080-The truth...

The director noticed Adam's joy and continued speaking:

—Nevertheless, I have to tell you the truth, Adam, I don't understand how you managed to be reborn. And the only conclusion I come to is absurd. I was the director of this school for a long time, but at the time we attended the school I had not been born: so I do not know the truth.

—What is your conclusion, director?—Adam asked, the director had a lot of experience working with students, if there is someone who could get the truth out of these documents it would probably be him.

—My absurd conclusion, Adam—answered Caesar again with many doubts— It doesn't make sense for you to know why it would probably lead you away from the truth.

—I do not mind! Better than nothing itself is living a lie—Adam replied without hesitation, he really wanted every measly piece of information he could collect at this time.

—Well—Cesar answered, massaging his forehead with one hand, it seemed that his conclusion was too illogical for him too— The absurd thing is that you could have discovered the language on your own, although there are many other ways to have achieved it that are more possible.

—What else?—Adam asked impatiently; With 100 pages read, he understood that rediscovering this language would take more than his lifetime, even more than 500 years, so it had to be something else.

—Forcing others to read for you?—answered Cesar also trying to discover how someone like Adam could have been reborn, the information in the file was not much: But it was forceful—But your karma is perfect now, not perfect is little : is faultless. Which doesn't make sense according to the file, your karma should be neutral at most.

—Can you force others to read for you?—Adam thought of his father and his madness: 'could it all be his fault?' Would it make all the sense in the world that he hated him to death if he had forced his father to read for him for 500 years in order to be reborn, but: was his father 500 years old? countless victims of it?

—Yes, you can, but not with your current karma—Cesar replied calmly—For you to have this karma before you died, you must have been a saint. Many people test the effects of magical books in this way, but doom their karma by doing so. Even if you revive your soul it is the same, you cannot change your karma so simply.

But for Adam it was not impossible, there was the mask. He could have worn the mask in his previous life and wear it again now. Maybe that can't be done, but Adam couldn't rule out that there were other things similar to the mask hidden around the library, to his young mind there was no such thing as the impossible in this library.

The only thing he knew was that a few years ago, a bear-shaped booklet told him that he had achieved everything by exchanging favors, so he shouldn't have forced his father to read for him. Perhaps his father's hatred of him comes from an exchange of favors that went wrong.

—You could have done countless things—Cesar added, massaging his forehead, it seemed that he had thought about it a long time ago—What you achieved as a child is something that in so many years as director I never saw another boy reply: hidden secrets on a shelf and you made it as a kid. You came to revive for a reason and I fight not to die, I'm not the best person to explain how you did it.

The professor sat in his director's chair, looked at Adam seriously and with many doubts on his face, he said calmly:

—Still, you should read what the file says. The celebration of 100 pages is reading aloud with your parents the 100 pages. But your parents died decades ago, so the formalities don't matter.

For Adam, his father was still alive, even if he wasn't the real one, he was still his father in his heart in this life, but he didn't know how to read... Adam thought about it for a few minutes and said:

—Could you read the 100 pages with Professor Achilles?He's the closest thing I have to a father right now.

—Achilles...—The director murmured, looking at Adam suspiciously and massaging his forehead even harder—Yes, you could. Come tomorrow and prepare the ceremony room. It will be somewhat empty, but you will be able to honor the traditions.

Adam nodded and hurried out of the director's room. He wanted to get to the cave, so he could quietly examine the file and see if any memories popped into his mind.

When he left he ran through the corridors and then down the steps, there were 400 stairs, so he arrived quite tired at the 1 middle floor. Luckily, the body of the 17-year-old boy could withstand the hard journey, with what he had left of energy he ran to the cave, when he reached the cave he met the old man without eyes. Seeing the altered alteration of the boy, the old man asked, looking to the sides:

—Did they try to rob you, hero?

—No, can I come in?—Adam asked to speed up the entrance.

The eyeless old man didn't answer, just looked at the corners of the corridors with doubts and opened the entrance of the cave.

Adam went down the steps and sat down at his rather weary desk with a glass of cold water from the cave lake, pulled out the file and read what was inside it. To Adam's disappointment, there were only three sheets in the file.