Not too many out of four

Taking care of the sick is not an easy task, especially for Nakahara Chuya, no matter how careful he is, there will be omissions and negligence.

The cats who stay at home can’t maintain the human form for a long time. Even if he has better control, he can’t stick to the human form for more than ten days. back to Li Jia in the form of

In order not to disturb the little girl's psychological construction during this time, he did not turn back into a cat in front of Li Jia, but left the ward while she was asleep.

Zhong Yuanzhong can also see that Li Jia can still treat him normally because she hasn't completely connected the cat "Mr. Chuya" with the human "Mr. Chuya".

Now she simply regards him as a familiar stranger, the cat demon "Mr. Chuya" instead of a cat at home.

The Zhongye cats who stayed at home also silently disappeared from her sight to give her time, instead of forcing her to accept the fact that a cat that has been carefully cared for for a year can become a human being.

For Li Jia, a cat is a cat, no matter how close she is to rely on to say what she cannot say to outsiders, it is because Zhongye cats will not betray her, and will not tell others about her.

Cats belong exclusively to Lijia. They are gentle and reliable, occasionally mischievous but very caring and well-behaved to their owners. They are her favorite Zhongye cats.

But "Central Plains Chuya" is not, it is impossible for her to treat Central Plains Chuya with the attitude of a cat.

After all, there is a difference between the form of a human and a cat. Human beings are polite, righteous and shameful creatures. They cannot be as close as a cat and its owner if they are not related to each other.

It is also difficult for Li Jia to face the Zhongye cats with the previous attitude. Now she can maintain a normal attitude because the "Central Plains Zhongye" has no understanding and consideration in front of her.

The person who took care of her was "Mr. Chuya" who rescued her. The "Nakahara Chuya" who always appeared in front of her was also in full form, without showing the cat's ears, tail and the cute and familiar appearance of the cat. Treat the two separately.

At least during the period when Li Jia was recuperating, Zhongyuan Zhong didn't want her to worry too much about their identities, which would delay the healing of her body and the treatment of her throat.

He quietly left while the little girl was asleep and turned into a cat, and then came back as if nothing had happened after she woke up or was still sleeping, and told her that he went out temporarily to get some air.

Li Jia is a gentle and considerate little girl, even if she finds something is wrong, she will not ask more questions, but will leave all the time for him to be alone quietly.

It is precisely because of this that Zhongye Zhongye can't force her to accept that the cat at home is equal to "Chuya Zhongyuan". It is not easy for the little girl to accept the fact that a cat that has been raised for such a long time can become a human.

Li Jia is sad and rarely shows her personality in front of people. In the past, there were cats that she could confide in, but now the cats have become humans, and some of them are even older than her brother. They are adult men who are not familiar enough. .

She won't tell them those little things again, but at least they can give Li Jia more time to adjust herself.

It will be too late to face everything when she is discharged from the hospital. At that time, they will confess and apologize to her one by one. If she wants to drive them away, Zhong Yuanzhong also has a way to survive outside alone.

Whether in cat form or human form.

……

At night, Li Jia woke up in a daze of thirst.

She rubbed her eyes sleepily and sat up, yawned delicately, and turned her head to look around.

There was no one else in the ward except her, not even Zhong Yuanzhong, who had made the folding bed before she went to bed, was not in the ward, only the folding bed was put aside, the quilt was neatly folded and there was no trace of anyone sleeping on it.

She vaguely remembered that Zhong Yuanzhong also seemed to wake up very early during the hospitalization period.

Every time she wakes up, the other party will sit by the hospital bed and read a book or hold her head up to watch her in a daze, basically never falling asleep.

Li Jia was also puzzled, but thinking that she was always sleepy and wanted to sleep when she was lying in the hospital bed and couldn't go anywhere, Zhong Yuanzhong should also get up when she had enough sleep while she was sleeping.

It's just that she didn't expect that when she woke up in the middle of the night, she would find that Zhong Yuan was not on the folding bed.

She rarely wakes up at night, sleeps very regularly and does not move around casually. This is the first time since she was hospitalized for more than ten days, she discovered that Zhong Yuan would go out secretly at night.

Li Jia left the bed lightly, and reached out to feel the temperature on the foldable bed. Although it is cool in winter when people leave the bed, there is heating inside the hospital. As long as you wear clothes and cover the bed normally, the temperature can be guaranteed.

The folding bed was cold to the touch, either Nakahara Chuya had been away for a long time, or he didn't sleep on the folding bed at all tonight.

She leaned on the edge of the bed carefully avoiding her injured leg and poured herself a glass of warm water, hopped back to the bed with one foot, held the water glass in both hands like a bird pecking at water, and drank it a little bit. The warm water moistened her dry throat and let out a comfortable breath .

The hands of the clock on the wall turned quietly for 15 minutes, and Nakahara Chuya still did not come back.

Li Jia reached for the crutch beside the bed and moved out of the ward bit by bit.

She borrowed the crutch from the nurse when she was doing activities during the day. After all, it is always difficult to move her body and let Nakahara Nakaya support her all the time when she is walking.

