Cyberpunk, but urban

"But 'Darkness and Silence' ended up ripping the pianist's arms and neck off, ruining the whole atmosphere. I wanted so badly to be a part of that show~"

Then, Meow talked about the cause of the pianist's death. However, the "dark and silent" she mentioned was actually Roland wearing a mask of cognitive obstruction.

"Oh, I really envy you. When music comes from far away, I can only stand in the office in a daze."

Mumu used to be a closer in an office. The pianist's music destroyed all his thoughts about his past life, and he devoted himself to becoming a "musician" who pursued the reproduction of his music.

"Huff... I want to say that too... Even if it's just the basics, I want to play it... But what am I playing now... No matter how I smash the ankles of the instrument, no matter how I pull out the tendons and peel off the skin, no matter how I scrape the flesh from the leg bones, I can't find the feeling I had back then... And Hey-Hoo and Gu-Oh... said those things to me..."

Imitating the way pigs make sounds, Oyinke once again fell into the pain of his lack of skills.

Meow, whose mood became cheerful during the conversation, spoke gently to comfort him, "It's okay, Oink... haste doesn't eat catnip. Compared with the pianist's performance, we are still far behind, but we have indeed played similar sounds recently, haven't we? As long as we play with our heart every day, we will definitely reach that level..."

Chapter 235. A day in Tiphereth's life starts with... what the hell!

Didi, Didi...

The alarm clock rang at the bedside on schedule. The girl, who was much more mature than before, reached out and turned off the noisy alarm clock.

"Um...is it morning already?"

As the youngest designated librarian, Tiphereth also has to manage the first floor of the library, but her work is much less than that of other designated librarians such as Malkuth.

Therefore, she actually didn't need to get up so early.

But Tiphereth is not a lazy person like Netzach. Although she is small, our little friend is quite hardworking.

Rubbing his face to make himself more awake, Tiphereth got up from the bed and went into the bathroom in the room to wash up.

About ten minutes later, the world lost Tiphereth, who was wearing cute plush pajamas, and her loyal natural science layer welcomed a violent kid in the designated librarian's uniform.

"Good morning everyone, is there anything unusual today?"

Tiphereth happily passed the natural science floor and confirmed the current situation of the floor she was managing with the assistant librarians on the same floor. After arranging today's work, she could continue to move up to the upper floor with a relaxed mood to say hello to other designated librarians and Angela.

After spending some time in the rest area to pick out some breakfast items that he could eat while walking, Tiphereth hummed a little song that was very popular in the city ten years ago and walked slowly into the stairwell.

Soon, she received news from the assistant librarians on the art floor. The designated librarians on each floor, including Yesod, seemed to have gone to the general category floor to see what was going on.

"What kind of excitement will it be? It should be the winner between Uncle Roland and the guest named Algaria, right?"

With a guess in mind, Tiphereth decided not to stay on each floor. She ate the breakfast snacks she had in her hand while walking quickly towards the general floor.

She didn't choose much breakfast this morning, but coincidentally, they were all common Chinese breakfasts. At this moment, she had bitten a hole in it, and some liquid filling was spilling out of the hole, which was a custard bun.

The sweet but not greasy cream filling with the flavor of vanilla and egg yolk made Tiphereth, who still had the body of a teenager, squint his eyes in joy.

The other breakfast in the paper bag is a more classic and equally delicious egg yolk lotus seed bun. As long as Tiphereth walks up one flight of stairs, she will have the opportunity to enjoy the traditional Cantonese style with complex salty and sweet taste.

In addition to the two snacks in the paper bag, Tiphereth also did not forget to find herself a warm drink to wake up her stomach.

God knows from whose books her assistant librarians found this traditional sweet drink, which also comes from Chinese cuisine, but at this moment, what Tiphereth used to warm her hands was a cup of milk and peanut milk at just the right temperature.

Although eating while walking is not actually good for the body, this little damage is not a big deal for the librarian who essentially uses the power of the library to maintain his human form.

But unfortunately, Tiphereth, who was still happily enjoying her breakfast, would soon lose the milk and peanut milk in her hand.

Having passed the entrance to the history floor, she turned halfway up the stairs and was about to arrive at the general floor. At this point, even though she was still in the stairwell, Tiphereth could hear someone's suppressed laughter coming from the rest area of ​​the general floor.

"What interesting thing happened?"

Curiosity surged in his chest, and Tiphereth, holding a hot drink, walked quickly to the general layer. Soon, the child knew why everyone couldn't stop laughing even though they were suppressing him.

At the entrance of the rest area, the guest with the nickname of Blue Echo, who was wrapped in blue clothes, was hanging on the door with his own sickle, which was shaking continuously with the vibration of the sickle.

Roland was kneeling on Angelica's sword that was custom-made by Roulette Heavy Industries, pretending to be a statue in the lounge hall.

At the same time, both of them had a rather large sign hanging on them, on which Angelica had written in very large letters:

[I shouldn’t take my life lightly! ! !]

