“Ms. Nainiae, the scream just now…”
“Yes, I heard it too.”
Reitri had his face turned pale just like Horai. Wondering what was happening, he looked at Nainiae.
‘This atmosphere feels like something is wrong.’
After hearing a scream of an unidentified man, the area had fallen silent. It was scary quiet.
This was a library, so it was natural to be quiet. However, the scream that was heard a moment ago was not becoming of the place.
‘What should I do? Should I go to the place of the scream’s origin, or stay here?’
With her eye narrowed, Nainiae started to think hard about what to do.
“This sensation is somehow…”
After agonizing over it, Nainiae decided to wait on making a choice. She turned around toward Reitri and Horai and said,
“For now, I think it would be best if both of you stayed close to me.”
It appeared that they were not the only ones who have heard the scream. One by one, other people in the library were starting to murmur ‘what was that sound just now?’
“… Kiaaak!”
Again, as if she was struck by something inside the library, a loud scream of a woman, just as loud as the man from earlier, could be heard.
“U… Uncle?”
“Horai… It’s all right. It will be all right.”
The two were choking in fear from hearing the second scream.
Having realized that Basilisk and the mercenaries are not around, Nainiae carefully allocated mana inside her body and looked around the surrounding.
‘Where is Young Master?’
Nainiae, thinking about Riley, narrowed her eyes.
‘Let’s meet up at the center area. The one that arrives first should find the places to sit.’
Remembering the promise made before going their separate ways to find books, Nainiae turned her body.
“For now, let’s go to the center area.”
“I’m guessing it is because of Young Master Riley?”
Reitri asked as if he figured out Nainaie’s reason.
Nainiae nodded and lead the way.
“Mr. Reitri, I could get lost, so please direct me to the place.”
“Ah, yes! Please take a right here!”
The Rainfield’s library was pretty wide. Although it was only five stories tall, each floor was a very wide square shaped area. The area size rivaled that of the Solia Castle’s arena.
“Please take a left on the next bookshelf, and you will be able to see the center area. There is a store that sells sandwich and drinks, and there are lots of benches…”
Nainiae was in the front while following Reitri’s direction. After turning at the last bookshelf, she suddenly stopped with a vacant look on her face.
“…”
“Ms. Nainiae?”
Reitri and Horai turned at the bookshelf and got to where Nainiae was. Also having witnessed what Nainiae was looking at, Reitri and Horai, shocked from the sight, held their breath.
“… W… What is this?”
It was a cruel and horrible sight.
In front of them, there were corpses of people who died in horrible pain. The dead bodies lying on the ground had their mouths wide open.
“Ugh?! Uuuuwheck!!!!”
Because of the horrible scene, Horai, who was still young, could not hold it anymore and started to throw up.
Meanwhile, Reitri opened and closed his mouth like a fish with a pale face.
“Who could have done this?”
With a blank look on her face, Nainiae took a step forward, strained her eye and looked at each corpse.
‘… Magic?’
One corpse had the neck sliced by a sharp wind. Another had been pierced by icicle. Another was burned to crisp by flame. There was another who was killed by lightning bolt. The dead body was still twitching.
‘Someone used magic?’
Nainiae became certain that it was a mage that killed all these people. She opened her eye wide and looked around.
‘Who?!’
Her heart was pounding from seeing such a cruel sight. She barely managed to calm herself down. She spun her brain as she looked around.
‘There weren’t any sounds of explosions. It means the perpetrator did it while using silence magic. If that was the case, why weren’t the screams silenced too?’
There was the scream by a man, and then by a woman.