Chapter 6: The Library (1)

The original work didn’t show what kind of child Yona was. It just shows her as the protagonist’s younger sister who died of illness, and that Emily cares a lot about her sister.

Seeing her today, Yona still seems pure. She’s just sick from the disease, but she doesn’t hide the darkness inside like Emily.

‘Moreover, children are affectionate, so if you get close to them, they will be a great help.’

I feel sorry for having such calculating thoughts for a girl who is only 9 years old, but my life is at stake here.

It’s a force majeure.

I’ve already changed my goal.

Then what should I do to raise Yona’s favorability?

‘First of all, I need to cure the disease Yona is suffering from.’

Yona’s disease is not specifically mentioned in the work. However, as people with similar symptoms to her appeared, several suspected diagnoses came out.

It’s like there are candidates.

So when I arrived at the door, a man dressed in a black butler suit guided me.

“The library is where the interview was held a while ago. It is a short distance of about 10 minutes from the mansion where Miss Emily stays.”

The inside of the library was still magnificent.

Like a department store, the center was open so you could see the ceiling, and on both sides, there were spiral staircases that could go up.

Hundreds of bookshelves were visible. There were tens of thousands of books in it.

“From now on, the librarian must manage this place every day until the qualification is deprived.”

“Wait, wait a minute. Alone? Are there no other employees? It’s impossible for me to manage all this alone?”

As if he knew, the butler went to the desk and touched the blue crystal ball.

Whoosh!

The book carts installed throughout the library shook. The books piled up there floated in the air and found their original places.

Clatter

“You can generally manage the inside of the library with this crystal ball. If you put the books on the book cart, they will be automatically organized.”

The butler said what to do in the future.

“The first is to clean the library. This can also be done using artifacts. Second, organize the books on the book cart, and finally, manage the books.”

“What is book management?”

“It means overall management of books, such as applying for books that users want to the administrative office and identifying damaged books.”

There was less work than I thought.

The most difficult thing is cleaning and organizing books, but the artifact takes care of that, so in reality, all I have to worry about is the third book management.

“As you know, all employees employed within the Duke’s family live in the accommodations provided by the Duke’s family.

However, since there are people who come to the library early in the morning to read books, please follow me.”

The butler opened the door behind the desk. Inside, there was a large house with about three rooms.

“You can live here. It has heating and cooling, and you can cook.”

It was wider than the house I lived in in my previous life. It’s a pity that there is only one window leading to the outside, but it’s enough.

I asked what I was curious about.

“Is this library open to the direct line of the Duke’s family?”

“No. It is open to all employees, guests, and everyone who breathes in the Duke’s family.”

“How many people usually come per day?”

“I don’t know that much. I don’t come to the library often.”

If he doesn’t come to the library often, he won’t know how often the direct line and collateral lines come.

I couldn’t get the answer to the most important question.

“You can start your librarian job in two days. I’m leaving now.”

So the butler left, and I touched the crystal ball and the artifact respectively.

“How does this work?”

I fiddled with the black sphere that looked like a black hole. When I pressed the protruding button, it floated in the air.

Whoosh.

It sucked up the surrounding dust.

“Oh. It feels like a floating robot vacuum cleaner.”

The artifact floated around on its own. Since the building itself is quite huge, there were several artifacts.

“But how do I retrieve that?”

It went up to the ceiling where my arms couldn’t reach, whether it was to remove dust from the ceiling.

The building has three floors. It seems impossible for me to retrieve it using my body.

So I opened the shelf and looked for a solution, and a manual for the vacuum cleaner (?) came out.

[Geomdol User Manual]

Geomdol is an artifact engraved with the runes of absorption and movement, and to use it, press the button protruding from the surface.

Conversely, to retrieve it, operate the crystal ball on the librarian’s desk.

Geomdol can be used continuously for up to one day, and if it exceeds that, it will be overloaded and break down.

Please note that it may explode due to overheating during overload.

“The name is Geomdol? Looking at it, it seems to fit well.”

I know how it works, so now I have to retrieve it. I put my hand on the blue crystal ball.

“But how do I use this?”

