Chapter 26 Basketball 25
After the incident in the basketball team, Midorima Shintaro was in a bad mood and wandered outside for a long time without going home.
As long as victory in the game is guaranteed, one can be exempted from club work and training...For Midorima Shintaro, whose motto is "Do one's best and leave the rest to fate", he really cannot agree with this approach.
As if to make their already terrible mood even worse, the sky seemed to be torn open with a big hole, and the rain fell incessantly.
It's terrible.
…
As he was about to go home, Midorima Shintaro met an unexpected person.
The black-haired girl was walking alone on the street, without an umbrella, and she was completely soaked. Teiko's sky-blue summer uniform clung tightly to her body, making her look even more delicate and fragile.
In the heavy rain, the girl's delicate and beautiful face was dyed an abnormal red, and her body was stumbling, as if she was about to fall down at the next second.
Midorima Shintaro's pupils constricted instantly.
"...Kurikawa?"
He came in front of her and raised his umbrella to shield her from the wind and rain. After looking up at him, Kurikawa Sana closed her eyes and leaned forward.
After subconsciously hugging the girl's body and touching her arm skin, Midorima Shintaro realized that her body was abnormally hot, as if it could burn people.
…Sure enough, he had a high fever.
She fell into the swimming pool yesterday and was rained on for who knows how long today. It is normal for her to have a high fever.
Why was she walking on the road in the rain like this?
Did Akashi just say something to her after he stayed at the gym?
A series of questions came to his mind, and Midorima Shintaro frowned and said, "Kurikawa, you have a fever."
"My head hurts so much, I feel so uncomfortable..." The girl's voice sounded very soft in the rain, and she made a whimpering sound of grievance.
Midorima Shintaro sighed. How could it not be uncomfortable? With a burn like this, it must have been over 39 degrees Celsius.
"Do you have any medicine to reduce fever at home? I'll take you home."
She shook her head dazedly, "No, no... There's nothing at home..."
"Then I'll go to the pharmacy to buy it. Wait for me."
When she heard that he was leaving, the girl suddenly regained her strength and clenched his arm tightly, her voice filled with grievance and tears, "No, don't leave me..."
!!!
Midorima Shintaro froze suddenly.
After a long while, he finally replied in a hoarse voice: "...Okay."
There was nothing he could do about her, and Midorima Shintaro sighed inaudibly.
"Excuse me."
He held the umbrella in one hand and with the other hand, he picked up the girl with great strength and walked forward.
Suddenly feeling suspended in mid-air, she subconsciously hugged the other person's neck to avoid falling, and the boy's tall body paused for a moment.
Kurikawa Sana's body was completely wet, and if he picked her up he would get wet too. Midorima Shintaro was a perfectionist who was almost picky, but he didn't care about this.
Not long after walking out, Midorima Shintaro discovered that the girl in his arms had fallen asleep due to extreme fatigue and high fever.
Listening to her long breathing, Midorima Shintaro felt a little relieved.
I don’t know what happened to me, but I ended up like this.
Fortunately, the wish she made on the day of the fireworks display was to be healthy, but in the end she can't take care of herself.
The boy held her quietly and silently, but with the ups and downs of his steps, the huge height and body size difference between them, and the action of holding her with one hand... inevitably, the girl's towering soft chest vaguely approached the side of his face.
!!!
This is……? !
The green-haired boy froze all over, and his fair and handsome face turned red in an instant.
…
Midorima Shintaro didn't know how he came back.
He felt like a stiff primitive man as he carried Kurikawa Sana back to his home.
She had no fever-reducing medicine at home, and she stubbornly refused to let him leave for the pharmacy to buy medicine. Midorima had no choice but to bring her back to his own home, intending to feed her the fever-reducing medicine and wait until the rain stopped outside before sending her home.
Until he put her down on the sofa, Midorima Shintaro felt that his face and ears were hotter than hers, a patient with a fever of over 39 degrees.
Midorima's parents took her sister on a trip abroad, so there was no one at home right now.
After covering Kurikawa Sana with a clean towel, Midorima Shintaro rummaged through the drawers to find some fever-reducing medicine and fever patches.
"Kurikawa, wake up and take the fever-reducing medicine before going to sleep."
“Hmm…”
The black-haired girl rubbed her eyes, climbed up from the sofa with difficulty, swallowed the pills obediently, and gulped it down with the cup of water in Midorima Shintaro's hand.
