g is prohibited in the library… So I can’t even serve coffee.

“Then why did you even mention that?”

“Well, the ‘boyfriend’ called this an interrogation.” (E/N: LMAO, Hataraku reference, anyone?) 

“I’m not her boyfriend.”

“Who are you then? Ayane-chan, who usually comes alone, can’t possibly be with someone, let alone a man, other than her boyfriend?”

“Can’t I be her friend?”

“Not really.
Because she doesn’t have any friends, right?”

“You know?”

“A girl who comes to the library every three days, borrows books until the limit, and then leaves? That’s impossible unless she devotes all of her after-school hours and holidays to reading, isn’t it?”

She has a point.

“She comes here every Saturday, too.
Hora~, she definitely doesn’t have any friends.”

Although she is right, Kiryu is receiving some pretty harsh things without her knowing. 

Incidentally, Kiryu-san is currently looking for books in the library.
At first Kiryu said, ‘I’ll go along with making library cards,’ but then Todo-san said, ‘It’s alright.
It’s a job I’m used to.
Ayane-chan, go look for books.
Or what? You don’t like having your boyfriend taken away?”.
She quickly left after that.
You’ve got to work a little harder, oi~.
I’m the only one being interrogated.

“Furthermore a uniform date~.
Pretty nice~.”

“I told you already, I’m not her boyfriend.”

“When you’re out with the opposite s*x, it’s called a date.”

“Well… by definition, you’re probably not wrong.”

“Even if you’re not together, you’re still close enough to go out of your way to bring her after school, right? Are~? It’s rather better that way, isn’t it? Because you’re aware of each other, but yet you both haven’t said anything about how you feel about each other… I like it! Plenty of room for three meals!” 

(T/N: The expression means something like “A great favourite.” or quite simply something you like seeing.

“What are you talking about?” 

I look at Todo-san, with my eyes half closed, who gave me a thumbs-up and a smirk. 

She then scratched her head with a hint of shyness.

“Well~.
You know, I’m doing this job because I love books, right? I’m a big fan of romance novels and the like.
Especially since Ayane-chan is a super beautiful girl, I was fantasising about what kind of boyfriend she’d bring along.”

“Fantasizing…”

“All book lovers have fantasies, you know?”

“No, I don’t.”

They don’t, right? Wait.
By any chance, do they?

“Well, you think about, ‘What’s going to happen to the rest of this story?’, don’t you? It’s an extension of that, Ayane-chan is actually a celebrity here.”

“Is she a celebrity, after all? That Kiryu?”

“That’s right.
Some of the staff call her ”the lord” of this library.
To be honest, she probably knows more about the library than I do as a third-year college graduate.
I heard that she has been coming here since she was a little girl.”

“I don’t think there’s ever been a time in Kiryu’s life when she was that small.

Todo-san creates a small space with her thumb and index finger and says “this small”.

“Well, that’s a joke… You see, as I said earlier, Ayane-chan is a really beautiful girl, isn’t she? But she always came to the library alone and was kind of famous for that.”

“I’m guessing she’s not coming here to hang out..”

“Yeah.
But it’s a little… weird to not come once with friends at that age.
She usually just comes to study three times a week.”

“I see.”

“So I was a little worried.
Not only me, but the old staff, everyone.
Of course, since we chose this job, we’re all readers more than normal people, and I think it’s good that she likes books… But books aren’t all there is to life.
You learn some things from friendships, and some things from love.”

“…”

“Well, It has a little bit of a protective feel to it, too.
For that reason, take care of Ayane-chan, okay?”

I was a little pleased to see her look, as if she was seriously concerned about Kiryu, and answered with a small “yes”.Then, as if she was satisfied, she patted me on the shoulder and smiled at me.

“By the way, let me know when you start dating! Please share your sweet and sour love story with me!” 

“Absolutely not.”

Give me back my appreciation of her.
If I say that Kiryu’s my fiancee she would say something like “I can have five bowls of rice!” and would go crazy, wouldn’t she? 

(T/N: Same expression as before but he added two more for exaggeration I’m guessing)

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