Preparing for the Field Trip. But with Training on the Side(2)

Along with my words about the Library of Records, Morgan takes the document I showed her and examines it.

The purpose for which Isolde goes through the trouble of infiltrating. To properly see the appearance of such a library, Morgan silently focused on the drawing in the document, but an answer came from somewhere.

“The Library of Records… I’ve heard of that too.”

The one who answered my words was not Morgan, but Isolde who had opened the door and entered.

Isolde, who had entered through the door I had deliberately left unlocked, spoke as she came into the professor’s office, and Mu closed the door behind her.

Creak── Click.

“Mother, we’ve just arrived.”

“You’ve come at a good time, Mu.”

Mu bowed her head with a smiling eyes. It seemed she had definitely brought Isolde to the academy according to my orders.

And praising Mu who had arrived just as I was about to tell Isolde what I needed to say, I turned my gaze to Isolde who had walked up to the desk.

“Hmm.”

Isolde had somehow snatched the document Morgan was looking at and was now examining the simplified drawing of the Library of Records drawn there.

As if speed-reading, Isolde’s eyes rolled rapidly, scanning from the top to the bottom of the page.

Soon, as if she had read all the open pages, Isolde handed me the document she was holding and said.

“I don’t know what these encrypted letters are saying, but this drawing is definitely the Library of Records. It’s exactly the same as what I saw in an ancient text.”

“I don’t know what that ancient text is, but it’s probably correct. This is definitely the Library of Records.”

Although Isolde’s magic skills may be inferior to my Meiyel, she would overwhelm me in miscellaneous knowledge, so the content of the ancient text she saw is probably correct.

The drawing in the document was so detailed that it could be said to be an exact copy of the Library of Records that appears in the game.

And at my words, Isolde looked at me with eyes filled with interest and asked.

“I only know that the Library of Records exists, but I’ve never properly heard about its interior… Do you know about what’s inside?”

“I can’t answer that in detail. But let me tell you one thing, even if we go to the Library of Records this time, we’ll only be stopping Idea, we won’t be going inside.”

“…Is that so? Then it can’t be helped.”

Isolde showed visible disappointment at my words. Although she had been with us for three days, it seemed she had let her guard down too much.

No, perhaps that was Isolde’s true nature, but it felt unfamiliar as it was different from the Isolde I knew.

But apart from that, I could understand Isolde’s disappointment.

It’s said that no one has ever entered the Library of Records as it’s protected by the soldiers of the Underwater Kingdom and the librarian inside.

Therefore, there’s a common saying among people that “Those who enter the Library of Records and read the book there can enlighten themselves about all things in the universe,” so from the standpoint of Isolde, a magician, it would be a place she would desperately want to enter even just once.

However, of course.

‘The reality is completely different.’

The rumors circulating among people and reality were completely different.

Even when I was playing “Hyung Hyung Saek Saek” as a game, I had never entered the Library of Records, but I remembered what was explained in the story as setting.

Only people who meet certain conditions can enter the Library of Records, and if not, one must break through with force like Idea to enter.

And if you enter the library and open the book at its center, you can experience the history of those connected to the person who opened the book, that’s how the story I saw explained it.

In other words, the book in the Library of Records doesn’t enlighten one about all things in the universe, but simply allows one to experience the history of people around them recorded there.

Of course, it might be different when actually entering, but according to the information I currently know, that’s how it was.

And as I finished these thoughts and looked at Isolde who was clearly disappointed, suddenly Mu approached me.

Wondering what it was about, I looked at her, and Mu handed me a letter. As she handed over the letter, Mu said to me.

“Mother, this is a letter that came from Dean Mira today.”

“A letter? What was the content?”

“It seems there will be a summons from the king tomorrow.”

“…A summons from the king?”

At Mu’s sudden words, I tilted my head for a moment, but soon realized what it meant and let out a short exclamation.

There was only one reason for the king’s summons to come down at this point.

The Sky Island incident. Although I had hinted to Mira that I wanted to pass it over quietly, it seems postponing it for a while was the limit.

Of course, I think she’s given us enough time as I’ve already finished organizing all the necessary information.

And to confirm if my thoughts were correct, I asked Mu, and indeed, it was correct.

“Is it a summons coming because of the Sky Island incident?”

“Yes, Mother.”

“Then tomorrow will be quite troublesome.”

A summons from the king.

Just imagining it made me shudder, feeling as if an unbearably heavy atmosphere was pressing down on my body. But it’s not like I could refuse to go when the king summoned.

If it were ordinary nobles, I would have flatly refused and killed those who crossed the line under appropriate judgment, but I didn’t have the power to go against the king yet, so it couldn’t be helped.

In the end, I nodded at Mu’s words and crumpled the letter Mu handed me into my pocket, and then Morgan, who had been quietly keeping her mouth shut after having the document snatched by Isolde, raised her body that had been leaning against the window and opened her mouth.

“By the way.”

“Hm?”

As I turned to look at her, Morgan perched slightly on my desk.

Unlike earlier when she had asked about future events with craving interest, Morgan now looked at me with eyes filled with pure curiosity and asked.

“I haven’t heard properly until now, but what exactly are Isolde and I supposed to do?”

“Ah, certainly. We haven’t properly explained that part yet.”

Isolde agrees and sympathizes, showing signs of agreement with Morgan’s words.

What am I going to make them do? I pondered Morgan’s question for a moment and then made an expression as if asking something obvious.

Of course, I kidnapped these guys to use them for important future quests, but apart from that, where to use them in peaceful daily life was already decided.

I got up from my seat, opened the closed door of the professor’s office, and answered her.

“Of course, I’m planning to have you work as my assistants.”

After all, it’s more convenient to do it with two rather than alone, right?

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[Long, long ago, in the deep sea where there were no proper traces of people, a building was erected.

In that building, built by the divine power of a goddess, there existed only one book, and that book began to write the stories of the people of the world within itself.

And how much time has passed?

In that library, which had only one book in a large space, a librarian created by divine power appeared.

The librarian has been protecting the book for a long time, guarding the library. So that no one could open that book.

After spending a long time protecting the book like this, a new kingdom was suddenly established around the library.

No one knows what happened after that. Only that the kingdom helped the librarian protect the library, and with the walls of the library becoming even more solid, no one could look inside the library.

And it is said that all things in the universe sleep in that library…]

Flutter──

Idea rolled up the ancient document she was reading and inserted it back into the bookshelf where it originally was. Although it was content she had read with her younger sister Isolde hundreds of years ago, looking at it now, it was just a children’s fairy tale.

“How foolish.”

After learning about Isolde’s kidnapping, Idea had been raging madly for days, but now she had already sorted out all her emotions.

Therefore, Idea turned away from the ancient document she had reopened on the Demon King’s orders and stepped out, opening the door.

To find all things in the universe.