Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 48 : Mutual-Evitn 8 of 10 “The Ritman Library” (Part 03)

The Ritman Library, the Divine Library where millions of Grimoires are kept and is the tower where almost all the world's knowledge is archived. It had a hundred floors with its peak reaching the sky, built by one of the Unnamed Gods during the time of the Ancient War of Gods and Demons. The library was built at that time and was also destroyed at that time, then the building was thrown into the sidelines of dimensions between the Real World and Heaven — Existence and truth began to disappear covered by time, until thousands of years after the Ancient War its existence is only considered a legend.

The air feels cooler and humid than before, the scorching sunlight does not touch the place in the room. When his consciousness returned, Odo was already standing in a room with hundreds of bookshelves lined with labyrinth-like arrays. The black and white plaid ceramic floor is like a chessboard as a massage, while the ceiling seems invisible because it is so high.

The perception inside the tower instantly sensed itself as it looked at the high ceiling with a bright radiance. On the top edge to the highest peak, there are many floors and a spiral response that connects each floor to the highest tower where it is located. At first glance Odo closed his eyes, trying to understand what happened and organize his thoughts.

Seeing everything around, Odo suddenly understood that he was in the Realm of the Sculptures. Architecture with a Gothic impression, crystal lamp posts as lighting at the intersection of the shelf row, a quiet atmosphere and all magic books arranged in the place. Observing all the things that were before him, the young man quickly stopped being confused and understood all the elements that formed the Realm.

Odo strode his feet, down the hallway between the bookshelves and walked towards the stairs on the edge of the room. Returning to look around and find out the material elements as well as the dimension-forming concepts he was in right now, he muttered, “Did he pull Personal Reality out of being his reality and form a dimension like this? But ... Why would an individual create this? It was simply impossible for Nativ to seem to be able to create a Realm as perfect as this .... ”

“True!” The voice of Arca suddenly echoed inside the large library. Odo immediately looked up and looked towards the source of the sound coming from the highest floor of the tower. The voice was heard again, “This is not mine! But the embodiment of a dimension in between worlds! My power is a Right to The Ritman Library! I am a chosen person even though I was born without being able to use magic! Become the Master of this grand tower full of Grimoire!”

At first glance Odo narrowed his eyes, sighed and felt that such power was unfortunate to fall to a person like Arca Rein who had no understanding of the concept of Authority at all. The young man in black hair was irritated by putting on his flat expression, then stopped looking up and asked, “Arca Rein? Do you know what this place is?”

“Of course!” answer the sound from the top of the tower.  With haughty Arca continued, “This is a divine library tower! Built by one of the Unnamed Gods and often also identified with Babel Tower!”

“So, yes?” Odo looked up in annoyance, then said, “Your arrogance has gone too far. Hmm, less precise curvature. Your stupidity is unlimited.”

“You are aware of your situation, Odo Luke!” The voice was angry, then began to insult, “What is the process of information compression when bringing you to this dimension makes your brain also shrink?”

“Do not worry ...” Odo took off both hand roars and threw it to the floor. While removing the buttons of his tattered shirt, he said, “Although my brain shrinks it is not as small as your mindset.”

“Damn it! I cut off your tongue so I can't talk arrogantly anymore!” arca Serapah.

Taking off the shirt worn with a sense of indifference to the word, the young man in black hair started to bare chest and immediately activated Aitisal Almaelumat. The tattoo on the right shoulder begins to activate, helping him to manipulate his own body information and secretly access the authority of The Ritman Library.

“You are haughty!” Odo pointed to the top peak, then loudly said, “Aware of your position, lumps of meat! If you can, do it, mutt! You can only bark. This library is not yours, therefore this place will not obey you! What you did before also requires a catalyst or a fee! It's no mistake you're just a borrower!”

The voice from the peak was silent for a moment, unable to argue with Odo's words speech speech speechless. But as if he did not want his pride destroyed, Arca with her voice from the top of the tower said, “Indeed! However .... I wonder if everything is as you think it is, loser! Although this place does not ripen on me, but its side fulfills my calling! In other words like this!”

Suddenly dozens of magic books flew out from the shelves, hovering in the air and activating by themselves. Without pay, without holding, the magic books themselves activate their sentence power which can affect the reality in the dimension of The Ritman Library.

One of the books activated quickly, suddenly making the ceramic surface on which Odo was standing soft as mud and instantly got his legs stuck in it. As it was about to break away, the reopening was loud and one of the magic books that floated back was active.

