Chapter 36 – -B-
After parting ways with the warrior, saying that she was meeting her acquaintance, Yuria went back the way she came and headed for the inn where Martha and the others were staying.
While going to her inn, Yuria kept thinking of Martha’s smile, and her heart was beating with nervousness and anxiety.
‘It’s annoying…’
An intrusive smile without a single blur, as if to say that I had already won.
Yuria couldn’t bear it because Martha’s smile was annoying.
She couldn’t possibly just leave without distorting that smile.
After passing through the castle gate guarding the Great Library again and arriving at the inn, Yuria found Martha in front of her inn.
Was she going to take a walk? She didn’t know why she was in the front, but she was a good thing for Yuria.
She didn’t notice Yuria yet and Martha, who carelessly looked up at the sky, took a stride towards her.
“Uh?”
Then, Marta, who noticed her YuRia, tilted her head slightly and asked.
“Mr. YuRia? Why is she here when she should be in the Great Library?”
Her attitude of not caring about Yuria turns into her feeling of humiliation and tickles Yuria’s chest.
However, Yuria didn’t bother to express herself and spoke to Martha with her calm demeanor.
“… Can you give me a minute?”
“Is it time? What… It doesn’t matter. If you have something to say, do it.”
“… It’s a little difficult here, so let’s move her place.”
Yuria led her way to a nearby alley, and Martha followed.
The empty alleyway was littered with vomit poured out by drunken people last night and garbage thrown away carelessly by people passing by.
YuRia frowned at the sight as if it was describing her future war of words.
“… I’m here to declare war.”
“… Yes?”
To that completely unexpected statement, Marta couldn’t react for a moment, and she just put on a bewildered expression as if she was genuinely perplexed.
But that was for a while, and Marta, who immediately regained her senses, asked Yuria.
“Propaganda… What?”
“… It’s a declaration of war. Within a few days of staying in the Great Library, I will overlap with the hero.”
“… Body?”
At the mention of overlapping with her hero, Martha’s head dropped and her shoulders began to tremble.
Seeing Martha like that, Yuria thought that she was going to curse again, something uncharacteristic of her saintly woman, but what immediately flowed from Martha’s mouth was far from her curse.
“Puuuuu… !!”
“… Huh?”
“Puhahahahahaha!!!”
What leaked out of Martha’s mouth was not swearing or vitriol, but laughter as if the city was about to leave.
As if she had heard a funny joke, Martha burst into laughter in Yuria’s face, holding her stomach.
Embarrassed by the sound of laughter, YuRia unknowingly stammered her words as she spoke.
“Why, why are you laughing… ?! My, do you think I’m kidding?!”
“Oh, no. What… I’m not kidding, but it’s so funny to think that it’s going to be real, so stop… Pooh, Phuhuh… !!”
“What, what is so funny!! I really can’t…”
“-Rain-.”
When Marta suddenly cut off YuRia and said something incomprehensible, YuRia asked with an uncomfortable expression.
“… What are you doing now?”
“-Wife-.”
“Under…”
After hearing that, YuRia, realizing what Martha was trying to say, burst out laughing and said.
“For a human like a saint to make such a vulgar and childish provocation…”
“-Woman-.”
“…”
A moment ago, Yuria said that it was childish and vulgar, but originally, nothing that is childish and vulgar is likely to provoke anger.
Yuria calmed down and said to Martha, promising not to fall to the same level as herself.
“Even if you do such a childish thing, I won’t get angry, and I’ll only undermine the prestige of the temple…”
“-Rain-.”
However, when Martha opened her mouth again as if to ridicule Yuria’s promise, Yuria couldn’t continue her words and shut her mouth.
Contrary to her saying that she wasn’t angry at all for doing such a thing, every time Martha opened her mouth, blood vessels protruded from Yuria’s forehead.
In the end, Yuria could not hold back her anger and pointed at Martha and shouted.
“You… ! Don’t do that If you want to do it, you’d rather curse. Where are you provoking something that even a child like that wouldn’t do…”
“-Wife-.”
“Don’t do that!!!”
Saying that, Yuria aimed her staff at her.
In a situation where it was practically a sword pointed at her throat, Martha kept her mouth shut, but the smile was still on her face.
“Okay… You just have to shut up like that and listen to me.”
Saying that, Yuria, who put down her staff, gasped for breath as if she was excited.
“It’s just the two of us for a few days in a place where no one gets in the way. Can you do anything if you try?”
“…”
Even after hearing her words that no one other than Marta could just pass by, Marta didn’t even move.
She was just smiling generously, like a mother who tolerates her child’s pranks.
Seeing her smile, YuRia, whose enthusiasm stretched out, pointed at Martha and shouted.
“And!! You, Nana Mirian, are non-virgins and say they don’t suit dragon love, but she doesn’t match a woman with a dark inside like you, she doesn’t suit a hero!!”
“… !”
Her words unintentionally touched on Martha’s wrath, but Yuria had no way of knowing that fact.
When her private parts, which she had been hiding all her life, were about to be revealed in this way, Martha tightened her grip and clenched a fist that looked very painful even though it belonged to her woman.
