The lack of sleep was really starting to catch up with her, but even so, Sayuri tried to ignore it the best she could as she was reading through the books and taking notes on what could be important for later. She could just try to sleep again tonight or something, for now she really had to do this. If she couldn't make herself useful, then maybe she wouldn't be able to prevent another death just like Miyume's. She would be useless again.

But even as she was thinking about that, she could slowly feel her eyes falling shut without her even being able to do anything about it. And although the girl managed to open them up again once or twice, in the end they fully fell shut and the girl just collapsed on the table, lying there as she was sleeping right on top of the notes she was taking and the open book.