Chapter 146 – Little Indulgences.
Episode 145, A Little Indulgence.
“Ryu… , Ryu… , Ryu… “
Sitting blankly in the wheelchair, Aori shook his head back and forth and repeated the same words.
An empty room with no one in it.
Even though she is intoxicated and unconscious, her eyes are constantly following something in her.
The slightly open door and the weak light streaming in from there.
As her body swayed back and forth, the wheelchair moved forward little by little.
Squeak, squeak-
Her movements as if in a rocking chair.
No matter how many times she repeated that action, before she knew it, Aori finally came from a moonlit corner to a brightly lit door.
Aori’s ears pricked as she repeated the same actions.
“It is true that I went for a walk at night. I texted you, so I’ll be back home soon.”
“Oh, I see. Have you ever been too disturbed while sleeping?”
“It was a night where I couldn’t sleep.”
Aori’s trembling hand brushes against her wheel, and the slowly rolling wheel hits the wall.
Even when her weak neck and forehead hit the wall to the point where it turned red, Aori just listened to the conversation between the two.
“Ah, over there, my girlfriend has arrived.”
“Isha-san, I heard about Ryu. But what about… , I like to exercise at night, so my body is soaking! Got wet Would it be all right if I wash up first and talk to Aori-san?”
“Oh, yes, of course.”
In Aori’s eyes, Midori’s face, which reminded her of her face, came into view. Her whole body was wet with sweat, and her clothes were all over her figure.
She was the one who thought she had a lewd body, but now it was the moment when I thought that she was a strangely lustful body.
Aori sniffed at her, seemingly displeased.
“I wash it, but it seems like it will take a long time. Would you like some tea?”
“Ah, thank you for doing that.”
As Ryu searches for a pot to boil water, the sound of Aori tapping the door with her wheelchair is drowned out.
“Why does Aori suddenly want to see my girlfriend?”
“Oh, maybe she looks like someone I knew before coming to the hospital? I guess that’s why. Fortunately, I am much better now that I can meet people. I think it would be better to practice talking to people slowly.”
“Aha, someone who looks like… , Haha…Isn’t it?”
A pleasant smell of tea that erases the smell that fills the living room.
Aori’s expression, which was frowning her nose to the point where wrinkles were engraved on the back of her nose, became comfortable.
As if to represent her expression, her body droops over her wheelchair.
“Well, I’ve heard enough of other people’s stories, and what I’m worried about is Mr. Ryu. No matter how I look at it, my mouth is heavy because I ate a lot of hospital food. And… , I feel at ease when I can talk to anyone.”
“I’m not the type to talk about myself to others…”
“Shall we start with that? Why are you not talking about yourself? You can just think of it as talking to yourself. You can turn around and talk.”
“It’s not that I’m special or that I’m saying unlucky things like that. I guess it’s because I’ve never met anyone who understands what I’m saying.”
“As I watched, I didn’t really understand this kind of counseling. There are a lot of people who feel much better about being confided in just because there is someone who will listen.”
“Then… , Actually, I’m confused these days.”
A rumbling voice. Aori could feel the discouragement and loneliness inside. As for Aori, she wanted to hear the story that put Ryu in that state. She leaned her head against the crack in her door and stuck her ear out.
“I kept going in the right direction, I thought I was trying. I guess I’m proud of my appearance… , There was something like that.
Isha, as if listening, puts her hands together and sticks her head out towards Ryu. Seeing her, Aori pushes her head further towards Ryu, as if to show that there is one more person listening to him.
“Yes… , It hasn’t been long since I’ve seen Mr. Ryu, but just looking at his usual habits and actions, I can tell what a sincere and hard-working person Mr. Ryu is.”
Ryu took off his glasses, which were always neatly placed on the bridge of his nose, and washed his face dry with the palm of his hand.
“But, even though I tried so hard, it kept slipping away from the direction I wanted.
These days, I think like this.
Even though I tried so hard, if something keeps going wrong and goes wrong and betrays my efforts, isn’t it my efforts, my actions, and me as a person who have done wrong things that are meaningless and worthless in this world…”
It was Ryu who finished his speech with an expression of disapproval.
“… There is a saying that if you go to Rome, follow the laws of Rome.”
“Then taking a break for a while or trying a different method is one of the good ways… ,”
Ryu’s voice, interrupting Isha’s words, was a little reminiscent.
“However… , If you compromise like this little by little… , I would say that I am afraid that I will become the kind of person I hate the most.”
“What if you are that kind of person?”
“Yes, when I was young, I would say my mother’s lover… There was such a person.
I remember being a narcissist and a sociopath who had no line in his actions and no guilt for what he did.
You know I’m the best, but-.
In my eyes, he was just like a dog on the side of the road, a horned beast that only served his own needs. A dog that thinks it’s all about eating, being cheap, and being in heat.”
Isha’s left eye, below it, slightly darkened, twitched slightly.
Aori was no different from the person portrayed, with her mind dazed by the drug.
“That person. It is the cause of all the reasons Mr. Ryu is obsessed with and is having a hard time right now.”
Is it to find the cause, or is it for some other reason?
Aori’s eyes caught Isha’s satisfaction as she drew a light smile on her lips.
