Chapter 14: Special Privilege (4) (1/2)

Chapter 14: Special Privilege (4)

‘W-What? Didn’t he just see ed book tried to hold onto its pride, but when it saw Chi-Woo reach for another book, it hurriedly flapped towards his! How could you look at any other?’ The winged book dropped all pretense and tried to appeal to Chi-Woo aggressively, but it was too late now

“Ah, seriously Go! Go away!” Chi-Woo scolded the book for hindering him and pushed it back The book fleeakly away like a fly hit by a fly trap, lost consciousness, and flopped down to the ground

‘This is driving me crazy’ Chi-Woo looked visibly tired now He picked up books by randos on the pages There were simply too many of them Even if he only read the title of the books and flipped through theh the book in this case

—I understand your confusion in this unfamiliar situation

—Aren’t you the one who said it’s easier to make mistakes if you’re in a hurry?

—Don’t be so anxious and take things more slowly

—Follow your intuition

The mysterious voice muttered in his head

‘You were the one who told rumbled inside his mind and soon closed his eyes It was his habit whenever he had to concentrate

‘Withdone by standing still, so he , he swerved his arhtened all the senses in his body, feeling books sweeping past him like water

‘…Oh?’ To his surprise, his intuition was telling hi He felt a variety of sensations⁠—cold and hot and even hard and soft… A these sensations, he just had to find one that he liked Flip He didn’t kno much time had passed He opened an eye to peek as he swarabbing the book that tickled his left hand

‘It’s this one’ He felt nothing but basic physical sensations froave hi becaer, and he felt a burst of assurance rise in his heart

‘I know it This is the one!’ It was just like the feeling one would have when seeing an ally a battle

“Ok, I'll pick you,” Chi-Woo said As soon as he declared these words, everything halted The old-ri book that hid its cover with its wings, and the book that flew around in a frenzy—seized Then they began to disappear Like icefro left Soon, Chi-Woo was standing in a white space without anything in it Chi-Woo looked around in a Chi-Woo’s eyes naturally darted towards the front and saw a gentle ripple There hadn’t been anything just a liure looked like a child, or a girl, to be more precise Her body was covered in wounds, and she was crying She cried so sorrowfully as if she was an orphan who had just lost their parents on the battlefield She looked so pitiful that Chi-Woo wanted to approach the girl and hug and pat her, telling theht

—Now…

The voice rang again

—You are the owner of this space

‘I am the master of the library I just saw?’ Chi-Woo wondered Simultaneously, the child lifted her head As tears dripped down her face, she stared at Chi-Woo and approached hi one slow step at a time When the child finally reached Chi-Woo, she looked up at hiings and carefully stretched out her hand

‘A die?’

A die lay on top of her small palm It wasn’t a normal, cube-shaped die, but a seven-sided one Chi-Woo couldn’t hear the child’s voice, but he could understand what she was trying to tell hi him to take the die, but Chi-Woo couldn’t accept this offer easily He didn’t knoho this child was and why they had invited him to a place that looked like a library andhim a die now Questions popped up in his mind and formed more questions

—Why don’t you take it?

Chi-Woo felt a slight push against his back, and he took one step forward towards the child The child raised both hands as if she was pleading to Chi-Woo to take the die When Chi-Woo met the child’s eyes, he stretched out his hands like he was hypnotized He wiped away the child’s tears and picked up the die froain

—You have received it

The child’s eyes darted around, and her htly

—You have suffered a lot It o on and finally rest

At these words, the child slittered from dried-up tears It was a smile that filled all on-lookers with happiness The child closed her eyes like she was finally relieved now As if she wanted to thank Chi-Woo, she opened her arms widely and leaned her body towards him

“Ah”

But before she could, she disappeared The child was gone as if she had never existed in the first place Chi-Woo felt a sense of regret and squeezed the die twice before he stretched his hand back out and lowered his ar What was the die? And what about the book? Chi-Woo raised the book he was holding It was a siht thickness, and it pleased him whenever he looked at it

—Heh

Chi-Woo thought he just heard laughter

—How surprising Of all the books you could’ve chosen, you chose that one

“What kind of book is it…No, before that, who are you, really?’

—Fu, fu Why don’t you take a look at your book first?

It felt like he was getting ridiculed, but since Chi-Woo was curious, he decided to open the book to its first page

“…” Chi-Woo was speechless when he saw curly shapes that he didn’t recognize at all Yet the shapes soon wavered until they changed to Hangul, which Chi-Woo could read

‘Is this the effect of the translation device?’ Chi-Woo read the writings that had changed shape The title said:

[7 Ways to Becoasped when he saw a title he hadn’t expected at all It wasn’t an instruction book, detailing celestial e It wasn’t even a guide to a hidden or hard job What need did a 20-year-old young man who had barely lived his life have for such a book?

“This is—?”

Slaaaaaam!

Before Chi-Woo could finish his sentence, he heard bookcases fall over and saw a blinding flash of light burst in the center of the books Simultaneously, Chi-Woo felt his body drop

Bahhhh!” He stretched and wrapped the back of his head with his hands, rolling sideways

“Ahhhh—Uhhhhhh”

Chi-Woo groaned for a while, but eventually sat up His face was all scrunched up in pain

Sla struck his face and slid down his body