Eternal Winter Priest

"Shit!" she cursed under her breath, jumping up from the ground and grabbing Klein. Before she could speak, Klein, who had also come to pull her away, dragged her into a sprint.

She forcibly planted her feet, making Klein stop with her. Then, under his puzzled gaze, she reached into her pocket amid the tottering building and seized the silvery-white scale.

It happened almost in an instant. A silver river swept them through scene after scene. By the time they came to their senses, they were already aboard the Black Death, and Neph had just knocked on Klein's door.

"We-came back?" Klein asked hesitantly.

"You remember?" Neph glanced at him.

Klein nodded with some hesitation. Neph immediately turned to leave, leaving him with only one sentence:

"I'll come find you later."

She plunged straight into the Pure White Space. Only after confirming that the "offering" was still safe and sound did Neph breathe a sigh of relief. She extended her spirituality into it, searching for the offering's past. A moment later, Neph reached out, making the page formed from ashes reappear, and wrote a "file" on it.

``` Name: Mi Ai. Race: Human. Gender: Female (male).

A descendant of a Demoness who later became a Demoness herself.

Drawn closer by an unknown call, she eventually entered the mysterious Library and became its keeper. She was not the first, nor should she have been the last. Whenever the previous keeper approached death, the Library would actively draw a new keeper toward it and capture them to serve as its next keeper.

Once the capture was complete, those accompanying the captive would forget the relevant memories, as well as the captive's existence. Whether those not accompanying them would also forget the relevant memories remains uncertain. This can be verified by investigating missing