Tsuruko wasn't in her room, and Kojiro was nowhere to be found probably off with Yuta, Noriko decided so she thought this would be a good time to begin going through their joint books and publications to weed out duplicates. Since she knew what she had, she went to Yuta's room to sort through his.

This was work she enjoyed. She went through the books first. While publication as an industry had boomed in Japan since the adoption of the Western printing press with its moveable ...