I Can Copy Curses

Chapter 154: 154. Ring and Bottle

"For Princess Ella to get the toy she wanted, she has to play a very easy game but she has already failed three times in a row before. So, Prince Orion, are you up for it?"

The shopkeeper looked at Orion and explained the reason why Ella seemed to be angry at her.

"I didn't lose. It's just that the game of yours is flawed."

Ella refuted it as soon as the shopkeeper told Orion about her.

Orion shook his head and looked at the shopkeeper.

"What is the game about?"

Orion's interest piqued unexpectedly. He felt a curious connection to the game, suspecting that if anything in this world resembled Earth, it might be found in this shop.

"Follow me."

The old man then led them to a different room, which was more like a long hall than a room. At the far end, Orion could see bottles arranged at different distances, side by side.

"You see these bottles; they are placed at the exact same distance as the number placed on the toys."

Orion observed the hall for a moment and confirmed that indeed, there was a bottle placed 89 metres away from where they stood. Alongside it, many other bottles were placed at various distances throughout the hall.

From the look of this, he got the gist of how this would all play out.

The shopkeeper then took out many rings the size of his palm and showed them to Orion.

"To get the toy one wants, one would simply have to put a ring on the bottle marked with the toy number. Also, one cannot use mana or their talent here to place the ring on the bottle. I will be able to sense it if any of you use mana so it's better if you don't try to cheat your way through."

After the shopkeeper explained everything, Orion thought that this was indeed like those games on Earth.

"Big Brother Orion, you have to be careful. This game is just so hard."

Ella reminded Orion to be careful of the game, to which he nodded. If he wanted to cheat, then there were probably not many who could see through him.

However, before he could try and see if it was really as difficult as Ella described, someone took that chance from him.

"Let me try first."

Ryfin stepped forward and put his hand forward towards the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper looked at Orion, to which he only shrugged.

Seeing that Orion didn't mind, the shopkeeper gave Ryfin three rings.

"Take the three. You have only three chances. If you can't do it, then you won't get any more chances."

Ryfin nodded and took the rings before he turned his attention towards the bottles.

Looking at them for a full minute, he shouted and threw one of the rings towards the 89-number bottle.

Orion then looked at all the bottles, wondering if he should first try normally before using his curse to get what he wanted.

In the end, he ultimately decided otherwise.

Activating the curse of Electrostatic Disruption, Orion threw one of the rings towards bottle number 89.

The ring hurtled through the air and ultimately landed on the bottle, surprising everyone in the hall.

"Big Brother Orion, you won!"

Ella jumped in excitement that she could finally get the toy she had wanted for a long time.

Meanwhile, Ryfin's mouth was as round as a sphere because of the surprise. Only he understood what it would take for someone to do that on their first try.

'I guess it's his day.' He thought.

The shopkeeper also narrowed his eyes at Orion, for he didn't see him use mana and because of this, he felt unbelievable that someone could easily do this trick.

"How did you do it?" He asked.

Orion smiled at him, seeing his surprised expression.

"It must be my lucky day," he replied. Though only he knew how he accomplished that.

He smoothly controlled the ring through his Electrostatic Disruption so much so that one wouldn't be able to see through if the ring was affected by anything outside by wind or not.

As for the momentum around the bottle, it didn't affect the ring's speed at all because of Orion's control over it and ultimately landed on the bottle.

However, like Ryfin, Orion realised that it would take a significant amount of practice to achieve such accuracy consistently without cheating.

But for Orion, it was just a simple use of his curses.

Although he felt a little guilty about cheating the shopkeeper, if his sister was happy, then it was alright.

"Old man, give me my toy."

Ella shouted, looking at the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper helplessly led them outside of the hall and gave Ella her toy before Orion and his sister left his shop.

"Come again, Princess Ella."

He bowed to them, seeing them go away.

Meanwhile, Orion and his group didn't go far when they encountered two kids around his age.

"Look, who do we have here? The trash of the Darkwood family."

"Trash indeed. Though, it does make me wonder how he passed the test."

"Well, we will find out soon enough."