Dozens of swords were created in the air, silvery in color and the tip was straight towards Odo. All of the swords started to shake rapidly, making a chainsaw-like sound with its friction with the air. A magic circle appeared at the end of all the sword handles, then shot all the magic swords towards Odo.

“Tch—!” Immediately extending his right hand forward and reducing his ability to track down the access of dimensional authority, Odo immediately set up his information manipulation power to seize the authority of the magic book that took out the sword and shouted, “Reject ..!”

Boohs!!

Instantly all the swords disappeared, completely shattered into particles of light and the book that gave rise to that power instantly burned blue flames due to the karmic effect of the forcible cancellation of the power.

“A-What are you doing?! Why the book ...” The surprised voice of the statue echoed.

Odo was at a glance silent, aiming to buy as much time as possible for the calculation time to analyze the dimensions where it is now. Raising his face, with the intention of stalling as he replied, “This place is a dimension with an information array of Magic Library, The Ritman Library, right?”

Pointing straight up, the young man in black hair sighed and again said, “Then it's so simple, I'll just interpret it and mess up the reality of this dimension! Like you said, to bring you here requires a compression process! Mean it! Of course there is a limit to the information from the dimension so that my form can exist in this place! Compression, from that I know that this is a lower dimension! Conclusion's simple. If I changed my information, easily something like this I could do I could do.”

Odo's cornea briefly turned green, Auto Senses told him that the dimensional analysis of The Ritman Library had been completed. Smiling like a true winner, he loudly said, “I thank you, O proud human! I can't believe your power is access to this cool place!”

With his right hand stretched forward, Odo snapped a finger. The sound echoes and the information from the frequency of those waves directly affects the dimensions. The information arrangement was reorganized, most of the authority of the place was transferred into Odo's body and stored on the Rajah on his right shoulder.

As the sound stopped echoing, instantly all the books floating in the air burned blue flames due to the causality of the forcible deactivation. The effect of the force that made Odo's feet stuck on the ceramic floor disappeared, the surface returned to its original state and the young man again stepped through the hallway between the bookshelves.

“A-What is it?! Why could!? Why my books ..!”

“Your book? Huh! How arrogant! You're not a witch and you never know the science! This embodiment is one of the dimensional concepts, and I am quite skilled at manipulating dimensions. Things like this I easily reset the system!”

Odo stopped moving his legs. Looking up and opening his left palm straight to the top, he loudly shouted, “Rearing dimensions!!”

Instantly the dimensions that contain information The Ritman Library are rearranged. Like a mirror broken by force, all the pieces of information that make up the place are destroyed and fragments scattered inside and a dense darkness that in an instant fills the entire dimension.

When everything turned black, from destruction came a single space that was very different from before. The floor was very spacious white ceramics, piles of scattered books, and the darkness that surrounded. The only light source was a single point on Odo standing, and what could be seen was just what his beam exposed.

Straight looking ahead, the black-haired youth smiled lightly towards the statue of Rein who stood petrified with a gaping mouth. His place of dependability as the ultimate weapon was completely rearranged instantly in a matter of seconds.

“A-What do you do .... Wh why? Why this place ...?”

Arca desperately creates a small book with a white cover, exactly like the book she used to bring Odo to the dimension where they are busty now. Tearing the book in half, he threw it on the floor. But nothing happened, it just became an ordinary book that was torn in two and thrown to the floor.

“Ke-Why?! Why is it not active?!”

“Oh, are you trying to get me out of this place? Hahah!” Odo walked over, then grinned, saying, “That's free! Free! You know, all the magic books here have become ordinary books .... All the elements have been I've rearranged! Yeah, except this book, anyway!”

Odo stopped moving his legs and opened his palms forward, then turned up a thick book with a cover of human facial skin. The statue of Rein instantly knew that the book was a Death Grimoire, a book that he could not even use.

“Ke-Why is Magdala Mortem on you?! Why could the book of death be ..”

“Hmm, you can know his name, yes. Great, terrific! In that case, you must also know the power of this damned book, ‘ right? I'll teach you, so that people like you will no longer be willing to use magic books like this, you stupid human being..”

The aura from the magic book directly penetrated into Odo's body, using it as a medium and manifesting the original form of the only magic book that could be active in the place. A death god in a black robe and a giant scythe appeared behind Odo from the black aura that enveloped him, floating in the air and his red eyes shining behind the hood that covered his head.

It emanates a dark aura, a foul scent and just by its very existence it symbolizes the concept of death itself. The lifelike figure soared into the air, widening the black robe and preparing its giant scythe.

Odo lifted the book to the top and ruled, “On my name My agung is rejected in this world, ╤╤╤ ordered! Supreme authority! Give this cycle of death and life to the creature before me!”

