"If you're referring to the curse, I know. Duke Elizabeth told me about it earlier."
Jiang Che nodded calmly. "I've looked through the database. Erin is under a curse of fate. From the moment she was born, she was destined to die before her eighteenth birthday. It's a predetermined future, an inescapable fate.
"Duke Elizabeth once sought out a Crowned King with the power of prophecy and pleaded with him to foresee Erin's future. The Crowned King generously agreed, and his prophecy was that Erin would die from the curse. That particular Crowned King's prophecies have always been accurate.
"Even if she were kept in a heavily fortified isolation zone, all sorts of accidents would still happen—earthquakes, hurricanes, falling meteorites... even a Gate of the Abyss inexplicably opening nearby, or her own life force depleting, or her soul collapsing...
