Chapter 293: Sendai-san never tells the truth — 293
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When I woke up, a black cat was sleeping next to , holding a phone.
——To be precise, there was a black cat and a phone lying next to .
The phone was not a substitute for an alarm. I was not woken up by sothing, but by nature.
「…What ti…」
I mumble a few words, and the words that co out of my mouth hit squarely on the head, awakening . The sun’s rays were coming through the cracks in the curtains. That ant morning had arrived, and I jumped out of bed.
I pick up my phone and check the ti.
9:12 AM.
I lie down on my bed.
I haven’t overslept.
Today is the day to go see the penguins with Sendai-san.
It’s later than I had planned to ring the alarm, but I didn’t oversleep. We’re going out in the afternoon, so there’s still ti.
But there is a possibility that Sendai-san will co to wake up and complain that I overslept or woke up late because I haven’t had breakfast yet. She has been living a regular life during the holidays.
So I think I should get dressed quickly and go to the common space with the look of having woken up as planned.
But I can’t move my body.
I feel sleepy and sluggish.
Where to go to see the penguins?
I should have been searching on my phone while consulting with the black cat, but it was asleep before I knew it. Perhaps it was not a good idea to get lost, lost, lost too much. There are so many places to see penguins, but it is morning without knowing where to go.
「… I haven’t decided yet.」
The destination remains undecided.
I pull the black cat close and squeezes its belly.
「What should I do?」
I should have left it to Sendai-san from the beginning.
This is what happened because I said I would decide by myself.
It’s not too late.
Just tell Sendai-san,「I still have to decide where to go.」
No, it’s still no good.
If I said such a thing, I would surely get the response,「Miyagi is quick to impose on others.」
Words keep popping into my head, cursing my thoughtlessness. Even so, the place I should go out today doesn’t co to mind, only that I have to decide for myself.
I stick the black cat to my forehead and mutter once again,「What am I going to do?」But the black cat that Sendai-san calls Roro-chan doesn’t give the power to decide where to go like he does. My head fills up with words that curse .
I don’t have the strength to pick up my phone.
I roll over and sigh one more ti, and then I hear a thump and a knock on the door.
「Miyagi, are you awake?」
Sendai-san’s cheerful voice ca from behind the door, and I was about to say,「I’m awake,」when I rembered the black cat. This is the keeper of the bookshelf, not my bed.
I get up and get out of bed and my body fluffs up.
I think it may be due to lack of sleep.
I spent too much ti staring at my phone.
「Miyagi, are you asleep?」
I heard Sendai-san’s voice, a little louder than before, and I put the black cat back on the bookshelf before opening the door.
「I’m awake.」
「If you’re awake, fine, but you should at least get dressed.」
As she said this, Sendai-san pulls on my sweatshirt, which I am wearing instead of pajamas.
「I’m about to change now. Sendai-san, you’re so picky every ti.」
「If you don’t want to be loud, get up earlier. Rember our appointnt today?」
“I rember,” I replied, and Sendai-san’s hand leaves my sweatshirt.
「What about breakfast? If you plan to eat lunch early and then go out, we can have breakfast and lunch together.」
Sendai-san seems to rember exactly what I said yesterday.
It is already past nine o’clock, and it is too late to have breakfast now if we are going to follow the plan to have lunch early. I think she’s right, I should have breakfast and lunch together. Besides, I’m not very hungry, or rather, I don’t have much of an appetite.
「…That would be fine.」
The impact of not sleeping properly was greater than I had expected, and I answered with regret that I should have left it to Sendai-san to decide where to go today.
「You look really sleepy, are you okay?」
Sendai-san asks in a soft voice.
「I’m alright.」
「Really?」
「Really. You’re persistent.」
「You haven’t heard enough to say I’m still persistent.」
「But still persistent.」
With a snap, I kick Sendai-san’s leg, and her hand is flattened against my cheek.
「I’m not going to kiss you.」
「That’s not it.」
「Then, what?」
I peel off the hand pressed against my cheek, and Sendai-san now puts her hand on my forehead. The cold hand feels so good that it almost relaxes from my body.
「Do you have a thermoter?」
「No, but why?」
The pleasant hand attached to the forehead peels off on its own.
My fluffy body almost leans toward Sendai-san, and when I grab the doorknob, I find her staring at with a very serious face.
「I’ll bring it to you. Miyagi, go back to sleep.」
「I’m asking you, why?」
「Because your face is hot.」
「What is it when it’s hot?」
「I say you have a fever.」
「I have none.」
「I’ll ask the thermoter if you have a fever or not. You caught a cold yesterday because you didn’t wipe your hair properly. Go back to bed.」
Sendai-san pushes my body and makes turn around.
「What about the penguins?」
I ask Sendai-san, who is behind .
「You can’t go if you’ve got a fever.」
「I have none, so I’m going.」
For the most part, I don’t catch colds like Sendai-san does, and I know my own body best. I’m just a little sluggish today, due to lack of sleep, and I just don’t have much of an appetite.
But Sendai-san doesn’t seem to think so.
「I’ll let the thermoter decide that for in a mont.」
A presence disappears from behind . I turn around, but there is no Sendai-san. I had no choice but to go back to bed and lie down, and soon after, the door was tapped twice, and asked,「May I co in?」
「You can.」
The door opens and Sendai-san cos to the side of the bed and hands a thermoter, saying,「I’ll take your temperature.」
「I don’t want to.」
I lay back down and push her hand back.
