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A bookstore owned all of the books you were interested in. You decide to skim through and ask some questions about what you were buying. Luckily for you the librarian, a petite catgirl, was happy to go through these with you.
Out of all of these there was only one which had romantic undertones.
<span class="mu-i">The Baron's Bandit</span>: It was a story about a noble and a bandit chick. She had kidnapped him with the intent to ransom the guy to his family. But as the story went on she started to fall more and more in love with the noble dude until he made her his slave-wife. The bandit gal was surprisingly intelligent, having been a spy apprentice working for some well-off merchant family, only falling down into banditry due to being unjustly accused and disowned before she even had a Master. The twist at the end was that the noble guy was actually planning everything all along, even before they met in person. He used her to steal from other nobles, even his own family (who apparently disowned him right after he was kidnapped), and with cleverness he became a powerful man that could stand up to anyone that opposed him.
You expected there to be lewdness at some point but it was innocent, with the most questionable thing being how, when it was the bandit's pov, she liked getting her ears nibbled by her husband after he did some mindgames on her, and how it was implied that under the sheets he ravaged her and acted like a 'brute', to the bandit's flustered happiness. Despite this, and her lowly bloodline, he treated her like a lady in all other occasions. It kinda reminded you of the sort of relationship you had with Ruby. Huh.
What took you by surprise the most the book's author and co-author: Andrew Boarhewer and his first slave-wife Anne Boarhewer, both Westphalian monarchs from many few generations before Robert Boarhewer's reign. Apparently it was a thinly-veiled secret that Andrew was the Baron and Anne was the Bandit, and this story basically how they were able to take the crown of Westia.
You decided to...
>Purchase all the books for her, even the thinly veiled romance one. However, you wanted an explanation on why Ruby wanted it to begin with.
>Just purchase the ones that were purely academic and technical.
>(Write-in)
After your cat helped carry the books, you, Mel, and Gerty happened to be talking with about some of the things they bought for the ship while aimlessly walking about. It was then that you happened to see some three uniformed people.
"... and then I heard this huge ass mech came in to destroy them!" One of them said, a woman wearing a uniform. None of them seemed to notice you due to the crowds of people.
"Those bandits acted like a tough crowd." Said a man, the only one in the group, and seemingly a higher rank than the rest of them. "They have at least 50 goblin skulls to prove it."
"Mel?" You whispered.
"On it." She responded, casting invisibility and footstep soundproofing spells on the three of you.
