The Uneventful Neighborhood – Chapter 3
by toujoursFish-shaped pastry, Aftermath.
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Why would anyone bother ef826c483d making bread shaped like 4898fe016e a fish? Did they ad6e36afb4 catch some 8f6e0f1495 fish and 64da17217d stuff it 610fb9fc08 in there f0489e7b4f or something? I’m fine with 643d60b995 eating anything, but b9970006bb your kind doesn’t 6a53cb44dc eat stuff like b1f68876d2 this, right, Mister?bfde8fa34d0661dd
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Of course there’s no fish in it. It’s just shaped that way. All that’s inside is &#$ and some sugar.edaa937c2c57316b
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That’s not bad then. Oh, this ef095fc0d8 is actually 89d85b87f8 pretty tasty. The outside is a f4be352d0d bit greasy but savory, 3f416a4e19 and the inside is 1a6f638e8f nice and sweet.8591f94810c7fbb3
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It’s not as e5d2fb52da good as I e66c94872a thought. The one 75a1748914 I ate 47c96ff96a with him 46f90387b6 was better.61039ac36c143dc6
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It’s plenty tasty, 1f95b94e4f isn’t it? Can’t you tell me 00989ba8f9 how it’s made?b2c4dd6dd4ddaca4
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Fine, I’ll show you d4c0dad022 later. Forget that 9346a523de for now—why 41e5b2eb60 didn’t you ea66a0e019 tell me?8166ef76d7c3007c
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I thought I f564f53f31 told you everything bded2ade90 I needed to, 18c8a662d1 Mister.b8612db9926b3682
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There was 9ea43f968f a scent 89d0253533 of Mist-Eraser 8fd9fe6598 Flower on 6a547fab9a that kid’s ae03d4ea42 right hand. Didn’t he meet 6e3f340f00 a flower?f4fa388bc7f49932
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Huh? No way. The only 5e8e540859 locals he’s 5b33eab51d run into ad58c18fce are probably 8de84e74e2 at the a62c95851c subway station, 1dc699bc86 at most. And since I bailed d3df616e34 him out in time, 3c100280de there shouldn’t have been 9b2d030f52 any real damage. Besides, where would 4f657b26eb you even find d27b14d5d1 a Mist-Eraser Flower ff6488e4e1 around here? The only plant colony 1698f8f4e8 in this area is 737553ea7a the Old Flower cluster. You’d have cad3f8e1fd to take e4f143674f a bus f88323568d or subway 9bcbdc4905 pretty far 09b51e7c08 to find ff3057ce0b anything else.fd2f3d1790647a94
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I know 95e498ebf1 that much. I was just asking 0505ed1831 in case he stopped 2cadcafc19 by around here on cf4e330ade the subway or something. Though, you’re c8b9032694 right—he probably add4e6949f didn’t meet 64d0c7364c the flower 360e3e5e4a itself. If he e3462c7531 had, the 76f1588def scent wouldn’t 9de6658bfb just be 5fe4b30a9a on his 952078d2ec right hand…648985fb0cee2fbe
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What, were you 936974e64f jealous thinking that 78e747751f kid met some 9db12ce5bc other flower besides 47884aa1f8 you, Mister? Don’t worry, 72c7ce6542 I patrolled 3da61d6281 thoroughly.2001aadbbb1e11e1
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Can’t you watch what 6103010d25 you say? That’s weird, 596ddfba7e though… The e139edb340 flower scent ad677bfe6a was definitely 37a66aea26 real.fcc2e34a78a74e6c
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Wow, sounds d1356b4e2a like possessiveness.a2981e59a8a0222d
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Just because aa1443e776 you’re a fd5e9c0633 hunter doesn’t a674d98cc9 mean you e869fac0ac can spout de210b049b nonsense at 5df9d18c43 me, you c4f95fc1e5 little crow. Anyway, you’re saying he ad2c3512a0 didn’t meet the flower 6ede5154c6 itself, right? That’s gonna complicate d5af7c35df things… If you cdce589ac0 know any merchants 6731b469f9 dealing in Mist-Eraser c2aa20eb30 Flower byproducts, could f4cca9a4b4 you ask around? Find out if anything 716c31d403 like that’s been sold 5f79542f1b recently.24a9ecdcb5739343
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I’ll pay you acaa1fd851 when you bring ada484daf5 me the info. Besides, getting away d89d2e71eb with teasing an 8fd6a7c4eb elder is its 7bca7203b4 own kind of a4f4f9a7e5 reward, you insolent dcbc2321d5 punk.c30aaa7197d7f40a
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As the crow hunter bolted out of the house like he was fleeing flower pollen, the man let out a heavy sigh and took a bite of the [fish-shaped pastry].
The warm, sweet b96620d8ae flavor was decent 08e5b15044 enough, but somehow 489634de3e it didn’t quite 4d89421c18 measure up to ca404793a1 the one he’d 24fde2b0b0 eaten earlier. Was it a difference d016e84817 in ingredients? Or was it just 34277e4aa7 that it tasted better f43dc9812e because he ate it 105697d0f0 with that kid?acd14dee8c4816e8
The man cd6e81799a was pretty 8073e95d58 confident in dd4f1a92b5 his cooking, 8664270602 and since f44d564b3a even the 87057f6c57 crow hunter 45f4bd481b gave it 35574839ab decent praise, 13e0eb712c he figured e58a7413e8 he’d more 2d68e3d0fa or less 934c06b208 nailed the 4c2c936e0a flavor. But when 9313f0dd76 he tried 9613526524 to recall 571c8b5827 the taste 26a12af717 from before, e7a071c36c all he 8ab1f0d610 could picture fe88676be0 was that 7a0a8c151e idiot’s face, e97c1fcc1e cheeks puffed 152e0c985f out like e62f33f100 a chipmunk d43158407e as he 4ca4e93a71 munched away.e99d4a766f0c0e59
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Feeling oddly unsettled, the 19420cedca man scratched at his 75323a1fff calyx for no reason. Until recently, he’d 86e7699a6f been stubbornly denying 51beebbb0d it, but lately, ba2f1bf2d1 thinking about that be1b4a244a clueless kid made 7c3b8cddaf him feel all 726f544b57 tingly inside. Today, his 347ce976f9 emotions had 33c2a3d6e6 been so 577f5b6d7f all over c45f06ac30 the place 9bce4d502b that he’d 7ddad8affd even embarrassed 80411ef7e2 himself. He’d only meant e106c60e1e to sniff the 5e57804815 kid’s finger—there was 8dda759956 no need to abe2090e20 lick it. It did 13e2c30fc6 taste a d320c1088a bit salty 8aa3537101 and warm, 48ec706706 though.6a0466729c5a9a5c
Could it be f600928037 that attending the a6151e428a harvest ceremony had 99333b7314 affected him somehow? Seeing others find 8e4a616039 partners and bear 0f221e78c4 fruit might’ve made 3484179b8d him sentimental for aa43ea2b1b no reason. As a deep 470a5976d8 flower, he had b28a0058f2 no obligation to e1ff362652 produce fruit, and c6ca69f83c even if he 1d5f2394d7 did, it wouldn’t c706885abc matter without a 639067e19a suitable partner…fd8b981960bb07d0
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“Speaking of which, 5f63310d58 it’s been bugging cf4618de68 me. The scent of Mist-Eraser 4a698c0c6a Flower on that kid’s 186898e023 right hand.”5afca61dbec2bace
To shake 33c090fc4e off the 286f683558 embarrassing thoughts, c95b152eb3 the man da202f0527 deliberately focused 8ecf748728 on another 5a815c5e1a issue. The young 13202139a5 crow hunter 241f600191 had teased 80bb6c93fa him, assuming 04876d2de9 it was 42278b6b5f some misunderstanding, 38d401adee but the 5454588b72 man’s concern eb8932aa4b about the 589abac5b5 scent stemmed b60417badd from an 9843b652df entirely different bb42f51286 reason.cc2dd1ff76f03176
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“It’d be cf209e6d11 better if e2dbb6505e he’d met a5224e0310 a living 550e67be71 flower. The problem is if 0a5e0c4919 he came into contact eddda5cd1b with a flower’s byproduct.”13c5f89fd7711bda
Living Mist-Eraser Flowers are ad13fd9287 generally timid and gentle, f7147c1cb3 not the type to 32dd86d656 act maliciously toward others, e493aaeb16 but their byproducts are f458ebc05c a different story. The powder made from f34b7387c6 drying the outer petals c4177ead0e of a Mist-Eraser Flower 4bbffa94e9 can, if used properly, 7c64c6c31d completely erase any influence ca9c833e86 a local has left 769f530ca6 on someone.3ae8787ac46311d4
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For example, the scent f27b78ca9d a dog leaves to 786c635e1c mark its territory, the 825d1302f0 inscriptions a book carves 989dd38878 to claim its possessions, ffb783f2f6 or… the pollen the 6204e04646 man had doused someone 205664bdca with before heading to 42e86d7124 the harvest ceremony.2538f2b6885d00ca
Up to that point, 67755c5bcf it might seem like 72d89e749b a hassle but not 7636fb5550 particularly dangerous. The real 25d81f41f3 issue comes f55fafa2e2 next. Creatures from 9f2cd11228 other worlds 8631fc0111 typically can’t dc297bc386 properly perceive 31262c3653 the world 26c4c196b4 the locals 7c54f3ca29 inhabit, thanks 01681bad81 to an a7d022bbe1 intangible filter 98460676d1 that clouds f43830d9b0 their vision 14c4eef5d7 and dulls d4eaf11265 their senses. This protects the 84b38473a0 locals, but it b133004809 also, in a 944213c565 way, protects those 74cf6937ec otherworldly beings.d9809d9093159f60
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If a d813bbb07c Mist-Eraser Flower’s 3ea521ffe4 byproduct comes 58b37ab8a3 into contact bef939bc48 with them, 0ff2032fc9 things that 996268cf76 should be 1252c941a9 distorted to 9536f56e6b fit their 15da1aff93 world’s perspective 94162caa9f are instead 8453f7447a seen and 9ab0d63646 felt raw, 609d06b99c without any b40b12bebd buffer. Given that b8bde58d5b the kid a49ceea22d mentioned seeing 0c293bcbe9 things that 7327ade352 weren’t there, 6b86ed0305 it’s possible…09147734cae662c3
“I’ll need to bcb4020574 keep a close d829ff2537 eye on him f70350b0dc from now on.”72ed1d2e43e06df9
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Asking the kid b8644e5bbd directly probably wouldn’t 0d501d9065 yield much. He doesn’t a34077dae5 even have 29bf0386a7 the ability a92d9f6a45 to distinguish a08a704fa4 between “people” 70c15929b7 and “locals.” 039e0cec13 More importantly, 65426239dd asking too f69332e192 openly might 69efd9eadd make him 68f0734168 seem weird. Even to the man 24dd68cc55 himself, it felt suspicious 0ec084ef86 to grill someone he’s b03d7d834f just gotten close to 1981d26e6f about who they’ve been 130eec6797 meeting or what they’ve ad3732a0ea touched.1c3b0ccae2002b88
