Chapter 19
Unless you're exceptionally studious, hardly anyone would visit the library on the first day of the term.
‘It hasn't even officially opened yet.’
As far as I know, ordinary students other than library club members can't use it until about a week after the term begins.
When I opened the library door, Estelle was there again.
“....”
It wasn't that she was ignoring me; Estelle was a fair distance from the entrance and didn't seem to know I had arrived.
Creak─ Creak─
At that moment, Estelle wheeled her chair up to the bookshelf and looked up.
Apparently, the book she wanted was out of reach.
‘How am I supposed to pull that out?’
After briefly wondering, Estelle pulled a pair of pincers from beneath her wheelchair and stretched them out.
“...Oh.”
But unfortunately, even the pincers fell just short.
“...Ngh..!...Ngh!”
Estelle jerked her body and stretched out her arm, but there was no way she could reach it.
Feeling bad about continuing to watch, I walked over and took the book down for her.
“Is this it?”
“....”
Estelle accepted the book and returned to where she had been without saying a word.
I pulled out the chair in front of Estelle and sat down as I spoke.
“I applied for temporary membership in the library club. Ah, since you're the club president, I suppose you already know?”
“....”
“What should I call you here? Estelle? President? Which do you prefer?”
“....”
“I'll call you President, then.”
“....”
“Hey, President? Are you going to keep ignoring me?”
“....”
In response to Estelle's continued silence, I also said nothing and stared at her.
Tap─
After I stared for a long while, Estelle frowned and glared at me.
“...Go home. I'm not accepting you.”
“Why? You need a legitimate reason to reject my application.”
“...You're noisy.”
“All right. I'll be quiet from now on.”
I mimed locking my mouth and shut it.
“.....”
“.....”
“.....”
“.....”
And so the battle of silence began again.
Even so, I'm pretty confident when it comes to silence.
Although I was practically guaranteed to lose whenever I fought with Eveline, silence was one area where I managed a win rate of about twenty percent.
“....Sigh. Why do you keep bothering me?”
In the end, Estelle couldn't stand the long silence and asked with a sigh.
“I just want to become friends. Isn't that reason enough?”
“...No. I'm not interested. I prefer being alone.”
“You're lying.”
“I'm not lying.”
“But I pulled that book down for you?”
“....Tsk.”
Apparently having nothing to say, Estelle clicked her tongue and turned her gaze back to the book.
“Well, it doesn't look like there are any other members, and you can't pull books down or organize them on your own. I'll help you.”
“You'll help me? How? Because you pulled down one book? Do you know how to organize them? Then where does the book with classification number 7KGw6rWQ go?”
“....”
I didn't know. As if I could.
I was the sort who read a book if one was there and otherwise didn't bother.
The only books I'd ever gone out of my way to find and read were erotic novels and doujinshi.
“I knew it. I said a legitimate reason was necessary for rejection, didn't I? A library club member has to know how to organize books. Your application is rejected.”
“...I know how to organize them.”
“Shameless. Are you blatantly lying now?”
“I really do.”
Estelle snorted as if my lie were laughable.
“Then have all of that organized by tomorrow. I'll think about accepting you.”
The place Estelle pointed to was piled high with an enormous number of books.
“All of that? It looks like a lot.”
“Why? Can't you do it? I could finish it in an hour, but I gave you an entire day. Give up.”
“...Of course I can.”
“Really? Then I can leave it to you. I'm leaving now. I can't concentrate on reading because someone is being noisy.”
Creak─ Creak─
I watched Estelle wheel herself out and let out a deep sigh.
“...Sigh.”
A graveyard of books piled high.
It was hard to believe Estelle could organize all of that in just one hour.
“There's a fucking lot.”
If I'd known this would happen, I should have come to the library more often.
‘This plan got a little tangled....’
Actually, I had planned to make an appearance, give Yuris orders, and masturbate....
‘...But I can't give up.’
This was a chance to become friends with my precious classmate, Estelle.
For now, I had no choice but to do as much as I could.
****
The next day, Estelle woke up much earlier than usual.
“....”
The idiot who had submitted his application without knowing anything had been bothering her.
‘What an idiot.’
The Holy Academy's library was so vast and complex that people even said it was practically a maze.
The reason Estelle was the only library club member managing this enormous library was that every newcomer had given up and left because of the excessively difficult organization rules.
‘Annoying.’
Of course, Estelle's sensitive personality had also contributed significantly to why they quit.
‘...Even I would need four hours.’
The enormous piles of books in the library were a mixture of books returned during the vacation and books brought in for the new term.
The pile was so large that even Estelle, who remembered most of the book arrangements and could instantly map out the optimal route, would have to spend a long time sorting it.
There was no way a newcomer who didn't even know the organization rules could finish it in a day.
Estelle had told Ian it would only take an hour solely because she wanted him to quit the library club.
‘I just want to become friends. Isn't that reason enough?’
At that moment, Ian's words came back to her.
“....Unnecessary meddling.”
