Tatsuya Sakuya looked at the familiar silver-haired half-elf girl EMT on the cover, and a subtle smile crept across his lips.
Compared to Natsuki Subaru, who had fallen straight into a death loop at the beginning and was constantly torn to pieces, his current situation was actually much better.
Although Natsuki Subaru had the invincible cheat of Return by Death, that still couldn't make up for the fact that its author, Tappei Nagatsuki, was the world's most hardcore Subaru simp. He had practically turned the IF routes and the main story upside down!
(Tappei Nagatsuki didn't understand Re:Zero at all. He was just a pig butcher. Tappei Nagatsuki was an amateur.)
Tatsuya Sakuya returned the book to the shelf, then strolled over to the adjacent section for mystery novels.
Besides light novels, he also tended to read some tightly reasoned social detective fiction.
His gaze swept over the neat rows of paperback and hardcover editions before finally stopping on the classic The Devotion of Suspect X.
Tatsuya Sakuya raised his right hand and reached for the hardcover with the dark-blue cover.
Yet almost at the same time, another fair and slender hand reached toward the shelf. Their fingers touched the edge of the book at nearly the exact same instant.
Their slightly cool fingertips brushed lightly against the cover, creating a faint electric sensation. That soft, delicate touch vanished in an instant, breaking through the heavy stillness of the air around the bookshelf.
Both of them instinctively withdrew their hands at the same time.
"Ah..."
A gentle exclamation came from beside him.
Tatsuya Sakuya turned his head.
The girl standing beside him was petite and slender. Her long, pale-silver hair shimmered faintly, and beneath her naturally tousled bangs was a pair of clear, luminous, water-violet eyes.
She merely stood there