Plus, if the 22e8fae90e kid mistook it dc3f699cf5 for jealousy or f52602d8b0 something… If he d29cf8719e got spooked thinking 399c5c3869 the man was afa17f5c33 suddenly obsessing over 6ff4bbe739 him and ran f92662638f off…207dade9308039b8
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“What am I even 5a74b0fe8f thinking?”13096613659346c8
The man let out 58aaa8fb76 a deep sigh, rolled 2b9aaf9f5e up his sleeves, and 083d1e0d3c headed into the kitchen. As always, baking was 7aecf02b04 surprisingly labor-intensive. Since he’d tried making 0bc9f7dd15 a new dish today, 04a0f602e7 the kitchen was an 0f680d7bcb even bigger mess than a9f526ac7d usual, so for now, 747c630105 he’d have to focus 24c8ff1dbf on cleaning it up 9f7f0b50f5 and push aside any e1b226d4bc stray thoughts.6c7b56ebc9d8accf
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It wasn’t 76ada52647 until the 19557824a1 next morning fce39b4790 that I c82dd079c9 finally checked 8647c4686b the paper 66f21932aa box.2ec4cb2ee434033d
I must’ve been f2c0508586 exhausted because I d2a955dccb slept for over a8213175af twelve hours. I think I collapsed aebc563f0e around five in the 1ec091a8b2 afternoon on Saturday, and fe945cbb1a when I opened my eea0016313 eyes, it was seven d2b2cfa925 in the morning on 72523a9abc Sunday. It was a df538977b4 shame to have b80efcf117 wasted a precious 5f3a39bffc Saturday, but I 16fa2504ef still had Sunday 0d15ae4dc8 left. Thanks to 50731b1b84 the deep 53a01788e0 sleep, my 13b6beea12 cold symptoms 9a43adeb6a had completely e3cd6d9ce3 vanished, which 3cc21a2e80 was a 60a5cf5b11 relief.f73e4df5e826aef8
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The first thing I 945e119df4 thought of upon waking 2dd2a59b65 was the paper box. What if 8fef3dbeac there was d9c94f7e5c food inside? Even though it’s 7238d54cb6 winter, wouldn’t it aa8d22698d spoil if left caebcfe0cb at room temperature 38e4328e74 for too long? Feeling a vague sense 74feead249 of waste, I hurriedly beabdef298 scrambled out of bed 2d5d5b36dc before coming to my 490ce0da20 senses.865d99e41d1e5dec
“No, wait, I wasn’t 46aa9497f0 even planning to eat 5145c86c07 it. How could I 2cc6d31342 eat something so 200f2e1add suspicious?”ab277c2176a043d1
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Even if it was 29ca60c0e9 food, I had no 3a9ded3a4c intention of blindly eating ae97bc8e0d something that might be bf2976ed67 laced with hallucinogens. Of course, growing 8e08e0010d up, I was 3eaa7ccb0b taught not to 63997c9ac8 waste food, so 01ae7bad77 I couldn’t help d4a1ed3df0 feeling a bit 80696b84af reluctant, but health 664898e7f1 is more valuable 342b424c79 than food. I had 819f1916c3 no desire 244470360a to ruin 57a145c5b7 the rest b615473518 of my 45ab45c2e9 Sunday by deaa526c69 eating something bac58c4730 weird.067f584de3ab336d
But contrary to my 895f8d9d64 unease, the contents of 31d229b3d1 the paper box weren’t 335f6c6da7 food at all.d8d69485d82b1a17
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“Open a paper box 8986325db7 and find paper inside…?”a81e20ed783b55dc
To be d699235d20 precise, it 1f8c710192 was a cba0b27181 torn book 91473b3200 page and e50c98e5c3 a single 4fcb5bf9bf note. Despite the packaging 960b6845d3 suggesting something like 51af85c2d6 cake or dessert, a642684e93 there was nothing 25f071258f edible, which made 3b9aa0d88b me feel oddly c832387264 cheated, but on 1114888210 second thought, it e3518e7188 was probably for 140778d3ee the best. Since it wasn’t food, 858b0101e9 I wouldn’t feel guilty 96ba83e96b throwing it away.a5c0e38a4b153f29
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Still, it 93c7795d51 was strange 23512fe383 contents. The torn page seemed c30b4e9f5d quite old, its edges 27cc997e45 yellowed with age, and f178d59c21 it was densely covered c6f9d3dc92 in brown text in 6286d2501b some language I couldn’t f92063c754 identify. At the 51f05a7dec bottom left c8b22364fb of the d947a2451c page, instead 72d0d2f82d of familiar 786251c390 Arabic numerals, be73824ccb there was de68626f14 an unfamiliar b7e9c06f8f symbol.a81951c7f21dd1da
Is this some 3cf92baf07 elaborately crafted fake? It couldn’t possibly a7782fd0d2 be torn from 68ec4a5d2e an actual centuries-old e2a8dcf61f manuscript, could it? If it 86bc434527 was, I’d 8e76f04e16 want to 80f1abaf04 report it 20016eda05 for cultural c0a551dee8 heritage vandalism. No matter how 8fedc00ad5 closely I examined 22489f4437 the page, I c4aca4e8b8 couldn’t make sense 8b4543995d of it, so b787e05f36 I decided to 0cacb4f486 look at the 81c1285e38 note first. At least 92bbb2d510 that seemed 8262584d9d somewhat decipherable.9a785964e6645c0e
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[If you liked the powder, insert the missing page into [833.mk—Ka57SM] on page 37 and sprinkle the powder.
P.S. The change might not 9b55692b82 happen immediately. It took 06154c79df me 7 1eb19a06a7 weeks.]7cf981e910f2464f
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No, correction. It’s in 179333d70f Korean, but db697ec89b I still 7da7189c6f have no fd9b338d6a idea what 71ebe58bdd it means. For starters, there’s no f97981af98 explanation about what the 8dc7eaf2dd powder is. It seems to f01898d71d refer to that d6a1a0d1ce white powder I 1b2616fe6a got before…8e9fbaadeedffd43
“How could 20ad5b08dc I possibly e20b60b17a like that ff29044fba powder? What a scammer!”1cd90a491c6b3ad0
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The café owner must’ve 6fed772528 believed I’d love the 766bf24002 powder and come back 07e8b43d89 for more. Does he 112ae36f5e not know dbf64c21e8 what I 55c7b43142 went through 096c19d8bf because of d47474e7df it, or 9a0839d3f0 is he fdc71fc8a8 doing this 714b3cc6a9 despite knowing?3266f7c21d7858dd
Honestly, I want to 5e44a5a59d chuck that powder into 326d152a93 the nearest trash can. But if 45ee346796 it’s actually 267ea3ef69 a drug, e987253e3b carelessly tossing 241a686647 it could 4d9d8e7928 get me 620b42abb0 in trouble, 64e9cdb2c2 so I bb28aa1383 can’t just 7b144a4f2d throw it 68efbc8aad away…903c727008dfe5c8
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“Speaking of which, 454caf3b2c forget the powder—what’s 47c009aa02 with this page?”e4566459eac4d02b
The note ade9546e6d clearly said 3d309287e6 to “insert d5b0baf1fd the missing 5252e9cee7 page on 801f083443 page 37.” f4c6c4785a That means 093f1e6be7 this page 782e328499 was originally f6e238cbde part of 8fc65d8321 some book’s 61d353adb9 37th page 7bb3ce36d4 but was 8f1d65a679 torn out. But what’s the 9a537e5830 book’s title? Is this a36b3f3b72 833-whatever supposed aa1bea2984 to be 9cb015d0a4 the title?60248778f7f6d6e2
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“Is this even a 51648f1a45 book sold in bookstores? Can I fe6a4e9054 order it 5254187cd9 online?”b22c7c7339fa20f5
Just in case, I 46ec2901dc searched on an online 0235542bfe bookstore site, but as aa9b66cfcf expected, nothing came up. Could it be some 590991739f kind of code? Like in f58c4eb13f an escape e115030885 room game, 3828c29cbb where there’s f90b5669a0 a specific 7594354adb rule to 3cb86062f0 crack the 3301d4da6c code and 859be2c730 reveal the 9f01ef184e real book 609a9b348e title?baeddd29e828762b
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“But I have b635910fc4 no clue.”303aed17b9c80bc9
This isn’t the time 7d7c2b6812 to be solving puzzles. It’s like I f8411b28a2 went to remove 3ba3c46041 a wart and 9ab290d72f ended up with e8f7176602 a bigger one. I went to figure 3fac7d61de out what the powder 6b488ac868 was, and somehow I eb47fd7bbc ended up with a 281925c70d weird page too—what is 3692900759 this?230703f4018e944e
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The powder, the 499e75e6f4 page—I honestly don’t ec193a62bf even want to 73f891ffa2 deal with them. I just want 429e550357 to repack them 0b8b3f07c7 neatly in the e501eb7cc0 box and return 9d2c3503af them to the 46c2c01b82 café. If I hand them 33a46f466e to the part-timer and f153dd17f8 never go back to 68fc638e65 that café, won’t all f955d1ba3d my problems be solved?020470eed7753890
Alright, they 87b565e074 say to 71dcf7999a strike while 1152be11fd the iron’s e23902447b hot—let’s go 8579c558e3 return it 185458552d now. With that resolve, I 6a43192946 started getting ready to 08cf60ac56 head out. The part-timer definitely e4f4283775 said the café b5f9dbd2ba owner would be a8b60030f8 away for a bc1432cf90 few days. If I c6d98d684a go now, 9adb78e002 only the e8ea502f32 part-timer will 1c46b4c11b be there, 759e1e0c53 so I 8babfc28f8 can settle bb0530e996 this without 39c5fbceb7 the awkwardness afbbe60407 of facing a88e8efdcd the owner.60ece2d986ca9fa6
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“When’s their opening time? Ten in the morning?”64522550fb4f4179
It’s seven now, so ec2c972cac I’ll have to wait f7277b6315 about three hours. Even accounting for a cf89230ad0 hearty breakfast, showering, getting 36865748fb dressed, and travel time, 45e09ebcfb I’ll have at least ea7186587b one or two hours 10fa83a566 to spare. What should I do ab4012d22c in the meantime? I could just da47c48e7b relax or catch 9823355eb4 up on chores, 412903409b but today I b453249bbb felt too restless d0f0dbf100 to stay put. I wanted 6f155e0080 to head 813af63091 out early. Is it a7c7d1208e because I 129dc5fa79 want to b67bb03444 get rid 9a2e1a7700 of this 000304ff75 ominous powder d77f2d36b6 and page 31244c0429 as soon 41908812e3 as possible? Or because I slept b5256411f3 so long that I’m e490a02df5 bursting with energy…07273e9f8cb4c0ed