Mrs. Angelica even emphasized the word "should not" several times.

"Pfft... What, what is this!?"

Tiphereth burst into laughter mercilessly, causing the two who were punished by Angelica to look at her. Despite being stared at by the two with murderous eyes, our Tiphereth still showed no fear.

She was laughing happily, not noticing that a busy assistant librarian was passing behind her. Soon, Tiphereth bumped into the assistant librarian, and the hot drink in her hand spilled on herself.

The cup of milk and peanut milk was not hot after walking all the way here. But what embarrassed Tiphereth more than the stained clothes was the mocking looks from Roland and Algaria.

"Ah, Tiphereth, you got yourself all covered in it!"

It was not until Angelica heard the assistant librarian's apology coming over that the two finishers who were able to stir up trouble in the city turned their eyes back to the ground and stopped fighting with the children in an anger that made people wonder if they were stupid.

"Ah~ I see... I'm glad you're okay, Tiphereth. Go change your clothes."

After Angelica heard what happened from Tiphereth, she let the unlucky assistant librarian go. When the child went into the stairwell to change clothes, she smiled and said to her husband and brother, "Okay, I'll let you two go this time. Why don't you get up quickly?"

Hearing that Angelica had spared them, Roland and Algalia looked at each other, then lifted their own punishments and took off the stupid sign from their bodies.

In fact, when Angelica first heard the news that the two of them died in the reception room, she had no intention of letting Roland and Algalia, her two closest family members, be punished separately.

But when Angelica learned that the two of them first competed in dealing with last night's guests, and then started a second round of life-and-death battles, Angelica could no longer bear it.

Chapter 236.So what happened?

So after the librarians went back to their rooms to sleep, what happened in the library?

The story begins with the moment when Meow from the Bremen band taught the newcomer a lesson.

Maybe it was fate, or maybe I was joking with the closer of the Illusion Agency. But on this night in Alley 9, there was indeed a team that had not found a place to live.

"Captain, it's already this late. If we can't find a place to stay, we'll have to spend the night in the back alleys."

After confirming the list once more, a member of a Lobotomy Corporation branch within the jurisdiction of Nest K said to their captain Lin Nuo.

"Alas... there's nothing we can do. Alley 9 is being rebuilt everywhere. All the hotels and inns we encountered along the way are closed."

The former Level 4 employee stuffed a handful of popcorn into his own mouth and then stuffed another handful into his companion's mouth, temporarily silencing the words he was about to say.

"Don't worry, at least we have enough food now. Besides, it's still more than two hours before midnight in the back alley, which is much better than when we were trapped in the company."

Lin Nuo seemed quite indifferent at the moment. Although the ego weapon carried by their team could not be used in combat, it had abilities similar to those of a demon spirit.

If they really can't find a place to stay in the future, it should be no problem to pick the lock and find an empty house.

"You two should eat something too? You can't do anything well if you're hungry..."

The two team members walking behind Lin Nuo and Ende also came up and each took a handful of popcorn from the popcorn bucket in Captain Lin Nuo's hand.

"To be honest, if you hadn't insisted on us going to the movies together, we would have stayed in that hotel by now."

Ende, who had just been stuffed with a handful of popcorn and chewed it for a long time before swallowing it, took a breath and scolded his captain who couldn't walk when he saw food.

"Hey, this popcorn smells really good. If only they only sell it to customers who have bought movie tickets... Wait, there's a dead body up ahead."

The four of them stopped instantly, and each of them took out the workshop weapons they had selected from their dimensional bags. The entire team instantly entered combat mode.

Su, the scout in the team, took the lead in exploring the front of the path, while Ende began to investigate the cause and time of death of these bodies.

As for the team leader, Lin Nuo, and the other finisher, Amber, one stood at the end of the team, and the other followed behind Su to provide support for the two teammates.

"Hiss—all the bones in this man's body are broken. How much does the person who did this hate him..."

Ende muttered to himself as he touched the bloody corpse on the ground. Soon, the temperature and other information left by the corpse made him deny his previous guess.

The corpse at his feet was not killed on the spot by someone with terrible force, but had endured indescribable terrible torture before the murderer's continuous heavy blows as if to vent his anger turned it into this bloody and broken state with bones.

"En De, look and see if there is more than one person doing this?"

Amber, who was guarding their way for Ende, took the time to look at the other corpses. Those corpses had obvious death characteristics that were different from the corpse at Ende's feet.

After a while, Ende, who had finished a rough inspection, confirmed Amber's guess: "There were at least three people who did this, and there could be five if there were more. There were signs of binding on the bodies, so they must have been tied up by the perpetrators. Judging from the marks on their bodies, the murderer must have intended to make them scream more."

"Horrible... I hope those people have gone far away. I don't want to fight with such weirdos at this time."

Amber rubbed her arms. She felt uncomfortable at the thought of having to fight such a pervert in the back alley late at night.

"Unfortunately, judging from the temperature of the bodies, those people must not have gone far. We'd better reunite with the captain and inform them to change the route."

