I am a positive person!

So I couldn’t waste any more time meaninglessly sinking into depression and despair.

But the truth was, I was reluctant to return to my room.

I lingered in front of the door for a long time.

‘Should I just run away?’

I thought, gripping the doorknob.

‘Am I really dead on Earth, as the diary said?’

The body the diary mentioned must be referring to my physical form, right?

Then where did the real Rose go, and why did I wake up in her body?

Did Morisias summon me?

‘Why?’

I swallowed hard and opened the door.

Anyway, what’s done is done.

Now I had to face the problem.

There was no need to blindly believe everything the diary said, but if I really had died on Earth as it claimed, I had to make a choice.

Either stay here.

Or find a way to return to Earth as ‘Rose Estanya’.

“This is driving me crazy.”

With a creaking sound, the doorknob I was holding suddenly fell to the floor with a thud.

I stared blankly at the fallen doorknob.

For a moment, the scene of Calix’s dramatic entrance this morning flashed through my mind.

He had spectacularly smashed the door.

“Ah… his strength is way too much.”

The thought of Ruel replacing the fallen doorknob with a troubled expression made me feel dizzy.

The room was a complete mess. It looked as if a bomb had gone off.

Yet, amidst all this, the diary was sitting perfectly intact on the desk.

As irritation surged through me, numerous scenarios unfolded in my mind.

Was an evil spirit derived from Morisias dwelling in that diary?

Or was it just a tutorial book prepared by Morisias for me, who had suddenly possessed Rose’s body?

‘First, I need to figure out why this situation happened.’

I never imagined there would come a time in my life when I’d have to seriously contemplate things like fate, gods, and possessions.

I tugged hard at my cumbersome pink hair.

The stinging scalp made me feel like my head was working a bit more properly.

‘The vacation Calix gave me is only one week.’

I had to decide.

What to do from now on, that is.

Calix said he would arrange a carriage for me.

So changing the destination was not an option.

I had to go to Rose’s hometown no matter what.

“I might not live out my natural lifespan because of this.”

Sighing deeply, I stood in front of the diary again.

No matter if it was an evil god or dark magic, I had to face this diary.

It seemed like all the answers were here.

“Answer me. What do you want me to do?”

I opened the diary.

The diary had returned to its original state overnight; the messy Korean and English that had filled it were gone, leaving only Posnian.

And the problematic Mellory kept appearing.

Mellory said.

The temple of Isis, the goddess of fate, is hidden somewhere in the Teheran Forest on the way to Prongsis.

I frowned.

Prongsis is Rose’s hometown.

But suddenly the temple of the goddess of fate is on the way to her hometown?

Naturally, I felt very uneasy.

It felt like I was being played by the diary.

It was too contrived to be a coincidence.

‘Mr. Mellory wants me to visit the temple.’

It was frustrating. Where had that damn computer system gone again, and why was it back to Mellory’s nonsense?

Mr. Mellory wants me to know everything.

I crossed my arms and stared silently at the diary spouting nonsense.

“It’s not Mellory, it’s Morisias, right?”

The diary was silent for a moment at my words.

After a few minutes passed, Posnian words appeared in the diary again.

Mr. Mellory is not the great god of darkness.

My eyes widened. Not Morisias?

Above all, this was the first time the diary had responded so directly to my question.

Mr. Mellory is on my side.

Well, well! I frowned deeply and pointed the relatively intact Hailium flower model from Calix’s gifts at the diary.

“This makes Korean appear, right?”

The Korean system window that appeared yesterday treated Mellory as a virus.

And it called the diary a ‘conductor’.

It also kindly explained that to install the antivirus, external interfering energy must be completely blocked.

In fact, when I removed Kamesis’s sacred objects from around the diary, ‘Fabian’s’ infection rate decreased, while ‘Mellory’s’ infection rate increased.

‘It’s highly likely that the system message appeared because Kamesis’s sacred objects, which are incompatible with Morisias, came into contact with the diary.’

Then what exactly are the identities of the system and Mellory?

