The Person You Left Me With Only an Year Left to Live

Ch.1 : Transfer student out of season

So what was Mizuki doing in this library, which was inaccessible and only had a fake name——?

The answer is doing behind-the-scenes work in the library.

Be prepared for the newly purchased book to be borrowed normally. Repair tasks such as repairing damaged books and re-labeling books. Apart from other things, almost all of this was done by Mizuki himself.

Mizuki started working behind the scenes, exactly a year ago. It started just to help the librarian's work.

Since there is no full-time school librarian in high school, so the teacher is fully responsible for the library. However, the busy schedule of teaching and consulting for club activities meant teachers really couldn't take time off, so naturally, not much time was spent on library matters, and even teachers had a hard time registering newly purchased books.

The teacher was working in the library with a tired face, and Mizuki who was a member of the library committee couldn't keep quiet anymore when he saw the teacher's appearance.

"Teacher, I have to enter a newly purchased book into the system via the computer, then paste a barcode sticker on it, right? Please tell me how to do it. In that case, I can help you too."

So, Mizuki proposed to replace the teacher to do the work of inserting books.

Mizuki intends to lighten the teacher's burden through his own help.

However, Mizuki's contributions to the library and the library committee did not stop there.

Since I started doing the work of putting in books for teachers, even if I don't have to work at the library counter, I spend a lot of time in the library on other days.

So soaking in the library like this made Mizuki more aware of one thing.

Mizuki himself was like this, but because there were always a lot of students visiting the library, the library committee members on duty were always very busy. Receiving at the library counter and sorting out summer vacations, as well as the work of returning books that were returned to their original places, was also extremely difficult. This way, trivial things like repairing a broken book would be out of reach, so——.

Mizuki said this——

"Teacher, please tell me how to repair a broken book. Also, can I reassemble books with spine barcodes disabled?"

So, Mizuki also started taking care of the "out-of-reach parts".

Later, it evolved into this system where one person does the work behind the scenes.

Of course, Mizuki didn't need to carry out such a heavy workload alone. In fact, the librarian teacher was more worried about Mizuki than grateful.

But even so, Mizuki who persists in doing this work is actually trying to practice the "lifestyle that makes his late mother proud" that he swore two years ago.

In fact, Mizuki didn't particularly like books, nor did Mizuki have any special feelings towards libraries. Becoming a member of the library committee is the result of a lottery. Even so, when he thought that he might be able to make the situation a little better, Mizuki couldn't give up halfway no matter what.

Alright, I'll leave the reasoning aside for now. After turning on the computer, Mizuki was about to enter the title of the first book——

"Eh. So this is what the school's library is like."

Mizuki was startled by the sudden voice. Mizuki fell off the chair.

In a library where no one has to come, why is there a voice other than yourself? However, judging by the voice he heard, it seemed to be a girl's voice.