Chapter 37 – Librarian Allenbaut
There was a line with no one standing right next to the long line, reminiscent of the line at an amusement park.
There was an empty line right next to it, and I wondered why no one was standing, but the hero moved forward with a complacent thought that there would be nothing special.
The closer the hero got to the desk, the more eyes were on him from the line next to him.
It wasn’t the hero and Lina who were so dull that they couldn’t even notice that gaze, but the person standing right next to them even sent that kind of gaze, which made them curious about what was in front of them.
What the hell is on the desk in front of me, so no one is standing in this line.
At some point, the hero forgot the purpose of learning a new magic and became obsessed with the thought of wanting to see what was ahead.
He was caught up in the idea and as he moved forward, there was a book at the end of it.
No, to be precise, there was a person sitting in a chair behind the desk with a book.
‘Small…’
The librarian, who was so short that the hero thought so casually, seemed to be between 130 and 140 cm tall, but the book covered his face, making it impossible to tell whether he was a woman or a man.
However, I could have guessed that it was a woman by looking at the small baby-like hands on the side of the book and the delicate hands of an aristocratic young lady.
“Excuse me…”
Seeing the librarian, the hero was about to start talking to him, and a young man next to him pulled the arm of the hero and said, faster than the librarian lowered the book.
“Sin, sorry! This friend is the first time in the great library… I’ll guide you, so don’t mind and keep reading!”
Along with the young man’s words, the hand that was about to go down rose again, and the face that had been showing up to the forehead was covered again.
The hero suddenly appeared and saw the young man pretending to be a friend and said with a puzzled expression.
“Yes? Excuse me… Who… ?”
“Shh!!”
The young man who stopped the hero’s mouth with those words took the hero’s arm and took him to a place a little away from the desk.
“What is this child…”
Lina looked disapprovingly at the young man who suddenly appeared, and she followed him.
When the hero and the young man entered between the bookshelves a little away from the desk, the young man who freed the arm of the hero spoke.
“Looking at it, it looks like you’ve been to the library for the first time, but you can’t ask him for that.”
Saying that, the young man let out a sigh of relief when he looked at the disinterested librarian, but the hero, unaware of the situation, was just embarrassed.
“Isn’t that the librarian?”
“No, the librarian is right. Stir…”
The young man glanced at the badge on the hero’s chest, realized that the hero was from the same 4th circle as himself, and spoke in a comfortable tone.
“If you were in the 4th circle, you would have come to the academy, so you know the Allenbaut family that rules this city, right?”
“I do not know.”
“Yes, of course you know… Yes?! You don’t know?!”
Even if you weren’t a wizard who graduated from the academy, anyone who called himself a wizard would know the name of the only three wise men in history.
The wise Edward Allenbout.
He was the founder of this great library and a great wizard with many achievements, and all wizards knew his name.
‘What the hell… ?’
Ordinary people, when they see an ignorant person, feel contempt or ridicule for their ignorance.
However, there is a degree to that, and if you meet someone who doesn’t know what to call common sense, let alone common sense, you won’t even laugh out loud.
For example, in a country where potatoes are the staple food, if you answer that you don’t know what potatoes are, wouldn’t it be embarrassing rather than funny?
The feelings the young man felt towards the warrior were exactly the same.
“… The Allenbaut family is the wizarding family that rules the city. And that librarian is the youngest daughter of that family.”
“Ah… You were the daughter of such a great family. But what does that have to do with it? You must be the librarian who works here, though?”
“Even though you are a librarian… It’s not like I really like buying things.”
“Yes?”
Then why the hell are you here as a librarian?
If the family is powerful enough to rule this city, they probably won’t be short of money.
“Then why are you buying and working?”
“It must have been because he liked this library. There are restrictions on viewing hours for general visitors, but there is no such thing for librarians.”
“So you throw away your work and read a book? What kind of people are so irresponsible? I thought you were like a child in terms of height, but is your mental age a child as well?”
“What is this… !!”
When Lina said those words, the young man immediately covered Lina’s mouth and looked at her with a sidelong glance to see if Allen Bout had heard it.
“Are you crazy?! Not one neck, but twelve?! You elves may have lived long enough, but not us!!”
“…”
Knowing that her mouth was shut, Lina sent her gesture to quickly let go of her hand, and the young man carefully removed her hand.
“… I apologize for my colleague’s mistake. Sorry.”
Saying that, the hero lowered her head, and the young man cleared his throat and said.
“Ah, hehe… ! It’s okay, it’s okay. You look up when other people see you.”
“Yes…”
“By the way, you are a strange person. You must have graduated from the academy, but you don’t know Allenbaut’s name.”
“Yeah… You seem to have misunderstood something from earlier, but I am not from the academy.”
“Yes?! Oh no?”
When he guessed the age of the hero from his appearance, it was just the right time to graduate from the academy, so the young man expected the hero to be from the academy.
“Ah… So, you didn’t learn from an academy, but from a famous wizard.”
“Yes. My colleague is a wizard, and I learned from him.”
