[Hunter Association Hospital]

"That was close..." Ragna tells himself. He's in the Med Room right now as a patient, wearing patient clothes as the Nurses and Healers there help 'recover.'

* Ragna remembers what happened. *

"(As things go, Twelve asks me to injure myself with the dead monsters' weapons back in the Dungeon to make me look like a survivor.)"

"(After I stabbed the sword to my chest and retrieved the System, Twelve told me that the System needs some time to make readjustment to make sure it is more useful to my current body status.)"

"(For now, the plan is to rest...)" Ragna says as he sleeps for a while.

The sleep goes well at first, as Ragna begins to dream of the moment when he stabbed himself with the sword that will lead him to gain the System and Ragna Twelve. In his dream, Ragna sees the System installed itself in Ragna's body, in the center of his chest creating some sort of a core. From there, it spreads its miraculous devices like bright blue electrical lines, installing more into Ragna's inner body.

" So that's how it's going to be, neat... " Ragna mentions in his dream, seeing more on the progress that already piqued more of its interest.

As the System continuously installs itself, suddenly it stops installing as the System's install progress encounters something, deep within Ragna's inner body, something that glows so purple, something sinister that begins to shine even more as the System tries to combat it.

" Arrghh! " Ragna screams in pain, his body is suddenly zapped by thunder from inside his body.

" Gargh! Twelve, System! What's going on!? " Ragna asks as the scene then shifts into Ragna Twelve, who is currently within Ragna's body via his Gate-based abilities.

" Dammit! " Twelve says as he encounters the problem while overseeing the System's installation.

" How could this be? since when was this thing within your body, Ragna!!! " Ragna Twelve says as the thunderous purple glow problem begins to shift itself into the form of a Vixen Spirit Beast.

" Kukukuku... " the thing laughs while outside, Ragna is currently holding the pain, sweating so hard for he never thought this could happen, again.

" No, this isn't possible... " as it happened, Ragna suddenly receives a vision where he remembers a certain vixen-like entity from his past.

" How could this, how could this return, again...? "

" This curse... " Ragna says that, as the curse of his past somehow returned in the most unthinkable of times.