Volume 8 Chapter 1 Part1 (1/2)
Thatfrom afar He knew that sound He had heard it twice before
The first ti the time of Mokkania’s Rebellion The second ti the time of the Deep Blue Curse Rebellion For hiside the Armed Librarians of Bantorra Library, it was a horrible sound
Enlike Bishi+le threw his blanket off and got off the bed He was inside the roo the main street of Bantorra Library’s town
“Did so happen?”
Enlike peeked out of theUnfortunately, he wasn’t able to see Bantorra Library froh the hotel’s corridors With his physical abilities it would have been easy for hiht now Enlike was concealing his own Magic ability He couldn’t use neither his power of lightning nor his superhuman movements
He exited the hotel’s main door and rushed into the road Around him were other citizens who like Enlike seemed worried
“Again?”
“Weren’t those terrorists gone already?”
People whispered to each other It was natural they would be afraid The o were still fresh in their minds Everyone feared another battle that would end up involving them
“…Do you have any idea what happened?”
A guest of the same hotel spoke to him
“I don’t know”
Enlike shook his head He wasn’t lying or evading the question While he understood the internal affairs of Bantorra Library better than the average citizen, he still had no idea what just happened there now
At that moment, someone bumped at his back Normally he wouldn’t even stumble, but Enlike fell cleanly This was to conceal his own physical abilities
“Sorry! Are you okay?”
The one to hit hi from the impact to his back, it was a person who could use bodily reinforceic
“Are you fine?”
“Yeah”
The suited rabbed Enlike’s arm and helped him stand up
“Forgive ency”
The reat hurry
“Was that an Armed Librarian?”
The sauest from before muttered
“Probably”
Enlike replied
That man was familiar to him He was an Armed Librarian with the name of Gamo Mattalast had once introduced hi him stand
Gamo hadn’t noticed that the person he had bumped into was Enlike This was because the current Enlike did not look like how Gamo knew him
Enlike had once been eaten by the Book-Eater Zatoh However, he reversed the situation and took control of Zatoh’s own body The Enlike that the Armed Librarians had knoas actually Zatoh’s form
That Zatoh’s fored His almond eyes now became sanpaku eyes His oval face had shrunken, and his nose becaer Also, while he was once tall he was now at about an average height
While a few vestiges of Zatoh have remained, this was the form of Enlike when he was alive
He hadn’t planned on changing it; It beca the past year He didn’t fully understand the reason for this, but his body was probably being adjusted to fit his soul
Only the proof of his Book-Eating ability, his transparent hair had remained With only that left, he dyed his white hair back to black
“He didn’t seem to have noticed”
EnlikeGamo’s back
None of the Armed Librarians knew Enlike’s for as he wouldn’t use his power of lightning, none of them would be able to notice his true identity
Enlike had been staying at Past God Bantorra’s Island for about 20 days now
He knew that the Ar for hi God Cult The woman called Kyasariro had once invited hinored all of it He kept living while concealing his ability
This was because Enlike was planning on fighting the Armed Librarians
He was planning on destroying their biggest secret: Heaven
“Hey, you I don’t knohat’s going on, but shouldn’t we return to the hotel?”
The man nearby spoke to him
“That e the situation a little bit more”
Enlike answered and stared at the direction of Bantorra Library He could see people running on the roofs and rushi+ng into the building He could see an airplane that flew by taking a sharp turn and descending The Ar
But he couldn’t understand as happening at all
“I’ll peek there a little”
Saying so, Enlike started walking The kind ave up
This ood opportunity
Enlike started thinking If the Armed Librarians were in the e of that Anyway, his first priority was to ascertain the situation
He walked toward the Library All in preparation to fight against the Armed Librarians
Yes, they had been Noloty’s precious coainst them, and there were also those that he respected or felt friendly toward
However, he had no choice but to fight against them This was in order to destroy Heaven and put an end to Enlike’s fight
He sloalked toward Bantorra Library, where the bells were still ringing
A year ago…
When the Deep Blue Curse Rebellion ended, Enlike was at the Ismo Republic where chaos still continued Three days after the war had ended, Enlike sent Noloty’s Book and a letter noting the fact that he had killed Kachua to Bantorra Library
With that he had fulfilled his obligation toward the Ar to do with him anymore
After that, Enlike wandered aihout the Is that period? Enlike himself did not remember it well
In exchange for victory, Enlike had lost everything Orto hioal which was fighting against the Indulging God Cult
He had no reason to return to a Bantorra Library that had no Noloty in it He also had no interest in a peaceful life after having defeated the Indulging God Cult He only wished for a life unrelated to battle in order to relieve Noloty
What he thought about while wandering about was fighting It was only thing Enlike was able to do He knew nothing but fighting nor could do anything else Only that was on his mind
How stupid, he laughed at himself
Noloty wished for him to have a peaceful life He could understand it but couldn’t accoer in this world Even if he were able to achieve a peaceful life, Noloty would not be able to rejoice at that anymore
He desperately searched for soer any opponent
At that ht Sharing of one of the Armed Librarians, Mirepoc Finedell
‘Enlike-san… it has been a while This is the lowly Arht now?’
