episode_0027

Although I was supposed to be the caregiver for three people, in reality, there wasn’t much for me to do as a caregiver. Since all of them were S-class awakened individuals, there was nothing for them to excrete from their bodies, and nutritional management was taken care of by the state-of-the-art artifacts built into the ward. So, even though it required only one person to take care of three patients, I was merely a symbolic presence. After all, heroes who saved the world should have at least one person taking care of them.

I didn’t know about this, but a person named Nis from the Central Information Bureau said that those who work in the national public emergency room for awakened individuals are praised as exemplars of self-sacrifice in society. I’m just an F-class odd-job worker, but they put me here so that I would appear to others as the best caregiver worthy of heroes. Yes, I was simply assigned as a caregiver in this ward for show to the people of the world. Forever, as long as the three people don’t open their eyes.

If I didn’t have the ability to see their status windows, I might have gone crazy living in this boring ward and either committed suicide or given up and died of old age.

Or maybe I would have… No, never mind. What Mei Luina… No, not her. Maybe Dain Adamas, no, even more so, not that. How about Mir Ryuin, Mir Ryuin…

“Well, if they die, they die. There wouldn’t have been any need to attack the three of them.”

Psychologically and ethically, it would have been unreasonable. My conscience wouldn’t allow attacking the plant-human, and psychologically, it would have been too much to attack those three. If I had become their caregiver without knowing that they were cursed and without a status window, I would have simply hated everything about them. Just looking at their faces would have made me tremble with anger. It seemed unlikely that I would have ever entertained any sexual thoughts about the three of them. Of course, after getting to know their conditions through the status window and being able to converse with them, and gaining consent to do anything as part of treatment, the physiological and psychological discomfort diminished significantly once I started to touch their bodies as part of treatment.

Targeting someone you don’t know and experiencing it even once are completely different.

As I am someone who has experienced the opposite sex, if a situation arises where I have to have sex…

“Hmm, maybe I should think of this as a therapeutic act, absolutely not think of anything else, not even sympathy, but an act done unavoidably for treatment. While thinking this repeatedly, I will pierce through the virginity of the three with my steadfast mk.2.”

To make me think such thoughts, considering that I usually consider a day complete when the three come out of the dream, the first experience was a dreadful thing.

Of course, even though it was my first experience, it was not much more than just touching the chest, developing the porchio erogenous zones, and hitting the buttocks a little, and trying to insert a finger into the extremely responsive pink anal, but anyway, I experienced my first time and changed a lot because of it.

It’s a good thing that I was able to somewhat overcome the trauma of Meiruina, Dain Adamas, and Mir Ryuin.

“Of course, once the treatment is over, it will all be forgotten.”

This life in the hospital room will only remain in my memory and theirs.

No, since there is a high possibility that those three will forget. Maybe it will become only my memory.

Thinking like that, I felt momentarily empty and hollow, but it was just a momentary feeling, and soon the relief swallowed up all those regretful emotions.

Because the day the three open their eyes will finally be the day I regain my own life.

The day I achieve the dream I’ve been striving for, unable to sleep properly for 4 years, and torturing my body, that’s the day I part ways with the three.

Thinking like that, even though I couldn’t grasp when that day would come, I already felt relieved.

“Just imagining it makes me feel so relieved, how great will it be when that day comes.”

I felt it would be great when the day came for the three to open their eyes, the day to achieve the dream.

“In that case, I should put even more effort into the treatment of the three.”

VVIP special care room, a small studio-type caregiver’s private room.

I started studying in this private room, which is ten times better than the old, dirty, and cramped goshiwon I used to live in, to efficiently treat or rather, to thoroughly take care of three people.

It was obvious that with my innate talent and professional knowledge, treatment would accelerate once combined.

“Alright, let’s start with Meiluna tomorrow. First, how to properly massage Meiluna’s dedicated teat…”

It seemed like it would be a long night.

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“…Huhhmm. Ah, slept well. How long has it been since I’ve slept so deeply?”

Compared to the shoddy mattress in the goshiwon, where metal springs protruded everywhere and one could get hurt just by lying down without covering it with a blanket, the caregiver’s bed in the private room was truly made for perfect sleep.

As soon as I lay down, the soft cushion conformed to the contours of my body, inducing a deep slumber, setting a record for falling asleep as soon as I closed my eyes on the bed last night.

After such a sound sleep, I woke up to a perfect morning, so refreshing that I couldn’t remember ever feeling this good upon waking up.

[User’s fatigue has been recovered. All energy has been replenished.]

Yes, to the extent that the status window indicated that fatigue had been recovered and all energy had been replenished.

“Waking up with so much energy is truly rare. I think I know what it means for all energy to be replenished.”

Satisfied with the perfect morning, I was stretching my waist and shoulders when suddenly, I had one question.

“But this ‘energy’… Was it also fully replenished yesterday? Just until yesterday, I felt like I was dying from exhaustion. Is this ‘energy’ some kind of vitality unrelated to fatigue?”

As that question crossed my mind, a small notification window appeared before my eyes.

“Wow.”

It seemed like today, Mei Luna’s treatment might not end with just one or two fainting spells.

***

Clack.

“Good morning, I’m here.”

[Checking the user’s determination. Within a certain distance, you can hear the target’s inner thoughts.]

Feeling good, my mood brightened, so I greeted Mei Luna’s hospital room with a cheerful “good morning,” something I wouldn’t normally do.

[“Oh, you’re here? It’s a good morning, Mr. Stay. I’ve been waiting.”]

Of the three people, if anyone had a human-like personality, it was Mei Luna, who greeted me warmly. When I used to work in the emergency room, I never received such a warm greeting, and I momentarily forgot that she was Mei Luna, which brought a smile to my lips. But soon after, I remembered that she had treated me like an emotional trash can, and I wondered why she was welcoming me warmly, so I changed my joy to caution.

“You were waiting for me? For me? Why? Was it good for me to receive treatment?”

Logically, Mei Luna wouldn’t enjoy berating a lowly man whom she treated as emotional trash. It’s another issue altogether whether she enjoyed just berating him, but being sensitive and a pervert are different matters. So, without a reason to be pleased, I asked Mei Luna, full of wariness.

[Well, in this state, I can’t even sleep. The only thing I can do now is space out and overthink. So, of course, I would be happy to see Mr. Stay, the only one who can talk to me······.]

“Ah.”

I nodded my head at her unexpected response. Indeed, Mei Luna had been suffering from loneliness in the darkness, unable to interact with anyone for a whole month.

When I first opened the status window, it was in such a wretched state that it listed extreme loneliness, depression, despair, and regret under the current status.

It goes without saying that when her inner voice function first activated, the first sound she made to me was crying.

For Meiluina, who had been silently crying for a month due to loneliness, the existence of the only being suddenly available for communication must have been truly welcome.

Despite her disheveled appearance, enough to be mistaken for a baby if she were not a maiden, her longing and joy for human interaction outweighed any sense of shame.

Thinking about it that way, it was understandable why Meiluina greeted me warmly.

She said she couldn’t sleep in that state. The perceived time is almost twice as long.

Even though the other party was Meiluina, I felt self-conscious about becoming that state.

“Okay, then I’ll make you faint to your heart’s content today. You can look forward to it.”

So, as a special service, I resolved to make her faint to a degree similar to getting a full night’s sleep for the day.

[Why on earth am I like this?!]