Done in one go.
Then he quickly lay down again with a "ba" sound.
Midorima Shintaro: "..."
The girl lay quietly and obediently on the sofa, like a lazy and beautiful white cat.
For some reason, Midorima Shintaro suddenly felt like he had picked up a princess cat from the street in a rainstorm and brought it home.
"Kurikawa, you can't just lie down and fall asleep... You've been in the rain for so long, you must take a hot bath." He looked at the scene outside with a headache. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and he couldn't take her back for a while.
Her hair and body were soaked. If she fell asleep like that, Midorima Shintaro couldn't imagine how badly her head would hurt the next day.
Kurikawa Sana half opened her eyes uncomfortably, "But, I don't have any clothes to change..."
Midorima Shintaro: "...If you don't mind, you can wear my jersey for now."
...It just so happened that his jersey was washed by her, the manager of the basketball team.
Kurikawa Sana nodded and stood up bravely. Midorima Shintaro took her to the bathroom and prepared all the toiletries and a change of jersey for her.
"Kurikawa, you haven't finished your meal yet."
She shook her head. "Not yet."
"You take a shower first. You can have dinner right after that. Then drink some fever-reducing powder before going to bed." Midorima Shintaro said as he walked into his spacious open kitchen.
The girl stood at the bathroom door and looked at him dazedly, "Midorima."
"……Um?"
"You are so virtuous."
After saying this, she closed the bathroom door.
Midorima Shintaro: “…”
The "virtuous" green-haired boy tied his apron on with an expressionless face.
That's quite a compliment, he's actually not very good at cooking.
…
Rice cake and red bean soup is one of the few dishes he can make. It is very suitable to have a hot bowl of it after getting caught in the rain and having a fever. When Midorima Shintaro finally finished making this bowl of rice cake and red bean soup, the bathroom door opened.
The moment the bathroom door opened, mist swirled around, and the girl's slender figure was looming.
“……!”
Midorima Shintaro tightened his grip on the soup bowl instantly, and he seemed to be unable to even feel the heat from the boiling red bean soup.
It was not until this moment that he realized that the two of them were alone under the same roof, and he took the initiative to bring the girl to his home, let her take a shower in the bathroom, and put on his jersey... What a bold and unconcerned move.
The girl wore his Teiko blue and white number 7 jersey, which made her skin look dazzlingly white. He was nearly 1.9 meters tall, and the jersey came up to her thighs...
... Stop! Stop, don't think any further!
Midorima Shintaro felt his ears burning again, even hotter than the rice cake and red bean soup he had just held in his hands.
"Now that you're done washing, let's have dinner..." Before he could finish his words, he was shocked to see the black-haired girl fall forward again. Midorima Shintaro rushed to her and caught her almost instantly.
...Why is it so hot?!
Midorima Shintaro looked at the temperature taken by the thermometer in disbelief, which was 40.2 degrees!
If the fever is over 40 degrees, you must go to the hospital. Your life may be in danger at any time due to high fever convulsions or shock.
"Kurikawa, I'll take you to the emergency room right away." He picked her up and carried her sideways.
"No, no need..." Kurikawa Sana panted lightly and grabbed his clothes tightly, "I'll be fine after a good sleep..."
Midorima Shintaro shouted angrily, "Stop joking! Now is not the time to be willful!"
Kurikawa Sana was in tears. This high fever had already deducted 25 points of her health value. The system said that she would recover, just like the last time she was hit on the head by a basketball. She would recover after a good sleep.
However, just like when purchasing items in the system mall, the deducted value will never come back, so the system reminded her from the beginning to be careful not to get sick easily.
Besides, she doesn't really belong to this world. If Midorima really takes her to the emergency room of the hospital, it is a question whether she can successfully register with legal identity.
"It's really okay, it will be fine. If you don't believe me, try taking another test..."
Midorima Shintaro took the temperature again with a grim expression, and the number displayed on the electronic screen of the thermometer had changed from 40.2 to 39.8.
"No, 39.8 is still serious. Listen to Kurikawa and go to the hospital."
Kurikawa Sana: "..."
Midorima is good in every way, except that she can be really old-fashioned sometimes.
So she could only repeat herself weakly: "It will really get better. If you don't believe me, take another test."
Midorima Shintaro twitched his lips in anger. Is she a parrot?!
However, when I measured it again, the temperature had indeed dropped again, to 39.2 degrees.
