[Serena, what are you doing?]

“I’m working, aren’t I?”

[The source of evil around you is gradually disappearing, Serena!]

“That’s… good news.”

Though I don’t know why.

As Serena shrugged her shoulders, Nyx shook its head.

[The things you’re doing are excellent! This world will become a little happier and brighter. Once all the evil is eradicated!]

Serena nodded at Nyx’s words as it flipped through the pages.

Nyx nodded with a pleased smile at her additional words of approval.

“But when will this source of evil you’re talking about be completely gone?”

Serena asked.

If it was an indefinite task, it seemed like it should be considered a rather long-term project.

Thanks to Nyx, who was holding a pencil with both hands and writing a letter in the notebook it had put down, the sound of pencil scratching was constantly heard.

Eventually, the notebook was pushed in front of me again.

[The opportunity will come soon! When happiness arrives!]

“Hmm, I see.”

[Let’s hang in there a little longer until then, Serena!]

“…Okay.”

Even as she answered, she felt strangely uneasy.

Serena scratched her cheek and picked up the documents again.

Maybe it’s because everything is ending too smoothly and without problems.

Even when this so-called source of evil appears, it disappears quickly with just a few words, and the people around her are more favorable to her than expected.

It seemed too trivial to be called a ‘source of evil’, and she didn’t know why it appeared or how to deal with it.

It just becomes the source of evil when Nyx says it is.

Suddenly, she looked down at the back of her hand.

The pattern that had been engraved by the contract with the World Tree emerged and shimmered with a black light.

‘It’s good that things are going well, but…’

There’s a strange heaviness in a corner of her heart.

Is it because there has never been anything in Serena’s life that has been resolved this easily?

Things that were easily resolved always rolled back later with bigger problems, becoming a huge snowball that hit her.

‘…Well, it should be fine.’

Serena is a villainess, so she must have a strong bad luck.

She shook her head lightly.

This might be a normal life. Maybe what she had been living until now wasn’t normal at all.

That’s why Serena shrugged her shoulders lightly.

Hop, hop!

Nyx, jumping in place, waved its pencil as if calling Serena.

“What?”

[Feed me!]

The damn rabbit demanded fresh vegetables again today.

Thanks to this, Serena ended up operating a vegetable garden in the greenhouse, so she let out a deep sigh.

‘…Really.’

Even as Serena thought this, she recalled that she hadn’t visited the greenhouse at all today.

“Can’t you just pick them yourself?”

[It’s delicious when you pick them, Serena.]

Nyx showed its notebook with one hand while hopping along after her.

That appearance looked quite insincere.

The pages were tattered.

Because that page was the one Nyx habitually showed whenever Serena told it to eat by itself.

‘But what exactly is that notebook that it doesn’t let go of even when sleeping?’

Moreover, it’s used quite a lot of pages so far, but the notebook doesn’t seem to be replaced.

‘It’s been there since I first opened my eyes.’

Although I haven’t been able to see it because Nyx absolutely doesn’t let anyone touch it.

‘I am curious though.’

Serena thought as she leisurely headed towards the greenhouse.

She wondered if there might be something written there that Nyx wasn’t telling her.

Serena rolled her eyes.

‘Vegetables…’

She smiled slightly.

There was a time when Nyx would let go of the notebook.

That’s during meals. And very occasionally when sleeping.

Serena grinned as she thought that far.

She had always been talented at enchanting others and extracting what she wanted.

Serena thought of several ways to lure Nyx all the way to the greenhouse.

“Nyx, how about this? It’s a vegetable I newly cultivated.”

She said, pulling out a well-grown carrot from one corner and giving it to Nyx.

Nyx’s eyes sparkled.

The rabbit quickly opened its notebook and showed it.

[It looks so delicious!]

Serena smiled slightly.

“And this is a new variety of hay we brought in, what do you think? I dried the roots well.”

[It’s the best!]

“And this is…”

[Everything Serena gives is good!]

