I was Bloody Mary.
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Boss usually called me the higher evil spirit. Of course, that was my old designation. Now Boss called me the upper evil spirit.
I didn't really care.
Because I also thought upper evil spirit sounded better than Bloody Mary.
Even if I had been born from the Blood Queen's Crown.
After all, countless obsessions, grudges, and evil thoughts had also contributed to my birth.
Humans really were complicated, terrifying creatures!
Whenever I recalled the things I had seen when I first became conscious, that conviction only grew stronger. So, in the beginning, I hadn't minded wandering that cruise ship alone.
Even if there wasn't a single creature around I could talk to.
One year.
Two years.
Three years.
At first, I had kept count. Eventually, I simply couldn't keep track anymore.
And boredom filled my heart.
The one thing worth celebrating was that I knew the layout of the entire cruise ship, so I found quite a few books in its secret chamber.
They covered every imaginable subject and were exceptionally precious, an important part of the former owner's collection.
In the days that followed, they kept me company.
But the wind and waves at sea were too harsh, and the books gradually began to decay. I tried countless ways to stop it, but none worked.
There were no suitable materials aboard the cruise ship. I could only slow the decay, not actually stop it.
So I picked up the pace of my reading.
Those days were truly frantic. I read without rest or sleep, racing against time.
In the end, I finished every book before they all rotted away, with enough time left to review them and gain new insights.
That long stretch of reading gave me a considerable wealth of