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Chapter 5 - The Beautiful Artist 2

The following day Jinn and the others prepared to visit the library. "Jinn, why do you want to visit the library exactly "Taeh asked "You didn't tell me what the fortune teller told you " he added. Jinn turned to Taeh brow furrowed "How did you know I meet the fortune teller?" Taeh blinked "oh well I um" Jinn shook his head looking down at the paper in his hand "never mind,he didn't tell me anything ", Jinn took the sheet of paper and put it in his pocket and walked away "Hey! Jinn help me lift this" Zhang Kai yelled .

"We should get going, I don't want to spend the whole day in the library" Zi hua frowned and stepped outside "which library are we heading to exactly?" Rou bai asked as he looked at the map, the Holy gate had three main libraries- The City library, The Land historical library and the famous Van Gocci's library.

"The lands historical library " Jinn pointed at the map, the historical library could give answers to the strange names he saw he thought "You guys go ahead, I'll stay on this floor? "they had arrived the library and Jinn wanted a thorough search, he looked through alot of books for these names but couldn't find anything useful but something caught his eyes.

There was a symbol in all the books which matched a tattoo his father had given him and his father had it on his back too. He never fully understood his father but loved his rebellious side ,that day his mother was furious and threatened to remove his skin.It didn't occur to him that the tattoo had significance and what did it mean? He rushed down to the old library attendant with a book, The man stared distractedly at an aisle at Jinn's arrival he focused.He wore a bright orange top with a name tag on its left 'Tom'.

"Excuse me sir, all the books have this symbol but not much was said about it do you know any book that explains more about it "he inquired as the old man scanned at him.

"well that's a symbol of the Holy Gates It was made by the first man who created the Holy Gate and is placed as a very vital part of Holy Gate" the old man informed him. "um...well you can find the book about the symbols history in the Beautiful Artist Library you know he used to be a very popular person , A friend of Van Gocci is so sad those two separated.why bother about the symbol anyway?"the old man asked

"Well the thing is it caught my attention cause my dad had that symbol tattooed on his back and on my neck",

The old man laughed "well alot of Holy Gates citizens have that tattoo but you don't look like you're from around hear" Jinn shook his head "well am not, I need to find out more please tell my friends I'll be back but I'd rather you not tell them where I went".

At the Beautiful Artist Library, Jinn noticed the librarian lady she was in her late 50's, long blonde hair and small brown eyes, her features where simple a round face, pointed nose and thin lip obstructed by wrinkles. She looked at him strangely in shock ,he thought to himself "perhaps her eyes are like that? It's creepy though".

The Library was smaller than the Land Historical Library,He found the book at last, it had those names in it he saw an old picture in the first page and he looked shocked the same way the librarian lady looked.

"He just left? Next time I will not let him out of my sight" Zi hua snapped,

"where to now?"Fei bai said excitedly as Zhang Kai faced him "what? he's a grow man although he doesn't look like one he would definitely come back to the apartment so let's keep touring"

Richard nodded munching on something "I agree" They then left to explore.

"Excuse me ma'am could I borrow this book "Jinn said to the woman he couldn't stop staring at her face"sorry ma'am but what happened to your face is it always like this forgive me but it's very ugly" she blinked at him "what? "she finally spoke but looked more shocked than she'd been earlier as Jinn laughed

"much better, my dad told my mom that the first day they met" Jinn told the lady and she smiled

"familiar"she whispered, After filling in some forms she hand him the book.

"OK ma'am " He waved as he left the library.

The lady said to herself "his just like him "