monosyllable echo

"Why don't you use it to settle accounts for you?"

After being reminded by me that I didn't mean it in good faith, Tianyu tried to hug me and circle around while giggling, but I dodged in a panic.

"Senior Jiujiu is worthy of being my talented assistant! What is that sentence called? That's right! Behind every successful man is a woman's support. Senior sister is talking about us!"

This junior is really... I am your senior sister, hello!And this sentence is not meant to be understood in this way at all!

Enough, I don't want to justify anything anymore, let me go quickly.

Thinking of this, I was about to turn my head and leave, but was dragged back by the meddlesome brat behind me, "Nununu, sister Jiujiu, where are you going? We want to witness this great moment together , we want to watch the first test run of my Accounting Robot No. [-]~"

Can you spare me?

I beg you, can you spare me?

I want to ask you how you can so perfectly ignore the black lines on my face and talk to yourself while dancing here!

Enough is enough. Enough is enough.

Just when I was on the verge of collapse, Tian Yu had happily spread out a ledger on the ground, and then slapped the cute little top hat of Accounting Robot No. [-] in a serious manner.

Uh, is this a switch?

Mmm, so cute.

I was attracted by this cute little thing, so let's take a look here.Because if you look closely, it is really a cute robot.

I covered my skirt and squatted down next to Tianyu, watching this little thing slowly raise its pocket version of the mechanical arm after being switched on, and picked up the pencil that Tianyu had prepared to put on the ground in advance.

The eyes of the small camera turned around, and finally landed on the account book that was deliberately placed not far away. At this time, a childish voice came from the pronunciation hole behind it: "Lock the target, lock the target. Start working ,start working."

Immediately afterwards, the small wheels slowly moved forward to the front of the ledger, and the mechanical arm trembled slightly and began to calculate.

Let me see, the total expenditure today is 356 yen, which is right!

Wow~~ so cute!Really cute!

Tianyu beside him saw the little robot working normally, of course he was elated, pointed at the robot with one hand and put his hand on my shoulder and shook, "Ahahaha~~Senior Jiujiu~ Did you see that my number one succeeded? La!"

Infected by the atmosphere, I couldn't help laughing and said: "Yes, yes, yes! I saw it. It's amazing! Xiaoyi."

When I said this, Tian Yuyi even danced, stood up, smiled and danced around No. [-]: "Nununu~~I'm so happy~Senior Jiujiu praised me!"

However.Well, yes however.What is there a word called?In fact, I think everyone knows it.Yes, that is the so-called "extreme joy begets sorrow".

Tianyu was overjoyed and didn't pay attention to kicking the accountant No. [-] out.

I just watched No. [-] fly out in a beautiful parabola and hit a wall not far away before bouncing and falling to the ground. There was a "click" sound from my body.

Faced with such a situation, Tian Yu couldn't react for a while and froze in place.

I came back to my senses first and immediately got up to pick up No. [-] and checked it carefully.

In fact, I don’t understand anything. I can only see the little top hat that is set as a power switch. Maybe it’s because it hit the wall just now. At this moment, it’s deeply embedded in the iron head, no matter how much you press it, it won’t bounce. not coming out.

I had no choice but to pick it up and walk towards Tianyu who was still in a daze, "Xiaoyi, take a quick look, it seems to be broken, can it be repaired?"

As soon as I finished speaking, the number one in my hand clicked again, my head started to smoke, and for some reason, the countdown started—"Twenty, nineteen, eighteen..."

What the hell is going on here!

I stopped and looked at Tianyu helplessly. Tianyu was still in a daze as if he hadn't gotten out of the blow, so he just said quietly: "Ah. No. [-] has started the automatic disintegration process."

What?Automatic disintegration?

I'm going!

Why should a robot used for accounting be installed with such an advanced automatic disintegration program? !It is said to disintegrate automatically, but now this is simply a ticking time bomb, right?

By the time I understood and digested Tian Yuyi's nonsense, the countdown on the number one had become "ten, nine, eight..."

Listening to the countdown to death, my only thought was "Throw it out! Throw it out!"

So, holding the number one tightly, I turned to the right, who knew that as soon as I turned around, I saw Nanami Yata walking towards this side with a pale face, and Yaku Tsukiko with an expression of "I'm very worried" behind her.

Boy, why are you here at this time? !

While roaring bitterly in my heart, I remembered that the school doctor's office was not far from me. Judging from his expression, he must be feeling unwell again.

——"Six, five..."

Hey, I don't have time to think about this now!

Once again, I clenched the No. [-] lying on my hand and shouted to Qihai and Yejiu: "Don't come here! Run as far as you can!"

At the same time, I quickly turned my body to the left. This time, I really wanted to cry.

Because I saw Bai Yin running towards this side, and his expression seemed to have realized that I was holding a time bomb.

--"four three……"

No, there is no time.

I had one hand free to grab Junior Tianyu who was standing behind me with a disheveled face, and I threw it towards Baiyin with inertia.Then he took a few steps back to stay away from Baiyin and Tianyu.

