The Curse Turned into a Blessing

At the palace.

A stir was going on inside the palace because of the disappearance of the Royal Prince who had not been found for nearly a week.

Propped by the fact that the Royal Prince had never left the palace, even the former King had never allowed him to take a single step away from the palace.

Therefore the disappearance of the Royal Prince was most likely due to the strictness of the former King who did not allow him to play out of the palace.

And now, the Royal Prince ran away!

In the palace, many gossips appeared among the servants about the Royal Prince who ran away from home. Well, it can't be help, it was the Royal Prince after all.

But the Queen forbade those in the palace to leak rumors of the disappearance of the Royal Prince outside the palace. She simply cannot let hidden enemies take advantage of this situation.

"How? did you find him?" The Queen walked out of a palace hall accompanied by a moonlight that descends illuminating her comeliness.

Followed by a man wearing silver armor walking behind the Queen,

"Your Highness, we still haven't found the Royal Prince... however, one of the soldiers found the Prince's Necklace in the hands of one of the small merchants in the south of the small town of Fiore"

With that, he takes out a necklace with sun and moon carvings on it as he intends to show it to the Queen.

Reflexively, the Queen's steps stopped when she heard that, then turned her body around as her eyes saw the necklace in the knight's hand in front of her, and she take it!

"Where is that merchant now?" she inquired.

There's no way, a mere mortal can take that necklace from the prince's hand unless the prince himself deliberately gives his personal token to that small merchant for some reasons.

"That merchant denied that the necklace belonged to the prince, thus, the soldier immediately arrested him and immediately imprisoned him for alleged theft of Royal Prince's personal token"

"Interrogate him! and focus the searching toward the south!"

After the Queen gives instructions, her head looks up at the moon which still emits beautiful light at night. However, her beautiful eyes couldn't help showing glints of worries as he recalled her younger brother.

"It's been a year since his strange illness relapse, I hope nothing happens to him!" she muttered.

...

Elsewhere, lying an annual childlike body on a bed, his eyes closed as if not showing he would wake up at one time.

The black markings with red outlined appeared all over his body as his eyelids shut so tightly they began to fidget and shudder from the bullish force, as if the agony sears through his body.

However, despite that, he did not let out a single sound of pain, even when sweat poured off all over his body

Whereas the blonde-haired young woman stood in front of the young kid with her face full of horror and panic as she blocked her own mouth with both of her hands.

"How is this possible! he slept fine before, why suddenly his body appeared a lot of strange markings?"

Lucy really didn't expect this to happen. After she found this young kid asleep when he showered in the bathroom, she immediately moved him to the bed even though she did not familiar with this young kid at all. Nevertheless, she can feel the harmlessness of this young kid.

This young kid fell asleep so deeply and long like a pig, Lucy thought that he would wake up tomorrow morning. Even when she deliberately woke him up, in the end, he still closed his eyes as if he didn't feel anything at all. Therefore, Lucy can only let this young kid sleep longer.

As usual, Lucy did, before going to bed she routinely wrote her novel about her own adventures on sheets of white paper.

Just as she is going to sleep, Lucy was taken back with what she saw, the body of the young kid lying on his bed filled with black markings with the red color that out glowing the line of the marks. His face looked very suffering in extreme pain, but he did not emit a single sound.

"What should I do? do I have to call Master[1]? but Mira-san said Master was having a meeting for the next seven days."

Lucy paced back and forth, an anxious expression on her face. Even though she didn't know this young kid, at least he was dying in her room.

What should I do if he dies here? and peoples know, Magic Council's soldiers? Master Makarov? or Landlady? ... mm, Landlady is more frightening than the both definitely!

Lucy really didn't want to imagine it anymore. Just about she is going to think of another solution, suddenly the phenomenon that happened in the young kid's body died down, makes Lucy a bit startled, or rather relieved herself.

Lucy gradually approached the young kid's body and wiped the wet that sweat it. Unbeknown to her, she fell asleep right next to him.

...

The warm ball of light filtered fell slanting through the window and through Nathan's thin eyelids awoke him on his unconscious state.

He sat down and saw beside him there was a young blonde woman who slept soundly using pajamas, her button top opened so that it showed a cleavage of her breasts.

Nathan lowly got out of bed stepping over Lucy who was still asleep. His footsteps headed towards the mirror and saw that his whole body leaving a shade black markings over his white skin.

This is the after effect of the relapse of his strange illness.

He knew clearly the fact that his illness would recur at yesterday, more precisely that happens once a year and today are exactly a year after the last relapse occurred. However, Nathan did not know the exact time it would recur. Therefore, he deliberately spelled himself with an illusion of sleep.

Who would have thought that the spell worked too fast from what was expected! Nathan intends to apply such as the timer into his illusion magic, but it seems that it doesn't work according to plan. Well, at least it worked well to wake me up!

"Well, it's doesn't matter, these shade of markings will be covered with clothes anyway!"

He stretches out his body as he lifted his palms upwards and slowly clenched them into fists.

Feeling the explosive strength within his body, a curve smile appeared on Nathan's face.

There was saying 'the curse turned into a blessing', those words apply to Nathan's situation after being incarnated in this magical world.

The strange illness that he suffered in his previous life, apparently still attached to him even after he was born again in this world. However, the thing was different from previously, the illness he most terrified now became a blessing for him, or rather... he called it a baptism.

Although the process at the time of relapse is very painful, after that, Nathan's body and magic will become stronger than before. That's why he calls it baptism.

"You wake up"

Suddenly, a half-sleepy voice was heard from behind him. Nathan turned around and saw a blonde woman rubbing her eyes and yawning her own mouth.

"Lucy-san[2], thank you for looking after me yesterday" he immediately thanked, Lucy really arrived on time when yesterday he fell unconscious because of the illusion he had cast himself, otherwise he might be drowned in the bathtub.

"I never introduced my own name to you" as expected even for Lucy who sometimes shows a superficial attitude will be alarmed if she meets a suspicious and troublesome person like him.

"Of course, for someone who wants to join the Fairy Tail guild, it would be nice for me to have to do research all the information including the guild members first" an innocent smile showed on Nathan's face.

"Does that include researching my apartment's address?" Lucy furrowed her eyes.

"Of course"

"How did you get into my apartment?"

"I just come in"

"The door of my room was clearly locked"

"Is that even called locked?"

"..."

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[1] "Master" means Makarov, guild's master of Fairy Tail.

[2] "San" is the most commonplace honorific and is a title of respect typically used between equals of any age.