Chapter 250: 1.5-31 (1/2)

”Uuuggghhh,” groaned Melting Snow, while rubbing his hand against his forehead in confusion. 'Why the heck does my head hurt so much?'

Even though the boy was dazed and not entirely aware of his surroundings, he could still sense a menacing presence nearby. Feeling that his life might be in danger, he quickly moved to get up only to be stopped by a pair of familiar hands.

”Slowly, Melting Snow. You still have a couple of seconds left before your stunned state completely disappears,” Xinya whispers soothingly in the boy's ear before wrapping an arm around his waist to help him to sit upright.

It took a couple of seconds of leaning against Drifting Cloud for the dizziness that came with being stunned to fade. Opening his grey eyes for the first time since he was knocked out, Melting Snow took in the destruction around him. 'What a mess I made.'

”Can someone tell me,” Pan Yinjie, the librarian began through gritted teeth, looking like he was visibly trying to calm himself down. ”Why shouldn't I just kick you both out of my library right this instant?!”

Melting Snow now understood where the ominous presence he felt earlier when he first came too, had come from.

Looking away from the dark looks the NPC was throwing him, Melting Snow slowly peered down at the glowing orange book clenched tightly in his right arm. With how angry the man was at him, he started to worry that all that trouble he went through to get it was all for nothing.

Noticing that the wolf-eared boy's attention was wavering, Pan Yingjie started to tap his foot impatiently. ”Speak now before I decide that I care naught for your excuses!”

”Mr. Pan...,” Pulling Melting Snow up along with him as he stood, Xinya tried to swiftly come up with some justification for this mess. Even though he had nothing to do with what happened here, Xinya felt that it was his duty to shoulder the blame since he was the older one.

However, before he could continue trying to think of how to bullshit his way out of this problem, he was stopped by Melting Snow. The boy hastily inserted his body in front of Xinya before giving the NPC a 90-degree bow.

Melting Snow couldn't allow Drifting Cloud to get in trouble because of something he did. This was his fault, and if anybody was going to be blamed, it would be him and only him.

”Sir, It was all my fault; please don't blame Drifting Cloud, he had nothing to do with what happened here.” Melting Snow said contritely.

With his gaze still locked on the ground, Melting Snow didn't notice that for a split second, a pleased look appeared on the librarian's face before disappearing just as fast as it came. Even though the boy didn't notice, that didn't mean that Xinya didn't.

”I'll give you one chance to tell me what happened; if I don't like your answer, I will ban you both,” threatened Pan Yingjie.

Xinya, who had been watching the NPC for a while now, felt that there was something up with the man. Because there was no way any librarian worth their grain of salt wouldn't have already kicked them out after their book had been violated like this.

He had a feeling that this had to be a set up for some kind of quest, and it most likely had something to do with this NPC. Before Xinya could warn Melting Snow to be careful about his response, the boy began to speak.

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Even though he might not be the brightest bulb on the shelf, Melting Snow understood that it would be stupid of him to tell the NPC that he destroyed the library because he was curious about a glowing book.

”What happened was,” Melting Snow began to rack his brain to think of an excellent plausible excuse that the man would buy. ”After reading the animal book you gave me for a while, I started to get bored...”