Well, this is the entrance of the school doctor's office, and rescue is definitely in time, besides, such a cute No. [-] shouldn't kill me.

Is Kazuki feeling like I am now every time he saves others?Or in fact, he doesn't think so at all, but I think too much.

——"Two, one."

The moment the countdown stopped, I trembled subconsciously and let go of my hand, and couldn't help casting my gaze at this little thing.

Sparks flew and dripped into my eyes.

It hurts.

A tree.

Then?

No then.

Because, this is the last thought I have before I close my eyes.

# # #

When I was a little conscious, the unpleasant, familiar smell of alcohol that first came to my nose-it was not wrong to be in the infirmary.

I tried to move my body, but, strangely, why couldn't I open my eyes?He couldn't even open his mouth, let alone move his fingers.

"Sakura Shirou, what the hell are you doing?! Why did you let her suffer such a serious injury right next to her!"

This voice is Kazuki, right?

Why blame silver so angrily?Because of me?This is wrong.Because I entrusted Tianyu to him.

Is Tianyu that guy okay?Not hurt?

"Let me go! Do you think I don't want to save her?! Do you think I'm willing to watch her get hurt in front of me?! It's just that she chose to let me protect Tianyu first, and I followed her thinking like this Do it, or Ajiu will be angry too."

Yes, that's right.

It seems that Tianyu should be fine.

If Baiyin ran over at that time, he would be disintegrated by No. [-] together with me and Tianyu, the situation would only be worse.

Wouldn't it be nice to see the number of injured go from three to one.

"Don't make her angry or protect her from getting hurt, which is more important to you?!"

Kazuki, why are you so brainless?I myself think this is the best, why are you so angry.

"Let go of me, Kazuki. You are the only one who has no right to accuse me like that. Think about yourself in the past, didn't you make Ajiu sad like this every time. Now it's you who sat in front of the hospital bed her mood."

"?! Sakura Shirou, you!"

? !

So this is ah.If Kazuki is my mentality now, then my current thoughts are the closest to the Kazuki back then.So this is ah.I always feel somewhat understandable.

wrong.Now is not the time to think about it. Now is the time to stop the two of them from arguing.However, I was really tired and couldn't move at all.What should I do?

"Hey! Don't you two have any sense that this is an infirmary?! Natsume is still sleeping! Go out and make noise! ​​Don't affect my patient's rest!"

"sorry."

"……sorry."

Well, Teacher Xingyue.well said.

Now I feel at ease.

Can sleep again.

# # #

When I woke up again, what greeted me was no longer the pungent smell of alcohol.

Faintly feeling that the body is bumping and bumping like being hugged and walking around, I try hard to take a deep breath: this smell.

"... Kazuki?"

Uh, is this hoarse voice really my voice? !

Shocked, the figure of the person hugging me paused for a moment.

"Ajiu? Are you awake? Do you feel uncomfortable? Because it is already night, I carried you out from Teacher Xingyue. You must be feeling bad now, right? Wait a minute, we will be there soon It's your bedroom."

It seems that my guess was right, it really was Kazuki.

I stopped talking, just nodded deeply, and nestled myself into this warm embrace again.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, I felt that I was placed in a warm bed.

Then he was lifted up slightly, and the cool thing near his mouth should be a water glass.

"Drink some water."

Bingo~hehe.

Moving my lips, I can feel the thirst in my throat.The warm water fell down the throat and into the stomach, giving me a feeling of finally being saved.

"Do you still want to drink?"

Thinking of such an inquiry, I shook my head slightly: "That's enough, thank you."

Opening my eyes with all my strength, I vaguely saw Kazuki's nervous expression looking at me.

Wait a minute, no, something is wrong.I tried to move my left hand, but Kazuki stopped me.

"Don't move, your left hand is burned. But Teacher Xingyue has bandaged it, so don't move. I'll help you get what you need."

Hearing Kazuki's voice, I shook my head again, and heard myself reply calmly: "Kazuki, I just want to touch my own eyes, I can't see anything with my right eye."

I saw Kazuki's shaking with my only one eye, and my heart was suddenly pulled, could it be...

Kazuki avoided my gaze, lowered his head and touched my water glass as if he was talking to himself: "Your right eye was injured by the flames emitted by the little wing robot. Teacher Xingyue said it's not a serious problem, just put some eye drops on it." The potion is good, but it is still treated to protect from light and bandaged up."

Hearing such an answer, I let out a deep breath, and I must have relaxed my expression, "Huh—what! Looking at your expression, I thought you were going to say that I will never see again, don't scare me man."

"Natsume Jiu! Do you think I'm scaring you?! Do you know how worried I am?! Worried about something big happening to you! Worried that I'll never see you again! I'm worried—"

Halfway through the roar, he was stopped by himself in an instant.

I stared blankly at Kazuki whose expression changed from anger to bewilderment in an instant, watched his face gradually approaching my head, and finally closed his eyes helplessly and pressed against my forehead.

Something cool slid down my cheeks.That is not mine.

"Is this the punishment you gave me?"

Facing his questioning, my mind went blank, and I could only spit out three words stiffly in accordance with my heart.

"sorry."