Chapter 12 (1/2)
Leah thought to herself as she stared at the man heavily concentrated in his book. She was certain that the reason the man was reading the book was because he wanted to increase his stats. And there was quite a high likelihood that he may believe that only the books in this place increased his stats.
‘I should tell him.’
She agonized for a brief moment and walked towards the man.
“Excuse me.”
She arrived in front of the man and called to him.
“……..?”
Coincidentally he had just finished reading the entire book. He closed it and looked at her. His face was filled with confusion. She opened her mouth.
“This place is not the only place you can raise your stats.”
“Excuse me?”
He answered her with a rhetorical question. His voice was filled with embarrassment. She smiled as she heard his disconcerted voice and replied.
“Your stats can be increased not only here but elsewhere as well. You only need to read a book.”
“Okay.”
He responded.
“………..?”
This time, she was confused.
‘Why is his reaction like this?’
Different than before, the man’s voice was very calm.
* * *
‘What does this woman do?’
Soo Hyuk was considerably taken aback.
‘Why is she bringing up conversation about stats all of a sudden?’
She comes up to me abruptly and says that this place isn’t the only place you could raise your stats? That you only need to read a book for it to increase? What does she want me to do about it? What type of reaction does she want from me? He thought to himself.
‘Did she want me to be surprised?’
“I told you, you only need to read a book? Not here?”
She spoke in the meantime.
“I know that.”
His thoughts stopped as soon as she spoke. He shook his head.
“Excuse me?”
She asked with a rhetorical question. She looked flustered.
“But why are you here then?”
It was such an obvious question.
“To read the books.”
“……..the books?”
“Yes, this is a library.”
He responded to her question as he glanced around their surroundings once and looked at her. She continued to ask questions.
“Weren’t you reading because of your stats?”
“No.”
“…………”
She did not say a word anymore. She just stared quietly at him for a brief moment and turned around. As soon as she turned around, he opened up a book next to him and began to read.
Swish
[Wisdom has increased by 1.]
Shortly, he read the entire book and closed it.
‘Did she leave?’
After he checked his message, he looked around the inside of the library. The girl was nowhere to be found. It seemed like she left.
‘Oh well, it would’ve been different if this place was the only place you could raise your stats.’
If this place were the only place you could increase your stats, then the girl would’ve stayed.
Rustle
He stood up from his seat. He thought to himself as he began to head towards the bookcase to get a new book.
‘I wonder how long it’s going to take.’
He was very curious as to how long it would take to read all of the books that were inside of the library.
* * *
“Ah, it’s finally graduation.”
Yeon Joong’s voice was filled with regret as he mumbled to himself.
“You waited for this moment so much, why are you being like that? Do you regret it?”
Soo Hyuk asked.
“More than regret, I guess you could say something feels empty?”
He wanted graduation to come so badly. However, when graduation was actually over, there was some type of hollowness.
“Yeah?”
“You don’t feel anything?”
He asked Soo Hyuk.
“Umm…..”
Soo Hyuk murmured to himself as he pondered. He soon finished his thoughts and opened his mouth.
“I feel slightly regretful that I won’t be able to access the library. But besides that, not really?”
He was also regretful. Though, that regret was only because of the library. With his graduation, it was now impossible to access it.
Technically, it wasn’t actually impossible. However, in order to utilize the library, he would have to go to school? Time was too precious.
‘During that time, it would be better to access Pangaea.’
He now had Pangaea. Inside Pangaea, there were still new books that were unread. It would be more efficient to connect to Pangaea and read the books in there than to waste time going to the library.
“Welcome!”
“Hello.”
“Let’s sit here.”
Shortly, Soo Hyuk and Yeon Joong arrived at a Chinese restaurant and greeted the owner as they grabbed a seat.
“What are you going to eat?”
After they sat down, they went directly into menu selection.
“Jjambbong, you?”
“I’m going to get Jjajangmyun! Graduation = Jjajangmyun.”
Soo Hyuk chose Jjambbong and Yeon Joong chose Jjajangmyun. Once they finished deciding, Yeon Joong shouted.
“Boss! We’ll order! Can we get one jjambbong and one jjajangmyun! Please give us steamed dumplings as well!”
“Okay!”
Their order was completed with the owner’s response.