Midorima Shintaro: "..."
Is the thermometer gun broken? How can it still lower the temperature in seconds?!
"I'm so sleepy, Midorima..." Kurikawa Sana hugged his neck tightly and shrank in his arms, "Please let me take a nap, okay? Just a nap, I'll be fine when I wake up..."
The girl's tone was almost coquettish, with a hint of grievance.
Midorima Shintaro's muscles stiffened, but he finally obeyed, unable to refuse her request.
Finally, he could only pretend to be tough: "...I will monitor your temperature. If it is still 39 degrees in the middle of the night, you must go to the hospital."
It was still pouring rain outside, so it was not realistic to send her home. Midorima Shintaro cleaned up the guest room, changed the bed and bedding, and carried her to the guest room.
"Have a good rest, good night."
After carrying her to the bed like a princess, Midorima Shintaro was just about to get up and leave.
At this moment, a dazzling and terrifying white light flashed outside the window, followed by a "boom" of lightning and thunder! It seemed as if it could split everything in half!
The girl's body shook violently, and she hugged Midorima Shintaro's arm tightly to prevent him from leaving.
“Don’t, don’t go…”
Midorima Shintaro's breathing suddenly stopped and he was unable to move away.
"Kurikawa, are you afraid of thunder?"
The black-haired girl in the bed nodded aggrievedly, her beautiful blue eyes like gems filled with physiological tears due to the high fever, and she looked extremely pitiful.
"…I see."
Midorima Shintaro stopped and let her hold his arms, then he half-knelt beside her bed and said, "Go to sleep."
After making sure that he had no intention of leaving again and no longer feeling insecure, Kurikawa Sana breathed a sigh of relief, finally closed her eyes obediently, and fell asleep quickly.
Looking at the black-haired girl's peaceful sleeping face, Midorima Shintaro lowered his eyes, and the lenses of his glasses blocked the surging and complex emotions in his eyes.
…
In the middle of the night, Midorima Shintaro took her temperature several times again, and it was indeed getting better as she said. In the second half of the night, it was only a little over 38 degrees, so there was no need to worry about high fever convulsions and shock.
Midorima Shintaro's arm had been numb from being held by her for so long, but he still didn't pull his hand away.
She finally fell asleep, and it would be bad if she woke up with the slightest movement. She would definitely feel wronged again... It would be very troublesome then.
Such a long time has passed, but I don’t know how it has flown by. When I come to my senses, it seems like a long time has passed.
He just stood there, staring at her in silence.
Until his arm became numb and he felt like he had lost all feeling, his arm muscles twitched uncontrollably.
With just this one jump, the black-haired girl slowly opened her hazy eyes and met his gaze.
“…”
Midorima Shintaro held his breath almost subconsciously.
The girl lying on the bed held onto his arm and exerted a little force. Midorima Shintaro, who had been half-kneeling beside her bed for a long time, was instantly pulled away by her and lost his balance. He could only fall towards her in astonishment.
With a "pop" sound.
A kiss was pressed against his forehead, carrying the intense heat of a girl's high fever.
“!!!”
...What is she doing? !
Midorima Shintaro's pupils suddenly contracted violently, with an indescribable shock and shaking.
For him, who observed etiquette to the point of being almost strict and old-fashioned, even though it was just a kiss on the forehead... it was unprecedented, and the level of intimacy was completely beyond his cognition and ability to bear.
"you……"
Before he could finish his words, he saw the girl in front of him smiling sweetly. Her face was still flushed from the high fever, and she was incredibly beautiful.
"Midorima."
"Your hair is so green, I like it so much."
Midorima Shintaro: “……………………”
His eyebrows twitched violently, and veins popped out on his forehead.
After saying that, Kurikawa Sana kissed him on the cheek again.
When they leaned in for a kiss, he could smell her uniquely fresh and sweet scent, mixed with the scent of the same body wash he used every day.
His emerald green pupils suddenly contracted and he was unable to move.
After doing all this, the girl lay back down very naturally and fell asleep again in just one second, sleeping very soundly.
It was as if everything that had just happened was just her sleepwalking behavior after she became confused due to the fever.
Midorima Shintaro: “………………”
What did this guy do?!
How could she fall asleep again without any burden? !
You still refuse to go to the hospital for emergency treatment?
Now it’s okay, if he doesn’t go to the hospital, this guy’s brain will really be damaged!
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