The Last Librarian

Chapter 3

EVERARD

A stubborn woman, but we have to gain her trust. I can't also erase her in my mind, her perky nose, fair skin, pouty pink lips and hazel eyes.

"You think she'll come." Ranulf asked. I eyed him, I ordered him to follow her silently, but for some reason he approach to her like a maniac.

"I can't believe you did that!"

"I know, I can't help it, you can't deny she's gorgeous, and I like gorgeous."

"Fuck off!" I snorted.

"Dude, just kidding."

"What's the status, Aquilina?" It's been twenty minutes, we arrived at the tower ten minutes ago.

She's still in one place for three minutes now. Probably at home packing. I wonder where she's hiding the librarian. I don't see any hidden room inside the house she rented."

"Just monitor her. If she started moving fast it means she was taken."

"It's been two days since we've been following her, maybe the librarian is located somewhere near her to monitor." Ranulf added.

After five minutes she started moving our way. Thank heavens.

Soon enough we saw her, she looks nervous and alone, it's quarter to midnight. This plaza is in front of the tower. It was a good place for meet up since it was a public area.

Then screams started, some yelled Demons. Edilia looked alarmed then the people started running in every direction, I took out Clovis from it's sheath, I lost sight of her dammit. "Where is she, Aquilina?"

"She running inside that building." She pointed to the other side. We ran after her.

"Get her! We'll fight this fuckers off." Ranulf yelled after shoving me inside the building. I ran upstairs. It was dark the only light came from the moon outside the window. Then I saw her fighting a demon. She moved like a wraith, the demon is already wounded, she was not a fighter but she's not bad also, and she's not joking when she said she knew how to use that knife, but her stabbing was a bit clumsy she's lucky the demon is big and slow. One last stab in the demon's eye and it fell.

She was breathing heavily then she turned. Her eyes widened when she saw me.

"You've been there all this time without helping me? Are you sure you can protect the librarian?"

I can't help but grin at her. She pouted, oh those pouty lips. But the demon started to move behind her, she didn't notice it. With a lightning speed I decapitated it faster than she can blink.

"Come on, why are you alone, where's the librarian?"

Her lips trembled. Before she could answer a party of demons jump inside the window, we covered our faces to avoid the glass flying everywhere at once. They were a dozen of them. I grabbed Edilia and run. Before we could reach the stairs another demon jumped on us, we ran to the other direction of stairs. The hall was narrow, those demons are big enough so they can't walk together on the hall, they have to come for us one at a time, good for me. I wonder how they manage to slip the border, Aquilina should know if something happened.

"Stay back, while you tell me where is the librarian." A demon came and I hacked it.

"No."

"Where is she?" I ask between breaths, another demon were sliced.

"She's here."

I groan. As I sliced a demon's head off. "Where exactly is she?"

I heard her sigh behind me. Another demon dropped dead.

"She's behind you."

I stabbed a demon straight through the heart and I glance briefly at her.

"You?"

"Lord Loki Vineriya is my master. I'm her student, his only student, he died on the Purge protecting me and I'm the last Librarian."

I turned just enough to kill the next demon. Then back at her.

"You're not a Vineriya?"

"Oh, I'm sorry for disappointing you but the whole family of Vineriya has been killed on the Purge. I was on their house that night reading with my master when they came, killing the guards, the maids, watching Master Loki anguish face as her two daughters were killed and his son Lord Cornelius. He gave me his ring and made me go to the secret passage to escape alone."

I turned again to kill the last demon then back at her again.

"Shit!"

"Rude!"