Crow's Paradise

With the help of the driver, who was not very good at talking but was still warm and friendly, Triss came to the Tamori Library.

The library is very large, much larger than her original home.

High walls of bookshelves and huge pillars are firmly connected in the middle, so there is no need to worry about safety issues.

But the price of such security is that there are many vacant spaces in the library. However, this emptiness also gives the library a palace-like sense of grandeur.

Triss stood in front of the library door in amazement. Amidst the friendly smiles of the library guests, she awkwardly walked to the front desk.

And soon, she got the loan certificate.

When the front desk lady's eyes fell on the books in her hand, she held a small card in her left hand and asked about the location of the bookshelf of the Phantom Thieves novel. After borrowing two pieces of white paper and a pen for taking notes, she walked towards the target bookshelf.

Before arriving at the bookshelf of Phantom Thief novels, she put the book in her hand on the table, and then immediately passed over the dazzling array of text on the spines. With her eyes intertwined with novelty and nostalgia, she took down two Phantom Thief novels.

"The Twelve O'clock Flame", "The Bell Tower in the Morning Fog", "Bubbles".

Triss's eyes swept across the three books. When she was about to open the book "Twelve O'Clock Fire", her movements stopped. After a brief hesitation, she opened "Bubble".

Triss frowned slightly when she once again saw the religious mythology story that was like telling a fairy tale to a child.

However, this time, she endured the discomfort of the fairy tale-like writing tone and continued reading.

While reading, she wrote down a summary of the book's contents.

She will now continue to read things she doesn't like, but she can't avoid the various prejudices she has because of her dislike, so she has this habit.

When talking to outsiders, it is easy to become emotional or to cater to others and express different opinions, but if it is a record, diary, etc. that only she can see, she can be more objective.

[The world has two parts, a black part like an ocean and a small spherical part]

[The spherical part floats on the black ocean, and the part that sinks into the ocean becomes dark and nothing can be seen. ]

[The black ocean is the night. ]

[The night does no harm to ordinary people, but it does harm to the sun god. In order to escape from the night, the sun will continue to move along the edge of the sphere in the sky. ]

Based on her own understanding, Triss recorded what she saw.

However, seeing this, she couldn't help but want to laugh.

What a fertile imagination these religious lunatics have.

Really, she has seen many versions of these myths over the years.

After all, although she could not remember the details clearly about the conversation between Mrs. Bisso and the strange man on the Stairway to Heaven, she could still remember the general outline.

The sun god, the night god, the fire thief, the fire eater.

In recent years, the number of archaeological excavations in Poseidonia has increased a lot, and many historians have come out to talk about fire eaters and fire thieves, and the sun god and night god.

If she remembers correctly, the basically accepted view in the past few years is——

"The sun god and the night god were the deified evolutions of the rulers of the two opposing dynastic forces at that time."

"What are they called? Oh, by the way, they mean the Sun Dynasty and the Night Dynasty?"

"There are many tribes in the Dark Night Dynasty. The priests of the Dark Night Dynasty selected a group of people who were born blind to train, so that they can move without seeing. This group of people are called 'Fire Eaters'."

"The 'Fire Thief' was trained by the sacrificial priests of the Sun Dynasty, and can fight against the 'Fire Eaters' of the Night Dynasty in the dark night."

With the archaeological research in recent years, this statement has occupied the mainstream of the sun god myth.

"And the locations of the Sun Dynasty and the Night Dynasty are the ancient cities in the ocean that were not originally submerged."

"These two dynasties were established by multiple meteorite events in ancient times."

"The Sun Dynasty was built around meteorites, the Sun Stones, and they had control over this 'magic' stone."

"And the Night Dynasty is a force without the Sun Stone. It is a counter-force that has been squeezed out by the Sun Dynasty and is a gathering of tribes hostile to the Sun Dynasty."

Thinking of the "big discoveries" published in newspapers a few years ago, Triss couldn't help but want to laugh.

I remember that after it was published, a group of religious lunatics from the Sun God Church took to the streets and even attacked the police, making a big fuss.

Those religious lunatics who believe that the sun god is the only creator and the only god.

In their religious history, the fire thieves were one of the priests and priests of the Sun God. However, one day, this group of people became arrogant and used the will of the Sun God to exclude dissenters and try to seize power.

That's why they are called "fire thieves".

Compared to religious lunatics like the Church of the Sun God who are still unrepentant in modern times, Triss certainly trusts the research results of the entire historical academic community.

Although the various versions of "history" are not important to Triss, she will definitely stay away from that group of religious lunatics.

As for this "bubble".

It is probably the random fabrication of some religious madman or even a literary writer, a fairy tale writer.

Thinking of this, Triss's motivation to continue reading the book decreased a lot.

but

"Forget it, just finish it."

With the idea of ​​reading it all, Triss continued to flip through "Bubble", which she had characterized as fairy tale literature, and took notes:

"Perhaps it is the work of an 'artist'? If you know Mrs. Bisso, are those artists who express their own ideas or other people's ideas, or are they 'artists' who perform their 'ideas' for money?"

After staying in the upper class for a long time and then coming to the lower class, she has a considerable understanding of the changes in attitudes of various groups of people.

With his left hand supporting his face, his right hand grabbed the pen and circled the key points of the sentence he summarized:

"Those artists like to add something that is not present in their works, and the good history is changed beyond recognition, and they still insist on expressing their own personality and showing free thought."

Triss couldn't understand those so-called arts at all. Compared with any art, she seemed happier when she took money from her parents, brothers and sisters.

Although both parties did it voluntarily, her parents, brother and sister did it to show their "taste" in social situations, while the "artist" did it for money.

Shaking her head, Triss stopped thinking about what was and was not, and planned to focus on the lines of the unpalatable fairy tale-like writing.

It was at this moment that she realized why she disliked fairy tales.

After seeing too much reality, some people will miss innocence, while others will be disgusted, and it is obvious that she is the latter.

While she was lamenting her life, a male voice suddenly came from behind her:

"Madam, can you lend me this book of yours to read? Don't worry, I'll stay here and won't take it away."

ps: Ah, I usually save money on everything, and even consider the price of food. Even if I want to eat, I will give it up completely.

The so-called freedom, or indulgence, is indeed very refreshing.

It's just that the consequences of being happy for a while are not very good under normal circumstances. I don't know whether I should say I'm happy or sad now.

Happy? A bit strange.

sorrow? Not quite right either.