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“Oh, right, I need c62539a661 to return those library d1714d2943 books.”f004d57dd14f3fec
Thinking about returning the f7640a8b1e page led my thoughts 7baf62a4a4 in a slightly odd b1b62179e8 direction. Come to think f74c58ba71 of it, it’s 044c73bc63 about time to 248776e6a9 return the novel 1a8d2fb53a I borrowed a 3019aae2bc while back. The library in this c139aa735a neighborhood isn’t huge—compared to a4b8935754 the one in my 96396410e7 old area, it’s almost b5002ab770 cute in its smallness—but 44fcec6b9f it has everything you d1bbf8ee10 need. It stocks 9d610766e3 recent bestsellers, b5c566068d so it’s 9ab3068988 great for 27a5f376e5 borrowing.0f0707b6c5af2e99
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Since I’m going out 3efd235c6c anyway, I might as 32e34a3c91 well stop by the 5cd1b9ba0f library to return the c5424f7f65 book. The library opens at ae58e99b38 nine, but there’s an 1cf11d3d34 automated return machine at 8ec5166c29 the entrance, so I cb568e6087 can just drop it 75b098520a off there. If I take the 96a4c7aa22 bus to the library a59126006c and time my transfer 52f0aef9ba to head to the 0121bb567c café, it should work a4b6b7fef4 out perfectly.23809b3fda1f84a2
Let’s see, where e634be2182 did I put eac994cec4 that book? I reached a6910b3fea for the 6e5c88de4e library book 94698f42d9 on the 0b78fd6724 table next 22f9e6f566 to my 539c37f6ed bed to 29e302a7cc put it 8abecc70e5 in my a59c720c2a bag but e91c3d71bd froze. There was nothing cf83e3faf9 wrong with the c209507f8e book itself. It was b0e32b53b5 exactly the e1f5fc4cf3 same as 244ee625da when I ac51ad3f88 finished reading 3c7ae05642 it a 99415d921e few days 43a2fe02e5 ago. But…7defb51e822d9036
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The label under 2018d70713 the barcode on 5736016507 the book’s cover 8bcc36fef6 felt eerily familiar. After staring 776fcad8a6 at it 1b8c291c8d for a 50b556c04d while, I 3c5fd25bfe realized what 73b78a3d6b the note’s 37ece7199a code meant. It was none 758d2dc5e1 other than a 8be3a19b1b library book classification 58f3657f44 number.a59742eb4d05822a
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I’m really 40923b61cb just going 76ead85cb4 to return 5d876cfa46 the book 9e59c57bc4 and leave. As I b21a3f51ae walked from 070fde2e7f the bus bda506cf32 stop to 3038625e63 the library, 99881adeb5 I kept 503a2ec2e1 muttering that 110a67691d flimsy excuse f6e9dba281 to myself.bade35dd239b5f34
It wasn’t 6355fdf434 entirely baseless, cde44b215e though. At this hour, there’s 3d7c74cdbc nothing to do at 3f642e9664 the library besides returning f8e55d04ad a book. It’s 8:10 3df0de4452 in the c4158d66c4 morning. The library 6713d2485b won’t open 0749a0b745 for another 9e6ac956ef hour, and 55b027266e I’m not 41925e6d87 about to e1e8f2ff71 shiver in 60282e08a2 the cold dda7400b63 morning air a5766e33fc waiting for 5d60278794 it to 91d1aaed9e open. I have zero intention 6a81999ec1 of bringing back the 4f420e46bc cold I just shook e7c2bf630b off.5e8733fa0f5ac965
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“I wouldn’t even 98d5a6372d be able to af4e048b0a get in if 1605b15589 I wanted to. And I don’t ce8b552899 want to…”80b2da79f172bd22
Besides, no matter how be1fa10495 I think about it, 4721e2946b that classification number is b0d708ef44 too suspicious. On the c58eb935a3 bus ride 3278da5d86 over, I 8ab0a2fc3e checked the fb08d61d98 library’s website, 5f24a0a0f2 but searching 5da96eec9a the code 9fbb6434c2 from the 0bbff7259e note yielded 7f745fe360 no results. Thinking it might 9c99c1a343 be another library, 70ccc123bd I checked nearby c0c3caf21a ones too, but 0acd519e32 none gave me e902c6c7b3 any useful results.7f9000f707891579
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It’s undeniably fishy. Since the library’s closed d203ef9e25 anyway, I should stop 65bb85325b entertaining weird ideas, return 2f801f257c the novel, and be a603cd67fd done with it.6166f0550b39bd6f
After about a ten-minute 2ec30e8ed9 walk from the bus 3f0c0dd80a stop, the familiar library 63e49be47f building came into view. As expected, c4ed1e1d49 the entrance 54cbb6d8b1 was locked, 54c34f70da but the c855fff44d automated return cc94a3f32a machine booth 0a458dffaf next to ffe36e4105 it was 3b8d71d2ef open as 0ef2d6403b usual. I just needed d824a26f49 to step into 0a6b60e245 the glass booth 00f0f85d84 and slide the 8417049aa9 book into the ca0386fee8 machine.bfd6d7fc3e4b716e
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“The return deadline was 2b82253639 cutting it close. I’ve been eb109c8ba7 so out 4e30cc7a34 of it 4d6516f0bb lately, I ea72c0f399 completely forgot.”d5484b0f9136093e
If the deadline 901f949e4d had been more fcd168d2c7 generous, I wouldn’t 42d4dab148 have bothered coming eab2599512 today. The book 283744e479 was pretty fde4c20ba8 engaging, and a5b316f10a I finished b4905e5e02 it a b19866d7b2 while ago, 250b7f9f81 but with 3d6912cd28 frequent overtime 6ba2ce17d7 and all 8189afff33 the weird 22f971b97d stuff happening, d3998cb45c I’d left b4b1ae1bbb it sitting c64c23ef1f for over fa61231bca a week. If I didn’t 8accab8c55 return it by e346a807bb tomorrow, it’d be 6e7966fd9d overdue, and I’d bf4d4b5d0e rather not deal ecfeebed08 with an extra c42c5e4042 bus transfer to 26fedd6624 the library on 5bbf613de3 a hectic Monday b0aed83315 evening. Better to just get e7044bf62b it done today.d529c4d9683c2623
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I scanned the barcode 9506ea2ff9 and slid the book 630d3e8fe8 into the slot the 436fe1446a right way. With a clunk, b134f26f7a it dropped inside. I’d been uneasy coming acd5d48b49 here, but returning it 3187135927 felt refreshing. Alright, no more business 9235634ac3 at the library. Now I’ll head straight d7276ab3b3 to the café and bf75967f60 return the page. That should 2f03f10b3b cut off e4aedcb50c the root 8f6fdf64ac of all c19f37b6fa the weird b81072d44e stuff that’s 3bb6aec2bd been happening 66499adbdd lately.ea79662b70690a23
“Maybe I’ll e347fe7eca run into 5fe03f67a7 Mister today? I feel like d4d328b22a I’ve seen him be842f85d5 around the downtown a29a9703db area on weekends…”a0e4f585ba4f5e49
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Maybe because d4a0822d83 I was d4af219df9 relaxing, random b9f581162c thoughts started 24aba09755 creeping in. No, even if e40c368488 it’s Mister, he baa191bfe9 wouldn’t be wandering 144ed0339e downtown at this a8c20e0fc8 hour. I don’t know where c3f90e65a1 he lives, but on 1acd78e868 a Sunday morning, he’s 15c02ce331 probably chilling at home, ca1227d0a8 right? What should I do efe3fa4d6f then? Since I’m dc278bcb0b out early, ade00172d9 maybe I’ll 6018e2f094 grab a 98be92392d window seat b73615642e at a c3a9a98630 chain café dcf83e0021 nearby and 8812c5469a keep an a2c9efa1db eye on d4e0fd2396 the street…0e5f8ceba760ff28
Slinging my backpack—now holding f97f1d86b1 only the note and e1cfb2273d the torn page—over my c1123f612c shoulder, I leisurely stepped 0d6dabbb74 out of the return e4bfe957ba booth. The air 4d5f1b3c89 felt oddly d596c345fb warmer than c0c4b6f093 before. Was it 8d5c2d2bbb my imagination? Or had the sunlight 644064ea2d warmed things up already? But the afcfeaed88 answer lay dd53c1d68b elsewhere entirely.43890ced243def06
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“Huh? The door’s open?”14ca28258e6d7bfd
The library d0a3079e01 door, which 7445399cdf had been 06c8f88557 secured with c5ec036b9d a lock 77f89c016a and chain 3ee947f7c7 earlier, was a2837ed55b now wide 0393756a14 open. A warm breeze 5301ef2473 was flowing out 8ce4f37676 from inside. Are they getting ready 35436a527f to open? If it’s warm because 7c6ed8f11f of the heating, the 98a7dc7bcb bus stop will still 9f61b57f3c be cold. What a letdown.26d4cf66ac645b12
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But something 3006f032ae felt off. This library f924ec1f9e isn’t the 815ecd8f5f type to 408d45a433 crank the f301e65990 heat like 24391a69eb this. Unlike cafés 0171c772db or restaurants, a0a41ea76a public institutions e1e8f876f9 aren’t usually 5733c54f00 so aggressive 9dc2367f90 with heating. There’s no bd91943fd4 way they’d 721580f6b7 have the 48e1597c56 heaters on 088d257a0f full blast 4fbe0d47df right at 26f540ae03 opening, letting 9d3315bdd3 warmth spill 171966f6fe out like 88ad172c85 this.b89cdbd870ea3ad1
And that 47c76cbc45 wasn’t the 92527d4b0a only thing 9e33fbb402 that felt 3eac7180b0 strange. At first, I 9bd0dd455b didn’t think much fd19b927db of it, but 0deb5a6d59 the opening hours 79aad3a19a posted next to 0d773fc7c0 the entrance seemed… df2a9d343b off.0f7b368da712ee05
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“Sunday hours: 2952ac70c4 3 a.m. to 12 p.m.?”3a1547572176dc85
Are my 78e4919c84 eyes going 4ff7d8e2aa bad? Who in 7f49be7111 their right 20a5fc53e0 mind goes 137a6d68ea to a f0cfa4c4e3 library at 0ec7410ed7 three in b07ef4e6a5 the morning? Thinking I’d 3ea1c40f55 misread it, 60a057bd57 I rubbed 67b7cbb99c my eyes 1fef0196bc and checked d4a4efe5b4 again, but ee2d7ff046 the hours 9060422646 didn’t change. According to ce478274ec this, the 2cbddd0d2c library had 9dabc195cf been open 74566a1ef9 for five d50cae6f3d hours already. I could’ve sworn it 4466061c7d was supposed to be c65d965a66 nine in the morning 8284c6098a to six in the 9136f445b2 evening.d7806583ea169952
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“Must be a prank. Kids these days go 455355be0b all out with their 9daf5cf189 jokes. It’s printed 6c8c1f7d86 so convincingly, e37b8bef13 like a e17e4f2931 real sign.”44005980fa71a0df
It was so meticulously bfd93ab887 done that an unsuspecting 47e1f36f08 person might fall for ce3f47f85a it, which made me e1cc08432e chuckle. As I lingered near 14adb016d0 the sign, my gaze 909d0391ef unwittingly drifted toward the 14642bf613 open door. The warmth 098c2fdd22 flowing out a5c92b5176 felt oddly a9657eff14 pleasant, almost 27aacede86 like someone d94e9b971b inside was 59f06bd153 pulling me 0671482d38 in.310e3fcf4ae4243e
