Starting with magical girls, I'll reign supreme for eternity.

Without children to share the curse, the curse will only continue to increase.

Isn't this just making it impossible for everyone to survive?

Lika was eventually driven out of town.

When the Emperor saw Rika again, she had been tormented by the curse to the point of being unrecognizable.

Instead of having children to share her curse, Rika bore the curse alone and was lonely in her old age.

No one understood her, and no one helped her.

However, the methods she researched to combat and weaken the curse were ultimately continued.

The emperor's last meeting with her was at the edge of a cliff, where the old man, dedicated to eradicating the curse, lit a bonfire.

Why not spread the curse?

When the emperor was on the edge of the cliff, warming himself by a campfire, he couldn't help but ask her.

As long as I get married and have children, I can survive.

Lika shook her head, only sighing that she wished the Emperor were her daughter.

At that time, the Emperor did not understand what Lika meant.

She didn't know until she saw the magical girl with her own eyes and understood love and happiness.

Because she didn't want her child to struggle in a hell of despair.

She didn't want her child to share her curse and pain. If she could, she wished she could have a girl like the Empress, who wasn't cursed and could find happiness.

Perhaps, if Rika hadn't been cursed, she could have become a magical girl.

She's at least more suited to be a magical girl than I am.

The Emperor stayed by Lika's side until her final moments.

Because, for the Emperor, she was indeed raised by Rika; without Rika, she would have simply waited to die among her parents' corpses.

She has always regarded Rika as her mother.

However, this adoptive mother, even on her deathbed, remained the same as her biological parents.

She was given the same curse.

Sometimes, emperors would wonder if they were not immune to curses after all.

But her curse remained in her soul.

The curse from both her biological parents and her adoptive mother has always accompanied her and has never disappeared.

However, her body was never tainted by the curse.

But the Emperor still couldn't understand why Rika would do something so meaningless in the end.

Why did she, who fought against the curse her whole life, end up fearing death?

After that, she encountered the sacred beast again.

The sacred beast led her through many things, and at that time she became the hope and salvation of the town.

Everyone hoped that one day she would succeed and break the curse.

But she thought it would be nice if someone else could do this kind of thing.

Why should I be the one putting in the effort while others reap the rewards?

Why can't others do the hard work while I enjoy the fruits of their labor?

Perhaps it was because of this thought that she was unable to meet the expectations of the sacred beast and others until the very end.

Gentle, kind, and selfless.

The characteristics that the sacred beast kept emphasizing to her were beyond the emperor's imagination and ability to achieve.

Even the sacred beast died because of the curse.

For an emperor, the despair and denial before death are like a curse.

As a result, even the emperor himself completely abandoned this path.

Even sacred beasts from other worlds will be cursed and killed if they stay here for too long.

But the emperor could never be tainted by the curse.

Let alone people from the Cursed Realm, she would be an absolute anomaly even in other worlds.

The townspeople's expectations of her turned into rejection of her as an outsider.

From isolation to eventual hostility and hatred.

It was like a trial of heretics.

She didn't want to become like Lika; she hated being isolated.

The town was reduced to ruins.

She was an empress who was never favored by the world's curse.

She is also an ordinary girl who is constantly plagued by human curses.

Until the individual's reality is realized in the realm of mental images, manifesting as a golden throne.

The emperor finally felt the curse for the first time.

Their pain, their despair, their struggles, only manifested in her at this moment, making her no longer an outcast different from everyone else.

She became an ordinary member of the Cursed Realm, no longer the miracle that was different from everyone else and could bring possibilities.

Even though she suppressed the effects of other curses with the Death Note, she could still clearly feel the pain caused by the curses.

But for the emperor, he experienced an unprecedented tranquility.

She finally accepted her identity and no longer felt uneasy or confused about her differences.

I also understood the madness of those people in the past, and even felt sorry for my former biological parents.

Despite hoping to use himself to escape some of the pain and curse, he only hastened his own death.

The despair born from hope is perhaps the most maddening thing.

Rika's final fear may have stemmed from jealousy stemming from a feeling of injustice.

An old man who spent his life fighting against the curse and trying to eliminate it inevitably felt jealousy and resentment as he looked at the child who did nothing but remained unaffected by the curse.

In the final moments of their lives, they all chose to bestow the same curse upon her.

The empire was established, reached its zenith, and then collapsed and fell.

The Empress ultimately met the end of her life as an ordinary girl from the Cursed Realm.

And now, I have witnessed the disappearance of the Cursed Realm.

She didn't feel resentful or sad, just a little melancholy.

All curses will then vanish, disappearing into the unknown void along with the Cursed Realm.

She should have disappeared along with the Cursed Realm, just like that.

"I don't want to die."

Until she heard the voice of the Calamity Dragon.

"I want to live..."

Until she witnessed the terror of the Calamity Dragon.

In a daze, I seemed to see my biological parents struggling in bed when I was a child.

He stared at her with a twisted and ferocious expression, cursing her while simultaneously expressing his will to survive.

And then there was Rika's foster mother, who, on her deathbed, held her hand tightly and, who had never shown any weakness, whispered the same words to her in her final moments of fear.

I don't want to die, I don't want to die...

I want to live.

The sounds blended together, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish which sound came from which.

The emperor, regaining his senses, touched the golden crown atop the dragon's head.

A familiar power surged into her soul, and the girl was adorned with magnificent golden clothes, golden hair, and golden-red scorpion-like pupils, which were no longer as empty and cold as before.

He simply held the ferocious, enormous dragon head tenderly, as intimately as if embracing a lover, and said, "Don't worry."

The Cursed Realm is a world that exists only within curses.

Similarly, all its power can only be maintained within the curse.

Even if the source of the curse is completely destroyed, the world that chased back and the calamity dragon that absorbed the source of the world will face extinction.

However, while the world may be unable to eliminate it, the power within the Calamity Dragon is not necessarily destined to disappear.

All you need to do is give it a new, inescapable curse.

That was a curse that remained in the emperor's soul.

The curse came from his biological parents and his adoptive mother before her death.

It interferes with her personal reality, guides her to create the mental realm, and is even the reason why the Emperor has been able to maintain his immortal soul to this day.

The emperor lowered his head and kissed the dragon's head, whispering softly.

It tells the story of the hopes and despair of every living being in the Cursed Realm since time immemorial.

It was once the cruelest curse, but now it can be the most beautiful blessing.

"Please, bear all the curses and live on forever."

The world, which was originally filled with the gray and white of death, was once again illuminated by the dark light!

The eternal curse instantly engulfed the gray-white dragon's body, and then—

It has been dyed the color of a witch again.

Stroking the gleaming golden black scales, the hand gradually became ethereal.

It turned into specks of golden light.