“Colleague… ? That colleague…”
It wasn’t common for adventurers to party with older people, but it wasn’t unheard of either.
However, when he heard that he had a party with his master, the young man asked with a puzzled expression.
“That… If you’re not rude, would it be all right if I ask the name of that colleague?”
“I’m sorry to say that… The teacher who taught me magic is Yuria, a friend who graduated from the academy a few months ago.”
“Yuria… ? Ah, at the last graduation ceremony, I graduated from the academy at the top of my class… Uh?!”
As the young man was talking, he realized that something was wrong and asked the warrior.
“As far as I know, that friend graduated from the academy less than a year ago. Then how long have you been learning alternative magic?”
“Uh… I don’t remember exactly, but excluding the time I learned other things, it was about four months.”
“… 4 months?”
It is nonsense.
A young man who was called a genius in his own right devoted his whole life to magic, and now he has barely entered the 4th circle.
‘Bluff? No, even if you lie, you tell a plausible lie. .’
Then, is it true that all the words that are doubtful whether this is true?
I wanted to confirm that the hero’s words were true as a mage who had cancer despite being rude.
“Excuse me for a minute…”
“Yes?”
As if possessed by something, the young man stretched out his hand and directed it to the warrior’s chest.
“You, get out of the way.”
The young man cautiously stretched out his hand toward the hero’s chest, but the young man’s hand did not happen to touch the hero’s chest.
Hearing a cute voice different from Lina’s from behind, the young man’s head naturally turned in the direction of the sound.
“Uh?! Uh?!”
Standing there was a small woman no more than twice the height of a young man.
No, the word girl is more appropriate than the expression woman, and she pointed at the young man with a sharp expression.
“Did you not hear? Are you getting out of the way?”
“Yes!! Yes!!”
The young man’s passionate inquiring mind to find out the truth of the warrior’s words a moment ago was shattered when a strong man who was overwhelmingly stronger than the young man appeared in front of him, regardless of his status or in any way.
“Is what you just said true?”
“Yes? Ah… Yes.”
Although he did not see her face directly, the hero immediately recognized who she was when he saw her height in front of her.
One of the library’s librarians, Allenbaut, approached the bewildered hero and stretched out his hand, just as the young man had done.
“Eww… !”
However, perhaps because of her short stature, her hand did not touch the warrior’s chest, but only touched the pit of the stomach.
“Foot!”
Seeing that funny look, Lina burst into laughter, and Allen Baut glared at Lina, who was hiding behind the warrior.
Then, looking at the hero again, he spoke with a high-handed attitude.
“… Don’t just watch you, lower your body. You are too big to reach.”
“Yes? Ah…”
Seeing Allen Baut commanding so naturally, the hero unknowingly obeyed his words and knelt down on one knee.
As the hero got down on one knee, it came down to the point where Allen Bout’s hand could touch the hero’s chest.
“Um…”
Putting his hand on the hero’s chest, Allenbaut saw the four rings he felt in his heart and the fragments of mana almost turning into a single ring, and was genuinely amazed.
“It hasn’t been long since the circle has settled in my heart… I don’t think she’s lying when she says she’s only been learning magic for less than a year.”
“Me, really?!”
“… You mean I lied?”
“Oh, no, I don’t mean that…”
As soon as Allenbout fired a word, the young man immediately turned into a gentle sheep.
“By the way, it’s really strange… Looking at the mana, I will soon be able to rise to the 5th circle… I’ve never seen a human grow up so fast.”
Allenbaut nodded as if he was satisfied and put his hand on the hero’s chest and said to the hero and Lina.
“What book did you say you were looking for? I saw something interesting, so I’ll guide you through it myself.”
“Is that okay?”
“Are you okay. And by the way, you too… Let me know what book you want to find.”
“Uh?! Me too?!”
*****
“…”
A dark aura that could only come from a warlock lingered around Yuria, who silently headed back to the Great Library.
Yuria was not in a good mood.
Beyond that she was not in a good mood, Yuria now felt like she would explode if touched even with her jokes, like her poisonous pollack fish.
The people around her seemed to instinctively feel it as well, and every time YuRia took a step forward, she took a step back.
‘Really that woman…’
A woman like that is a saint.
Yuria, who was an ardent believer before she was a wizard, doubted the existence of God for the first time today.
The Lord who chose such a woman as a saint must have made a big mistake.
‘If she had known it would be like this, she would have just been in the library…’
She went to visit Martha with the idea of taking off the mask she always wears, but what kind of humiliation is this?
If she had been in the Great Library, she would have been with the hero, if not alone…
‘Let’s just forget…’
Yes, she forgets everything and thinks only of time with the hero.
It was no exaggeration to say that the few days spent in the Great Library were all for the hero and Yuria.
She’s got Lina involved, but she doesn’t seem particularly interested in the hero sexually, so she should be fine.
‘Now she can be with Dragon Love…’
Thinking so, she opened the door of the library wide and she was Yuria who ran to the hero…
“… What?”
However, there was already another woman by the hero’s side.
