Chapter 126 Pride’s Free Day

Abe's Guest House

City State of Magic, Kasteblum

December 18th

Year 1051

The moment a foreign presence set foot on the floor of the Guest house she was in, Pride's eyes shot open as she turned her gaze in the direction of the presence she sensed.

Upon seeing that said presence wasn't getting any closer, she dropped her guard temporarily as she stood up from her bed and walked to the door, opening it slightly and looking into the hallway.

She caught sight of the innkeeper who welcomed her and Evan the day before walking downstairs while complaining about a guest being annoying.

*CLACK!

Pride closed the door and took out her things from her bag which she collected from Evan the night before.

Despite them having quite a bit of load, they were able to travel light due to Evan's inventory and she couldn't help but appreciate the usefulness of the skill while also wishing to regain her ability to do something similar with her magic.

She took a quick bath and dressed herself up, putting on her favourite turtleneck type shirt, one which was black in colour, similar to the trousers and knee-high boots she had worn.

She hung a long gray overcoat on her shoulders before putting on similar coloured gloves. After this, she walked out of the room and saw a kid, probably the child of another guest knocking on people's doors and running away.

"HMM?"

It was then she realised that the door the kid had randomly opened was that of the room she was in before she went to bed last night.

The kid then turned in her direction and was about to go to her room but upon seeing her standing in front of the door, he stopped in his tracks.

"What are you doing?"

She calmly asked, her tone coming off as cold as she just witnessed the door of her companion's room being opened by this same kid.

Her piercing red eyes gazed at the kid making him tear up and run away while crying.

"Tsk..."

She clicked her tongue in ridicule s as she walked up to the door and pushed it open, her eyes catching the sight of two figures on the bed, leaning on each other as they slept peacefully.

'Really...'

With a look of disappointment, she opened up the curtains of the room and let the light of the morning sun shine in on the two teenagers as she tied up her long black hair in a ponytail.

When she was done, she turned her gaze to Eliza who was stirring from her sleep. The teenage girl squinted her eyes a bit before opening them wide and locking gazes with Pride.

"Huh?"

"You're finally awake."

It seemed as if Pride's reply woke the girl completely as the light of recognition flashed through her eyes.

"Pride?"

"In the flesh."

She looked around and saw Evan leaning on her shoulder with his eyes closed, his breaths even as he was still deep in dreamland.

"Why am I still in Evan's room?"

"I should be asking you that."

Pride shrugged and replied to Eliza's question as she tapped Evan's shoulder and injected a bit of her black aura into his body.

"The fuck?!"

The young hero screamed as he jolted awake, half his hand instantly travelling into a small fifty-centimetre-long black hole that had appeared mid-air, something Pride recalled being his inventory skill's manifestation.

"Oh?"

It was then that his brain finally registered the sight of Eliza and Pride, his guard dropping as he closed his inventory.

"It's nice and all that your first reaction to that was to touch your weapon, but in reality, you'd be dead before you even get to wake up.

You should have noticed me from the moment I walked into this room."

"Well, you can't blame me. I'm not exactly as experienced as you are."

Pride scoffed upon hearing his excuse, her mind recalling the scene of that child opening up the room door as she retorted.

"Even an inexperienced brat should know to lock his room door before falling asleep."

She then pointed to the slightly ajar door before continuing her words.

"That door was opened by a kid who was randomly turning people's door handles. If I wasn't awake and on my way to your room, who knows what would have happened if someone walked in while you two were still asleep?"

The two then instantly realised the gravity of the situation, as looks of shock adorned their faces when Pride pointed it out to them.

Upon seeing that they acknowledged where they went wrong and seemed to be reflecting, Pride stopped chiding them.

'Reminds me of when I was dealing with a younger version of Sloth. I wonder how he's doing now?

I think he might be the only one fine with being sealed, considering he got to do nothing for a thousand years.'

The duo then took their baths at the general bathhouse at the bottom floor of the guest house, a service that made the prices of their rooms increase exponentially, before dressing up for the day.

As per Evan's words the day before, Pride had decided to spend her day freely, her destination already being set in stone from the start.

Pride had a hobby she had been unable to indulge in for a while, and that was reading.

She liked to read books of any kind that she could get her hands on, accumulating knowledge, both real and fictional, had been her favourite pastime before she was sealed.

With the assistance of a few city guards, Pride made her way to the City Library at the centre of the city, not too far from the Magic Academy and the Grand Magic Tower that stood taller than all the other towers in the city.

She arrived in front of the Archaic-style building and waltzed in through the doors, attracting the attention of a few passers-by due to her eye-catching outfit.

Upon arriving at the receptionist's desk, she asked for the basic information about the library that anyone entering it needed to know.

"I see, this is your first time here.

The library has multiple rooms with books of a category group in each one. Every room has four floors with the first two being for tourists and casual visitors to the library. From the third floor and above, one has to be a magician registered with the city or an A rank and above adventurer to go there.

As for the fourth floor, only Grand Mages and S Rank adventurers are allowed to go to that floor so please take care to not wander up to those floors.

Doing so would incur either a fine or a ban from the library. A lifetime ban.

As for the process of borrowing books..."

The receptionist kept on droning about the rules while Pride filtered out the things that mattered while ignoring everything else.

After he was done, Pride casually walked into the library hallway, looking at the category names on the double doors to each of the rooms.

Upon discovering the fictional stories category, she revealed a small smile and pushed open the doors, grabbing the attention of the librarian who gave a light bow to welcome her.

Entering the room full of the smell of paper and magic was a treat for Pride's mind. She felt like she could drown in the ocean of tranquillity.

The whole aura of the space was as peaceful as nature, with the long stretching room full of piles of information captured in the pages being something truly mesmerizing to her.

People of various races quietly moved about the room, looking through shelves and picking books, with a few others in the same uniform as the librarian beside the door on small ladders arranging books on their shelves.

There were desks beside the shelves, prepared for the readers to sit comfortably and enjoy their time.

Pride walked up to a random shelf and began to look around, her eyes catching sight of some familiar series she read a thousand years ago before Gluttony razed the city to the ground in his temper tantrum.

'To think that they managed to save some of those books. I guess preventing Gluttony from devouring the survivors was a good decision then.

I can get to complete some series then.'

She was slightly surprised upon this discovery, however, this did not last for long as she discovered a sequel to a series she had read before and was unable to complete since she was sealed.

The book was placed on a shelf for 'Ancient' books that were not allowed to be borrowed.

She picked the whole series and found her way to a desk where she quietly sat down and delved into the book instantly.

The soothing light falling on the table, from the window above the shelves beside her made her relax as she passed the time peacefully.

If any one of the previous heroes was to come across this scene, they would surely spit blood in shock while refusing to accept the reality that the demon who nearly killed them multiple times would be peacefully reading a book in a library.