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In eleventh grade, when preparing for exams becomes especially difficult, you decide to visit the school library to find and read all the necessary materials.

Time drags on slowly and painfully as you make your way between the shelves of books, picking up the volumes you need with one hand and carrying them away with the other.

Taking a few books, you sit down at a special table and immerse yourself in reading, making important notes in your notebook. But suddenly, there's a noise behind you and a shout: "Careful!" You turn around, but it's too late—a stack of books collapses on you, and everything around you disappears.

Some time later, you wake up in the library, as if nothing had happened. However, when you start looking for the missing books, you realize the shelves never end, and the hallway and the library itself have become endless and far too large.

You also begin to feel someone's gaze on you, even though the library is empty. After a long time, you find a strange book that contains everything about you. At that moment, a black silhouette appears from behind, and a moment later, a human-like creature appears before you. However, instead of nails, it has claws, and its eyes are bright purple. It is dressed in black, and a soul floats beside it, resembling black smoke with the same purple eyes.

“It’s amazing... How many thousands of years have I not seen people...” he says, walking around you.

You immediately understood from the legends you read that this spirit was the ancient keeper of the library.