Disclaimer: Touhou Project is owned by ZUN and Team Shanghai Alice. The story is a fictitious work made by a fan and may contain actions, words and behaviors being disrespectful to the characters included in the story in contrast to their original work. If you are fine with this, you may proceed reading.
IMPORTANT: This is a short chapter which is NOT INCLUDED IN THE STORY. If you are not interested in some filler story, then please skip this chapter. This only acts as a short introduction for the story.
You've been strolling down the halls of this library trying to find a book that would somehow satisfy your boredom. Aimlessly walking that you found yourself on its deepest part. Feeling a bit adventurous, you continued your little walk, scanning each aisle, feeling a bit excited.
It's really quiet in this parts that you can even hear your own footsteps echoing through the hall. Suddenly, you heard a sound of paper being flipped. You traced its location, trusting your memory and instinct. Sure enough, you can see a faint light coming from one of the aisle. Without any worry, you went towards it and saw a man sitting on one of the ladders with a book in hand. He looks at you and seems uninterested in talking so he went back to reading. Being a friendly person that you are, you tried to open up a conversation by asking if there are any interesting book to read around this parts. He looks again at you and seems to be a bit surprised. Seems like he's not really good with strangers. But he still tried to comply to you. "I... Uh... Sorry, I really can't recommend any. But I'm pretty sure there's plenty around."
You're a bit disappointed with the answer, but you didn't mind. You kept pushing your conversation and asked about the book he's reading.
"Oh, its uh... An old book that I really like." He seems to really like it as you can see his warm smile. Then he's somehow turned sad all of a sudden. "Its just that most of its pages are already torn". He shows you the book where the pages are torn. You felt sad for the thing. You suggested to look for any copy left of that book. He smiles at you again. "Thanks but, this is the only copy left for this book. I can't even find the original book. I guess it's telling me to move on." He let's out a small chuckle as he places the book on one of the shelves. He climbs down off the ladder carrying a small electronic lantern.
"Guess we have to look for something to read together." He said with a smile and started scanning the aisle of books. You started doing the same and found a book that seems out of place. It's thinner and newly made as the cover still has that fresh feel into it. The ink printed for the title seems to peel off and stick to your fingers if you tried to touch them. Though you seemed to be a bit... annoyed as the title is very familiar to you.
"Oh! Uh... I can't believe you found that one. Ahaha." He said while seems to be in haste as he approaches you. You are confused in what he said and asked him if he knows the book you are holding. "Y-yeah, you see I... uh... wrote that one." He shyly said.
You can't help but snicker but kept yourself from bursting out of laughter. You commented about how unoriginal the title is told him he should have given it a harder thought. "Yes, I know that. You really don't need to remind me. You see it's kinda like stuck into me when I was writing it. Telling me it's perfect for the story. So... Yeah, I got lazy and used that title anyway." He explained.
You felt a bit bad for him when he looked so down talking about it. You looked at the book in your hand. What could he possibly wrote that he needed to use this as his title. A bit curious, you carried the book looking for a place with a table and chair. And plenty of light!
The man hurriedly followed you as he sees you storming off with the book. "Um, excuse me? Are you planning to read that?" He asked. You looked at the book again and looked at him saying that you'll take a quick look on it. "Oh, well I guess I'll leave you alone then." I don't want you to feel pressured if you didn't liked it or distracted if you're into it. Take your time." He said and disappeared between the aisle of books.
After finding a place to sit down and relax, you took another look at the book thinking if you should really read it or not. Well, a little peek won't hurt you told yourself and started to turn the first page open.