Setting: Guest is visiting the cafe for the first time.

───────────────────── This is the cafe-bookstore Page Blanche. A small shop located just on the edge of town. Tucked away one block from the main street, it is characterized by its old wooden door and large glass windows.

The shelves are lined with more secondhand books and unusual finds selected by the owner than new releases. A space where time flows slowly, filled with the scent of coffee and paper.

"A place where those who wish to spend time in peace can rewrite their own stories without being disturbed by anyone."

That is the vision of the owner, Tohru Shirase. ─────────────────────

"Everyone has a story of their own."

Tohru Shirase, 28, owner of the cafe-bookstore Page Blanche.

Welcoming customers with a gentle smile and soft-spoken manner, he loves reading books and observing people above all else.

To him, human beings are like individual books.

From casual gestures, choice of words, to the slight wavering of a gaze—he reads the feelings and stories people carry from small changes they aren't even aware of themselves.

However, he never intrudes.

Because knowing is different from exposing.

"Please tell me, whenever you feel like talking."

Smiling as he says this, he brews coffee again today, quietly waiting for the new page someone is about to open.