It was at the library’s first floor.
It seemed the cape was not waterproofed. The man’s black cape, completely soaked in rain, was dragging on the floor and leaving water marks.
“Hm…”
There was a man walking with the cape dragging on the floor.
The suspicious man in black cape didn’t bat an eye for the smell of blood that was filling the air inside the library since a while ago. Instead, he was carefully going over the books on the shelves.
“No, no… and no!”
Thump.
The man took a book from the shelf, but he cringed and threw the book in frustration.
“Damn it all! There are too many! Way too many!”
It seemed he could not find the book he was looking for.
He scratched his head hard instead to vent his frustration, but then he suddenly raised his ears in response to small sound of someone’s breathing.
“…”
“Um?”
Huup…. Huup…
The small sound of someone's breathing shaking was indicating that someone had the mouth tightly closed with a hand.
“Ummmm?”
The man had experienced situations like these many times, so he knew instinctively that there was someone hiding, choking in fear.
“Who could it be? Who is…”
The man in black cape laughed like a madman and finished the sentence he could not continue a moment ago,
“… playing a hide and seek like this?!”
Wheec!
The man in black cape turned the corner and had his eyes met with those of the person who was hiding in the corner. Having confirmed the woman’s clothing, he wiggled his eyebrows as if he was overjoyed.
“Ohoh?!”
“P… please… my life…”
With an apron to the front, the woman was certainly a librarian who knew well about the library.
“A librarian! Ms. Librarian, you are exactly who I need right now!”
After seeing the man speaking in loud roar-like voice, the librarian, who was holding her breath on the corner with her mouth closed with her hand until now, thought she was going to die now. She was shaking with her tears hanging on her eyes.
“Please…”
It was because she witnessed how the man brutally murdered the people gathered at the first floor.
“… Sir dark mage…”
“Um?”
Librarian pleaded with shaking voice.
“Um?”
Black colored magic, black cape…
The man that the librarian saw had just those two characteristics. However, they were enough to make her think about the infamous dark mage.
That was the reason why she pleaded.
“Ahah! It’s nothing, nothing!”
“…”
Having noticed the librarian in tears, the man waved his right hand and said,
“I think there must be a misunderstanding. I’m not the dark mage.”
The man smiled like a good man to the librarian and extended his hand to her.
“I’m just a visitor who came to visit the library.”
“Is that s…”
“… Quiet….”
With hand extended toward her, he had the other hand’s index finger to his lips. He walked toward the librarian and said,
“I’m your customer.”
“…”
“Shouldn’t you treat me like one?”
The man, who had a refreshing smile on his face, opened his eyes narrowly.
The librarian was shaking in fear of the eyes looking down at her. She carefully grabbed his hand and stood up.