Vol 8 Chapter 32 (1/2)
Chapter 32
CHAPTER 3: THE DUTY OF THE PROUD SLAVES – PART 2
February 20, 2018Tgurneu
After being promoted to an Armed Librarian, Yukizona worked brilliantly Instead of hiained many achievements outside the Library
He ion of Kuler and assisted the maintenance of public order He discovered a new mine and took command of its excavation He established a syste to Book-related crimes
Yukizona became famous to the outside world His friend Mokkania also did steady work No matter which of the two, Yukizona or Mokkania, would beco Director, Bantorra Library would be peaceful – this was said in many places
However, during that period Ha
He only came to know of this later, but apparently they had held the following discussion
“What should we do about the next Acting Director? For real”
Ha at both of their docu Director’s Office
“There’s definitely no suitable person”
Mattalast also racked his brains Public opinion was that Yukizona and Mokkania were perfect fits However, they could not inherit the office
“Both Yukizona and Mokkania are surprisingly good kids What can we do? Why are such good kids Armed Librarians in the first place?”
Haly completely lost
The Acting Director could not be a good person; their job was to deceive the entire world and carry out evil, after all Best were those who, like Photona and Mattalast, were villains in good people’s skin The second best were people ere actual villains such as Hamyuts
Actually good people like Yukizona and Mokkania were the worst for the job
“Bonbo is quite a piece of shi+t, but… he can’t serve as the Acting Director”
“Anyway, seems like we have no choice except Yukizona or Mokkania Well, we just need to see how things are”
Three years passed Yukizona kept working as an Are While he always appeared cold and heartless, his judge at all
The time came for Yukizona to be told of the truth Yukizona and Yuri were brought along with Hamyuts down to the Second Sealed Labyrinth
They were told it was so i about so
Withoutany speculations, Yukizona and Yuri walked quietly
“…I feel a bit bad telling you this”
Hamyuts said
“Why?”
“Because you actually believed it… You believed that the Armed Librarians are allies of justice”
What a horrible thing to say, thought Yukizona
Frankly speaking, Yukizona quite disliked Hah It was because he thought that she was impure as an Armed Librarian
“If that’s not true, then I have no reason to work as an Armed Librarian”
Ha
“Aah,told that? How troublesome Help me, Yuri”
Yuri raised an eyebrow after being told this
“Yukizona Unfortunately, the Arht They’re neither allies of justice nor defenders of order
I think you’ll be quite shocked But don’t kill yourself or anything”
And then Ha She told theratitude to
Moving ahead
in time, it was January 12, 1929
Inside Bantorra Library, where chaos now ruled, Hamyuts spoke in front of the voice device
“Well then, it is time for me to also tell you the truth I will tell you the true history of this Bantorra Library
If you don’t understand it you will also not understand the current situation Please listen calmly, everyone”
Ha silence so that everyone would firmly understand what she said so far
Four years ago she had the same talk with Yukizona She also paused like that back then The story this time was directed at the entire Armed Librarians body
“Well then… really nohere should I start?
I know, I’ll start with an allegory”
By using her Sensory Threads, she checked the situation of the Armed Librarians in front of the Sixth Archive ere listening to her The Library, that should have turned into a battlefield, was now completely silent
“Have your parents read you fairy tales and such when you were children?
And in these stories were evil people anted to rule the world, right?
Like a de like that
In these kinds of stories they would end up exterminated by the allies of justice These heroes protected the peace of the world
But haven’t you ever tried i another possibility? If the demon lord had taken over the world, ould have happened?”
There were probably only a few people who did so More importantly, they didn’t have the leisure to think of such a thing
“The world we live right now is one controlled by one such evil sovereign
In contrast to fiction, no allies of justice have appeared in reality
The emperor made the whole world suber People became the servants of that evil emperor and continued their lives
The truth is that this is the kind of world we live in
But there are also good things about this Most of the people living in the world don’t know they are being controlled by that evil e as they don’t go against the evil eh
Thinking like this, it isn’t so bad, right?”
