My daily life with the Shiina sisters

After returning home, Mahiru changed her clothes and went to cook. As for Imagawa Kaede, he volunteered to clean up the hair of Aqua scattered in the living room. Originally, he thought that according to Mahiru's usual personality, she should clean up Aqua's hair first, but today she went to cook, and even didn't go to see Aqua first after returning home.

Imagawa Kaede thought she was a little strange, and even when he brought Aqua to her, she pushed him away.

You know, she usually brainwashes Aqua in Imagawa Kaede's arms during the TV show watching time in the living room after dinner. She keeps saying things like "He is a bad guy, and he even sent Aqua to someone else's house before." The main point is "slander", which cannot be refuted.

Today, Mahiru didn't even feed Aqua cat food. Instead, she pushed this task, which she usually did, to Imagawa Kaede.

Moreover, at dinner time, Imagawa Kaede specially made pork ribs and corn soup to change her appetite. She didn't drink much in the morning. Imagawa Kaede originally planned to heat it up and drink it herself in the evening, but she drank several bowls of it unexpectedly, and even her appetite improved a lot.

If she hadn't eaten papaya or something like that, he would have thought she was not confident in herself.

After finishing their meal, Imagawa Kaede originally planned to watch TV and other dramas as usual, but this person just said, "You watch it yourself, I'm a little sleepy, I'm going to sleep first." Then he left.

Imagawa Kaede admitted that he was a little panicked. He held Aqua in his arms, lifted her up with her two front paws, and asked:

"If your mother finds out about my affair with your stepmother, you'll scream twice. If she doesn't find out, you'll scream once."

However, what responded to him was three consecutive meows. Perhaps she was a little uncomfortable with the posture that Imagawa Kaede put in front of her, so her answer had nothing to do with Imagawa Kaede's question.

"Call again. If you find it, call twice. If you don't find it, call once."

Aqua: Meow meow meow.

In response, Imagawa Kaede rubbed her head and said to herself, "Then it has nothing to do with this matter."

Aqua: I’ve never seen anyone seek psychological comfort like this.

After playing with Aqua for a while, Imagawa Kaede seemed a little uneasy, but he still prepared the ingredients for tomorrow morning and went back to take a shower and sleep.

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, Imagawa Kaede did not meet Shiina Mahiru who was usually busy in the kitchen. However, he just smiled. Mahiru might have not slept well at night in recent days because of that. It was understandable that she said she was sleepy yesterday and felt a little more tired today.

But when the time came to 6:40 and he still hadn't seen Mahiru, Imagawa Kaede felt something was wrong. So he tried to open her door and saw Mahiru coming out, but her face was very red and her mental state was a little listless. In short, she looked sickly.

Seeing this, Imagawa Kaede quickly carried her back to the bed.

"What are you doing?"

"Can you please check your own condition before you say that? Talk less." As he said this, he put his head against Mahiru's forehead for comparison.

"Are you really sick? I will ask for leave from school. You should just stay at home and rest today. I also cooked some porridge today." (It is a tradition in the island country that you should drink porridge when you are sick.)

"I still have some strength left. I should be able to hold on until school is over."

"Stop messing around. I'll get you a thermometer. When you take the temperature, check for yourself. Your forehead is very hot right now, you know that?"

Mahiru looked at his back as he turned and walked out, and for a moment she didn't know what to say. She wanted to tell him a piece of news last night, but she didn't know whether she should say it. This was the first time she had encountered such a thing, and she was a little panicked.

Imagawa Kaede brought a thermometer and helped her first, then brought a cup of warm water and fed it to her little by little.

After he took the cup away, Shiina Mahiru suddenly said, "By the way, did you feed Aqua?"

"She's fed. How about I bring her over to keep her company with you?"

Aqua is actually quite psychic. Sometimes when Mahiru cries after watching some touching scenes in a drama, Aqua will run into her arms and interact with her, as if to comfort her.

If it weren't for this, Mahiru wouldn't like her so much. After all, although Mahiru is a cat lover, if there was really no interaction at all, the relationship would still be a little worse.

However, Mahiru's behavior was a little strange. She was very happy at first, but after thinking about it, she rejected Imagawa Kaede's proposal. It was like the red envelopes given by some distant relatives during the Chinese New Year. She really wanted it, but due to her parents' instructions, she had to refuse.

When taking the medicine, Mahiru read the instructions of the pills herself before taking them.

Imagawa Kaede didn't ask any further questions about this. Although he was very confused, she needed to rest for the time being.

Originally, she wanted Imagawa Kaede to go to school, but Imagawa Kaede naturally wanted to stay and take care of her. Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Mahiru stopped talking.

Instead, after closing her eyes, she quietly reached out a hand from under the quilt and held Imagawa Kaede's hand, as if this would make her feel at ease. However, seeing her hand being held, Imagawa Kaede felt a lot more at ease.

However, Mahiru's condition did not improve despite Imagawa's care. When she was drinking porridge at noon, Mahiru began to experience some nausea symptoms. However, the situation was not very serious. Imagawa basically asked her to take medicine every four hours. Imagawa planned that if there was no improvement before the next four hours, it would be safer for them to go to the hospital.

In fact, he mentioned going to the hospital at the beginning, but Mahiru said it was just a common cold and fever and there was no need to go.

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