It’s not like a text pops up like a cell phone. It’s just sending vibrations at regular intervals.

“Is it something like voice recognition?”

They wouldn’t give me a tool that requires magic power because I can’t use it.

“Organize the bookshelves?”

Whoosh!

The book cart shook. The book that was placed in advance turned around inside the library and went to its original place.

“It’s done. It’s done!”

It was amazing.

It’s not that science and technology have developed, but voice recognition is possible in the Middle Ages. I suddenly became curious about the power of magic.

Things that cannot be done on Earth are not very difficult here.

Airplanes, which are familiar in modern civilization, did not even appear as a concept here.

Instead, you can move long distances at once using spatial magic. All this is possible thanks to the unknown power of magic.

“First of all, Geomdol. Come back.”

Whoosh.

Geomdol, which had sucked up a lot of dust in the air, returned. The manual said to press the button on the back of Geomdol twice to remove the dust inside.

When I pressed the button twice, the middle of Geomdol split open and poured out dust.

“Then shall we start preparing to move?”

Honestly, there weren’t many things in the house that I could use. In the first place, there weren’t many things in the house.

Still, I can’t leave it, so I have to pick out the necessary things and bring them.

“And I can also invest with the money I sold the house.”

There are no stocks, but investment is possible.

Anyway, I know which top will emerge in the future, so there is no burden on investment.

So I took a carriage to my house and packed my luggage.

“The most important things are underwear, clothes. And money.”

I put them in a large box I bought nearby, one by one, in order of importance.

In the process, many items that I had never seen before were also discovered.

“What is this?”

A white powder was filled in half of the cylindrical container. I feel like it’s cosmetics used when applying makeup.

But I don’t know how to use it, so I just put it away. At least I can apply sunscreen or lipstick, so I put it in with my underwear.

All right.

With this, I have packed all my clothes and daily necessities. The rest is the tea cabinet. I opened the tea cabinet and took out the white container and the black container.

“This is pepper and salt, and is this parsley? They said you can eat there, so I have to bring things like this.”

The duchy said they would provide meals, but because each person has different tastes, it’s good to bring seasonings such as salt and pepper.

“But what is this? I’ve never seen it before?”

Black beans the size of a fingernail were filled in a glass bottle.

The fact that it’s in the tea cabinet means it’s an ingredient, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it.

I opened the lid. At that moment, a savory yet bitter, full-bodied aroma wafted out.

Sniff.

“This is coffee, isn’t it?”

Roasted and processed coffee beans. If you grind this and brew it, it becomes drip coffee.

In my previous life, I was addicted to caffeine enough to drink more than five cups a day.

The reason I started drinking it was simply because I was tired. I can’t fall asleep during my part-time job.

So I used to get rid of fatigue through coffee.

But as time went on, I just drank it out of habit even when I wasn’t tired.

The beginning of the day was always with coffee, and the end was with coffee.

It’s been a week since I entered the novel.

There was no place selling coffee around, and eventually I was forced to decaffeinate.

During that time, I barely moved with my survival instinct, but if it weren’t for that, I would have been lying in bed still with lethargy.

It’s the most welcome news to me, who is like an addict.

If you don’t like this, you’ll understand if you become me. Unless you’re addicted to caffeine, you can’t endure reality.

“I can’t…eat it right now. I don’t have a grinder or a filter.”

I can’t even make the most basic Americano.

But why did she have coffee beans without such basic tools?

“She didn’t just chew them raw, did she?”

I searched the teacup more just in case. But nothing came out.

Eventually, I gave up on coffee and called the moving center to load the moving items on a large cart.

Since it’s difficult to carry these heavy loads to the duchy, we used the teleport station.

Whoosh.

My vision swayed and I arrived at the duchy.

There was no burden because the Muelia family would cover all the expenses.

“Miss. I’ll put your luggage here. We’re leaving now.”

The moving guild men looked at the guarding knight and hurried back.

I struggled to move them into the house.

“Sigh. It’s hard.”

Packing was still difficult.

But fortunately, there wasn’t much luggage, so I finished it in one day.

“Then shall I rest now…?”

Knock knock.

Someone knocked on the door.