I am BOSS! ～fine～[Tutor KHR]

"it hurts……"

Suzuna, who was sitting on the big bed, murmured and put her hands on her head.Dino, who was standing by the bed, couldn't bear to see her painful expression.

"Isn't your physical condition better today...?"

"...No, I'm already, much better."

Suzuna forced a smile as she spoke.Forcing herself to put down the hand holding her head, Suzuna didn't want Dino to worry about her any more.But her pale face and unstoppable trembling hands can't deceive anyone at all, Dino can imagine how much pain Suzuna is enduring now.

More than half a month has passed since Suzuna fell from the sky onto the 16-year-old Dino.Suzuna also stayed in Gabrione's mansion for more than half a month.For more than half a month, Dino first felt uncontrollable excitement and joy because of Suzuna's reappearance.He originally wanted to take Suzuna around, to introduce Suzuna to his hometown, his family, and the family members he regarded as his family, and he also wanted to let the family members know Suzuna.Unexpectedly, Suzuna suddenly suffered from a headache.

At first, Dino, who heard Suzuna say she had a headache, naively thought that Suzuna had a headache because she was suffering from the wind and cold—Suzuna who fell from the sky landed in the snow in a posture that was almost completely |naked|, even though At that time, Dino immediately took off his coat and put it on for Suzuna, and tied his scarf for Suzuna. When Suzuna and Dino went home, there was still a lot of cold wind.

At that time, Suzuna, who was blushing and so shy that she didn't even dare to lift her eyes to meet Dino's gaze, almost buried her face in the collar of Dino's coat.If it hadn't been for Dino to hold her hand, who complained of a headache, and walk forward, the members of Gabrielone would have already arrested her as a suspicious person, who was too embarrassed to show her face.

The ninth-generation wife of Gabrielone passed away early, and the ninth-generation BOSS, Dino's father, was deeply in love again. Not only did she not have a sequel, she even had no lover|lover.There are no female relatives in Gabrielone's mansion, and naturally there are no maids, and there are even very few female servants.After personally bringing Suzuna to the large guest bathroom, Dino, an adolescent boy who felt his heart was beating to the point of bursting, took the initiative to find a female servant to serve Suzuna in order to hide his embarrassment.

After Dino found the female servants and asked them to serve Suzuna in the big bathroom, Dino breathed a sigh of relief.When he thought of Suzuna who hadn't changed clothes yet, the first thing he thought of was his mother's bedroom.Since his mother passed away, Dino has never stepped into that room, and Dino's father has also moved out of that room.As if to stop time in that room forever, Dino's father never touched anything in that room again.When the servants clean the room, they must also ensure that everything is in the original position. If there is a slight difference, the calm and gentle Gabriel Ninth Generation Boss will show a sad expression and put the things back together. Swing it back to its original position.He would not accuse the cleaning servants of negligence, but his sad look was something that all members of Gabrielone did not want to see, so the servants in charge of cleaning also developed a habit of not changing the room at all. Habit.This habit has not changed after the ninth generation passed away and Dino became the new BOSS.

Probably because children subconsciously feel that as long as they don't use their own eyes to verify the facts, they can pretend that the facts that have happened don't exist.Dino, who lost his mother when he was young, subconsciously avoided the room where his mother was always there.It wasn't until this moment that Dino remembered that he could still open the door that he hadn't touched the handle for many years.

(Mother--)

If it's that person, she should be very happy that her things are used by someone who can use them, right?

Dino, who was standing in front of his mother's bedroom, held the spotless doorknob and twisted it slightly to the right.

"No, it's not good!! Boss! It's not good...!!"

At this moment, the maid's cry came from the other end of the corridor.Turning his head, Dino saw one of the maids whom he had called to serve Suzuna just now, yelling and running towards him.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?"

"Just, that lady just now...!!"

The maid's face was pale, and she was so anxious that she couldn't even explain what happened.Panicked, she desperately pointed her finger at the large bathroom at the other end of the corridor: "She, she——!!"

"——————"

After suffocating for a second, Dino was already running in the corridor.When he rushed to the large bathroom, what he saw was Suzuna curled up on the bathroom floor because of a headache, and her body was convulsed with pain.

