CH 43

“Phew… Well, you’re all set now. You can take your eye mask off. Transformed Yamamoto.”

“… maybe you like that joke a little?”

“No way.”

Perhaps the redness of Kashiwagi-san’s face has receded.

I’m sorry she had to push herself that hard for me.

Well, I guess it was because she couldn’t stand to see me in pain, but…

I raised my upper body, and at that point, I realized that my body was much lighter than before.

“Then, I’ll take off the blindfold. But let me tell you this, I have a habit of following people I see for the first time, thinking they are my parents, so please, Kashiwagi-san.”

“I see… Transformed Yamamoto.”

“You really like it, don’t you?”

“No, of course not. Don’t make silly jokes already and take it off.”

After being scolded I removed the eye mask and the cloth covering my face in one fell swoop.

After a while, my vision caught,

—Kashiwagi-san, looking at my face with her eyes wide open in astonishment.