Chapter 50
Now, we’re heading to room 302, but there’s something we need to do first.
That’s why we hid in the shadows and used cleaning magic to make ourselves clean.
Since this is a hospital, hygiene control is something that should be strictly enforced.
In particular, what we’re doing is, to put it bluntly, trespassing. We’re not going to cause any other trouble if we’re trespassing illegally.
So, we proceeded to the hospital from the rooftop and to the target ward.
We’re not sure if shoes are not allowed to be worn since this is a general ward, so we kept it on for the time being. If shoes were strictly prohibited, I’ll just take out slippers from the Infinite Storage, so there would be no problem either way.
I thought that once we were inside, we would be caught by the visitors, but it seemed that it was still outside of the visiting hours, so we continued our stealthy activities.
Naturally, Sasakura-san’s magic makes it possible, and I feel bad for putting the burden on her, but she’s repeatedly told me not to worry about it, so I’m going to be quiet and indulge her.
“Here it is.”
“In the old dramas I used to watch, they had name tags and stuff… but there isn’t one here.”
We reached room 302 without incident and Sasakura-san looked around at the entrance and muttered to herself.
When I did some basic research regarding visiting a patient before coming here, I saw that many hospitals have abolished name tags at the entrance because of privacy concerns or to protect personal information.
It’s probably best to check out this hospital’s visiting hours before coming here, but when I quickly looked for signs of people in the room, there’s only one person in the room, so that person’s most likely the victim we were looking for.
“I guess he’s alone.”
“The key… looks like the door is open.”
I nod to Sasakura-san, who looks at me with her hand on the sliding door, and she slowly opens the door.
Then we slipped into the room without making any noise, and then slowly closed the door without making any noise again, and proceeded to the back of the hospital room, where we found a boy on the bed, unappetizingly popping hospital food into his mouth.
Even now, the boy continues to eat with a frown on his face, not seeming to notice us as Sasakura-san maintains her magic so that people around us don’t find out.
From what I’ve seen, he doesn’t seem to be in severe pain or anything, and seems to be doing well for the moment.
Still, the bandage wrapped around his left arm insists that the wound he sustained was a rather large one.
“What?! W-who? How long have you been here?”
After checking the whole thing out, I signaled Sasakura-san with my eyes at the right time, and the magic was lifted. The boy who saw us, which to him would have looked like a sudden appearance, shook his shoulders loudly and backed away, pressing his small back against the bed.
I was reminded of that reaction that we should have went to an area not visible to him and released the magic there before showing ourselves.
I guess that was a bit too much, so I had a bitter smile on my face as I spoke to him.
“Oh, We’re sorry to surprise you. We’re not suspicious.”
“Shinjou-kun…”
I tried to sound as gentle as possible because the other person is a child, and I was sure that my words would calm them down nicely.
But unfortunately, it ended up raising his guard and made him look at me as if I was a shady person.
On top of that, Sasakura-san sighed and stared at me with a distant look.
I’m not an idiot, so I realize that our first contact with him was a failure, but what was the problem?
I’ve heard that it’s difficult to communicate in a way that even children could understand, and that children are unexpectedly sensitive to malice.
That’s why I said it very simply and honestly…
However, he was uncomfortable. When I turned my gaze to the window and saw my reflection in it, I was convinced.
Yes, muscles.
These muscle that I’ve acquired to disguise the results of my physical fitness tests.
For some reason, I completely forgot that this physical beauty, which I had driven out of my consciousness because I can’t get Sasakura-san to talk to me about it at all, was something that could give a sense of intimidation.
Also, I just realized that there were almost no suspicious people who approach me saying that they were suspicious, but rather there were a lot of them who approached saying the opposite. So I immediately changed my approach.
“…ookaay. I might be suspicious. You might not believe it. But what about her?”
With that, I put Sasakura-san in front of me which surprised her, but still made a wonderful goddess-like smile.
…Boy, you should be glade you were a boy.
Otherwise, my ugly mind would have played a little prank on you for the fact that you were given a goddess’ smile.
Without thinking about it much, I made an effort to smile kindly and continue speaking.
“She’s so beautiful and sweet, isn’t she? That means we’re good people. So just us a little bit of your story… ouch.”
“…I’m sorry. This brother here’s a bit silly. But I hope you believe me that he’s not a bad person, please?”
