"That's.. That's person back?!" muttered Ana stood up suddenly from her seat.
Ana walked back and forth in the small room while again muttering the words she was thinking about.
"How did that's person get back? Do we just have to think clearly about the destination in order to appear in a clear place?"
Ana begins to think about the reason the person who has the diary can return to the castle, when she again finds the mysterious path she will try what the person in the book does so that she can be sure of her guess.
Suddenly Ana's eyes brightened, as if she was thinking about something, she sat back down and started reading the diary again eagerly while muttering, "Maybe there's a clue as to why the mysterious path suddenly disappeared."
Ana turned the next page and read it.
[July 22, XX
I told my mom what happened, but she said it was impossible, the path was designed so that its purpose changed every time it was used.
If so, what happened to me? Why can I go back when I think of the castle?]
Ana open the next sheet, the diary looks worn but well maintained and also the diary is very thick, each sheet is only short words but the meaning is very much.
[July 23, XX
I'm afraid. This strange incident confused me. I'm a curious girl, so I decided to do some research.
My target is that mysterious path, that path is a path made with ancient magic. I want to learn ancient magic but we don't have much information about ancient magic.
For the sake of my goal, I will try to approach that path again.]
The next sheet is opened again.
[July 30, XX
I made up my mind. It took a week to do it.
I'm ready to approach that mysterious path again. I brought enough supplies, afraid that something bad would happen.
I will report the result if my guess is correct.]
The next page will still be on July 30, XX.
[Today is still the same day and the same date, July 30 XX.
I brought my diary with me so I could write down my experiences right away.
I did arrive back in this strange forest, I don't know anything else, but for me this mysterious path only has two destinations, one to the forest and the other back to the castle.
I decided to go back, this time I really thought about the castle clearly and also said out loud that I wanted to go home.
And here I am. Back to the castle again.
Looks like I don't have to be so afraid of that mysterious path anymore, the goal is clear and I can go home safely.]
Ana opens the next page of the diary and the person writes in the following month which means he or she doesn't write the previous day, the same goes when that person sets his or her heart for a week.
Ever since he or she discovered the mysterious path, that person seemed to have only written about the mysterious path.
[August 01, XX
I used that mysterious path boldly. I returned to that strange forest and this time I explored it.
I marked the nearest tree there with a rope and tied the rope around my waist. This is a forest I don't recognize, I can't risk getting lost and not being able to return.]
Ana stopped reading the diary and mumbled, "This guy is quite smart, if he or she lived in the present, I would really like to be friends with him or her."
Then the girl resumed reading activities.
[This forest is a little scary. But with this rope I feel safe.
Hmm...]
Ana raised her eyebrows, what's with the hmm at the end? The person who owns this book seems to be writing on the book while walking slowly. He or she wrote in a book like writing a report.
Ana becomes suspicious, is this just an ordinary diary or a hidden report under the guise of a diary?
[I saw something. I will continue writing later.]
It was written on the next page of the diary. This sentence makes Ana even more sure that this person wrote a report for someone, but for whom?
[I'm afraid.
When I saw something in the forest, I got scared and immediately returned to the castle via a mysterious path. But I always feel restless.
What if… what if that thing saw me and chased after me??]
The person's handwriting was shaking and starting from this sheet, he or she no longer wrote the date, that person just wrote what he or she wanted to write every time without saying the exact time when he wrote it.
His or her writing is also messy and disorganized, he or she writes in any part of the book he or she wants.
[I don't dare to use that mysterious path anymore.
I just want a moment of freedom because I've always been cooped up in this castle, but freedom is scary.]
It was the small inscription that person had made at the top of the book.
[I found a book that explains that mysterious path as well as that forest.
That path is an ancient magic that sends people to different destinations and for those who desire freedom, they will be sent to that forest.]
"Freedom?" Ana murmured in a questioning tone.
If that's true, is she one of those who seek freedom? Is deep inside Ana dissatisfied with her current life?
Ana stopped thinking about those useless things, she only concluded that her strong desire to occasionally get out of the castle, was misinterpreted by the mysterious path as a desire for freedom.
Ana went back to reading the writing in the diary.
[That forest is called the Red Moon forest. A forest that was famous in its time, it was famous among werewolves and their hunters, where all kinds of miracles are said to have happened there.]
"Werewolves?" mumbled Ana furrowing her brow.
In the present, when werewolves and their hunters live in hiding, Ana, who knows almost nothing about her family, has no idea about the existence of werewolves.
The girl only thought that werewolves were legends that lived in ancient times, thousands or hundreds of years ago.
"Then...a miracle? Really...that strange invisible wall can be said to be one of them, right?" Ana muttered again still commenting on the writing in the diary.
She began to read the writing in the diary again.
[I found a way to seal that mysterious path.
No. Actually, the incident that scared me made the path sealed.]
"What does this mean?" muttered Ana looking deep in thought.
[How should I put it, a book says that if the user is in danger, the path will automatically close and become unusable until the user is no longer in danger.]
Ana widened her eyes and mumbled, "If this writing is true, that means I'm in danger and the path is completely sealed? I'm in danger? But what danger?"
Ana paced back and forth, thinking about this sudden information.
"Wait, that person said the path would be opened again if the danger no longer threatened the user right? But…but the path hasn't opened yet, ha… haven't I been in danger all along? For 5 years?? And the danger is still targeting me??" said Ana confused.
Ana suddenly felt goosebumps when she thought that she had been in danger all this time and until now she was still in danger. Ana was very scared.
What danger is targeting her? Was it the boy she accidentally met in the forest? Was the boy named Peter that she had been missing all this time a dangerous person?