Lijia had fun thinking that at least this time she could still use crutches, so that she would not be unable to walk on the ground with her feet, and she could move out a little bit by herself while leaning on the wall and crutches.

When Li Jia's tracking necklace was transferred to the general ward, Edogawa Conan had already handed it back to her, and by the way, he asked Dr. A Li to overhaul and recharge it to confirm that it was working well before handing it to her with confidence.

At this time, it is just suitable to find Chuya Nakahara who has left the ward and disappeared.

I don't know if it's because of laziness or it doesn't matter, Mr. Nakaya who turned into a human didn't take off the positioning collar that Rika put on by himself, but just took off the ribbon around his neck and put it in his pocket.

This allowed Li Canon to use the tracking necklace to find his whereabouts in the hospital at night.

Following the red dot in the necklace, Li Jia found Nakahara Chuya in the flower garden in the hospital atrium. The cat curled up and slept peacefully in it, but only trembled its ears when it heard the footsteps.

Maintaining emotions and maintaining a human body for a long time made him extremely exhausted. He heard familiar footsteps approaching, and knew that it was the closest little girl, so he continued to let his consciousness sink in a dream.

The cat's small body undulates slightly, snoring softly.

Li Jia stretched out her hand to cover it carefully, and stroked the cat's fur. She hadn't seen Zhongya in the form of a cat for more than ten days.

The movements were gentle and cherished that Zhongya Zhongyuan was not woken up, but only made him grunt in a low voice, buried his head and continued to sleep in the flowerbed, not even noticing that the petals fell on his body.

I don't know how long Zhongyuan Zhong also slept here, so that he could feel like sleeping in a familiar place, and he didn't wake up even if he was touched.

The one-year-old big cat couldn't be carried back to the ward just because of Li Jia's present condition. Li Jia just slowly lowered her body and squatted down, and put the cane beside her to quietly accompany her sleeping cat.

It was obvious that only a dozen days had passed since the kidnapping incident, not even one-tenth of the time she spent raising cats, but it always seemed that time had slipped away and they didn't have much time to spend together.

I don't know if the cats will leave after they can become humans, Zhongyuan Zhong didn't ask, Li Jia also deceived himself and didn't ask them.

She can't treat the cats at home like before, but she can't do it if she wants to give up these cute and caring cats.

The Zhongya cats suddenly appeared in her life, like lively and mischievous elves, considerate and sticky elves, cute and caring cat demons, and reliable and gentle patron saints...

It has already firmly occupied an important position in her life.

Now even if she knew that they were no longer ordinary cats, she couldn't abandon them.

So Zhongyuan Zhongye left the ward in the middle of the night and did not return for a long time. Li Jia would still look for cats hiding everywhere in the bungalow, and bring them all back to him.

She looked up at the gray sky and felt that she came out wearing only a thin hospital gown in winter nights, and it was still a little cold after a long time.

After all, there is heating in the ward, so she can wear thinner hospital clothes that are convenient for the doctor to check, but there is no such equipment outside, not even a wall to block the wind, and it is easy to feel cold just sitting quietly for a while.

Although I don't know why Mr. Nakaya sneaked out of the ward to sleep, Li Jia also noticed his fatigue from taking care of her during this time. He tried hard not to show fatigue, but occasionally he still propped his head in the ward nap.

There is also a light cyan tint under the eyes.

Edogawa Conan also said that occasionally they can take turns to accompany them. It is not suitable for the elderly and children to stay with the bed at night, but it does not affect when nurses and doctors are working normally during the day.

In fact, Li Jia didn't have to be accompanied by Nakahara Nakaya, but he was worried that he would not leave too far when Sister Huiyuan and Dr. Ali stayed in the ward.

When he fell asleep in the middle of the night, he stayed in the flower garden directly under the window of Lijia's ward. He would pass by the atrium of the hospital when he wanted to enter the inpatient department. Even when he was sleeping, his ears were pricked up vigilantly.

He is telling Edogawa Conan with his own actions that he will protect Li Jia and become her guardian, and he will definitely do it.

At least when there is only one Zhongyuan Zhongye in the hospital, he will not let Li Jia leave his protection range.

With such determination, he stayed in the hospital to accompany Li Jia who was sick and couldn't go home.

Li Jia squatted down with her hands around her knees, leaned her head on her knees, rubbed her eyes after a while and started to feel sleepy.

Early morning is the time for her to go to bed. She has always lived a regular life and doesn't stay up late, so naturally she can't stay sleepy.

When the warm coat fell on her, she didn't even react, she raised her head in a daze, and softly snorted: "?"

"Go back to sleep, and you won't be afraid of catching a cold if you sleep here." With a black tie on his red shirt, Nakahara put his hands in his pockets and stretched out to rub her hair, the soft and fluffy black hair was not combed when he woke up However, a few strands of messy hair were raised.

The action of patting and rubbing casually on the top of the hair is not very gentle, but it doesn't make her feel painful. Li Jia raised his head and rubbed Nakahara Chuya's palm actively, like a cat at home who wants to be petted.

