Meanwhile, in Hawaii, at five kilometers away from the Mauna Kea volcano, Rosa’s taxi stops in front of a bar, one of these Hawaiian bars where it is filled with tourists, waitress that are wearing clothes such as leaf dress and coconuts bras, and most of all, a huge man that is acting like a guard. Rosa pays the taxi driver and walks toward the entrance of that bar, but before she could enter, the guard stops her and asks her in English.

“Do you have a reservation?”

“Ah, I'm sorry,” says Rosa. “I don’t have a reservation. I didn’t know that in this palace you need a reservation. But I need to talk with the manager.”

“What for?” asks the guard, looking at Rosa curios.

“There’s something I need to ask him. Not about this palace, but… I know this sounds weird… But I need to know if he is a member of the Traham family.”

“And why would it be important?”

“Because I want to tell him something.”

“I’m sorry, miss. But the manager is not in this place at the moment.”

“I see. Well then. I’ll wait for his arrival.” she says to the guard, then she walks away from the bar.

Rosa gets on the street, she walks for a bit toward a free bench, she sits on it, and before she is about to open her phone, someone sits next to her. That one person is an old man, skinny, bald and wearing eyeglasses that really need to be replaced because of a lot of scratches on the lens. The old man proceeded to say.

“Heard you were looking for me.”

“Are you Mauga Traham?” Rosa, looking at the old man, was surprised to see him here.

“I am.” says Mauga, who looks back at the guard, telling him there’s nothing to worry about, then the man addresses Rosa. “So. What do you want to talk about? About my bar?”

“About Richard Traham.” says Rosa.

“...My father?” Mauga asks, surprised. “... I don’t know too much about him. He killed himself while he was on a trip in a place called Las Caligula. That happened in…”

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“16 October 1955.” says Rosa.

“Yes,” says Mauga, surprised. “H-How did you know that, young lady?”

Rosa doesn’t say anything, instead she hands him a report that says “Young women found strangled in Las Caligula's beach.” Mauga looks at that article that has been ripped from an old newspaper, he looks at it, reads the first few segments, then he asks Rosa.

“Why did you hand me this?”

“That’s because your father wasn’t the criminal.” says Rosa, and hands from her backpack another newspaper article that was ripped from another newspaper. “This one says that your father was a possible suspect in this crime, but he wasn’t. He hid in Las Caliguals and then, because of some circumstances, was found in the ocean of Las Caligula's four years later, but he did not die like the rest of the cases.”

“What do you mean in the rest of the cases?” asks the old man, confused.

“Look.” says Rosa, handing the old man from her backpack three news articles that were like the ones that were mentioned earlier.

The old man named Mauga read those articles, then he looks at Rosa, confused, and asks her.

“What’s with all of these?”

“Your father has… um… How should I put this without sounding crazy.” says Rosa trying to find her words. “Possessed by Las Caligula's demon who pushes depressive people into suicide.”

“What?” Mauga sounded more confused.

“It’s a long story. But in short, your father spoke to me last night while I was at the beach.”

“H-He what?”

“His spirit?”

“...Girl… Are you on drugs?”

“No. This is true. Your father told me to come here, visit you and tell you that he is proud of you.”

Mauga did not know what to say to this. He looked at Rosa, who was taking back the newspaper articles, placed them back in the backpack, and rose from her seat. Before Rosa was about to leave, she asked Mauga.

“Where is the Hawaii cemetery?” says Rosa. “I told the taxi driver to drop him there, but he dropped me here.”

“What for?” Mauga sounded creeped out by this.

“Sounds crazy, but I need to visit my great-grandmother's grave.”

“Um… There is one… A mile away from the bar.”

“Thanks.” says Rosa and leaves Mauga alone, thinking about what just happened a moment ago.

Rosa walks down the road, but not to the graveyard, she walks toward somewhere where she can rest for the day. Tonight she’ll get on the business to finish the deed the ghosts told her last night at the beach while she and her friends were there to search for an amulet that was in the sands. Remember, the watch was found in the graveyard of the first report, the amulet belongs to the fourth report and the other amulet, the one that is hidden in the dorm, belongs to the fifth report.