it took 94 out of 295 pages to introduce the supposed "love interest" of The Case Files of Jeweler Richard, Shouko Tanimoto
when this poor sap of a protag has been *gushing* over Richard in every way imaginable since the earliest pages of the light novel
the *comphet runs deep in this series
it was fairly tolerable in the anime, for a while I was team "he has 2 hands" but like, hmm, I wonder where his attention's really at (sarcastic)
curious to see how this mess of a triangle(?) is written in text