CHAPTER 1
THE GREAT PLEIADES LIBRARY
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After achieving a costly victory over the Witch Cult in the Water Gate City, Subaru Natsuki and company set out for the Auguria Dunes, a dangerous and foreboding land that lay along Lugunica’s distant eastern border.
Home to countless demon beasts, it was an impassable sea of sand that repelled all who attempted to pass, including the Sword Saint, Reinhard. Their party endured mighty sandstorms and ferocious beasts that barred their way before finally reaching their destination—the Pleiades Watchtower, where they would find the great Sage Shaula, who was said to be all-knowing.
Everything they did was for the sake of the people waiting to be saved back in Pristella. This was a desperate bid to reclaim the things they’d lost: memories, names, and even bodies…
“After everything we went through, why are you looking at me like that?! Are you saying I’m somehow the bad guy here?! I’m innocent! Innocent, I tell you!”
“Do not betray our expectations like this. Please, Subaru.”
“Just when I was thinking he might have some redeeming qualities. In the end, Barusu is just Barusu.”
The party’s vital mission had brought them to this tower, which was now being filled by the echoes of Subaru’s shouts. His desperate pleas went unheeded, and his comrades gave him nothing but cold gazes and sharp barbs.
Subaru had slept for two days straight after everyone had been reunited. They had been concerned about his safety and naturally hurried to his side after hearing he had regained consciousness, only to discover him pinned underneath a half naked woman. It was not at all surprising that whatever relief they felt was overshadowed by disappointment or even scorn.
Julius’s and Ram’s cold gazes were entirely reasonable.
“Will you let go of me already…?! What’s with your crazy grip?!”
“Not! Gonna! Happen!”
Beneath their scornful glares, Subaru himself was desperately trying to escape the embrace of the scantily-clad woman—Shaula, if he had to guess—clinging to his arm. It wasn’t very good manners to act this way toward the Sage they had been wanting to meet so badly, but she had already disregarded all standards of courtesy, so he had no intention of holding back.
“I can’t get her off…! Don’t just stand there—someone, help me!”
“You have a lewd look on your face, Pervarusu.”
“No, I don’t, and don’t change my name like that! That hurts, Emilia! Pulling my hair isn’t going to help much!”
“Ah, sorry. I wasn’t trying to help.”
“That’s what you’re apologizing for?!”
Shaula stubbornly refused to let go of Subaru’s arm, and Emilia was pulling at his hair with a dreadfully cold look on her face. Meanwhile, Beatrice was red-faced, and her eyes were spinning, mainly because she had also fallen into Shaula’s clutches.
“Aaaaanyway! Everyone just calm down! Me included! Let’s talk it out!”
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