Love Trials of the Introverted

Chapter 8

After walking through the rest club fair with Sudo, Ike, and Yamauchi I decided to go out and do some shopping for myself due to having my prior arrangements suddenly canceled.

The trio I was with earlier seemed to have plans after the club fair and I wanted to join them but couldn't find the courage to impose on them and asked to be invited.

I traveled to Keyaki Mall and went into the first electronic store I found with the intent of making my first big expense. I was able to find a cheap laptop for 6500 yen. I saw other laptops that were in the high five figures but decided to go with the cheapest one I saw.

This may be a large expense but it will serve me well with another source of internet access and being able to easily complete writing assignments or any electronic assignments or projects.

As I was getting my purchase finalized by the cashier he began making some small talk with me.

"I'm surprised to see someone buy one of the cheaper models we have available. Yesterday right after class ended I rang up a first-year student who bought one of our most expensive ones that cost 80000 yen."

My eyes bulged at the information that someone went through most of their monthly stipend the very first day. However what caught my interest was the way the cashier relayed that information as if it wasn't that big of a deal.

"Do you usually have students come in and use up that many points in one purchase?"

"Not really, I've seen it happen, it just happens very rarely."

"Well it is a lot of points to spend so I doubt many would be willing to spend that many points especially when we get later in the year."

"After working here for the past few years you tend to see the impossible, so it becomes less shocking when you do see it."

"I suppose you're right."

With that our conversation soon came to an end and I exited the electronic shop and began walking to the library which was in the direction of the school dorms.

As I exited Keyaki Mall I spotted a couple of my female classmates shopping together in one of the stores I passed by. Leading the group in their little shopping spree was a blonde haired girl that had her hair up in a ponytail being held together by a cyan scrunchie.

I gave them a quick glance before continuing on to my destination of the school library.

~Break~

I arrived at the library thankfully uninterrupted with my new purchase secured inside my school bag which gave it a small increase in its weight.

When I pushed open the library dozens of shelves were revealed before me with multiple floors filled to the brim with bookshelves. The amount of books located in this library easily numbered in the couple thousands, maybe even tens of thousands. The selection in front of me easily marked this as a grand library in its scale.

I couldn't help but gawk in the entranceway at the scale and feel a giddiness begin to rise within me at the sight. That reminds me of the translated book I saw Horikita reading the past two days I saw her.

As she was reading the first one on the bus, she couldn't have obtained either of those at this library. She couldn't have acquired the one from earlier today, attributed to the fact that I spent the first day with her. As a result, she couldn't have gotten her hands on the book, as I had assumed, because the library was closed by the time we returned to the dormitory, so she couldn't have gone out late to get the book.

'Despite her not obtaining either of her books from the library I wouldn't be surprised if they carried the same books also translated. And if they somehow didn't carry a certain book I'm sure the school would acquire them for us for a fee.'