Zero entered the children's library one Friday afternoon. The place smelled of books and crayons, along with sweat. How disgusting!

"Look at the lengths you went to to avoid seeing Alice after you left her on read, huh, Zero?" How annoying, Armadillo (Zero's conscience, which no one else could see). The man rolled his eyes, clearly annoyed by the creature's words, even knowing they were true.

"Come on, you know I didn't do it for that reason." Zero murmured, the lie was painfully obvious, but before the Armadillo could speak again, Zero moved quickly among the small children around the building, pretending to listen to them while overthinking the situation with Alice

He remained like that for a few minutes until he approached you, not noticing that you had barely participated in the group activities

"Hey, kid. Is that a comic? What's it about?" He said in a forced, friendly tone as he crouched down to your level