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“Zzz, zzz…..”
I woke up with a groan and remembered what happened to me when I saw the unfamiliar ceiling.
As I recall, I was trying to save a girl who was about to be hit by a car and instead got hit by the car.
I remember feeling quite a shock, but apparently I survived because I could see the ceiling of what I thought was a hospital.
I was lucky that I did not lose my life despite being hit by a car, but the next thing I remembered was that Sumika had dumped me for a reason that was so cruel.
I could have pretended that the fact that I broke up with Sumika had never happened as a reward for saving the girl’s life even though I was hit by a car, but the scene where Sumika cruelly dumped me is deeply engraved in my head.
Well, I didn’t save the girl for a favor.
In fact, between the time I saw that girl at the crosswalk and the time I went to help her, I didn’t have time to think, [If I help her, maybe I’ll get a reward from God.]
Anyway, as long as the girl was doing well and not injured because I took her place, that was all that mattered.
–I don’t care about myself, but is the girl safe?
I think I helped her on my own, but there is a possibility that she had even the slightest contact with the car, or that she was injured by the force of me pushing her away.
I hurriedly raised myself up to press the nurse’s call to make sure the girl I was trying to help is okay.
“Heavy…why is it so heavy…”
Perhaps due to the accident, I can’t feel the weight and can’t get up easily even if I try to raise my body.
Although I felt some pain, it wasn’t severe pain, and I felt like I would be able to sit up normally with this level of pain…
Thinking this, I desperately tried to sit up and saw a girl sleeping, leaning against my body.
At first I thought the girl might be Sumika, but she was obviously smaller than her and had beautiful black hair, unlike Sumika who had blonde hair.
I wondered if Sumika had heard that I had been hit by a car and was wandering between life and death, and when she thought that I might disappear from this world, she came back to me saying, [I can’t imagine Eita not being here after all] I was really angry at myself for thinking that.
I was so angry at myself that I wished I had just died.
Since Sumika won’t be coming back to me anymore, I have to erase Sumika’s existence from my mind as soon as possible.
I wonder who this petite girl that is leaning on me is.
I can’t believe I’ve ever seen such a small, cute girl before—ah, could she be……
The moment I thought that, the girl who was sleeping leaning on me woke up and looked at me.
“Eh—!?”
“Ah, um, hi.”
“N-Nurse–!”
As soon as her eyes met mine, the girl who was leaning on me impatiently pressed the call button.
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A petite girl who had been sleeping leaning over me pressed the button, and soon a nurse and a doctor arrived on the scene.
I didn’t feel that way, but from what the doctors told me, I had been asleep for three days without waking up.
When I woke up, the doctor arrived and gave me various medical examinations and tests, and finally released me when it was getting dark.
I hit my head and lost consciousness, so I didn’t realize it when I woke up, but it seemed like I had broken my leg and a cast was wrapped around it.
It was fortunate that I only lost consciousness and broke my leg.
For that price, I was able to save the girl, so I was glad I was reckless. Well, I was just desperate.
If that petite girl had been hit by a car, it is quite possible that she would have lost her life, and anyway, the result was all right.
While I was thinking about that, the door to the hospital room opened and the girl who just came in.
“Thank goodness !”
“Whoa !?”
The girl who was leaning over me when I woke up hugged me as soon as she saw me.
“Hey, you’re hurting me.”
“Ah, you’re right, I’m sorry.”
“Erm…..are you by any chance the one that I saved–?”
“Yes. My name is Arayashiki Kohime, and the person whose life was saved by Eita san.”
When I woke up and saw this girl, I immediately realized that the girl who called herself Arayishiki Kohime was the one I had saved.
Even so, this child is still quite short, and it is doubtful whether she is even 150 centimeters tall.
“Erm, how old are you?”
“That’s right. I’m quite short, so it’s natural for people to misunderstand me, but I’m a second-year high school student at Aitoku High School.”
“Eh, we’re the same age !?”
“Yes. I’m the same age as Eita san.”
Unlike the coeducational high school I attend, Arayashiki san seems to be attending a school for girls.
Come to think of it, her clothes and language are quite elegant.
Even so, from the way she looks, it’s hard to imagine that we’re the same age.
“How did you know my name and age?”
“I heard everything from your mother. I’m sorry if I offend you.”
“…..I see, that’s right.”
It means that three days have passed since I lost consciousness, so it is natural that Arayashiki san has already had a conversation with my mother during that time.
Although I had a slight feeling of discomfort earlier, it was no wonder that she was calling me by my first name instead of my last name, so as not to complicate things when she called me and my mother.
By the way, Mom had gone home to get her stuff and would be arriving at the hospital soon.
“Oh, um……thank you so much for your help.”
“It’s okay. I’m glad Arayashiki san wasn’t hurt.”
“It’s not okay. If I hadn’t been walking around in a daze, Eita san wouldn’t have been injured…….”
I followed up with Arayashiki san, who looked very apologetic.
“You really don’t have to worry about it, it’s fine. As long as Arayashiki san survives and I’m not that seriously injured, the result will be okay, right?”
“If you were unconscious and had broken bones, I would call that a serious injury.”
“No, no, if I’m alive, it’s all minor injuries.”
“Eita san….. You’re too kind.”
When I heard that from Kohime, I remembered that right before I got run over, I was told the exact opposite.
“No, that’s not true. I was just called a scumbag just a few days ago.”
“I can’t believe someone would say such a thing to Eita san !?”
“Well, I couldn’t believe that myself.”
“I don’t care what that person thinks about Eita san because he saved my life.”
“I’m glad to hear you say so.”
“……Eita san, let me return the favor !”
“Eh, a favor….?”
Arayashiki san suddenly started to say something like a famous old story that I had heard many times since I was a child.
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