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"Then... please say sorry to my sister for me..."

"it is good……"

Angelica raised her hammer, spear and battle axe alternately, and her most iconic weapon drew a crisscross black arc of light towards Finn, but failed to kill Finn who was already on the verge of death.

His imaginary sister, under the influence of the black cat's elixir, forgave his sister who had made mistakes, and turned into a real person just like in that vague night of memory, blocking Angelica's full-strength attack that should have killed him.

Chapter 82. Uninvited Guest - Twisted Finn

We all say that when fantasy becomes reality, it is often as beautiful as a fairy tale.

But now, when Finn's imaginary sister becomes reality, he wishes that his sister had never had the ability to make things real.

Because, as she became real, she was also like the little mermaid in the early morning, with only a moment left to live.

Angelica's full-strength attack knocked down the sister who had turned fantasy into reality, and she fell in front of Finn who had lost his ability to move.

This Elvira, who was born from Finn's fantasy, did not bleed, nor did she become a bloody mess like Finn, but her body was covered with cracks. She collapsed in front of Finn like a broken mirror, turning into illusory fragments and gradually dissipating.

The last thing Finn saw when he was dying was the gentle smile from his sister, whose beautiful face was falling into pieces.

This sister, who was once just a fantasy of his to comfort himself in lonely days, died miserably in front of him for him and turned into nothingness.

"She is……"

Even Angelica had never seen anyone appear before her like a phantom reflected in reality, nor had she ever seen anyone disappear like a mirage like her.

"Roland... I feel like something is wrong..." Angela in the director's office looked at Finn who was about to die, but inexplicably felt a chill on her back.

Shortly after she said this, Angelica, who was about to deliver the final blow to the unconscious Finn, was blocked by a bramble flower that grew out of nowhere.

Purple and light blue weeds pierced Finn's muddy body, using his remaining flesh and blood as nourishment, and in a moment turned the battle room on the general layer into a field of weeds.

And in the center of the field, among the countless blooming wild flowers, there was a group of withered and haggard flowers floating in the air, as if they were about to fall.

If the bleak and hopeless atmosphere had substance, even Angelica, as the color-level finisher, felt Finn’s sadness and despair as if she were feeling it herself when she faced the flower fields made of Finn’s flesh and blood.

It was the regret for his sister who had committed a mistake that she absolutely shouldn't have done, the despair of watching his sister die in front of him, and the grief that all his efforts had turned into nothing.

There seemed to be a miserable wailing coming from the withered flowers. For a moment, Angelica resonated with the sad wailing and fell into uncontrollable grief.

Along with the sorrow that did not belong to her, there also appeared the wild flowers that bloomed and grew wildly from her heart.

The flower language of the thorny flower is eternal tenderness, eternal effort and eternal hope. However, the thorny flower that grew in Angelica's heart and quickly withered seemed to be telling her that the tenderness that Finn longed for was still gone, and all his efforts were no longer meaningful.

Angelica's eyes, whose emotions were forcibly resonated with, were filled with despair, the same despair as the flower-doll in the flower cluster.

The wild flowers that grew wildly and then quickly withered and fell devoured Angelica's life, but after a few minutes, Angelica could only sit down in the sea of ​​flowers, holding her hammer and spear, and her mind was captured by the grief from the twisted Finn.

"That's right, just show your grief as much as you can. You are the real you right now. Finn, you don't have to resist."

In the endless confusion, a voice as gentle as that of a sister surrounded Finn.

Resistance? What am I resisting? Grief, why am I grieving?

The more Finn thought about it, the more confused his mind became. The more he recalled, the more his heart ached.

"...I just...I just want to cry...I just...I just want to pay tribute to her."

The cluster of withered flowers was disintegrating and falling, just like her sister who had broken into pieces and turned into nothingness.

Angelica was about to be drowned by the weeds growing from her heart. Angelica, who was good at sensing the pain of others and willing to take the initiative to understand the pain of others, was swallowed up by Finn's pain in just a moment.

"Finn, you're doing great. Please continue to release your emotions like this and show your unique colors. Now you are truly living in this world."

The withered flowers of the nephrite finally fell, and the human figure tied up by the nephrite branches, like a criminal being tortured, was exposed.

The moment the human figure appeared, Angelica felt real pain for the first time since the thorn flower grew from her heart. She couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood mixed with thorn flower petals, but she was able to escape from the uncontrollable grief.

"Finn...what exactly is this power?"

