Day 1.

So uh… I don’t really know what to put here but ummm… Thank you Zeala for giving me a diary… Is that enough for day 1? Yeah, I think it is.

Day 2.

Ellipsis, today I just realized that ellipses are my friend. Without them there will be no emotions in this diary, I forgot to say that yesterday, thank you for the tip Zeala.

Day 4.

Well, I guess I forgot to make a day 3, hehehehe, it’s just been 4 days and I already messed up, well I guess it’s okay, not much really happens in my life, well… I went on a date with Zeala today… hehehehehe, I wonder when I can confess… Ahhhh!!! Can I say that here? Ah!

Day 7.

So I haven’t been writing here, it’s already been a week so maybe I should just write every week? Oh well, I don’t really know, ehehehehe, I’ll figure it out either way, like I always do! Wuha! Not a word, sorry hahaha.

Day 8.

Okay! The next day it just happened hahaha! Oh my God! My heart! Now that's what I call a date! That’s all! Just know it was an amazing date!

Day 13.

So I just read some other person’s diary, can’t say who, top secret, but I can see how I suck so bad here. They fill their day pages and I just say one or two sentences and I’m done. Well, at least the expressiveness is perfect, right? I mean I am an expressive person they say!

Day 20.

So… I think I can finally do that long bit. A lot… and I mean a lot! Happened today. First, when I woke up, goblins were attacking the city, but thank God! That Zeala was guarding the front gate or else everyone would have died! Well unless I wake up, of course, I’m not the best in magic but I am strong you know! Oh wait, I just said a lot happened but that really is all, man I suck at this! I've already written it. I'll write again tomorrow and make it long, I promise!

Day 21.

Today I got some training from Zeala, as usual of course. Her radiance and beauty still matched the sun and her magic was as powerful as always. I wish I could be that powerful so I could stay by her side when she goes on missions. Anyway, I learned a cool magic today, invisibility. It's a good infiltration magic… but I don’t think I have many opportunities to really use it. Oh well, I never said I wanted to.

Anyway again, another thing that happened was I finally got a house in the city permanently, I mean I never said anything about it, but ey I don’t care if it comes out of nowhere.

What else did I do… hmmm… I mean… should I tell my daily routine? Can I do that in my diary? Wait, isn't that what diaries are for? Oh shit! I really need to do some research here!

Day 30.

I waited for the classic tens intervals just for this day. Also, a whole month since I got the diary! Yay! Thank you again my beloved Zeala! Hahaha! I’ve become bold! Well, she will never read this! I never will allow it!

Anyway, I asked others about the daily routine and yes, it was what they do, so umm… I don’t have the best memory but I do know my daily routine well. So let’s start right away!

The moment I wake up I go and eat at the table outside my bedroom, at the dining room of course. Cause I have a house now and I don’t eat on the floor of an inn anymore! Yay! Anyway, as soon as I woke up, Jack was there, I mean I did give him the keys but oh well, how rude to come into the house of a man still asleep.

Okay, so then after eating my breakfast I go to the adventurer guild and see if there were any goblin raids anywhere and if I do, not today though, I join it and go kill some goblins. It’s a very brutal battle but with mages around it is no problem.

Oh, speaking of mages, I have never told about who Zeala is, oh well I’ll just do it the next day, this is my diary and it doesn’t have to be daily! Retaliation! Hah!

Okay, so after a battle, or if I just don’t get involved in one, I always go and train my magic or hang out with friends in the city. The city of Kales is not the most front-lined city, so goblin attacks aren’t really something to be scared of.

After killing some time, I then eat my lunch, just normal things. Then after I continue to train until it is almost night and then I visit Zeala at her inn and just talk until it turns dark. Hehehe, that’s my beloved best friend there.

Then after I eat dinner I sleep, not an eventful life, but as an average adventurer that is all I can do. Well, that was just about the end of the page, I really got the measurement right for this one.

Day 31.

Zeala, my beloved and the best person I know. I have many friends but none can really compare to Zeala. I met her right about 2 years ago, just 1 year after I left my birth city and started my outside adventure.

Just when I was barely a fledgling adventurer, out on a stroll in the forest for a patrol mission, I was able to come across a beautiful “Witch”. Why call her that? I’m sorry too but that is the best I can explain that situation.

She came out of the trees out of nowhere holding a basket filled with herbs and telling me that she lived in the forest? That was an absolutely bullshit statement. In such a world how could anyone live in the forest, but after seeing her magic! I was just… stone-faced… I mean… I had no right to say anything when she blew up a large area that is half the city I was staying in.

After going through that experience, I went to her cabin and spent a very long time chatting with her. That entire thing then became a part of my routine. Going out of the city just to meet her in the forest was the norm for me. I never realized it at the time but slowly it came to my mind.

Those laughs of hers, those stories of hers, the antics she had done, the hours we spent just talking, it wasn’t a lie that I was slowly falling madly in love with a woman living in the forest. I talked to her daily, asked her to teach me magic, hunted goblins, and so many things I could never name, at the end of it I realized something had to change…

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So I asked her to move to the city. Hah! You thought I asked her out! I couldn’t! My heart would explode! Even just writing this is hurting me! Ahhhh!

