Chapter 12 - The Diary (4)
The Diary (4)
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Wasn't it possible to change the future by writing directly in the diary?
I had discovered that possibility.
'Then I have to test it right away…!'
I spread the diary open on the desk.
What should I try?
"First, tomorrow is the homeroom teacher's dead end, so…."
• • •
[ㅁㅁMonth ㅁㅁDay]
Mother smiled
• • •
Probably, the mother anomaly attached to the teacher's back had smiled.
This was the dead end trigger, as I and all the gallery members were speculating.
If so, what if I erased this diary entry?
I immediately opened the ink bottle.
And instead of a quill, I took out a thick brush, dipped it in ink, and painted over the single line of the diary.
• • •
[ㅁㅁMonth ㅁㅁDay]
■■■■ ■■■
• • •
Would the future change?
As I watched the diary for a moment with a tense face.
Ssssk….
• • •
[ㅁㅁMonth ㅁㅁDay]
Mother smiled
• • •
The ink painted over the diary entry disappeared without a trace, and the original dead end phrase appeared again.
'Well, there's no way it would be this easy.'
There were still many things to do, so it was okay.
Next was the pen.
I added text directly under the diary entry.
• • •
But I was mistaken
Mother did not smile
Mother suddenly disappeared after the morning meeting was over
• • •
"With this…!"
After writing the text, I stared at the diary just like before.
Unlike when I painted over it a moment ago, it didn't disappear immediately.
But…
Ssssk!
• • •
[ㅁㅁMonth ㅁㅁDay]
Mother smiled
• • •
In the end, the content returned to its original state.
The text I wrote disappeared, and only the single line of the diary remained again.
"This doesn't work either…."
Was it even possible to change the future?
Maybe the diary just restored itself, and it couldn't affect the future at all?
"……."
As I rested my chin on my hand and thought for a moment, I wrote a simple single line above the dead end phrase.
• • •
I didn't wear my glasses today.
• • •
It was an insignificant single line.
A trivial story that had nothing to do with the mother.
But this one got a reaction.
Ssssk!
"Huh…?"
• • •
[ㅁㅁMonth ㅁㅁDay]
I didn't wear my glasses today
For some reason, I felt like it….
Why could that be
I realized the reason
Mother's smiling face looks blurry
I didn't want to see this, I guess
• • •
"It worked…!"
The future had changed.
It was a trivial thing, but anyway, Ellie, who usually wore glasses, didn't wear them just because of the text I added.
Did it work as long as it wasn't related to the mother?
"……."
I stared at the diary for a moment.
And I added another phrase.
• • •
For some reason, I felt a strong impulse
I took Ares to a quiet place, lifted my skirt, and showed him what was underneath
• • •
Ssssk!
The sentence immediately disappeared, and only the diary content I had just modified remained.
"Tch…."
It seemed certain that there were restrictions on modifying the diary's contents.
What on earth were the conditions….
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: The future is changing!
But it doesn't change just as I write it.
1. Painting over the diary content - paint disappears
2. Writing that the mother smiling was a mistake - text disappears
3. Writing that she came without wearing glasses - diary content is modified
4. Writing that she showed her panties to Ares - text disappears
I've tried this so far
• • •
Comments
[That last selfish desire is so fucking wild]
[StudentCouncilTerrorist: Would've been awesome if it worked, what a shame lolololol]
ㄴ[Ares: What are you talking about, are you a pervert??]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: ???????]
[NightRat: The selfish desire is whatever…, for now, the attempt itself is good]
ㄴ[NightRat: It's certain that the future can be changed]
ㄴ[NightRat: But it seems there are restrictions on futures that Ellie is unlikely to act on]
ㄴ[Ares: Do I have to solve it while changing it to a future that Ellie is likely to act on??]
ㄴ[NightRat: ㅇㅇ for now, try everything that comes to mind]
Things that Ellie was likely to do.
And things that could plausibly happen around Ellie.
I had to modify the diary and change the future within those constraints.
"This is going to be another tiring night…."
I rolled up my sleeves and picked up the pen.
Just as NightRat said, I would write down whatever I could for now.
The night was long, after all.
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: So fucking tired….
Only got 2 hours of sleep
So proud of myself for waking up
• • •
Comments
[Hikikomori: Did you solve the mother thing??]
ㄴ[Ares: Nah, she's still smiling]
ㄴ[Hikikomori: So the homeroom teacher is finally going….]
[NightRat: What tests did you run??]
