Cyberpunk, but urban

Hod tried to reach out and grab Ye Lan's shadow, but Ye Lan, who had reached the time limit for appearing in the library with the invitation letter, completely disappeared in front of Hod.

"Angela...is he dead?"

Hod turned straight and asked Angela. Her expression was so distorted that even Yesod, who had always kept a cold face, couldn't help but laugh.

In the end, Malkuth was kind enough to tell Hod the truth: "Ye Lan, he, pfft... Ye Lan was actually outside the library the whole time. Calling him back with a library invitation letter would result in this."

"Ye Lan...just wait for me!!!"

Then, the spider nest that Ye Lan brought back from the branch seemed to resonate with Hod's anger. In an instant, it appeared behind Hod from the room prepared for it by Angela on the general layer, and took a fighting stance towards the library crowd she was facing.

Hod turned around and looked at the spider nest behind her.

"go back!"

At her command, the mother spider returned to the ceiling once again and changed back into a spider cocoon-like posture.

The designated librarian of the literary class, who was the most out of tune with the city, took a deep breath, brushed off the non-existent dust on his body with a smile, and adjusted his clothes.

Then, she greeted Angela and several other old colleagues one by one, and approached Roland and his wife, who were so shocked by her performance that they didn't know what to say, and extended her hand to them: "Nice to meet you. I'm the designated librarian Hod in charge of the literature level."

"Uh... I'm Roland, and this is my love Angelica. Well, the two of us are helping Angela."

After Roland and Angelica shook hands with her respectively, Roland asked her, "Come to think of it, you seem to be the one among the designated librarians here who is most dissatisfied with Young Master Ye Lan... What happened?"

"Humph, that traitor..."

Chapter 131. Lulu's Revenge

That night, Shan and Lulu, who had escaped from the library, returned to the living room of the Street Lamp Office after taking a rest.

"I'm sorry... It's all my fault that things turned out this way... Our firm will no longer be involved in library-related commissions... This matter has been far beyond our capabilities since the beginning... I have submitted a report to Zwei."

Shan was leaning on the sofa and talking to Lulu. It had only been a few hours since his legs were repaired with the weak HP ammunition sent by the emergency doctor, and he was still unable to walk.

But compared to physical limitations, Mas's death was the key reason why he was unable to stand up straight at this moment.

"What did you say? What is that Mas? His death means nothing to you!!!"

"I'm sorry... Go ahead and scold me if you want. It's all my fault for misjudgment. We are just an office responsible for maintaining public order. We shouldn't be involved in reconnaissance and combat..."

Lulu loudly scolded Shan, who was slumped on the sofa. Both Shan's depressed look and his attitude of not intending to do anything for Mas were hard for Lulu to accept.

But Shan also had his own sufferings... Ye Lan, he had personally witnessed the man using all his strength, and that man was definitely not an opponent they could handle. If they were to prepare for revenge recklessly, they would only die there without any resistance like Mas.

He couldn’t do it. He couldn’t take Lulu with him to that place to die…

"The cake in the refrigerator...was it bought by Shan-senpai?"

In order to relieve her pain, Lulu opened the refrigerator to find something to drink. But when she opened the refrigerator door, a familiar limited edition cake appeared in front of her.

"Cake? I haven't had time to go yet..."

The depressed mood affected Shan's thinking ability, and for a moment he couldn't even react to what Lulu was saying.

"I'm going outside to get some fresh air..."

Ignoring Shan's doubts, Lulu walked out of their street lamp office alone. Just before today, this place was still full of laughter and playfulness among the three of them, but in just one day, the office was left with only sadness and decadent pain.

tick...

A sparse rain began to fall, and then it got heavier. Lulu didn't care about the fact that she was wet, and walked alone in the dim light of the street lamp. Drops of water, whether rain or tears, slid down her cheeks, making her face blurry.

“Uooa ...

"You always say your mom is a great finisher... You always show off that big stupid sword and say it was a gift your mom picked out... You always pretend that one day you'll be as strong as your mom..."

Finally, on an empty street, Lulu could no longer bear the sadness in her heart. She bent down and burst into tears, crying to Mas who was unable to evacuate the library.

At this moment, an invitation letter from the library appeared in front of her so perfectly, and was so prominently stained by the water stains on the ground, stopping in front of Lulu's toes.

It was so clear and distinct that all the words written on the invitation were shown to her.

"!!!!!!! The Book of Mars... Everyone who died there turned into a book...? I will never allow those bastards to make fun of him... Never..."

"If I tell Senior Shan, he will definitely stop me... I'd better go alone... I have a few relatives and friends..."

Lulu was furious. She picked up the invitation letter with the words "The Book of Mars" written on it from the ground without hesitation, put it in her arms, and ran towards her home without any intention of returning to the office.

Roland, who was watching the story of the next invitation target in Angela's director's office with everyone in the library, sighed and asked Angela, "My God, isn't this a bit redundant? To be honest, it makes me feel a little sad."

