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「Geho! Gehogeho!」 (Callus)
My body seemed to be strange when I woke up.
My head was throbbing, I was coughing nonstop, and the cup fell when I was careless for a moment.
I don’t have to do some testing, I seemed to have caught a fever.
I caught a cold, and it was difficult to get out of the futon.
「Callus-kun, morning.」 (Claire)
「Good morning, senpai!」 (Charlotte)
I heard Claire’s and Charlotte’s voices from the outside.
Because it was morning, they came to wake me up.
「Good morning……」 (Callus)
I tried to reply, but I was surprised when my voice did not come out.
I tried replying again. As I thought, my voice was hoa.r.s.e and could hardly be heard.
「Callus-kun? We’ll be intruding, okay?」 (Claire)
「Excuse me for entering!」 (Charlotte)
Since there was no answer (barely heard), they said their excuses and went inside my house.
「Ah, good morning! Senpai!」 (Charlotte)
「You were awake, Callus-kun.」 (Claire)
「Ah, good morning……」 (Callus)
「Eh? What happened to your voice, Callus-kun? Is it possibly a cold?」 (Claire)
「Looks like it……」 (Callus)
I can’t seem to speak clearly, it was bit tough to talk.
「No way, let me see for a bit ー hot.」 (Claire)
Claire measured my temperature by sticking her forehead with mine.
「How? It wasn’t there last night.」 (Claire)
I also wonder why.
「Senpai, please sleep! I will gather herbs around the vicinity.」 (Charlotte)
「Un, Callus-kun should sleep.」 (Claire)
「Wait, what about Wilf-sama‘s cla.s.s……」 (Callus)
「Eeh? That’s no good, it’s bad fever, Callus-kun. You have to take a day off.」 (Claire)
「That’s right, senpai.」 (Charlotte)
「No……I’ll go.」 (Callus)
I stood up staggering.
I want to go to the old man’s place.
I can level up just by attending.
Even if I were to take the day off and attend tomorrow, it seemed too much of a waste.
So far, I had smoothly gone up by 1 Level everyday, and getting interrupted now will be wasteful.
「But, aren’t you terribly hot?」 (Claire)
「It’s alright……I’m just attending.」 (Callus)
That’s right, I should just go and take attendance.
「Is that so?」 (Claire)
I nodded, and gazed straight into Claire’s eyes.
「……I understand.」 (Claire)
「Then, I’ll be carrying senpai!」 (Charlotte)
「You, Charlotte?」 (Callus)
「Yes! Please senpai, let me carry you!」 (Charlotte)
Charlotte stared at me.
With that much enthusiasm, I decided to just let her carry me.
After that, I went to the old man’s cla.s.s and only attended, falling immediately asleep on my desk as if it was my bed.
With that, I properly raised my Level.
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After the old man’s lesson, I returned to the castle with Claire and Charlotte.
「Please rest properly as soon as you get home, Callus-kun.」 (Claire)
Claire said concernedly.
Even during the old man’s lecture, she was looking at me with an anxious face.
「Then I’ll just do that……」 (Callus)
I don’t have to worry anymore, and decided to take a day off.
My fever was getting higher.
My head was hazy.
「Are you okay, senpai? As I thought, isn’t it better if I carried you on the way back?」 (Charlotte)
Charlotte asked with worry. Her voice also doesn’t have that usual enthusiasm.
「I’m all right.」 (Callus)
「Butー」 (Charlotte)
「Leaving that aside, could you please gather some medicinal herbs that could help relieve a cold?」 (Callus)
「Hai! I’ll be gathering it afterwards!」 (Charlotte)
「……please go now, I’ll have to drink it soon.」 (Callus)
「Uh……」 (Charlotte)
Charlotte looks at me. She seemed lost. She was hesitating as to whether she could just leave me like this.
「Sharo–chan. Leave everything to me.」 (Claire)
「I understand! I’ll be going!」 (Charlotte)
Charlotte explosively broke into a run.
After she disappeared, Claire said something.
「Callus-kun, you’re really kind. You kept Charlotte away to prevent her from transferring your cold.」 (Claire)
I definitely didn’t do that sort of thing.
「You are also someone who doesn’t catch a cold that easily.」 (Callus)
I thought for a moment and said something different.
「Isn’t that a bit cruel? I can also catch a cold.」 (Claire)
「Even if you did, you’ll be fine again in no time after munching on some leaves.」 (Callus)
「Ah, defintely so.」 (Claire)
She recovers too fast! I wish I was the same, too.
「The day before yesterday, I seemed a bit feverish, but it disappeared when I was munching on some leaves.」 (Claire)
She confirmed it.
The Caterpillar’s leaf munching seemed to not only be effective on wounds, but can also cure colds. I might acquire it since it seemed useful.
……no, as I thought, I can’t really stand munching on leaves.
I walked with Claire.
Furthermore, my head was blurry.
「Callus-kun, are you really alright?」 (Claire)
「I would like to build Claire’s and Charlotte’s house properly.」 (Callus)
「Eh? What are you talking about, Callus-kun? Just little bit more, Callus-kun.」 (Claire)
「Your Levels were rising up steadily fast, we should train bit more.」 (Callus)
「Callus-kun? We’re almost at the castle, so hang in there.」 (Claire)
My head was getting fuzzier, and my body feels light.
