Claiming My Destiny

Lizzy slowly opened her eyes as she saw two blurry outlines sitting across from her.

Slowing sitting up, Lizzy wiped her eyes and yawned.

"Sis, why are you so big now?" Lizzy asked as she recognized one of the blurry outlines as her sister.

But her sister had grown from her memory. Her legs were longer, hips wider, and her chest plumper.

"What's with the accessories? Are we pretending we've found the one again?" She said as she looked at Izzy's tail, wings, and horns.

"Sister, I think we should give up and marry a Demon. Then at least, we'd be leaving mother some grandchildren before we passed."

Noticing her sister starting to cry, she paused, "Izzy, why are you crying? We've had this conversation hundreds of times. You should get over your obsession with finding the one and move on."

"Sister, don't you remember? We found him!" Izzy shouted, crying while running over to Lizzy.

"You can see again! Our curses are suppressed! Soon we'll complete the ceremony and be finally rid of the curse."

Lizzy looked at her sister in confusion. Found him? Him? "Sister, don't tell me your fantasy of finding a male chosen has caused you to turn delirious."

"Just because I can see doesn't mean…." Trailing off, Lizzy's eyes widened,

"I can see… I can see!" Breaking out in a gleeful smile, tears flowing down her cheek, she hugged her sister.

"I can't believe it, sister! We've found him! We've found him! He's accepted us."

Watching the two sisters hug, Mara felt awkward seeing such an intimate moment.

But she was happy for the sisters. Being born a cursed, their luck was already rock bottom.

Each race had a chance for their offspring to be born with a curse, but being born a demon cursed was the worst. Each race's curse was different. For humans, cursed children were born without the ability to walk. Dragons born cursed had no wings. Phoenix cursed were born with no feathers. But demons who were cursed were born slowly deteriorating until they couldn't turn into their true forms and started to develop disabilities, like Lizzy's blindness. Eventually, they'd succumb to their curses and die.

Mara didn't know the reason why curses affected demons the worst, but she had read in one of her mother's books that there had been a time when curses didn't exist on Ravier.

But that was in the days before the heavens descended. What was now known as the "Dark Days."

Seeing the two sisters like this, Mara felt a twinge of jealousy.

Their lives thus far had been filled with struggles and hardships, but in the end, they found someone who would accept them.

She was still alone. It's not like she was cursed and could be converted into his follower.

'What am I thinking? Would I even want that?'

'You've just met him, Mara. You don't know anything about him.' Mara had just met Ryan and was already thinking about pledging herself to him.

But even if she wanted to pledge herself, she'd still have to get her mother's approval.

Even though she had defied her mother, she wouldn't risk her true ire.

'But how can I stay with him?' Biting her lip, Mara felt she couldn't risk losing him, but her fear of her mother wouldn't let her commit.

'I heard commoners do this thing called 'dating,' which is like courting but with more intimacy.'

'I wonder if he'd be willing to date me?' Mara felt a twinge of hope enter her heart as she prayed he would be.

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Ryan walked back to the dorms, checking his heavenly screen.

[Curse: Primal Evolution]

[In times of great emotion, you will feel your thinking is instinctive rather than calculated. Your mind will turn into that of a beast only acting on its primal nature]

[Evolution Stage: Infancy]

[Note: Upgrade your evolutionary stage to increase your control over this curse, eventually turning it from a hindrance into your own power]

The evolution stage, which had just been N/A, now said infancy but didn't have a progress bar like his cultivation, which was now up from 3% to 15% after his fornication session with the three girls.

'Hopefully, this helps with my stamina.'

Ryan arrived at his door, breathing in.

After opening that door, he knew there was no going back. He'd officially step on the path of a Harem Overlord.

Crowning his first harem member.

Holding the doorknob, Ryan paused before pushing forward. Claiming his destiny.