ㄴ[Ares: For now, things Ellie can do directly, and things that can happen to Ellie, etc.]
ㄴ[NightRat: What are the things that can happen]
ㄴ[Ares: There's all sorts of things, like falling over]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: You made her fall over by modifying the diary?? You fucking sadistic pervert;;;]
ㄴ[Coming from that bastard Ares, it really does seem like sadistic perversion lolololol]
ㄴ[Ares: No, falling over is an example, you crazy bastards]
• • •
Looking at it this way, they talked as if they were normal and I was the weird one.
I was absolutely certain.
If those bastards were in my situation, they would have definitely acted the same way.
'Let's see…, then it's about time she arrived….'
As I was checking the gallery post and waiting at my desk in the classroom.
Drrrk!
"Hah, hah, I-I'm not late…."
Ellie came in through the back door of the classroom, breathing heavily.
'Arrived with exactly 3 minutes to spare…, just like the diary.'
Ellie then returned to her seat.
And after looking around, her eyes met mine.
"U-gh…."
She then covered her chest and slightly turned her body.
"Hmm…."
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: Results of the diary modifications written during the night
1. Arriving just in the nick of time with 3 minutes to spare - Success
2. Coming without wearing glasses - Success
3. Forgetting her bra - Success
4. Accidentally getting splashed with water - Failure
5. A friend she's not close to talks to Ellie - Success
Being late works, but getting splashed with water doesn't
Why?
• • •
Comments
[LunchboxCollector: So Ellie is braless right now???]
ㄴ[Ares: I guess so?? She was covering her chest]
ㄴ[LunchboxCollector: Wow, what a fucking devil]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: To think he even designed the water splash on top of that;;;]
ㄴ[Hikikomori: That diary, it feels like it's fallen into the hands of the one person who should never have it lolololol]
ㄴ[Ares: No, for real, what else am I supposed to test then???;;;]
ㄴ[Why didn't you do no-panty]
ㄴ[Ares: I can't confirm that one]
ㄴ[This bastard's moves are on a different level for real ㄷㄷㄷ]
• • •
For now, to summarize, it was like this.
I could induce Ellie's mistakes.
I could also adjust the actions of the people around Ellie to some extent.
However, I couldn't suddenly cause things to happen around her as if manipulating fate.
'With these conditions, how the hell do I solve this ghost story…?'
I understood the method, but the solution was not clearly drawn.
And just then, NightRat's comment was posted.
ㄴ[NightRat: …….]
ㄴ[NightRat: For now, make sure to carefully observe the homeroom teacher's final moments]
As expected of NightRat.
Compared to the other gallery members who were making a fuss, he coolly presented a direction.
In many ways, he was the most helpful gallery member.
And just then.
Drrrk!
"Alright~, good morning."
The door opened and the teacher came into the classroom.
And of course, Ellie's mother also followed him into the classroom.
However, there was one thing that was different from yesterday.
"……."
She was smiling.
Not a gentle smile.
But with a somehow creepy smile.
She was watching him from behind the homeroom teacher.
"No one absent today either, except for the three? Alright, class president."
And so, the homeroom teacher's last day began.
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: …Ellie won't eat with me
Why
She ate with me yesterday
Today, even though I invited her first, she refused
• • •
Comments
[StudentCouncilTerrorist: Why do you think]
[This bastard is so shameless it's funny lolol]
[Hikikomori: Is the homeroom teacher okay??]
ㄴ[Ares: He's fine]
ㄴ[Ares: Nothing's different from usual, other than the mother smiling]
Unlike what I had worried about, nothing particular happened today.
No unfortunate event specifically happened to the teacher.
The teacher didn't go crazy and start acting strangely.
The day passed peacefully without any such incidents.
I was rejected for lunch by Ellie, and ate a lunchbox with Lana.
I also talked with Levin and subtly approached Ellie to talk to her.
A day no different from usual passed by.
And
The time became after school.
"Aren't you being kind of, kind of proactive today? Ares."
"What is."
"Why~, today you asked me to eat together first. And you asked to go home together. Hehe, you're cute."
"……."
Poke, poke!
Lana smiled cutely and poked my arm with her finger.
I felt a sense of embarrassment and shut my mouth.
Currently, I was going home with Lana.
There was no particular reason….
No, to be honest, there was a reason.
For some reason, when this girl was next to me, I felt strangely at ease.
I used to be anxious to death whenever I was alone with her. But after getting caught up in another ghost story, I found myself feeling strangely at ease by her side.
Especially since today was the homeroom teacher's D-day.
