Chapter 3111: 'Second Interview'
Sanyou Bookstore stood at the intersection of the Three-Dimensional World and the Higher Dimension World.
Whenever the Higher Dimension World intersected with the Wizarding World, a Sanyou Bookstore would be born at the point where their dimensional lines crossed. These bookstores controlled and monitored the influences spilling over from higher dimensions, preventing them from interfering with the real world.
"—The bookstore getting bigger means the intersection between this world and the higher dimension has grown larger."
As Yellow Flower Cat hurried back to the Pedestrian Street with Zheng Qing, it offered a simple explanation. "From this perspective, it also indirectly confirms your previous guess... those outsiders carry certain 'higher-dimensional' concepts with them, so their activities expand the influence this 'intersection point' on Puji Island has on reality... and to contain or control that influence, the bookstore has to grow as well."
As they spoke, the man and cat arrived at Number Ninety-Nine Pedestrian Street.
The bookstore's formerly small and exquisite storefront had become a three-story red-brick building, like a book case enlarged by an Engorgement Charm. The door had gained brass dragon-head knockers and diamond-paned leaded-glass windows. Virginia creeper dotted with silver-blue stars crawled over the display windows on either side of the first-floor entrance. Several sleeping gargoyles hung upside down beneath the second-floor terrace, while on the upturned eaves of the third floor stood a cast-iron raven. One wing stretched forward as if greeting someone, while the other clutched a bamboo scroll. A brass monocle even rested on its face.
Zheng Qing was rather curious how that monocle managed to stay so securely on a bird's face.
But he had no time to dwell on such details now.
Bang!
He shoved the bookstore door open.
Unlike its three-story exterior, the interior layout was not much