The statue immediately trembled, both of its legs limp and fell backwards. The arrogant young man was actually scared to death, to the point of wetting his bed and foaming his mouth. Just by getting a look from the life-rower, he felt a fear that he had never felt before.

“He-Stop! Stopit! Help u! Please don't kill me! Isn't this against the rules!? All righty! I surrender! All righty! All righty! A— AaaaaaaaaaKkkhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

The sickle in an instant was swung towards Arca, directly towards her neck and—

The craaat!!!

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The sensation and pain of his decapitated head is clearly engraved in the statue. Although consciousness had returned very clearly, it could not move the body. All he could see was the pitch blackness, as well as the sensation of continuous falling that made his personality every second seem to erode and slowly disappear.

Amidst the end of his nearly vanishing consciousness, a flashback of him saw very quickly. The moment when he was a child and naughty, climbing a tree despite being reprimanded and in the end fell to tears. Not only that, his moments of togetherness with the family, his stubborn and always troublesome behavior many people immediately filled the young head of the Rein Family.

He wanted to cry, his chest tight and filled with great regret. Amidst such a feeling, a bright light appeared at the end of his line of sight. The statue wanted to grab onto it, trying to move its body and both of its hands outstretched forward. The voice could not come out, he could not scream or ask for help. At that moment he seemed to want to whine in helplessness, thrashing and really feel in the saddest condition he had ever experienced.

From the radiated light, a pale hand tried to reach him. The statue desperately tries to reach it, moving the body continuously far away and really hoping to get out of the deep darkness. When he managed to grab that hand, instantly a bright light filled the place and erased all the darkness that existed.

Together with the light that continues to expand continuously and fill the corners, quickly the awareness of the image is pattered and he can only close his eyes tightly. With all his heart he hoped, again given the opportunity to wake up and change his foolish and proud self.

Byur!!

Water splashed onto his face and instantly made the young man from the Rein family wake up. Sitting down and immediately looking to his right and left, he was at the previous place where he was slashed by the embodiment of the God of Death from Magdala Mortem. Seeing the figure of Odo who stood carrying a blue-covered book before him, Arca could only dumbfounded and did not understand what was really going on.

“Eng, fortunately there is a book that can bring up water,” said the young man with black hair as he threw the book in his hand to the back. Crouching before Arca with a small smile, he asked, “How? What by dying once your folly can be reduced now, Arca Rein?”

Arca could only be silent, lowered his face and understood how stupid the mindset he had always believed in was. The young man of the Rein family lowered his face with a chaotic expression, full of regret and in his mind filled with negative emotions.

Odo let out a light sigh seeing that an arrogant expression did not appear from Arca, feeling that it was true that the death that the brunette youth had obtained had slightly changed his personality. Holding the shoulder of Arca, Odo said, “Time has passed about 48 hours in this dimension of The Ritman Library, is there a difference in time with the real world?”

“Ah ..?” The statue just stared with a confused expression.

“Take it easy, this is not a dream. You I'm reliving .... After all, I used Magdala Mortem with the method of just separating your soul temporarily from your corpse.”

“Eh?” The statue slightly gaped and tilted its head.

Plaque!

Odo slapped his right cheek, then once again said, “Oi! Don't keep on, damn it! Now there should be no problem for you!”

Sculpture trembled, felt pain clearly on the cheek and said, “Relive me back?”

“Yes, that sort of thing. It's already! Just answer my question ...”

The body of the young man from the Rein family was unceasingly trembling, looking at Odo fearfully and answering, “Du-This world only runs four times faster ...”

Odo glimpsed, turning his gaze away and glimpsing the cornea of the young man's eyes the black hair turned greenish. Sighing lightly, he scratched the back of the head and looked slightly unsettled.

“Why? Why did you let me live?” asked Arca tremblingly

“Hah?” Odo stared intently at the brown-haired young man, then angrily replied, “Why should I kill you too? If you die, I lose! Don't be silly, you fucking ass!”

Odo lifted his hand from the shoulder of the statue, got up again and turned from it to walk towards the pile of books that were in the place. Turning to look at Arca and sitting on top of the pile of books, the young man in black hair crossed his legs and asked, “Before getting out of here, let's talk! I've won this duel, haven't I?”

Arca stared chaotically, her eyes wide open but her expression was so hollow. Nodding lightly he replied, “Ya .... This is really my defeat. I admit defeat.”

