.... I eh. Believe someone cursed me or something.

Ofcourse it is. Where else would they keep all these books? In a public library where everyone can grab them and use them for whatever purpose they like?

More questionably is.. that all of those books exist in the first place...

Well, in this particular case, I believe these spells were once tried and found to be extremely dangerous or unreliable. They wrote them down to make sure others would not make the same mistakes -- or just to indicate that they were off-limit. Something among those lines, anyway. The curses, however.. I don't see any excuses for them.

Makes sense, and neither do I.
.. I guess we don't have our answers in the books, though, now do we?

Even IF we do, the language in some of them is way too confusing. Who knows what could happen if we translate it wrong and, I don't know, turn your head into a loaf of bread!

At least a loaf of bread would be more useful than this.
.. eh, but I understand. So what do we do, huh?

.. Well, we tried your plan. How about we try mine next?

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Well? What do you say?

I kind of skipped half your plan by heading straight to the library, though.

We could still ask them directly. I'm sure they know things we don't.

Oh right, cuz they're so high and mighty...

Wait. Are you throwing your sarcasm at me again?

... You've learnt to notice?

Ofcourse I notice! I'm not dumb, Sothe!

Ha ha ha! I'm sure you often miss it, still.

[ Snickers silently. That's something pretty rare, huh. ]

Oh? You think so? From now on, I'll point out every single time you use sarcasm!

Oh yeah? Good luck with that.
[ Smirk even though he knows he's gonna get this one back at him. ]

Heh, I don't need luck! You'll see.

Fine. I'll look forward to that.

As for now though-- If you're convinced we can't use the books, I think it's best if you return them soon. Never know when they find out they're missing things.

I guess you're more convinced about it than I am.
.. Returning things is a different kind of thing to do, but it'll be for the best.

[ Gets up. ]

Probably. Although I'm thinking, maybe it's not a bad idea if we keep one or two, just in case we--

No, no! We're not going to keep stolen books!
..Sothe, I'm gonna have to blame you for bad influence. If I say anything like that again, you're responsible, understood?

And here I was thinking that that wouldn't be a.. bad idea at all.
We'd just return them on a later time.

But not all of them! The chance on being caught with five books is way too high.