Vol 4 Chapter 12 (2/2)
“Doing nothing is also nursing”
I explained while s
“It’s my fault too that I suddenly collapsed But it was just a cold, you know? Even the doctor said that And in hindsight, it was cured in as short as one day, too With that inthree people nurse me — what am I, a prince?”
“Well… that ht be true”
“Thisabout , they overreacted It was just a cold”
You canthe them?
Even if everyone had told , how could I seriously treat ain, my illness would have resolved itself on its own It was overkill to do as much as they did; they had cut the paper with a sword instead of scissors
“You thought the saht? You wanted to avoid a situation where I’d have to deal with four people ganging up on me”
“Hm… Well, that’s true”
“So, at least at the beginning, prez paid the most attention to what I needed You were the only one who callad to have had Nasuhara-san, Ginbei, and Akiko nurse me, and they were also reliable, but that’s another matter The MVP in the shadoas prez That’s unshakeable”
I said, s at the red-haired trickster
“Properly accept the honor Nikaidou Arashi+-san, you were the ratulations”
“…Yare, yare”
Prez sighed as she rubbed her chin with a bitter expression
“It seems it’s also a probleood, eh? You know, they say that ignorance is bliss, right?”
“Well, yes Thank you”
“Got it Then let’s call it a draw this ti, you’ll have to take care of it yourself Ya fine with that?”
“Understood”
As expected of prez, thisOr you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours? What did we need to do to settle itto say anything For the people at the top, it was important to knohen to let someone else take the credit
“…Hey, listen, Himenokouji Akito”
“Eh? What?”
“Don’t ‘what’What exactly is so funny?”
“No, nothing Just, well, the expression youI wasn’t supposed to know… it was relatively lovely”
“You… don’t’cha get cocky If yer gonna say that stuff carelessly, I ain’t gonna show any mercy just because yer sick
After that threat, as if to say ‘this topic’s over,’ she waved her hands Her face was just a bit red, and of course it because she had a fever Surprisingly, it seems like this kind of situation made her weak
“Well, I can’t say I cleared mah debt just yet”
While I was inwardly congratulatingthe upper hand for once, prez suddenly said that
“Debt? What debt?”
“I’ence Honestly, how can ya pretend otherwise?”
“Nono What are you saying?”
Half amazed, I continued:
“It’sa cold Well, I am packed with responsibilities here, but that’s no excuse To say nothing of there being no reason for you to feel responsible”
“Ya ht think that way, but as yer superior, I have my own responsibilities”
Her stubborn clai sense of responsibility
“To prevent this froain, I’ll need to reassess the dor responsibility”
“Well, I don’t e?”
“Getting more people”
Her reply was simple and clear
“We’ve been talking about it for a while now I’ll appoint a new dor it harshly, we’ve purposely pushed every responsibility onto ya To settle this quickly, we’ll get a new dorinally planned, and they’ll do yer job That’ll clear things up”
If it was like that, I had no objections
I had been quite busy for a long tier
“Rest assured I’ve already got h, but… no need to fret I swear on the honor of er there is”
Prez gave me a thureement we could’ve made Maybe it seemed that way because I hadn’t completely recovered yet
…Well, with that… this chapter of my life, the one where my health crumbled for the first time in years, came to a close
When I announced results of that nursing contest — which had completely exhaustedprotests, as I expected They had given it their all, and they intensely objected the aain as expected I had intended to pacify theain But that’s another story
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