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It starts with a love deity.

This love deity had lived since the beginning of time along with other much more powerful deities who didn't bother to spend time down in the mortal realm.

He came down to visit total of 15 times. He planned to come down a 16th time, but was stopped by the other deities.

He regretted not being able to help those he left behind.

The first 13 times he'd visited, he encountered someone who had an imbalance of selfish love and selfless love. It was very important to have a balance of the two kinds of love, otherwise it was dangerous to other people.

Too much selfish love, although it is important to think about one's own mental and physical well being, can cause people around oneself to be hurt.

Too much selfless love, although it is important to be considerate of those around oneself, can cause one to slowly burn out.

As the deity to help control the balance, he saw that there was no other way to help anyone who had too much selfish love than to place a curse upon them.

He cursed 13 boys: one boy for each of the first 13 visits.

Each of the 13 boys were cursed to stop aging, and not die. Now, it sounds like a blessing, except now, they were each transformed into and incubus.

Incubus: A love dependent creature who often seduces women, and occasionally men, to feed off their love.

Nothing like teaching someone how to love others by making them dependent on love to survive. Fitting curse, right?

Wrong.

Almost 300 years had passed and none of the 13 boys had broken the curse. But of course, as a love deity, he felt he needed to help them out a little bit.

On his 14th visit, he gathered all the boys he had cursed over the course of 300 years and had them live together. He'd cursed two from China and two in America, and allowed them to live with the rest of the boys in Korea, and maybe, he thought, just maybe, they'd learn to love each other.

Wrong again.

It was on his 15th visit that he realized his mistake.

The 13 incubi had been desperately trying to suck the love out of different people to try and gain the amount of love they needed to break the curse. They only love themselves, they didn't care who got hurt from their actions. They just wanted to be free again.

At first, they'd only try to collect enough love to satisfy their hunger, which left humans barely conscious, but still well enough to continue living. But when they were gathered together, they all unanimously decided that they must collect more than enough to satisfy their hunger.

The incubi would knowingly drain a human out of their love, down to the very last drop. However, they were unaware that love itself was a life force. Without love, it was impossible to live.

They'd killed more than 1000 people collectively trying to break the curse.

So on the love deity's 15th visit, he came to try to use his abilities to lift the curse. But it was a curse not even he could break. He truly wanted them all to learn to love someone other than themselves when he cursed them, so the only way to break the curse was to do just that.

The other deities discovered what the love deity had done. They warned him not to meddle with human lives, let them do what they are meant to do (even if he believed they were meant to love).

They forbid any deity from descending down to the mortal realm, and the love deity lived the rest of his life in shame from the other deities.

So now, his mistake would cause the death of so many people. And he wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

But hopefully his influence still exists on the mortal world.