[The Mystery Deepens in the Archive Room]
We had come to the academy library’s archive room in search of Madeline.
–However, finding her in this archive room proved to be quite a challenge.
This place was so massive and had some mystical charm to it. I would love to come again and take a look around in my spare time later, with a heavy emphasis on spare time, and this definitely was not it.
“……”
Next to me Tayte was looking around with wonder as if she had forgotten about our original purpose of searching for Madeline.
And she wasn’t the only one.
The others, too, seemed absorbed in the atmosphere of the archive room.
Well, they all snapped back to reality and went back to searching for Madeline before long.
And as a result of a while of searching…
“This is a problem… There’s not a single clue…”
We couldn’t even find a sign if anyone had visited recently.
“No matter how spacious this place is, for there not to be a single clue… It smells fishy…”
Jarvis seemed to be feeling suspicious of the situation.
“Yes, something seems strange here… Looks like we can only pin our hope on Ms. Teixeira—wait, huh?”
It was then I realized.
The student council’s members were all present.
But Ms. Teixeira was nowhere to be seen.
…I had a bad feeling about this.
“Hey, where’s Ms. Teixeira?”
“Huh?!”
Tayte was the first to react, and then the rest followed her looking around in a fluster.
“You’ve gotta be kidding… Even Ms. Teixeira is missing now?”
“Calm down, Andrei. This place is vast. She might be lost somewhere,” Jarvis said.
“While we can’t rule out that possibility, I can’t imagine Ms. Teixeira of all people getting lost,” Kleine remarked.
It was she said; while there were undeniably chances that Ms. Teixeira was lost, they were extremely close to zero.
“R-Raul… This situation gives me a bad feeling…” Eureka said.
“Me too.” Raul reflexively reached his hand for his demon sword.
I got where he was coming from.
Because my hand had also found its way on the holy sword before I knew it.
I couldn’t see it clearly, but… there was something discomforting in the air, like it was clinging to my skin. Had it something to do with Ms. Teixeira’s disappearance?
“In any case, let’s all stick together from now on. We don’t want anyone else go missing.”
“That’s a good idea. –Then.”
Immediately after agreeing to my idea, Tayte grabbed my hand tightly.
“With this, I won’t lose sight of you, Barrett!”
“S-sure.”
I couldn’t help but freeze at her unexpected action.
Tayte… she had become quite bold.
“Goodness, you are really aggressive sometimes, Tayte.” Jarvis shook her head.
“Hahahaha! She sure is!” Andrei laughed.
“Should we hold hands too, Raul?” Eureka looked at Raul.
“Yes, let’s Eureka.” Raul nodded.
“Ah, there’s another idiot couple here,” Kleine remarked.
A-anyway, with that we decided to search the archive room together.
――This archive room seemed to be hiding some secrets, too.
Whatever they were, they might have something to do with Madeline’s disappearance.
[The Mystery Deepens in the Archive Room]
We had come to the academy library’s archive room in search of Madeline.
–However, finding her in this archive room proved to be quite a challenge.
This place was so massive and had some mystical charm to it. I would love to come again and take a look around in my spare time later, with a heavy emphasis on spare time, and this definitely was not it.
“……”
Next to me Tayte was looking around with wonder as if she had forgotten about our original purpose of searching for Madeline.
And she wasn’t the only one.
The others, too, seemed absorbed in the atmosphere of the archive room.
Well, they all snapped back to reality and went back to searching for Madeline before long.
And as a result of a while of searching…
“This is a problem… There’s not a single clue…”
We couldn’t even find a sign if anyone had visited recently.
“No matter how spacious this place is, for there not to be a single clue… It smells fishy…”
Jarvis seemed to be feeling suspicious of the situation.
“Yes, something seems strange here… Looks like we can only pin our hope on Ms. Teixeira—wait, huh?”
It was then I realized.
The student council’s members were all present.
But Ms. Teixeira was nowhere to be seen.
…I had a bad feeling about this.
“Hey, where’s Ms. Teixeira?”
“Huh?!”
Tayte was the first to react, and then the rest followed her looking around in a fluster.
“You’ve gotta be kidding… Even Ms. Teixeira is missing now?”
“Calm down, Andrei. This place is vast. She might be lost somewhere,” Jarvis said.
“While we can’t rule out that possibility, I can’t imagine Ms. Teixeira of all people getting lost,” Kleine remarked.
It was she said; while there were undeniably chances that Ms. Teixeira was lost, they were extremely close to zero.
“R-Raul… This situation gives me a bad feeling…” Eureka said.
“Me too.” Raul reflexively reached his hand for his demon sword.
I got where he was coming from.
Because my hand had also found its way on the holy sword before I knew it.
I couldn’t see it clearly, but… there was something discomforting in the air, like it was clinging to my skin. Had it something to do with Ms. Teixeira’s disappearance?
“In any case, let’s all stick together from now on. We don’t want anyone else go missing.”
“That’s a good idea. –Then.”
Immediately after agreeing to my idea, Tayte grabbed my hand tightly.
“With this, I won’t lose sight of you, Barrett!”
“S-sure.”
I couldn’t help but freeze at her unexpected action.
Tayte… she had become quite bold.
“Goodness, you are really aggressive sometimes, Tayte.” Jarvis shook her head.
“Hahahaha! She sure is!” Andrei laughed.
“Should we hold hands too, Raul?” Eureka looked at Raul.
“Yes, let’s Eureka.” Raul nodded.
“Ah, there’s another idiot couple here,” Kleine remarked.
A-anyway, with that we decided to search the archive room together.
――This archive room seemed to be hiding some secrets, too.
Whatever they were, they might have something to do with Madeline’s disappearance.
