"Found it!"
She raised her left hand. The book was on the highest shelf.
She was the cute type of girl.
She was not very tall either, so she could not reach the book even on tiptoe. She looked like she was struggling.
However, at that moment—
The book numbered J4568 moved. No, someone had taken hold of it.
Then that person seemed to directly offer the book to her.
"Ah, thank you~"
Kushida immediately flashed a cute smile.
But the moment she turned around, she froze.
Because standing before her was not some ordinary tall boy. On the contrary, this boy was exceptionally handsome.
He had slightly tousled short black hair and clear dark green eyes.
"Looks like we had the same idea." The handsome boy spoke. "Can we talk somewhere else now?"
"Someone saw you searching for fingerprints earlier. Looking up fingerprints tends to draw attention."
"I came here because she introduced me," Oreki said.
"..."
Little Kushida instantly realized she had made a mistake.
So—
They changed locations.
The location was a dormitory.
A girls' dormitory, to be precise.
The first-year students' dorm rooms were all in the same building. Oreki and the other boys lived on the first through third floors.
The girls lived on the fourth through seventh floors.
Kushida was in Room 606.
It was quite a nice number, one that made people feel lucky.
But for Kushida—
It was anything but fortunate.
After leaving the library, the two had split up, then met here ten minutes later.
Oreki looked over Kushida's room.
The dorm's layout was the same as his, but the girls seemed to have put more effort into decorating their rooms.
For example, they put up wallpaper they liked and decorated their rooms to give them that unmistakable girls' dormitory