“Whether in a good or bad way, he seems to have had a great influence on Mr. Ryu… He seems to be an important person?”
“Are you important? Under… Ms. Isha, do you remember the names of the dog poop and dirty trash that are spread like land mines on her street?”
“Wouldn’t it be rather close to avoidance to accept the person who had the greatest influence on Mr. Ryu as nothing? I don’t have the courage…”
Ryu’s sarcastic, irritated voice, and Isha’s voice, which seemed to be obsessed with that emotion, also sharpened in softness.
Aori’s neck is heavy in that atmosphere.
“Influence… , That person is just, how to say. Are there any flat villains you see in fairy tales as a child? He’s like a teaching aid, doing all sorts of bad things and hateful things to teach his children a lesson.
It’s strange to know such a name.
But these days… , Like a fly buzzing in my ear, if I knew it would bother you, I would have known the name. I want to get out of bed and hit it with the palm of my hand, but it’s too troublesome to find, isn’t it?”
“… “
Isha looked straight at Ryu and didn’t look at anyone.
I was speechless and stiff.
Ryu is immersed in her own feelings and words, and does not know how she looks at him.
“Well, right now, he’s just a guy who means not to fall to that level.”
Only Aori tried to move the wheelchair with a worried face, waving her weak arms around.
Kiik-
Rattle-
The wheelchair hit the door frame.
“Ah, everyone was in the living room… Er, I forgot to pack my clothes. I’m Aori… I’m going to Mr.’S room, so could you wait a moment?”
“Ah yes. Sure.”
“Clothes…”
“Ah, it’s not Deeul…Ryu, just bring me some clothes. Only the clothes!”
The living room became noisy again.
Aori drooped, leaning her dull head against her wheelchair.
*
“How did he even get here?”
Isha, who seemed to be nervous, slammed the door and entered. She strides over and pulls out a leather bag from her closet.
Ji-Ik-
The zipper opens, revealing various medicines and syringes inside the bag.
Isha’s hand didn’t hesitate to pick out her bottle, even though it was words that could only be read by holding the bottle right in front of her face.
“Even though I put in the medicine like that, seeing that it continues to move. You must have missed your family a lot, Aori?”
Looking at Aori, who has a blank expression on her face, Isha inserts a syringe into her medicine bottle.
She filled her syringe with medication and sprayed her medication into the air to deflate her.
“Why are you looking like that? You should thank me
Just like you said, I made Midori like you, and I paid for Keiji’s son’s hospital bill. I’ll treat you carefully so that you won’t lose after biting your tongue…”
Isha, who leads Aori by her door back to the corner, squares her fingers and examines the angles here and there, as if calculating where Midori will look when her door is opened.
“Don’t you think I’m a better person than you thought?”
Isha stared at Aori even as she stepped back. Her back touched the wall right next to the door.
“But I was always on your side rather than Midori? Even though you were like that, you were cage until the end. Unlike that stupid bitch.”
The vibration she felt running down her walls, the fact that Midori was coming, Isha hid her hand holding the syringe behind her.
Knock Knock
“Yes, come in.”
Midori enters through the door and is startled for a moment by the sight of Isha standing right in front of her door, then smiles at her and goes into her room.
Quik-click
As the door closed, Midori looked straight at Aori, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time. Unable to hide her awkwardness, she twists her body around and heads for Aori.
“That, Aori-san… I have something to tell you…”
Aori leaned her head against the wall and looked at Midori, as if she hadn’t lost her strength yet. Her gaze lingered on Midori for a moment, then immediately stared at the side of her head.
Midori, who glanced at her side, felt burdened by her Isha, who was closer than she thought, but her mind wondered if her Aori, who would remember her old self, would have recognized her. Turns into sadness
“It’s because I haven’t woken up yet. Because of the weakness in her jaw and muscles. You have to be close to her and listen to her.”
“Ah… , Yes. Hello Mr. Aori. She says that Midori is…”
Aori Approached her wheelchair and Midori slowly got down on her one knee and met Aori’s eyes.
But Aori didn’t make eye contact with her.
Midori Aori, who only looked right next to her face, wondered if he had done such a big mistake to her.
It just kept replaying her vague memories.
The place where Aori’s eyes are headed, until her light blue hair falls down from there.
“Why, Aori? You don’t even want to look at her because she’s just like her old self?”
“Yes, what is it?”
Turning her head, Mi-do felt the skin on her neck tingle, something cold and creepy burrowing into her throat.
“Originally, I didn’t plan to do it this far. A bastard on the street, what is it…”
In Midori’s fading vision, she could see the veins on her neck and bloodshot sky-blue eyes.
“I’m the type of person who sticks to my original plan, ah! Seeing this kind of Holo child with my own eyes, I can’t calm down.”
With a fluttering sound, Isha in her doctor’s gown enters Midori’s pupils as she unties the tight latex gloves on her hands.
“Aaaaa…”
Like a sloth scratching the floor, Midori leaves only her fingernail marks on the tatami mat under the influence of medicine.
“Actually, we are not married, but we were in a common-law relationship. Is not it?”
She felt the hot wind in her ears again.
“Aren’t you being polite to your father?”
