37 – Library Date – 1
Library Date – 1
Early Bird Wake Up! I opened my eyes in a flash. The body is light and refreshing. It is a peaceful morning with the sound of birds chirping outside the window. When I pulled back the curtains, it seemed that the sun had already risen a little later than usual. I stretched out and checked my watch.
‘Should I just skip breakfast?’
It’s eight o’clock. Considering it was a weekend morning, I woke up pretty early, but I overslept for more than two hours than I usually wake up. Yesterday’s mountain climbing seemed more tiring than expected. Breakfast in the student cafeteria is served until 8:30. If I rushed to prepare from now on, I could barely make it on time, but I wasn’t that hungry. I decided to just skip breakfast.
“A date?”
“Yes, where do you want to go?”
I made a date with Hestia yesterday while coming down from the mountain. Since it was a weekend and all the entertainment facilities were in the shopping district near her academy, I asked her where she wanted to go, looking forward to what to do.
“The library.”
“Library?”
“I wanted to try something like a library date.”
I felt exhausted somewhere. That would also be because her library had been with her even last weekend. Worrying about where to go to a cafe or what to see in a play was all in vain.
“We went to the library together last week.”
“Ah… , Is it not good?”
“No, not bad! How about somewhere else?”
“I like the library.”
Hestia looked up at me with desperate eyes.
“Okay, see you at the library then.”
In the end, I fell for Hestia’s eyes and decided to just go on a library date. From the side, she looked at Seria with the look of someone short on me, but she chose not to pay much attention.
I washed up and started getting ready to go out. The appointment time is until 9 o’clock, so it’s not that much time. After a thorough shower using a convenience-oriented all-purpose magic tool, I touched my hair a bit. Thanks to that magic tool, there is no inconvenience in life.
I wiped my body dry and put on appropriately warm clothes. Maybe it’s because the original version is so good, it goes well with anything you wear. To finish, I sprayed some perfume and left the dormitory.
The weather was pretty good today as well as yesterday. It was a March morning, so the wind was chilly, but I could feel the warm sunlight in the sun. Except for a few diligent people exercising, the campus was quiet. I enjoyed the scenery to my destination, the library.
“You are here.”
“Did you wait long?”
“No. I just came too.”
Hestia came first and was waiting for me in front of the library. She waved her hand, saying she had just arrived, but her nose and ears were red as if she had waited quite a while. I am also someone who is said to be good at keeping promises, but whenever I make an appointment with Hestia or Seol-ah, I always feel like I am late.
“Did you look pretty today?”
I praised Hestia. Hestia grinned. Where did she hear the advice that once she praised her for being pretty, she would never lose anything, but she seems to be wrong.
And in fact, it was really pretty too. I met her last weekend wearing really comfortable clothes, but today she looks like she’s dressed up for a date. The skirt flutters over a neat blouse. I’m not sure what’s inside, but I’m also carrying a fairly heavy cross-body bag. The strap of her bag crosses between her breasts, further emphasizing her generous motherhood. Her hair, too, was tied back in a half ponytail, which I admired yesterday.
“I was always pretty.”
She lowered the corner of her mouth and answered with her usual expression. I usually wear pretty, pretty in my mouth, so she seems to have adapted to some extent.
“Who did the hair?”
“I did what I learned yesterday. Isn’t that strange?”
She stroked her own hair with her hand a few times.
“They match incredibly well.”
“This one was rather easy though. I can’t do another head yet.”
“You can learn slowly.”
I need to learn how to tie my hair soon. I should aim to tie her hair with my own hands once before she learns all about tying her hair from Seria and graduates.
A cold wind blew once. Hestia trembled and dragged me into the library. It must have been pretty cold.
“Let’s go in quickly.”
It was a weekend morning, so there were few people in the library. Thanks to that, even after entering the library, I was able to hold my hand tightly. Hestia was a little shy, but she didn’t shake my hand. She must have been waiting for a long time, her hands frozen.
“If it’s cold, you should have gone in first and waited.”
“What if I get mixed up?”
“You can come out and check it in the middle.”
“All right. She didn’t even wait long.”
She didn’t wait long, her hands were so cold. Hestia lied plainly to her eyes. If this happens next time, I really should come first and wait for 30 minutes.
“Let’s get a seat first.”
“Huh?”
I found a seat in a corner that was well lit and sat down. When Hestia saw me sitting, she was stunned and she couldn’t help it.
“… What are you doing?”
“Well, I was wondering where to sit.”
Looks like he’s contemplating whether he should sit across from me or right next to him.
“Just sit here.”
In the end, I pulled out the chair next to me and patted it, encouraging Hestia to just come to the seat next to her, and then she was able to sit down.
“I just sit in a comfortable place, is that a problem to worry about?”
“But since it’s a date, I wonder if I should do something different.”
“What’s so special about a date, when two men and women hang out together, that’s a date. After all, what we did last week is a date.”
Right now, last week, I ate, took a walk, and studied at the library. If you ask passers-by, they will probably admit that they are dating.
But Hestia didn’t think so. She glanced at me.
“Is it a matter of mindset?”
“Okay, okay. So, is this your first date?”
