Two Men In The Library

After giving Karl a task, Huvel went to the main mansion alone. By the customs of the family, only the duke, duchess and their children lived in the mansion with some servants. Other members of the family had to live in separate houses in the courtyard.

The butler saw Huvel as he entered the mansion and greeted him as usual. "Good afternoon young lord Huvel. I am glad to see you are well. On what occasion did you come to the mansion? Are you meeting young lord Albert?"

"Good afternoon, Alois. I've already seen Albert a few days ago. I became quite bored after having no one to play with so I thought I'll spend a few hours in the library." Huvel replied before he chuckled a bit.

The butler's eyebrows twitched when he heard Huvel's reply. He felt disgusted that Huvel was referring to men as a play thing but he managed to maintain his noble manners and said farewell to Huvel as he did not want to continue the conversation.

"Is his interest in books still there even after losing his memories?" The butler wondered as he walked away.

When he was young, Huvel spent many hours in the library. The library of the family was in the main mansion and only the higher ups of the family were allowed to enter. Being a young lord, Huvel could use the first floor of the library freely. He used to sit in the library too long that very often, his mother had to send someone to ask the librarian to drag him out of the library.

Huvel entered the library and inhaled the familiar smell of books that he had not gotten for a year.

"In my past life, I mostly read digitalized books. But I have to admit that the smell of physical books is quite addictive!" He thought as he strolled among the bookshelves that were two times higher than him.

"Young lord Huvel?" Someone came out from behind a bookshelf and walked towards him.

Originally, he wanted to walked quietly throughout the library before picking up a book but that was impossible now. That person was not the old, kind librarian Huvel was well familiar with. He was a tall man in loose clothes, with a hint of impatience on his face. Apparently, Huvel had never saw him before.

"Are you the librarian?" Huvel asked the man.

"Yes, I am the librarian, Joseph Buffo. I wonder why the young lord came to the library." He replied as he held his head high and looked down on Huvel.

"Of course, to f*cking read books!" Huvel shouted inwardly but on the surface, he only slightly smiled.

"Well," Huvel stepped closer to Joseph Buffo and whispered into his ears, "I thought I will read some books on the anatomy of men … you know … so that I can have more intensive pleasures when I 'sex' with men! Would you like to help me in the pursuit of pleasure Librarian Joseph?"

Joseph's hair stood at the ends and he jumped back several steps. He stared Huvel with widened eyes. His mouth opened and shut again and again but no words left his mouth.

"I…," he stuttered after a while, "I'll collect all the books on anatomy… no, on medicine for you. Young lord can bring… bring them back to your house and study carefully!"

He ran to a window, opened it and called a servant he saw outside to come in.

He then turned back to Huvel and said, "Young lord Huvel, I've called a servant to carry the books for you. I'll go find the books now. Please wait me here."

The librarian made an award smile and ran to the bookshelves.

Huvel chuckled after seeing the librarian panicked.

"Can this be called 'sexual harassment'?" He thought.

When the word 'sexual harassment' entered his mind, he recalled some people who used that word too frequently until he no longer understood the actual meaning of that word.

Huvel, in his past life, did not think his sexual preference could be any hindrance in his job and did not bother to hide it either. But his 'co-workers' did not think the same as him. They thought his sexual preference was his weakness and tried to bring down him by using it. Every action, every look he took were addressed as sexual harassment by his co-workers who called themselves 'men'.

"I wondered how they would have reacted if I actually harassed them in a sexual way. I should have harassed each of them at least a whole day before I died!" He thought in utter disappointment.

His train of thoughts was interrupted when the librarian came back with several books.

"Young master, I brought all the books on medicine and anatomy." He reported.

"All of these? Quite a lot!" Huvel said and proceeded to read the title of the book on the top.

"I brought all so that young lord can leisurely study them in your own room. Just order a servant to send the books back after you finished them. If you want to read more books next time, just send over a servant. I will find you the book." The librarian said in courtesy. He clearly wanted to drive Huvel out of the library as soon as possible. He felt unsafe to be alone with the young master who was famous for having immoral thoughts on men.

"I thought I've to find the books myself at first. Thank you, handsome librarian." Huvel left the library with light steps.

The servant the librarian summoned followed him carrying the books. The librarian finally let out a sigh when he could no longer see Huvel and the servant. In a distance, Huvel also sighed in relief!

When his mana pool reached the second circle, his understanding of Light Prowess also improved. He could inspect the inner organs of a body like an X-ray scan by injecting his mana into the body. If he understood anatomy well, he could find and heal specific internal injuries using spells. But as his knowledge of medicine and light magic was not very good, he wanted to study using the books in the library.

Before he came, he was worried if his unknown enemies would inquire what he read in the library. But things turned out better than he expected. He was even allowed to bring medical books to his house without any suspicion because of a playful act he did offhandedly! He was all smiles on his way back to his house.