Ende shrugged and told the bad news to Amber, the current finishing fellow who was only at level 2. The two sighed together and set off to catch up with Lin Nuo and Su who were waiting in front.

"Shh, those people should be just ahead."

Lin Nuo signaled to the two teammates who arrived later to be quiet. On the other side of the wall, three members of the Bremen band were talking about following the request of the three seniors and going to the library.

Although Oink was still a little afraid of going to the library, when Meow put the library invitation in his hands, this guy who was once a member of the third department of the Seventh Association had no choice but to sign his name.

"Everyone...get ready..."

Lin Nuo listened to the faint voice of the woman among the three people behind the wall and gestured to his companions. Although he didn't hear clearly what the three guys who killed others in the back alley wanted to do, they were ready to take the initiative.

Unfortunately, when the four of them climbed over the wall according to the cooperation plan agreed upon in previous training, all they saw were three backs walking into the library.

"…Why do I feel like we put so much effort into this, but in the end we end up like fools?"

Su sighed and said that although it was a good thing that they didn't have to fight, they had wasted so much effort and still hadn't found a place to live.

As for the Bremen band whose entire night was broadcast live on the light screen, they walked into the library and sang a ridiculous song in the entrance hall without any intention of continuing to explore the library.

Angela, who was reminded by Ye Lan, followed Ye Lan's advice and asked Mrs. Angelica to go to the entrance together to receive these three weirdos who seemed to be very crazy.

"Dear guests, welcome. I am the director of the library and..."

Angela hadn't finished her words when Oink attacked her. Angelica, who came with Angela, took Oink's attack with an unhappy look on her face, and then kicked him into the wall of the library.

"I now know that Ye Lan asked me to find Angelica and you to accompany me here... These three seem to be quite difficult to communicate with. " Angela's face rarely showed a clear expression of disgust.

"Angela, just throw them into the reception room. That's a good opportunity for those two stinky men in there who don't take their lives seriously to teach them a lesson."

Angelica looked at the three members of the Bremen band who were intimidated by her actions and dared not move, and made a suggestion to Angela.

Chapter 237. Love and Hate

If Algaria, who had just been resurrected by Angela and was still confirming the situation, was completely confused, Roland, who retained his complete memory, was fully aware of the current situation because the battle with Algaria was not a formal reception battle.

But just as Roland was about to have another round of battle with Algalia to decide who was more powerful, three outspoken lunatics from the Bremen band walked in.

As for the fate of these three lunatics, they disrupted the battle between Roland and Algaria. Even though Meow had met Blue Echo once before, he could only be strangled by the combined forces of Roland and Algaria.

What happened next was what Tiphereth saw and heard when she woke up the next morning.

As for Lin Nuo's team of four, after experiencing that meaningless alert, they only had less than half an hour left to find a place to stay.

In desperation, they could only use the key-shaped egos carried by the team to open the nearby vacant houses and temporarily take shelter in the empty houses.

Although there was not even a decent piece of furniture in the house and they could only sit on the floor, at least it was no problem for Lin Nuo and the others to spend the night safely.

And that night, Ye Lan, who had already returned to the Yixiang Office from the library, also discovered something that he urgently needed to do.

That happened during dinner at the Weird Idea Agency. After Yuli, who had fully recovered, helped Irene put dinner on the table, one of the chairs around the table was left empty.

"Luna, where is the Queen of Hatred?"

In the past, this abnormality, which was almost indistinguishable from a human girl, never missed mealtimes. To her, every meal in the office was a delicious delicacy that she had never tasted before.

"Maybe... still playing games?"

Luna tilted her head and said to Ye Lan uncertainly. The Queen of Hate has been really addicted to games in recent days. She even relied on her physical advantage as an abnormality and played all the games she could find without sleep.

Although to outsiders, the Queen's behavior of hatred is actually just playfulness.

However, for an abnormal being that was born from the sea of ​​human hearts, using human stories and legends as its shell and with a certain emotion or spirit as its core, the Queen of Hate should not have undergone such a change.

"Forget it, I'd better go up and see her."

The more Ye Lan thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Even a highly anthropomorphic abnormality shouldn't be like this. He put down his dinner for the time being, got up and walked upstairs, pushing open the door of the Hateful Queen's room.

Our Miss Queen of Hate had no intention of paying any attention to Ye Lan. This abnormal being now focused its full attention on the not-so-big handheld game console in its hand.

Seeing her like this, Ye Lan did not bother her right away. He moved behind the Queen of Hate and looked at the screen of the handheld game console in her hand.

Although the name was unclear, Ye Lan saw that the content on the screen should be a magical girl-themed game. In this game, the Queen of Hate enjoyed the fun of protecting the world as a human hero.

Just by looking at the level of the character controlled by this little girl at this moment, Ye Lan knew that she had definitely put a lot of effort into this game.

"It seems that you are very addicted to this game."

After the Queen of Hate finished a battle in the game, Ye Lan spoke to her.

"Hey, is it Brother Ye Lan?"