Looking at Serizawa Yukiha, whose beautiful eyes were flashing with a strange light and staring intently at him, Hikari smiled.

"Meeting Serizawa-san is also my good fortune."

"Mm… I… Let's hurry up and help you find the book!", Hearing Hikari say this while looking at her, although she knew clearly it was a somewhat perfunctory return courtesy, Serizawa Yukiha's pretty face still turned red in an instant, and her heart pounded non-stop.

She quickly averted her gaze from Hikari, turned her head, and stepped forward a pace.

After the shy girl made these movements, only then did her heart react, welling up with intense regret.

'Ah! That was such a good opportunity just now, I… I really didn't seize it!'

'Clearly… clearly I could've taken the chance to confess to Hikari-kun!'

'We even kissed, and I initiated it, what's there to be shy about now! I really am a useless w*man!'

Serizawa Yukiha's face showed a look of regret.

But walking ahead at this moment, saying she would quickly lead Hikari to find the book, she was too embarrassed to turn her head back.

She could only quicken her pace.

A few minutes later, Hikari was holding books, looking gratefully at Serizawa Yukiha, "Serizawa-san truly lives up to being a librarian, knowing clearly where the books are placed. These are all niche books. If I looked for them myself, it might have taken me over half an hour. Thank you for your help."

"No… no need to thank…", Serizawa Yukiha forced a slight smile at the corners of her lips.

Her confession was stuck in her throat, yet she was too shy to say it, and could only forcibly swallow it back. At this moment, she truly felt a bit miserable.

"You go ahead, I won't bother you. I'll read for a while," Hikari, holding the few books on gods, ghosts, and strange tales, said to Serizawa Yukiha.

"Mm, then I'll go tidy up the books for now," Serizawa Yukiha nodded.

"Need help?", Hikari suddenly asked.

"Eh? Can I?", Hearing this, Serizawa Yukiha's face instantly lit up with joy, "It won't… it won't bother you, right, Hikari-kun?"

Seeing Serizawa Yukiha's expectant yet hesitant expression, Hikari smiled, "It won't."

Saying that, Hikari placed the books he intended to borrow at the counter, then helped Serizawa Yukiha organize the books.

"Thank you, Hikari-kun! You're such a good person!", Seeing Hikari carefully and patiently helping organize books, Serizawa Yukiha's beautiful eyes sparkled with a pink glow.

After all, she already had a high favorability for Hikari. Now seeing him take the initiative to help, and a handsome guy working even emitted an inexplicable charm, Serizawa Yukiha's maiden heart was truly thumping wildly and uncontrollably.

"After all, Serizawa-san helped me find books several times too, helping you organize a bit is naturally something I should do," Hikari smiled, without any intention of taking credit.

Like most people, he also had a reciprocal nature.

"I… I'll go organize the classical novel section on the left. Could I trouble you, Hikari-kun, to tidy up the foreign literature section over on the right, is that okay?", Serizawa Yukiha said cautiously to Hikari.

"Okay," Hikari nodded and separated from Serizawa Yukiha to organize the books.

Watching Hikari's departing back, Serizawa Yukiha patted her well-endowed chest and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Almost… almost couldn't help but pounce on him…"

"Ah! So frustrating!", Serizawa Yukiha's face was filled with reluctance.

Sorting books together with Hikari was just too, too, too tormenting for her, a kind of blissful torment.

Clearly, Aida Yuki before transferring also helped her organize books before, but she didn't feel anything at the time.

But organizing with Hikari, her heart kept pounding like crazy, as if it was going to jump right out of her throat.

And seeing that handsome face, those slender white fingers, she couldn't help but want to pounce straight at him.

'Hikari-kun… is just too tasty…'

But Serizawa Yukiha knew she couldn't. After all, this was a library. If someone saw, could she still work as a librarian?

Moreover, if she really did that, wouldn't Hikari think she was a p*rvert?

So, to forcibly restrain her almost uncontrollable impulse, Serizawa Yukiha could only send Hikari away.

Then, she sighed long and short as she organized books alone.

