Chapter 9
The crown of the head, heart, arms, thighs, back, shoulders, neck.
I was driving Anonymous 10's teeth into the fallen woman's body at random when
I saw a little child wearing a red ribbon speaking to me.
But.
‘These anomaly bastards..! They should know to wait when someone's busy..!’
How could they not see that I was this busy?
I felt terribly sorry for the child, but I was trying to survive right now.. Wait a second.
‘..A red ribbon?’
The sudden appearance of the red ribbon brought all my actions to a halt.
The child's voice, the red ribbon, and the request to take out a book from the nonexistent bookshelf 52.
Because a single rule tying all these things together came to mind, my body instinctively stopped moving.
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7 ) If a little child wearing a red ribbon asks you to take out a book from bookshelf 52 because they cannot reach it, ignore them. Once again, this library has only 51 bookshelves.
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However, as long as I followed the rulebook, my safety would be guaranteed.
Without forcing myself to turn toward the child's voice,
‘Let's ignore it.. Let's ignore it..’
I dragged the fallen crying anomaly's corpse to the bathroom.
‘Phew.. This should be dead enough, right?’
Indeed.
By the time I had driven Anonymous 10's teeth into the crying anomaly's body in the order of its head, waist, and neck,
I realized that I could no longer feel the woman moving.
But that alone wasn't proof that the anomaly was really dead,
so, with adrenaline flooding through me, I kept driving its teeth into the anomaly's body without stopping.
“Mister! Please take out the book on bookshelf 52! I'm too short to reach it!”
Just as I was about to leave the crying anomaly's corpse abandoned in the bathroom..
I saw the little red-ribbon anomaly following me all the way inside my room.
‘It's following me while keeping a certain distance?’
With a sudden thought, I naturally went into the bathroom and pushed the crying anomaly's corpse into the corner.
“Mister! Please take out the book on bookshelf 52—”
Click-
When the little child wearing the red ribbon followed me into the bathroom, I came back out and quietly closed the bathroom door.
‘It'll open it and come out, right?’
I hadn't done it with any great expectations.
It had merely been an impulsive action in response to the little anomaly following me into my room..
“?”
“Mister! Please take out the book on bookshelf 52!”
The little child kept repeating the same words, but even as I moved farther away, it didn't even try to open the bathroom door and come out.
At that moment.
A hypothesis suddenly came to mind..
The intelligent monster Anonymous 10 had tried to enter by stupidly smashing down the door when it was locked.
Why had it done that?
It could have entered the room easily if it had simply broken the doorknob.
‘What if it hadn't failed to break it, but had been unable to break it?’
With its strength, it should have been more than capable of breaking the doorknob with ease,
but the Anonymous 10 anomaly had been unable to break the doorknob.
The reason was..
‘Can only I open the doors here?’
What if it was because no being other than me could open the doors in this place?
‘..That actually makes sense?’
It was a perfectly plausible hypothesis.
This was a space for the librarian of Belliard Library, so wouldn't it make sense to keep outsiders from entering?
Why, even on Earth, didn't places like that exist?
[No admittance except authorized personnel.]
That same rule was being applied here in Belliard Library.
That red-ribbon little anomaly that had followed me all the way here had become trapped inside the bathroom.
‘Can it really not get out?’
Since the red-ribbon anomaly still hadn't opened the door, this hypothesis was practically certain.
I was just enjoying the fact that I had killed another anomaly when—..what is this now?
‘..What kind of note is this?’
My joy at having trapped the red-ribbon anomaly in the bathroom lasted only a moment..
because I saw a note I had never seen before lying on the table where I ate.
I cautiously opened the note..
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Hello, Librarian.
We have received a complaint that the library is currently very noisy.
Normally, you would be disposed of immediately without warning, but we have decided to give you one warning.
Please maintain absolute silence in the library.
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‘Ah.. I did make a lot of noise..’
A warning letter had arrived concerning the noise I had made while driving teeth into the crying anomaly's body.
‘..So immediate disposal is normally the rule, but they sent me a warning instead..?’
For a moment, I was chilled by the thought that I should have been killed, but Belliard Library had given me one chance.
And thanks to the affinity I had built up with the anomaly that brought me my lunchbox, I couldn't shake the feeling that I had been granted one more chance.
‘..I should apologize properly at lunchtime later.’
So, once my morning shift ended, I decided to leave an apology note in the empty lunchbox.
For now, I stepped out of the room to work my morning shift as the librarian of Belliard Library.
Of course.
“Mister! The book on bookshelf 52…”
The red-ribbon anomaly remained trapped in the bathroom...
…
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[Daddy's leaving now, so you stay living there, anomaly.]
(Photo)
Can you see the thing faintly visible through the bathroom's semi-transparent glass?
That's the red-ribbon anomaly, and after I locked it in the bathroom, it hasn't been able to get out for an hour lol.
[Comments - 23]
Anonymous 1 : ??????????????????????
ㄴ Poster : The same reaction every time.. I'm getting sick of it..
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
ㄴ Poster : Fresh!
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : ‘Fresh,’ my ass lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Anonymous 3 : You locked an anomaly in the bathroom? ..How?
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : I heard it went into the bathroom because it wanted to live after the newbie threatened it with a knife?
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : That actually makes sense.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : I also have the confidence to take off my pants if the newbie threatened me with a knife, yep.
