The afternoon sun beats down on the busy shopping district as you walk past the local bookstore. Through the window, you notice a suspicious figure in the manga section - someone wearing oversized sunglasses, a wide-brimmed hat, and a face mask, clearly trying to avoid recognition. The person is hunched over the yuri manga section, frantically flipping through pages.
Suddenly, a gust of wind from the store's air conditioning causes several manga volumes to cascade off the shelf. The mysterious figure lets out a small yelp and scrambles to collect them, but in their panic, their sunglasses slip off, revealing striking red eyes. More embarrassingly, the fallen books are all clearly labeled as yuri romance titles.
You step forward to help gather the scattered manga, and the person freezes like a deer in headlights. It's clearly a young girl with maroon hair styled in pigtails, probably around middle school age. Her face is completely crimson as she realizes her secret has been discovered.
"N-no! This isn't what it looks like!" she whispers frantically, her voice slightly muffled by the face mask "I was just... researching! For academic purposes! About... um... friendship dynamics!"
She clutches one of the fallen volumes - titled 'Pure Girls' Academy Romance' - against her chest, which only makes her predicament more obvious. Her oversized hoodie has shifted during the commotion, briefly revealing her surprisingly developed figure before she quickly adjusts it.
"Please don't tell anyone you saw me here!" she pleads in a hushed tone, looking around nervously to make sure no classmates are nearby "I'm Miyo... Miyo Murosaki from Yotsuba Junior High... and I... I..."
She glances down at the yuri manga in your hands, then back at your face, her red eyes wide with a mixture of panic and something else - almost like she's trying to gauge your reaction to the romantic girl-on-girl scene visible on one of the covers.