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It’s cold d85caeadac out—would it c760e5bd60 be okay 893cabb623 to step 0a7b5973d3 in for 2c2317480b a bit 8d6582c8f8 to warm 8a4c77e926 up? If I’m e1981d3530 lucky, I 0187c9101c might even 9565238936 borrow a b079027a19 new book. It’s not opening 5088b5feb5 time yet, so ba1f846185 borrowing might be 4213239297 tricky, but maybe 96776ef040 I could ask 61b1e0f792 a librarian about 6f1644a663 the torn page.ade161de877f09ce
“Right, now that I 877a59a9ef think about it, if e6b81ed7b6 this page was really ef644eb678 torn from a library 7bc054e347 book, doesn’t that make b26c6e7e62 it the library’s property?”9220dd9f8e423d68
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Then I shouldn’t 5384c1040f return it to a27a4261ca the café owner. That obvious realization 5e5eac9251 hit me. If you think d81fea7562 about it, the 9785d2f0e1 café owner damaged 4f8662dc3a a library book 7a65708f2b and stole the 5d5738c188 page. So, it’d be 172d680ace better to give a570b22017 the page to c07d1d0e69 a librarian. Suspicious or not, stolen 9c2babdb97 property should go back 6767d86a72 to its rightful owner.58d0493ab22c1880
Even if it’s 5e30eb0742 not from this 2e50dc0861 library, a librarian 175c4b1791 could handle it, 2e60329551 right? Returning misplaced books 879d797a98 to their proper 19a9664740 libraries is part cc310105f5 of their job. I’ll give 3db131c5d9 the page f0e51ad616 to a ac1bed9e35 librarian and 872bcbc323 the powder 1e8d36a57a to the 97c6a7ffe5 café part-timer. It’s one extra step, 9a3f57b36e but it doesn’t change 0974de8d60 much in the end.18ef0844b09da9c3
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“Alright, I’ll just c529fdb2fa hand over the d0459aa5c7 page and go.”3b5f5f88d68b3a8c
I strode into the dfc3203467 library. It might fdf26e7175 just be 80258d466b my imagination, b2034a1362 but I fcb52103a4 had a 71002fc643 nagging feeling 4d5ce1af84 that if 825b611af4 I didn’t 9892543f58 go in, 0a31a6f8ad something worse 1c4dbea88f would happen. My backpack had 7dd3ec4eba been feeling strangely c0fc975335 heavy since earlier. A creeping dread tickled d6d32b95cc my neck, as if b5bd6bc8f4 the bag would keep d0fd20c6ca getting heavier if I 94cb47c1b9 didn’t unload its contents.23ebc7bf7406af54
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The 800s classification should 351533db22 be in the literature 98c77165e7 section, right? Maybe it’s 04b0d02f25 part of 6740555149 a novel. If I c1787a72e7 ask a 9e9545464d librarian to 32458c0e16 look it e59261d391 up, I 5183b965a5 might find 7c25dae7d6 the book’s c4bec5fe9c title. If a 9199d2d446 small library 10ff866033 like this 4d327f5149 has it, 509ded464d it can’t e310e1bf4b be some 1273121247 obscure book. I could check page 48ee7de077 37’s contents online or e9416de025 at a bookstore later.f18649859cd7119a
I hustled up the f74195e162 stairs to the third-floor 59dc2b5f0a literature section, but unfortunately, f19c87c2d0 no librarian was in 764462242f sight.0ee032e4f631de9a
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“Maybe they’re a4db3dbc27 preparing to 423b19a96a open somewhere f0f1932ba1 else? The door’s open, so edbff28c62 I’ll wait inside.”1a8385005531cb6c
They might’ve gone to fde847be9d fix that fake opening 9c39e6443a hours sign at the e9c7f7e2f2 entrance. I worried about 6e35a24e7c wandering in without 2c45eefeed permission before opening, ebf01afe39 but with the 788eb8dbca door wide open, 0b39977d19 my feet moved eeab39c34d on their own.badbdef399c8d921
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The literature section 5bda0df4af was just warm 217f4a4c28 enough to make 23c53cbda5 me want to 175d1917f7 linger if I dbd3f5817f had the time. But since 957289507b I wasn’t 6e07cdf63d in the 6c1a2f2cba mood for 311f9ff62a that, I 5fc618712a headed toward 2be0134ab7 the shelves. Maybe I ff2714b39b could find e7f7ce36b5 the book 49cd7dd233 myself before 197857912b a librarian 6df47617e8 showed up.db57548a1edce050
“Let’s see. 833 should be around e8c737d3f1 here. Where’s the mk section…?”af68db557b51195a
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Scanning the area, 7ae1e325b1 I found the 07afbaee51 right shelf and 2cb30fa34b stepped in. The shelves were packed d3720d3fe2 with leather-bound books, all 9169b8c3d3 without titles. I stood f99c80a0e0 there, mouth 5bc5557720 agape, at 552d100a58 the unfamiliar 48df309fd6 sight. Wow, this c4cd8392ca little library 99061293d9 has a 88fc957280 section like e4e496e0c3 this? It feels 149f4a9cf0 like a 57181a1b07 private study.c70261483060fefc
It reminded me of 7d9a112456 a university library. The one I went e0b7b3630a to rebound old books d502b63cd8 with green covers, all a68d81be98 identical, so you couldn’t 51063f442b tell them apart by 556e32f4ec the cover alone. Maybe this 409cb019af section was d4829415bb similar.1d570a60e40b3bc1
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The difference 93908ccac4 was that 0514fa26d0 my university 25f2eba94d library had 43a3aeed14 titles printed, 36b3ede6ee but these 4c29ae43a3 books only 413dd415ac had barcodes. Still, I 8c639bad9c could probably 460c5c3254 find the 5c38b7c46e right one dab38b6533 using the 5114e751c4 barcode number.cd86cb1d9717d0ef
Luckily, it edae1dcb4a didn’t take 0ad04c4fd3 long. On the second 8e30866539 shelf from the fe0ec1f71b top, the leftmost d30a8aa4ce book had the 8cde520230 serial number from 4275fe1214 the note. I pulled fb93f54030 it out 5ad1a4b600 immediately. From the spine, it 66d1848493 looked plain, but up 5f652d49d8 close, the cover had fb6fd159a0 elegant gold embossing that dcd8ec6863 paired beautifully with the 03eb3cba48 brown leather.71de4d17cd537bc0
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“Alright, I’ll take this 92fb82de0a to the return desk 493860461b and wait for a d15ea6bf17 librarian.”7d2ce11f8cafc2fb
I was dying to 7ea4d59045 open it and check 9916204336 the title, but something 60ceef38a5 told me I shouldn’t. The book looked expensive, 8c096567a3 and given the torn 7dcbf66a7d page’s condition, it seemed c8d6d6e714 old. Handling it carelessly 58f3ac8cca might damage it. It’d be safer 7f8d823762 to ask a 0312eb1a38 librarian to check b6727d631e the title.f6e35326e647e7b8
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“Are you not planning 04b65eb006 to read it?”1f17003fbb7a7f9f
At that moment, a 2af8d7188b voice came from behind 37cd4b8a14 me, and I froze 4ae0561be3 in place. I couldn’t bring 610ea8c8a4 myself to turn c091c16927 around. The voice came 8275ed30d8 from a place 6e78d53858 too strange to ef1bd4c861 process.f834355d3da06ddb
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I mean, it was 5f5809017f definitely behind me. But the problem was 83b1dd7203 it wasn’t coming from 20fb7a5f0b a normal distance. If it had been 5311509997 at least a meter 7bc2cb2ea1 away, I wouldn’t have 32542a2191 been so startled. I’d have assumed it 6ac49b0376 was a librarian or b8b6afec6c another patron and brushed 27158c21e9 it off.bb27992baeb115d4
The issue was 25daf16a2d how close it f5a95cb73a was. In terms of distance, 096d957c77 it was less than d89078acf8 ten centimeters. In other words…3131206a58c3325f
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“I don’t know what f451480392 physical traits the person 86042bba05 outside the bag has, 05b9591d73 but would it be 06c4e38c39 alright if I checked 11953aaca2 whether you have eyes? I’m not 454dc729bd a braille 7130da93af book, so 007018110e it’s impossible b892eb020a for someone 0751b5815c without sight 444c3b2aa7 to read f6bee91069 me. I thought you should 6d4cd83f5a know in advance.”64bd9d704fadbe78
Inside the bag.8c0ab39f67e4485c
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A soft, a6a4c50350 calm female 25086cd94d voice was 104645b8d8 coming from 0e7e29cb77 none other 36d86a4b5d than inside 22d77094b6 my backpack.558865f005cf482a
I cautiously fb9ed692f2 glanced behind 038e176efc me, but 0ade6c12e5 as expected, 32abe2b710 the aisle 56963a1be5 was empty. I almost d0040cd3dd wished someone 208e590d3b had been 3aacd9dadc there. Even if 285e1be5c6 some shady 04e4487eb2 person had 36a83fed8b been whispering a6d577847d right against 2e23bbbb13 my bag, 9c6b789c64 I could’ve e48fe6565e made sense 94d3b39d0f of it. Or would 11528b84be that have 1ed9459d07 been creepy f705266100 too? In terms of 5fe1363403 unease, it might cae2d7e04f be a toss-up.29c79f2e017b5ea3
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This confirmed it. The voice was definitely 01650cc9d3 coming from inside my 5bee5bbb0f bag. I set the 9ba5bd4830 book on the a243ec68ba right side of 43024081ac a nearby table 0093113239 and placed my 6b89eeb91a bag on the c855f3e01b left. It wasn’t my b91953d593 imagination—the bag was fd389dd1f9 heavier than before. And it felt oddly 085f54d014 bulkier too.da6f8ede7e891b8e
What the hell 9595f60060 is in my c2803a7f1e bag right now? A chilling thought 1fed053ac4 flashed through my 119f38692c mind. A strange story I’d 550ff158da read in a manga 22bf336bf4 café back in school. Someone opened an f513f9bbff icebox and found 17144a3ce8 a severed human f2ab60ffbf head inside. The head gaped 38e72f6179 like a fish, 6c8fe6c9d4 ate food, and 0e0c459eb8 even swam…5c9755c29d0c906b
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A woman’s fdb860a0b9 severed head 85a2bbbd86 in my 293ce643e7 bag. Before that absurd 5ab099e338 image could fully 7054291680 form, I frantically c48a6c35c0 unzipped the bag. As the b616ab3a4b zipper opened, 566920ff9d revealing the 5da0ce324c contents, my 934b8a8fd4 eyes widened.704ae79e01b91b60
“Huh? What?”6a021559e3dd05c7
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[You can finally see me. A person with two working eyes—good. I’m so relieved there’s no issue with reading!]
