Curse of Mark - Katara's Confidence - Second Origin

"Hah! This goddess... How did she come here when I've severed the trace?!"

Philip asked himself after he let go of Katara, who was twitching on the ground while blushing and full of pleasure

Philip just looked at her with eyes of disgust and concern

'Is this how masochists are? I thought I was the Ultimate Masochist, but I'm not this crazy? Am I? I mean, I like pain because it makes me stronger, but pleasure? Maybe...'

Philip talked to himself and questioned his own trait

"Uhm, Philip?"

Camille called out to Philip

"Yes?"

"Who might this girl be?"

"Ah, she's the Goddess of Curses. I signed a contract with her to not apply any curse on you in the past just now"

"Oh? This little girl is a goddess? Well, I can't judge her height considering Sai's height also..."

With that comment, Katara suddenly lost her pleasure and she became focused

"Sai? That little child is here?"

Katara pushed her body up and stood up

"So, this is where that rogue little girl hiding?!"

"Stop"

Philip stepped forward and placed his arm in front of Katara to stop her

"Sai is one of my closest friend... You can't do anything to her"

"Hm, that is fine... I just want to talk to her"

"No, you have to wait for a few hours"

"Why?"

"I have to finish my errands first before you can meet everyone that I have a connection with me"

"Why not now?"

"You already know me... A Fate Controller and a being who can travel through time..."

Camille's eyes widened after she heard that Philip could travel through time. She immediately understood his methods of changing fates and that he might have change her fate in the past already

"...we are in a time cruch... I have to do so much in such a short period of time..."

"..."

Katara paused and shrugged her shoulders

"Okay fine"

"Also, don't let your divine energy and authority spread out around this mansion, a lot of people will be alarmed and they will storm you since they are unaware rhat a foreign being has entered this domain"

"Hm, okay will do, but what would happen if they confront me? They can't do anything!"

"Trust me, they could do so much... Especially with at least five or six of them"

"Ehh... I'm not scared"

"What if I told you that Ken, the Sword God, is here?"

Philip smirked and tried to taunt Katara

"What?! That damned god is here?! I have to give him a piece of my mind!!"

"Uh uh uh! Everyone in this mansion is practically untouchable to you, so you can't do anything. No worries though, you'll learn a lot soon enough"

"Hmph! Fine!"

Katara pouted and crossed her arms

"By the way, how'd you get here from the past?"

"Hm? I didn't come with you from the past. I waited for hundreds of years and calculated that you will come back in the present a few minutes ago. Remember the curse I put on you?"

"Curse of Mark?"

"Yes, it's a curse that marks you for me... So, wherever you are in this universe, in the present, I'll be able to track you. I used that to come here!"

"Hmmm... But why?"

"I figure back then that if I didn't put any curse on Camille, the timeline would just split apart into several paths. So, I personally came here to remove the Curse of Clotting on Camille myself!"

"Really? But I don't think that that's how it works though"

"Trust me, I've done my research for a couple of hundreds of years"

Katara was telling the truth. The moment Philip disappeared in the past, she immediately went travelling around the universe after applying a curse to Braham

He went to several civilizations that exists in the universe and dug through their records and studied. She can't be seen by mortals after all due to a specific curse. Although, she can be seen by cameras and detected by sensors, to which she condicted mischievous acts

She researched anything regarding time travel. That includes all stories and fiction since there are actually no proven records recorded somewhere in the universe. She did study relativity though and everything that's connected to it

She also considered asking about the Time Felon, but that won't happen since he's lost in time and space. She also wanted to search for the Akashic Records, but she knows that it's a myth

At that point, just a few hundred hears later, she gave up and brainstormed at what time travel could do, the effects and consequences that might bring destruction

She wasn't that knowledgeable about time and space due to another specific curse unlike the other gods and dragons. That's why she took her time to study just because she took interest in Philip's existence

But at this exact moment, what Katara has concluded after all those years is wrong

"Philip..."

Camille muttered. Philip and Katara looked towards her and their eyes widened as they saw her bleed from her own skin and orifices on her entire body

"Whaaat..."

Katara was stunned, confused, and worried when Camille started to bleed uncontrollably. She knows that this should be impossible because she has the Curse of Clotting, but she began to bleed instead

*Snap*

An audible sound reverberated throughout Camille's room. Philip just snapped his left fingers and controlled Camille's fate

"As I have said, there are a lot of things you don't know, Katara... I know you're trying to help, but concepts that are higher than gods are not in your reach..."

Katara looked at Philip's eyes with fear and concern

"...for now at least"

Katara was taken aback by Philip's last words as he looked away

'For now? Is this what it meant when he said he'll make me more powerful with his power and influence?'

What Katara was missing was Philip's power, the ability to control fate, without that, the results of the future won't be changed. Especially since Philip could see all the timelines, he has created the [Golden Timeline] and the [Golden Universe] that is different from the rest

"What are you waiting for? Camille has two curses after wearing the ring! The Curse of Clotting is now gone but te Curse of Bleeding has overwhelmed her!"

