Chapter 83 Curiosity Kills the Cat

Jinjing General Hospital, Inpatient Department, in the deadlocked emergency corridor.

Suzuki Sonoko restrained her tone and asked the person above her hesitantly, "Are you... leaving or not?"

Yuushi Ozuki was silent for a long time, and after a long time he said "Oh" for no apparent reason, which could barely be considered a response.

At this moment, Sonoko was standing against the light and could only be seen as a dark silhouette. Ozuki-kun's appearance, which was far above the average, could not find any opportunity to be converted into favor for a while, and he could only wait for Miss Suzuki to give her ultimatum very impatiently.

"If you don't want to leave, just get out of the way, okay?"

The tone and expression in his voice were very intimidating, as if to say, "If you don't let me, I'll just pull you down and throw you away."

Yuushi Oshitari was still in the afterglow of his accelerated heartbeat and hormones. When he looked at Suzuki Sonoko, his eyes were covered with a layer of pink filter, and he felt like he was in bullet time. It felt like ten thousand years had passed with each glance. Even though ten thousand years had passed, it was actually only a second.

It really makes people want to imitate the male protagonist in the TV series who is in a state of being moved, putting on a soft and affectionate expression, stroking his chest with his hands, tightly pinching the buttons on the front of his shirt, and thinking in his heart, "Is this... the feeling of being moved...?" Such an idol drama-like OS.

——A female director whom Yuushi Ozaki has always admired is very good at showing such shots. She has shot more than ten different heart-pounding scenes for a large number of young boys and girls in their prime.

However, the fundamental reason why Yuushi Ozuki was frozen until now was because he was scared to death. Although he wanted to say some appropriate romantic lines for the first meeting according to his favorite plot, his throat was dry and astringent at the moment, and his tongue was stiff. He could make some "oh" and "hmm" sounds, but if he tried to make a multi-syllabic and linguistically logical conversation, he would probably stutter quickly!

This is terrible...

Opening your mouth may ruin your image.

Feeling that time was running out, Obuchi hesitated for three seconds, then made a decisive move and turned around calmly, as if he didn't notice there was someone standing at the bottom of the stairs. He put his small bag in his arms, pushed the door open and stepped into the corridor according to the planned route.

——Anyway, he knows who this person is. Next time he encounters a slightly romantic situation, he can get to know him again in a cool way.

When Sonoko saw him disappear at the door, she felt that the awkward confrontation of nearly ten minutes just now seemed like an illusion. However, she didn't take it seriously. The rabbits didn't give any warning, which proved that this person's entry was tacitly allowed. She curled her lips on the spot, followed the signs and slowly climbed the stairs into the corridor, walking one after the other with Yuushi Ozuki at a distance.

The conference room was in the middle of the floor, and the ward was in the corner at the end of the corridor. Yuushi Oshizuka paused in front of the conference room door until he heard the faint sound of a girl's clogs clacking in the distance. Then he politely knocked on the door in front of him, turned the handle and prepared to go in.

The moment the lock was turned, a powerful roar rushed into his ears like a tidal wave, and the noisy smell of fireworks easily drowned out the light sound of the clogs landing on the ground.

A feeling of loss flashed through his mind, and for a moment, Yuushi Ozuki couldn't tell which of those voices was his father's.

"Mr. Kenneth must have had a stroke!"

"All the values ​​are normal. Can't you diagnose hemiplegia caused by stroke in your family?!"

"Cerebral infarction? Who can still think so clearly after a stroke?"

"Myocardial infarction? How could someone with a heart attack still be alive and kicking? The patient just smashed a bunch of dishes this morning, and the nurse who brought him food was literally thrown out of the ward by him, okay?!"

Although the data was normal, and none of his bones were broken (the bullet hit his shoulder, which was purely a flesh wound), and his brain did not seem to be seriously injured, Mr. Kenneth was in pain, unable to move, and had lost the ability to walk!

Can the doctor do this?

The doctors are also desperate!

Oshitari quietly handed the notebook his father had specifically requested to the front, and listened to a lot of random arguments such as "incurable disease", "strange disease", and "is this Kenneth faking illness?"

He rubbed his ears, slipped along the wall to the back door, opened a crack and squeezed out.

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Oshitari originally wanted to leave directly, but when he stood at the door, he was in a dilemma.

He wanted to take a taxi back to the city center. The experts in the room had to stay in the hospital until they finished arguing. Instead of going downstairs to join the Shura field of the Feng brothers, it would be better to stay in the building.

He looked at the direction where Suzuki disappeared, and couldn't help but start to think.

Why did Suzuki Sonoko suddenly come to the hospital?

Is someone in the family sick?

Given Suzuki's situation, if someone in his family is hospitalized, it could be on the social news in a matter of minutes if the situation is serious. No matter how well he conceals it, it is impossible for there to be no news at all.

