My love is abyss mode

Chapter 21 Cat's Tough Attitude
Pushing the door and entering the bookstore, Heinuma Fang returned to the cashier and continued his boring work.

After the rise of online shopping platforms, few people would buy books at full price in bookstores, except for comic magazines, and the cash registers were just for display most of the time.

Just when he was bored, Shirakawa Momo took a book from the lending area and raised her hand to hand it to him.

Black Swamp Fang took the thick hardcover book and looked down at the title, "Love's Exile"

"Aren't there any light novels?" he asked with a dissatisfied look on his face.

"Read it carefully."

The voice was soft, but it had a commanding quality.

Baichuan Tao frowned, glanced at him with contempt in her golden eyes, and said with a hint of disgust, "That kind of meaningless stuff can be read at any time."

The implication is that finishing this book is urgent?
Kuronuma Ya was completely confused. Seeing her turn and leave, he swallowed his words in rebuttal to her criticism of light novels as being meaningless, and began to turn the pages to read.

The afternoon time flows slowly with the sticky texture of honey.

When he read the sentence "Any woman is a teacher to a man", he closed the book and hesitated whether to buy a cheap paperback and read it slowly in his apartment.

Even if the air conditioning is on high, reading detailed descriptions in the lingering summer heat will still make your heart beat faster, let alone in a public place like a bookstore.

Even Senior Toyama knows that 18R comics should be bought home and savored slowly.

Just as he was daydreaming, the phone in his pocket vibrated - because he worked in a bookstore, he had deliberately turned his phone to vibrate mode.

Kuronuma Kiba took out his phone and lightly pressed the fingerprint on the screen with his thumb to unlock it, opening the LINE interface. A contact nicknamed Ishiguro Go sent him a message.

He didn't remember exchanging contact information with the other party, and the chat should have been initiated directly through the group chat.

[Ishiguro: Did you offend Shinkai-san?]
[Ishiguro: I clearly warned you, so take care of yourself]
[Ishiguro: (link)]
It turned out to be the boy who was dissatisfied and resentful when he transferred here - Heinuma Ya clicked on the link, and the browser that automatically jumped opened the college forum of the private Qinglan College.

It wasn't anything to worry about, except that a post a few minutes ago accused him of glancing at the breasts of girls in his class with a lewd look, and he wasn't as aloof and cold as the legend said.

If it was posted by Shinkai Shiona, with her super high popularity and the fermentation over the two days of the weekend, when school starts on Monday, the whole school will think that Kuronuma Kiba is a disgusting pervert and will exclude and alienate him.

It is estimated that Shinkai Shiona used this method to deal with Ishiguro in the past, which is why he is still frightened and frequently pays attention to the academy forum.

Hei Zanya curled the corners of his mouth and chuckled, not taking it to heart.

Shinkai Shiona simply wanted to use this method to make him surrender and join the kendo club. It was not a very clever method, and it was far from being worthy of being called "the devil who dominates his classmates."

As long as you don't fall into the self-proving trap, no matter how big the impact is, it can be easily resolved.

Putting away his phone, Kuronuma Ya briefly left the cashier counter and took a copy of the fourth volume of "Angel-sama" from the lending area to pass the afternoon working time.

The sky was tinged with a hint of vermilion, and gradually it got darker, and the bookstore was lit up with cold white lights.

After finishing the last page of "Angel-sama", Kuronuma Kiba closed the book in his hand and was about to leave the cashier counter and put it back in the lending area, he turned around and saw Shirakawa Momo standing beside him without saying a word.

He walked without making any sound, like a ghost.

"Is it time to get off work?" He took out his cell phone and took a look. There were still more than ten minutes before the 6 o'clock end of get off work.

"Have you finished reading the book I gave you?" Baichuan Tao asked coldly. Her skin, which was already pale and cold, looked even colder under the light.

"No, why should I?"

"It will make you understand how insidious and treacherous Yuanshan Qiansui is." Her tone suddenly became colder, and she seemed to have a lot of opinions about Yuanshan Qiansui.

"For my own good?" asked Black Marshfang.

"Yes."

Seeing Shirakawa Momo staring at him with her golden eyes and nodding earnestly, Kuronuma Kiba felt an inexplicable feeling of disgust, like chopping off the head of a live fish with a kitchen knife. Back in Hokkaido, when his father had tried to dissuade him from going to Tokyo, he had used the same tone, imposing an intrusion on his freedom.

As if she had noticed Kuronuma Ya's thoughts, Shirakawa Momo curled her lips, turned and left, and returned a few minutes later with a brand new, unopened paperback copy of "Love's Exile" in her hand, raising her arm and handing it to him.

"I'll buy it and give it to you. You can read it when you have time."

Because of the lighting, her eyes were colder than usual, and her commanding tone was particularly annoying.

The petite figure standing in front of him was clearly looking up at him, but he felt superior.

Neon's books are very expensive, and she is asking Momo Shirakawa, who is living in poverty, to pay for them. No matter how much she is annoyed by Kuronuma Kiba, she would not do such a thing.

Who knew she would have to skip several meals to buy this book?
If she falls to the point of having to go to the sea again in a few days, he will still have to pay for it.

Thinking of this, Black Swamp Fang closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm down: "What are you insisting on?"

There was inevitably a sigh in his tone.

Shirakawa Tao didn't answer with a cold face, but raised the book in her hand to show her attitude, with a very firm look in her eyes.

"I'll buy it myself."

Kuronuma took the paperback, scanned the code, paid, put it in the bookstore's plastic bag, and placed it on the cashier: "Baichuan, you have violated my boundaries."

A few nights ago, she was still saying things like "people's boundaries are sacred and inviolable."

"I know."

To his surprise, Shirakawa Momo ignored the cold atmosphere and explained her thoughts in detail and unscrupulously, as if she couldn't read the air.

"I said at noon that I have made my principles clear. Even if it offends you, I will do things that make me more comfortable."

Kuronuma Fang remembered her "bystander" remarks, leaned over the cash register with both hands on the table, and tilted his head in confusion: "Please explain in detail."

“For example, when you play games, you have teammates, right?”

"Ah."

"From an outsider's perspective, you are my teammate for the time being, and if you make a wrong decision, I must correct it no matter what to avoid getting myself into a bad situation."

Shirakawa Momo looked at him expressionlessly, her voice revealing extremism and helplessness.

"Baichuan, what makes you think that my decision is wrong?" A cold light flashed in Heinuma Ya's eyes. He looked down at her condescendingly with an unhappy look on his face.

"I told you, if you could see yourself from the perspective of an outsider, you would understand."

She didn't flinch at all, explaining herself, "If you quantify your feelings for her, like the health bar in a game, you'll find that she's actually increasing your favorability."

"No one knows what is right. We can only strive forward on the path we choose." Black Swamp Fang is very clear about his goal and does not need anyone to say anything.

“You have goals, but no principles to follow through.”

Shirakawa Tao paused, her throat rising and falling, and continued: "Without principles, it is easy to get lost and there is no way to become the ideal self."

"It's time to get off work." Heinuma Ya interrupted her rudely, picked up the book he bought and walked out of the checkout counter.

The conversation ended here, and the tense atmosphere did not ease at all.

The two left the bookstore together, took the tram, and walked through the quiet streets at night until they returned to the apartment building and went back to their rooms without saying a word to each other.

(End of this chapter)