Well, I woke up feeling like shit. The curse is still being destroyed by exidium but it’s not weakening like it did with Ellen.

As always Ellen and Kraft were already in the kitchen.

“How are you feeling Ali?”

“Worse than I thought, it reminds me of Kraft’s training session.”

“You decided to take my curse so you better be prepared to feel its effects.”

“When I transferred the curse it wasn’t that strong, it just became like this while I slept.”

“Let me tell you about that curse. You see, in the third demon war my family fought an army of demons lead by a Black Demon. Black Demons are said to be the most intelligent demons and they use curses and traps to destroy their enemies. A priestess was captured in a dungeon raid on his territory. She was captured by the demon and kept as a sex slave until a party of adventurers killed the Black Demon and saved her. That priestess was curse with a curse that will activate when she would give birth to a daughter and the curse will spread to every kid born in the family. She had a son and a daughter but the son’s curse never activated. Every female born lives for approximately 40 years then the curse finally takes their lives.”

“I resemble a girl so much that even a curse thinks I’m a female.”

“That’s what you get for trying to hold a serious conversation with this kid.”

“The curse isn’t so bad. It drains my stamina and my magic constantly which means my stamina and magic are increasing faster than they did if I were doing nothing.

“You could wear the bracelet I gave you.”

“That’s for later. I will wear it during training.”

“So you can destroy the curse but you don’t want to.”

“Yes, anyway the first demon war was before the continents split, the second war caused the continents to split and the third war was the one that made the demons retreat to their own continent right?”

“The continents were separated after the war ended.”

“So I understood wrong.”

“Ali, when we decided to rescue you it was the beginning of the ninth month. Do you remember when were you born?”

“I don’t remember but the scan tells me that I was born on the twenty-first day of the eighth month.”

If I use the newest method of calculating age I was born on 21.08.100. It was the 100-th year since the third demon war ended and it was the time of the new people. Basically the people born before the second war were called ancient people, the people born between the second and third war were the old people and most humans are part of the new people since they were born after the third war. Know I realize that my body actually kept me alive despite the condition I was in. I was almost a month old when they found me. Maybe this year they will throw a party for me. Until now the only thing I got for my birthday was a “Happy Birthday” and then the rest was the same.

“Why the sudden question?”

“You were very weak when we found you and we always thought that you were going to die on us so we never bothered to give you something for your birthday.”

“In my family we never celebrated birthdays.”

“Ellen, where did you find this guy anyway?”

“That’s a long story and it’s more accurate to say that I saved him and he stayed with me after that.”

“Your threat level is higher than Kraft’s.”

“Saying a man is weaker than a woman is capital crime in my tribe.”

“Don’t lose your ability to speak correctly because I stated the truth. Your threat level is 4 and Ellen’s threat level is 6. If I had removed the curse sooner her level would be 7. I am weak right now so I don’t know how powerful you two really are.”

“Ali, did you wake up at all yesterday?”

“I don’t know how I managed to wake up today.”

“So you didn’t. Yesterday I had a practice fight with your father and I hope he didn’t start training you in hand to hand combat or anything else besides endurance and strength.”

Ellen had a big grin on her face and Kraft looked like a he was humiliated in the worst possible way he never knew about.

“What did you do to the poor guy?”

“The only place he can last more than three seconds against me is the bed.”

“Really? After almost five years of living with you I believe that is a lie. The night four days ago sure was different.”

“The curse was draining my stamina that’s why before we took breaks because of me.”

“And now it’s the other way around.”

“As a matter of fact you are correct.”

“As much as I like psychologically torturing Kraft I think we should stop here. He looks like he wants to kill me.”

“You are safe with me, well you might want to start sleeping with one eye open.”

“Talking about mentally fucking somebody, aren’t you going to start teaching me some dark magic spells.”

“Here is all I know about dark magic.”

And with that Ellen took a sip of tea.

“So you don’t know anything about spells used only by dark magicians.”

“Unfortunately I didn’t study dark magic since I don’t possess the dark element.”

“So what am I eating today?”

“There is some toast with cheese and there is some mintal tea left.”

“I’ll have that.”

“Anyway kid, this summer we are going to start combat training. Your mother will teach you how to dodge attacks like a coward and counterattack.”

“Then you can teach me how to find without dodging attacks.”

“I’m going to train you, but be careful not to pass out.”

“On your birthday we will be going to the village to get you something as a gift. Until then you are going to transfer Kraft’s wounds to you so we can see how powerful your ability is.”

“Alex, your mother broke my left arm in three places yesterday and I want you to use your power on me.”

I used “wound transfer” on Kraft’s arm and the sounds of bones braking could be heard coming from my left arm. So I receive the pain and the wound itself. My bones broke like something hit them so if I were to transfer the wound of somebody whose arm has been torn will my arm fell off or will it rip itself.

“Can I assume that the sound I just heard were your bones being broken?”

“Yes, my bones just broke themselves.”

“Kraft, check his arm.”

Kraft studied my arm and checked some particular parts of my arm. That’s where Ellen broke his bones. In these conditions my arm couldn’t be moved and the pain was quite intense. I have experienced intense pain a number of times since I reincarnated but my body increased my pain endurance instead of eliminating the feeling of pain.

“The wounds on your arm match mine. My arm was healed instantly and my pain was gone. How are you kid?”

“It hurts like hell but my arm will heal in 2 days or less.”

“Ali, you said that you will train even if you are cursed so it’s better to start now.”

“I’m going.”

Well, it seems that the curse us more powerful than I thought but my wound transfer is working so that’s nice. To celebrate I’m going to change its name into “dark transfer” because it sounds better.