All Chapters of The Boy who Circled Time: Chapter 191 - Chapter 200

The library had been a part that had stuck out to Green_One, the very name of the place maybe even betraying the existence of physical books, a novelty that he had hardly seen out of the university that he had attended, considering the material shortages that had hit their particular sector of the city hard, forbidding households from even committing certain purchases and keeping books and other materials of the like strictly within the bounds of libraries and other kinds of 'high privilege institutions'.Not that many people around Green_One, or even himself for that matter, could even afford the cost of any kinds of books that didn't come as free with other things.Each and every kind of instruction manual that he had the pleasure of trying to decipher seemed to come in engraved on the sides of the pieces of whatever furniture or appliance that Green_One was trying to either assemble or use, something extremely helpful for businesses trying to keep their costs down,

There was no conceivable way for anyone in this place to leave the facility, let alone leave the compound outside and make their way across the mountains that lay ahead with only the clothes on their back and sheer determination. It simply was no possible at all.As far as Gretel was concerned, the security guards that kept an eye on them were already enough of a risk and a danger to the whole operation, their presence an always ever present and ever looming threat, keeping watch on the activities and behaviours of each and every person in the room at all times, not to mention the fact that they were always listening too.There were probably other hidden cameras and microphones listening in on all of them as well, depriving them from even the dream of privacy, let alone the notion of it, and considering the complete lack of mention of the magic word, it was obvious that if the Empire was even going to bother bringing it up, it would be an uncomfortable thi

The library that Green_One had visited actually resembled what he had thought of when he had imagined it in his mind: a small and dingy room filled with shelves of tangible, physical books that functioned more as decoration and bragging rights rather than being informative.As soon as he had entered with a guard showing the route there, he had immediately reached out to the nearest title and had plucked it from the shelf, not at all bothering to read the name of the next, nor anything else about it. The first pages that he settled on, near the back of the book, remained blank for a split second, immediately giving the game away.The book that he held in his hands was not a text with printed words on it that remained permanent and unchanging, but it was a hybrid text.A physical electronic device that would simply put out letters and words on a page where they were represented in a scanned text, with device having only enough carbon nanobots to fill

Green_One soon realised that he had made a mistake when he heard the doors behind him open once more.He hesitated to turn around and potentially see another guard behind him.As far as he was concerned, no crimes had been committed by him yet, and there was no reasonable offence that could be used to form a basis of arrest. He was simply sat there, reading a book of fairy tales completely and totally innocuously, with another guard stood there surveilling him, looking over his shoulder at all times as he sat there on the floor with some innocent reading material that didn't particularly violate anyone's sense of political policy or thought.There was always a case made when it came to what children were supposed to be exposed to, and, not once, were fairy tales ever brought up as something explicitly evil and made to be burned and done away with. Even if 'The Stories of Robin Hood' held a much more disputed position, accused of spreadi

"I'm fairly certain that 'The Princess and the Pea' is Danish. Not German," Green_One sheepishly blurted out, keeping a smile on his face and a bright grin beaming out, attempting to make Belinda slightly more comfortable with him and keep her from becoming anymore embarrassed.He knew that, even before he had opened his mouth to speak, that he was going to fail, and he was helpless to watch her darken another shade of crimson, her face almost glowing and emitting its own light with how red that it had become.Relaxing his face, he could only imagine how humiliated she was feeling.At least now he could see at least some slight progress with the state of her mind.She was a mess, undoubtedly, not unlike Green_One's younger brother, but at least now, the focus of her feelings and emotions was not shifted directly on him.She had been sitting at a slight angle away from him, her body inherently not facing him due to the awkward angle that her neck wo