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to try to find him a job at a library. The protagonist ends up having a job interview at a private library in a secluded town deep in the mountains. His interviewer is Koyasu, an eccentric old man who wears a beret and is fond of wearing skirts. The main character takes over as the new boss of the library and continues to receive regular advice from Koyasu.
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In a parallel story, the boy is now an adult man who arrives in the city he imagined with the girl. In order to enter, he has to separate himself from his shadow. Every day the man has to go to a small library in the city and read dreams from strange orbs. As his assistant he has the 16 year old girl
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The man returns to his normal life, unmarried and working at a book publisher. Haunted by what he went through in the city beyond the walls and his lost love, he quits his job. He begins to dream of a library in the country side with a beret on his desk. The man asks his friend from his earlier job
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The protagonist is a 17 year old boy who falls in love with a 16 year old girl after they both win an essay writing contest. The girl keeps the boy at a distance, telling him that her real self exists in a city beyond a wall. Together they imagine the city in great detail and the boy writes
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who has not aged a day and does not remember ever knowing him before. As the man's shadow starts to die, he eventually decides to leave the city with his shadow. In the last moment, he changes his mind and allows the shadow to leave without him.
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he becomes a much more successful dream reader, leaving the reading to the boy inside him. The man realizes he wants to leave the city and meet up with his shadow again. The boy happily stays behind to read dreams forever.
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