Assault
Uzukai Minako, who just graduated from a local university this spring, was a rookie librarian.
A librarian is a clerical work that does the management and lending of books in the library.
Although the competition is high, it’s an occupation where the door for a rookie is narrow. Minako being accepted in that vacant position was in accordance with the retirement of a relative who was also a librarian… It was thanks to the meager connection unique to the countryside.
The smile of an innocent beauty like her makes someone happy by merely looking in their direction, she is kind and polite regardless of the gender or age, her fans increased in the blink of an eye due to her diligent and honest work, and the patrons nearly increasing by twofold in the library where she is working was a fact that only she herself didn’t know.
（Oh my, it’s already this late.）
The fluorescent lights in the building turned on and Minako who looked outside noticed that it’s almost dusk. It’s time to close the library soon.
In this three-story library in a quiet street of K city suburbs, another female librarian is working, but today is a rotation holiday. Also, since the chief librarian is attending a meeting with a local publisher since 5 PM, Minako was entrusted with tidying up after closing the library.
「Onee-chan, good-bye.」
「Thank you very much. Come again.」
Small children and old people said their farewell to Minako who looks like a day-care worker with the beige apron that she is wearing and left. The junior high school students too who used the study room and stayed behind for a while went home while blushing because of Minako’s smile.
When the patrons leave, it’s time to organize the returned books.
This library has a bookshelf room and study room on the first and second floor respectively, while the third floor was turned into a book collection room for important documents. The third floor is not open to the general public.
After Minako locked the glass door in the entrance of the first floor and put a sign written with 「Our operating hours for today has ended」, she started to arrange the last books that were returned today.
It’s nothing but luck that she was able to get the job as a librarian with a lot of work applicants. She should do her best in order not to be a burden.
Minako, who has a gentle personality and has never done sports or club activities in college, loved her work as a librarian that is able to spend her time with books all day long from the bottom of her heart.
… Minako is absorbed with her work and didn’t notice it, but when she was working in the general books corner on the second floor, a small unusual event happened.
On the other side of the glass door of the bookshelf room entrance, the glass door of the pitch dark study room where there should be nobody opened without a sound and then silently closed.
「Yosh, okay!」
After some time, Minako finished organizing the returned books and happily cheered.
She made a sound because it’s a work usually down with three people, but it’s the first time for her to work overtime alone. There was a feeling of wanting to oppose the lonely atmosphere just a bit.
After lightly surveying the room, she turns off the light and opens the glass door of the entrance.
「Guh…?!」
The moment she went out of the bookshelf room, Minako was grabbed by somebody and her mouth and nose were covered by a gauze cloth.
「Mmh! Mmh!」
She tries to scream and struggle, but she can’t move with both of her arms and body grasped tightly from behind. A pungent smell entered her nose and, while she was still struggling to escape, her consciousness fell into the darkness.
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