All excited, Nyx circled around her with its cute face, puffing out breaths from its nose.

‘Hmm, easy.’

Nyx, looking at the mountain of vegetables piled up in front of it, put down its pencil and notebook to one side and quickly jumped into the mountain of vegetables.

Watching Nyx dive in stylishly, Serena first tended to the herb garden to avoid suspicion.

Managing the herb garden is something she could do with her eyes closed now.

Serena was becoming the god of herbs.

The herb garden she grew, rolling around and matching even 0.1 degrees of humidity and temperature, was truly a source that would make pharmacists’ eyes shine, but anyway, no one knew about it yet.

The reason why the quality of the medicine she makes is good was also because her skill in growing herbs was amazingly excellent.

“Why is this so small? It’d be better to throw it away.”

Of course, Serena wasn’t aware of it.

Because she had witnessed Lemerun, who had seen such size and quality of herbs, saying ‘How dare you bring such trash!’ and burning them all right in front of her eyes.

Because of that, Serena muttered as she tossed away herbs that others would consider normally and decently grown, using them as fertilizer.

When she had finished managing the herb garden to some extent, she heard a purring sound not far away.

‘Finally.’

Serena got up slightly from her seat and slowly approached where Nyx was.

Seeing Nyx sleeping three times happier than usual with a belly swollen three times its normal size, Serena crouched in front of the notebook.

She looked around cautiously, then moved a bit away from Nyx, turned her body, and opened the notebook.

Serena tilted her head as she saw Nyx’s familiar handwriting written on the quickly flipping pages.

‘Is it really just nothing?’

It had bothered her a bit because it was there as if it was asking her to read it when she first opened her eyes in the annex of the Kelahinum mansion.

It was when she was turning the pages forward indifferently.

[It’s not me! This isn’t who I am!]

Familiar words caught her eye. Serena’s eyes widened.

It was text that she couldn’t fail to recognize, having been ingrained in her body, mind, and eyes for quite a long time, even though she had forgotten about it for a while.

‘…Korean?’

Serena took a slight breath.

‘Why Korean…’

Serena glanced back slightly, then quickly flipped the notebook to the very first page.

[Where on earth is this? You say I’m Serena Lavernia? Who on earth is that?]

The handwriting was untidy.

It was close to scribbling, as if written in a hurry, and accordingly, it was quite hard to read.

[So you’re saying I’m inside a novel? I’m the villainess… Come to think of it, I think I’ve read a novel with a name like this before…]

The writing, which seemed to have been written slowly as if talking to oneself, was so messy that one had to squint and bring their face close to read it.

[Contractor? Come on. What kind of dog dream is this?]

That handwriting seemed to be unique to her.

The handwriting, close to illegible and even smudged from age, took some time to decipher.

[You say you’ll grant one wish? You say I can return to my original world… That’s a relief, but…]

Serena’s eyes widened as she read through the notebook.

[If it’s a novel anyway, and it feels like a game, I guess it wouldn’t be bad to use it as a stress reliever.]

It is indeed inside a novel, but… who on earth is this person?

No, if they said villainess, it might be herself.

‘Is this the person who possessed my body?’

The tone was quite light, perhaps because they were younger than expected.

[A fiancé and husband at this age, what’s that? It’s unpleasant.]

[His face is quite handsome. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad?]

[Ah, cancel that. He nags too much. I can’t live with someone with such a bad personality. Anyway, he’s a character who will kill this body someday, so I was told to hate him.]

She wrote as if disgusted, then seemed satisfied, and then disgusted again.

‘…So it was because of the nagging.’

Serena unwittingly learned why the person who had used her body didn’t get along well with Magnus.

‘…He does nag a lot.’

Thinking about Magnus’s image in the original story, if you consider him grabbing the back of her neck and pushing her into the bathroom while babbling about a pigsty, certainly…

He had a somewhat annoying side.

Serena thought, without any concern, words that would greatly disappoint Magnus if he knew.