The target of the invitation this time was unexpectedly the street lamp office's finisher who had just come to the library. The little girl who was heartbroken by Mas's death took the invitation without saying a word. Judging from her appearance, she might come here for revenge as soon as the sun rose outside.

"It's funny how not too long ago a 'former closer' was preaching that a short pain is worse than a long one."

Angela, who was accompanying Ye Lan in bullying Hod, was definitely in a good mood at the moment. Everyone except Roland himself realized that she was actually joking. It was a pity that her joking skills were really not that good.

"Let's put things one way or the other. I have my regrets, and so do others." Roland shook his head.

"It is very disrespectful to expose your scars to others without their permission. Forcing others to know stories they don't need to know will only cause them more trouble."

"They already have enough to carry. Sharing your misfortune with them will only make people feel that you are showing off how heavy your burden is. Maybe you can win a little sympathy, but it will definitely make people feel unhappy. Appropriately express sadness, appropriately express joy, appropriately greet others, and appropriately accept departure. This is good for both parties."

"Roland, you've said a lot, which is rare... But sometimes forgetting the distance may help the next person~"

Angelica said that she was able to survive the sudden attack of the Violet Teardrops with Ye Lan's suspiciously deliberate help. If Ye Lan had really interacted with the couple properly as Roland said, perhaps there would only be a vengeful evil ghost here now.

"Ah, this..." Roland looked at Angelica and soon thought of this: "Alas, even so, we must always remain rational in the library and deal with those people without emotion. We have to collect books, right?"

"By the way, has Ye Lan ever helped you?"

Hod asked Roland and Angelica in a soft voice, completely lacking the violent temperament he had just shown on the literature floor.

"Ah, thanks to Mr. Ye Lan, my wife and child were able to survive. Speaking of this, when I heard him say that he saved my wife, I didn't believe it..."

At this point, he and Angelica suddenly thought of a relative - Algalia, the Blue Reverberation. The news of Angelica's safety had not been told to the relative who was not very familiar with them. As a color-level finisher, he might have caused trouble by now.

"Child?" Hod asked curiously, and even Yesod cast a subtle look at him. Among the designated librarians present, only Malkuth knew that the couple was still taking care of the baby. Hod had just woken up, and Yesod had never been to the general layer.

Chapter 132. Canglan's Visit

Ye Lan left the library and returned to the deserted alley. He looked up at the sky. It was already dusk and he had spent most of the day in the library.

"Let's go back to the hotel first. I wonder if Yuli and the others have found a suitable house today..."

A gust of cold wind blew by, and thick dark clouds had occupied the sky without anyone noticing. No matter the setting sun, which had not yet completely set and was still half hanging on the horizon, or the crescent moon that had already risen, they were all covered by the dark clouds that were almost touching the city buildings.

"It is going to rain."

The air was so thick that one had to breathe harder. Ye Lan walked quickly past the cake shop where he had taken Luna and Yuli last night and headed towards the hotel in the back alley.

Behind him, a clerk holding an umbrella was walking towards him from the street corner. This cake shop, which was only open at night, started the same work process as usual today.

These shop assistants will never remember that there was a young man with white hair who, in order to compensate Lulu for the cake he had eaten, queued up here for her the night before he was to carry out a fatal commission and tried to buy a limited edition cake in the store.

buzzing...

The phone in Ye Lan's shirt pocket vibrated. Someone called him. As he took the phone out of his pocket, he wondered who was calling.

It was easy for Ye Lan to guess this. Not many people knew his phone number. The first people to be excluded were the librarians and Angela in the library. He had just left there. Even if there was something urgent, Angela would give priority to the invitation letter rather than the mobile phone that might be noticed by spies.

Among the remaining people, Olivier, the leader of the Southern Three Departments of the First Association, had almost no intersection with him. Miss Zoe was in Nest D, accompanied by the black cat abnormality that had never shown its true form, so she should also make up for the call.

"It's Luna...what could it be?"

After the call was connected, the voice coming from the other end was not from Luna, but from Yuli: "Mr. Ye Lan, your call is finally connected... You will never guess who I met when I went to the firm to give the commission today!"

"Oh? Who?"

"It's Mr. Canglan Zanxiang!"

"what???"

Ye Lan couldn't imagine this. According to the original plot of "The Ruined Library", Algaria had gone mad because of Angelica's death and started to form his remnant orchestra. Ye Lan couldn't imagine what Roland's brother-in-law wanted to come to him.

"How did you meet him?" Ye Lan asked.

"It's like this. When Miss Luna and I finished buying weapons for the workshop today and were leaving, Mr. Canglan Zang Xiang found me himself. He said that he heard about your informal commission from a friend and wanted to talk to you in person."

"Ah, this," Ye Lan's mouth twitched, "Where is he now? Don't tell me he is waiting at the door of the hotel?" While asking Yuli about Algaria's location, Ye Lan turned the last corner and returned to the main entrance of the hotel.

