Back to the Bookstore

March 13, 2020 (which just happened to be a Friday) was the day I told myself I couldn’t keep “hoping against hope” and would have to cut out any outing not absolutely essential for the sake of my own health. On that day, though, I did chance going into the national chain bookstore in the city mall after work one more time to buy a few more volumes of manga. After weeks of holed-up uncertainty about just how I’d keep following the series I was following (and I’m aware it was a luxury to be able to wonder about that) I sorted out I could start ordering from an area comics shop and have the boxes dropped off on my doorstep.
( Six hundred-plus days later )