40-3. Affection is forbidden in the library.
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Librarian Laplace.
He was born as the son of a peasant. Originally, he was a human who had nothing to do with magic.
Even if we spend a daily life like a cartwheel, repeating harvesting and planting crops after each passing year.
A small power possessed from birth.
“Laplace hyung! Show that!! That!!”
“This time, putting out the bonfire at my house!”
By using the ‘ability to put out fire without touching one’, the village was revitalized.
Tak, Laplace snapped his fingers, and the bonfire that was burning in the distance was extinguished in an instant.
“Wow!! A real magician!! Interesting!”
“Ah, did I get caught?”
A mischievous country boy who at first used his abilities to extinguish the town’s torches or easily light damp firewood.
He became the envy of his peers and even misunderstood that he was a wizard.
It was a girl’s job to change such an ordinary life.
“..Lady Claire. It’s windy.”
“I will read only this, this book.”
A noble lady who came down to the village to recuperate. An impressive girl with gloved hands and a wooden wheelchair.
Claire von Maxell. She suffered from an incurable disease that gradually turned her body into a tree.
‘..Are you a real wizard? I can barely feel the mana.’
Occasionally, she had a habit of reading a book in the shade of a tree, and watched with interest as Laplace used her powers.
A playful green-haired country boy and an aristocratic girl. It was a meeting that would not have been possible in the first place.
One autumn night when it was exceptionally windy.
When Claire, who felt cramped, left her house for a while and took her for a walk, something happened.
“..Let there be light.”
She ran into Laplace lying on the grass. I watched closely as she snapped her fingers and turned off the stars in the night sky one by one.
“Keuuu, I was sick today too. Aren’t I too cool?”
Laplace feels proud of his abilities while repeatedly turning on and off the starlight. The corners of his mouth hung uncontrollably in his ears.
“Little boy, what are you doing lying on the grass?”
He jumped up when he heard Claire’s wheel crunching on the blades of grass. A boy caught saying embarrassing things.
“Uh. Uh?! Did you see it?”
“..Of course not.”
Laplace was terrified that he might have heard his self-important self-talk. Aren’t you embarrassed?
I couldn’t sleep that night, so I just used my ability to pass the time. I didn’t know if there was someone on the hill where people didn’t find it well.
“Are you a real wizard? What did you just do..?”
But what came back was a misunderstanding. Fearing that if he said that he was not a wizard, he would spread rumors about his embarrassing words, Laplace did his best.
“..Yes. Girl.”
He was actually a country boy who could hardly use magic, but Laplace lied about being a wizard.
“What is it, cringe. Even if you lower your voice, you don’t look old at all, do you?”
“You are a child too! As long as their hair is like a croissant, they are all adults….”
A relationship started from a minor misunderstanding. It was from there that Laplace and Claire met. Unusual, they made friends easily.
As time passed, they gradually grew closer.
“Are you not even making the fireflies shine today? Amazing!”
“Girl. For this magician, Laplace-nim, this much is easy….”
“What are you saying? A commoner.”
Different identities. Despite being in opposite positions, the playful boy couldn’t let the sickly girl go.
“..You have talent. Laplace.”
“What talent? Claire?”
“The great mage’s talent. I know a little bit because I am the daughter of a count.”
Even though Laplace noticed Claire’s illness, he became his friend, and she told the country boy a story about the outskirts of the village, helping her to admire him.
“You even turn off the stars in the sky! It must be something like an ultimate skill..!”
“..I will do something.”
Claire pulled down her hat. Branches that have already started to grow on the head.
“It’s a pity that you can’t cure my disease either.”
“..That’s right.”
Watching the girl turn into a tree, Laplace dreams of becoming real, not fake.
A small wish to truly become a magician and cure Claire’s illness bloomed in his heart.
“I came and picked it up. Lady Max-L.”
“What is this? Is it a mana crystal ball?”
Then one day. Laplace, who has been taking pictures of scenes from all over the world for Claire, who has lost control of her body, said bluntly.
“They sold it cheaply. You wanted to see the sea.”
“You are lying. This is expensive There’s no way I could have picked it up anywhere.”
“….”
Claire smiled for the first time in a long time while looking at the image of the water country that Laplace had taken. His coughing sound was getting louder, and the color on his face was getting darker.
“Thanks, Laplace. I really wanted to go there someday.”
Her smile always radiated. A look that gripped Laplace’s heart.
“..I didn’t mean to say thank you.”
I wonder if it was from then. While being like her friends, a love affair has sprouted.
“If you go to the Mage Tower and train later, you can become a great mage. Laplace.”
“If it is the magic tower…. A place where wise men live together?”
A word Claire said while brushing her bun hair one day.
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“Not a wizard, but a great mage.. I can easily cure my illness.”
In fact, hemp was not something anyone could do, and she was in a state of desperation with half of her body turned into wood.
Claire has become unable to move an inch on the bed.
It is too late for Laplace to tell the truth that he is not a wizard.
