Ryunosuke likes the idea of doing something Manabu might enjoy! He'll clearly just needs to get to know Manabu better to pull something like that off.

Though, despite his relatively upbeat thoughts, he notices that the air between them has changed ever so slightly, just enough to cause him to worry as Manabu disappears onto the other side of the stack. He hadn't done anything wrong, had he? He worries at his lip as he turns his attention to looking over the spines with care. Most of the books he was finding were in English, which he expected from a majority English-speaking population, but there were a few in languages he didn't recognize. Collins, Doyle, Wilde... books he recognized from English shops when he stayed in London, but nothing from the Japanese author himself.

He was starting to lose some hope when he hears Manabu pipe up.

"Did you?!" He shoots up, moving around the shelving unit to meet Manabu on the other side, and takes the book from him.

I Am A Cat by Soeski Natsume. He grins, opening the book to see if there was any indication of the author being the same Natsume-san he knew.

"I can't believe it. This has to be it." He says as he flips through the pages. "This is brilliant! You're brilliant." He closes the book, looking at Manabu with a smile. "Thank you. Are there more or was this the only one?" A pause, just one as he sets the book on top of the shelf. He's rather excited by this prospect. "I wonder what else we can find here."

He's pretty certain he's going to end up with a stack of books to bring home at this rate.