episode_0070

“Ha… Ha…”

Even though I didn’t move my body due to consuming too much concentration, my breath was rough.

My vision blurred, and my body shook as if my heart was pounding, stealing the strength from my entire body, a feeling that could be felt just before fainting.

However, my mind was as clear as ever.

The sense of accomplishment in successfully devising a plan awakened my mind.

“Yes, this is it. There’s no other way.”

After a long struggle lasting six hours, the plan that finally emerged was so astonishing that even after reconsidering it several times, there seemed to be no room for disagreement.

It’s not perfect, but there’s no better way than this. This is the best I can do.

A plan to overcome the obstacles of life, which seemed to have no way out, just by thinking of this method, I felt as if a huge path had opened up in front of me, and I firmly opened the door to my cramped office.

Click.

“Shall we go then?”

It was time to meet today’s patient, Meiruina.

“To live, let’s do our best.”

The best plan that no objection can overshadow, the first sacrificial lamb would be Meiruina.

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“It’s late. How late is it? What are you doing?! Are you deliberately acting like this because you can’t stand to see my face, Stei?”

Since becoming a saint, it has been difficult to feel such anger, but after becoming a plant person, I spend every day filled with anger.

Still, when receiving treatment from Stei, the anger that seemed as if it would never melt away, melts away, and that empty space is filled with warm happiness and relief. Is it fortunate?

However, the next day, when I heard Stei whispering sweet words to another woman through the speaker, a rage that was several times greater than my anger was ignited in my heart, and it is an extremely huge problem that will never be resolved.

“Just like now…”

I’m only relieved that I can’t move because I’m a plant-human. If I could move normally, I would be so angry by now that I might have ground my teeth.

The reason is simply because of the unprecedented event I heard through the speaker yesterday.

“It’s just discrimination… Why do you always treat Dain Adamas so nicely, give her special treatment, and care for her? I could overlook anything else a hundred times, but I absolutely can’t overlook what happened yesterday. Absolutely not! I will definitely get angry. Today, unlike yesterday, I won’t yield to that disgusting and fox-like attitude and atmosphere, and I will definitely make her apologize!”

Words that should never have been heard through the speaker yesterday.

Even though the treatment had ended, instead of leaving the hospital room, Stei asked Dain Adamas if she could sleep first, which was truly unbelievable, and it happened right next door yesterday.

Stei’s words, which even made my trained ears doubt, coming from the Vatican, where all sorts of tricks abound, “Dain, can I just hold you like this and let you sleep here today?”

The moment I heard it, my mind turned as white as bleached, I couldn’t speak properly, and it gave me a dreadful feeling as if my heart was freezing cold.

Even though I know you’re listening, saying those things to another woman… I can never forgive that. If we don’t make this clear this time, similar things will surely happen even after the treatment ends. No? Even worse things might happen. Because Mr. Stay is a libertine. He’s a male who can’t control himself, who can look at another woman right in front of me, and be dominated by his lower desires… Yes, he needs to be corrected before he truly becomes an enemy of women. This is something only a saint like me can do… I have to turn Mr. Libertine into a normal man who looks at only one woman, me.

The moment he leaves the treatment and enters society, there’s a 100% chance that Mr. Stay, who is bound to fall, will find his salvation.

If we use this sense of purpose as our guide and harness the burning anger in our hearts as fuel, no matter what schemes Mr. Stay may devise, we can overcome them and take control.

Until now, I’ve been on the receiving end unilaterally, but that’s only because I didn’t have a reason to fight back. Now that I have a reason, there’s no reason for me to lose.

“Phew. Hurry up and come, Mr. Stay. I, a saint, will do my best to fix your broken values! I will make you into a normal man who looks at only one woman, thinks of only one woman, and loves only one woman!”

Click.

“Wow! You came! Oh, no! You’ve come… Mr. Stay.”

Hmm-

Just at the perfect moment of determination, the door of the hospital room opened, and simultaneously, the always welcome warm sensation of connection filled my heart.

Normally, when the feeling of connection melts away the accumulated anger, I would let it go, but today is different. Today, it won’t pass so easily!