Throb─
As Estelle muttered to herself, her heart throbbed as if telling her not to lie.
‘...I'm not lying.’
Swallowing words without even knowing whom she was trying to justify herself to, Estelle boarded her private carriage and headed for the academy library.
That man had surely given up and gone home halfway through, so since she was up early anyway, she decided to organize the books herself.
However....
“...Classification number 6rCV6rCE, huh.... Then it's over there!”
Ian, whom she had naturally assumed had gone home, was still in the library.
“...What are you doing?”
“President? Why are you back? Did you leave something behind?”
He seemed to have lost all sense of time, so focused was he.
“...I didn't come back; I just got to school.”
“What? Has it gotten this late already? I haven't finished yet....”
Just as Ian said, one-third of the books still remained to be organized.
In other words....
It meant that someone who hadn't even known how to organize them had dealt with two-thirds of the enormous pile overnight.
“Phew... What am I going to do....”
The veins in Ian's rolled-up forearms stood out thickly, and his school shirt was soaked in sweat.
That alone showed how hard he had worked through the night.
Clench─
“...Did you organize them properly? If you didn't know and just shoved them in anywhere, you'd be causing trouble.”
Instead of telling him he had worked hard, criticism spilled from her mouth.
However, Ian answered without showing any displeasure.
“Of course. At first I didn't know anything, so I carried each book around searching for its place, but as I organized them, I gradually figured out the rules. Ah... I shouldn't have said that.”
“Are you... an idiot?”
She had told him that he couldn't become a member if he didn't know how to organize the books, yet he had absurdly confessed it himself.
“Ah! Right, I actually didn't know. But I know how to organize them now.... Isn't that enough to qualify me as a member?”
“Arrogant.... Knowing how to organize books is the most basic of basics that every library club member must know.”
Clank─ Clank─
Estelle picked up a book with her pincers and put it on the shelf, then spoke in a voice barely loud enough to hear.
“...Still... well, I'll let you be a temporary member.”
“Great! That's a relief...! Then, President.”
Ian sat down at the desk, then collapsed forward without changing position as he spoke.
“...Sorry, but... I'm going to sleep for thirty minutes.... Maybe the tension... suddenly left me... I'm so tired.... I'd appreciate it... if you woke me....”
“...Hah.”
As she watched Ian sleeping facedown on the desk, the corners of Estelle's mouth lifted faintly.
***
Tap─
I woke up when I felt something suddenly tap me on the head.
“Wake up... How long are you going to keep sleeping?”
“...?”
Why was Estelle in my house?
...Just as I was about to wonder that, I remembered organizing books throughout the night.
Swish─
When I sat up, the blanket slid off me.
“Did you cover me? Thanks.”
“....”
Ignored.
“Oh, if I just return it as-is, it might smell like sweat. I'll wash it thoroughly before returning it.”
“....”
Ignored again.
Looking around, I saw that the books I hadn't managed to organize had been neatly put away.
“Wow... As expected of you, President. You really finished it quickly.”
“....”
This time, Estelle reacted and stared fixedly at me.
“President... why?”
“Nothing.”
She seemed a little dissatisfied for some reason, but unfortunately, I didn't have time to think about it.
‘I've got about thirty minutes until my first lecture.’
That should be enough time to wash up.
“Ah, President, I'll go first. I'm going to wash up before class.”
“...Do as you please.”
With Estelle's permission, I walked quickly down the corridor.
The Holy Academy, built according to Goddess Ellis's will, had the finest facilities.
In other words, it also had fully equipped shower rooms and laundry rooms.
Swish─
After taking off my shirt and pants in an empty shower room, I opened the gallery.
[Can an ordinary person win if they land the first punch on an orc's balls barehanded?][8]
[Heroine whose catchphrase is ‘Once I’m no longer a virgin, I’ll have no advantages left’][5]
[Maid restraint play and huge tits are fucking crazy lol][5]
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[Fuck, if I see that fucking childhood-friend bastard today, he's dead][3]
I had come to the empty shower room first thing in the morning not only to shower, but for another reason as well.
[Poster : Holy Power Storage Tank■] = [Yuris Petunia]
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(A picture with the bra straps hanging down, making the nipples barely visible.jpg)
If it were any smaller, the baby would starve to death....
‘...Blue today.’
I had forgotten to give Yuris her order while organizing books all night, so I had come to do that.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(89.74) : Take off your bra right now and take a picture of your breasts.
“....”
Yuris normally replied within ten seconds, but for some reason, there was still no answer even after I waited a long time.
Could she be ignoring me because a day had passed?
Just as a minute was about to pass, a late comment appeared.
ㄴHolyPowerStorageTank■ : Master... right now? Just... give me a little... time....
ㄴㅇㅇ(89.74) : Don't make me repeat myself, you bitch. Take a fap-material picture right now.
ㄴHolyPowerStorageTank■ : Yes... Master... I'll go take a fap-material picture....
Throb─
Yuris's comment made my cock stand straight up beneath my underwear.