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[Heizou perks.]

Did you like the ones I lent you??

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They weren't the worst thing I've ever read. [So, yes] The ending of the one about the murder on that "locomotive" whatever was pulled out of nowhere, but it was interesting.

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I told you a lot of them are like that! Personally I feel like the author did that to pull the wind from your sails if you thought you had everything figured out.

[Heizou is so pleased, his eyes bright. Wanderer enjoyed something that he also enjoys! That's friendship, right?]

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It felt more like they hadn't really settled on a solution and so came up with something random, even if it was vaguely believable if you know a bunch of nutjobs.

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You're not wrong about that! Maybe the author just decided to have some fun with it at the end, even if it was extremely out of nowhere.

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Or it was rushed. The one where the murderer was the narrator was better.

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I liked that one, too! It was a truly unique style of story telling for this genre.

There was a similar one I read where the story is told backwards because the main character suffers from short-term memory loss. It was fascinating~ I can lend that one to you next if you like!

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That one at least sounds novel. I'll take it from you.

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I think you'll like it. I know how you feel about things being too predictable, after all~

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We'll see, we'll wee.

[They should be almost to the store now....]

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[As soon as they get there, Heizou spreads his arms out as he gestures toward it, as though presenting it in a sort of "ta-dah!" motion. It's a very ordinary looking store, and from outside it doesn't even look to be all that big.]

And here we are! It doesn't look like much, but it has a fine selection for every genre.

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I'll be the judge of that. Where's the mystery novels?

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[Heizou practically beams. He's so pleased.]

Oh? Have I won you over with the mystery genre~?

[SO PLEASED. So he will happily start leading Wanderer toward his favorite part of the store. Now that they're inside Wanderer may notice that the store is just a bit bigger on the inside, and the shelves go from the floor to the ceiling.]

It's right over here!

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They're not predictable or as melodramatic as romance, and they're not as stupid as Inazuman light novels. The last one I saw involved someone getting hit by a mine cart, dying, and being sent to some bizarre otherworld where they were basically a god with a harem.

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[Heizou smirks a little, amused.]

Well, light novels are light for a reason. They're purely entertainment for the masses. Clearly you're a real man after my own heart~

[He glances over at Wanderer just to give him a little wink as he keeps winding through the rows of books.]

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If that's what entertains the masses, no wonder Teyvat's a disaster.

[He ignores!! That wink!! As he takes to the sky for a bit to get to the taller shelves.]

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[His smirk grows a little bit, just to himself while he starts to peruse the books closer to his level.]

Well, there's no accounting for taste when it comes to the mass population. See anything interesting up there?

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Something involving necromancy?

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Oh? That could be interesting, don't you think?

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[He pulls that one off the shelf.]

I'll give it to you when I'm done. I found it, after all.

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[That makes him let out a loud, heavy sigh.]

Fiiiine. But I'm only borrowing it if it's good. And don't lie to me!

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Whatever.

[They end up spending quite a bit in the bookstore, and Wanderer at least ends up with several new mystery novels to try, a book of faerie tales, and another book he refuses to let Heizou see and has the clerk wrap in plain brown paper before he shoves it in his bag.]

Not bad.

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[Why would you do that, Wanderer. Dont you know that hiding it from him just makes him more curious?]

Did you have fun~? Think you'll be enjoying yourself with that mystery book~?

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[Suffer and die.

He shrugs.]

It'll be a decent way to kill time at night.

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[That's no way to talk to your best friend, Wanderer!]

And that last book you got? Are you embarrassed to show it to me~?