"I'll show you when it's time to water them."

Nod.

"How about I do some shopping and you get settled. Feel free to have a look at any of the books on the shelves by the fireplace and the stairs."

"Thank you."

He'll at least have a look at the titles.

Books in the main rooms have titles 72 Uses for Snails, Monster History, Plants of the Underground, and The Robot Kitchen Cookbook.

His room has books with titles like Pat the Bunny, Blue Hat Green Hat, Alligators All Around, and Pajama Time.

He examines Alligators All Around, discovers that alphabet books are really weird in magical translation, and re-shelves it.

He opens Monster History.

It outlines a history in which humans spontaneously declared war on monsters for fear of what a monster with human souls could do, despite monsters being of the temperament to never absorb human souls even when at war. The war ended with the monsters' surrender, enforced by the barrier. Monsters then retreated to the far end of the barrier-enclosed and founded Home.

An astute reader may notice that the monsters' king at the time was also named Asgore, and he had a wife named Toriel.

Well, it could be a common name but he can ask when she returns. Plants of the Underground might also be useful if he winds up in certain possible stupid adventurer situations? Unless it's another cookbook.

Plants of the Underground is what it sounds like, complete with illustrations.

It seems potentially more helpful for hobbyist gardeners than for adventurers, though it does call out some plants as being useful for food manufacture.

If he can forage he can use his third circle slot for something else, if he finds himself forced to adventure here.

The food manufacture processes expected here must be interesting, given that the book describes cattail flower spikes as a good basis for a hearty sausage.

...if he has to forage here he will do it with Detect Poison but it's at least nice to know what weird plants that grow without sunshine are worth checking at all.

Then he will unpack an Acts to read.

He can read the Acts in peace.

Eventually, Toriel returns with an impressively large collection of bags.

"Would you like help with those?"

Toriel considers this.

"Since you are offering, please take these."

She holds out a bag of books and a bag of clothing.

"Where would you like them?"

"In your room."

He hauls them there and unpacks.

There's some large and somewhat worn books with titles like "Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering" and "Introductory Physics I".

The clothing looks like it would plausibly fit Blai, if he uses a belt with the pants, and the provided (stretchy, with a weird toggle?) adjustable string with the underpants, and tolerates the misplaced and sometimes absent sock heels. Several of the shirts have designs. One advertises "Team Mettaton 2113", and shows a rectangular construct defeating a fish-woman while being showered with rose petals. Another mentions Hotland High Junior Varsity Basketball, and shows an alchemical device with arms and legs throwing a ball through a hoop.

He does not change clothes immediately, but does hold things up against himself. He will have a flip through Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering.

From its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, electrical engineering has blossomed from focusing on electrical circuits for power, telegraphy and telephony to focusing on a much broader range of disciplines. However, the underlying themes are relevant today: Power creation and transmission and information have been the underlying themes of electrical engineering for a century and a half. This course concentrates on the latter theme: the representation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information by electrical means. This course describes what information is, how engineers quantify information, and how electrical signals represent information.

.........his role in this matter will be bringing this to wizards.

If the textbook were sentient, it would agree. He hasn't even gotten to complex numbers yet.

Toriel knocks on his door.

"Is now a good time for me to distribute the snails? I will return shortly."

"Yes, I'll be all right."