That day, I went towards the library when the lunch break started.
I had been going to the library several days in a row in order to look for Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely". Recently, due to its popularity, it had been hard to borrow that book.
I didn't have anyone I could consider as friend and I had always been alone. Of course, it's not like I didn't want to make friends, but I had never been good at dealing with people.
"...It's not here."
As soon as I arrived at the mystery novels section, I imdiately dropped my shoulders in disappointnt.
I'll co back after the classes are finished to check for it, I need to co here before going to the Tea ceremony club.
Although I was quite happy being alone, I also felt loneliness once in a while. Ryuuen-kun couldn't stand to see like that so he talked to , but since there were always a lot of people around him, that made feel very nervous so I wasn't able to stay together with him.
"Eh?"
There was a book placed in a high place.
Suddenly, I realized that the book didn't match with the classification of the section. Was the staff mber who made a mistake?
"En..."
I extended my hand in order to get it down, but I couldn't reach it. Incredibly, even though I knew I couldn't reach it, I still tried to do it several tis.
"I still can't reach it."
Then, when I was about to arrive at the conclusion that I couldn't reach it.
"I might be doing so unnecessary things..."
A boy said that and helped draw the book that was classified wrongly.
"I recall you are class C's..."
He said that to and after that, I also rembered him.
"I recall... you are Ayanokouji-kun, right?"
Thinking back, I saw him previously during Ryuuen's introduction.
I rember at that mont they were looking for the person who defeated Ryuuen-kun... that sort of stuff. Although, as a result, they perford a thorough investigation to Class D, but that has nothing to do with the present situation. I have never been interested in those things.
"Yeah. For now, I'll give you this."
"Thank you."
I took the book and just in case I confird the library card. As expected, this book should be placed in another section.
"Do you like Bronte's books?"
I opened the book and closed it again.
He looked at as if it was strange. It looks like he misunderstood and thought I liked Bronte's books.
"Personally, I neither like nor dislike anything. But the book was in the wrong section, so I just wanted to return it to the right place."
"So it was like that..."
At that mont, I noticed a certain thing.
That was the book Ayanokouji-kun was holding in his hand.
"By the way, the book you have in your hands is... "Farewell, My Lovely" right? It's a masterpiece."
I didn't know why but I thought I'd found a comrade, so I couldn't help but to inquire him.
"I managed to borrow it from a friend today."
"You're very luck then, for so unknown reason, Raymond Chandler is very popular amongst the 2nd-year students and the battle over this book has been continuing for a while. I've also been wanting to read it for a while now, but today I haven't been able to find it here either."
"I'm sorry, I seem to have done sothing bad. Monopolizing it."
"I don't mind. I've read this book before. And besides, while looking for that book, I was blessed to run into other books. It seems this school's library has a large collection of books. If I were to imrse myself into reading them, I might have graduated before I realized."
"...I see, that might be so."
After that, I unconsciously talked passionately about books with Ayanokouji-kun.
Although I also realized in the middle of the speech that he remained silent, but that was because extrely happy and I did it involuntarily.
Ti passed in the blink of an eye.
I felt lonely because the chat was ending and I unknowingly said the words that didn't match my usual self.
"You have probably not eaten lunch yet, right? If it's okay, would you like to have lunch together with ?"
"...Eh."
It was normal to be confused. After all, not even I expected that I would proactively say those kinds of words.
In addition, there seed to be a lot of dispute between Class C and Class D. Even if I also believed I would be rejected, I still continued talking.
"There's no one in Class C who likes reading novels, so I have no one I can talk to."
Therefore, I frankly told him my feelings.
"Wouldn't this cause a lot of problems? Right now Class C is in an uproar by actively looking for soone from Class D, right? I think I'm being counted as one of the many suspects."
"Please don't worry. Last ti, I was only helping Ryuuen-kun as a formality. From the start, I was never interested in things like conflicts. Or is it a problem for you to talk to ?"
"No. If there's no problem on your end, I have nothing to say either."
"That's a relief. Because creating cracks between classes over such trivial things makes unhappy. After all, the best thing is for everybody to live in harmony."
Ayanokouji-kun didn't reveal a disgusted expression, so that made feel very happy.
"Shall we leave then? Ti is flying."
Maybe I can make a friend with similar interests. A part of thought these actions were not like , while the other part was extrely excited towards this developnt.
I hoped that, in the future, the dispute between classes wouldn't create a crack between us.
I thought this deep in my heart.
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