Diana breathlessly arrives to see the Asudemian Library up in flames. Behind her, her three companions arrive also panting heavily.
Diana attempts to run into the library to salvage what she can from the raging flames, but is stopped by one of her three companions' hand.
"Stop it, it is not worth losing your life to save a few books", the owner of the hand tells her.
"A few books?", Diana cries. "A few books?", she repeated, "Those books are the records of our ancestors, the legacy they left behind. What is recorded in there is the vast accumulation of knowledge, experience, and history that they left behind, the knowledge our predecessors painstakenly kept in order to make sure their decendents will live knowing what they know. What burned up is not "books". What burned up is a father's gift to his son, the progress of the past generations, thousands of years of experiences, and the pure wish of our ancestors that their knowledge will be passed onto their children.
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