Having experienced the happiness of organizing together with Hikari, now doing the same task alone, which she usually did alone, was unbearably agonizing. Serizawa Yukiha felt very troubled.

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On the other side, Hikari didn't know that Serizawa Yukiha, separated by just a few bookshelves, was feeling so troubled.

However, his expression at this moment wasn't very calm either. His face looked a bit strange.

After arriving at the foreign literature section in the library, Hikari saw a peculiar scene.

Between two tall bookshelves stood an A-frame ladder about a person's height.

And beside the ladder stood a blue-haired petite girl with two big dark circles under her eyes.

At this moment, she was staring up at a certain book on the top shelf, her face full of worry.

Under Hikari's strange gaze, he saw this petite blue-haired girl, who looked familiar and somewhat like "Overnight Bobby", slowly climbing up the ladder.

Her appearance of being sleep-deprived to the point of sudden death made it look like she would fall off with every step.

But she eventually climbed to the top of the ladder, tiptoeing her small feet wrapped in white silk inside her leather shoes, reaching out her small hands, seemingly trying to grab the book on the very top.

Seeing this scene, Hikari understood.

This familiar-looking blue-haired Overnight Bobby, no, this upperclassman petite girl he had met a few times before, from the same work as Obata Yui and Miyajima Sakura. Nozaki Yuu, seemed to be trying to get a book from the top shelf in the foreign literature section. But because she was too short to reach, she decided to use the ladder.

But given her fragile figure that looked like it could be blown away by the wind, coupled with her panda-like dark circles, using a ladder taller than herself just looked all kinds of dangerous.

Sure enough, petite Nozaki Yuu couldn't stand firmly at all.

Hikari saw her just as she got the book from the top shelf and then seemingly lost her balance and was about to fall from the ladder taller than herself.

Seeing Nozaki Yuu about to fall from more than a meter high, Hikari immediately lunged forward and caught her with both hands.

Light, soft, and fragrant, this blue-haired petite girl senpai, like her petite girl build, was impossibly light.

Holding her felt like holding air.

Holding someone like this seemed to put no pressure on him at all…

'No wait. As a warrior of pure love, what kind of weird thought is this? It must be from subconsciously absorbing too much of the bull-headed man's hunting mindset.'

Even though she had suddenly fallen from a height, Nozaki Yuu was unlike ordinary people, her little face showed no panic or fluster.

Even being unexpectedly caught and completely embraced by Hikari, she still remained calm.

"Senpai, are you okay?"

Although the sensation of holding Nozaki Yuu was very nice, like hugging a soft kitten, and the shampoo mixed with milky body fragrance from her blue hair was pleasant, Hikari still politely put the light, soft, and fragrant Nozaki Yuu down, without holding her longer, and asked courteously.

"No problem," Nozaki Yuu shook her head expressionlessly.

At this moment, she looked as calm as a breeze, as if she had just woken up at home. Even with her two huge dark circles and having just nearly face-planted, she was still so composed and unruffled.

Perhaps this was the quintessential emotionless petite girl, indifferent even to nearly falling.

But Nozaki Yuu still nodded slightly at Hikari in thanks, "Thank you, kind junior I don't know."

Hearing her words, Hikari felt both amused and helpless, "Hey, Nozaki-senpai, don't you recognize me?"

"Who are you?", Nozaki Yuu asked expressionlessly with her emotionless little face.

Looking at her clearly showing no recognition, Hikari really wanted to lift her sk*rt and sp*nk her hard on the thigh a dozen times.

No worldly desire, just pure educational punishment.

"I'm from your literature club, Nozaki-senpai. When I joined, you were the one who handled my paperwork."

"Also, not long ago, I accompanied a teacher to your house for a visit. We met then too."

"We've met several times, and you don't remember even once?"

Hikari mimicked Nozaki Yuu's flat face and expressionlessly spoke.

Staring blankly at Hikari with her dead fish eyes, Nozaki Yuu's mind seemed to be storming.