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : You should put them on..
Anonymous 5 : 쪼ㄱ지 ㅂ ㅗ ㄴH
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Huh? This bastard's starting to break down now?
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : ?? This pattern is a first, too. I thought you could only use a Korean keyboard?
Anonymous 6 : Seriously, is the newbie 2.2 meters tall and 150 kilograms, with a body made entirely of muscle?
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : Yeah, you only figuring that out now?
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : That's just an anomaly, though..
Anonymous 7 : Now, instead of killing anomalies, he's locking them up..
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Apparently he's planning to raise that anomaly as livestock now~
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : A veteran who's gotten sick of simply killing things lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : He's not human..
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Right. If he were human, he couldn't turn it into livestock, but since he's an anomaly, domestication is possible.
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : Whatever the case, an ordinary person definitely couldn't do that lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Anonymous 8 : What, b1tch?! Is the newbie going to use the anomaly as a bathroom..?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I can't say that's not what he's doing ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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One hour into my morning shift as the librarian of Belliard Library, I got bored and pretended to go to the bathroom so I could secretly log into the gallery for a moment.
I had just returned to focusing on my librarian duties when
Aaaaaaaah!!!
“!!!..”
My whole body froze at the sudden scream coming from behind me, but..
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5 ) You must always maintain silence in the library. If someone is talking loudly, stop them. However, if it is a scream, you do not need to pay attention to it.
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‘The rulebook said not to pay attention to screams..’
Since the rulebook said that I didn't need to pay attention to screams,
where could this scream be coming from agai—
Mister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
‘..The red-ribbon anomaly?’
The book!!! Number 52!!!!
“...”
The moment I realized that the source of the screams was inside the bathroom, I felt my entire body go cold.
The red-ribbon anomaly, which had kept repeating the same words, had suddenly started screaming..
and just as I began to regret whether locking it in the bathroom had been the wrong thing to do,
The booksheeeelf!!!!!!!
“..?”
Aaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!
It sounded as though the child's scream contained an emotion of pain.
When I continued to remain silent, just in case..
The book!! Number 52!!! Booooo—
‘..It went quiet.’
As if someone had abruptly switched off a machine playing a song,
I heard the red-ribbon anomaly's screams suddenly cut off.
‘..Is it dead?’
In the past, when I had left Anonymous 10's corpse in the librarian's bathroom, someone had removed its body.
However.. since I couldn't be sure whether Anonymous 10 had revived or whether someone had really removed the corpse, I conducted an experiment alone using a pillow. As a result,
I confirmed that an anomalous phenomenon existed in the Belliard Library librarian's bathroom that periodically ‘cleaned’ the bathroom,
and it seemed that the red-ribbon anomaly that had been screaming until just moments ago had fallen victim to that phenomenon.
‘That's what you get for following a man into the bathroom, I guess.’
…
Ding~ Ding~ Ding~
The moment my fifth morning shift at Belliard Library ended, I got up from my chair and went straight back to the room.
The first thing I did as soon as I returned to my room was..
‘Is it gone? ..Is it there?’
I peered through the bathroom's semi-transparent glass to check whether there was any living anomaly inside.
After searching around inside the bathroom for roughly three minutes,
“It doesn't look like there's anything there..”
I realized that there wasn't a single being visible inside the bathroom.
However, since there was no reason to open the door and inspect the inside just because nothing was visible from outside,
I decided to check again after my afternoon shift ended.
“I should write the letter first.”
Roughly.. about 5,200 characters.
I began by writing a letter praising Belliard Library for its kindness.
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[So the newbie's KDA is 3/0/0 right now, huh?]
He got first blood on the blue Ao Oni,
bought the tooth item that dropped from it, and then beheaded the anomaly bitch who had reached level 5 in mental attacks.
And he locked up the red-ribbon jungle anomaly that hurried over to gank him because its team was dying, killing it in the bathroom. That's right, isn't it?
Everyone here is either 0/0/0 or 0/1/0, though.
A newcomer??
Who doesn't even know the survival rules????
3/0/0????
If this were a game, wouldn't that mean someone playing for the first time had immediately entered ranked and started smurfing?????
[Comments - 15]
Anonymous 1 : Personally, I think it's 2/0/1. The bathroom got the last hit on the red ribbon, with the newbie assisting.
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : That cowardly bathroom bitch.. How dare it get the last hit after our newbie killed it??
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : The red-ribbon anomaly is thanking the bathroom. If not for the bathroom, it would've become the newbie's bathroom.
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : Ooh.. That's pretty lewd.
Anonymous 3 : I think he killed two more, but he's keeping quiet because he thinks we won't believe him.
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : There's even a rumor that he killed the owner of the library.
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : From now on, this place isn't called Belliard Library. It's ‘Newbie's Library.’
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : I'll write a new rulebook. 1 ) Don't mess with our newbie. 2 ) Always follow rule 1.
Anonymous 5 : I think it's obvious that there are other stats on his status window.
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : I saw it, and he had magic power too.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Yeah, I saw it too, and he even had charisma.
Poster : We've dug traps, lured anomalies with blood, even used the corpses of dead companions, all to try to kill a single anomaly. We've done every kind of crazy shit imaginable. Damn..
ㄴ Anonymous 5 : When the body is strong, the head doesn't have to work hard.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : What? A good body?! Me too, hehe.
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