“You can say that.”
She nodded her head.
“Then what did you want to do on that first date that you came to the library for?”
“Studying for the exam.”
“What?”
She stretched out her chest and spoke confidently.
“It’s too late if you’re not careful because it’s not the exam period yet. I have to study hard on a regular basis, so it will be comfortable later.”
That’s a model student answer, though. I was trying to refute something, but I decided to just listen to her for today. Her eyes twinkled, as if she thought I was touched by her words.
I was a fool for expecting something like reading together with a book in the middle. You should have noticed that her crossbody bag looked quite heavy.
I took out the Juseom Juseom textbook from the bag I had brought with me just in case I was going to the library. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to take this out.
-Crash square
Hestia was afraid to take out the textbook and focused on her studies. The library is silent. All I can hear is the sound of her pen. I was about to touch her, but when I saw her concentrated profile, I lowered her hand. I just need to study too.
That’s how I worked hard for a long time. After about an hour, I started to stretch because my neck and shoulders felt sore for a while. Then a strange smell caught in my nose. It is fragrant rather than strange.
It is a fruity scent. I can’t pinpoint exactly what kind of fruit it is, but it has a refreshing scent. It seems to have a bit of floral scent mixed in. I just wanted to take a short break, so I decided to find the source of the scent for a while. When I lose my concentration while studying, I feel like bothering the eraser or disassembling the sharp.
I sniffed in the direction the scent intensified. In an instant, my capable nose found where this sweet scent was coming from.
“… What are you doing?”
“Somewhere smells good.”
Hestia looked at me with a puzzled expression. I put her nose close to Hestia’s forearm with almost impetuous force. Sniff sniff. It smells right here too.
“Are you crazy? Why do you smell it?!”
She jumped up in surprise and gave a loud voice.
“Shh, this is the library.”
She lowered her voice again, as if she accepted my point even in this situation.
“What are you doing?”
“It smelled good, so I was looking for where it came from.”
She opened her eyes and slapped her on my forearm.
“Are you bored? Why are you doing that?”
“I did it while taking a short break. Did you put some perfume on it?”
Hestia usually smells good. However, it is a sweet smell close to the smell of powdered milk from a baby. It has a different scent than this fresh fruit scent.
“Yes, I sprinkled some.”
“Smells good.”
“Thank you. I was worried that I sprayed too much.”
“No, just fine.”
“heheheung. Shall we spray it every time in the future?”
“Hmm, I usually smell good too.”
Her shoulders just went up at her continued praise, but she stopped moving.
“Mikhail, do I usually smell?”
“Huh? Of course. Because everyone has their own personality.”
Hestia trembled with her shocked face. I belatedly tried to deal with it, but Hestia seems to have stopped listening to my words.
“Hestia? There seems to be some misunderstanding, but it wasn’t the smell of sweat or anything like that, it was the smell of a baby….”
“The smell of sweat!”
I managed to catch the word “Smell of sweat” While shaking so much. Embarrassed, she smelled all over her body. In the end, it took her a while to convince her that her usual smell was good too.
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“After all, you didn’t study at all.”
Hestia grumbled with her arms crossed. True to her words, she couldn’t concentrate at all after the smell. She couldn’t seem to like it.
“Originally, a library date is not about studying, but only about feeling like studying. In reality, I’ll keep playing and later I’ll say I studied hard today and be satisfied.”
Of course, I’ve never had a library date before. This is what I heard from a friend when I was on Earth.
“It can’t be!”
Hestia still puffed her cheeks all morning as if she didn’t like what she was doing in the library, and she cheered. In the end, my focus was on the first hour, and after that, I just played pranks on Hestia. Hestia, too, after her first hour, she continued to accept my pranks or put her nose on her forearm and sniffed, as if she was bothered by her story about the smell.
“You keep poking me and scribbling in my notebook.”
“It’s not graffiti, it’s writing.”
I poked Hestia who was studying hard for no reason or ripped out a page from her notebook and handed it to Hestia after writing “I’m bored”.
“That’s it. Will it be like this in the afternoon?”
Hestia placed her hand on her side and questioned me.
“Okay, I’ll focus really hard in the afternoon, so stop getting angry.”
“Really?”
“Of course not.”
I answered without hesitation. The afternoon study will be taken care of by the afternoon me. It’s an irresponsible thought, but I don’t mind taking responsibility anyway.
“So what shall we eat for lunch?”
I asked Hestia with a very confident attitude. Because today I have a corner to believe in. The reply to the letter I had sent to the Grand Duchess finally arrived. She was very excited when I asked if there were any good stores near the academy, so she made a guidebook and sent it to me.
Now you don’t have to go to any store. In addition, the Grand Duchess’s own small restaurant with few customers was also inherited. He wondered if there might be a store that had disappeared, so he called the maids and cross-examined it. I wanted to put effort into something useless, but I am grateful for it.
“Well, eating all the time is a bit boring. Anything special on the menu?”
Hestia carefully expressed her opinion. Don’t eat all the time. Something special? The pages of the Grand Duchess’s guidebook flew by in my head.
“Hestia, do you like spicy food?”
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