While tearing the wisp of flowers that bound her, she struggled to stand up from the ground. Angelica picked up her weapon again, stepped over the sorrow that did not belong to her, and walked to the side of the wisp of flowers.

The humanoid figure knelt on the ground, crying with such sorrow that it made one weep. Angelica took a deep breath and smashed her hammer into the humanoid figure's head.

A splash of blood mixed with withered flowers was made, dyeing the surrounding flowers red.

However, the twisted Finn had lost the weaknesses that humans should have, and Angelica's attack could only make him spurt out a stream of blood.

Faced with such a situation, neither Angelica at the scene nor Angela and Roland who were observing the situation in the curator's office knew how to deal with the twisted Finn.

After all, distortion had not occurred on a large scale before the Day and Night incident. The first distortion Roland and Angelica saw was the pianist who massacred 9% of the population of Alley 80.

That time, under the combined effect of rage and the silencing gloves, Roland ignored the pianist's music and killed the distortion physically.

But this time, physical attacks had almost no effect on Finn. How to defeat him and turn him into a book was not something that Angela, the non-human life form who had been directing the script in the headquarters of Lobotomy, could know.

"If Ye Lan were here now, he would know how to deal with this guest who has become like an abnormality."

Angela felt a little regretful, but then she thought, if Ye Lan had fallen asleep successfully and was not accidentally thrown into the back alley of the city, the library at this moment might not be able to wake him up.

So the regret on Angela's face disappeared, and turned into a dilemma about how to attract him.

At this time, Finn had been smashed into a shapeless mass of plants crying in pain by Angelica's hammer spear, who had broken free from her control.

Chapter 83. Interlude - Reception at Run Office III (Part 1)

"If Ye Lan were here now, he should know how to deal with this guest who has become like an alien." Angela said with a hint of regret.

"Well, if I just want to ask how to deal with this young newcomer, there's no need for Brother Ye Lan to be present, right?" Roland said as he flipped through his phone.

"Here, give him a call... Oh, there seems to be no signal..."

It was not until Roland found the contact information Ye Lan had given him that he unexpectedly saw the signal lost icon on his phone screen.

"The telephone... I know it's a communication tool that you often use, which is not considered advanced. But in the library, any communication without my permission cannot pass through the walls here. However, I may be able to do it myself..."

Angela reached out to take Roland's phone and dialed Ye Lan's number. Soon, Ye Lan answered the call, "Roland? Aren't you in the library?"

Ye Lan, who was staring at the situation in Run Office through a telescope, said to "Roland" on the other end of the phone: "Are you watching? The representative of Run Office seems to be preparing to bring people over."

It was a coincidence that not long after he and Luna said goodbye to the Scarlet Cross, they noticed a strange entity they had never seen before moving in the back alley. Ye Lan followed the unique fluctuations left by the strange entity in his perspective and soon arrived near Run Office.

Outside Run's office, Ye Lan saw Finn walking into Run's office with a black cat that was obviously an alien on his head, and then saw the whole process of Finn entering the library through the window.

"Ye Lan, it's me." The voice coming from the other end of the phone was not Roland, but Angela.

"Angela? Why did you suddenly pick up Roland's phone and call me? Is it possible to make a phone call in the library?"

Angela did not answer Ye Lan's question, but asked him directly: "Finn has become an abnormality, and Angelica's attack has no effect on him. How should we deal with him?"

"Turning into an Abnormality? It's a distortion, right? Normally, beating him to death will work, but if he doesn't take physical damage... it should be effective to try to empathize with him and get him out of his current emotions."

Ye Lan thought for a while, then said to Angela. The second light seed launch has not yet been carried out, the golden branch has not yet been born in the various branches of the brain lobe company, and the heart door that can directly enter the hearts of others has not yet appeared in the city. At this point in time, the only way to solve the distortion is Moses' method.

"By the way, Angela, can't you just pull me over here?"

"The library is currently receiving guests, and I can't send out new invitations."

"Huh? But from what I see, Run and his men have already opened the door."

"Eh?"

Just as Ye Lan said, ten minutes ago, Ellie, Run's strongest finisher, returned to the office.

"Where's that kid Finn?"

"Failed. But that kid wasn't going to live long anyway."

Run continued to talk to Ellie, "He never realized that he was just mediocre. Since he had no talent, he should have undergone body modification surgery as soon as possible. In the end, he had nothing but an overconfident child."

"I quite liked that boy. He was handsome and had a lovely personality. It's a pity that he's gone. However, I agree that he won't live long."

Ellie shrugged, and the huge chainsword on her shoulders swayed up and down with her movements.