I stared at the diary, still frowning.

Let’s go to the temple of the goddess of fate.

Whether I pointed Kamesis’s sacred objects at it or not, the diary repeated the same words.

Should I follow the diary’s words? Is it a trap? But what kind of trap? No matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand the diary’s purpose.

No, I can’t understand Morisias’s purpose.

‘What does he want to achieve through me? Surely not resurrection?’

But how could I be of any help in such a grand plan as resurrecting a sealed god?

If he was going to possess someone anyway, why not the president, or a minister, or even a pastor of a large church? Why me?

‘Because Rose’s job is similar to mine?’

Even so, it was strange.

I’m a hotel intern. If they were going to bring someone, bringing the manager would have been much more beneficial.

In the end, I closed the diary without any gain.

It seemed like I wouldn’t get any answers no matter how much I looked at it.

I held my throbbing head and stared blankly into space.

***

“Why is everyone so interested in others?”

“Rose isn’t others.”

Milla said, sitting in front of me and poking a roasted tomato with her fork.

I stared at Milla with undisguised shock, my mouth agape.

“It’s all over the Crown Prince’s Palace. They say His Highness broke down your door and barged in this morning.”

I smiled bitterly at Milla’s words.

“Does no one think he came to punish me…?”

But Milla shook her head with her characteristic innocent face.

“If he had punished Rose, would Rose be eating with me?”

Unable to find an answer to this situation, I covered my head and just stared down at my tray.

Should I just dunk my face in the soup?

The gazes directed at me have been unusual since earlier.

It’s as if I’ve become a celebrity.

“Are you really not involved with His Highness at all, Rose?”

Milla asked with a raised corner of her mouth, looking intrigued.

“Why would I ruin someone’s life? I’m telling you, there’s nothing.”

I sighed heavily and thought.

“Milla, is Aaron very busy these days?”

“No. It’s not like there are frequent events at the Crown Prince’s Palace anyway. The kitchen is relaxed.”

It seems like the rumors I spread, even selling my bracelet, didn’t last even a week.

“Then I’ll talk to Aaron, so can you free up his schedule a bit?”

“Why?”

“His Highness gave me a vacation because it’s the anniversary of my parents’ death.”

At my words, Milla’s expression twitched strangely.

Wondering why she was acting like that, I tilted my head, and Milla clapped her hands towards me and said, “Rose, that’s amazing. You’re going to your hometown with Aaron?”

“Why? Is it strange?”

Milla nodded without a moment’s hesitation.

“A trip without being married? That says it all. Rose, aren’t you going to get married? Rumors will spread quickly.”

“Oh, that’s fine, isn’t it? Then the rumors about His Highness and me being in that kind of relationship will completely disappear, right?”

“…Rose, that’s not it.”

Milla looked at me with a tearful expression.

“I’ll have to ask Aaron first.”

“Rose, logically speaking, there’s no way Aaron would allow that.”

It was then. Milla’s expression hardened, and a long shadow fell over my head.

I slowly turned my head to look up.

“Huh? Rose is going on a trip? With whom?”

I looked at Aaron with a grin.

***

Clang. The sound of Milla’s fork falling onto her plate was heard right in front of me.

I looked down at Milla.

“You.”

“Rose, are you crazy?”

Aaron asked me in a tone of disbelief.

“Huh?”

Did, did I do something wrong?

I reflexively looked at Aaron.

“…How many days?”

“A week.”

“Are they giving you days off?”

“Probably?”

Milla gaped in astonishment, unable to continue speaking.

“I want to go!”

Aaron shouted with sparkling eyes.

“I, I, I want to go on a trip with Rose! Teiron! Did you hear? I’m on vacation!”

For a moment, I almost grabbed him by the collar and threw him out of the dining hall.

“….”

Teiron, who was in the dining hall, dropped his ladle on the floor. Clang-

As the sound of metal hitting the tile floor echoed, the dining hall began to buzz wildly.

“I forgot that Aaron is an even higher-dimensional idiot than Rose.”

Milla put her hand to her forehead.