Dear Diary,

I can't seem to calm down and I'm stressing out. It feels like I'm suffocating every time I think about David coming to visit for training tonight. I've been trying to keep myself busy and not think about it, but everything I've done is only a momentary distraction and then the panic starts to set back in.

Theodore visited the dungeon the other day and I finally told him about how I wanted to shorten the duration of the contract I have with David. I am just so tired of how passive-aggressive he has been. That isn't even to mention how exhausting it is to have him constantly demanding I trade with him. I have to worry about the dungeon and I can't always be conceding to what he wants. Besides, what sort of example does this set for others in the future? I don't want everyone to think they can just walk all over me, constantly demanding things, and that I'll just give in. It's one thing when there is mutual benefit from the trading and I can choose when to work and when to take time off, but this whole thing just isn't sustainable.

I asked Theodore to alter the contract so that David no longer has to give me swordsmanship training, but he can't approach me or try to take advantage of my dungeon anymore. I'm willing to accept the lack of traps on the first floor as I've already begun working around it and plan to treat it as a selling point in the future. However, I just don't want to see David anymore.

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I'm guessing Theodore must have talked to David about things or else that he got wind of things some other way. He was more aggressive than he has ever been before during our last training session. My arms ended up covered in many cuts deep enough to bleed and even little Alice seemed anxious. I hope he isn't mistreating his daughter, but I'm not sure I have the mental energy to worry about others right now. Before he left... it seemed like he just barely held back from killing me.

I still struggle with the memory of the last time he killed me and only the comfort of knowing the system contract specifically requires he never purposely kill me again has comforted me up until now. I tried to tell myself that it would all be fine, that it was just a stupid mistake on his part. He didn't know how dungeons work and I was far too naive and shared some of the guilt. However, that doesn't make it any easier to deal with the trauma I've been dealing with in the aftermath of it all.

The only problem is that I don't know when Theodore will be back to change the contract. I'm starting to think it would be better to ban David from my dungeon entirely. He is too strong for me to personally prevent him from entering the dungeon, so I'll have to get help. However, I have to get through things now first. Since David has to show up and train me every day, he won't just give up and go home tonight if I hide away on the upper floors and I'm afraid. I don't want to see him again because I'm worried his anger will only have grown and that he might do something even worse tonight...

-Violet