I was so sleepy that I couldn't even open my eyelids, and it seemed that I couldn't walk back by myself.

Zhong Yuanzhong also sighed helplessly, bent down to pick up the little girl who was about to fall asleep, picked up the crutches beside him, waved it, jumped up on the ground, and landed firmly outside the window of the ward.

The windows of the ward were only closed, but not locked, and could easily be opened from the outside.

He was holding Li Jia in his arms, his whole body was glowing red like Peter Pan hovering outside the window, and the crutch leg touched the window glass and slid open, easily sending him back to the hospital bed.

Lijia's hands and feet began to feel cold, and she couldn't help falling into a deeper sleep as soon as she fell into the warm ward. She was stuffed back into the bed by Zhongyuan Zhongye and tucked in the quilt, but she didn't wake up.

Having learned the lesson from Kitty Nakaya-kun, he naturally wouldn't let his coat fall outside easily. The suit jacket was draped over his shoulders. Nakahara Nakaya was about to go to the bathroom to wash his face and wake up when the fingers that fell beside him were suddenly caught. Pull gently.

When she felt cold, she would unconsciously huddle into a ball to sleep. Li Jia buried her face under the quilt and slept soundly. She quietly stretched out her hand from the quilt and grabbed Nakahara Chuya's fingers, so lightly that he could leave with a single twitch.

"It's restless when I fall asleep." Zhong Yuanzhong also stuffed her hands that were exposed under the bed back, stretched her waist and changed back into the form of a cat.

With a kick of its hind legs, it landed on the bedside table and rolled up its body. The cat's mouth grew big and it yawned.

The girl who huddled most of her body and buried her face in the quilt slightly evoked a sweet arc, rubbing against the pillow nostalgicly, breathing shallowly and regularly.

The cat's ears pricked up and trembled. Although the bedside table in the ward was not as soft as the flower garden, the heating in the ward at least wouldn't let the cat fall asleep and wake up from freezing in the middle of the night.

Zhongyuan Zhong also smacked his lips and fell into a deep sleep state, and he hadn't fallen asleep listening to Li Jia's breathing for a long time.

……

After one and a half months of treatment, it was confirmed that her body had basically recovered and her right foot could slowly land on the ground to practice walking. Li Jia was finally approved to be discharged home.

The attendance rate of the school has dropped a lot, and the schoolwork has also dropped a lot, but fortunately, Akashi Seijuro sent a photocopy of the class notes during Li Jia's hospitalization, so she didn't give her a headache to face the upcoming graduation exam .

In the next three years, Li Jia will enter Seirin High School instead of Tedan High School where her brother and the others are. Although Mao Lilan was a little disappointed, she did not force her.

Edogawa Conan is more like it, it doesn't matter which school she goes to, as long as it is not a boarding school.

Li Jia's high school goal is set at Seirin High School. The most disappointed person is actually Itsuki Momoi. She shed a lot of tears while holding Li Jia, and let her recover well and go to the new school. Don't forget her.

The parting of life and death made her suddenly have the illusion that Seirin and Tonghuang are not both in the school in Tokyo, but one is in Tokyo and the other is in Hokkaido. After they are separated, it is difficult to see each other again.

She patted Momoi Wuyue on the back reassuringly, gestured with her mouth and said that there are still more than ten days until graduation, and they can keep in touch even after leaving school, so there is no need to be so sad.

I didn't want Momoi Itsuki to cry even more immediately, because of Li Jia's loss of voice, she almost said that she would go with her to Seirin to take care of her.

More than ten days before graduation, they have already received the admission notices from Seirin and Tong Huang, so they can't change at will any more childishly.

Li Jia is naturally reluctant to go to a different school with Momoi Wuyue, but she will not show her sadness too much, and just quietly hugs the important friend she met in Tokyo.

On the day of discharge, Li Jia staggered the school's dismissal time and chose the morning to complete the discharge procedures.

She doesn't want to worry about her brother and her friends, she has to prepare her heart even when she goes home, how she will face the four Central Plains in her future life.

No matter how entangled she is in her heart, she still has to accept the reality.

The fact that she and the cats may never be able to be intimate again.

Li Jia held the key in her hand and stood at the door of the house for a long time.

Zhong Yuanzhong didn't bother her either, he just put his hands in his pockets and looked up at the magnificent bungalow, silently waiting for Li Jia to make a decision.

She took a deep breath, inserted the key into the lock and twisted the door—

The three orange cats squatted quietly in the entrance. When the footsteps from Lijia approached, they had already run over to the entrance. She never opened the door, and they didn't make a sound to urge them. They just quietly looked up at the door and waited for the trial. fall.

Nakahara Nakaya was one step behind her, closed the door and changed back into cats, walked to the Nakaya cats and squatted down.

Four pairs of cobalt blue eyes looked up, and Li Jia realized that she was not the only one who was uneasy about the relationship change, even the cats would be afraid and reluctant to leave the house.

Tears unconsciously blurred her eyes and overflowed her eyes. Li Jia squatted down crying softly, hugged the four cats, and opened her mouth silently: "I'm back... don't leave, okay?"