The Magic Library of the Sleeping Dragon

Prologue - The Mysterious Library and the Uncommon Librarian

Now, the weather. Last night's heavy rain is forecast to continue for about a full week.

The observatory has issued a yellow alert for heavy rain and may increase to a red alert, it is recommended that all people stay indoors and only go out in case of an emergency, either to buy food or medicine. Everyone should take full care when leaving the house in this heavy rain.

In the town of Kuoh, in a sparsely populated area, there is a certain library with lights on and a wooden sign on one of the many glass windows with the writing "Open". This is quite unusual, since it is quite late at night and all the people are probably already asleep, watching television or playing computer games. Also, this rainy weather surely makes some people want to sleep with the sound of rain.

Inside the library.

You can see a ton of books spread across several shelves, wooden stairs that led to a second floor. It was a fairly large library, but humble, with nothing too extremely luxurious. The sound of books being placed on the shelves was heard along with the soothing sound of rain.

"What a heavy rain. I imagine there won't be any customers again..."

A young man who appeared to be no older than 18 was arranging some books near his wooden counter, which is used to serve all customers looking for books.

The young man had short, spiky brown hair with two short locks of hair behind his head and light brown eyes. The young man was wearing a black blazer over a long-sleeved white shirt with black highlights with a black ribbon on the collar, matching black pants and brown shoes.

This young man is the librarian of this library. His name is Hyoudou Issei, a boy who dropped out of school in pursuit of fulfilling his great dream of opening a library in Kuoh.

"Oh, is that you again?" Issei muttered as he looked at the black cat that was sleeping on one of the book shelves on the second floor that was visible. "Came in through the window again, eh." Issei would leave the second floor window half open. This way, whenever the cat wanted to get in, it only needed to use little force to make the window turn, and thus enter the library.

It was a very small window, so there was no way people would try to get in to steal from him, although there was nothing to steal except books, and he didn't think thieves would waste their time going after ordinary books.

Issei took a towel and put it on a wooden "hook" that was near the front door. He also placed an umbrella propped up on the wall.

"But what if someone forgot to bring an umbrella and needs a shelter?" He said with a smile on his face.

'Huh, I'm such a nice guy,' he thought. 'I hope this small gesture of kindness and love can bring me some income... no. Gratitude from the customers... Of course, if they are moved by my kindness and hospitality and maybe rent or buy some of my books. That would be fantastic!'

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The moon emitted a very beautiful big blue/white glow, which along with the rain, showed a shimmering sight to anyone who saw it.

"Get her!"

"Don't let her get away!"

Some devils were running after a girl, however, this was no ordinary girl.

"You guys are really annoying ~ Nya," said the girl's seductive voice in great annoyance.

The girl stopped running, forcing her pursuers to do the same. There were four people, more specifically four devils who were after her. The girl was a little bruised due to the fact that she had been escaping for a long time from several High Class devils, with one of them using a sword. The drops of rainwater were falling on her face.