"Hehe, don't look at me like that."
Feng Jin turned back and smiled at Dan Heng.
"Scholars are people too. It's perfectly normal for them to have books like that. I don't read them, of course."
"Besides those, there are lots of religious texts... Apparently, city-states seeking wisdom from the Tree Court had to offer knowledge of equal value."
"Some pretty ridiculous things happened in the past, too. The Scarlet Pottery School supposedly borrowed an author's original manuscript, then returned a copy and quietly hid the real thing here."
"That... seems rather rude," Dan Heng said.
But after everything he had seen on other worlds, the behavior hardly surprised him.
Take the museum on Jarilo-VI, for example. For all he knew, the genuine exhibits might actually be at Sampo's house.
"Hehe, you don't have to be so polite... You can call it robbery," Feng Jin said with a smile.
"True." Dan Heng nodded.
At least Sampo didn't make a spectacle of it when he stole things.
But the scholars here enjoyed such high standing and still kept the originals while sending back imitations.
If anyone found out later, they might even deny it outright and launch into a fierce debate.
"Then has the Tree Court ever 'robbed' Castrum Kremnos?" Dan Heng asked curiously.
"That, I don't know." Feng Jin shook her head.
"Some say Castrum Kremnos doesn't even have a dictionary. Maybe it was lucky enough to escape."
"Even if it had one, who'd want to deal with the Xuan Feng people? One wrong move and they'd challenge you to a duel."
"Heh..." Feng Jin looked around.
"The Hall of Friendship's collection is far too vast. We can't go through it scroll by scroll."
"Let's use the collection tablet to find what we need, then take it all back to