I also saw Canglan Canxiang standing at the door of the hotel, holding his sickle.

"...No need to say, I saw him." After hanging up the phone with a sigh, Ye Lan walked towards the blue finisher who had been educated by Jin Zi's tears.

"Hehe~ I guess you are Mr. Ye Lan, right?"

He gracefully and appropriately half-raised the hand that was not holding the sickle and waved towards Ye Lan in front of his chest.

"Ah, it's indeed me. So what brought you, the famous Mr. Cang Lan Can Xiang, here today?" Ye Lan asked.

"Ha, looking at your attitude, can't it be that I just had a sudden urge today and wanted to find a commission to do?"

There was a fake smile on Canglan Canxiang's face, and no one could tell what he was really thinking at the moment.

"Oh? Then why didn't you go find an association, and instead took advantage of yesterday's appointment to accept my commission?"

Ye Lan also had a fake smile on his face, and the atmosphere between the two of them became more and more weird and depressing. The pedestrians around and the guests in the hotel lobby subconsciously moved away from them, and the hotel manager's hand was always on the alarm button to call the security guard.

"Look at what you said. If I don't come to you, where can I find this kind of commission to explore the World Wings branch... Don't you know that the association will not accept this type of commission?"

Canglan Canxiang's tone was still relaxed and easy-going, but in a position that Ye Lan could not see, the hand holding the sickle had been secretly increasing its strength, and he was ready to launch an attack on Ye Lan.

"That's right... Having a color-level finisher to help me get people out of the branch is definitely better than looking for those finishers of varying quality, so what kind of compensation do you want, Mr. Canglan Zanxiang?"

Ye Lan smirked and said, "How about...information about Ms. Angelica?"

“…You do know.”

Unlike the Blue Echo in the original plot, after Ye Lan intervened in the pianist incident, Algaria did not find the remains of his sister Angelica's body among the wreckage of the pianist's piano.

Like Roland, he also blamed himself for the situation, believing that Angelica was dead and he was just too useless to find her body.

He realized that he had only been relying on his sister to survive in the city, and he also realized that physical life was not important.

Distorted to a certain extent by the aftereffects of the pianist, he began to work on forming a remnant orchestra, and his actions became increasingly cruel and ruthless.

He summoned Pluto, Tanya, and Elena as in the original work. But when it came to Zaixian, there were twists and turns. Zaixian, who regarded Ye Lan, who was acting strangely at the time, as the one who issued the attack declaration against him, coincidentally avoided Roland's invasion, and did not lose his child who was planned to be resurrected in the form of a puppet.

Although he was hopeful, he had no interest in Algalia's plans and vision, and chose to refuse when Algalia approached him.

But the rejected Blue Reverberation was not so easily dismissed. Under the use of force, money, and the threat to Jae-hyeon's "son", Jae-hyeon finally helped him thoroughly investigate the pianist's flesh and blood piano.

Finally, after coming to the conclusion that Angelica was not among them, the Blue Echo followed the traces left by Roland and found it on Ye Lan's head.

"So do you want some advance payment?" Ye Lan asked.

Chapter 133. Lulu's Book

"Oh? What's the advance payment?"

Algaria showed interest and asked Ye Lan while leaning slightly.

"Teresa, what do you think of this name?"

Ye Lan showed a smile that could be described as evil, and even the somewhat distorted blue echo could not help but make people feel a little chilly.

"It sounds nice, but a name is just a name, so what?"

"Then...what if the owner of this name would call you uncle?"

The fake smile on Canglan Canxiang's face completely disappeared. He had a hard time digesting this information. After Roland and Angelica got married, he really hadn't seen them for a long time. He was surprised to find that he didn't even know when his cute tomboy got pregnant.

"Are you satisfied with my advance payment?"

Ye Lan made a sound at the right time, awakening the dazed Canglan Canxiang.

"Where are they now!"

"That's the balance." Ye Lan said with a smile, "By the way, your niece is really cute."

The color-level finisher who had become twisted and cruel after Angelica's "death" seemed to have returned to his original appearance. He asked Ye Lan in a gentle tone: "Is it a girl... Does she look like Angelica?"

"Then you have to go and see for yourself."

Ye Lan didn't say anything, just gave him a smile. Algaria didn't ask any more questions, and turned around and left the small square in front of the back alley hotel.

For the blue man, exchanging the lives of the employees of the Lobotomy Corporation branch for the news of his precious sister is a profitable business.

Waiting for yesterday's appointment in the distance - Pluto looked at his leader walking towards here with some confusion. Algaria's face was filled with genuine joy, an emotion that Pluto had never seen on Algaria's face since he joined the Symphony Orchestra.

"Master, what information did you get from the finisher?"

"Ahh, my Pluto~ You won't believe this, but I got the information about my cute tomboy~"

Algaria said to Pluto, and together they stepped on the teleportation array created by Pluto and returned to their base.