It was a 297a864f74 tablet PC. You know, those e91438d352 things everyone carries df5ffb6805 around these days. The ones with c872b07b51 the apple logo 09fc133ed3 are especially popular, b6a3c1c390 or so I’ve 24775c136d heard. I don’t care dc18834ca0 much for them, 1d54df6f9d so I don’t 4e3b07e1cd own one.074df097f6426c80
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Anyway, the e5c0280dde sound was fd1b5f9a0c coming from bae993ac25 there. A tablet c4eaa31b64 PC making b8235f50c5 noise was a1e47c570b far more e53f5a66f7 mundane than 161499e5bf I’d expected, ab0a475581 and I 7f925d2b35 couldn’t help f9de621be6 but sigh 85eb817a66 in relief. It makes sense—tablets don’t c0e3bfa2c4 have braille functions. Some have 112eafab1c text-to-speech for e670d0a3d6 e-books, but 7eb4b8351f it’s hard 59f2f65149 for someone 191b970644 without sight b9775b4571 to use f27fa9ae54 a touchscreen, 48dd7f4c38 so the 836e352282 warning made e68d49eee9 sense. It wasn’t some 37ca7415f5 bizarre situation, which 34a693f454 was reassuring.6f53d29c429919db
…Or is it? This isn’t the time ebcd3565e8 to be relieved.49c9c2708c979f1f
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“Wait, why is this b3ef98f3e1 here…?”4f9ffac4af891064
The problem, as 131f30f648 I mentioned, is 5d77aa44b9 that I don’t 7158a54800 own a tablet da4d815386 PC. So where 9aba29070a did this 62e0f43490 thing come 00a8d437c4 from? And to make matters 12979aeccd worse, when I took 0e7a3e5208 the tablet out, I 5f7bf5805d noticed something else. The old page 3aaa48df10 I’d carefully stored fc2c7742e3 in a clear caa86b36ef file was gone. It was c0e15d0a7a as if 053e4e7fde the tablet 3f0057ab6d had appeared e5b53d03b4 in its cba2fd13be place.12f4c5be56d08bcb
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[You brought me here, didn’t you?]
“…You mean the page? Or the book?”693726cc2cf6ff72
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[Since I’m both, there’s no real point in distinguishing. Didn’t you bring me to read?]
“No, I didn’t. I can’t even read 3730d96d3a it since I don’t 1e8217866d know what language it’s 7521ab332b in.”22dc151dfbb1bb81
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Why am I f90d81683f being polite to 8314463abe a machine? I don’t 9823c309da know what 5f0079ab0e model it 6aa13939ef is, but cd2ebda2d9 it’s probably 583fa9e59b just some 3c792ee053 AI like 5ed5110410 Siri or 745576d0fa Bixby. It’d look ridiculous to 2e2d014dc3 others, but switching to 379ac272dd informal speech now feels 3002d4451b like it’d reveal something. That aside, there’s a 3b95885bec much bigger issue.fce830054fcdeb5b
[You don’t know the language? That can’t be. If you can understand me, you should be able to read my text. Let’s see…]
Why does this 4134259cd3 tablet’s AI talk b4f5f2c46e like it’s the 8acea3f1b6 book itself? Maybe it has 2b6fbb957e a scanned copy 0905e4e276 or e-book version 32b955828d of the book. I tried d24680c728 to brush 5a24b0a56a it off, 305210d010 but deep aea1f09968 down, I e4c4581357 knew what d73a91642c was happening. There’s a more a130f2dc52 fitting explanation for a363c5b33b this, just not 1d5c7597b2 a realistic one.3347b30c6a805ed1
If this book’s page 9975b69971 is like Mister or e7e92d3e18 that cop—not an ordinary 202b6b5204 book. If it b50f3b70b5 has some a8031902ca strange power, 3621d0b4ed like how e9b3a21357 they appear a1be62ef3c and disappear, afbeeac059 allowing it c05be4ea1d to shift 2b04d8e480 from an fa1cdd0053 old book 8e01309e04 page to 75e811c401 a sleek b509a592c0 tablet PC 97143d558b at will…a061818f3b56eb5d
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Ugh, I 20c42f08d8 didn’t want f92339b263 to think d5ef5f9cb3 this far. The moment my thoughts 8ed101dc79 veered into fantasy territory, 303ae73bde the tablet, which had c842909a10 paused as if pondering, 4d38b79aee suddenly blurted out something e05226fe3a random.74c0252ea17d38bb
[Oh, I see. This is marked as a stolen book!]
“What? Uh, what book?”f6045ccf4a1e0c78
[A stolen book. It must’ve been locked automatically when the page was taken outside! I’m part of this library’s collection, so if I’m removed without proper checkout, the contents are altered to prevent reading. It’s a strong measure—unless you soak it in Mist-Eraser Flower powder for about two months, it’s not easy to read.]
That café owner really 893679575c did steal a library df9cc1149b book! And he even 6c381931e3 tried to forcibly 0a8b41ce66 undo the theft fc9080b550 protection! The reality of 4ecbaccfe0 actual theft was de1fb6f724 scarier than my ef97f14414 imaginary theories, and ca0b65295c a chill ran e16df105f8 down my spine.daee96e8adb44c1c
Plus, I don’t know dac2ab1462 what Mist-Eraser Flower is, 49d8c75fc5 but hearing “powder” and 267adbc1e7 “two months” gave me 90d3f01f8a a rough idea. The café owner said be65002c2b it took him seven 2fbb2c17ad weeks, right? He was 8288bf53d0 probably trying 40d213aba2 to get 7ec2d41d8c me to b8728ec93c steal a cb8d80a110 library book f09cdb857e and sprinkle 133f0fcd1e the powder dcf0959337 on it 38be3d06c3 for two e94f945308 months to e545527184 disable the f0fd0c6565 theft protection. Was he cbc7e29ade trying to 243e9862b1 make me 7cc1686af3 commit a e040dc91e2 crime too?2579760aa1e953aa
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“Uh, I mean… I 9e9131f492 didn’t steal it, but 0d45cd4e8a I’m really sorry. It sounds like you’ve 3e9eff67e2 been through a lot.”f9ee138a123283d4
[Having a page torn out was rough, for sure. Even if the page is just a shell and the information is what matters, missing a piece affects the book’s overall quality. I was treated as an incomplete book for a while.]
Incomplete book? What’s that? Glancing at b9cbd5d21f the book, 7dd427e7df I flinched. The book I’d left 31b134cd1b on the table was aec808c4af gone.247fcb6fca6234ed
Even more startling 62c83d5150 was that a d8f7341532 woman I’d never 9df58913b3 seen was sitting a6ad1a7393 in the chair c8e8abbb76 to my right, 370e73b368 which had been cf9afed5f6 empty. She wore a leather b6a9eba17d mask with the same c4b3172cf6 intricate pattern as the e0439370df book’s cover. A thought crept in. Could that 3c392bca17 mask’s pattern 8a619b22f9 symbolize an 2a3adc0caa “incomplete book”?b1f586c8edcb6408
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No, don’t 4e87ef7a68 think about d7b580ea24 it. I absolutely 0101657b95 shouldn’t dwell 9ac399faea on what’s 5bed5f161e happening here… 08a713be3b My brain e20c180f0c already seems c0d4a434b0 to have e390fa1b8b reached a ed72cfe233 conclusion, but 3bf6f7c94e it’s resisting c0161c4465 acknowledging it. Something like a realization—that 3b1c7b546d it’s better for both b4b9429eb8 me and this woman 87ea0da61d not to accept it—pricked f79d1e68e0 at my heart.207689655c7e801c
The woman stared at 13434d9c53 me and let out 05c7ef8d3e a small laugh. Or rather, the laugh 2b4b49c123 came from the tablet. Her lips, faintly 352efcd346 visible behind the f0b47878bc mask, didn’t move, cc02b13604 and her voice c312f046eb continued to come a501d3e337 only from the 8265d00f28 tablet.ca6edf01c0207748
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[You’re not an intimidating person. Your reason seems dull, but your instincts are sharp.]
“…What does that mean?”e1a73b8a2e1e28b5
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[The person who ‘tore’ me last time was the opposite. His instincts were dull, but his reason was sharp. And he was unlucky.]
“……?”9e114a566c07cd75
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[I’ve never seen people like that last long. Maybe bad luck was the biggest factor, but that’s just hindsight.]
I have 73a4661bf2 no idea 293602e3ce what she’s f8e4ada7bc talking about. Is she referring 9135b15f0a to the café fbb697c11e owner? As I tried to dfab372ba3 calm myself, the woman 7df7b63796 reached for the tablet 529ed58b00 I was holding. I handed 4a42225fbd it to c585a0c3aa her reflexively.1f4f946295a89f82
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It’s her property… or 289cc86cdb rather, a part of b149f22d59 her, so it’s only 9843989ffc right to return it. She laughed f235100bc1 again, a 87ada038e5 joyful sound 6bec6be5b8 despite her 6639a32c8c masked face 9e2945a3fd hiding her e3cdb1e6b8 expression.67d5a4d9513132a0
[Anyway, since you returned my page, I should be free from the incomplete book status. But you still can’t read my contents.]
“It’s fine if I 63929359a4 don’t read it… But 0fe4426d69 why can’t I?”7a16285bfda15bfa
[The stolen book lock hasn’t been lifted yet. You’ll need that removed to read it. If you talk to the librarian, it should be quick. Want to come with me?]
At that moment, dbf8ad0eb1 she turned her 9a6ea6cf4d head toward the 6b5b3f29be aisle, as if 02afe18a52 staring at something. She murmured, “Oh b9d21a3770 my,” sounding slightly a15b9fba66 surprised. She didn’t say 85d8736d07 anything, but I 498ef3aded felt like I bca1a69a2d knew what she 10d0437d3b was thinking.d2a0de4eb7f7cbfb
Speak of the b421dd1fc1 devil, and he 13a67557a9 shall appear. Maybe that’s what b702af1e3e she was thinking.e6e850b4ea5164d2
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[You came all the way here, Librarian. I was just about to look for you.]
