Volume 2 Chapter 25 (1/2)

It was early

The sun was only starting to rise when Mizuki woke upShe had seen a horribly nostalgic drea, and still had her family

She had stayed holed up next to herup at her ently stroked her forehead with a cool hand

Her ue, as if it had been hidden by a shadowBut even still, herat her wrapped her in a sense of securityClinging to that war up

However, her consciousness was es of her dreaer self faded from her mindWith her efforts to remain asleep in vain, and left with a sense of loss, Mizuki slowly starts to regain her sense of self

She opens her eyesIn her eyes, an inorganic white ceiling is reflectedShe was in a room on the 3rd floor of the supermarketMizuki stiffens, takes the blankets off of her, and sets them beside the sofa

(……Ah)

The tears which had built up in her eyes, spilled out of the sideThe reality of where she was had just now fully coap between her current situation and her dream, Mizuki sits there for a while

“……Haa”

Letting out a sigh, she wipes the tear trickling down her faceAs she was lifting her body,

“Kushu–”(TL: Sneeze)

As she sneezes, snot drips from her nose

“Uwaa…”

The wet towel on her forehead also ca downShe looks around for a tissue, but is unable to find oneHesitating a bit, she blows her nose into the wet towelShe folds it and puts it on the table

She notices the glass of water on the table and gulps it downShe feels the water spread through her body

“Fuu……”

She had removed the blankets, but the heater appeared to be on as she didn’t feel coldWhile sneezing again, Mizuki’s head starts to acheBeside the glass on the table was a bowl of rice porridgeYesterday she didn’t have an appetite, so she had only eaten one bite of itBecause of that, her belly was completely empty

She could reheat the porridge on the stove in the hot water supply roo the dirty towel and boith her, she leaves the room

In the sink in the hot water supply roo, filled aterWhile she ware on the stove, she rinsed off the dishes in the sinkThere were no grease stains, so just rinsing the off the dishes, she stacks them one by one on a nearby dish towel

After she was done, her hands had become cold from the cold water

“Hekushu–”

Once again snot dripped outShe uses face wash to clean her faceThe face-washi+ng lotion she had brought from downstairsShe dries herself with a nearby towel and lets out a small breath

“……”

She spaces out, recalling the frag to make them clearer

Worried about her brothers, she snaps out of it, and goes to look for them, and finds them wrapped up in blankets asleep in the corner of the officeThey probably didn’t sleep in the sa next to themThey were typical over-sized full color picture books

She flips through a couple of them and sees pictures of mountains and seasonsThere were also animals and insectsThe photos helped kids understand the difficult to read kanji in the text

Yusuke ave it to them to kill timeHer brothers liked these kinds of picture booksThere has hardly been any entertainment in their lives lately, so they must have been overjoyed

(…………)

Making a soently closes the picture book

(Takemura-san is kind towards kids huh……)

‘Though he is cold towards me’, Mizuki takes a breathEven after she had surrendered her body to hie

It’s not like she particularly liked Yusuke, but until now she hadn’t been treated so coldly by very ht her off guard

She sets down the picture book, and returns to the hot water supply room

Grabbing the porridge and heading to her roo on the backrest, his neck bent back as he sleptIt looked as if his neck was in painHe had wrapped himself in blankets, but with the heater on, it wasn’t cold in the room

Mizuki approaches the sofa she had been sleeping on, and folds the disheveled blankets, setting theins hera spoon, she scoops the rice and blows on it before placing it in her er, so the seven e was delicious

(……)

Mizuki indulged herself in the feeling of the porridge sloar her belly

(………)

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She thought about the porridge and the tohich had been placed on her forehead– in front of herThe fact that Yusuke had been so acco

Mizuki viewed Yusuke as soht a cold, she thought he would just toss some blankets to her and that would be itThat he would display this kind of gallant behavior, Mizuki would have never iined it