Part 1 Volume 1 Chapter 2: Exploring My Home

Exploring My Home (おうち探索, Ouchi Tansaku) is the second chapter of the Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 1 Volume 1 light novel adaption.

Since Urano Motosu's awakening as Myne, three days have past. During that time she suffered one humiliation and culture shock after another. But she achieved small successes, which improve her new life slightly but significantly. She was able to persuade her sister Tuuli to wipe down her body and acquired a hairpin. One thing she was not able to manage is properly exploring her new home. Myne's failure made her family wary of her, which made them keeping a close eye on Myne as often as they could. Then, on the fourth day Tuuli is alone with Myne at home. Tuuli has to clean the dishes, which is done outside. Myne has been behaving herself nicely the past days, to make her family let their guard down, so Tuuli decides to leave Myne alone reluctantly to clean the dishes. Immediately after hearing the door lock's sound and Tuuli's footsteps fading away, Myne begins her operation "search-for-books-at-home". Her first hurdle is to open the door of the bedroom due to her small and weak body. The only option she finds are her parent's comforter. Dragging them to the door and climbing onto them to reach the handle, she is able to open the door. Beyond that lies a room which looks like a living room combined with a kitchen, but without books or shelves that would store books. Everything looks dirty; there is no bath or running water. She finds two other doors; the first door leading to a messy storage room, and the second door supposedly outside. Shocked, Myne realises that there might be no books in this house, due to them being expensive, and looks for written media. But no written media, nor paper, could be found anywhere in her new home. Devastated, a heat arises within her body, devouring her, while she loses her reason to continue life as Myne. Tuuli returned and finds Myne lying on the floor. She runs up to Myne, crying, while Myne desperately asks for (books) before she loses consciousness.

Characters are listed in order of appearance.


 * Myne
 * Tuuli


 * Myne explores her new home.
 * No written media or paper found.


 * Book


 * Tuuli stays outside for around thirty minutes when washing dishes.