Hamyuts was a bit dissatisfied because response had been too weak I think that was a great allegory thought…
“Obviously, since the evil es to control the populace Those underlings, while possessing power and authority, do bad things all over the world
They are us, the Armed Librarians”
She knew the Armed Librarians all raised their eyebrows They couldn’t understand the trueof her words
“I know it’s hard to believe, but this is the truth
Shall we in of this world and the Armed Librarians”
Hamyuts’s story continued further She repeated the same talk she had had with Yukizona in the past
“The world 2000 years ago was called the Age of Paradise You all know this, right
We don’t kno long it lasted It is said to have been for 10,000 years, and maybe even 100,000 years
During that tioverned by the three World Overseers
Future Overseer Orntorra guided people, Present Overseer Toitorra ruled nature, and Past Overseer Bantorra recorded all events
Their rule was perfect It was very different froovernment
The same way, people of the world were also different froentle people like Noloty During that time, people lived in peace without any conflict or hatred
People also had pleasant and wonderful comrades at their sides Fairies that led people astray, respectful and awe-inducing dragons, as well as other monsters and fantastic creatures However, they were never people’s ene some color to the world
It was a wonderful age Everyone was like a child in a cradle
However, we can’t see how the Age of Paradise ith our own eyes Because we can’t read the Books of that time
If any of us saw a Book froht beco in this world”
The Armed Librarians were so silent that they would be able to hear a pin fall on the floor They had to listen to her every word
“Why had that Age of Paradise ended? That is a proble on, but we actually know the truth
Si was the appearance of wicked people
Those wicked people were those who possessed desire Everyone has soh This means they had more desire than what the World Overseers had permitted
The wicked people sought to win more than anyone, to own more than other people, to be more happy than other people, to be someone special, different than others
The change came truly slowly While there weren’t any criminals or villains such as we have in our time now, the seeds of evil were sown and budded
They increased slowly but surely
Soon, people ca, of ridicule, of control The wicked people opposed the World Overseer and sought ood people, controlled them and spread the seeds of unhappiness
No good people of the Age of Paradise are now left in our world All of us are the descendants of wicked people An evil existence going against God; people who seek what cannot be obtained”
All of the Ar: Hoas this story related to Bantorra Library? And how did it relate to the current situation?
“Ah, hold on for a bit longer and listen
The world got stained in pain and sorrow by the hands of the wicked people Cri force was born Nations were born and began collecting taxes Conflicts took place and trials were held
Even so, we have no idea how better it was than our current world At least people like al
But finally, a certain ainst the World Overseers and sought to destroy them
His name was Ruruta Coozancoona The wickedest person in the world As well as the possessor of the greatest power in this world”
Ruruta Coozancoona She had also mentioned that name before: he was the true Director of Bantorra Library And he was the one to sentence the Armed Librarians their end
“He had fought the World Overseer and defeated the the Gods, Ruruta Coozancoona also devoured their power and made it his own
Future Overseer Orntorra had his power stolen by Ruruta and vanished from this world
Present Overseer Toitorra became an existence that only maintains the laws of the world
Past Overseer Bantorra lost his power to collect Books The generated Books were abandoned by their Overseer and started being buried in the ground This Library lost its master and became ruins”
I This Library was supposed to have been created by Bantorra and keep existing indefinitely…
“After defeating the World Overseers, Ruruta Coozancoona made this Library his own castle He then unleashed the power he stole from the Gods – the “Beasts of the Final Chapter” in the Labyrinth and uards
We now call them “Guardian Beasts” Their real job is not to protect Books; they prevent people fro Ruruta who sleeps in the depths of the Library”
Several Armed Librarians turned around The Guardian Beasts – no, the Beasts of the Final Chapter were swar to the Sealed Labyrinth
“You all kno strong the Beasts of the Final Chapter are Yet their power is nothing th
If Ruruta becole moment, he would be able to kill each and every last person in the world As he ruled Bantorra Library, he showed this power to the populace
Thus no one was able to oppose hiest, he also took the power of the Gods
Thus Ruruta became the ruler of the world No, perhaps it would be better to say owner He holds that much power, after all
Well then, what did the person ns the world did after this?
Beco the world would be foolish The owner of the world wouldn’t bother with so like that
Collecting wealth would also bein the world, after all He overca to do
And the thing he wanted in the end…
Was to obtain happiness
Ruruta told the following to the people of the world Because everything in the world belonged to him, even the happiness they could feel was his
He ordered all excavated Books to be brought to him
He received the happiness e
The people who obeyed Ruruta worked to dig out the Books buried underground They worked frantically After all, if they displeased Ruruta they would have been killed on the spot
Ruruta’s servants used people to work in thewere htered They gathered people with power from the world in order to employ miners