episode_0218

Time passed, and a new year began. But before I could rejoice, my body had improved a little, to the point where I no longer needed to eat porridge.

Of course, I still had to avoid spicy foods because my stomach was still weak.

“… Haam.”

I yawned and looked around the room.

Honestly, there’s nothing wrong with being with Min-hee, but I feel a strange sense of unfamiliarity with the life of a patient.

I don’t think I’ve ever gone out and done anything, so it’s hard to say that I feel suffocated from being stuck in the house, and I don’t think I’ve ever moved around much, as I’ve spent almost half my life playing games.

The memory of the world where I met Minhee, who was Kaylon, came to me as a distant memory, more like a dream than a feeling of having experienced it myself.

It wasn’t a good thing that the things I ate and did there felt vague.

I was a little worried that everything Kylon, no, she had done, would seem like it was a dream that she would forget.

“… Are you awake?”

“Oh, yeah.”

As I was rubbing my eyes, which were a little blurry after I woke up, I heard Minhee’s voice.

I have no reason to get out of bed, but I still have to get out to go to the bathroom, so I quietly pulled the blanket out of my bed.

Then Minhee saw that, smiled, and grabbed the sleeve of my pajamas.

“Jimin going to the bathroom?”

“… Yeah.”

I felt a bit awkward during the few days we got closer, but that wasn’t a bad thing, so I smiled and nodded anyway.

I thought that the relationship between the two, who had been close to each other since returning to their original world and having changed appearances, was becoming closer again.

But Minhee was seriously close.

“Are you going to wash?”

“… Oh, yeah. That’s what I’m going to do.”

“Then let’s go together.”

The problem was that it followed me to the bathroom.

There was another reason why it turned out like this, so I couldn’t say anything, and that was the reality, so I just laughed bitterly.

“I can wash my hands by myself.”

“No, it’s still weak so it doesn’t wash off well.”

I remembered that I had given that reason before, and at that time I really had nothing to say.

*

On the day I ate porridge, my body, which had just been discharged from the hospital, could be said to be a little dirty.

So I needed to wash up, but at the time, I was already weak and had a hard time standing on my own two legs, perhaps because I had walked a long distance without any problems.

It was a ridiculous situation where I couldn’t even believe my muscles and was experiencing muscle pain.

Of course, I couldn’t joke around like that because Minhee would look at me with a murderous look, saying it was a self-deprecating joke.

Anyway, I had to wash up, but I didn’t have the strength to stand up to wash up, so I couldn’t just leave Min-hee in this awkward situation and leave my dirty body there.

It was an urgent situation for one day, so it was possible to do that, but it wasn’t possible to do that for two or three days, so I had to wash it.

“… I have to wash it.”

When I said that in a hoarse voice, Minhee opened her eyes wide and looked at me.

I guess Minhee didn’t know I would be the first to say something like that.

“Why…?”

“You probably won’t even have the strength to stand… No, you don’t have to push yourself too hard. Just wash up after you’re all better.”

Minhee said so.

I guess you’re saying that I don’t have to force myself to do that.

It was true that it felt good to be considered. It was because they first understood my situation and then adjusted their convenience to fit that situation.

Right now, my body was forcing her to be considerate, rather than being considerate of her.

I thought, “Do I really need to be treated this way, knowing that it’s a nuisance to lie in the same bed with a body that’s only been roughly dried with a towel?” but it wasn’t true.

So this time, I ignored her consideration.

I have already received so much.

I received my hospital bill, I was given a place to stay, and I was even given a meal like this.

So, I thought that I shouldn’t make the place I sleep dirty any more.

“… It’s messy. If I keep sleeping like this.”

“You won’t be able to wash by yourself anyway… ?”

Minhee asked me that with a worried expression.

There she was, grabbing my sleeve, probably because she was worried.

“Okay, it’s okay.”

Still, I could probably wash up after I got to the bathroom. With that thought in mind, I carefully got up from the bed.

The moment I rustled and threw off the blanket and put my feet on the floor, my body swayed violently.

“Jimin-ah!”

“Ouch… !”

My body, which had lost its balance, tilted towards Minhee.

“Oh, sorry… It’s okay.”

