I do not own Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro. But Emily is mine though.
ACT 1 : THE FORGOTTEN LIBRARY
When I was still a kid, I seldom went to the library in my elementary school. For me, recess time is the time for eating only and seldom I went out of my class except to the teacher's room or the toilet.
In my final year as an elementary school kid, I finally have the opportunity to spend most of my free time after exam in the library. I choose the library as a playground to play hide and seek with my friends since the teachers never bother us there.
At the last day, I and my friends played hide and seek again in the library before our graduation ceremony started. I choose a place near to the back to hide. The bookshelves there only contained English picture books, which the students would never read.
While waiting for my friends to find me, I browse through the books just to kill time. It was then I found one very old book hidden in the bottom of the bookshelves. It has hard covers with an eerie faded illustration of a little girl holding an umbrella. The illustration is more like a doodle than a drawing.
The pages inside is yellowish due to its age but the words and the illustrations can still be read though. The book is in simple English and I can read it with the help of the illustrations. The story inside goes along like this:
There is a man who comes to a country to visit his brother, while he was there, he stayed at his brother's house. Later that night, while he is alone in his room reading books, a little girl barge into his room. He is surprised because he never seen that girl in the house before.
The girl looked almost like a doll, with big blue eyes and shiny blue frock. Her long blond hair tied up into two ponytails. She just stared silently at the man while her white hand still holding the doorknob.
The man asked for her name and she told him it is Emily. Just as the man about to ask for further question, the little girl quietly left the room and closes the door behind her. The man is surprised, but he said nothing and went to sleep.
The next morning at breakfast, the man told his brother how cute his daughter is, his brother smiled at the compliment and called his daughter in. When the little girl entered the kitchen, the man is surprised that she is not the same girl who had come into his room the night before.
He told his brother about it and his brother said that there is no girl with the man description ever lived in that house, nor he ever seen a girl like that anywhere. The man is puzzled by this because his brother house is located on a big farm and to get there, one had to cross over three lands, but the girl is wearing clean clothes without even the slightest trace of travelling.
Thinking it must be his imagination due to tiredness, he soon forgot about the peculiar girl. Later that night, when he was about to went into his room, he saw the girl again, running past the stairs.
He is shocked and quickly tried to follow the girl, only to found the girl has mysteriously disappeared at the end of the hall, which end with a window. But strangely, the window is locked and has never been opened before. He knows that this time he isn't imagining things.
"CAUGHT YOU!" cried my friend, Kanae from the back of the bookshelves. I screamed.
"Kanae! Don't scare me like that!" I cried. Kanae burst out laughing.
"Let's go Yako, the ceremony almost starts." she said holding out her hand to me.
I can hear my other friends calling everyone to gather at our school main hall. I was surprised by how much time has passed and went to follow Kanae quickly, tossing the book aside, thinking it will be cleaned by the librarian later.
At that time, I was thinking of reading the book again after the graduating ceremony finishes, but I spent most of the times to congratulate my friends and taking pictures that I soon forgot about the book.
It was when I had graduate middle school that I finally remembered about the book. For some reason, I wanted to know what happened at the end of the story. So, I went back to the elementary school along with some of my old friends from the same class back then during semester break.
The school has changed so much with the additional of students. But much to my disappointment, the old library has now been replaced with a new gym. I went to the new library to search for the book, but no matter how hard I search, I can't find it. It was later, the librarian told me that many old books from the previous library has been discarded.
I felt a little sad since I can't even remember the title of the book, so how am I supposed to find it? But as soon as I went back, laughing with my friends while reminiscing so much about the time as elementary school kids, I soon forgot again about it.
I guess I did a bad character on Yako. Well, I'll try hard next time!