"Reiko? What's... wrong?"
Tsuan poked her little head out from the doorway, looking at her good friend who was sitting on the bed continuously dry heaving.
"Are you feeling unwell?"
She tried hard to think of solutions, but the fever-reducing medicine usually kept at home probably couldn't solve Reiko's symptoms.
What should I do...
The black-haired girl anxiously bit her lower lip, while Reiko's words from earlier in the bathroom echoed in her ears.
Must go to the hospital immediately... or contact me.
I...
"Should we... go to the hospital?"
Tsuan mustered her courage, looking at Reiko who was still coughing with her back turned, carefully suggesting what she thought might be helpful.
Although such places had no meaning for her existence, since no medical staff would ever help her, but...
Reiko was different.
"Should we go now?"
Her humble tone with a hint of pleasing stabbed at Reiko's heart.
The student council president was actually just thinking about a very serious problem... that is...
Whether or not to tell Tsuan the 'truth.'
Although she hadn't seen anything related to magical girls in Tsuan's bedroom, just the fact that Tsuan could stare at that window display of dolls and cry... was enough to explain this problem.
Tsuan liked magical girls, and very likely liked them very much.
Reiko slightly turned her head and waved at the fool who was poking half her body through the doorway, indicating that she was fine.
Because the real problem wasn't 'here' at all.
Known fact: Tsuan has an older sister.
The girl holding Tsuan's hand in the crystal ball appeared before Reiko's eyes again, still gripping that long sword that looked like it absolutely shouldn't appear anywhere except as a movie prop.
Tsuan's sister left Tsuan and completely 'abandoned' Tsuan three years ago.
Reiko comfortingly patted Tsuan's head.
Tsuan's sister became a magical girl, which for Tsuan who liked both her sister and magical girls must be wonderfully good news that couldn't get any better.
But...
Reiko stiffly shrunk her neck a bit.
If Tsuan knew her sister had become like that... probably, no matter what...
She wouldn't be able to be happy about it! This kind of vile behavior that was equivalent to directly tearing apart someone's admiration should really be thrown in prison for reflection!
That's right, the executive miss would rather believe that Tsuan's sister who had been missing for years had reappeared and become a terrible magical girl, than believe that the cute girl beside her who was like a small animal could be that bastard.
Emotions really can make people blind.
"It's okay, it's okay~ But I'm a bit tired today..."
Reiko half-genuinely yawned, then slid from Tsuan's shoulder to the center of the mattress.
"Tsuan... can we rest early today?"
Reiko hadn't expected her somewhat unreasonable request to be agreed to at light speed. Only when Tsuan turned off the lights and got into bed did she realize she could go to sleep early.
"Oyasumi nasai."
Reiko found a comfortable angle, said goodnight, and closed her eyes, entering dreamland in Tsuan's soft embrace.
"Oya... sumi..."
Tsuan became an important part of Reiko's 'comfortable angle.' She instinctively felt some resistance to this feeling of being held in someone's arms.
This intimacy was too unfamiliar, so unfamiliar it made her feel afraid.
But...
That's Reiko... Reiko who has helped me so much, so I must...!
Moonlight scattered on Reiko's silver hair, carrying a hint of softness and warmth.
Just thinking that... it's Reiko...
Tsuan covered her mouth, suppressing the whimper in her throat.
The hot, steady breathing by her ear spoke of Reiko's exhaustion, and Tsuan clearly knew... how much of this exhaustion had appeared because of herself.
But...
"Ha..."
Some moist, hot air rushed into her ear canal wave after wave following the steady rhythm. Initially she could barely endure it... but soon, Reiko seemed to dream of some delicious pastry, and her mouth began to chew slightly in her dreams...
This tormented Tsuan who was forced to endure these strange sounds.
The sticky, wet sounds accompanied by her friend's exhaled hot air... continuously invaded her ears. Her body, which had already begun to soften, instinctively began struggling to wake Reiko up.
The purple eyes blinked confusedly before seeing clearly the black-haired girl in her arms who was covering her mouth, her eyes full of misty moisture. Only after seeing the bright red, hot earlobes did she realize what she had done.
"Sorry..."
Such a cute Tsuan...
"No problem..."
The two snuggled together, only this time Reiko deliberately avoided Tsuan's ears.
Oyasumi nasai...
Meanwhile, Megumi, who had been delayed quite a bit due to being captured by the Cream Monster, finally completed her homework.
"Ha~ Finally finished before bedtime!"
Ruby, lying on the bed beside her and listless from not getting any carrots, moved her ears.
"Congratulations."
The insincere congratulation made Megumi stick out her tongue and apologize embarrassedly.
"I'll give Ruby carrots tomorrow, okay?"
Now, there were more important things to do~
The joy of completing homework, combined with her fingers gradually exploring into her school bag and the friction sensation when her fingertips lightly touched the smooth paper surface, mixed together to make the already sunny Megumi show an irrepressible smile.
"Ruby, look! A new classmate drew me a picture!"
She wanted to share this joy, and Ruby responded in time.
"It really is a drawing of Luna..."
It stared at Luna's signature star staff in the center of the picture to confirm that Megumi hadn't taken the wrong thing... wait a minute?
"When did we get a new classmate?"
I don't remember this happening today?
"Should be... someone who came to visit the school today? Maybe they'll enroll tomorrow?"
Megumi touched her gem bracelet and transformed into Magical Girl Luna in her own room.
"So? You're just taking someone else's things without permission..."
After all, they don't know you're Luna...
"It's okay~ Nagayasu Megumi really likes this drawing, and Magical Girl Luna likes it just as much~"
Luna condensed her magic power into a blue ballpoint pen, responding to Ruby's question while leaving a line of text at the bottom of the drawing.
"Thank you, it's very well drawn, I really like it!"
The ballpoint pen with magic power as ink disappeared as Luna canceled her transformation, but the text it left continued to shimmer with bright blue light on the paper.
"Mm mm~ Like this, it's perfect~"
Megumi held up the drawing paper, then gently shook it in front of her. Only after confirming that her magic power had 'frozen' it and it wouldn't run around everywhere did she feel relieved.
"That new classmate will definitely be very happy when she sees this, right?"
Ruby quietly undermined her.
"Maybe she'll just think you took her things without permission..."
Megumi tugged at its ears.
"No way!"