Sasakura-san interrupted my words with a light poke to my head, and spoke to the boy with a troubled smile on her face.
The boy must have felt that her words were much more believable than mine, because he looked at me and Sasakura-san several times in turn, and finally he turned to Sasakura-san and curtly nodded in her direction.
“Yes, thank you. Then, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me your name first, if that’s okay?”
“Well, it’s… Kakeru…”
Then Sasakura-san smiled kindly and quickly got the boy’s name out of him.
It’s a fearsome art of grasping people’s minds.
“Kakeru-kun, right? I’m Yumi, and the idiot brother over here is Yuuji.”
“…I’m the idiot, hilarious brother, nice to meet you.”
I’ve received a somewhat harsh introduction, probably because she realized I was thinking about something strange in the present, so I had no choice but to go along with it.
It was a sacrifice I had no choice but to make.
Well, it was worth it, and he opened up to me and smiled a little bit.
“–and that’s why we came here, to heal your arm.”
“…? They’ve already healed me, you see. It was scary, but I did my best. The doctor said I just need to stay put for a while.”
Kakeru-kun’s cautiousness was lowered after a brief casual conversation. He then tilted his head in response to Sasakura-san’s suggestion, and proudly showed us his left arm, which was wrapped in bandages.
It’s not surprising that for him, or an average person, healing the wound meant undergoing treatment and waiting for it to be completely healed. That’s why, it’s hard to get him to understand that we’re going to completely heal it now.
“No, no. When we say we’re going to heal you, we mean we’re going to heal you perfectly right now, with no scars… well, do you have any exercise you like to do?”
“… dodgeball?”
“Oh, I like that. But they say you can’t do that kind of exercise now, don’t they? I’m just saying that we’re going to make it possible for you to do it right now. What do you think?”
“Oh! You can do that?!”
So, when I explained to him in a way that he could understand, Kakeru-kun understood most of what I was saying and he bit into it with his eyes shining.
But the next moment, his face became cloudy for some reason.
“No, we can’t do that… even the doctor said it was impossible.”
“Yeah, but we’re not doctors, we’re magicians. We can do things that doctors can’t.”
He’s a pretty clever kid.
While thinking about it, I created a magic circle to create a ball of light at random and show it to him.
Chapter 50
Now, we’re heading to room 302, but there’s something we need to do first.
That’s why we hid in the shadows and used cleaning magic to make ourselves clean.
Since this is a hospital, hygiene control is something that should be strictly enforced.
In particular, what we’re doing is, to put it bluntly, trespassing. We’re not going to cause any other trouble if we’re trespassing illegally.
So, we proceeded to the hospital from the rooftop and to the target ward.
We’re not sure if shoes are not allowed to be worn since this is a general ward, so we kept it on for the time being. If shoes were strictly prohibited, I’ll just take out slippers from the Infinite Storage, so there would be no problem either way.
I thought that once we were inside, we would be caught by the visitors, but it seemed that it was still outside of the visiting hours, so we continued our stealthy activities.
Naturally, Sasakura-san’s magic makes it possible, and I feel bad for putting the burden on her, but she’s repeatedly told me not to worry about it, so I’m going to be quiet and indulge her.
“Here it is.”
“In the old dramas I used to watch, they had name tags and stuff… but there isn’t one here.”
We reached room 302 without incident and Sasakura-san looked around at the entrance and muttered to herself.
When I did some basic research regarding visiting a patient before coming here, I saw that many hospitals have abolished name tags at the entrance because of privacy concerns or to protect personal information.
It’s probably best to check out this hospital’s visiting hours before coming here, but when I quickly looked for signs of people in the room, there’s only one person in the room, so that person’s most likely the victim we were looking for.
“I guess he’s alone.”
“The key… looks like the door is open.”
I nod to Sasakura-san, who looks at me with her hand on the sliding door, and she slowly opens the door.
Then we slipped into the room without making any noise, and then slowly closed the door without making any noise again, and proceeded to the back of the hospital room, where we found a boy on the bed, unappetizingly popping hospital food into his mouth.
Even now, the boy continues to eat with a frown on his face, not seeming to notice us as Sasakura-san maintains her magic so that people around us don’t find out.
From what I’ve seen, he doesn’t seem to be in severe pain or anything, and seems to be doing well for the moment.
Still, the bandage wrapped around his left arm insists that the wound he sustained was a rather large one.
“What?! W-who? How long have you been here?”
