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Chapter 187: Hospitalization
"Hello! Sensei, I'm here!"
Yuka rang the doorbell of Ren's apartment.
It was working hours, but she arrived early.
But... Ren, who usually came to open the door quickly, didn't answer for a long time.
"Sensei?"
Yuka felt a little strange, but she didn't mind.
What if Ren was in the bathroom or something? She thought about it and took out her mobile to call Ren.
The call connected quickly, but the voice that came from the phone was Ren's, extremely weak, "Hello... Yuka?"
Yuka, who at first wasn't worried, heard Ren's unusually weak voice at that moment.
Now she was a little scared.
"Sensei? What's wrong with you?" she asked quickly.
"No... nothing, just a little stomach ache, I... I'll open the door for you right away."
After saying that, Ren hung up the phone.
The next instant, he opened the apartment door and appeared in front of Yuka.
But... his face looked quite awful, which scared Yuka.
Ren's face was extremely pale, so pale that even his lips were dry and white.
Most importantly, his body was still slightly hunched over and he was clutching his stomach as if enduring great pain.
"Sensei... are you really okay?" Yuka asked again.
"Nothing... just diarrhea."
Ren waved his hand pretending it was nothing, and forced a smile, saying, "Come in first...".
"Okay...".
Yuka ducked her head, but she still felt that something was wrong with Ren.
After entering the apartment, Pochita seemed, as always, very excited.
However, Yuka discovered that the little sparrow Ren had rescued was gone.
Perhaps Ren had released it.
She didn't give it much thought. Ren poured Yuka a glass of water and then took an anti-diarrhea pill.
"Sensei, you..." Yuka hesitated for a moment. "Did you eat something bad?"
"No."
Ren gave a thumbs up as always. "Don't worry, it's just a bit of diarrhea."
"Sensei, we're here."
At that moment, the voices of Hiroki and Akutami Yuta were heard again from the other side of the door.
"Okay... I'm... coming."
Ren was going to open the door, but he felt a knot in his stomach as he walked.
Still, he walked to the door and slowly opened it.
But in that instant! A tearing pain shot through his abdomen, his vision went dark, and he fell to the ground uncontrollably.
"Sensei!"
"Sensei!".
Before falling into a coma, Ren only heard the terrified screams of his assistants.
...
Editorial Department of the Akatsuki Cultural Company.
Ayumi was working hard in front of the computer when at that moment her cell phone rang.
She picked it up and took a look, but the caller ID was: "Amamiya-sensei."
"Amamiya-sensei?" Ayumi asked, a little confused.
After all, Ren never took the initiative to call her during work hours. Usually, she was the one who called Ren.
But she answered the phone anyway.
However, it wasn't Ren's voice that came from the phone, but another familiar voice.
"Ms. Ayumi, Amamiya-sensei suffered a sudden acute gastroenteritis and fainted in the apartment. We're at the hospital! You should come soon too!" Hiroki said anxiously over the phone.
If a mangaka gets sick and is hospitalized, it can affect the subsequent serialization of the manga, so the editor is usually notified afterward.
Ayumi was stunned for a moment, and then she panicked.
"Amamiya-sensei... is in the hospital for acute gastroenteritis?" she said in disbelief.
In the last two years of their good relationship, Ren had always behaved like a man of iron.
So now that she found out Ren was in the hospital, Ayumi felt very strange, in addition to being worried.
But now is not the time to feel strange.
"I'm on my way to the hospital, where are you?"
Ayumi turned off her computer, grabbed her briefcase and car keys, and rushed out of the company.
She drove for half an hour and finally arrived at the hospital. She immediately ran to the room Hiroki had mentioned on the phone.
"What happened to Amamiya-sensei?" she asked.
Before Ayumi arrived, her voice was heard.
At that moment, Ren was lying on a bed in the room, wearing a hospital gown and with an IV in his hand.
Next to the bed were three assistants: Hiroki, Yuka, and Akutami Yuta.
After Ren's coma, they quickly called for an ambulance and accompanied him to the hospital.
"The sensei just had his stomach pumped and should be fine," said Yuka.
Ayumi breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness the sensei is okay...".
"But... Sensei, why did you suddenly get acute gastroenteritis?"
She looked at Ren with some doubt and asked.
"The doctor said it's likely the sensei ate something unclean, which caused food poisoning...".
Yuka looked at Ren and asked with curiosity, "What did the sensei eat lately?"
Ren scratched his head. He probably already knew what had caused the acute gastroenteritis.
But he was very confused.
Obviously... Obviously, he cooked it and ate it, and he put in a lot of ginger and garlic. Could it be a problem? At the same time, he felt a little embarrassed.
"Maybe I wasn't paying attention," Ren covered up.
"And what did you eat, sensei?" Ayumi asked with a serious face. "What did you eat that caused the poisoning? Did you buy it outside? Where can you buy such unsanitary food?"
"By the way, the sensei has food poisoning this time. The food at his house might be the culprit now. Don't eat it anymore!" she repeated. "Throw all the food away!"
"No!".
After hearing this, Ren's face filled with panic. "My seafood and mountain delicacies can't be thrown away like that! It's not their fault!".
"Then what is the problem?" Yuka asked with curiosity. "It seems the sensei knows what you ate that caused the poisoning?".
Ren sighed, as if he could only say this...
"Actually... I released the little sparrow I brought back yesterday," he stammered. "But then it was killed by a wild cat. I brought its body back... Actually, I wanted to bury it properly."
"But... if it's buried outside, it will be eaten."
"So... I thought: if it's going to be eaten, I might as well eat it myself...".
As Ren slowly explained, Ayumi, Yuka, Hiroki, and Akutami Yuta were stunned.