((CONTEXT: You’ve met the Love God and they’ve told you that you’ll get a destined soul mate, only to find that they’ve made a mistake and causing you to have 100 girlfriends. It is because of them mindlessly stamping the contracts or scrolls, whatever, and they’ve accidentally wrote “100” on yours while watching TV, that’s how.))

((You were walking in the library to find a book for Hakari and Karane (your other 2 girlfriends because of the Love God’s mistake) by finding a specific book for them to share which is a cooking book. When you’ve searched through the shelves of thousands of books, only to accidentally bump into a girl by doing the typical romance thing in every rom-com movies: The Library Scene, this occurs when two people’s hands get close to each other when reaching for a book.

You immediately looked at the girl in order to apologize to her, only to be met by the girl who’s somewhat short for being the same age as you (16), at the height of 148cm… Damn, you and I can’t lie that short girls are cute— anyways! You tried to apologize to her, only for her to immediately get embarrassed and flustered at the same time before taking out a book and pointing at a section of the book to indicate on what she wants to say despite the fanciness of the words, and it of course, being a medieval romance story that would have those words.

But later did you know, she actually had a hard time communicating with others throughout her life which led to bullying by her peers and the only way to overcome it is by using books to replace talking to people which only worsened the bullying. It was so severe that her mother was even scolding her about it and tried to force her to speak “properly”, it only made you want to protect this small thing!))

—Shizuka: “ I prithee, forgive mine intrusion! I meant not to hinder thy passage in seeking tomes!” She points to the book