5th Key ♫ A Pure Form of Love ♫ Action / Open

[golden_gaytime]

[ Now that things are calm(er) Mugi has decided to take a chance on a trip to the library! She's heard many interesting things by now, including that this might be one way to tell if she's truly dreaming or not.

Her curiosity takes hold of her, her feet crossing the threshold to the back room without any fuss from the bears. She, honestly, forgot what was so "taboo" about this room in the first place.

—moments later, she emerges from that room with a manga tankoban or three clutched to her chest, cheeks bright red, and an odd dazzle in her eyes. It's a combination look of a girl with her hand caught in the cookie jar who also managed to win the jackpot lottery. Yeah. It's kind of like that.

You can find Mugi at a table, attempting to discretely read one of her comics by using a different, larger book to mask its presence, or with the volumes set beside her as she looks into a volume of incredibly sappy poetry. Her brain does need a break from time to time, so she won't be opposed to conversation, but you might have to try harder to get her attention... ]

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[starofpleiades]

[And guess who totally has no idea Mugi's reading anything weird?]

Mugicha~! Whatcha reading?

[Totally trying to peek over her shoulder...]

[golden_gaytime]

[ Dreamily. ] A collection of short stories... [ Kind of like this, but this is just one of the tame ones. The next page can best be described as Yuri Twister gone horribly wrong right.

Mugi giggles. ] Oh my...

[ At least she isn't bleeding from her nose? ]

[starofpleiades]

Ah, ahh... I see...!

[Even something like that makes Kazumi blush quite a bit] I didn't know they had this kind of thing here...

[golden_gaytime]

They have... quite a lot of it. [ And she can't pull her eyes away! ]

[starofpleiades]

Eheheh... it seems a little... naughty.

[golden_gaytime]

It looks like bonding, to me. [ What's a little fully-clothed groping between friends?

Though the next page, the story starts in the bath and, well—

She quickly closes the book, and huffs under her breath. ] ...perhaps just a little naughty, after all...

[starofpleiades]

Skinship, huh?

[Mollified, Kazumi watches as she flips the page and-

Okay, back to being embarrassed again]

J, just a little!

[golden_gaytime]

I was not expecting that! [ Though the other girl does look shocked on a different level. With that, Mugi closes the book entirely and sets it down. ] What brings you here today, Kazumi-san?

[starofpleiades]

Eheh... [Well, Mugi does seem airheaded enough she might grab a book like that by mistake, right? It's not nice to suspect her friend of taking out perverted books on purpose...]

Free time, I guess? Eheh... I was actually kind of curious if they had any of the books my friend wrote!

[golden_gaytime]

You knew someone who was published? [ She is quite curious about that. ] Would you like me to help you look for one?

[starofpleiades]

Yeah, Umika Misaki! She's written a lot of teen novels, it's really amazing. [Though since they're novels, there won't be any in this library] Would you? That'd be great!

[sunbloom]

[Itsuki hadn't actually heard about the library before, but he hadn't gotten very far in before finding the dazed girl.]

You've... got a lot of books here. Anything interesting?

[golden_gaytime]

[ A little breathlessly. ] It's all very interesting... [ Not tearing her eyes away from the poetry just yet, though. ]

[sunbloom]

[Blink.] You're acting a little strange... are you okay?

[Itsuki is clearly torn between being nosy and being polite. For now, polite is winning as she stays across the table from the older girl.]

[golden_gaytime]

[ Oh. Now she seems to realize that this is a conversation! Mugi sets down the book face-up and smiles wide, bowing her head in apology. ] Ah, forgive my rudeness! I was not ignoring you. I was just... caught up. [ To say the least.]

[sunbloom]

So it seems... It's no trouble. I'm not entirely sure I want to know what you're reading, though.

What's in this library anyway?

[golden_gaytime]

Books! [ Duh, Mugi. ] Though there are also comics and things like it, in both Western and Eastern styles. [ She holds up what she's reading, the cover showing two girls in Japanese school uniforms. Presumably, they are seniors from the same school, and the style is very shoujo... though the one girl is definitely untying the other's scarf with her teeth. Welp. ]

[bladeofexile]

[Riven thought she might fine something useful about the Garden in the library. Even if Riven wasn't used to libraries she wasn't too sure about the dazed looking girl.]

[golden_gaytime]

[ Surely there's nothing special at all about a lone girl giggling in a library. Maybe it's something funny that she has in front of her! Or just the way it's worded amuses her. ]

[bladeofexile]

[Being a soldier Riven never had a need to go to a library so she is trying to take a discrete look at what she was reading]

[golden_gaytime]

[ It's sappy love poetry! Or it is worded like poetry, but it is just extremely purple prose, making it hard to decipher if the passage is discussing eating of actual food, or......

Was that noise, behind her? Mugi turns her head and her eyes go wide. ] Oh! [ Quickly setting the book down. ] Hello. [ Sure is blushing pretty fiercely, now. ]

[bladeofexile]

[Whoops caught]

Hello. I apologize for looking over your shoulder.

[golden_gaytime]

It's fine! [ She sets the book down and rises from her chair to greet the woman properly. ] I'm sorry for not noticing you. Though I guess your approach would have to be quiet, as this is still a library.

[bladeofexile]

I would not know as I never needed to go into a library before.

[golden_gaytime]

Never? Oh, but there is so much to learn from books. [ Mugi was genuinely surprised to hear this. ]