If she is not sick, why is she coming to the hospital?

And you picked a day like this when there's no water or electricity, and you can only go upstairs on your legs...

Speaking of which, Oshitari rubbed his chin thoughtfully: During a previous family gathering, the elders in their family seemed to have complained that the high-end inpatient department of this hospital was a Phoenix-style sanatorium club in hospital disguise. And thanks to Atobe, although Kenya Oshitari and Sonoko Suzuki failed in their blind date once, Yuushi Oshitari, who always claimed to be a bystander, still vaguely remembered the names of all of Miss Suzuki's fiancés.

Feng Family...

Is this a rekindled romance with her ex-fiancé?

Oshitari-kun took five seconds to make sure that he was very curious about this matter, then he turned his feet very naturally and walked towards the corner where Suzuki Sonoko disappeared.

At the same time, across the building about 20 meters away, Yukimura Seiichi was walking towards the ward with a group of noisy children.

There seems to be some problem with the circuit in the building opposite today. Many therapeutic equipment cannot be used. Several kids who originally lived opposite were temporarily arranged to live here, and the noise level has doubled.

It was almost lunchtime and there were hardly any people in the corridor. Yukimura walked up the stairs with the crying little girl in his arms, hoping that he could send these little ones back to where they belonged before the doctor's lunchtime rounds.

However, the troublemaker who made the little girl cry was completely unaware of his mistake. He kept peeking along the railing and shouting, and would exclaim in surprise when he saw a bird flying by.

"Wow!"

"Kenta," Yukimura said, holding the little girl's hand and shouting to the little boy jumping up and down behind him, "Don't look around when you walk."

“No!”

The little boy was very naughty. He pointed out the window and shouted back, "I saw Brother Yushi!"

The vein on Yukimura Seiichi's forehead jumped.

We only played together for ten minutes in total, and Oshitari-kun's social skills are really scary...

While he was thinking this indifferently in his mind, he subconsciously tilted his head and glanced in the direction that little Kenta was pointing.

Just this one glance, perfectly paused at the moment.

He couldn't say he was very familiar with Hyotei's Oshitari, but he was better than an acquaintance - after all, Hyotei's Atobe had very obvious character flaws (his mouth was extremely offensive), so the person in charge of external relations was usually Oshitari Yuushi - he didn't comment on this person's tennis talent (although Yukimura considered himself to be more objective, the number of championships also objectively reflected the strength gap between Hyotei and Rikkai University), but he had almost no shortcomings in his personality.

He seems frivolous, but he handles things steadily and properly. Even when Tetsuya's face darkens due to anger, this man can still smile calmly. Throwing him into the crowd, he has a strange presence that stands out but not abrupt.

When he looked up again, Yukimura Seiichi's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly.

He had very good eyesight, and his dynamic vision was also very good, so he was very sure that he was not mistaken - at the moment when Yuushi Ozawa was about to go around the corner, a black shadow suddenly appeared upside down behind him, moving slowly as he seemed to be cautiously peeping at something.

On the figure's head was a rabbit-shaped mask.

Is it a ghost?

After staying in the hospital for a long time, Yukimura had heard a lot of gossip. He knew at least three versions of the seven hospital ghost stories. Perhaps because he did not believe in ghosts subconsciously, his fear was limited. Instead, he turned his head with extraordinary calmness and looked at the focus of Yuushi Ozaki's route.

From his perspective, in another passage after turning the corner, there seemed to be a shadowy figure of a girl in gold and blue clothes standing there.

Yukimura Seiichi felt that the man looked familiar and thought about it carefully: before meeting Oshitari Yuushi in the courtyard, there seemed to be a passerby dressed like this who had hurriedly walked past him.

Before he could squint his eyes to search for the figure, another rabbit mask suddenly appeared on the opposite building, close to the window, exactly the same as the one hanging upside down behind Oshitari.

He saw me.

In the moment when he held his breath in surprise, Yukimura Seiichi thought calmly: the rabbit in front of the window saw him.

He even used this as an example to instantly complete the look of the shadow hanging upside down behind Oshitari Yuushi as it stared at its prey. Immediately, a chill ran from the heels directly to the back of the head, and Yukimura subconsciously held his breath, but——

"Yukimura-kun!"

The hoarse middle-aged man's voice seemed a little surprised, and suddenly pulled him out of that stiff aura.

When Yukimura Seiichi came back to his senses, he first breathed a sigh of relief without making any sound. He lowered his head and tugged at the corner of his clothes. His back seemed to be soaked with sweat. The few children who had been making a fuss were now standing in a row and listening to their lesson.

The tall, good-tempered middle-aged doctor shook his head kindly and said, "It's okay. Just be careful next time. Go back to the ward."

The children then left dejectedly.

