episode_0057

After checking on the sleeping patients three times, I went to the restroom, drank some water, and when I returned, Meiruina was crying. Since her emotional reception was connected, it was impossible to know why she cried or how she cried, but the dampness in Meiruina’s voice when she called out to me felt so desolate, full of tears, that it indicated she wasn’t just crying, she was sobbing uncontrollably.

As soon as she began to sob, she stopped when I arrived, urgently called my name, and when I responded, she not only expressed her dislike for being called Meiruina but also requested to be called Mei instead. There is only one thing this signifies.

Meiruina is currently suffering from severe separation anxiety.

The moment I realized this fact, chills raced through my entire body. Overwhelming fear, teeth clenching, trembling limbs, and a heart pounding so violently that it felt like it might burst. The fact that I, a mere F-rank, had become the subject of separation anxiety for S-rank Awakener, particularly the revered Saint Meiruina, was enough to bleach my mind completely white and then some.

“……”

[St-Stay C? Why are you suddenly not saying anything…? D-Do you perhaps not want to call my name anymore?]

My head was numb with shock and fear, unable to respond, and Meiruina’s voice filled with anxiety reached me.

“Huh? Oh, no! Why would I do that!”

Having lived in Meiruina’s emotional dumpster, I instinctively replied, knowing better than anyone what would happen if I ignored her words.

[Really? Th-Then, please call me by my name quickly! Not just once now. Please keep calling me by my name from now on!]

Satisfied with my answer that there was no way, Meiruina repeated her demand, erasing the anxiety from her voice in an instant and repeating the request that whitened my mind once again.

Just a simple request to be called by her name, something that seemed too easy to comply with at first listen. But for someone who dreams of an ordinary life, this demand felt more dangerous than any other words I’ve ever heard in my life.

Call me by my name? Mei Luina, not just Mei? Good grief.

Right now, Mei Luina was suffering from severe separation anxiety to the point of bursting into tears and wailing, all because I hadn’t been with her for a mere 5 minutes.

And it was directed at me.

In this situation, if I were to comply with Mei Luina’s request, “Call me Mei,” it could lead to something significant. She is known to everyone as a noble young lady who is kind to anyone but doesn’t build deep connections with anyone. If I were to fulfill Mei Luina’s demand, it could lead to a major event. For instance, even after treatment, if Mei Luina couldn’t get rid of her separation anxiety and continued to cling to me, or worse, if she were to abduct me and use me as an object to alleviate her separation anxiety, such an unforeseen incident could occur.

Just the fact that she is suffering from separation anxiety directed at me right now makes it highly likely that such an unforeseen incident could occur, and on top of that, calling her by her name?

If even after treatment, Mei Luina, unable to eliminate her separation anxiety, were to say to me, “I never allowed anyone to call me Mei except for Mr. Stay. But how dare someone like Mr. Stay reject the special treatment I granted and act as if he didn’t know? He called me by my name freely, but now that the treatment is over, he’s cutting ties, claiming not to know me? I won’t stand for it. I’ll make you regret it,” the likelihood of her ruining my life would increase exponentially.

Of course, today I heard directly from Mei Luina that she doesn’t like me, and since we weren’t compatible from the start, the probability of her truly becoming a despair circuit isn’t that high, but…

[Call me! Quickly! Quickly! Comfortably, just like you did earlier! Please speak comfortably!]

Seeing Mei Luina so fixated on being called by her name made me feel like I shouldn’t just take it lightly.

Sure, there was a valid reason for calling her Mei earlier, in order to treat her, but if I were to call her Mei without any reason, from then on, there would be no way to escape the logic of “You called my name as you pleased.”

Therefore, at this moment, what I had to do was to perfectly separate the conversation during treatment from the everyday. Fortunately, it wasn’t so difficult to come up with a solution to this problem.

“Call me by my name only?”

[Yes, yes! If you could call me with full emotion… softly, as if whispering into my ear, it would be even better!]

Thinking that she would soon be called by her name, Meiruina added her request with an excited voice.

However, I had no intention of fulfilling such a demand.

“Huh, softly whispering like this…”

Unlike before, I burst out laughing at Meiruina’s words, which was an action that I wouldn’t have even imagined doing in the past, and pointed it out to her directly.

“[S-Stay? What did you just say…]”

Meiruina, rather than getting angry at my sudden change in attitude, stumbled over her words in confusion first. But it was only a matter of time before that confusion turned into anger at being ignored.

If such a thing were to happen, it would become a hassle to handle something that could easily be dealt with, so without giving Meiruina a chance to get angry, I approached her suddenly.

“Hey, Meiru.”

[Eek?!]

I grabbed both of her cheeks tightly right next to the bed, controlling my strength meticulously enough to make her feel pressure rather than discomfort, while at the same time pressing her cheeks so that her lips pouted out, I whispered as she desired into Meiruina’s ear.

“When I call you Meiru, it’s only when I’m treating you exclusively. If you want to be called Meiru, remember that you have to submit to me. Got it?”

The reason there was no difficulty in coming up with a solution was because Meiruina knew very well that I was a perverted sadist.

By using the pretext that she must receive exclusive treatment for her name to be called, I made calling her by her name a part of the treatment altogether.

This was the plan to separate everyday conversation from treatment conversation.

[Hehe…♥]

“Got it. I’m asking you now, you perverted brat.”

I grabbed her face with one hand and, in a coercive manner, called out her name, causing Mei Luina to already feel dizzy and disoriented. Despite the fact that Saint Mei Luina had never heard such rude and disrespectful words from anyone in her life, she momentarily hesitated before responding with a faltering voice due to being held by the face.

“[Y-yes♥♥♥ I submit to you♥♥♥]”

A perfect response of submission.

Of course, it was justified under the pretext of treatment, making it easy to bring about such submission. Yet, the fact remained that I had brought Mei Luina to submission with just a few words.

Feeling the weight of her lower body increasing due to the rising excitement, I released her face and raised my hand to gently stroke her platinum hair.

“A good listener like you, Mei, is truly adorable and beautiful.”

Simultaneously, I whispered those words directly into her ear, deliberately provoking the jealousy she had expressed earlier, even causing her to stutter.

[H-hey······?!♥♥♥]

It’s not that I seek praise for being a pervert, but rather, as a perverted woman, it’s only natural to be pleased by words calling me cute and lovely.

[S-stay still♥ Y-you were being so frighteningly forceful just a moment ago♥ W-why are you suddenly speaking so softly and saying such things♥♥]

That’s why, having been pressured by me just moments ago, Mei Luina, whose defenses had completely melted away, reaching the peak solely from my praise, wasn’t such a strange occurrence.

“Well then, it’s getting late, so I’ll be going now. You can go too, Mei.”

[Y-yes? W-what······]

Swish! *Thud!*

“It’s nothing. Just prove that you’re a perverted woman who reaches the peak just from being tightly held as a virgin.”

[Ah······♥]

Without any warning, I plunged my hand into the patient’s gown like an arrow and firmly grasped the soft, warm, and damp flesh, which had already become tender from the touch, causing an overwhelming sensation with just a squeeze.

Thud.

“······?”

[To protect the user’s hearing, the function to listen to inner thoughts is deactivated.]

“······Ah, it’s off again. How loud did I yell this time?”

I closed the familiar notification window and, after indulging in the addictive sensation of May Lluy’s soft, warm, and damp flesh a few more times, I left the hospital room as it was.

“There’s so much to think about.”

Treating May Lluy today made me realize that it was time to deeply contemplate my relationships with the three patients.