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' Ugh it's crowded.... even at this early morning? Today was a weekend right? ' Mao couldn't help but shook his head with dismay as he looked around, the whole station was packed. Basically everyone was waiting for the first train which will depart at ETA 06 : 30.

' Sigh, I don't think I will get any seat, gotta have to stand near the compartment door. ' He crossed his arms while thinking whether he chose the wrong day for the plan, he could have delayed it to next day, Sunday. But alas he was already at station and looking at the crowd he could tell that he wouldn't be able to pass through them because of his low strength.

' Now that I think about it, my height was around 160 cms (5.3 ft), adding my frail body into equation isn't that I have a shota frame? Umu, earlier I didn't checked it at mirror but right I'm smol🥲 '. Mao eyes almost tear up as he pondered about his height and frail body which was even frailer than a girl.

Anyways the trains coming he should ready himself to climb or he would get swayed away the crowd, Let's pick up the pace.

\\\ ~ Your attention please. The train bound for Tokyo will soon arrive at track no. 3 ~ ///

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𝗛𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗸𝗮𝘄𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝘇𝘂𝗸𝗶 (POV)

Mizuki is a student at Waseda University and the president of library club where it is usually her responsibility in keeping the library clean and functional with new books. She's also responsible for getting the club to gather and search for new books in almost all libraries of Shinjuku.

Mizuki is the only daughter of a lineage of wealthy farmers coming from Himekawa Family, which appears to be preety renowned. Her house is situated at Iida city of Nagano Prefecture, she graduated from Nagano Nishi High and enrolled into WU (Waseda University).

Mizuki entered the library club because she liked the smell of old books kept at Library. She could spent an entire day reading those books, you can easily tell she loved passing her time by grabbing a coffee with a book in her hand.

She was very tomboyish at her childhood and would often got into lot of fights in that age. But one day while she was returning to her house, she by mistake entered her grandma's room. That room was furnished to the brim as if a speck of dust wouldn't be noticed while going inside it.

Her grandma had already passed away before she was even born but still her room was kept as it is and was furnished regularly. Her grandma kept a huge cupboard inside their room. As a child Mizuki got curious about what was inside.

She walked towards the cupboard in her tip toe and reached out the rack. Clop* Clob* She applied too much force, which made the books kept inside to fall over her. Fortunately they weren't heavy and only three books fell from the cupboard.

Well she was lucky that she didn't got hurt but then she smelled a distinct odour, it was the smell of Vanilla which she get to often taste in icecreams. She grabbed the book which fell straight on her face and flipped it over. It was a story book, "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓" was it's name.

She didn't know why but she got a feeling of achievement when she found this book. It was different from the other two books, it was as if the book she held was special. Last thing she knew, she had already fell in love with this book. That she turned the whole cupboard upside down to search for a similar story but couldn't find it.

The next day she wanted to ask his father to take her visit a Library but before she could went, the story book disappeared from the place she kept earlier. That day was first and last day she cried hard enough to wet her own dress, from that day she vowed she would find the story book no matter what.

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" Phew~ Today's our 87th library council meetup, I think I'm not late. " Mizuki checked her watch at her right hand while she waited for train at Kyoto station.

She was living at her aunt's house at Kyoto, as her mom forced her to visit her aunt's while complaining she (Mizuki) was always with the books. She (Her mom) would often pester her to search for a boyfriend.

Everyday on calls she (mom) would ask her about how she was doing in UNI, did she find any one or not, sometimes even force marriage candidates offered by the relatives friends. Her mom was a pain in her back.

She could only sigh and looked up at the mirror inside the washroom. Today she had dressed up in turquoise botton-down with full sleeves tucked into a designer dark black skirt, dark thigh-high stockings and black plumps.

\\\ ~ Your attention please. The train bound for Tokyo will soon arrive at track no. 3 ~ ///

Then she heard the sound of announcement and hurried out of washroom.

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Mao Sunohara (POV)

' Ha... I'm safe. ' When the train arrived and stopped, with quick thinking Mao entered the compartment first and went towards the corner of alternate door. He was alive that was good with how much frail he was, searching for a seat in that crowd would be his death.

His shota height was God gifted it played a huge role in sneaking away first, soon all other passengers boarded the train akin to Tunas. He could literally see a flood of crowd approaching the compartment, suddenly a girl older than him separated from the tide of crowd and hurled towards my direction.

' God that could have been me, with my weight, people could easily hurl me up and threw me far like basketball. This onee-san seems unlucky as she got pushed away by the crowd. '

Well she was beautiful enough to grab his attention, she had straight black waist-lenth hair with short bangs above her forehead. She had wore glasses over her cute round face, anyone can tell she was very ladylike, polite & pure.

' Should I check her gauge it wouldn't matter though...right? ' Giving her a bombastic side-eye, he used the skill [𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆].

' And lord mother, have mercy, that girl had 41% panel with a reddish hue above her head as if that girl was a bad influence or dangerous. I should keep distance from her. '

He back stepped but there wasn't anyplace to backstep anymore, his back was literally sticking to train's door. Mao could only watch her fidgeting with her hand bag as she checked inside it. ' Damn, I have to continue like this for entire 3 hours! '

Thank the lord, god hadn't abandoned him as the next station arrived soon, 1/10th of the people inside the train got off the compartment and Finally he got space to breathe freely.

While he was busy wondering whether he would get any free seat after two stops or not he found the woman infront of him jerked up strangely.

' What! What happened to this onee-san? ' Mao asked inwardly as he looked at her with discerning gaze, what he found was mind boggling.

Behind onee-san was a middle aged uncle he could literally see his arms outline over the ass of onee-san. ' Wait....wait this is molestation! And why does this uncle have a face similar to those NTR ugo(ugly) bastards? What should I do? The onee-san seemed to be in pinch! '

<𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗴!>

[𝐴 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠! 𝑌𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡!]

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