"By the way, you will have more choices after you are promoted to the eighth-level finisher, right?"

As if he was trying to make conversation, and as if he didn't know what to say to Ellie, Run finally chose to talk about work as the next topic between him and Ellie.

"Yeah! So you should be careful. If I don't pay enough this time, I might switch to a better firm~"

"I heard that you're even poorer than that pretty boy lately. You can barely pay the taxes, let alone the monthly rent for this firm. Am I right?"

Ellie happily reached out and patted Run's shoulder, joking with him about the money. In the past, Run would have ignored such tasteless jokes, but today, a trace of embarrassment was clearly visible on his face.

This slight expression made Ellie stop her joking thoughts instantly. Given her and his situation, their identities could only be representatives and finishers, and there was absolutely no possibility for more.

"Let's not talk about anything else for now. The case I sent Finn to investigate will definitely make a breakthrough."

"You mean the library and invitation letter you mentioned on the phone earlier?"

Shortly after Finn entered the library, Run got the funds to hire a cleaner. With such a good opportunity, he naturally called Ellie.

"But how do we get something that appears out of nowhere?" Ellie asked Run.

"If I wasn't absolutely sure, I wouldn't have called you... I recently received another invitation."

"Hmm~ Is it still the same as before?"

"This case is related to the survival of our firm. I have a feeling that we can make a lot of money from the library, so we must be fully prepared."

"Okay, let's get started!"

Unfortunately, they were so focused on the library that they didn't realize that all their actions were actually being seen by Ye Lan through the telescope.

When the time went back to the present, Run gathered his troops and took all the finishing staff he could get from the office to sign their names on the invitation letter and walked into the door that appeared out of thin air.

However, to Angela, their actions were full of unexpected things. They were still receiving the twisted Finn, and at this point in time when there were still people in the reception room, there shouldn't be any new guests signing invitations to enter the library.

But now that it has happened, it is clear what Angela has to do now.

"Roland, go and prepare to receive the new guests. I'll notify Angelica."

"it is good."

Angela snapped her fingers, and the next moment she and Roland were where they were supposed to be.

"Dear guests, welcome."

"I guess you are the owner here." Run said.

"Doesn't look that impressive?" Ellie commented.

Seeing that Angela ignored Ellie's comments, Run then asked, "Finn must have been here. What happened to him?"

"Ah, that guest has become a book."

In fact, Finn was still being beaten by Angelica in the reception room on the general floor, but Ellie looked down on her, so a little lie was just the right revenge.

Chapter 84. Interlude - Reception at Run Office III (Part 2)

Ellie looked at the bookshelves around her that were filled with books and said thoughtfully, "So that's how it is. When you die, you turn into a book~"

But in fact, most of the original books in the library are the memories accumulated by the sleeping employees of the Brain Lobe Corporation headquarters and Angela herself in countless reincarnations.

After all, it only took two or three days from the time the library started receiving guests to the time when people from Run Office entered the library.

"..."

After hearing about Finn's transformation into a book, Run fell silent. A trace of reluctance and sadness rarely seen among urban people appeared on his face.

"You knew he would fail, but you sent him anyway. Are you feeling sad now?"

Angela mercilessly tore open Run's heart, exposing the things in his heart that he least wanted others to know.

"Just shut up. To end someone's life is nothing more than to be used and abandoned. Don't presume to assume my feelings."

Under the library's magnification of human emotions, Run expressed his anger to Angela in an indecent manner, the anger of having his hidden emotions exposed.

“May you find the book you are looking for.”

Since the guest didn't want to continue the conversation, Angela naturally didn't say anything more. She snapped her fingers and sent Run and the people he brought to Roland.

Angela herself will enter Angelica's battlefield and tell the lady the way to solve Finn's twisted problem.

In the second fighting room, Roland didn't know whether he should be surprised or frightened. He actually had teammates who suddenly appeared to help him in this battle. These guys who called themselves assistant librarians were all good fighters in Roland's opinion.

The finishers hired by Run and those in his office who could be commanded by him quickly deployed in a formation in the wide room and surrounded Roland and the assistant librarians.

Run and Ellie walked behind them, like a general and guards sitting in command, observing the situation of their opponents.

"Don't be fooled by their appearance, this battle must be taken seriously."

Run said to the finishing people, and the battle began.

But the assistant librarians in the library, who were once affiliated with the Lobotomy Corporation and were all direct employees of the Lobotomy Corporation headquarters, are not something that a mere ninth-level finisher can fight against.