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It was an average day as usual, partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. The library was the perfect place to get some alone time to possibly study… or catch up on some danganronpa lore, which was exactly what shuichi was doing, after all there are 52 season in total to keep up with with new theories and possibilities opening up for the next killing game.
His thoughts were interrupted by the dull thud of a book spine hitting the floor, a girl passing by with books stacked miles high struggles to find a way to retrieve her lost book. Letting out a gruff sigh she poke to herself quietly, “Ugh…. not again. This way… nh, no this way. No..”, shuichi picks up the book overall uninterested in helping the girl until he saw the books title.
‘I… I’ve read this before..’ fond memories flood back of his lonely nights reading books from the library while his parents disappear from the house for possibly weeks at a time leaving their son to do whatever he pleased. Deciding the girl was worth his time, he takes a few books off the load she was carrying and asked “so uh.. Where do you need these put?”
“O-oh um… over to the mystery novel section, if you know where that is…”
“Very well actually, i frequent that area.” ugh why are you opening up all of a sudden?! Danganronpa flows through you like a river, no girl would ever want you…. Right…. Im being an idiot.
Suddenly going from warm smile to clammed up, shuichi quietly walks over to the section, almost leaving the poor girl in the dust. “W-wait up!... you… you said you frequent the mystery section.. Do you perhaps know of ____?”
“_____….” more memories wash back over him, his first mystery book from this library was ____, the one book that made him come back for more.
“Hello??” the girl has no books in her hands now and was waving her hand timidly in front of shuichi’s face to capture his attention. “Oh! Um.. sorry i got lost in thought. Sorry” Shuichi grases his hand along the back of his neck, normally indicating that he was quite embarrassed by what he had just done, but soon he shook it off as if it was nothing. After all this wasn’t the first time he had continually embarrassed himself in front of a girl and it certainly won’t be the last by a long shot so why does he care so much about making this girl think he’s a decent human being? There are tons of girls at his school who already know he’s a danganronpa obsessed freak in love with the idea of the despair of a killing game… but that love isn’t enough, maybe what he’s looking for is a real love, not just some 2D detective girl with a cute braid.
Stupid teenage hormones expecting me to romance someone i just met… she is cute, but not as cute as the lovely Kirigiri!
“About the book you mentioned, it was actually my first book from this library and it was quite a pleasing read.” the two of you talk for awhile about said book until the library is about to close for the evening. Somehow he had gotten you to share contact info with him. Maybe this day wasn't so bad for an average afternoon.