Gently holding Kujou Katora's fingertips, gazing into the girl's scarlet eyes, which looked somewhat hazy and cute from just having woken up.
Su Yuzu revealed a faint smile. "Morning~"
The tamed big cat seemed unexpectedly cute.
She didn't know how long Kujou Katora had been using her arm as a pillow. She hadn't felt anything just now, but after holding Kujou Katora's fingertips, a numb and sore sensation slowly welled up in her heart.
Su Yuzu's brows furrowed slightly.
Kujou Katora caught Su Yuzu's abnormality.
Looking at the arm before her, the skin color appearing somewhat strange because she had rested on it for too long, she hurriedly apologized to Su Yuzu.
"Sor... ry..."
"I accidentally fell asleep."
Having just woken up, Kujou Katora hadn't yet retrieved the 'fierce persona' she used to maintain her dignity, looking as panicked as a child who had made a mistake.
She looked at the redness slowly rising on Su Yuzu's tender white arm due to poor blood circulation, and... the tiny, wet trace near the crook of the girl's arm where the corner of her own mouth had rested.
Her scarlet pupils quaked.
D... Drool!?
Fake. It must be fake.
She tried hard to recall the dream from her nap.
In the dream... there was a honey yuzu cake made by Yuzu herself.
The girl had placed the cake in front of her, watching her pitifully craving it, yet... only allowing her to lick it once.
Whoosh— Kujou Katora sobered up instantly.
Her pupils quaked violently.
'It's over. It's all over.'
Kujou Katora looked at the girl's 'heartwarming' smile in the warm morning sunlight, and suddenly felt the meaning behind that smile was all wrong.
Yuzu... couldn't have been watching her embarrassing state for a long time, could she?
Kujou Katora felt her 'majesty' shattering and scattering all over the ground.
Just as Kujou Katora was slowly finding her 'fierce persona', shame seemed to surge in her heart like thousands of waves. Before she even had a chance to breathe, it transformed into a monstrous wave that slapped her right onto the beach.
"Has Yuzu... been awake for a long time?" Kujou Katora wanted to struggle just a little bit more.
"Not that long." Noticing Kujou Katora's look of despair, she looked like a fox girl whose tail had been grabbed.
Although she didn't quite understand what tail Kujou Katora thought had been grabbed.
But... that didn't stop Su Yuzu from being mischievous.
Kujou Katora secretly breathed a sigh of relief, her body seemingly softening by thirty percent.
"I only woke up about an hour ago." With a little devil-like smile rising on her face, Su Yuzu looked at Kujou Katora. "Kujou-senpai?"
Kujou Katora's entire body froze there.
An hour!??
She looked at the smile on Yuzu's face.
Yuzu... couldn't have been watching her embarrassing sleeping face for a whole hour, right?
Her head turning stiffly, her gaze moved.
Kujou Katora looked at the mobile phone by the girl's pillow.
That was what she had specifically asked Hayabusa to bring from the girl's dorm, worried she would be bored in the hospital.
The phone hadn't moved—
Kujou Katora couldn't possibly imagine that Su Yuzu had a game to play even without a phone.
Or that she might even be playing with her.
She felt the world darken.
Kujou Katora could tolerate embarrassing herself in front of anyone, but she absolutely didn't want to embarrass herself in front of Yuzu.
But... Lady Fate seemed to be intentionally teasing her.
Making her lose face again and again and again.
"Guh..." A sound of surrender seemed to be squeezed uncontrollably... arduously out of her throat.
Su Yuzu watched Kujou Katora slowly lower her body, like a cat acting coquettishly to its owner, gently rubbing her cheek against Su Yuzu's arm.
[Ding—]
[Taming: Kujou Katora Favorability +1.]
[Favorability Increase Reward Obtained: Loyal Dog's Collar.]
[...]
Su Yuzu gently stroked Kujou Katora's cheek.
Just then... Creeak—
The hospital room door was suddenly pulled open, and the young female superintendent's head carefully peeked in. "Lady Kujou..."
"The Ishikawa family's young lady and..." Hayabusa's words stopped abruptly before she finished.
Her cyan eyes blinked, looking at the charming scene in the room.
Her own 'heinous' superior was now behaving as obediently as a pet, chin slightly raised, fair neck slender, letting Miss Yuzu stroke her cheek.
The scene was peaceful and quiet; the years were good.
If... she hadn't opened the door.
Looking at Kujou Katora suddenly turning to look at her with a gentle, soft smile. And... those dangerous scarlet eyes that looked like they would summon a Hound of Blood to drag her into confinement the next second.
Cold sweat seeped from the young female superintendent's back.
'Why am I so unlucky...'
Yesterday she had just bumped into the embarrassing state of that main family young lady of the Soga clan, and didn't know if that young lady would settle scores later.
Today... she bumped into the scene of her own superior acting coquettishly.
Hayabusa felt her life's path ahead was dim and lightless.
"Sorry, subordinate walked into the wrong room!" She slammed the door shut.
"Come back!" Kujou Katora's small face darkened instantly.
But... turning her head to see Su Yuzu on the bed, she immediately tried hard to squeeze out a gentle appearance.
Only in her heart, Kujou Katora had already made a note in her little book.
The young female superintendent revealed a smile uglier than crying, pushed the door open, and walked in.
"Continue, what is it?" Kujou Katora's smile made Hayabusa smile miserably.
Lady Kujou revealing a gentle soft smile was scarier than Lady Kujou with a cold face.
"Yes..." Hayabusa lowered her head.
"The Ishikawa family's young lady and the Saotome family's young lady... and the previous victim who was attacked, and Ms. Unohana have all come to visit Miss Yuzu."
She looked up at Kujou Katora. "What do you think..."
"Why look at me?" Although in her heart she was a thousand, ten thousand times unwilling, just like not wanting to share Yuzu with others.
But this kind of thing wasn't for her to decide.
Eh?
Share... share?
Kujou Katora felt her thoughts were getting stranger and stranger.
She clearly just purely wanted to take care of Yuzu.
Mm... that's it.
Take care.
Mutual appreciation.
"Does Yuzu... want to see them?" She looked at Su Yuzu. "Or rest a while longer?"
"Mental depletion is much more troublesome than physical injuries."
"If Yuzu wants to rest, I believe they will understand."
"I'm fine." She slowly withdrew her hand from Kujou Katora.
Hayabusa felt her superior's gaze on her seemed even more dangerous.
"Then... Yuzu rest well here for a bit."
"I'll go get them."
"Okay~"
"..."
Watching Kujou Katora kick Hayabusa's heel as she left, carefully closing the door.
Su Yuzu turned her head to look at the blue sky outside the window.
In the academic building opposite the Keigunen Private Academy school hospital, a girl with crimson eyes bit her lip standing at the window.
˚o·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧o·̥
"Yuzu... whimper"
If there were a handkerchief for her to bite, tearing at the handkerchief with both hands while looking up crying.
The girl was simply a living emoji.
She gazed at the opposite side.
"Wuwuwu..."
She also wanted to sleep on Yuzu's arm properly.
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