But…
Strangely, the day passed without any particular incident.
Why was that?
'Then what was the "Mother smiled" in the diary about…? And the teacher's mention disappearing from the diary after that…, was it just because nothing happened…?'
And so, with questions about the mother anomaly in my head, I headed to the dormitory.
And
"So, later on~."
"……."
"Ares? Are you listening?"
"……."
"What the! You're not even listening to me! What are you looking at?"
"……."
"Oh? It's the teacher, isn't it? …What is it, Ares? Is it because you see a female ghost behind the teacher again?"
"……."
While walking with Lana, I spotted the homeroom teacher passing in front of us.
Lana's reaction was one of complete ignorance.
"Lana…, the teacher. …How does he look?"
I asked Lana carefully.
"Huh? How does he look? ……He looks normal?"
"Specifically, how…?"
"What's with you all of a sudden? Ummm…, just…."
And Lana observed the teacher carefully, then spoke as if it were no big deal.
"Is he in a good mood? He's smiling, isn't he?"
"……."
"Why, hehe, don't tell me you really see a ghost behind the teacher? Are you scared? Should I hug you?"
"……."
That was right.
The reason I had my mouth shut was indeed because I saw a ghost.
But it was a little different.
Because the ghost was not behind the teacher, but in front.
"Lana, can't you hear it?"
"Huh? Hear what?"
Unlike her, who asked so nonchalantly.
—It was being heard clearly in my ears.
"Help meeeee!! Someone please help meeeee!!"
The voice of the homeroom teacher, twisting his head from side to side and shouting at his surroundings
And just then.
I made eye contact with the teacher.
"Ah, aah, Ares-ssss!!"
"……."
"U-gh, ugh, uwaaaaaaah!! Hurry!!! Please—!! Please help me!!! Someone save me!! Ugh-aaaaaaaaaah!!!"
"……."
"Come on, let's go? This noona will hold your hand."
"Ares…!!! Uuuugh-aaaaaaaaah!!! Please!! Someone stop me!!! You were right!!! A woman is attached to meeeee!!!"
"……."
The teacher shouted at me with a deathly pale face.
While shouting, he was walking, following the ghost.
Just as she had walked behind the teacher until now.
And so, the teacher followed the smiling Ellie's mother.
And headed towards the academy's school gate.
"Do something about this woman-aaaaaaaaaah!!!"
No one other than me could hear the teacher's voice.
And so, he passed through the school gate in the setting sun of the academy.
And walked into the dark forest.
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: Final moments witnessed
The teacher and the mother switched places
He was dragged outside the academy
• • •
Comments
[ForGlory: I'm not really getting the full picture from just the text]
ㄴ[ForGlory: Can't you upload a video??]
ㄴ[Ares: ??? How do I upload a video]
ㄴ[ForGlory: You can do that with Cocoons. Wait, I'll tell you how]
ㄴ[Ares: ??????]
ㄴ[Ares: Why are you telling me this now???]
ㄴ[ForGlory: We didn't have a reason to use it until now lolol]
ㄴ[Ares: You son of a bitch]
While lying on my dormitory bed with a heavy heart and browsing the gallery.
I learned a function I had never expected.
'So this is possible too.'
I could use photos as a matter of course, but it was also possible to upload videos to the gallery using Cocoons.
Roughly 50 Cocoons to upload a 5-minute video.
1 Cocoon was 1 won, and the Cocoons distributed each month were 2 million Cocoons.
The video was uploaded by extracting my memory.
The Cocoons were automatically consumed from my wallet.
And so, I uploaded the scene of the homeroom teacher being dragged away from my point of view to the gallery.
• • •
Author
Author: Ares
Title: The Teacher's Final Moments
[Video]
Fuck
Now it's my turn
Comments
[The screams are bone-chilling;;;]
[No, for real, that thing is so fucking scary, and you fondled it??]
ㄴ[LunchboxCollector: At this point, you honestly have to give him credit for it ㄷㄷㄷ]
[ForGlory: It was at sunset, seems like that's the time limit]
[StudentCouncilTerrorist: Got a feel for the solution??]
ㄴ[Ares: No, not at all yet]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: You're fucked]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: Doesn't the mother attach to you in two days??]
ㄴ[Ares: That's why I'm getting so fucking anxious right now]
• • •
The reality of the situation I was in hit me viscerally all over again.
A precarious situation where death was up to my chin.
That was the reality I was in.
'I keep forgetting because of school life during the day….'
