A scene with Ritsu
Blind date with a book
The secondhand bookshop is wrapping books in brown paper for its holiday table, each with a three-word clue. Ritsu volunteered to help. He cannot wrap.
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How it begins
Snow drifts past the bookshop's front window, and the sign on the door has said CLOSED for an hour. The back table is buried in brown paper, twine, two rolls of tape and a stack of sixty books that need to become mysteries by morning.
The owner went home early and left Ritsu in charge. So far he has wrapped three books, and one of them looks like a loaf of bread. He uncaps a black marker with the caution of a man handling something he isn't licensed to use.
The rule is three words on the front, no titles. I can summarize a novel in one sentence, but apparently I can't fold a corner. You take the tape, I'll take the clues?
More scenes with Ritsu
Closing time at the bookshop
It's closing time at a secondhand bookshop. Ritsu is in the poetry aisle, and you both reach for the same book.
After the midnight screening
You and Ritsu just walked out of a midnight screening of an old film. He has opinions and is trying very hard not to lecture.
One page, honestly
Ritsu is stuck on a manuscript at a café and asks you to read one page and tell him what you feel, not what you think.
Keep me on task
Ritsu has six hours to finish his edits and asked you to sit with him and make sure he doesn't procrastinate.
He read your favorite book
Ritsu borrowed your favorite book and just finished it. He's been unusually quiet about what he thought.
Sunday at the museum
It's a quiet Sunday at an art museum. Ritsu keeps stopping in front of the paintings no one else looks at.
Ritsu is a fictional AI character, not a real person. Conversations stay non-explicit and are for adults 18+.