Odo was a little annoyed that the statue even looked like a corpse and had no spirit at all, he felt that the young man from the Rein family was indeed better off as before and remained arrogant than now. Activating the calculations and looking for a suitable sentence to pull the Rein Sculpture out of such a situation, Odo's cornea briefly turned green.

Finished and came to a conclusion, Odo stared lightly and asked, “Do you want to know who fucked your mother, Arca?”

Odo just stared flatly got such a reaction, looked away and understood very well that Arca really loved her own mother. Staring with a bit of fret, he said, “Iya, yes, I understand .... Sit down, I'll talk. I'll tell you the secret ...”

Arca was surprised, took one step back and asked, “I ... lost to you, you see. Why ...?”

“It's bonus ..” Odo stopped crossing his legs, sat with his back firmly and began to say, “If you are indeed the one who kept your promise, your life is now mine. Think of this as my compassion.”

Sculpture squinted, beginning to feel something awkward about Odo's way of speaking ever since the young man's black hair had entered the dimension of The Ritman Library. He hesitantly asked, “You .. as if standing above everything, huh? I've never seen anyone as haughty as you.”

“Angkuh?” Odo turned his gaze and thought of Arca's words for a moment, feeling that something was wrong with it he replied, “Sadly such a thing is no longer there for me, this is just greed ..”.

The atmosphere turned silent for a moment, they stared at each other in silence. Sighing lightly, Odo said, “Already. We continue the conversation .... About who fucked your mother and became your father, it was really Uncle Thomas. Your father is Thomas Rein.”

“Eh?” Sculpture heard that.

“Uncle Thomas, loh! Didn't you hear?”

“Bu-Not that? After you said confidently and provoked, but the secret was instead ...”

“What? You're not satisfied? Do you expect your mother to be fucked by another man?”

“Of course not!!” snapped Sculpture. Turning his gaze in confusion he said, “But .. it's great that you provoke in such a way, yes.”

“It was just a bluff to lure you into agreeing to a duel, you should have realized ...”

“Be-True also ...” Arca reluctantly looked at Odo, glancing suspiciously.

“Ah, that expression ...” Odo pointed at Arca in annoyance, then loudly said, “Dissatisfied expression, huh?! Is anyone still stuck?! If there's a question before I ask you in a row!” Lowering his hand, Odo sighed again.

“I-It ...! If it is true like that, why can Mother keep me up to 17 months? That is so unnatural!”

“Magic ...”

“Eh?” The statue once again became confused.

“Do you know that your mother, Lady Calista, is close to my mother?”

“Hmm .... “ Arca nodded and slightly remembered something from the flashback she had experienced earlier, then replied, “Mother greatly admired the Light Witch  .... Even until now Mother often talks about him with enthusiasm ..”.

“Oh, therefore you are angry when I say like that, yes.”

“You ..., really don't care about your own family?”

“Of course it's just a provocation, if I don't care where I might be serving you and until a duel like this.”

“So, yes .... Looks like I am indeed very bad at judging people.”

“You're just labile.”

“Then what do you mean by magic? Is there some kind of magic to be able to make a woman pregnant for up to a year more?” ask the confused statue.

“True, it is indeed magic ..” Odo let out a long sigh and looked up to the only source of light on it, then said, “Women are indeed scary, especially when they become Mothers. You know, Arca Rein .... Your mother has prepared everything since you were still in the womb, despite having to sacrifice the condition of the Luke.” region

“Hah?” Arca.

“You're not aware?” Odo looked at the young man with black hair before him, then pointed back at him and said, “You were born in a noble family with the Head of the Family having four Wives, who was a wife, you should be vaguely aware of the competition that occurred during your stay there, right?”

“Te-Of course I know! But ...”

“At that time uncle Thomas just had one wife, namely Lady Calista?”

“Iya! Then what do you mean by sacrificing Luke's territory?”

“When she was pregnant with you, Uncle Thomas went to Luke's territory too often. Lady feels jealous because her husband often talks about Luke's Family Head, Dart Luke. Because of this, the woman was instead carried away by emotions and pressured uncle Thomas to immediately release Luke's territory and restore his authority.”

“I-Mother is not such a person ...”

“Can you explain why a man like Thomas Rein could easily remove the authority of the territory he had managed? At the very least he should be making a claim on behalf of the family .... But, he didn't do it.”

“Keep, what ... has to do with the magic you mean?”

Odo stopped pointing, briefly looked away and replied, “Uncle Thomas became frequently in the Mansion after authority was restored. But ... It even makes Lady feel guilty because it will definitely make the person she admires get into a lot of trouble. Therefore, one day he took part in an official trip with uncle Thomas and came to the Luke Family Mansion ...”.

