#8.5: [五つの呪い] 5 curses

"More than qualified? What do you mean?" Shiro asked "The founder's eyes, are a treasure that only [chosens] are able to acquire, though we have tried experimenting artificial eyes, but we couldn't get the same output as the founder, thus marking the experiment a failure" Seijirou said.

"Your hand, boy, that mark's got to do something about the founder's curses" Yuuta said. Shiro looked at his hand and saw a mark like the sun supremacy but a bit different from what he knows "That mark, the second curse, sun supremacy origin" Hanzo said "You know this?" he asked "Of course I know, we all know that you have gained the founder's curse, but we didn't know that you gained more than one" Hanzo added.

Hanzo asked the other four kings to cooperate with him in lifting all three of Shiro's chains. As they agreed, Shiro told them that the first one had already been unlocked, the second and third however, have not yet been opened due to struggle.

The five kings try their best to help, but all that they could manage was the second chain, "If your mother was here, she could help us undo this chain" Hanzo said "Why mom?" Shiro asked "Because your mother was the reason you are chained"

Hanzo started telling a story. When Shiro was born, they thought that the founder himself was reborn due to the massive surge of mana. He destroyed the manor his father is living in currently. Eventually, Shiro's mother, Hanzo's wife, had to seal Shiro's destructive force that consists of three levels.

The first, Shiro's physical strength will be multiplied by ten. The second, his mana will have the same multiplicand as the first chain. As for the third, his mother never got to explain it in detail, all she said was a number "100"

The second chain has come off, they had Shiro to take off his shirt, and they looked at his back and found the first curse, the Bahamut blade mark.

The founder's curses are five marks in a demon's body that says "I am your predecessor". The first, "Bahamut blade mark" a tattoo of a broad blade with demon wings placed on a demon's back. The second, "Sun Supremacy Origin mark" a mark that starts as a simple diamond found at the back of the right palm, it then shifts into a circle with diamonds in all 4 directions. The third, "Founder's eye" can be found on the left eye, or both eyes. The founder's eyes contain the knowledge of ancient magic created by the founder himself. The fourth, "Demon's heart" a tattoo found at the chest, close to the heart. Demon's heart makes the bearer invulnerable to mental and emotional attacks. The fifth however cannot appear to just anyone, the "Demon king's crown" is a mark that appears at the forehead of the next king, once a demon reaches a certain age, the present king will lose his mark as the mark will be transferred from the present king, to the next.

The five kings asked Shiro to face them as they search for the fourth and last curse. "You mean this?" Shiro said pointing his finger at the diamond in his chest.

"That's it!" Hanzo exclaimed "Demon's heart. The fourth" Eiji said "He has the four curses, not I can see why you chose him to be the next King [Lucifer]" Yuuta said. "But aren't we forgetting something?" "The crown?" Hanzo asked "Yes, the fifth, the [demon king's crown]" Eiji said.

They stroked Shiro hair so that his forehead can be seen, they found a diamond "So the crown has not formed yet" Eiji said as he looked at his forehead "The wings of the crown is still with me, it seems" he said.