Anyway, after having her move to the city, we started living in the same inn, and it actually felt like we were living together. But of course, my naive self didn’t think of that, I just thought that I could finally live close to the beauty I happened to come by in the forest. Who would have thought that you could make friends in such a way, though of course I also had problems making.

Day 32.

Ran out of pages, anyway!

Of making friends, but I wouldn’t lie to tell you that… uhhh… fine! I had none! At the time! Everything was new to me and I never knew what to do! And she was my first friend outside… and the first woman I would fall for. I don’t know what else to say other than she is the love of my life! And I promise I will confess someday! When I get my emotions straight!

Day 41.

I cooked something today, of course, it has to do something with Zeala. I cooked her favorite which is banana cakes, wait, that’s baking, isn’t it? Ehh, I don’t care. Well, she liked it. That’s all, bye!

Day 50.

Fifty days in! I learned another new spell today, it’s a hard spell, I only did it once but hey, I still did it! I’ll definitely practice to kill a huge group of goblins.

Day 71.

I first planned to just make another installment at day 100, you know, because writing in a diary is not really my thing. But major things happened today! Well, major as in something bad! Like really! Really! Bad! The city is in front of Kales, so now we are a front-line city. That just means that things will get busier and things might just get bad.

I even bought a house here! Ahhh! Bad investment!

Day. 100.

100 days! Okay, so not a lot happened. Other than me knowing that reinforcements will take a long time because of those damned nobles! But the plan of movement for the war with the goblins is to retake the city of Gela, which will take a long time like I said because nobles are way too lazy to do their job. Fuck them! Sorry, hahaha.

Day 122.

Well two big things happened in a single day, first and the best thing is that Zeala got recognized for her magic. I knew she would get it soon, she just needed more battles to prove it. Zeala now has the title of a Sage! She got asked to move to a more important spot but of course, she didn’t… hehehe… definitely not cause of me, yeah, I’m just being cocky but you know what, I can, so I will.

The second thing that happened was that the big battle for the city of Gela will happen on July 1st, which is in 76 days! I have many plans… but I’ll say it when we reach there.

Day 150.

I have been told I will be getting my last mission before I turn into an A-Rank Adventurer! Finally! But it will be dangerous though, I will have to scout the city of Gela before we attack, so… there is a good chance I die… but Zeala gave me a necklace yesterday to remember her while I go out for a few days… so I will not die! I will survive this! For Zeala!

Day. 171.

I didn’t really want to get distracted and write in the diary while on a mission… but when I have this book it makes me feel at home so I will write here for the 5 days I have on this mission.

So, Day 1 of the scouting mission.

It’s night and I’m sleeping on top of a tree, writing is hard but I did work out sometimes too, I’m not just a scrawny mage okay? We will reach the outskirts of the city by afternoon tomorrow. I am with 2 other B-Rank Adventurers, one is Karter an expert rouge, he is our navigator and the actual brains of this operation. The other one is the muscle head Jugan who is our porter and me who is the damage dealer for any emergencies. Thinking about it, I’m just useless, aren’t I? I mean it’s a scouting mission for goblins… no point in attacking. But oh well, you never know.

Day 172. 2 of the scouting mission.

We are now set up a small camp outside of the city. It’s a little far, but there are a lot of goblins wandering around. We will enter as close as we can tomorrow and I just realized how good the spell “Invisibility” that I learned before is. I thought it would never come in handy for a mage like me, but now it is. I can also use it on my party members so that will be useful stacked with Karter’s magically soundless footsteps and amazing breathing technique.

Day 173. 3 of the scouting mission.

Easy change of plans, we got everything we needed on just this day so we won’t be extending it anymore. At the same time Karter is heavily injured and Jugan is injured too. I’ll keep it brief, I need to go.

Day 177.

It’s been a few days since I got my new rank, but I still feel bitter. I should have learned more healing magic, if I just learned more, things wouldn’t have gone critical. I need to get over this soon, this is just normal, and the big fight is coming too… I can’t keep feeling guilty like this.

Day 195.

The reinforcements have finally arrived, they were much earlier than expected but that is of no harm! That is so much better than anything! Well, went on an adventure with Zeala in the city and the forest, so it was an amazing date, I was so tempted to confess… but I won’t do that before the big battle… I won’t make any more installments until the end of the battle… I will confess… at the end, I won’t die! And this is my motivation!

Day 203.

A few days have passed and we got the city back! I won’t beat around the bush anymore! Tomorrow at night! I will confess! That’s all for now! I can do this!

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Another sound of a turning page echoed in the quiet room. The diary had included many empty pages, making a rapid skip a normal procedure. Goby turned the diary to the very last page, till day 365, completing a whole year of life, yet nothing else continued the events after the confession.

“That’s it?”

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“Continue, Morris.”