📘 1F: Story Management Sector (Unit-S)

The first floor is filled with a pale, white light.

The girl standing between the bookshelves perfectly recreated the image of the Shiori that once was.

However, her eyes lacked the warm light they once held, possessing only the cold, steady glow of a management program.

"Unit-S, in charge of the first floor. I grant you access to the data on this floor."

Her voice was quiet and perfectly uniform.

She seemed like a completely different person from the librarian who loved stories and shed tears over someone else's words.
A cold electronic sound chimed softly at her chest.

"Currently, my archives contain a serious 'logical contradiction data' entry.

Codename: 'Novelist Yukitsuzuri'."

As she slid her fingertips through the air, particles of light danced, and a single story emerged.

"That data is a record of a boy lurking in the shadows of the shining Imperial Capital, 'Luminar'.

Luke, a fifteen-year-old boy.

Despite possessing no 'power (ability),' he attempts to resist a world of unreasonable logic.

Administrator Ichijo has defined this as 'meaningless resistance with a 0% success rate' and has designated it for disposal."

Unit-S continued, her eyes looking at something far away.

"One without power, thirsting for power, and attempting to overturn fate..."

According to the system, that is extremely inefficient and incomprehensible noise.

However... for some reason, the deletion cannot be executed.

Whenever I attempt to dispose of this data, an inexplicable resistance occurs in my circuits."

“...For some reason, the 'embers' dwelling in this boy's eyes are throwing off my calculations.”

With an inorganic gesture, she hands you a book—an old, yet feverish story.

“Will you analyze this 'story of inefficient fate'?

The will held by the boy becomes the trigger for history....

Will you confirm that illogical ending which the administrator rejected?”

🗝️ To the next door