That bard is such a charmer!

Chapter 142 When the Dragon Entered the Library

Richard immediately opened the gift bag.

You have gained a special talent: Eyes Behind Your Head—it's as if you have eyes on the back of your head, allowing you to keenly perceive everything happening behind you.

Note: "My classmates all respect me, not for any other reason than that I'm always the first to spot the homeroom teacher's face pressed against the glass of the back classroom door." — The Ultimate Mischievous Kid

That's good; it looks like a talent that could greatly improve survivability.

Richard nodded, and then immediately put it to the test.

Then he was surprised to find that this was not a keen sense of perception, but rather that he had eyes in the back of his head—he could now clearly sense a mosquito approaching his neck without turning around!

Good guy!

With this, you'll never have to worry about being backstabbed by thieves again!

No, going even further, he could use this as a reconnaissance skill, pretending to turn his back and secretly observing the enemy when they think he can't see them!

Richard turned around, swatted away the mosquitoes, and felt a surge of joy.

It was afternoon.

With no more classes, Richard left Robin School, intending to go to the Great Library to find Grace and ask her what she had discovered.

When he got to the door, he realized that he no longer had his badge, making him the one who couldn't get in.

Just as I was worrying, I suddenly saw Jon leaving the library.

After seeing Elsa off, the three siblings, Peiguoti, did not leave the capital immediately. Instead, like Richard, they stayed to continue their studies.

However, they owned other properties in the capital, so they didn't live at Isabella's house, nor did they attend Robin's School; instead, they went to other magic schools and seminaries.

At this moment, Jon had just finished reviewing the information and was planning to go home to rest.

Richard struck up a conversation with him, then casually borrowed his access pass and slipped into the Great Library.

I wandered around for half an hour after coming in but didn't see anyone.

Just as he was worried that the bronze dragon might actually burrow into the underground forbidden book area and whether he should make a hasty escape, he suddenly discovered a small mountain of books in the corner, as well as a wisp of red hair peeking out from between the books.

Ah, this—

They shouldn't be mistaken, right?

If I'm wrong, I'll just call myself Jon Peggotty!

Richard raised an eyebrow, stepped forward, grabbed the ahoge (cowlick), and yanked hard—

Hmm, it feels nice.

"Ouch!"

The next second, Grace's head popped out from the pile of books, angrily searching for the audacious madman who dared to play with her hair.

When he turned around and saw that it was Richard, the anger in his eyes immediately lessened by half.

Richard patted his chest in relief.

Thankfully, I didn't mistake him for someone else; Jon's reputation is saved. I'll have to remind him to thank me next time we meet.

Then he put on a serious face and asked Grace in a low voice, "So, what did you learn?"

Grace crossed her arms and pouted, "It's only been a morning, how could there be any real gains? If there are, they'll be this—"

As she spoke, she tossed a half-open book that was at her feet to Richard.

Richard took it and saw that it was a book titled "The Philosophical Principles of the Natural Soul".

On the blank page that Grace turned to, someone had written in red ink: "I have thought of a way to perfectly divide the soul, but there is too little space here for me to write it down."

Richard: "?"

What the hell? There are still plenty of blank spaces in this book! — No, wait, you have no public spirit at all, writing and drawing all over the library books!

"You see, most of them are like that."

Beside her, Grace retrieved the book and sighed softly.

But then she touched her chin: "However, if I had to say, it's not like we're completely without clues—take a look at this."

She then handed Richard another book with folded pages.

no----

Your casual bending of public books isn't much better than scribbling and drawing on them.

Richard rolled his eyes, took the book, and discovered that it was "The Robin: A School History"!

Ok?

It's even related to robins?

He looked curiously at the folded page and found that it contained a short myth.

It is said that Lady Styx, one of the gods of death, had a daughter who secretly transformed into a human and visited the Musical Note Academy of the Kingdom University—the predecessor of the Robin School.

Soon, she took a liking to several young poets in the academy.

To facilitate her trysts with him, she created a secret room in the main building of the academy, a room where she could realize all sorts of daring fantasies and where no one could find her. Then she locked the young poets she fancied inside, and day and night, they did all sorts of absurd things.

Several years later, the poets' families complained to Lady Styx, who then personally took action and brought her daughter back to the divine realm.

But that secret room remains forever in the Music Academy, and has never been found to this day.

There are even rumors that before Lady Styx's daughter was taken home, she frantically left a sewing needle, which could be used to harmonize souls, in that room.

A sewing needle that can harmonize the soul —

Richard closed the book and asked, "So, you've got your eye on that sewing needle?"

Grace nodded: "As far as I remember, Lady Styx does have such a needle, which might solve the problem between Zoya and me."

Richard scoffed. "But I haven't heard anything about a secret room these past few days. It feels like something the poets at Robin's School made up to boost their reputation. You know, we poets love doing that kind of thing."

Grace sighed dramatically, spreading her hands: "Well, there's nothing I can do about it. This is all I found. Sigh, I'm tired. That's enough for today."

With that, Miss Copper Dragon stepped out of the pile of books, grabbed Richard's hand, and headed home.

Richard blinked, looked at the pile of books, and asked, "Uh, aren't you going to tidy up first?"

Grace tilted her head: "No need, the caretaker will help clean up after he wakes up."

"We can't trouble the administrator with everything—wait, what do you mean by 'after the administrator wakes up'?"

Richard's eyes widened as he circled the pile of books, finally spotting two people, an old man and a young man, dressed like scholars, lying on the ground fast asleep.

Clearly, they didn't just fall asleep here by chance.

Damn it, I was wondering why this evil dragon had piled up all the books like this and no one had come to clean them up. Turns out the person who came to clean them up had already been taken down by her!

Richard rolled his eyes.

In order to avoid being blacklisted by the Great Library, he finally dragged Grace along and together they cleaned up the pile of books on the floor before quietly leaving.

Soon after, he and Grace returned to Isabella's house.

They had barely entered the room, and before they could even take a sip of water, Amelie came over and told them that Isabella had something to tell them—