After checking the whole thing out, I signaled Sasakura-san with my eyes at the right time, and the magic was lifted. The boy who saw us, which to him would have looked like a sudden appearance, shook his shoulders loudly and backed away, pressing his small back against the bed.
I was reminded of that reaction that we should have went to an area not visible to him and released the magic there before showing ourselves.
I guess that was a bit too much, so I had a bitter smile on my face as I spoke to him.
“Oh, We’re sorry to surprise you. We’re not suspicious.”
“Shinjou-kun…”
I tried to sound as gentle as possible because the other person is a child, and I was sure that my words would calm them down nicely.
But unfortunately, it ended up raising his guard and made him look at me as if I was a shady person.
On top of that, Sasakura-san sighed and stared at me with a distant look.
I’m not an idiot, so I realize that our first contact with him was a failure, but what was the problem?
I’ve heard that it’s difficult to communicate in a way that even children could understand, and that children are unexpectedly sensitive to malice.
That’s why I said it very simply and honestly…
However, he was uncomfortable. When I turned my gaze to the window and saw my reflection in it, I was convinced.
Yes, muscles.
These muscle that I’ve acquired to disguise the results of my physical fitness tests.
For some reason, I completely forgot that this physical beauty, which I had driven out of my consciousness because I can’t get Sasakura-san to talk to me about it at all, was something that could give a sense of intimidation.
Also, I just realized that there were almost no suspicious people who approach me saying that they were suspicious, but rather there were a lot of them who approached saying the opposite. So I immediately changed my approach.
“…ookaay. I might be suspicious. You might not believe it. But what about her?”
With that, I put Sasakura-san in front of me which surprised her, but still made a wonderful goddess-like smile.
…Boy, you should be glade you were a boy.
Otherwise, my ugly mind would have played a little prank on you for the fact that you were given a goddess’ smile.
Without thinking about it much, I made an effort to smile kindly and continue speaking.
“She’s so beautiful and sweet, isn’t she? That means we’re good people. So just us a little bit of your story… ouch.”
“…I’m sorry. This brother here’s a bit silly. But I hope you believe me that he’s not a bad person, please?”
Sasakura-san interrupted my words with a light poke to my head, and spoke to the boy with a troubled smile on her face.
The boy must have felt that her words were much more believable than mine, because he looked at me and Sasakura-san several times in turn, and finally he turned to Sasakura-san and curtly nodded in her direction.
“Yes, thank you. Then, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me your name first, if that’s okay?”
“Well, it’s… Kakeru…”
Then Sasakura-san smiled kindly and quickly got the boy’s name out of him.
It’s a fearsome art of grasping people’s minds.
“Kakeru-kun, right? I’m Yumi, and the idiot brother over here is Yuuji.”
“…I’m the idiot, hilarious brother, nice to meet you.”
I’ve received a somewhat harsh introduction, probably because she realized I was thinking about something strange in the present, so I had no choice but to go along with it.
It was a sacrifice I had no choice but to make.
Well, it was worth it, and he opened up to me and smiled a little bit.
“–and that’s why we came here, to heal your arm.”
“…? They’ve already healed me, you see. It was scary, but I did my best. The doctor said I just need to stay put for a while.”
Kakeru-kun’s cautiousness was lowered after a brief casual conversation. He then tilted his head in response to Sasakura-san’s suggestion, and proudly showed us his left arm, which was wrapped in bandages.
It’s not surprising that for him, or an average person, healing the wound meant undergoing treatment and waiting for it to be completely healed. That’s why, it’s hard to get him to understand that we’re going to completely heal it now.
“No, no. When we say we’re going to heal you, we mean we’re going to heal you perfectly right now, with no scars… well, do you have any exercise you like to do?”
“… dodgeball?”
“Oh, I like that. But they say you can’t do that kind of exercise now, don’t they? I’m just saying that we’re going to make it possible for you to do it right now. What do you think?”
“Oh! You can do that?!”
So, when I explained to him in a way that he could understand, Kakeru-kun understood most of what I was saying and he bit into it with his eyes shining.
But the next moment, his face became cloudy for some reason.
“No, we can’t do that… even the doctor said it was impossible.”
“Yeah, but we’re not doctors, we’re magicians. We can do things that doctors can’t.”
He’s a pretty clever kid.
While thinking about it, I created a magic circle to create a ball of light at random and show it to him.
