5. Coffee Comes Back
5. Coffee will come back
Makia and Sui met in the hallway in front of the hospital room.
“Professor?”
“Ah, Ms. Makia.”
Sui glanced at the coffee carrier in Makia’s hand and smiled lightly.
“Are you visiting the hospital today? Alem would be nice, a pretty senior comes to visit every day.”
“Ahhh… No, don’t make fun of me… “
Said Makia, who was fiddling with her bangs.
“That, the professor is on his way out now… Are you?”
“Yes, Alem’s condition has improved a lot, but for some reason he is very anxious.”
Sui sighed lightly.
“Her body is so broken. The medical staff let out a sigh. My body is like that, but what kind of state is my mind… Even though he says he’s fine.”
She had indirectly experienced what kind of world Alem lived in before. She didn’t see her dream until the end, but it was clear from his attitude that she had been through hardships.
But even after she ascended to heaven, she was still caught up in this situation, so as her professor in charge, Sui felt frustrated.
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“Still, I’m glad you’re awake today, but you should get better soon.”
“Yes… “
“Oh, bye, go in. I hope to see you soon.”
Sui was surprised that he was pulling too hard. She waved her hand briefly and soon disappeared down the path through the stairs. After seeing the professor off, Makia stood in front of the hospital room with determined eyes.
Before this is Alem. She was the one who saved her.
Makia, who was drunk and hazy from her drug, she only vaguely remembered that day. The spark that seemed to burn the whole world was blocked by someone’s back, and he was kind to himself until the end…
Makia’s cheeks turned slightly reddish as she continued her thoughts.
‘What are you thinking right now?’
Makiah shook his head, opened the door, and entered as casually as possible.
Alem lay bruised on her bed with her body at an angle. Seeing her sick visitor, he smiled softly.
“Good lunch, senpai.”
“Alem… !”
But Makia couldn’t help but laugh along with him. It was because the moment he saw the bandages covering Alem’s entire body, the reason he had been holding on steadfastly collapsed.
Makia approached her, making a fuss, and groped all over Alem’s body.
“Oh, are you okay? What about burns? Any injuries?”
“Ah, ah, ah, it hurts—”
Alem, who had flinched like a robot at her intense pain, sighed.
“…If you eat well and get some sleep, you’ll get well soon. It wasn’t because I didn’t have any special injuries other than burns. Although she was a bit overworked physically. Anyway, don’t worry too much.”
“Really?”
Makia smiled briskly as she put her butt on his chair.
“hehehe… All right… Oh, have you eaten?”
“Yes, the nurse just brought it to me.”
“Then it worked. Coffee for dessert!”
Makia lifted the coffee carrier from under him as if he had waited. But there was something strange. A coffee cup was already on the table.
“Huh?”
“Ah, I woke up today and found this. Did Professor Sui bring it… ?”
Alem sipped her coffee in satisfaction. Seeing the warm steam rising, it was clear that she had a warming spell.
“Uh, that… “
Makia knew the owner of that cup.
She visited Alem every day, who had been in a coma for about three days, and she had left the same coffee she had spilled on purpose at the same time and place. She is a sorceress who can easily use even temperature-resistant magic.
Makia casually said the name.
“Winds… I think he left it?”
That was the moment.
“Puheuk!”
Alem coughed lightly in the cup while drinking coffee, then quickly wiped her mouth and quietly put the cup down. She then hinted to Makia.
“…Jeop, eating the same flavor over and over again makes me sick. Senior, give me that.”
“Huh? Ah, uh, yes!”
Makia accidentally opened her coffee carrier. I’m sure this was the one I bought for Alem Marcy, but the atmosphere was strange.
Alem immediately opened Makia’s coffee and drank it all the way.
“Great.”
“…..”
“As expected, coffee should be like this. What is the name of this menu?”
“Caramel… Macchiato… “
“This is delicious. Sweet. Guide. Well, good The temperature is just right.”
Alem, who reluctantly poured out her words, removed her coffee from the table all at once, as if she had finished her drink.
Makia looked at Wins’s cup, which had become cold.
‘That would be warmer… ‘
She herself just ran quickly from her cafe to here. Since she ran into Professor Sui in front of the hospital room, she was not in a hurry, so she couldn’t even cast a warming spell, so it was clear that she couldn’t compare to Wins’s cup, which had a warming magic on it. Of course, there are differences in the menu, but…
“…Anyway, I’m glad it suits your taste.”
Makia muttered shyly. Did she choose the right menu by luck? She had a lot of other problems, and it wasn’t something she was going to think too hard about.
“How are you feeling?”
Makia, on the other hand, kept trying to have a normal conversation while subtly watching Alem. There was a reason.
