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I had finally finished all my scholar course exams in my third year at the academy, I had been ordered to have no interaction with royalty, but a tea party and a request from Prince Anastasius had made this impossible, Glucklitat sure is. having fun here.
The purge was over, I received the names of Muriella and Gretia, I had read Ferdinad's responses and notified the royal family of the new information I got from those responses, and while I waited for the agreed date I finally had some free time.
I was in my room looking at the haul of new books I got from the book swap, Dunkelfelger's book was thick and written in old vernacular as you would expect from an old dukedom, it would take time to translate into modern.
But a book that seemed quite old caught my attention, it was the book of the new librarian, Hortensia.
“The records of the Four Sacred Weapons?”
Sitting at the desk I began to read a bit and my suspicions were correct.
"This seems like a gentleman's story."
But I remember that Prince Hildebrand gave it to me because it was too heavy a book for him. Could it be that he gave it to me without even looking at what he was dealing with?
As I had already started I kept reading, it was about four heroes each carrying a legendary weapon, a sword, a spear, a bow and a shield, but while reading I noticed several things that caught my attention.
"This doesn't seem like a book written by nobles, there's no mention of any gods or the use of seasons as euphemisms."
In fact, it reminds me a lot of the novels that my friend Shu used to give me in my previous life.
The hero of the sword was active and powerful, the hero of the spear valued and protected his friends, the hero of the bow never tolerated injustice, but my surprise came when I got to the part of the hero of the shield.
"In white?"
The shield hero part was blank, just sheets with nothing written on them, which saddened and surprised me in equal parts, you don't usually bind incomplete works.
"My lady, his bath is ready, reading time is over."
Rihyarda entered without me noticing, it seems that even a book with blank pages is capable of stealing my attention.
"Rihyarda, we have to notify Professor Hortensia, it seems that she gave the wrong book to Prince Hildebrand, this doesn't seem like a reading for nobles and is even incomplete."
“It's too late to send an Ordonnanz, doing it now would only annoy her, it's best to wait until tomorrow. ...You say it's not a reading for nobles?" Rihyarda said after a pause and began to approach with a worried look on her face. It seems that she misunderstood what she meant.
At that moment the book he was holding began to expel a bright yellow light from its pages.
"My lady!"
The light engulfed me and my vision distorted, it was like being in a teleportation circle.
This is bad, the book was a trap!
That was the last thing on my mind before opening my eyes and seeing a room I didn't recognize.