「I won’t know if you have a fever unless I asure it.」
「I don’t have it.」
「You know, Miyagi, are you the type of person who gets spoiled when you get a fever?」
Sendai-san says, sounding troubled.
「No.」
「Then, be an adult so I can asure it.」
「I rarely get a fever, I’m fine.」
I can hardly rember ever having to go to bed with a cold.
I’ve never had any major illnesses, and I think I’m stronger than most people.
「If you’re going to go that far, prove it with this that you’re okay.」
A thermoter is offered to , which I reluctantly accept.
After being told this much, I have no choice but to prove that I have no fever. I turn on the thermoter and asure my fever. The result cos out imdiately, and when I try to check the numbers on the thermoter, Sendai-san takes it away from .
「No penguins today, huh?」
Sendai-san, who was looking at the thermoter, says with a difficult look on her face and pulls the covers back over my body.
「Why?」
「37.9 °C. That’s a fever number by anyone’s standards.」
I was given a thermoter that was taken from .
It shows evidence that I have a cold, and I begin to feel more sluggish than before.
「…If only Sendai-san can go…」
I turn off the thermoter and place it under the pillow.
「? Where will I be going?」
「To see the penguins.」
「I’m not going to go.」
「Why?」
「I have to go with Miyagi because it’s not worth it.」
「Why?」
「It’s boring to watch them alone.」
「You know, it might be fun.」
I blurted out and crawled under the covers.
I wasn’t sure I really wanted to go, but when I realized that I couldn’t go, I felt as if I really wanted to go.
If this is the case, I should never have said I would decide where I was going.
I should have asked Sendai-san to wipe my hair yesterday.
I should never have said I was going to see penguins in the first place.
Only regret fills and accelerates my weariness.
I feel sluggish, slow-moving, and hot.
Even my breath felt hot, and when I looked up from the futon, Sendai-san, who should have been by the bed, was gone. I wanted to get up, but it was too much trouble and I did not want to get up.
「Sendai-san…」
I called in a small voice, but there was no answer.
Because I didn’t asure the fever honestly.
Because I couldn’t keep my promise to go see the penguins.
I don’t know what was wrong with , but it seems that Sendai-san was so taken aback by that she left the room.
I think I deserved it.
But I want soone to be by my side, and I hope that it is Sendai-san.
I don’t know if I think this way because I’m out of shape or if I think this way even if I’m not. I was rarely sick in bed, but I can’t rember what I was thinking about on those few nights when I wasn’t. The only thing I rember is that I was more afraid of one than usual.
My consciousness is sinking into a past I don’t want to rember.
I hate it.
I hate it. I hate it.
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.
——Knock, knock.
Beyond the thoughts I don’t want to think about, I hear a bright sound.
「Miyagi, I’m coming in.」
I hear a voice helping and call out「Sendai-san」and she enters with a penguin and a platypus.
「Okay, here you go.」
Saying so, she placed the stuffed animals and tissue covers that Sendai-san had brought around . Then, she also took the liberty of bringing the black cat and the crocodile and placed them on the futon.
「It’s kind of zoo-like, right?」
Sendai-san said and chuckled.
「Why are you laughing?」
「Miyagi, surrounded by stuffed animals, looking so cute.」
「It’s not cute.」
I grab the black cat and try to throw it to Sendai-san, but before it leaves my hand, she takes it from and puts it back where it was.
「Go back to sleep.」
「I can’t sleep because of all the clutter around .」
「Well, let’s have a little chat with then.」
「I don’t have anything to talk about.」
「I do have, though.」
Sendai-san sits on the edge of the bed. Then she starts talking, even though I didn’t tell her it was okay to talk.
「Maybe you’ve always had a fever and hid it or sothing?」
It doesn’t look like a good story and I try to throw the penguin, but she still takes it away from .
「How is it? Miyagi.」
Sendai-san asks with the penguin in her arms.
「I didn’t hide it.」
Sendai-san was not going to give up until I said sothing, so I had no choice but to answer.
「Really?」
「I never catch a cold.」
Even when I was sick, I did not asure my fever.
If I don’t know I was sick, I won’t get sick. If I don’t know I was sick, I can get by just fine.
「You can rely on from now on, okay?」
Sendai-san’s hand taps the futon with a plop.
「Rely?」
「If you’re sick, say you’re sick. It’s normal. No more secrets.」
「…It’s not obvious to .」
「Take it for granted. If we were roommates, you’d at least tell them you weren’t feeling well.」
「…Tell?」
「Yeah, tell .」
「So you don’t have anything to hide, Sendai-san?」
「I have not.」
Sendai-san smiles when she says sothing that may or may not be true.
Sotis I can believe her, and sotis I cannot. That is because Sendai-san is not only telling the truth.
Then, today’s Sendai-san is——
My head is foggy and I can’t think.
「Miyagi, why don’t you get so sleep?」
Sendai-san’s hand combs my hair and sticks to my cheek.
Her hands still feel good.
「I can’t sleep.」
「Then we can watch penguins together until you get sleepy.」
「How?」
「Like this…」
Sendai puts the penguin she was carrying on the bed and shows the tablet she seems to have brought along with the stuffed animals. On the tablet, a video of the penguins is playing.
「The penguins are cute, aren’t they?」
I hear a gentle voice.
I don’t know if today’s Sendai-san is the Sendai-san I can trust.
But it is calming to have Sendai-san nearby at tis like these.
So, I am not afraid of being sick today.
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