It was Martha who almost slapped Yuria in the face at the moment, but Martha, who managed to keep her smile calming her down, said to Yuria.
“Yuria too… Doesn’t it look so clean inside? It’s better to be black on the inside. A woman who is black even to the pubic area does not deserve to stand next to the hero~!”
“What, what… !! Ugh, pussy… !!! Ugh, ugh!!!”
Even when Yuria heard that, she wanted to praise herself for not blowing her magic right away.
Even if it wasn’t YuRia, who in the world would be able to hold back their anger after hearing such words?
At Yuria, who suppressed her hand trying to release the magic with all her strength, Marta fired at her as if to inflict additional blows.
“I don’t know what you’re going to do, but you can do whatever you want with or without rubbing the filthy lumps of fat. I believe in the hero, so I don’t care at all if Yuria-san does something filthy.”
“You… It’s been a few days, do you think I’m going to fail?”
“If such shallow water had worked, would things have come to this point? I won’t stop you, so try your best.”
“Ugh… !!”
Although she met the hero first, Yuria had no words to refute Martha’s words.
Yuria, who had no choice but to keep her mouth shut and stare at Martha in silence, stared at her for a long time before turning her body around.
“It’s different this time… I will make the hero mine no matter what dirty tricks I use… You are there watching while sucking your finger.”
After saying that, YuRia went back to the entrance she came from before to get out of his alley.
Seeing Yuria’s legs tremble with nervousness compared to what she said confidently, Martha shouted at Yuria’s back.
“Mr. YuRia!”
“…”
At Martha’s voice, Yuria’s legs stiffened as if petrifying magic had been cast on them.
From her previous experiences, she knew that if she turned her head here, she would end up being teased, but Yuria dared to turn her head to Martha and said,
“… What.”
“-Girl-!”
“Ooh, ooh!!”
Have to be patient… I have to be patient… !!
Yuria dismissed Martha’s words as the barking of her loser, and she continued on her way.
But Yuria didn’t know.
That we decided to call Yuria’s action a mental victory.
*****
On the other hand, as she entered the library with Lina, she exclaimed inside herself when she saw the library’s collection of books, which made her heart grow bigger just by looking at it.
To put the library in one word, it was a forest of books.
There were dozens and hundreds of long bookshelves with no end in sight, and the bookshelves were tightly packed with thousands of books.
There were not only books in the library, but there were also scrolls that showed signs of age just by looking at them, and even stone tablets with ancient characters that I couldn’t understand why they were in a library and not a museum.
The library was not only on the first floor, but beyond the second, third, and fourth floors, and the end was not visible, and the warrior could not even imagine how many books there would be in it.
“It’s cooler inside than I thought.”
“Huh? Oh, that’s what I heard…”
I was distracted by the huge amount of books that overwhelm the viewer, so I didn’t think of it, but as Lina said, the room was cool and the air was clean, even though there were no windows.
“It’s faint in the air, but I can feel the magic… What magic is going on?”
“What… Since it’s a magic library, it’s probably like that. But how do we find the book we are looking for?”
“I know…”
Certainly, it seemed like it would take time to find just one book because the collection was so large.
“Isn’t there a guide map somewhere nearby?”
Saying that, the hero looked around and found a sign on a nearby wall that read “Library Guidelines.”
The library prohibits users from using magic unless it is unavoidable.
Violence or similar acts are prohibited in the library.
It is forbidden to create a disturbance in the library and cause trouble to other users.
Eating and drinking in the library is prohibited.
Damage to books is prohibited.
If the above rules are violated, you may be kicked out without warning, and if you accumulate more than 3 kicks, you may be banned from entering the library.
“I said it out loud earlier… I will have to be careful in the future.”
“What… So, can we drink here?”
“Were you thinking of drinking?”
While looking for the notice that continued with such a conversation, the warrior found that people were lined up in one corner.
At the end of the line was a desk where several librarians were seated, as would be expected in a library.
‘Are you trying to borrow a book?’
It was common to think of standing in line in front of the librarian as such, but oddly, none of the people in line were holding a book.
When he got closer to the desk and overheard the conversation, the hero realized that the string was the one he was looking for.
“I am looking for a book with information on the runes used in the northern Ardnot region.”
“Northern side… The books in the 6th column of E-42 are all books related to runes. Book number 210,921 is a study of the runes discovered in the north, so if you find and read it, it will be of great help.”
“Thank you.”
The wizard who found the answer he was looking for left, and the wizard who was standing right behind him stood in front of the librarian.
“The library has so many books, it seems you have to ask the librarians to find them.”
“Huh. Let’s get in line quickly.”
There were as many librarians as there were many visitors to the library, but there were also many lines, so it was difficult to figure out which line to find a book quickly.
“Warrior. Is there an empty line over there?”
“Really?”
Looking in the direction Lina pointed, she was sure that only one empty line out of the tightly packed rows.
“But why aren’t you standing there?”
“I don’t know! Anyway, let’s go quickly!”
