Rainer was fuming with not all that much emotion, having recovered from the effects of "Self embarrassment". Still, that did not matter. Revenge must be obtained against the cursed books known as dictionaries and in the future to perhaps all books. God knows what kind of stuff books can hold.
Rainer opened the library and stepped in full of confidence looking, the second time this evening, for someone to help him with finding what he needs. Since it'd be pretty hard for him to find any dictionaries on his own.
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The same librarian was seated at the desk as had been before, when Rainer had entered to get the dictionary in the first place. She didn't pay his approach any attention; her focus remained set on the open tome before her.
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Rainer walked over to the librarian, in front of the desk, and full of confidence made a request of
Patchouli-sama the librarian.
"Hello there, I would like 3 diktionaries, please!" He needed to double check them a few at a time, in order to compare whether or not all the dictionaries were the same.
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The seated girl didn't bother to even look up as she replied:
"Then go look in the dictionary section."
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The librarian basically just blew him off, leaving him to his own devices. That works as well, as annoying as it would be on Rainer's part. After, eventually, finding the dictionary section, he started thinking about what would be the best way to go about doing this. It was most definitely taking all of them. So he proceeded to take the dictionaries and place them on a nearby table one after another…
Eventually, he'd stacked up a few shelves worth of dictionaries. Ranging from simple generic dictionaries, thaumaturgical dictionaries, military dictionaries. Now the problem was that there was no more room on the table, unless he'd get on a chair and continue stacking them there or just yeet the dictionaries on top. However if he did that, he'd have trouble getting them, hence he withdrew from the idea for now.
He opened the first dictionary and within around 30 minutes he had finally found what he was looking for. A word for females of canine species. He considered just tearing a page out, but that wouldn't be very nice, considering there were quite a few other words described on the page.
Rainer then attempted to find the librarian again, given she wouldn't have interrupted the process of him getting the dust off of multiple shelves worth of books.
"Do you have a pen I could borrow?"
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A ballpoint pen was lobbed through the air towards the boy, having been produced from within her desk. Naturally, she hadn't been interested in what he was up to. It wasn't like she could see the entire library from her desk. Well, not without looking at security cameras, but why would she want to watch those instead of reading?
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Rainer being Rainer obviously took the projectile head on and only then picked it up. He then went back to his stacks of books in order to do some magic. He started with the book he had opened up earlier. Violently crossing out the word out of the dictionary. He kept the definition as it was, however, for reasons only Rainer alone knows. Nonetheless, his job was done with that book at least. It was time to move on to the next book. It took him a while to find out that the next dictionary had no such word… He moved on to the next book. Then took another and another, and so on. After going through about 10 dictionaries, he thought he should go ahead and put the books back, obviously enough, in a random order. He repeated the process until slowly all the books from the table were disappearing. Only God knows how long it actually took him to go through them all, but he got the hang of it pretty fast. He had a general idea of where the word he was looking for was after all and he made sure to remove the word from any dictionary that possessed it.
You wouldn't even need OCD to make looking at the shelves hurt. Rainer was satisfied for now, but he'd most definitely return tomorrow, with newfound vigor.
Rainer then walked back to the librarian and put the pen back on her table and said:
"Thanks, I managed to fix the dictionaries!" Rainer said triumphantly.
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This kid again. Didn't he know not to bother people in the library? So what if she was a "librarian"? She was just here for access to the books, not to deal with brats. Wait…
"You… 'fixed' the dictionaries?
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The librarian seemed a bit surprised. Well, that was understandable, Rainer did just fix multiple shelves worth of books after all. He was basically securing his position in the government. Censoring things you do not like is just the first step after all.
"Yes!"
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There was a decidedly sinking feeling in Chiseko's stomach as she heard the boy's cheerful reply. She was almost hesitant to continue speaking, but she knew it was too late to do otherwise.
"What, exactly, did you 'fix'?"
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That was a good question. What did he fix? Well, nothing would change even if he did say:
"I removed the bad word from a few books. I'll be back tomorrow to hopefully finish the job." Rainer wasn't gonna leave the job half finished, after all. That'd just be lousy.
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"You… removed words from a few books?" It was as if the temperature in the room had suddenly plummeted as Chiseko stared at Rainer with a glare intense enough to draw blood. At least, it felt that way. Glares couldn't draw blood though, right? Rainer could only pray that was the case.
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There was something off about this librarian. It felt like the entire intensity and stress of the average Monday was being centered in this room as she was staring at him.
"Ah, but don't worry, I put the books back where they were before. … Probably." The order of the book placement wasn't of particular importance, probably. Well, at least the books were in the correct shelf. Probably.
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"You… BASTARD!"
Magical energy surged through the room as five crystals manifested in the air next to Chiseko, who had leapt out of her seat. She flung her right arm out palm-first towards Rainer, and the crystals shifted into a cross formation in front of her palm, with the brown crystal in the center of the other four and shifted somewhat farther forward to form a pyramid. The back four crystals began to spin rapidly as beams of multicolored light connected them to the brown crystal in the center. In a flash, the energy was released and shot towards Rainer at immense speed. Before he could even try to dodge, it struck his torso.
His stomach felt odd, as though it was hard to move. And the sensation seemed to be spreading up and down his body. A glance would quickly reveal that his abdomen had been encased in grey stone, and the stone was expanding to coat him entirely. There was no escape to be had; the stone had already cut off his legs from his brain's control. All that was left was to accept his fate…
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"What in the God damn fuck just happened!?" Might be a reasonable reaction of people who are more than 10 years old, Rainer, however, was quite happy, as weird as the feeling was. Since his legs were basically just lumps of meat now, he'd fall to the floor, on his back. Gasp.
Magic! Rainer didn't yet know how to exactly do magic tricks yet, so this might be the person he's been looking for!
"Wow, that's so cool! Was that magic? How did you do that? Teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me!"
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As the stone continued to climb higher and higher, the last thing Rainer saw was Chiseko giving him a death glare.
"Never return to this library again, bastard." Then his consciousness slipped away into the darkness.
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When he came to, Rainer was in a bed in the Academy's Medical Ward. A woman stood nearby, wearing a nurse outfit and holding a clipboard.
"Ah, you're awake. You've been cured of your petrification. I've been instructed to inform you that you have been permanently banned from the Library. Please don't anger Miss Guérin any further. While we can heal you, we'd rather it not be necessary."
The Nurse looked up at the clock on the wall, which read 10:20 PM.
"If you'd like to rest here for the night, you are welcome to the bed. Or you can return to your own room. Have a good night~" With that, she turned away and departed from the room, leaving Rainer alone in the ward.
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Well then. This was an unexpected turn of events. This librarian sure was a joker! Or perhaps she was jealous of Rainer doing the librarian job properly, despite not being a librarian. No matter the case, he had a mission to achieve. The librarian was apparently in on the joke. Ah, no. Rainer finally figured it out.
"I see, I see. I was too loud when talking with her, only the librarian can raise her voice. Still, next time I'll just be more quiet.
Rainer went to his room shortly after the nurse left. When in his room, he washed up his clothes a bit, which ended almost successfully and prayed for around an hour before going to sleep.