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Chapter 42 - Chapter 42: The Librarian’s Secret

​(Focuses on Nico Robin joining and the discovery of a "Second System".)

​[Summary of Content]:

The celebration in Alubarna was loud, but Amine stayed in the shadows of the palace library. He was looking at his hands—they were becoming slightly translucent, a sign that he was becoming more "Digital" than human.

​"You're fading, aren't you?" A voice came from behind the bookshelves. It was Nico Robin.

She didn't look at him as an enemy. She looked at him with curiosity. "I've spent my life looking for the truth in stones, but you... you carry the truth in that glowing screen of yours."

​Amine looked at her through his system lens. His eyes widened. Beneath Robin's name, there was a hidden status bar he hadn't seen before: [The Librarian – Passive Data Collector.]

​"You have a system too?" Amine gasped.

"I don't call it that," Robin smiled sadly. "I call it the 'Voice of All Things'. I can feel the story being written, Amine. And I can feel someone trying to erase you from the next chapter."

​She handed him a small, old compass. It wasn't pointing North. It was pointing up. "The next part of your story isn't on this sea. It's in a place where the rules of the 'Author' are even stricter."

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