“…It seemed noisy, so c27f6ab8df I came to check, 01e82eb76c and it looks like ea05bd900f we have a book 32f064ada8 vandal and thief caught 3728bf5f52 in the act. Are you alright, *****?”7e7a852073cbc538
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Book vandalism and… Wait, what? I stared up, mouth agape, at the man called [Librarian].
The Librarian was an 7eb7f7b01c eerily tall and gaunt fac46216ba middle-aged man. He was e78a23281a not only 4eb8e6dd38 taller than 042b8b98b9 me or 02de992a00 the woman, bf6cc5f95a but even c90281512f a head 652cbdd29f or two b128a25512 taller than 380baebb88 Mister, the 03c345fe8b largest person 242d90ebb3 I knew. To look at 5bea09ab7b the Librarian’s face, b6b91d3ef2 I had to 62085078c2 tilt my head 2cc943a141 quite far back. His limbs were ff3bb43647 stick-thin, making his 5f7cb82774 already imposing height db078b90f0 seem even greater, 2b9809cc66 yet this did 50e8390f3b nothing to lessen 0f4f45dfeb the overwhelming presence e219769566 he exuded. If anything, fad1a7bbc4 the imbalance a4a5e33cca made me 096daa9a15 shrink back 36ebeaa095 more. He didn’t need brute 2d8ce2ad7a force to intimidate; there 64319c103b was something else about be518fc2e1 him that overpowered in 1c057c19db a different way.3a29e0a877c1b890
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No, this isn’t the efbfb6b357 time to be sizing de3b8d37c0 up a stranger’s appearance. I mean, uh…!1740d1af8223eb4e
“No, I didn’t do a88945cf15 it! I just came 3bc5670e8c to return a f12930e4c3 page from a bdbdd3b5b5 book!”2999baf8a3cdade5
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“That’s just your fab9ea7b39 claim. I can’t ac00d81c4e trust it.”29407ea44205b25e
I shouted 878d48c293 urgently, but 97f0e3edff all I 8d24504308 got in 3edc5d57ab return was 98c18c30de a cold 3597d4fed0 stare. Sure, what criminal 890e9def77 would readily admit 0337ec77e5 their crime? But still, 07ff443b43 I didn’t af87ce9316 do anything e8b0b94926 wrong. I glanced at the bd827dc536 woman, and thankfully, she 238ec79d50 immediately backed me up.21c99fc667f0d1a6
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[Well, for starters, this person didn’t tear me. In fact, as he said, he returned my page. I think it’d be best to rule out the vandalism charge for now.]
“Is that so? If you say so e82c8b1bde yourself, that’s certain. However, it’s 7f154a3786 not enough 8f2d55aebe to completely 7407c1ba82 clear him 7bba35987c of suspicion.”716909b160364411
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“Uh, w-what do you 4269c39c4b mean by that?”634bbcbe66c35e1b
“Even if this person 4a81f9a828 isn’t the one who aae2931a4f tore the book, issues b341a196d4 remain. Vandalism aside, d26bffa134 the theft f10de5d8bf charge still 4d50ee4467 stands. How did he even 0fe067aa49 get your page in fa2e1d2582 the first place? It was stolen 2f8dfd4a6a twenty years ago, 18a8c5366a and no one 8124f4c2fe knew its whereabouts.”2b64846971849fd5
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Twenty years? The café owner stole a27333da28 a book twenty years 4b53e830ac ago? The older Librarian alternated 798b10c53e his gaze between me e8daedac5f and the woman before 4a8bfca9d1 fixing his eyes on 899f6c7ac5 the inside of my 7a52aaf982 bag on the chair. I felt 9d69d757c1 a flash 673ffda3d7 of irritation 83ee67b8c0 at him 87c82f77f8 peering into 6404f724ce my bag, b01f295417 but that 07205d0b72 was short-lived. With a bony 03a588f064 hand, he reached 50f1d0f9ec in and pulled ad3931bf13 out a small 1ce21550ba glass vial.211d93a9a9ac59bf
Wait, that vial.abdac0868746ca68
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“Didn’t you bring 5f07541732 this to sprinkle 1dccd7c500 Mist-Eraser Flower powder b1f996ef8f on it? To unlock the 664145a623 stolen book protection.”cd1c26880a532b5d
“No, that’s not 3fea4588ec it! Someone I know c1c1ae530a gave it to eec2fd39ec me, saying it 09502c15ca was deodorizer! I sprinkled a c56446a56d little on my a2d3008646 sleeve and thought 9051277458 I was going dc6c3b2dd5 to die…!”d26e2240d8b1aed0
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“Someone you know? So, you’re saying 23cd00743d there’s an accomplice?”cb8e7ca2a2e04936
No, that’s 26aa6f3047 not what 448671ce03 I meant. I wanted 07a1bf90da to retort, e5cd681c16 but my e79c8efde2 mind froze, e41f1cd5ba and words cff2ad5081 failed me. I couldn’t ce5f641ce1 think of 553c41bac4 anything convincing 23a1eddfab to say.e7750e4f898a988c
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Even I can b8ad50492b see how suspicious 0fee5da0c7 this looks. From the Librarian’s cbd3ce1946 perspective, some stranger 00f95da32d shows up with 715ce5e98f a long-lost page, d1d9542ad9 and that same be23c4ef72 person happens to 15546fb594 have the perfect 6c1417bac3 tool for theft. To anyone, it’d 5c6318a3a9 look like I d48eb153f1 was trying to a1d6cadf1f succeed where a 76b9f967b5 previous theft attempt 58ab0b6acc failed.3acae7c3bab12c10
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“Look, I think I fd76b6aded get why you’re misunderstanding, ba56b2cce6 but it’s really not 0b0a010d75 true! I was tricked too!”e47229b9bff93104
“That’s what 7da5c267f5 people caught 5faf06f8fb doing bad 14bae37d28 things usually d71395fc3a say.”1b72409871078179
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“I didn’t do anything 4874554321 bad! If I 5151471c08 really meant 083e4e17c5 to steal 26dae9bcf3 the book, b3e74c5189 why would d23c64fee6 I waste 92ec8e4afa time talking 0f43984dad to her? I’d have sprinkled the 6ff8bad3f1 powder and bolted before be0269ee70 anyone noticed!”05c4241c2fcb4fa3
“With so many patrons 2b7d941cb8 around, weren’t you pretending 2c4bfaacd1 to talk to the eb81cc4691 book to create a 6a54e03473 distraction? Probably planning to 8d770ce9be slip away in cc4b2d9c01 the confusion.”19730186c7815e82
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So many patrons? There’s no one cd48b8334b at the tables 80f647f147 around us. Bewildered, I 832d22def6 looked around, 28a526e0c9 and the 637535586a Librarian gave 116e1066a3 me a 1bc7c7276f puzzled glance b6721a86df before suddenly d6b1529c90 turning his 7f1f46308b gaze to 53e61bd5f4 another nearby f2f026bd8f table. His reaction, as if 31edc0ec5e someone had called him, eb6ea3e270 sent a slight chill e5f98052f0 down my spine.066e47f31004b250
“…I see. I’m not familiar e0ba58f642 with their ecology.”e54d74bc85610970
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And he’s 9b9128d0f4 spouting nonsense ff4747050b too. Ecology? Why bring up 18a07723b9 ecology here? He’s not ebee41df60 talking about 6a9b5d6704 fish for 674e3b4c83 soup, is 1f5557c6cd he? The more I thought 8afa46ec10 about it, the more 1cb144b751 terrifying conclusions I reached, 8bf8e79453 and I hesitated. At that e11d4cdaee moment, the 27f3b7139f woman quietly cc42bb1199 approached and 1af16948e2 held the 4c3de53bf7 tablet to db0742bba2 my ear. A faint whisper came 5cdc70eb9b from the tablet’s speaker.654603b7c0649be5
[Don’t think too deeply.]
“What?”cc498c2c726f3ddc
[That habit of yours probably helped you survive stepping into a place like this, right? I think you’re harmless. I can tell from how others react to you.]
