Huge Holy 21

21 - Let's use idiots and scissors

RAW

At this time of the day, most adventurers are out on quests and the book storage is empty.
The books in the storage are all discolored old stuff.
If you polish the papers with [Holy] along with cleaning magic, it will instantly regain its whiteness as if it were brand new.
It's easy, but doing it for all the books in the storage seems like a sizable job.

Now then, there are countless books related to my favorite magic circles here.
However, I have finished reading most of the books by the famous authors in the school library. There are many books that seem to have been owned by elves, but it is impossible to look through all of them.
I’ll just go through them while sorting them.

“This one was acquired recently huh, I’m grateful.”

I found something rare. It's a book about kijin’s magic circles.
In addition to kijin’s, I also found books about beastmen and mermaid magic circles.
In recent years, books about races that have finally interacted with humans are scarce, so I can only thank the elves for their diligence.

Suddenly, I noticed.
There was a noble daughter in the space at the back of the storage who was concentrating and writing her paper. I wouldn't have noticed her if I hadn't detected her with magic.
On the table he's heading to, piled up like a mountain is——

[Tips on How to Make Monsters Taste Good.]
[Latest Edition - About Making Monsters Edible]
[How to Deal with Toxins]

Apparently, she's a noble with strange taste who is trying to tackle the problem of food scarcity.
If you can eat monsters, you can solve the problem of corpse disposal and food scarcity, that's two birds with one stone! That’s what a lot of people were thinking.

Those books were useful both to me and to the people of A Empire.

When monsters are in a state of agitation, they secrete toxins, like adrenaline in humans.
Therefore, the book contains procedures for defeating them skillfully when turning them into food.
Furthermore, it also included ways on how to process monsters filled with toxins even when they are not in an agitated state.

It is a monster strategy guide, so to speak.
It is a reference book that adventurers should definitely read because there are detailed methods for dealing with corpses in a way that remove toxins.
Is it because the book’s title, [Making Monsters Edible], is far from practical use to the adventurers?.
Perhaps because it's a genre that even the guild doesn't pay attention to, even though the contents are in great demand, they are being buried without being known.

In fact, this young lady also――

“... Ha!. I'm sorry. By any chance, do you want to read this?”

“No. I just wanted to clean the book.”

“Huh?”

“Would you be willing to give me just a few seconds?”

I deployed a magic circle that covered all the piled up books, and in a flash they all regained the whiteness of their paper and the texture of their spines, as if they were brand new.
With this, all the books in the book storage have been cleaned.
Lastly, I guess it’s just the seat where the lady sits is left?

Asking a noble daughter to leave her seat is kinda… a hassle. I don't want to get involved.
I'll clean that place next time.

“Well then, I’ll be leaving now.”

I came out of the book storage, leaving the flabbergasted lady behind, when――

“Aah! There you are, old man!!”

The one who spoke to me with a flippant attitude was that suspicious looking engagement breaking bastard, Randy.
I wondered what the heck was going on, but Christoph and the others weren't there, only Randy alone.
He said to me, who was feeling lethargic since I thought he came with a strange proposal.

“Old man. You're free, right? Come with me and let’s go to the dungeon together!”

…What the hell?

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