“Oh my… ”

Since I was being stubborn, Minhee eventually sighed as if she couldn’t say anything more to me.

After that, he helped me up again and took me to the bathroom.

The bathroom with the bathtub was accessible through the living room.

It seemed like such a long distance, and it seemed like a long journey.

Still, when I arrived and saw the clean white tiles, I felt relieved.

“… Then you can wash it well, right? This is shampoo, this is conditioner, this is treatment. This is body wash… You can wash your body with this. Here is the towel.”

Minhee, who showed me the locations of shampoo, conditioner, etc. in the bathroom, seemed worried about me, and even after explaining everything, she stuck her head out to sneak a peek at me.

I need to wash, but why do I keep looking at it?

“… Then wash it well?”

“Yeah. Thank you.”

Still, I was grateful for your consideration.

I tried to wash her like this out of consideration for her, but I felt a little bad because even coming to wash her required her care.

If I made her worry about everything, she would get even more tired, but she didn’t show any sign of fatigue toward me, so I thought that was also considerate.

I took a shower. It would be nice to turn on the water in the bathtub, but I had to wash my body before getting into the water so that the water I was soaking in wouldn’t get dirty.

He held the shower head in his left hand and pointed his right hand toward the faucet.

The moment I raised my hand, the shower head I was holding made a gurgling sound and then, at that very moment, water burst out.

Water comes out. That wasn’t a problem.

The problem was the water pressure.

I opened my eyes wide, startled by the sudden, strong impact.

But no matter how surprised I was or how much I reacted, it didn’t do anything to solve my situation.

“Wow!?”

I hadn’t even taken off my clothes or checked the water temperature when the shower head fell out of my hands.

Whoosh! Water sprayed everywhere. The shower head fell out of my hand, dancing in the air before falling to the floor, spraying water upward.

It was a moment when my mind went blank as I thought that this was the first time I had ever been caught in the rain indoors, in a bathroom.

“What are you talking about!”

Minhee came and opened the bathroom door wide, startled by the loud noise.

“… to.”

“What’s going on?”

She looked at me with confusion as I was drenched in the water sprayed by the shower head, even my clothes.

And then the eyes looked around.

I looked at the shower head, which was spraying water over my body and then falling to the floor.

I felt embarrassed when I showed my disheveled body, so I grabbed the shower head again and tried to pretend like nothing happened, but my body, which seemed to have lost most of its muscles, didn’t have the strength to hold on and endure it even if I had prepared myself.

“Huh? Aaaah?”

“Huh? Huh? ”

Minhee, who was as flustered as I was, opened her eyes wide and flailed her hands.

But Minhee, who came to me, couldn’t easily catch the shower head that she had dropped again.

So it was inevitable that her body would get wet.

Her body also became completely soaking wet, creating an ambiguous atmosphere.

Minhee, who kept her mouth shut, stared blankly for a while before picking up the shower head rolling on the floor and slowly looking at me.

“… What the. You didn’t even have the strength to turn on the shower?”

“Ah, no… I thought you could hear that much… I knew it. I’m sorry.”

“It’s not your fault.”

Honestly, I felt like it was my fault for trying to wash when I didn’t even have the strength to do so myself. But I couldn’t say those words out loud.

“… Okay, since we’re already wet, let’s just wash it off.”

“Huh… ?”

As I was thinking, “What did I hear?”, Minhee’s hand came closer.

“This older sister will wash you properly.”

“Oh, oh, no… I think there’s a place to fix it over there… ”

“What are you saying? You don’t want me to wash you? I can’t reach your back anyway. You can’t wash yourself properly with that kind of strength, right?”

I was at a loss for words when I heard Minhee’s words.

All I could do was just stand there blankly, watching her approach.

“Ouch, ahh.”

Her hands haphazardly took off my wet clothes.

Unable to resist it, my body was exposed as it was.

It didn’t stop at the top, his hands moved to the bottom.

“Ugh, ah… !”

“We’ve all seen each other before, so why are you acting so embarrassed?”

“Ah, no…! I, I’ve never shown it with this body, huh.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Minhee quickly made me naked, and then she came to me naked too.

After I was stripped of my clothes, I lost my justification for refusing and was left speechless.