Telling the truth would only destroy any remaining hope. A white lie was needed.
“Let me try.”
He bravely headed to the Mage’s Tower, but returned after bumping into a wall of reality that he had no talent. Ever since he was a child, he had never tried to learn magic alone.
The amount of innate magical power was too small. Magic greatly affected by bloodline.
It’s only natural that he didn’t acquire abilities like Dennis did, and unlike Ariel, he was just a human.
Even if dragons were born in the countryside, that didn’t mean Laplace.
I tried to find a way to do dirty work such as cleaning or transporting around, but there was no way to cure the disease that turns the body into a plant.
Unknown cause. An incurable disease with no cure. On the way back to the village after being bitterly rejected in the magic tower.
“….”
Because while he was away, his illness progressed seriously. Laplace is shocked when he finally arrives at Claire’s house.
“Failed.. Right? Are you okay..”
In just a few months Claire was gasping for thinning breath. His eyes caught the ghastly sight of his tree trunk covering his whole body.
“Sorry, Claire.. I’m not actually a wizard..”
Immediately Laplace ran to her and made her confession. Words too late.
He hated being helpless. No matter how hard he searched through the books, there was something he couldn’t reach. What kind of magician is he who can’t fix a girl in front of him?
“..No. Laplace.”
Claire comforts Laplace. Like bamboo, flowers bloomed on the remaining arm, showing that life is waning.
“That can’t be. Claire. I’m fake….”
“You were a real wizard to me.”
It was Claire who smiled while wiping the tears of the crying green-haired man. Half of his face had already been turned into wood, but the light was still intact.
“I knew that much from the beginning. It’s okay if it’s fake.”
The green-haired boy’s eyes widened. She gave the girl a look that she knew from the start.
“Because the time I spent with you was magic to me.”
Knowing that he was a wizard was a lie, Claire was fooled. Hearing the girl’s words, Laplace hardened his heart.
Ten days have passed. Her life is about to end.
‘There must be something I can do with my abilities.’
Laplace came up with a trick.
Laplace snapped his fingers several times on the hill where he first met Claire, and quietly waited for someone to come.
After a while, a small lump covered in a black cloak came to him.
“Some crazy guy blinked the magic light in the Library of Truth. Are you there?!”
Its identity is a Grim Reaper with a skull face. The Shinigami pointed with his hand with only his bony joints remaining.
“What if it’s right?”
A place where everything can change.
Laplace thought that there must be such a space somewhere. That’s why he made connections by breaking the Akashic Records.
“The high-ranking people are very angry!”
It is the ability to turn off the light of the stars in the night sky. An ultimate skill that touches the concept.
“It’s only because of you human!! How did you break the library that even demon lords can’t touch! Fix it right now!”
“I’ll fix it if you make me a great mage.”
I suggested not to fix it until I became a great mage.
“You can do that, right? I heard from Claire.”
The ability to put out a fire without touching it. In some ways, it may seem like a really trivial ability.
Laplace worked hard for the lover he loved.
Decades of devoting himself to training by reading through all the magic books in the library.
“It’s been a while, Claire.”
“Laplace..?”
The fake wizard became the real master wizard.
In the end, he honed his abilities and vomited the spirit of curing Claire’s incurable disease.
***
When I entered the library, starlight poured in. A landscape like walking on a transparent aurora.
“Laplace!! You’re bringing an outsider!! How did you get your title as a librarian!!”
As we took a step forward, the little skeleton saw us and shouted. The grim reaper wearing a black cloak looked cute.
I know you accepted the role of a librarian in exchange for stopping Claire’s illness.
“Noisy, skull gourd. You brought the benefactor who stopped the blanking of our library.”
“What? Then it was real that the god of death in the other world fell behind!”
A librarian who manages the library of truth in the depths of the temple of Akasha, the god of intelligence.
That was Laplace’s true identity. A person who can do crazy things for the lover he loves.
Like this, Laplace and I were human beings of the same kind.
You said it was the same reason, so it must be because of Claire that I agreed. Since it’s a prequel, I was worried that it might not be a great mage.
But there was no doubt when I saw him turn out the sun as he became president.
“Can I get a book recommendation..? Manager.”
I asked the skeleton’s face. The librarian of this library is Laplace, and that person is the general manager. It would be right to get a recommendation from that person.
“You bastard, you’re crazier than Laplace! Are you getting book recommendations from me?”
The sound of clattering teeth was clear and transparent. The giggling laugh is annoying.
A place like a hub where information flows from other routes as long as you go back in time.
You can also check the flags that have passed here.
You should get as much information as possible. Information about the other two demon lords. The location of the demon sword Horizon, etc. There were many things I wanted to know.
“Don’t curse at Licht.”
At that moment, a sword made of glass appeared around the skeleton and threatened the manager. Pee, no probably get kicked out….
“Sorry.. Customer.. Please wait a moment..”
Despite my concerns, the Grim Reaper was polite when threatened by Fine.
What is it? He wouldn’t be that kind of character. Is there something