Enlike couldn’t respond Even if he could, he didn’t feel like answering her
‘We are looking for you, Enlike-san We have prepared a treatratitude we possess toward you for saving the Armed Librarians and the world You may not like it, but please make contact
There is what happened to Noloty, but… we do sympathize with you Please do not let yourself head into ruin That would also be Noloty’s wish’
So stupid, spat out Enlike What do you even know?
‘That, and we ca God Cult believes in We have no definitive proof, but it seeend created by people of the past was shaped into a delusion
We are currently eli God Cult Please do not worry about the revival of the Cult Well then, please contact us’
The Thought Sharing was severed What a crude ability, thought Enlike It allowed one to rudely approach a man anted to be left alone
“I see So the Indulging God Cult has been destroyed”
Enlike s Enlike had to do were also over
This didn’t one he would no longer have anyone to fight
At that time Enlike sat in a cheap bar at sorant The custoazes at him These ht
“Give me more liquor”
Enlike said to the bar’s host He pretended to not hear hi drops straight out of the bottle
Decaying like this wasn’t bad at all He had been dead for a long ti this, he threw the bottle at the floor
Enlike laid his face on the counter and closed his eyes
‘The Armed Librarians will be destroyed and the world will be reborn There is no place for you in my desired neorld’
An unwanted face rose to his mind It was the face of the one who used Enlike and killed Noloty - Kachua
‘Let us take her Book along with yours to Heaven You will probably have some place at some corner of that oh so vast and unfathomable Heaven”
He also said such things Though he didn’t want to listen to him
Enlike then recalled Kachua’s just before he shot the great lightning that tore through the heavens That expression of accepting his own death and still being convinced of victory
“…No”
Enlike muttered Heaven was no delusion; no human would make such a face for a delusion Kachua had been convinced Heaven definitely existed somewhere
“You’re wrong, Mirepoc”
Enlike stood up Finally finding an opponent, he s while However, that smile was on the border of sanity and madness
“Heaven… does exist”
The surrounding people shook their chairs to get away from him
A year passed since then
Walking through the roads of Past God Island Bantorra, Enlike was heading for the Library A carefree voice suddenly called out to him
“…Hey, do you have aperson over there”
A wohtclothes in her sandals talked to hiht Enlike as he looked at her It’s been a long time, he almost said, but it stuck in his throat
The one standing there was Olivia Littolet She was the one who ran away from Hamyuts and fooled Mattalast - that Olivia Littolet
“Did so happen? It’s terribly noisy, so is there so?”
Olivia said in an easygoing tone Having lost her memories, she was now no more than a normal citizen
“Do you not know the sound of these bells, miss tailor?”
There were plenty of other people who ju the bells They all looked at Olivia with strange eyes She was the only one there to not understand the situation
“Bells? Yeah, I’ve heard them before What of them?”
“They’re Bantorra’s bells”
“What about it? Uh, so cold…”
Olivia rubbed her paja
“You don’t know?”
“I only recently started living here so I dunno”
The always-silent Enlike began explaining as Olivia started sniffing inelegantly
“They’re the bells that signify an e all of the Arhest priority”
Olivia, sleepy thus far, widened her eyes for the first time
“That’s not good Did so happen?”
“I don’t know I just saw the Ar around”
Olivia leaned her chin on her hand and thought for a while
“Maybe it’s that…”
“What is it?”
Enlike asked back People started flocking around Olivia Everyone wanted some information, even mere rumors
“A while ago I’ve talked with Hamyuts She said that she has some enemy”
“…What does that mean?”
Enlike inquired
“It was about teeks ago She told me there was some unknown enemy after her, wondered who that was, said she didn’t knohere they would coht be them”
The townspeople started cla Who was the ene her?
“No, that’s probably not it”
Enlike briefly denied it
An unknown ene Hamyuts would probably be the person who’s inherited the Violet Wish And that unknown factor was right there: it was Enlike
Eight o he had succeeded the Violet Wish fro the Armed Librarians
“Why not? Or rather, who’re you?”
Olivia looked doubtful