Waiting For Ribbons In The Void

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What in the hell was Amy doing here!?

That was the question that Natsuki wanted to ask as soon as she saw the mousy, red-haired girl with pigtail braids and glasses who was browsing through the non-fiction shelves of the quaint, hole-in-the-wall bookstore. Once again, the freshly minted club president found yet another person with a fully-rendered sprite - just like the bothersome council president Matsuri from earlier.

Meeting one anomaly in that sea of nondescript people was already a massive pain for Natsuki, so she couldn’t help but imagine what Amy’s beef with the Literature Club was going to be. Was the sheepish, red-haired girl spying on her and Yuri for Matsuri? Was she secretly a main antagonist from Elias’ production notes that didn’t make it into ‘Post-Credits’?

If that was the case, then Amy was doing a particularly bad job.

The mousy girl was so engrossed in reading the titles of the books in the non-fiction that she didn’t even seem to notice the fretting Natsuki and the sleeping Yuri on the couch just ten paces away from her. She was also keeping her back turned to her targets as well.

Natsuki then wondered if Amy would go away on her own.

If Natsuki just sat absolutely still and covered her face behind the abridged Portrait of Markov book that she had been reading, she hoped that Amy would do just that.

The pink-haired girl decided give it a try.

She held her breath and mentally shooed the red-haired girl away.

The sleeping, purple-haired bookworm who had been leaning on Natsuki, however, suddenly hugged the club president and dreamily muttered,

“Ah~ so warm~”

At that point, Natsuki started to panic.

Her face flushed bright red as she tried to force herself to stay quiet, but her suddenly clingy vice president wasn’t helping her at all! So, Natsuki gritted her teeth and tried to urge with a whisper,

“Quit it, you big dummy! I-It’s not like I don’t like this… but now’s not the time!”

The sleeping Yuri, however, chuckled when she heard Natsuki’s voice. The vice president then muttered again,

“There’s… never a bad time… for tea~!”

As she was mumbling, Yuri rested her cheek on Natsuki’s head of pink-hair as if it were a pillow. The club president was completely trapped!

Then, just when Natsuki thought her situation couldn’t get any worse, she realized that Amy was already looking at them!

Frustrated by her situation, Natsuki found the strength to push Yuri aside and free herself from the warm yet sudden bearhug.

However, it was already too late.

Amy already saw Natsuki in that awkward position.

The damage had already been done - and Amy seemed incredibly pleased by what she saw.

Yuri was still awakening from her short nap when Amy approached them at the sofa and cheerfully greeted,

“Good afternoon, Natsuki! Fancy seeing you here! Though… I’m not getting in the way of anything, am I?”

Natsuki scowled at the red-haired girl and tried to hobble together an excuse,

“What the hell is going on in your twisted mind, Amy!? We’re just… on an after-school club activity, that’s all!”

Amy chuckled at Natsuki’s defensiveness. She found the pink-haired girl’s pouting to be cute.

It was at that time that Yuri finally managed to speak, albeit groggily,