Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 438 The Little Spirit Book Corridor

"Camilla...."

""

The bird murmured softly, its heart filled with shock.

The other party was actually a fairy tale dragon?

This is the heart of London, the home of the pipers!

Countless mages patrolled the streets outside, while a captain was stationed inside the compound.

How could the enemy, under such tight defenses, be able to silently and directly invade my mental world in broad daylight?

This is simply unbelievable.

He placed his hand on his wildly pounding heart, trying to feel the voice of his inner world.

Sure enough, it was cut off.

"Is what that woman said true? Could it be that I'm with her...?"

"Eh..." Fei Niao shook his head repeatedly, trying to shake this absurd idea out of his head.

He looked up at the clock and saw that the hour hand was pointing to two o'clock in the afternoon.

"I actually... slept for several hours?"

The bird was somewhat surprised.

Since reaching the advanced level of spiritual power, he has rarely experienced such a complete loss of consciousness and deep sleep.

It seems that the mental battle was far more exhausting than he had imagined.

He threw off the covers, staggered to the bathroom in a daze, threw off his undershirt which was soaked with cold sweat, and poured icy tap water over his head to wash away the stench and dizziness.

As he turned and walked back into the room, his gaze fell on the neatly folded dark gray suit on the bedside table.

...Let's just consider it as adapting to local customs.

He put on a dark-patterned silk shirt, buttoned up his vest, slipped on a well-tailored suit jacket, and finally awkwardly adjusted his dark red tie in front of the mirror.

Pushing open the door, Shinobu Kocho was standing by the railing in the corridor, observing the mages coming and going in the compound.

Hearing the noise behind her, she turned around and looked at Fei Niao, her eyes sparkling with a smile: "Oh dear, it seems that taking a nap really does help."

"Asuka, you look much better now, and that terrible low mood has completely disappeared."

...Yes, I slept quite soundly.

Asuka responded to her words but did not explain the strange and dangerous dream to Shinobu.

In this place full of unknowns, he didn't want Shinobu Kocho to have any worries because of his affairs.

"Now that you've rested enough, let's go find Captain Trompo." Shinobu Kocho took a half step back, admiring her handiwork with satisfaction. "Miss Nini came to deliver a message at noon, saying that once the important figures wake up, we should go to their office to find them."

Asuka nodded: "Let's go. I'd like to see exactly how these people plan to deal with us."

The two walked through the magical corridor and arrived once again in front of the messy office.

Looking inside, Captain Trompo was hunched over a large desk, processing official documents.

Today his desk was piled high with documents, and he looked more tired than yesterday.

"Oh, you two have finally arrived." Trompo nodded repeatedly when he saw the refreshed Asuka. "Mr. Asuka, your attire is becoming more and more like that of a London gentleman."

Asuka pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Trompo: "Good afternoon. What's the status of the promised visit to the Natural Dragon Reserve?"

Upon hearing this question, Trompo sighed and tossed a report onto the table.

"I'm very sorry, gentlemen, the planned tour has been cancelled."

"Was it canceled?" Shinobu tilted her head. "Is it still because of the riot at Dragon Ranch last night?"

"Yes, what happened last night was far more serious than we had anticipated." Tromp rubbed his temples, his voice growing heavy. "The riot at the First Dragon Ranch has been confirmed to have been caused by an undocumented and extremely dangerous fairytale dragon."

"It really is a fairy tale dragon..." Asuka's brow twitched.

"Although the captains worked together to quell the riot last night, the true form of that fairy tale dragon has not yet been found."

Trombaugh stood up and looked at the gray sky outside: "Right now, the entire wilderness and protected areas of London are on the highest level of alert."

"For the safety of both of you, and to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, the meeting decided to temporarily restrict outdoor activities by outsiders."

Feiniao leaned back in her chair: "So, we're just going to be stuck in this building getting moldy now?"

"Of course not."

Trombone walked to the desk, took out a piece of parchment with the emblem of the Pied Piper, and handed a long list of books to Asuka.

"I know that you have many answers you are looking for in London this time."

"As a backup plan, I applied for passes to the Grand Library for both of them."

As the bird's gaze fell upon the book list, Trompor introduced it at the opportune moment: "It contains countless precious books and documents from the time of London's birth."

"Including the origins of magic, the ecology of dragons, and some ancient historical events."

As he spoke, he pointed to several names on the book list: "I especially recommend that you pay more attention to the relevant documents from the [Medieval] period."

"The Middle Ages?" Shinobu Kocho asked, somewhat puzzled. "Isn't that the Dark Ages of London's history?"

Trombone nodded: "Yes, but it was also the era when black magic was most prevalent and heretical research was most rampant."

He looked at the bird and said, slowly and deliberately, "That was an era of frantic exploration of the boundaries between mortal souls and dark dragons... and also the main area of ​​research for that black-clad witch."

"Where is the Great Library?" Asuka stood up without hesitation.

Trombone smiled slightly and sat back down in his chair: "Turn left after leaving the base, take the hover train, and get off at the Eye of Truth station."

"Good luck."

After half an hour.

Asuka and Shinobu stood in front of a magnificent building.

The Great Library is not built on the ground, but is suspended in a bottomless underground cavity.

The entire building is designed in a solemn Gothic style, with countless spires soaring into the clouds, surrounded by a pale blue light band formed by magic, as dazzling as a galaxy.

A long bridge made of translucent magic crystal leads to the main entrance of the Great Library.

Walking on it, you can even see the magical undercurrents churning in the abyss below.

"What a magnificent sight..." Shinobu Kocho looked up at this temple of knowledge. Even though she had secretly sneaked into the Great Spiritual Arts Corridor, which was said to contain everything, she couldn't help but marvel at it.

The two walked to the gate and handed the pass given to them by Trompo to a strange librarian who was floating in mid-air and whose body was made entirely of book pages.

"Permissions confirmed, entry permitted."

The page keeper made a rustling sound before slowly opening the heavy door.

The interior space is several times larger than it appears from the outside.

Countless towering bookshelves are arranged in a ring, and countless magical books fly around like birds in mid-air.

They follow some unseen magical trajectory, automatically moving between bookshelves and returning to their original positions.

"We're looking for the medieval literature section." Asuka glanced at the book list in her hand, which was marked with specific area codes.

The two wandered through the maze-like sea of ​​books for a long time before finally arriving at a relatively dimly lit area.

The bookshelves here are a deep, dark red, and most of the books on them have damaged covers, with some even having dried black liquid remaining on their covers.

"This is it."

Following the names on the book list, Feibiao pulled out a thick book titled "The Origins of Medieval Black Magic".

The moment he turned the page, his expression froze.

The pages were covered with ancient Western scripts that he couldn't understand at all, and even many magical symbols that were twisted like tadpoles.

At least the books in Seireitei had some half-baked kanji and kana, but this ancient Western magical script...

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"Damn, why is it all gibberish again?"