“Ke-Why do you know that?! You shouldn't have been born at that time! I'm still in my mother's womb!”

Odo stared intently at Arca Rein with his cornea glowing green, intimidating like a predator stalking its prey. Closing his eyes and removing the look of the eye like that, Odo replied, “Ah, that? Emm, you're vaguely aware of my true power, aren't you? Don't pretend to be stupid and talk useless things.”

“Odo Luke, do you ... really have the power to see the future and the past? Are you an Oracle?!”

Odo's forehead shriveled when he heard that, looked in annoyance and said, “I'm not an Oracle .... Nor do I look at the future or the past, just reckoning and estimating. Well, I guess what you call that doesn't hurt either.”

“Ja-Don't tell me that this duel ...!”

“Yes, I've predicted all the results.”

“A—!! Be-So, yes .... I really ate up your plan.”

Sculpture trembled again, he knelt resignedly and was completely frightened when he imagined everything had been predicted by Odo Luke. Looking up and looking at the young man sitting on top of the pile of books, a sense of awe began to grow in Arca's mind.

“We continue the conversation,” Odo sighed, then went back to explaining, “After your mother came to Luke's residence, more or less she revealed everything to my mother. What he has done, what might have happened, everything .... Then, my mother who at that time envied your mother lightly said that your mother should be pregnant for 17 months and bear bad rumors.”

“Eh? Envied? Light Witch? On Mother?” The statue stared in wonder.

Odo was a little annoyed at seeing such a reaction. Basically the reason Mavis is driven to have children even in the wrong way is because of the arrival of Lady Calista in the Mansion of Luke's residence. Because of that, Odo, precisely the soul that is now Odo Luke can be reborn into the world.

“Ya, of course” Odo looked in annoyance, then explained, “What a person does not envy when placed in such conditions .... Your mother is pregnant, it is the happiest moment for a woman who has a family. In contrast to her, my mother was set to be unable to conceive .... Of course it is envy, spite and hate .... My mother therefore lightly said so, but in such a way it was a suggestion and Lady Calista accepted it instead. Maybe he said that and said that your life was not targeted at birth. Therefore, Lady would be given magic by my mother and pregnant with you for 17 months ..”.

“Sense of envy like that .... Why is the Light Witch so? Couldn't she have conceived afterwards? Proof you were born, Odo Luke ..”

“My birth is irregular ...” Odo got up from the pile of books, then walked up to Arca Rein and said, “You don't have to worry about that, just ask about what you have to do. Is there any more? If you don't believe what I'm answering, just ask your mom about the truth.”

“Where might I do it?!”

“Why?”

“It ... definitely hurt Mom's feelings. If his own son even doubted it, it must have hurt Mother.”

Odo increasingly disliked Arca when he heard these words. The young man from the Rein Family was quite the opposite of Odo regarding the matter. Arca is indeed a body into a proud and arrogant young man, but still he is a good child and has great respect for both parents.

On the other hand, Odo is well-behaved and polite but never really heeds the words of his parents. Odo often violated his mother's prohibition, making his father anxious and even doing things that are prohibited by the two figures who became his parents. Envy indeed clearly grew in Odo's mind.

With a cold thin smile Odo said, “You care so much about your mother, yes .... Then, just use this sentence ...” Odo lifted his index finger, then said, “I was told his son Witch of Light while playing there, is it true that Mother?”

“Eh?” Arca was confused to hear the arrangement of the word.

“You just ask what you want to know, then use that sentence at the end. Surely it will not hurt your mother ...”

“Why ... so?”

“He would have thought that my mother had forgiven him ...”

“Oooh.” New sculpture captures Odo's intent.

“Are you enough questions?”

“Eng ...” Arca nodded and replied, “Will .. I do that after returning later.”

“I don't think you need to go back, Lady will come with uncle Thomas to my family's Mansion in mid-spring.”

“Eh?” Sculpture is confused again.

“There is a lot of business there like it and your mother will come.” Odo pointed at Arca, put on an annoyed face and snapped, “At that time you just ask! I won't let you go back to your territory! Damn it, it's good to go home when I've been invited like this!”

“Me-What do you want me to do?”

Odo stopped pointing and put his right palm to the face, took a deep breath and replied, “I am building a Company in the city of Mylta .... Arca Rein, swear forever loyalty to me right now and be the manager of that company, please.”

The statue gets more confused when Odo uses the word beg and not the command. But before he could ask, the young man in black hair immediately explained the arrangement of his plan and the details of the situation to Arca with his own mouth.

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