Episode 160 – Keep your eyes open
It wasn’t that there weren’t any students who visited the library late at night when everyone was asleep.
At Noble Academy, professors in charge of each subject taught students according to their own curriculum, and students grew up learning what the professor taught.
However, even a professor cannot satisfy all the knowledge a student wants.
Students who couldn’t find the knowledge they wanted from a professor were bound to find a breakthrough.
So the Noble Academy built a large library for students seeking knowledge by purchasing books from inside and outside the El Pario Empire.
Although it is smaller than the huge library called the treasure house of knowledge built in the imperial palace.
However, as the library was built in a place to nurture talented people who will lead the El Pario Empire, the books collected here were full of books written with great care by experts in each field.
And among them, there was a book that shed light on events of the past recorded by renowned historians traveling around the world.
The reason why Adalbert visited the library late at night was to read several books written by famous historians and learn about the behavior of the traitors there.
Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Adalbert visited the library and quietly opened the library door and entered.
Basically, as a place called a library is a place that requires silence, the door of the library opened and closed smoothly without making that common creaking sound.
Upon entering the library, Adalbert first began to figure out where the book he was looking for was located.
Here, in the Noble Academy Library, a kind of sign has been placed on the ceiling so that students can easily find the books they want.
Each sign indicated a subject covered by a book in the library.
The books stored in the library dealt with countless different fields such as humanities, sociology, economics, psychology, sorcery, alchemy, economics, and public administration, and signs also indicated each field.
If there were no signs like these, students visiting this place would waste time looking for the book they wanted, and one person would waste an hour, ten people would waste ten hours, and a hundred people would waste an hour. A hundred hours wasted, a thousand hours wasted with a thousand people.
If that hour is one hundred people. No, if it is the time of a person who can study more than a thousand people study, the loss will have to be shared by all mankind.
So, taking this into account when creating the library, we classified the books through major and minor categories so that students can easily find the books they want.
Through this sorting process, students could easily find the books they wanted, which meant that the satisfaction level of students using the library increased.
Adalbert was also looking for the book he wanted to look at, referring to the sign hanging from the ceiling of the library.
Now he was looking for a book related to ‘history’, and the sign hanging above his head read ‘history’.
He was standing in front of a bookshelf full of historical books and examining the contents of the book in order to find a book that dealt with the rebellious forces that had appeared in history.
Because his body, which was reconstructed after becoming a sword master, had a significantly improved memory unlike ordinary people, Adalbert was able to understand the contents of the book to some extent just by looking at it a few times.
However, the information about the traitor he was looking for was not easily found.
In most history books, ‘a person named ◇◇◇ in the ○○○○ region raised a rebel army in a place called △△△△ for the reason of being □□□ and rebelled against the ▽▽▽▽ kingdom, but was defeated in the end. All the people involved were enslaved.’ Or ‘In ○○○○ kingdom, a man named ◇◇◇ tried to rebel, but in □□□ kingdom, he ordered a general named △△△△ to wipe out all the traitors. It was called the treason of ▽▽▽▽.
Wanting a bit more detailed information, Adalbert eagerly searched for and read other books, but the book containing the information he wanted was rarely found.
“Ha… ….”
In the end, Adalbert sighed when he kept looking for the book and couldn’t find the information he wanted.
Because there was a tacit agreement between users not to make loud noises in the library at night, Adalbert expressed his feelings with a sigh rather than making loud noises.
However, the sound was quite loud and it attracted the attention of other people in the same room.
“Geo junior, are you sighing so loudly because you are looking for a book?”
That person was the executive committee member who had been plotting for a long time to induce confusion, blew up Bless’s planning department head, and was creating data aimed at exploiting gaps in the El Pario Empire.
He came to the place where Adalbert was standing and sighing and used a magic tool to prevent the sound from leaking out to the surroundings.
“Oh, sorry. To have a conversation in the library in the middle of the night, I need a magic tool that blocks sound.”
Because the executive member is a senior to Adalbert, he was treating him with the utmost courtesy, even though he was more polite than using honorifics.
If the executive committee member were no longer a stranger at Noble Academy, he would have spoken informally to Adalbert, but he was still a member of the executive committee of Bless, the student council of Noble Academy, so he maintained a respectful attitude.
“Is that so? I didn’t know because no one was using the library at this time.”
“Rather than that, why was my junior using the library at this time?”
He asked Adalbert a question, pretending to be the kindest senior he could.
The executive member was a person who used the library frequently before Adalbert did, and he knew next to the librarian what kind of books were in which place.
If Adalbert was looking for anything, the Executive Committee member thought to himself that he could find it.
Originally, he had no intention of helping Adalbert.
He came because he was curious about who was sighing in the sacred library, and he intended to scold the other person if he was a poor student.
It was because even if they were not in the position of manager in charge of a department of Bless, students who were in mid-level executive positions such as ○○ committee members were treated differently from ordinary students.
However, when he approached the place where the sighs were heard, he found Adalbert, whose courage had recently increased in popularity.
A popular student among students means someone who has influence over many students.
So, if the executive committee member showed a good image, naturally, Bless’ image also had room to be seen as good by other students.
So he changed his attitude and spoke to Adalbert in a respectful manner.
What if he told you how to solve the problem he couldn’t solve this time?
What if you can build a friendship with him to some extent, and if you go further, become a very close friend?
The idea began to take hold in his mind that he might be able to draw him into their organization and use him as a tool to accomplish a great cause.
“I was looking at history books and there were stories about people who rebelled, but there was no book containing research on why they did what they did.”
“Ah. If it is such a book, I know it well.”
Adalbert’s words aroused a little curiosity among the members of the Executive Committee.
Usually, when people say rebellion, they tend to look at it with a bad eye, but this man named Adalbert was trying to find out why they rebelled.
Perhaps, the executive committee member thought, if he coaxed him well with his words, he would be able to produce meaningful results.
So he said that he was well acquainted with the book containing such content, and I could confirm that Adalbert’s expression brightened.
“Really?”
“Isn’t it obvious? Even if it looks like this, I’m a Bless executive committee member. After all, there are a lot of books that I need to read while preparing for various events.”
“I see.”
Actually, what he said in the middle was just small talk.
It was the role of the Planning Manager to plan and prepare most of the events.
As a member of the Executive Committee, he just had to do as the Planning Manager told him to do.
“Follow me. I will introduce you to a book that has relevant content.”
The executive decided to give it a try here.
I decided to show Adalbert the promotional book that his organization uses to attract people.
Adalbert didn’t know that, and was just slowly following the executive committee member.