Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Pierre

Translator: Kris Liu

Elena was anxiously waiting for Lucien in the hall . Being late on the first day of work would

definitely not make a good first impression on the director, Mr . Hank .

Another receptionist, Cathy, smiled to her colleague and joked, “Elena, who are you waiting for?

Your sweetheart?”

“Come on, Cathy . I’m waiting for a friend of mine . Today’s his first day working for the

association . ”

When Elena was talking, Lucien came into the hall .

“Thanks God, you are here, Lucien . ” Elena walked out of the counter and toward Lucien, “Why

do you look so tired? Are you sick?”

Lucien knew he must look terrible . The headache caused by his soul injury was torturing him

all the way . After rushing here, he felt quite dizzy .

“Well… I think so . But I’m okay . Thank you for asking, Elena . ” Lucien smiled to Elena, who was

wearing a long white dress today . “I think we’re gonna meet Mr . Hank now, aren’t we?” asked

Lucien .

“Yes, we are . ” Elena started walking upstairs, and was followed by Lucien, “No worries .

Sunday’s never a busy day, or say, the work is not busy in general . ”

Mr . Hank was a middle-aged serious man, who was always wearing a decent suit . After asking

some basic questions, Mr . Hank just nodded and asked Elena to lead Lucien directly to the

library .

The library was on the second floor . While they were heading toward it, Elena was trying to

describe the other librarian to Lucien, “His name is Pierre Sandor . Both of you work the

morning shift in the library . He’s an ok guy . I don’t think he’ll give you a hard time, so no

worries . But he’s a bit… umm…” Elena paused for a few seconds, “weird . ”

The guy called Pierre should also have some connections in the association, or he would have

no chance working as a librarian here if he was just a nobody . Lucien just wanted to do his own

work and avoid trouble as much as possible .

The Music Library was huge and quiet, and thousands of precious music books, journals, and

newspaper were collected here .

There was only a black-haired young guy sitting behind the wood counter, reading the

tablature carefully . In Lucien’s eyes, the guy looked like a big fan of music .

“Pierre, Pierre…” Elena tried to draw his attention, “This is the new librarian, Lucien . ”

Finally, Pierre raised his head from the book . His brown eyes looked a bit confused .

“Morning, Elena! What day is it today… Sunday?”

“Nice to meet you, Pierre . I’m Lucien Evans, the new librarian . ” Lucien introduced himself with

a warm smile .

Just realizing his new colleague was standing in front of him, Pierre walked out of the counter

and greeted Lucien, “Nice to meet you, Lucien . I’m Pierre Sandor . ”

When they were shaking hands, Pierre put on a sly smile, “Lucien, you’d better… refrain

yourself a bit…”

“What are you talking about, Pierre?” Elena was confused .

“Just guys’ conversation,” answered Pierre casually .

Shrugging her shoulders, Elena whispered to Lucien, “You see . I told you… And I gotta go now,

Lucien . Make good use of the books here, and work hard . ”

After Elena left, Pierre started showing Lucien around . While he was walking, he talked to

Lucien casually, “Umm… I sometimes talk in a weird way . If you don’t understand, don’t let my

words disturb you . ”

“So you asking me to ‘refrain myself’ was also a casual talk?” asked Lucien .

“Nope, that was serious . Guys in our age can easily drain ourselves from too much… Umm, you

know what I’m talking about . ”

Lucien didn’t know what to say . Now in Lucien’s eyes, Pierre looked like a big fan of music, and

kind of nasty .

After introducing the basic stuff that Lucien had to do as a librarian here, Pierre stretched

himself a bit and said, “Only the members of the association can have access to this library, so

it’s never busy here . Just remember to be polite to the musicians . You can spend more time

here, and I’m gonna go back and enjoy The Well-Tempered Clavier now . ”

His eyes were glowing when he mentioned music .

“Sure . ” Lucien was more than willing to be left alone . With his spirit library, Lucien was always

trying to store more books in it, like a squirrel collecting its favourite cones .

Lucien quickly leafed through a book, and a copy of the book instantly appeared in his spirit

library . Then Lucien directly turned to another one .

“Hey, what are you doing there?” Pierre asked in a confused way . He hadn’t gone far yet .

“I’m doing a random check here to see if there are any damaged ones . Then I can take note of

them and report to the association . ” Lucien immediately made up an excuse .

“You’re as careful as a woman, Lucien . ” Pierre commented .

In the following four hours, only two musicians visited the library . Lucien thus managed to

collect more than a hundred of the books there . His arms felt pretty sore from leafing through

them .

The books covered many aspects of the world, not just music . Lucien wanted to have a better

understanding of the world as soon as possible .

…………

Lucien finished his work at about half past midday . When he was leaving the library, Pierre was

still immersed in music, with a bread in his hand .

Later, Lucien went to Mr . Victor’s place and continued his study .

Life was pretty peaceful in the following couple of days .

One evening, John came back . When no one was around, he started telling Lucien what

happened on that day .