Chapter 542 - Continuing Winter? (1)

I opened my eyes to find myself inside the library after I blinked. Looking down at the book, I found it had turned to the last page on its own. A sentence appeared in the middle of the page when my finger touched the paper:

[The end of this tale is far from its conclusion. Let the story continue]

Charlotte's story was not over yet. I decided to rise to place the book back to the shelf. Although I didn't pity her on how she had died, I couldn't blame her for everything that happened. She could have been able to control her powers if she had teachers who taught her. Leading none of her subjects suffering while avoiding all the tragic victims in the process. Charlotte had the wrong environment, better suited for the future we were in now.

Maybe this was why the overseer had sent her here. I stiffened when I heard the sounds of people looking for me. They shouted my name, making a ruckus while walking around the library.. I found it strange since everyone should know that I spent most of my time at the library or my bedroom. Why else would I go? Finding myself hungry from being inside the book, I started to walk to the entrance.

"Where were you?" Luke spotted me.

"I was inside the library this entire time," I was confused.

"You were missing for days," Luke didn't believe me.

"And we searched the entire library multiple times," Alex joined us.

"Maybe you should have done a better job at searching," I shrugged.

"It was like you vanished from this world after we heard your scream," Charles questioned me.

"I may have been inside a book. It suċkėd me inside after I read the first page," I wondered if they didn't know what kind of books the library possessed.

"We don't have books like that in the unrestricted section," Luke wanted to see the book.

"Well there was one, you can find it yourself while I'm going to go eat," I started to walk to the entrance again.

"Show me the book Rika," Luke grabbed my wrist.

"It's called, 'A Fairy-tale', you can easily search it up," I didn't want to go through the pain of remembering where I placed it.

"A sorcery book?" Alex mumbled.

"Yea, whatever you call it," I didn't know there was more of its kind.

From Luke's pressuring stares, I gave in to walk back to the bookshelf that I had come from. Searching for the book around the location I remembered, I started to panic when I couldn't find it anywhere. Maybe the robots had already placed it somewhere else. I began to pull out all the books on the shelf under the weight of everyone watching me. I sighed in relief when I found the same title on a different coloured book.

Luke stiffened when I passed him the book. I wondered what was wrong, finding it to be an ordinary cover. Was there something on the cover that I didn't notice before? When Luke finally faced me, he revealed, "we shouldn't have this in our library whether it's the restricted or unrestricted area. It doesn't have the Suilett family crest on it."

"Maybe this mansion had a visitor that forgot to take their book with them," I threw out the possibility.

"This isn't from our dimension," Luke waved his hand over the book to show the fairy dust.

"You should clean the library more often," I pointed out there could be others.

None of it was my fault. In fact, I had already planned to research how to place the restrictions off my mana to have unlimited amounts of mana for the fight. Although it was pain to read all those books, I had nothing else to do. However, I didn't think Luke would ban me from going to the library, my only other way to pass time. My jaw almost dropped when I discovered I needed an access card to go inside after eating dinner.

I slammed the door open, knowing the office the three of them were using. How could they do this to me? I was doing this research for all of us. This was exactly why I hated being stuck with the three people in this room. I had nobody on my side.

"Give me the access card to the library," I held my hand out.

"What books do you want? We can directly hand them over to you," Luke wasn't willing to give me the card.

"I don't know yet. I need to know what kind there is first," I liked to explore what was there.

"Do you think we can let you in the library again after you went missing for days?" Alex supported Luke.

"You're taking away everything from me!" I slightly trembled in anger.

"Go use the pool or stuff yourself with some desserts like you usually do," Charles wanted me to stop making a ruckus.

Charles was right. This mansion had a large pool, a perfect place to practice my fire spells without causing big damage. I could test how much mana the bigger spells drained. And maybe recreate my own waterpark if I had any mana leftover. I always considered the pool to be useless, not knowing where the swimsuits were.

"Can you tell me where my swimsuits are?" I brightly smiled.