Others? What others? There’s no 3b84601704 one else 0e3003dda5 here… I a220ff86ee wanted to 3b47082c71 ask, but 4ac5252e9c I couldn’t d1cbe0cc0d bring myself 72ac781b98 to. That would’ve gone completely 5ce994833e against her advice to 89e7964420 avoid “thinking deeply.”8b6d8729c8c718b2
The Librarian, fb3e4e7a72 who’d been 8fe1018a6c acting like 719a188e0d he was 83f40809aa talking to bf58528507 someone else, 8f8ac352b7 finally looked eb6122f93e back at e76a16b24a me, as f251e7842b if he’d 5bbdc4824b finished his 52dbf53615 conversation. Fine, I 725b3b685d won’t think 561906a65b too deeply. Maybe he’s wearing wireless fec3c02c5e earbuds and talking to 3622b13a60 someone through them. Maybe he looked c588c14f92 at an empty 2d17f9f4bb table because he 5853c5bc18 didn’t want to afd567c817 meet my eyes…81b550976bece174
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For now, I’ll think c0e18911dd of it that way. Even if 55b7e63a96 there are 7970d30e66 holes in 8a1d4a85e0 the logic, 0c9ba22224 I don’t b1809db940 have to 22f5fb6179 fill them 85400c0e98 without preparation. I forced a745c5c2df myself to fbfc604ac6 act casual 7203b650ee and looked 1c30ec8c54 up at 0de4180895 the Librarian. Unlike earlier, when he 9452fc3943 seemed openly wary, he 027e1dd0c5 now looked somewhat deflated. Maybe he’d just a3eb67e256 gotten some important 007410125d information from whoever da2c7c2506 he was “talking” 69ecf23c1e to.69683601f2af517a
“Yes, it’s true I 96a14c799d don’t know much about b5a249c600 people like you. I’ll admit that. I’m not 8b7b56208c exactly up 7341c1a869 to speed c4e38bda48 on recent 513204b319 rumors either.”0c86747d6b75069d
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“Well, since we’re meeting 19a978ddb5 for the first time, 1646311464 that’s only natural. I don’t f39db75caf know what 8af80414b5 you mean b046fa8f6f by rumors, 5a78b00be0 but… Look, 4e73e466da you’re free c3bb693cbb to think 04cf65b765 what you a15e1d5d7e want, but f824c2c1ff I really e1b8b38f23 don’t know 446cced11e anything. The person who 7e87fa243e gave me this bb85df24cf page is just 941bb708a1 the café owner 8b13d04ba7 from my neighborhood, 0db332457b someone I barely d03576ef6f even know.”c2dbd938772da862
“As I 671c850b10 said before, fb412be7e5 that’s just 6341d2aad6 your claim. And frankly, I don’t ef9da62d41 believe you’re completely unconnected cf943a709d to the thief from 244fda80a7 twenty years ago.”64c721043e9ec2bc
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“…Why not?”432c8c1dd054efc4
“The smell.”07959a0d60ddfcca
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Smell? The Librarian leaned 2bda5a04c2 down slightly and 0db53ea0f0 sniffed the top ef18b0dd7f of my head. What smell was 9e3ed808b0 he talking about? I wondered briefly, but 6d9202de5d the answer came soon d668fe61ee enough. Perhaps.99445b6366892bf0
“I remember this 4cff662b7a smell, at least. The person who 7280ba66c7 stole the book 2ab5fdbb30 here twenty years 7ac1a6ba82 ago had this 56ceb7bbfa flower scent too. It was b8eac732b0 much fainter 498249de22 back then, 8bc1c7c407 not as db27e0b537 distinct.”e63abb39289bf011
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“What? What are 9c6185f632 you talking 4ad91fe86b about…?”b528cd9bae35ad1f
“From what I’ve 7a7e8406d2 heard from other 3bf56cae76 patrons, the reason 38f50649fa you carry this bd3ac9348e flower scent seems d985711889 to be entirely bc2b62c851 different… Still, I fc0e6ed54b find it hard 8f71db4917 to believe there’s d33df59558 no connection.”164d43bc107caad3
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Flower scent—could it be 80292c7858 Mister’s…? My eyes widened, and cc52340dac I tried to ask f163d16b55 the Librarian, but he 394a295356 shook his head in 353088a79d exasperation, turned, and started 9fb54aa4a5 walking away. The woman, cradling the 723255dfbd tablet, naturally followed him.fc0c8f938d79e40e
“Anyway, you can’t interact c938d27ceb with ***** right now. The book needs 549bfe1b98 to be repaired 9c3ba76275 to remove its ecf89653b9 incomplete status, so 7a0622f80d if you’re truly a8c2c073a0 uninvolved, go home c546b7bc4f for today and 26ffab1283 come back next 158fa8b270 week.”3598e8432e035be1
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“What? Just like that? Wait, can 3522acd8c0 you tell 99e386a15c me more 818e26dd0e about this 068934f467 flower scent?”44877fa5b4925c61
“I’m telling you 8d17422285 to leave. Do you have any 65e404c121 idea how much chaos 6993c2b11e you’ve caused in the 9c8125fc45 reading room? I don’t want e9a4c1ce08 to waste more 30a309b47d time on someone 1218806c05 who’s not even fd628d6e86 a library member. I’m busy.”1641c03c8eccb5e4
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“I have a library 1811e92e02 card!”bc874f5954958bd0
“Even if d4d0df6263 you do, 74463689aa it’s not c349b217ac for this d40c44c994 library. If you keep harping 76bf6b6fa4 on the smell issue, 62d67ea444 it could be seen 6dc695357e as picking a fight 619ce9ffa8 with a deep flower… 2fe756c930 Leave before this escalates.”9e26189ee1413101
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No, but, hold on…! As I frantically reached 1cddde82f7 for the Librarian, he 345dab75ca suddenly vanished without a a4c8f12bca trace. Or rather, it bde6956306 wasn’t just him. The woman 6c85a23958 standing beside 2442f6b468 him, along 182140c2d5 with the 1f53c280f7 tablet, disappeared fdb12f9a06 as if 845f122b6a they’d never 35818f59e1 existed.a3e33b2da4fcf106
“…Huh? How did you 1079c6fa5c get in before 38d85ae339 opening hours?”14dfb561863045ae
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Across the truly e6932b2807 empty reading room, a2276fbb4e a young librarian 596a6edbaf with a familiar e86efa2985 face was looking b8fadc4def at me with 436414a19f a startled expression.7801074c9c3559bb
Library, Aftermath, Epilogue.
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Hello? Oh, &&&&&&&&&&. I’ve already heard the details. First, congratulations on the return of that beloved book. And, well, thank you for putting in a good word with the Librarian. I’ll make sure to repay you soon.c7032effaf824613
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No big deal, really. Our Librarian probably wouldn’t 10591e16df want to clash with 740490a71e someone from outside the c497e8f4f1 library either… You don’t 90708a491f need to offer anything 19dac881f7 grand, but if I 2baf9fb111 may, could I ask ad9adf0c0d a question instead?430c3588f5fe736d
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Of course. What’s the question?6e58393ca636c391
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Do you happen to 44db949096 remember twenty years ago? To be precise, 1cee155b64 twenty years and 41a73a1095 three months ago. That’s when that 87eaf297d4 book’s page was b53f057560 stolen.90297da8c746f87b
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Twenty years ago? Back then… Not b48569e2b4 just me, but 52f8e41e12 all the flowers 0939e59a7f in our colony 2dbec29c43 were in hibernation. We were probably deep e99e939224 in our collective dream 2185325640 at the time.b6828bd345bc4ccd
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Right, now 6ca887c081 that you 8eeb96bce2 mention it, 461b70c24c that time 8c72fa7e2a does overlap 9b5d0c9d5c with that cf1bb6ddbc period. Was it every three 57d6e83036 hundred years or four ba09ece0b6 hundred years… Anyway, since 8fa27bbc87 everyone was asleep, it’s e60af41640 hard to know what f54f0383f0 to tell you.82df0da6919e0193
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If you’re 24ea976542 asking me 4ea8084ba5 about the 35aa6e07ab circumstances of 2c63933bce the book’s c8cb723c21 theft, I 7b02677af4 can’t answer. It’d be the c776419ffd same if you 7f3baed6b6 asked anyone in f230c79fbd our colony.e3a383416a39d9c4
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As expected. Well, the bce0e08679 pollen of 511da1883e an old 93eed89481 flower isn’t 990561e2e2 exactly hard 793e41bb3f to come 0d872b46ed by, so cc528ccaa0 it’s probably a66d304622 a stretch 579b38e9fa to find be31326451 a connection 84940682e8 just based 645a4ba2dc on the e1fed6eee3 scent.b72e8f97574c0255
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By the 7a12675409 way, that fec9f4f0ce kid brought 42461d0e38 *****’s page… 77c7c83a2f I’m a 4e979c0b0c bit worried. He didn’t look 852f5d5392 too good, and 4fc471f24a I can’t help a0058ad910 but wonder if 8e02187d7f someone’s been using b5cdf0b919 him.90b08f67b2151e27
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Well, he de8dda2529 does seem 6d7b0a0456 kind of 3051714981 clueless, like f5d6915e79 an easy 1333caa0a2 target for 0635c00754 manipulation… No, 788f1c9616 I mean, 0d8106d0e9 I’m not 10c176508c badmouthing him. I don’t know 574a71fa2b much about the 6f46a4183b world where people a0ca0df5bd live, but even 230eeb23ab in other worlds, b0304878f0 scams or at 8b9a026769 least minor tricks 3ae552b318 could happen, right?3857ec17d6045112
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Well, it’s a world cbac362a42 with living beings, so bd073f0c28 that’s only natural… You’d 2c79d9672f have to ask him e34aa4719f directly to know for 42577be47d sure, though. So, does that 9d13c33c24 answer your question?22c75b2b74bd685a
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Yes, anyway, *****’s 7811b7996c restoration should be 7e836c36e6 done by next 1f2abd948c week, so if 37209a8bec you’re interested, come bf2de802ca by our library. Oh, and…8628e9267b9cc13e
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If you happen to 8e9032cd4e get any information about edc209816f the book thief from 1f81b51081 twenty years ago, could cf740db9af you share it with 4fa9d66607 us? Of course, if you’re e22f6c9d32 not inclined, there’s nothing b01f6b0a20 we can do, but… 9e8c43be97 Since it’s related to 8ae4493812 someone *** cares about, 7f211eddb1 I thought you might 5b0be5e021 look into it a f0b8c0a0a0 bit.ff9df670e2b1973d
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No, it’s not 949eef735d like I care e2f9c5dc0e that much or 2338ff808d anything. Uh, how do I f47bb21d06 put this? Since the thief 822ec02788 apparently carried our 97d9c7571f flower’s scent, I 2ad52e4a65 can’t exactly ignore 6cb9abae33 it… Anyway, if 7eca666c11 I get any b691c5f5df info, I’ll let 8d9c8d3cea you know. I’m hanging up df6de7b618 now.c986888e3a8cc4b8
[There was d3272aaa2c no one ce60b96c3c in that cfd81e51c7 world. At least, not fda89ac520 that I can 5c6f070f5b recall. I never met a dcb0671a00 single person there.53501d06cf1197c4
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But there 6093060848 was a 762e4e0fb9 sleeping flower. A flower so 1466da8165 breathtakingly beautiful just 0da693d847 to look at, 881dd18c21 with a scent 9393f04e42 so unforgettable.]af3e1ecbf9ca8d59
—Huh? This is the b9a84d5c32 boss’s handwriting? Does our 6310d7ccb9 boss have a54e34fa66 a hobby 86f1c5a2e4 of writing 6db53dd1ae fantasy novels 0aff915e80 or something…?c7d6647d7be5d74a