I don’t seem to know where I am.
I feel languid, and I’m sleepy.
I want to warm up in bed.
「Callus-kun, we arrived at the castle ー are? There’s someone there.」 (Claire)
「Callus・Bridd (カルス・ブレッド)」 (Usamimi)
Walking.
I saw a white rabbit in front of my eyes.
「Who are you?」 (Callus)
「I don’t like introductions. More than that……I would like to request a one-on one match with human-san.」 (Usamimi)
「Eeeh? Wait a moment, Callus-kun is feeling bad right now.」 (Claire)
The white rabbit looks cute, and fluffy.
I guess it would feel nice hugging it when sleeping.
「Be prepared.」 (Usamimi)
The rabbit soared. The way things are, it would most likely escape.
I want to capture it. I have to capture that soft thing.
Well, what should I do? What should I do to catch that rabbit?
I can’t incinerate it, it won’t be soft anymore if I freeze it, and blowing it is definitely out of the question.
……that’s right.
「GUOOOOO!」 (Callus)
Roar of the Dragon.
The roar shakes the earth.
「Gu, what, is this……」 (Usamimi)
The rabbit stopped. I approached the rabbit.
「Ku, move, my body……」 (Usamimi)
I approached and lifted the rabbit.
「What are you doing?!」 (Usamimi)
「Wait, Ca, Callus-kun?」 (Claire)
「Sleepy.」 (Callus)
「Eh?」 (Usamimi)
「Eeehhh……」 (Claire)
I held the rabbit, and returned to my room.
The rabbit felt soft and comfortable.
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I got up at night.
I opened, and it was my new room.
I had come back from the old man’s place somehow……but I didn’t when I came back.
……the cold, did it get worse and my memory flew away?
There’s a possibility that I may have caused trouble for Claire and Charlotte. I’ll have to express my grat.i.tude later.
While I was thinking so, I had a slight discomfort.
Something in my arm feels fluffy.
While I thought about what was happening ー the rabbit-eared girl was there.
「Uwa!」 (Callus)
「You woke up at last.」 (Usamimi)
She said as if she were amazed with a silent tone.
It was the rabbit-eared girl the day before yesterday.
「Why are you here?」 (Callus)
「You do not remember anything?」 (Usamimi)
I nodded. I can’t seem to remember anything.
「It was terrible. Amazingly terrible.」 (Usamimi)
「Eh?」 (Callus)
「I was used as a dakimakura for a long time.」 (Usamimi)
The rabbit-eared girl was sulky.
「Err……」 (Callus)
I desperately searched my memory. Then somehow, I remembered seeing that a rabbit was there, so I caught it and used it as a dakimakura.
It seemed to be this girl. It was certainly a rabbit……now I’m scared of a cold.
「Somehow, sorry. I mean, why did you not run away? I had a cold, so you should be able to escape at any time, right?」 (Callus)
Her weapon, I remember her huge mace. I thought with that, it might not be that difficult to escape.
「You roared towards my ears whenever I tried to move. Therefore, I gave up.」 (Usamimi)
Etto……ah, I seemed to have been using the Roar of the Dragon, wasn’t I.
I invoked it every time the effect wore off.
「Sorry.」 (Callus)
I thought that what I did was truly wrong, so I apologized once more.
「That reminds me of something. A while ago, when I saw you. What were you originally doing here?」 (Callus)
「It had already ended.」 (Usamimi)
「Ended?」 (Callus)
「I came to fight. However, I was completely defeated by a sick person. Therefore, it ended.」 (Usamimi)
「I, I see.」 (Callus)
「I was defeated twice, you are an amazing person.」 (Usamimi)
She said in a hushed voice.
「That’s why, I have a favor to ask of you.」 (Usamimi)
「What is it?」 (Callus)
「Keep me.」 (Usamimi)
「Keep, like how raiser would?」 (Callus)
「That’s right.」 (Usamimi)
The rabbit-eared girl nodded.
There was definitely wrong with the way she presented it, but it you look at her right now, she exudes a mysterious atmosphere, one that says she’s looking for a companion.
She challenged me and lost, so she wanted to become my companion.
Un, that is definitely more fitting.
I thought for a moment.
The beautiful rabbit-eared girl whose Level exceeds 20.
If she’s asking for a companion, then there is no reason to refuse.
「That should be nice.」 (Callus)
「Thank you.」 (Usamimi)
She thanked me.
She looked so cute that I thought of making her my dakimakura for a moment.
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When I woke up the next morning, I can’t see the rabbit-eared girl anywhere.
When I went out, Claire and Charlotte had a troubled face.
As I followed the two people’s gazes, I was also surprised.
Before anyone was aware, there was unexpectedly a rabbit hut with the rabbit-eared girl inside bunched up, sleeping.
This is troubling, seriously troubling.
「So cute.」 (Callus)
I thought so.
Thus, the rabbit became a companion.