Let there be light."
She said that.
Purple flames engulfed the sky in an instant!
The raging flames made the entire sky boil, and the ground was bathed in purple light!
The churning gray mist gradually evaporated in the raging flames, until the purple fire slowly died down.
A bright sky appeared before Lili's eyes.
She gazed at the clear blue sky she had never seen before, and was momentarily mesmerized.
Then tears began to flow uncontrollably.
So this is what the real sky is like. So we actually live under such a beautiful sky.
As she watched the purple figure begin to leave, Lili burst into tears. She immediately scrambled to her feet and stumbled as she ran towards the purple sun!
They are chasing the miracles they pray for!
"Save us! Save us! The sun..."
Sure enough, the purple figure stopped and turned to look at her.
When you make eye contact, you can feel it even more.
The sun was breathtakingly beautiful!
"I am..."
She called out, trying to say her name.
But then she saw the girl casually pull out a purple javelin and point it at her.
"Li..."
The javelin, hurled with tremendous force, exploded into a magnificent mushroom cloud on the ground!
The conversation abruptly ended.