“I’m here, Miss May Lina. Have you been well?”

I replied coldly to Mr. Stay, who was greeting me warmly without even sensing the mood, while gathering my emotions and holding my ground.

“No. I haven’t been well at all. It’s been absolutely terrible.”

You don’t even call me by my name. You use formal language with me. You said you would call me by my name and speak informally from now on. Fine. I won’t look at you for real now. Even if I cry and beg you to look at me, be prepared to get really angry because I will be really angry.

I firmly prepared myself to confront Stay’s ridiculous attitude and opened my mouth to speak coldly.

“Stay, do you have anything to say to me?”

I was really, really angry, so I wanted to vent this anger on Stay right away, but still, I’m a saint. Through this question, I gave Stay one last chance.

No matter what you say, I will get angry, but if you hold the right answer in your mouth, “Sorry, Mei. I won’t do that again. In the future, when treating other women, I won’t call them by their names, or hug them, I’ll just treat them professionally and leave. Please forgive me.” If you say this right answer, I will still grant clemency. So Stay, think carefully and answer.

Even in a situation where I had no choice but to get angry as a compassionate saint, I waited for Stay’s answer until the end, showing mercy.

“Do I have something to say? Well, I guess I do.”

“Oh, really? Then why don’t you say it with that open mouth of yours?”

I coaxed an answer from Stay, who seemed to have something to say, with a lot of emotion.

Depending on what comes out of your mouth today, and going forward, it may not be an exaggeration to say that Stay’s fate is being decided.

It is Stay’s fate that is being decided, but since I am the one deciding that fate, it was natural for me to be nervous.

So, I listened nervously to Stay’s voice, and Stay spoke to me.

“I haven’t slept and I’ve thought a lot, and I realized I have to say this. I’ve been hiding it somehow until now. But now there’s no reason to hide it, right?”

“What have you been hiding?”

The uneasy atmosphere, the determination not to be swept away by Stei’s atmosphere, seemed to be in vain as my heart wavered, and I felt a tension as if I had to swallow dry saliva.

“Yes, my hidden feelings. My sincerity towards Meiruina. I will confess it now.”

“W-What are you saying!? C-Confession?! So suddenly?!”

“Well, confessions are usually sudden, aren’t they? Then…”

“W-Wait a moment! Stei, just a moment! I-I need to prepare my heart! Please wait a little!”

“Okay…”

But as soon as the word “confession” came out of Stei’s mouth, the pounding tension in my heart turned into excitement, and the anger that had filled my chest melted away in an instant, quickly replaced by happiness.

I did vow to get angry for the sake of justice, but isn’t confession more important than that? Confession! Oh my goodness! I thought I would receive one someday, but I didn’t expect it to come so soon!

Was it really like that? Was yesterday’s unbelievable behavior just to confirm your feelings toward me? It was truly a very bad action, but since you confirmed and acknowledged your own feelings and returned to where you should be, I can’t really get mad at you.

It’s as meaningless and foolish to hold onto past grievances against someone who has realized their mistake and is walking the right path. It’s just venting anger, not genuinely considering the other person, isn’t it?

After washing away all the anger that filled my heart, I closed my mouth and prepared to receive Stei’s confession.

“Oh, come in!”

Surely, if my body could be affected by emotions, my mind would have been overwhelmed by the sound of my heart pounding.

Receiving a confession to that extent was a thrilling experience, and I focused all my attention on him, trembling with anticipation, to receive Stei’s confession in real time.

“Meiruina. Actually, I…”

“Yes, yes…!”

Oh, here it comes! It’s coming! I really, really received a confession! They say that from today, I’ve become the first day with Stay…

“I really hate it.”

…

“From the first moment I met Miss Mei Luina, every moment, every time, I hated you.”

…

“Suddenly using a stranger as an emotional garbage can, looking down on me as if I’m F-grade, being compassionate to others but treating me like a human trash with a broken personality. I really hate it.”

…Huh?

“I truly hate you, Miss Mei Luina.”

Huh?

Huh?