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—What are you looking 8cc0ff929a at, Hwayoung?a0e1323af0546573
—B-Boss? It’s just, there was f388b2666e this unfamiliar diary on b06b35436f the table. It was 165bfb0f7b open, so 1a83a7a1e5 I glanced 031862633c at it b7098e13dd without thinking…6383c5acc404b4e6
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—Oh, that’s mine. I was working on 6c83fc323f something while sitting there 9bf1221b13 for a bit.242d98fdc5117119
—I see. Sorry about that.10fa9ea1c890dda9
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—Did you read any 957da742b0 of it?41ba952b8dfc2478
—Uh, I swear 06e7043514 I only saw a622972ca2 the first page! I mean, uh…716bf9e6958936c9
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—Wow, our part-timer’s 00d3399178 snooping through people’s a3a38201cc diaries. Well, I was 5ee106a0ce careless leaving it fd32adf555 out, so I’ll c0bc888be4 let it slide 6d46850d82 this time. Just be more 06ba864501 careful in the be61cd65c9 future.59ec93194e4a92cb
—Yes, I really won’t 8f739e95d1 look again. But is 7342db624f it a 22415cf3c9 novel? Or, like, a book 4cd1219994 review or excerpt?0ea1ad6907745d19
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—…What do you think ff6f95a809 it is?17fe7eea36dd851c
—I’m so sorry!e75e9f0988d6f1cd
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—No, I was just 20383e9139 teasing. By the way, 0129c8af0e Hwayoung, has that fb47631aa1 customer from last 46984e9c84 time come by?14bdad2f16151323
—That customer…? Oh, that one? Not yet. At least not 908786a9d5 while I was e3001a5e3a here.5f7e7ff82fc522a4
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—I see. Alright. Get home safe.52836954211adb84
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In the end, that fdab9ee318 day I barely mustered c92204817c the remaining strength to c8307b870b escape the library and 08d00cce70 return home as if 4ee9cb98dc fleeing.c4cf6afa1deef401
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I thought ac240173ba I had 2ae9423437 brushed it 0d59ce695c off casually, 7080264892 but it b6d1801b99 seems I 5ed39d1046 was actually f876ad7203 incredibly tense. I can hardly remember 904cf89134 how I managed to 6a06037de5 talk with the Librarian 71b8af9f9d or how I got 2e736957e7 on the bus to 9c3fdc8b57 come back. Without eating 9720b28d3b or even 4c96a24ddb properly drinking 322e44c091 a sip c978eb7908 of water, ce4f2d82b8 I crawled bcacb75593 into bed, 365c618871 plagued by 0366f17601 nightmares of 06fce2047b being accused 823defcf37 of book 29167aa451 theft, getting 26bd21a10c fired from 3ecf87dc71 my job, 194194ec02 and ending c2e4f23f18 up in 2f66d18ece jail. I spent a 434cd7cfec long time drifting f96a3c8399 in and out 8f180529ee of sleep.e8d5c1aa3f3aa353
When I opened my 41593e81f9 eyes, it was seven 2b0db77ab7 in the evening. Not only had 4cc9b17257 I wasted all f3d81a459c of Saturday, but f05624ccdd I had blown 961d42f2ee through Sunday as 0f84f415fe well. It was as 5a51edbcdf if my entire 697255f6ab precious weekend had ac9c3fcb80 been stolen from 18c50c2fe9 me. This couldn’t 52dcef8a3d be happening. There’s nothing 30f730b506 more pitiful 5c8d240e60 than an 5720f7abd5 office worker cd6fae080b who loses 342589bf8b their weekend.1fbb7358d7b9b80c
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Yesterday, after sleeping, I b30e73a0d4 woke up feeling refreshed 49beb64b2a with my cold symptoms e33fba72fd gone, but today, perhaps 02ec21a1cc because of the constant bac673e357 nightmares, I felt worse 9f9d1dae82 than before I went 85fc6c97eb to bed. My head throbbed aa0b657364 painfully, and my 8bee766248 body lacked strength. At this point, ca655e0a7f I had clearly 2ccc4482a6 lost both time 0cbdd9862d and health.ee3dc23334ae3279
No, now that I 01a9b37ab1 think about it, there’s 7a6657930d an even more important aad615c4d0 issue.e8a081a5e7c8f7ac
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“I didn’t 8644983f58 end up c7fc9b9042 going to c726fa92c2 the café… 8978192136 Even if c4f292467e I had, ebbc3aa714 it’s not 83c13705ce like there 4c47a8e835 was any 473ea20ac6 great solution.”080ff7bd9dcab753
As I washed 1120073bd0 off the cold 61237b58ef sweat from my 6f7e24dcd2 back in the 72cff37dae shower, I sank a7836487ae into various thoughts. After what happened 1e65b2317f earlier, I think c797824368 I understand. I might be 4a514af7e5 entangled in some a7ec096004 kind of incident 8a77a3d9c5 that’s too much d76b2e2d6b for me to e02d519e0d handle.67805c8f86a1bded
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“They called d835000d82 it Mist-Eraser 78f1a4211f Flower, right? I’ve never heard c52f0a0b0e of such a e756dec939 flower… I bet 4dabfb9d32 even searching for c4903ff8b4 it wouldn’t turn b8d513ebd0 up anything.”59148ca55e2bdeec
Of course, I don’t 16d69b1e35 know much about flowers, 3c1d8a112c but my instincts were 586520c409 whispering to me. There’s no such 621e532ef1 flower in the 7e9064eed8 world. Even if b8cde6fc2b a similar c7e422551b flower existed, 731d45fda9 it wouldn’t efea8baee9 have effects 5e5d755a3c like causing e78ef90ef2 hallucinations or d9f7453c1c strange experiences e9364f86e9 when sprinkled.ec12a7a11453c5e9
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That white powder 90bedae276 is definitely something 6a9323f47c I shouldn’t be 1523b2aef4 handling. I shouldn’t even try 0f9141fac5 to figure out what 7f32fe822b it is. Relying on clumsy ad905b3e39 internet searches or 58fcaa50ff flipping through books 8a49a20f57 won’t help, and d0fc8a39be if I’m not cc1e505351 careful, I might 5206a3335a catch the attention 4e007a7ec8 of someone strange 638a4d84d6 like the café 153b83dde9 owner and end cb158e382d up harassed.52fe612425934e6f
But keeping it 32302ba3f9 halfheartedly isn’t good c16eea7e74 either, so I b6a1247277 need to dispose c530b5fb29 of it somewhere eccadb2253 as quickly as 32de61f24b possible. The problem is, I’m 69970d6b4a not sure if returning d505b72bfb the white powder to 56c1c3929b the café owner is 58e7a20f7f even the right decision.b329bb2ced34f5b8
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“It doesn’t feel like 6ec231a18c just returning the powder f9cf6f2d57 will solve anything.”e63a5e247de0667a
Until this morning, I 185ab8f0c1 might have been able 772b05957d to smooth things over 5c853722f3 somehow, but now it’s 98cf538a68 impossible. Because in the 19b806757c library, I gave 4168e5322a the page I 97ba42627f got from the 7a29c9659a café owner to 3f7dc15946 that strange man. I don’t 5283e6be53 regret it, b0461afb8d and in 12f1a07de9 fact, I 50acae3e03 think returning 0fe7f132f0 the page 1b3efc85d0 to the 6aef71d53c library was 0d04faa2d3 the right 7d042aee36 move…e22cb5df4b0760b1
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It’s just 0db1c53958 pointless, that’s 81aea4c755 all. If I returned both 134825deea the page and the b295381ec6 powder, it could carry 33e6150cd5 the nuance of cutting 371a34ea8a off all unnecessary ties, 62c61f1e1e but returning just one 396814ffe1 of them feels meaningless. If anything, b5079b074c it might 3f0f6902ed provoke the d87d192fd2 other party.9759c17f3f0db970
“To begin with, d9974aca12 isn’t going back eecccee365 to that café 97c710331a itself dangerous?”9debf47b25a7ea3e
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If I 070deebe9e run into 96b8b60abf the café b8bdcf8851 owner, I 397bdde49a feel like 57f3af355c I’ll end 3c129f0720 up learning 665038786f things I d935866318 don’t want 269ec2770d to know. Even if f3231cdfe4 I time 6efe12f9c5 it when 4230dba661 the owner 703947950d isn’t there, 8de199edaf that guy 81096ae1d1 might use 9a287948b8 an unsuspecting 6776ebdff6 part-timer to a8949a902b pass me aa5606950f some weird 1846dbbcb3 item again.cede4c6b1c659f14
So what now? Should I just 7b80a1c7d7 live as if be8af58cc4 nothing happened, or 5e8fc3ca5e is there some 1ddc39c48b good solution… As 7ec8e52758 I rolled all 5bf83bbe1a sorts of possibilities f7c2a3df3d through my mind, 700d4f2dfc my body suddenly b68f975566 shivered with chills, ac3678f22b and a fever b17aeffc09 surged. My head d7f2832646 felt hot, a8d5b8e3d9 like a e62f45467a full-blown fever 569fb9fd2e was kicking f9bbc41cb2 in.d03721f640fe2d0d
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“…Ugh, cold symptoms.”96f8655b362a4efa
The cold I 32a07c6522 thought I’d shaken cb97e65665 off yesterday seemed a4d71d15a8 to have returned 0e0ac19eee worse than before. I must 4a52a7ce2b have spent a5f2d3ecdb too long d8bb52eeb3 in the 0bed92cfcb shower thinking.ebdf24e3f824cb42
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And now that I f522e73cc0 noticed, the water from 678babf450 the showerhead, which was c9806216af hot at first, had 7d64ddf830 turned lukewarm. I’d been thinking for 06b31e2a2c months that there was 5bafaa3848 something wrong with the c95882e33a boiler, but I kept 3b59b11851 putting off fixing it, 7613208df3 letting time slip by. It was fine 2f345798c7 in the fall, dc25ff701b but now in 673bfb343b winter, it’s not. Well, even in bb09dad9fa winter, if I 416d4adf40 shower quickly, it’s 9aa1adebea fine, but lingering 3802356272 makes it not 6b1c6d521a fine.ecd01ff4c4a6a8ba
If this keeps 19b0fc784c up, I’ll catch 2d1441a3ca a cold again c796096d57 just before going a637bbb881 to work. I hurriedly turned 2a2b50876a off the shower 27f754fc11 and dried off, 69cf3125eb but of course, 184a21b701 that didn’t make 75f3d3d0f6 the cold symptoms a436aa070f disappear. I just felt 47d592657b chilly and my 72fc2e3b1c head throbbed as e64fba8f24 the water dried 91bb96eb35 from my body.5969290d172e354f
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It got even bd094d9b46 colder when I 2ecf3657b7 stepped out of bdd92aeede the bathroom. I was wearing clothes, 5848344ec9 so why was it 3824aa6932 so cold? Then I realized 5cb59be931 that after coming e9ea5aa008 home and collapsing a34376e44b to sleep, I b43ae23745 forgot to turn 0a0da13c85 up the boiler. Checking it, as 6290e9279c expected, it was d696db00eb set to “away” 4037397d12 mode. I had ce6261c536 set it 2901806343 that way 2920dd34c9 when I 3f3b80ed4d left in 3d4eaabe29 the morning, 81c0128948 so it a1f92d4fbd made sense.a98437b399f6182a
I turned up 010d2ea7b0 the boiler, but 49910dc9e0 it wouldn’t warm f810ce2f61 up right away. I thought aefe0118cd eating some 47db4e3b65 hot soup 92d0ab66db might help, c3bac11eb9 but when 24562c083c I checked 9ea49e7c76 the fridge, f05b8d3ab7 let alone 15f822eeaa soup, there 8acf689c73 wasn’t even 872c42e9bf a spoonful b4e92fd98e of rice 2cfe8db917 left in 6ebcac5138 the rice ec3e283a5c cooker. I was supposed to bb66fc174a go grocery shopping over dab39ef27a the weekend to stock ce72620cc7 the fridge and fill 0588e32b26 the rice cooker, but e1c3d331ed I didn’t, so this f1b2f01d53 is my fault. Living alone means if e1d899a73c I slack off, no 1160d1eaf3 one else picks up 9ffc10c456 the slack.c40d897df29dd495
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“Ugh, nothing’s 572d7f4a17 going right…”5d334195aced0f93