When I hang out with cute female students like Levin, Lana, or Ellie, I end up forgetting the horror of this thing called an anomaly.
And so, on the night the teacher was dragged away.
I fell asleep feeling the horror of the night for the first time in a long while.
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: Thinking of not going to the cafe for now
The weekend starts tomorrow
According to the diary, I'm supposed to invite Ellie to a cafe, right
Ellie confirms the mother is attached to my back after we arrive at the cafe
If I stay out of Ellie's sight during the weekend, I won't be written in the diary
Then couldn't my future be changed too??
• • •
Comments
[NightRat: It's not certain, but it seems worth a try]
ㄴ[Ares: OK, then I'll just hole up in my room during the weekend]
ㄴ[NightRat: But still, keep checking the diary and trying to modify it]
ㄴ[Ares: Of course]
And so, the next day.
"Mr. Blen is suddenly taking the day off today, so I will be the temporary homeroom teacher for the time being. Alright, class president."
"Yes, ma'am. Everyone, attention. Bow."
""Good morning!""
The homeroom teacher had vanished and did not appear at school.
And so, the 4th day of the diary began, and as planned, I did not invite Ellie to the cafe.
Just in case Ellie might invite me, I subtly avoided her for the whole day.
Fortunately, Ellie did not approach me.
It seemed she was also feeling anxious about the fact that the teacher had disappeared yesterday.
'If it could just be resolved like this…, that would be great….'
The homeroom teacher's screams from yesterday echoed in my ears.
Two days left.
If I couldn't solve the diary ghost story within two days.
The next one to be dragged away would be me.
'Please….'
And so, I spent the day with a prayer in my heart.
And in the end, I returned to the dormitory without exchanging a single word with Ellie.
I immediately checked the diary first.
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: Did it work?!!?!?
[Photo]
My story is gone from Saturday's diary!!!
The single line about mother smiling is gone from Sunday's diary too!!!
Did it work???
• • •
Comments
[Hikikomori: This easily???]
[RedNightSky: I hope this is it]
ㄴ[RedNightSky: But honestly, we'll probably have to wait until tomorrow to know for sure]
• • •
Ellie's diary had changed.
Instead of the story of the mother anomaly being attached to me like before, a diary of her spending a normal weekend was written.
And of course, after the 6th day, it was a blank page.
'Is it solved…?'
Of course, I knew that I wouldn't know until tomorrow.
But as much as I had been anxious, I went to bed with anticipation.
And
"……."
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: Nope, fuck
[Photo]
I opened my eyes and she was looking down at me from beside the bed;;;
Almost passed out right after waking up, you bastard
• • •
Comments
[ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ]
[So fucking scary;;;;]
[It's even creepier because I saw that video yesterday….]
[NightRat: In the end, it seems the only way is to solve it by messing with the diary]
ㄴ[Ares: I'm fucked…, I really don't know]
ㄴ[NightRat: Don't give up and keep racking your brain]
ㄴ[NightRat: We'll think about it too]
• • •
"……."
I clenched my fist after seeing NightRat's comment.
"Yeah…, there's still one day left…."
It wasn't too late.
I had won on the last night during Lana's knock-knock-knock incident, too.
I could do it.
I wasn't alone.
Just as NightRat said, everyone else was thinking of a way together with me.
"Alright…."
I got up from the bed and faced the Ellie's mother anomaly.
Unlike yesterday, she was looking at me with an inhuman, expressionless face.
Just like when she was attached to the homeroom teacher, she was staring intently at me.
"Let's do this…."
I wouldn't give up.
I would keep racking my brain and find the answer.
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: For now, the results of a few tests
1. If I just grab and pull her, she moves within a certain radius
2. If I lie on the bed, I can make her lie on the bed
3. If I make her lie down and then move, she suddenly appears standing behind me. ← Fucking scary
4. Her clothes come off
5. She has no body odor
6. There's saliva in her mouth ← odorless
• • •
Comments
[NightRat: No, you fuck, don't rack your brain in that direction;;;]
ㄴ[I really can't keep up with this bastard's way of thinking lolololol]
ㄴ[Is this the same guy who was scared until yesterday lolololol]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: For real, at this point, you have to give him credit. It's certain that this bastard has conviction in his libido]
ㄴ[Ares: No, I have to try something, at least;;;]
ㄴ[Hikikomori: Who thinks of stripping the clothes off the anomaly bastard that's going to kill you lolololol]
ㄴ[LunchboxCollector: It's a damn good thing Ellie didn't see this….]