Yukimura seemed to remember something and suddenly turned his head to look across.

The sunlight reflected from the building's glass was still dazzling, but when I glanced at a row of windows, it was clear that the corridor opposite was empty!

Both Oshitari and the rabbit mask following behind Oshitari like a shadow disappeared completely.

However, before he could panic and identify any traces of Inuzuka's presence on the opposite side, the chief pediatrician who was waiting there had already sighed and stepped forward, blocking the blind spot one step closer.

He patted Yukimura's shoulder and said earnestly, "The children have all been obedient and have returned to the ward. Yukimura-kun should also go back early. At least set a good example for the children who follow you around every day."

The director's appearance is not particularly outstanding, but he has a kind of gentle feeling. He is a rare male doctor who is liked by children.

But at that moment - although he was facing a familiar face and heard gentle advice, Yukimura Seiichi looked at the doctor's seemingly meaningful smile and felt a chill on the back of his neck for no reason.

The young patient's pupils shrank slightly, and he lowered his head and followed the doctor quietly, but the corner of his eye glanced at the opposite building without any expression.

Still empty.

Yukimura Seiichi said with unusual calmness and certainty: Hyotei's Oshitari Yuushi was taken away by the rabbit mask.

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In the building opposite, Suzuki Sonoko, who had no idea that she was almost being followed, slowly and leisurely walked to the door of Kenneth's large private ward under the silent protection of a group of rabbit brothers.

The patient, Mr. Kenneth, was lying in bed, furious.

Considering that this gentleman's temper was not very good, Yuanzi wisely stopped for a while after hearing a series of tinkling and clanging sounds.

She didn't want to be hurt by mistake at all.

After hysterically smashing all the pots and pans within reach, suppressed gasps were heard in the room.

Yuanzi thought that Mr. Kenneth was paralyzed after all, and his mental state might be a little dangerous at the moment, so he took advantage of the small gap created by the waves without wind and lay in front of the door frame to try to watch the excitement.

There was still the sound of a woman talking in the room.

Yuanzi leaned against the crack of the door in a strange posture, frowned and turned back, mouthing to the rabbit on standby: Who is the woman talking in the room?

Brother Rabbit knelt on one knee silently, rummaged through the secret pocket on his chest, and took out a data card.

Sora, a red-haired, fair-skinned beauty, is Kenneth's fiancée.

There seemed to be such a person in Yuanzi's memory. She lay back down and listened quietly for a while. She turned back in confusion to confirm again: Are you sure the person speaking now is really Kenneth's fiancée?

——The arrogant fiancé was paralyzed. He was mentally abnormal and could not bear any stimulation. However, Miss Sora had no intention of taking his feelings into consideration. Every word she said was, "You are no longer able to do it" and "Since you don't want to give up, your only option is to transfer Lancer to me."

Suzuki Sonoko touched her chest and swore to the lamp that the focus of Miss Sora's words had always been Lancer.

It sounds... just like an impatient young woman who can't wait to pursue her next love after getting promoted, getting rich, and losing her husband.

——He is not even willing to put in more acting effort when acting.

However, even with such poor acting that even Sonoko could hear it, Mr. Kenneth, whose file was stamped with the label "arrogant and conceited", did not hold on for long and chose to compromise with her in dejection.

It can be said to be true love.

"...You could also say it's pretty stupid."

"Your Highness?"

"nothing."

Under the young man's confused gaze, she suddenly blinked and said seriously, "Actually, if you put yourself in Kenneth's shoes, what he did wasn't really excessive."

"well?"

His Highness Suzuki seemed to be lost in thought, sighing to himself.

"He quite naturally treated the hotel he was staying in as a magic workshop, free to do whatever he wanted. He nonchalantly arranged possible battle sites in the densely populated downtown business district. He was completely oblivious to the consequences that might implicate ordinary people. This actually has something to do with his upbringing."

"He's just a product of the tragedy of the times. After all, in the education received by old-school magicians, magicians and ordinary people are two completely different species."

Young man: What exactly do you want to say?

"What I want to say is that he is really miserable."

Miss Suzuki smacked her lips in a serious tone. "For the first half of his life, his brain was bound by the rules and regulations of the old society. In the second half, he was paralyzed by the residual poison of the rules and regulations. He is really a lamb who has lost his way. The people who see him——"

Before she finished speaking, a breeze blew, and before Suzuki Sonoko could react, her entire vision was turned upside down.

With a crisp bang, a narrow and long gun with a very magical red light pierced the door frame just millimeters away from her eyelids with a force that could break tendons and bones.

——Were you caught eavesdropping?

No wonder, Sonoko let out an indifferent "ah" in her mind: she started to criticize so naturally, and the two magicians inside were not deaf, so summoning heroic spirits was the normal reaction.