The medical staff, Professor Sui, and even Makia and some of her officials who know the exact truth of the incident. They judged that they must match the words in just one part.
That is not to inform Alem of the existence of Remind.
The 5-stack of Remind was an unprecedented phenomenon in the history of the middle dimension. It was because a human could faint before reaching that point.
That’s why this was something that should be handled with extreme caution and confidentiality.
A simple guess that Alem might have endured with the principle of Admiral Yi Dok because of her case, which had been going through heartbreak for years, was the best for now. Even the medical staff could only sigh in despair at Alem’s unpredictable state of mind.
In the end, that was the story. If it’s a bomb that can’t be controlled anyway, I’d rather treat it like normal without even knowing that it’s a bomb.
It was a prickly conscience, but in the name of being for the sake of the patient, Makia held her uncomfortable inside tightly.
“Do you have any pain anywhere?”
“Yeah, well, coming to think of it, it looks like her shoulders are a little stiff.”
“Oops! Where are you, let me give you a massage!”
“Are you an assassin?”
After that, the two of them had casual conversations. How the academy is running, what happened to the Phobos Circle leader Clay and his men, and the end of the Phobos Circle, and even talk about Alem as a new divinity in the academy.
Alem’s ears went red when he heard that her name had been featured on the front page of her newspaper. Makia didn’t express her feelings, but somehow she thought it was a precious sight that she would suddenly think of before going to bed.
That’s how the conversation flows naturally… Reached that day
It was around that time that Alem’s mouth, which had been talking like a runaway, gradually stopped.
“That… senior. But I have something to apologize for.”
“Hmm?”
Makia held her tight, her mouth shut incredulously. Alem, who even saved her life, had something to apologize for. Contrary to her reaction, Alem continued with a very gloomy expression.
“Actually, that day. The day I swung my sword non-stop in the Phobos Circle Room.”
The flow of events that came out of the mouth of the person concerned had a different weight. Even Makia was drugged at the time, and her memory was unstable because she was drowsy and faint. Therefore, except for one of the most passionate moments, the film was partially cut off.
This was a reenactment of an incident that was fresh even for Machia. She pricked up her ears.
“…I couldn’t stand it, so I ate it.”
“What?”
Alem remembered the shards of glass that had been slashed in her mouth. In fact, since she was drunk on her medication and her memory was fuzzy, the last moment Alem could recall most vividly was the part where she chewed her pills whole.
Machia tilted her head for a second, then she let out her sigh.
She said, “Oh, that, she just thought she was lost…” “
She unconsciously groped her own breasts.
She’s just in case Alem suffers from her withdrawal symptoms, she’s 100% pure.
“…..Uh.”
Wait, that means.
Heat gradually spread across Makia’s face as she placed her hand on her chest. She turned into a red-hot kettle and stuttered her words as she wrapped her arms around her chest.
“Hey, uh, uh, uh, how did you get the medicine out… ?”
“…..”
Alem touched her forehead. The confession focused on her breaking an appointment and taking her medication.
If she had known it would be like this, she would have saved it.
But for some reason, Makia said with an expression that didn’t look too upset.
“That… saw?”
“I didn’t see it!”
Alem, who answered immediately, felt like shedding bloody tears.
**
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At night.
Winds managed to get off work only after the vigilante’s work was finished and the moon, not the sun, rose in mid-heaven.
“Ahhh… “
Not to mention her neck and shoulders, there was no place on her body that wasn’t sore. Even so, Winds hurriedly headed somewhere.
When she finally arrived at the hospital, she walked down a hallway that even the night nurses couldn’t see, and finally stopped in front of a hospital room.
“…..”
In front of the tightly closed hospital room door, the items brought by the visitors were neatly arranged. What was to be retrieved was what the nurses had arranged so that it could be retrieved.
Among them was the coffee cup that Winds brought with him every day.
“…Reduced.”
Winds realized it only after she held up the cup that had been immersed in darkness and felt its lighter weight.
I heard that she woke up today, but the vigilante was busy, so she couldn’t even visit her properly.
… In fact, she was close to avoiding Alem using the vigilante as an excuse, but Winds no longer had the face to face him.
-Did I do something wrong again?
If you bruise just a little bit, the memory of that day will come back like an unquenchable ember.
“No… no… “
Wins muttered blankly, lost in her thoughts as she looked at her shrunken coffee cup.
In the cup where the warming magic had naturally dissipated, coffee that had cooled down a long time ago was dripping. Not all of them, but about half of them were reduced.
He’s probably in a bad state, so the patient probably drank a lot of that too.
Did she suit her taste?
“I drank… “
Winds went back the way she came, holding her cup tight.