For an ordinary girl, fear would have been the natural reaction upon realizing this—simply a normal human response.
But she was different. When she witnessed this anomaly, what welled up in her heart was not fear, but curiosity.
"Could this world actually have supernatural powers?!"
She could not help thinking so.
Afterward, she tried calling out a few times, but no one answered. It seemed that both the administrator and the guards had vanished.
"Did I enter another dimension?"
Influenced by all sorts of stories, she made that guess.
At the same time, she even pieced together a complete line of reasoning: precisely because supernatural powers existed in another dimension, there were no traces of them in reality.
So, she began searching the surrounding area.
Sure enough, everyone had disappeared. It was not just people, either—seemingly every living thing had vanished. Even the plants outside the library had turned black. When she reached out to touch them, they felt like stone.
All was silent. She could hear only her own heartbeat. And amid that stillness, the fog grew thicker while the light grew dimmer.
Under such circumstances, the fear suppressed by curiosity immediately began gaining the upper hand.
It felt as though monsters might burst from the darkness at any moment and devour her. At the same time, some unseen voice seemed to be urging her to offer her faith to a god.
The more frightened she became, the louder that voice grew.
Whoosh!
She did not know how much time had passed, though it should not have been long. She counted carefully—her heart had beaten a total of 6,731 times during that period.
By then, she had felt her way back to her room and found her sword.
It was an exquisite longsword of fine quality. Though it was