The echo of the sound of breaking through the air was still lingering, and a few strands of golden-brown broken hair were slowly falling in the strong wind at a speed of five centimeters per second.

It happened so quickly that before the hair had even fallen an centimeter, the confused rabbit boy who was waiting on the side had already rushed to the gunman's ribs like a hungry tiger.

In a flash, three clear sounds of metal colliding were heard.

Click, ding, dang.

Yuanzi didn't even have time to express her surprise with an "Ouch" before the two figures separated neatly.

The young man's mask was missing an ear, and his forearm holding the dagger twitched slightly a few times, but fortunately no blood was seen. So he hurriedly diverted his attention to confirm the safety of Lord Suzuki.

Over there, Princess Suzuki had already regained her balance by holding onto the wall. When the young man looked over, she was standing there in a daze, halfway through fixing her hair.

As stiff as if petrified.

Diarmuid Oddi, the Irish hero who appeared in the world as a Lancer, had a look of alertness on his face. He used great strength in his fingers gripping the weapon, not only for the man in the rabbit mask in front of him, but also for the other three auras that were rushing towards him from the building.

His Master had already been seriously injured due to the Knight's negligence, and the same mistake must not be allowed to happen a second time!

Being attacked from both sides was already a frustrating situation, but when Lancer looked at the culprit, he saw a stunned and dazed face.

Is this happening again...?

The handsome knight's eyes were slightly darker.

Because the teardrop mole at the corner of his eye carries the spell of love, it always makes women who see him fall in love. He is very familiar with such a dazed face.

It's equally annoying and can't be more annoying.

Diarmuid's annoyance actually has many layers.

Firstly, he knew that the admiration gained in this way always contained some falsehood and deception, and was not truly sincere and moving.

Secondly, the power of the spell came from his adoptive mother. After all, it was a spell to seduce women. As an upright man, while he was tired of it, he also felt that it was extremely immoral to rely on love spells to win the hearts of women without their permission.

Boredom and self-boredom coexist.

But the woman standing not far away turned paler and paler the more she was stunned. Within just ten seconds, even her lips began to tremble. Her eyes, which had lost their luster due to shock, suddenly welled up with crystal tears. She gasped in a sad and angry gesture of "Oh my god, this person is an eyesore", took two exaggerated steps back, and then slammed into the wall with a bang, feeling hopeless.

Because she was not standing steadily, she inevitably sprained her ankle.

——Regardless of whether the love spell is a BUFF or a DEBUFF for Diarmuid himself, in essence, for those women who will fall in love with its owner when they see it, this thing is not much different from a curse.

In other words, Mr. Lancer cursed every woman who came into his sight at all times.

As an extraordinary creature with the aura of [No Taboos] and the passive skill of [Exorcism and Avoidance of Evil], Suzuki Sono was suffocated by the sudden discomfort before he could even see what the owner of the gun looked like.

[Curse] and [Blessing] meet on a narrow road. The specific effect caused by the conflict between the two is no less than a double-speed death roller coaster, which can make people vomit with disgust as soon as they open their mouths.

“No more…”

Yuanzi seemed to have been filled with a whole tube of mustard, and snot and tears flowed down without restraint.

She was wiping her face and sniffing her nose in a hurry, rolling her eyes uncontrollably, stomping her sprained and paralyzed foot hard, holding onto the wall in a very embarrassed posture, and limping to try to escape.

He took two steps and fell.

This desire to survive can be said to be very strong.

The little rabbit boy followed closely behind, retreating while being cautiously on guard against the imposing heroic spirit. He did not look around until he reached the stairs, made a silent gesture, and turned around swiftly to chase after the wailing Lord Suzuki.

He also found a shoe that His Highness Suzuki had lost in a hurry at the corner of the third floor.

As Sonoko ran farther and farther away crying, the non-time hospitals distributed in different directions began to act one after another, slowly evacuating the building as planned, and gradually lifted the security arrangements for Kanei General Hospital.

But a minute later, only Lancer was left standing there with the gun.

Diarmuid Oddi tilted his head to look at the glass in front of the window: the materialized image of the heroic spirit was exactly the same as he was in his prime, with brown hair, fair skin, high eyebrows and deep eyes.

This handsome man, who was raised by a water fairy, encountered such an embarrassing situation for the first time in his life.

He just...

Did you make a little girl cry because of her ugliness?

The author has something to say: Yukimura will probably be able to talk to Sonoko in the next chapter...

The plot I originally designed was a rich and powerful ultimate beauty-hound x a beautiful tragic knight. Later, I thought that Gun Bro had probably seen a lot of women who loved him, and had seen many who were unmoved (Saber and his wife included), but he probably hadn't seen anyone cry because of his ugliness.

So I let Yuanzi take this spot.

Happy Labor Day everyone. If nothing unexpected happens, there will probably be another update in the early morning of the 2nd...