“Mmm... This should be enough, right?”

Standing in front of the large refrigerator, Camilla carefully went over the countless notes plastered all over it one more time.

“I wrote down where Mother’s columbarium is too.”

She had also written out, one by one, information on bank deposits and insurance policies that could not be found without looking them up separately.

She’ll know the rest about as well as I do.

Hadn’t Isia also seen this same life repeat itself countless times while she was here? She would know roughly everything that truly mattered.

“...”

After slowly looking around the house one last time, Camilla let out a short laugh.

“This is strange.”

It felt odd. This was unquestionably the place she had lived in for a long time, and every single thing here was something she had chosen and arranged herself, and yet...

“Why does it feel so awkward?”

She had felt it from the moment she stepped back into this house.

An odd sense that her heart would not settle, that even though it was familiar, it somehow felt alien... she could not shake that strange feeling.

So this isn’t my home anymore?

At the feeling that everything was telling her to leave this place as soon as possible, Camilla laughed briefly and looked through the house one final time.

Then one of the notes stuck to the refrigerator caught her eye in particular.

“Choi Sihyeon...”

A conversation she had once had with a junior actress she had grown fairly close to some time ago rose back to mind.

‘Oh my! Senior Sihyeon is staring at you again, unni.’

‘Really? He’s glaring at me again?’

‘Huh? Glaring?’

‘That man’s specialty is glaring at me.’

Unlike the junior, whose eyes had been sparkling, Camilla herself had felt absolutely nothing.

She had only thought that someone had finally noticed that Choi Sihyeon was always looking at her with those fierce eyes, and that had shown plainly on her face.

In other words, she had looked thoroughly unimpressed.

It had been the kind of conversation bound to come up sooner or later. Before, she had always been the one avoiding Choi Sihyeon, so no one would have known, but now there was no reason for her to keep—

‘That’s ridiculous!’

‘Hm?’

‘Why would Senior Sihyeon glare at you? Even right now, he’s looking at you with an incredibly gentle expression.’

‘...What?’

But the junior had reacted in outright shock and shaken her head hard.

What came next had been absurd.

That... that look is gentle?

‘Senior Sihyeon is famous for not even sparing a glance at people he doesn’t like. Do you know how many people get treated like they don’t even exist? You didn’t know that?’

How was I supposed to know that?

When Camilla made a dubious face, the junior actress had even covered her mouth and looked distressed.

‘Goodness... I feel so bad for Senior Sihyeon...’

No, why in the world was anyone pitying Choi Sihyeon all of a sudden?

The funniest part was that the other actors nearby had reacted in much the same way.

“Hm.”

Camilla could not take her eyes off the note stuck to the refrigerator.

“No way...”

Choi Sihyeon, that man, liked Isia, li—

“Forget it.”

What was the point of her thinking about that now? 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

“...”

Camilla reached out and peeled one of the notes off the refrigerator.

Choi Sihyeon ➜ Person to watch. Unpleasant bastard.

She stared at what she had written for a moment, then crumpled up the note and tossed it into the trash.

“You can decide that for yourself.”

No matter how she thought about it, this was not something she should meddle in.

After all, the person who would keep living here from now on, no matter what anyone said, was Isia.

“Well, then. I should get going.”

There really was not much time left now. Before long, she would be sent back to the other side.

“But before that...”

Remembering the one final thing she had to do before returning, Camilla immediately set off.

*****

On the bed set up in one corner of the hospital room, a small little girl was fast asleep. As if exhausted from a long hospital stay, her face was clearly marked by sickness.

“...”

And approaching that child carefully was none other than Camilla.

She examined the room thoroughly. Since the child had been moved into a private room at her instruction, it did not seem like too bad a place to stay.

I don’t see a caregiver.

No one was in the room. Perhaps they had gone out to eat.

She had heard that the grandmother, the child’s only guardian, had been working day and night to pay the hospital bills ever since the girl ended up like this.

“Damn it.”

Didn’t people say misfortune traveled with more misfortune?

