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The morning of the third day of nursing care.
After sleeping soundly for two full days, my health was steadily improving.
“Ryo-kun, Aahn.”
“Aahnn.”
I was starting to get used to being fed rice porridge. Today, too, I opened my mouth as Toka instructed.
“My porridge’s gotten better, right?”
“Yeah, it’s pretty good.”
For a moment, the not-so-good state of the kitchen flashed through my mind. Better forget it now, erase it from memory.
“Okay, once you finish eating, I’ll wipe you down.”
“Am I a kid?”
“you used to be one.”
“So does everyone! If you’re gonna say that, shouldn’t it be ‘you used to be a child actor’!?”
Seems like my girlfriend is in top form again today.
After finishing the rice porridge, Toka immediately reached for my clothes. Apparently, during this nursing period, the concept of personal space between men and women has gone missing somewhere. It’s a little scary how my guard is dropping against her undressing me!
“Ryo-kun, take off your bottoms too.”
“I’ll do my own bottoms.”
“Come on…”
But I won’t let my guard down there! I absolutely must protect my dignity as a man! If I let her do that, it’d feel more like nursing care than nursing. I can’t really say it strongly since she’s trying so hard, though.
“Besides, when I nursed you, I didn’t wipe your bottom either, did I?”
“Eh? Ryo-kun, you wanted me to wipe your bottom? Pervert…”
“Nooooo! That’s not what I meant!”
“W-well, I don’t mind doing it…”
“You say that, but you’d be totally embarrassed when it actually came time to do it!”
“Muu..”
Toka’s thin eyebrows shot up sharply. Oh, maybe that was a slip of the tongue.
“N-no, I-I-I-I don’t mind that stuff at all! A-and anyway, I-I’ll take care of everything for Ryo-kun! Of course, including down there—”
“STOP IT!! You’re about to say something girls shouldn’t say out loud, so this conversation ends here!”
“Ugh…”
Toka was blushing, imagining something. See? Look at her! She’s already embarrassed! She’s so easy to read!
“Ryo-kun, let’s take your medicine.”
“Uh, okay.”
Toka changed the subject, trying to cover it up.
“…Hey, hey, Ryo-kun, is a kiss an ointment? Or is it something you drink?”
“It’s neither! And seriously, why are you suddenly asking that?”
“I dunno, but drinking it seems like it’d work better, right?”
“What the hell are you talking about!?”
――A little while passed after breakfast.
“……”
It was still only a little past ten in the morning. Time flowed slowly for the two of them. Between oversleeping and feeling better, I wasn’t sleepy at all. We were quite bored.
“This one has bell peppers, so no. This one needs onions, so no. This one has too many veggies, so no.”
Toka sat beside me, happily reading a cookbook the whole time.
I really need to write this down in the training notes. “No picky eating.” And also, eat all the bell peppers. Post-it notes listing Toka’s cooking no-gos kept piling up.
I knew this already, but Toka is a kid who doesn’t mind idle time at all. She reads books, lounges around, or just stares blankly while sunbathing by the window—she enjoys her free time wholeheartedly. If she has time, I wish she’d at least try to tidy up the kitchen.
“Toka, I’m bored—”
I couldn’t hold back any longer and spoke up. Toka’s hand, which had been turning pages, stopped abruptly.
“Huh? So you want me to sleep next to you?”
“No way! I’ll give you cold!”
“But we’ve already kissed, so what’s the big deal now?”
Toka turned her head away, looking all tsundere. Yeah, but still! That’s a completely different issue!
“Toka, you don’t mess around with your phone, do you?”
“I forgot my phone even existed.”
“Don’t forget it.”
Whether it’s conscious or subconscious avoidance, I don’t know, but Toka doesn’t play with her phone when she’s bored. For a high school girl these days, that’s pretty rare. Yuzuha does it, and of course, I do too—surfing the net, playing games. Well, surfing the net does mean you might accidentally stumble upon something bad…
“Toka, wanna look at phone together?”
“Look at what?”
“Let’s look up some summer vacation date spots together. We’ve got time.”
“Sounds fun!”
I said that to Toka because I wanted to make her feel a little more like a normal girl. It’s okay, it’s okay. Something like that won’t bring up any articles about Toka.
“My phone is… oh.”
“Ah, I’ll lend you mine!”
Toka offered her own smartphone. She seemed to have zero resistance to showing me her phone. In the end, we ended up lying side by side, both looking at the phone screen.
“Huh? Looks like you got a message from Yuzuha.”
“No way! Give it back, quick!”
“Okay, okay.”
Take that back. She must have something she didn’t want me to see—she snatched the phone back immediately. What is it? Something she doesn’t want me to know about?
“Ugh…”
Toka looked at Yuzuha’s message and made a face that clearly showed she hated it. Wait, are they actually on bad terms or something!?
“Are you okay!? Did Yuzuha do something!?”
“It’s not Yuzu-chan, it’s this…”
Toka scowled as she showed me the message screen with Yuzuha.
Yuzu-chan (Future Little Sister) < Hey onee chan! Is onii chan okay? Yesterday, I got this message from Kagurazaka Kaede-san…
Wait, the “Future Little Sister” part is what bothers me! Why add unnecessary explanations when registering names?!
Attached was a screenshot of the message Yuzuha had received from Kagurazaka.
Kagurazaka Kaede < Hi, Yuzuha chan! I reached out because I wanted to get Touka-nee’s contact info! I really need to talk about the agency that’s on fire… Plus, I want to apologize for causing trouble the other day because of me!
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