"Huh? Oh, right..."

Katara lifted her left stump vertically and just like that, the Curse of Bleeding was immediately removed and the Blood Ring shattered into dust

"Camille?"

Philip tried to call out to Camille but he was unconscious. The blood that dripped across her body started to either evaporate or get absorbed back into her body

Just then, her silver-white hair faded into brown and a part of her bangs stayed silver. A loud crunching noise was then heard coming from Camille as her body began to contort forward, as if her body was being pushed forward

A few seconds later, a small bat wings were revealed growing behind her. The wings were soft and seem easy to be torn. She then began to move as she was regaining consciousness

「 Hm? 」

'What's up, Emily?'

「 This is unexpected... 」

'What?'

「 I think you have to use Origin Seeker one more time to find out... 」

'...'

Camille slowly opened her eyes and what she revealed overwhelmed both Philip and Katara. There was like a wave pushing them away from Camille that's coming from her eyes or gaze

There was a yellow symbol on her red eyes and it looked like the letter "Y" with a single dot at the top middle with three varrying sizes of strikes at the stem, resembling the yen symbol

"What is this..."

"What? I couldn't believe this! She has one more curse!"

Philip and Katara exclaimed simultaneously

"What curse?!"

"It's a curse that was bestowed upon her by forbidden and sacred means!"

"Can you remove it?"

"I can't remove curses that I didn't place in the first place! The same way I can't remove yours!"

"Alright, I'll handle this myself! I had a suspicion that this seemed to be too easy, but something had to be make it harder for me!"

Philip slowly walked forward and approached Camille. He extended his right arm and aimed his two fingers towards her forehead

「 Which origin are you going to seek? Braham's whereabouts, Camille's condition during her sleep, or the source of this power? 」

"All of them"

Philip came closer to Camille and she gazed directly at Philip's eyes. His eyes suddenly glowed golden without him doing anything

[The Fate Controller... Possessor of Omega... The prophecy is coming to fruition...]

A hundred voices came from Camille's mouth and Philip felt creeped out. It seemed like Camille was not herself

"Hm?!"

Katara muttered after sensing an energy signature that she never felt before

It was then that red matter orbs conjured around Camille and expanded like a blob. The orbs connected each other with strings of dark matter

The red matter wrapped around Philip and covered him entirely with dark matter. Philip panicked and hurriedly reached for Camille's forehead

The red matter pulled him away but he persevered and managed to touch Camille's forehead, even though he si completely covered in red matter

Katara can't do anything since she doesn't have any combat abilities and can only fight using curses. She can't harm or curse Camille because they have that contract. She considered to call for help, but immediately denied it because Philip told her to meet the other later

Katara seemed to be obedient, even though she is one of the oldest divine being in existence and a masochist

After Philip touched Camille's forehead, his vision flashed and he found himself in a dark and gloomy crypt. He was alarmed that he didn't see the kaleidoscopic hyperspace and thought that he was just teleported because of the flash of light

But he was disproven after seeing the scene in front of him

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'Are we in the past, Emily?'

Philip decided to talk to Emily in his head all the time because of what happened earlier. Philip wanted to talk to Emily with his voice but he can't do that anymore because someone might hear him and become suspicious

Granted that he might be seen as crazy, but he can't take any chances

「 Yes, several years after Camille died 」

'I see...'

Philip had his eyebrows furrowed as he tried to look away from the scene in front of him. He then decided to steel himself and look forward

The scene that he's seeing in front of him is Braham sitting on a throne with a flat pedestal in front of him

The flat pedestal in front of him has Camille's charred bones. Camille's body was being cinstructed in an atomic scale. Blood and flesh were floating around as it flows in the air. There are also foreign matter like hair, enamel, tissues, and different kinds of liquids and lumps of matter that might be fats and nutrition

The scene looked horrid as the charred bones were being cleaned. Nerves were also constructed and the structure of the blood vessels are almost complete. The organs are tiny and continued to grow

Philip couldn't take too much of the view since this will be the first time he'll see the insides of a human body. Though, he cant be disturbed anymore since there is an important matter in the crypt and he immediately manipulated his emotions

As Braham was sitting on his throne, he looked extremely exhausted but his handsomeness is still apparent on him

With him sitting on the throne, being unable to move as his head is resting on his fist with his arm resting on the hand rest, another individual is currently present in the crypt

It was a woman that looked like a witch with maroon and lavendar curly hair. She has a fitted dress with a typical witch hat. This witch has an ebony wand and she has a dirty red aura emanating from her. Her hands are also releasing the same colored magic

She was controlling the restoration and construction of Camille's body that is feeding off of Braham's life force

"This girl... She refuses to wake up... Are you sure you want to revive her?"

The witch asked Braham

"Yes... I'll defy life and death if I need to..."

Blood then seeped out of his body and flowed in the air towards the witch, which charged her with enough power to revive Camille

It was irony, the reason that Camille died is because she was wrongfully convicted as a witch, but now, a witch is helping her to revive