The Mech Lord

"I am here, Mr. Redwood," Leo knocked on the door of the library. His classes were over and now it was time to get to work.

Harry was by his side as well. He was a nice fellow. And when Leo told him about his cleaning duty, he was more than happy to offer help. After all, Shinobi's loved cleaning work and took it as a part of their training.

This really made Leo happy. It seemed that his terrible luck from before had vanished into the air.

The day from then had been quite peaceful as well, and he didn't end up in much trouble even though it had started with a lot of bumps. Even Rebcca for some reason seemed to have given up on him. She just gave him a smile, but didn't stay to engage in a conversation.

That certainly allowed him to breathe in relief.

[I can't believe you got caught by the librarian-nya.] Aiden was speechless here. He had not done a single thing for which people could criticize him while Leo had broken his record of one and a half years in a single day.

'What could I do? He was just a jerk..' Leo shook his head as he waited for the person to open the door.

But, even after waiting for a few minutes and calling him a few more times, the door remained shut.

''Is he not here?'' Harry looked at Leo with raised brows.

"He said that I could come at any time, is he dozing off or something?" Leo put his I.D. card on the scanner, and it was accepted to his surprise.

As the two entered the place, a voice recording rang. It definitely belonged to the scary looking Librarian.

"I have entered your I.D. information in the lock. You can use your I.D and come in any time to clean the place. And, I will be late, so you can go ahead and begin."

The voice paused, and when Leo thought that it was finally over, it sounded once again, "You better do a good job before I return or else…"

The recording ended there with the threat.

Leo sighed as Harry laughed, and the duo further walked into the place.

"This place is pretty big.." Harry looked around in surprise. Like every other student, he too hadn't visited the Library mainly due to the nasty librarian. After all, even if everything had gone digital these days, they could still use it as a good place to hang out. Especially for Harry as Shinobi's loved silence.

Leo looked around the place as well. It was indeed pretty big, and one would probably need a ladder to go and pick up the books at the shelves above. It would probably take a whole month just to clean the goddamn place.

"Should we get started?"

Leo turned around hearing Harry only to see him fully geared up for his endeavor. And what made him speechless was that the guy was planning to clean the entire place with just a piece of cloth and a bucket of water.

"Yeah, we should start I guess." He didn't ask for details about how he was going to do it, and just moved on to search for where the floor cleaners were kept. Those robots could do most of the cleaning on the floor while Leo still had to look for the corners.

As for cleaning the books, there was no choice. They had to do it manually.

"Where in hell did he keep the cleaning equipment?" Leo let out a sigh in frustration as he roamed around the library.

And, at last, he came across a door with a sign saying storage room. It was hidden at one of the corners, and was right behind a shelf too. There was only enough space for two people to walk together with a shelf and a wall on either side.

"Finally.." A smile immediately emerged on Leo's face.

But, this time around, Leo's I.D. card didn't work. And, that smile on his face faded away with an alert of rejection.

"Do you want a cloth too?"

Leo jumped up in fright on hearing the voice from below.

But, when he turned around to see what it was, it just turned out to be Harry.

He was on all his four with a wet cloth in his hands pressed against the floor. Leo could see a trail of shine behind which made it evident that he had been pushing it all around.

"I have an extra pair, do you need it?"

It seemed that he had the entire stock of his ninja gear in his storage devices.

"It will take a lot of time with this." Leo shook his head as he pondered about the situation.

"Should we leave? It's his fault for not being present here." Leo didn't think it was right to just let Harry continue while he waited for the man to return.

"Are you sure? I heard that the librarian is an unreasonable guy. He has dragged students from their classes mercilessly for not following his instructions previously. And, I heard from someone that it was not even their fault." Harry looked at Leo as he forced a smile on his face. It wasn't that he wanted to scare him, but he was just stating the fact.

"Is it?" Leo asked with a helpless smile, he definitely didn't want this to happen to him. Would he now have to wait until the guy arrived?

"Do you want me to open the door?" Harry said as he tilted his head to look at the door behind.

"It's locked."

"There are no locked doors for a Shinobi, there are only the ones which haven't been opened yet." Harry smiled as he got up.

What do you mean?" Leo asked him in confusion. This was a locked door, a digitally locked one.

"Just watch."

Harry gave him a confident look as he went towards the scanner, and flicked a screen out from his smart link.

"I don't think that's a good idea, Harry." Leo looked at him a bit nervously, and tried to stop him. But, Harry seemed to have entered an entirely different state, and nothing could shake his resolve anymore.

"Just wait there, I got this done."

Leo was speechless, and this only made him even more nervous, 'No, you don't need to get it done. It's totally fine."

"How can a Shinobi allow a door to block his path? This will be a disgrace for me!"

[What the hell is this guy going on about? This is a digital lock. Since when did the Shinobis begin to crack stuff like this-nya?] Aiden asked with a laugh.

"It's done." Harry smiled as he turned to look at Leo, and the next instant the door unlocked with a beeping noise.

Leo's eyes immediately dilated.

It was useless now.

The guy had done it.

"Let's go, and find the thing that you want." Harry looked at Leo, but saw him standing there with a frown on his face.

"Don't worry, it's not a bad idea. I mean he shouldn't have a problem giving you access to the storage room if he allowed you to have the access to library." Harry tried to reason, and it sounded correct as well. "Or, do you really want to wait the entire day for the guy to return?"

"Well…" Leo stood there contemplating on what to do. The door was unlocked, there was no going back on it. They had already done something which shouldn't be done.

[You won't have much time to train if you don't get this done in an hour from now.] Coach Arthur's voice sounded in Leo's mind. The A.I. had made a daily training schedule for increasing Leo's chances at victory, and Leo definitely didn't want to miss it.

"Let's go." In the end, he just decided to get over it.

They weren't here to steal, and who in their right mind would want to rob a library unless they had some antiques.

Leo walked into the room, and as soon as he did, a strange eerily feeling took over him.