As if she was conducting a high-latency google search, Nozaki Yuu stared at Hikari for over ten seconds before her always emotionless face finally changed.

Her cherry-like lips parted slightly, "Oh, it's you. I remember now. Hi… Hik something Hiraki, right?"

"Hikari."

"Right, Hiakri, that's you. I remember you," Nozaki Yuu nodded more seriously for politeness, but still got the name wrong.

"It's Hikari," Hikari corrected expressionlessly.

"I see, sorry, I have a poor memory," Though apologizing, Nozaki Yuu's face was still blank, looked extremely punchable.

'I just told you the name, damn it!'

Hikari resisted the urge to pull her sk*rt and sp*nk her hard.

Gritting his teeth, "If I hadn't said anything, would you really not remember who I am?"

"Mm, no idea," Nozaki Yuu admitted frankly.

Hikari took a deep breath.

For politeness and his own image, he refrained from blurting out, 'No idea? Then screw off!'

After all, Nozaki Yuu's personality was just extremely lazy, expressionless and drowsy all day, not intentional.

'Forget it.'

"Junior, you're also here to borrow books?", Realizing she was being impolite, Nozaki Yuu actually initiated conversation, though her delicate face still carried those emotionless dead fish eyes.

"Yeah. Senpai, you're this short, why not ask someone to help? Climbing that tall ladder is really dangerous," Hikari nodded, looking at this petite girl who felt like air when hugged, and advised casually.

"Didn't know who to ask. I have no friends at school," Nozaki Yuu said expressionlessly.

"True… with your personality…", Thinking of Nozaki Yuu's always sleepy and ultra-lazy demeanor, basically an ultimate-level slacker, it was no wonder she had no friends.

"You could ask the librarian. She's nice. That ladder's too tall, if you fall, it'll hurt," Hikari, seeing Nozaki Yuu's petite girl figure that inexplicably triggered protective instincts, casually said.

"Used to falling," Nozaki Yuu replied, dead fish eyes glaring.

"…Alright then."

Hikari was speechless and prepared to say a few more perfunctory words before leaving.

But just then, footsteps came from behind.

"Huh? Hikari-kun, you're still organizing here? Did you run into someone you know?", Serizawa Yukiha looked at Nozaki Yuu beside Hikari and asked curiously.

"Mm, this is my club senior, Nozaki-senpai."

"Senpai, this is my friend, Serizawa Yukiha. She's now working part-time as a librarian. Next time you can't reach a book, ask her," Hikari introduced them.

"Ah, so you're Hikari-kun's club senior. Hello, Nozaki-senpai!", Serizawa Yukiha greeted enthusiastically and politely.

"Hello," Nozaki Yuu nodded without expression, said nothing more, hugged a tome heavier than herself, and turned to leave.

"Sorry, Nozaki-senpai's just naturally lazy and finds making friends troublesome, so she's like this," Hikari was a bit speechless at how she left immediately after being introduced.

But Nozaki Yuu was just like that. So the fact that she even spoke that much to him was already rare, leaving without a word after one sentence like with Serizawa Yukiha was probably her usual style.

"Mm mm, I understand!", Serizawa Yukiha smiled and shook her head, showing she didn't mind.

She truly didn't mind, she even wished Nozaki Yuu would leave.

Although Nozaki Yuu's the cute petite girl look posed no romantic threat to the F-cup Serizawa Yukiha….Being alone with Hikari made her much happier.

So she not only didn't mind Nozaki Yuu leaving, she was secretly grateful.

"Alright, let's continue organizing then," Hikari said casually.

"Mm mm."

The two immediately continued tidying up the books in the library.

With Hikari's help, Serizawa Yukiha felt very happy organizing books, not at all bored, and her efficiency improved greatly.

And Hikari was naturally fast, so not long after, they finished organizing.

Receiving the black tea drink Serizawa Yukiha gave to express her thanks, Hikari picked up a few newly borrowed books and sat at a random table to start reading.

Originally, Hikari planned to read for a bit then leave.

But unexpectedly, he had only just sat down when a petite blue-haired figure slowly walked over toward him.

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