——As long as Suzuna comes into contact with people other than Dino, Suzuna will feel a headache.Dino called a doctor for this.But the appearance of the doctors only made Suzuna fall into more pain.Reluctantly letting Suzuna accept the diagnosis, the doctors couldn't explain why.So in the end, Dino could only avoid Suzuna's contact with others as much as possible to relieve Suzuna's headache symptoms.

But that's not to say that Suzuna and Dino don't suffer from headaches when they're alone.Suzuna's headaches always flare up intermittently.When it was serious, Suzuna couldn't even maintain a clear consciousness.

Every time Dino saw Suzuna suffering from a headache, his heart ached.Dino wondered more than once, whether his wish for Suzuna to appear in front of him again led to such a result.

So, if realizing her willful wish would make Suzuna so painful, would she still make the same wish to Dazora?

Dino didn't want to think about the answer.

"Is there... anything, something you want to eat, or a book you want me to read to you?"

Unable to erase the guilt in his heart, Dino couldn't even smile at Suzuna.Unable to treat Suzuna's unexplained headache, all he can do for Suzuna is to relieve her a little pain.

Suzuna smiled when she heard the words: "I'm fine. Just go about your own business, Dino-kun. Gabrielone can't do without you, right? So... don't worry about my business."

Seeing Suzuna's smile, her amber eyes widened slightly; soon, those worried eyes slowly lowered again.Dino nodded his head and let out a "huh".

(…?)

Suzuna didn't quite understand why Dino's reaction seemed unhappy. She tried her best to recall if she had done something wrong or said something wrong, but she still couldn't figure out what she did wrong .

Watching Dino's dejected back, watching the bedroom door close in front of her eyes, Suzuna sighed and hugged her knees.

Suzuna felt sorry for making Dino worry about his physical condition every day for more than half a month.But Suzuna couldn't make Dino stop worrying about him—this severe headache was not something Suzuna could control.Suzuna had no idea when her head would hurt or when this headache would end.The only thing Suzuna has a clue is that this symptom started after she left the "pipe".It was hard for Suzuna not to associate this headache with the rocket launcher ten years later and a place like a crack or a gap between the space-time or parallel world.

When she met Dino in this world about six years ago and was hugged by Dino, Suzuna felt a slight headache.Compared with the pain caused by Suzuna falling from a high altitude and hitting Dino, the slight pain was so light that it could be ignored.When Suzuna was brought back to Gabrielone's mansion by Dino, and passed by other members of Gabrielone, this dull pain became clear.The moment the maid touched her body, Suzuna was hit by a sudden and unprecedented pain.Then, in the confusion of consciousness, Suzuna seemed to see some fragmentary pictures.

Later, Suzuna found that the more painful her head was and the longer she spent on it, the more and more coherent images flowed into her mind.

(That, seems to be...)

The young maid becomes mature and capable.

The old old doctor is lying in the hospital bed and being cared for.

The adult Dino he knew well confronted the hostile Skylark on the rooftop.

That is, the not too distant future.

And Suzuna couldn't be sure whether she could see those futures because she was hit by a rocket launcher ten years later in some bad place on the head, or because she had stayed in that "pipeline".

(...if what I saw was really a future that would happen, what did I just see...?)

(wedding……?)

The background is a solemn and sacred church, where there are priests and guests.There is a long white wedding dress dragging on the red carpet, and translucent glass high-heeled shoes and slender legs are exposed from under the wedding dress skirt.This is the bride.The person next to the bride wearing white trousers and spotless white leather shoes should be the groom.

(Can--)

In an instant, the sound of the organ and the hymn turned into howls and wailing.The splattering flames dyed the white church red, stretching out the chaotic figures, making the people in the church look like demons and ghosts in purgatory.

Closing her eyes forcefully, Suzuna no longer wanted to recall what she saw or heard.Yet her memory works against her will.

——In the final picture, the blood-stained bride's skirt is still so beautiful, no, it should be said to be more beautiful than when it was pure white.The beautiful skirt was held back by its owner with bloody fingertips, and the bride, who could not see her face, tore her wedding dress calmly, letting the blood-splattered diamonds scatter all over the floor.Walking forward with bloody glass shoes, all the ground under the bride's feet was as red as a red carpet.

"—"

The charcoal fire was burning brightly in the fireplace.Frowning, Suzuna shivered.Chilling all over, she clasped her arms tightly with both hands, as if this would warm herself up.

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