She had also heard that the apartment Yaeun and her grandmother had been renting was on the verge of forcing them out because the landlord had changed. The cruelty of reality left a bitter ache in her chest.

“This isn’t some melodrama from the eighties.”

Wasn’t life throwing a child far too many problems for one little body to bear?

Silently, Camilla cursed a god she did not even believe in.

I did leave Isia a note...

She could have solved something like the housing problem herself, but she had not.

Because the one who would continue a relationship with Yaeun from now on was Isia.

And it was not a small amount of money. If she gave that kind of help, there would be no way for Yaeun to separate Camilla from that relationship.

So that choice had to belong to Isia alone. Entirely and completely.

“You’re definitely going to be happy. I’ll always be rooting for you.”

Even if Isia chose not to give her financial help, that was fine.

The Yaeun Camilla had watched over was a strong child, and thoughtful too. That was exactly why she had kept noticing her, why she had kept worrying about her.

Camilla stepped a little closer to the sleeping girl.

Wasn’t there at least one thing she could do for the child right now?

Camilla placed both hands on top of the girl’s head.

Then she closed her eyes and wished with all her heart.

That every bit of pain this child carried would disappear.

“Please help her, Arena.”

Camilla was trying to heal the child with holy power here and now.

Arena, who had accepted her as a follower, was not a god of this world, so there was no guarantee that the holy power Camilla had received from her would work here too.

But hadn’t Havel, the reaper, said that all dimensions were connected?

And they had in fact been watching over Isia’s situation and helping her, so surely...

Fwoosh!

As she stroked the child’s head with a little anxiety in her heart, Camilla’s eyes widened at the brilliant light that suddenly burst forth.

Light spilling from her fingertips.

That sacred glow wrapped itself around the child’s body in an instant, then slowly faded away.

“It worked.”

It was not her imagination.

Looking at the child, whose complexion was clearly better than before, Camilla let out a long sigh of relief.

Her chubby cheeks used to be so pretty.

Camilla gently stroked the girl’s cheek, now reduced to little more than skin and bone.

“Mmm...”

The child reacted to the touch.

Slowly opening her eyes, she looked at Camilla standing in front of her and blinked.

Then her eyes gradually grew round as lanterns, and her mouth fell open.

“Sia...?”

At that call, Camilla smiled faintly and stroked her cheek once more. The child’s mouth opened even wider at the touch.

“How did you... get here?”

“To visit you.”

At that short answer, a soft smile rose to the child’s lips. As if she was deeply happy to see a face she had missed for so long, she could barely take her eyes off Camilla.

Thump.

“Ah...”

After meeting the child’s gaze warmly for a while, Camilla suddenly stiffened at the heavy pounding of her heart.

“What is it, unni?”

Thump-thump.

“Oh no...”

Was it already time?

“Unni?”

Yaeun tilted her head slightly as she looked at Camilla, who was wearing a bitter smile. As though reassuring her, Camilla curved her lips into a gentle smile.

Thump, thump-thump.

“Yaeun.”

“Yes.”

“Don’t be too startled.”

“What?”

Thump-thump, thump—

“It’s nothing. I’m just very tired.”

“Unni?”

“So don’t be too surpris—”

Boom!

Thud.

With a heartbeat so violent it made her skull ring, Camilla’s vision went dark all at once.

“U-unni!”

With Yaeun’s startled cry as the last thing she heard, Camilla lost consciousness like that.

*****

Where am I now?

After collapsing in the hospital room, Camilla opened her eyes in a strange place.

There was nothing to see.

It was not that the darkness kept her from seeing; there quite literally was nothing there.

She could not even tell whether the place she was standing was above or below. It was that strange a space.

Over there?

Though there was no path at all, a faint light at some point began to spill out from far away.

That was probably where she had {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} to go.

And so Camilla walked and walked down that endless path.

...Huh?

A while later, she came to a sudden halt without realizing it.

Because she had spotted someone coming toward her from the place where the light was shining.

The other person, too, seemed to have noticed her and gradually slowed to a stop.

“...”

“...”

Isia.

The one standing there was Isia.