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Still carrying Mimi in one hand, he carried her into a room in the clinic.
There were several beds lining the room, and on the one in the back, next to the window, Otto was recovering.
“Hey, bro.”
“Oh, Garfiel. Can you spare time from helping around outside?”
Otto was sitting up on the bed, reading a book, when he noticed Garfiel. Garfiel nodded as he looked out the window.
“Yeah, a short break for now. Since there’s no telling whether you might pull something reckless while I’m not around.”
“I’m not so rash as that… Did something good happen?”
Perhaps sensing some slight difference in Garfiel’s expression, Otto probed insightfully.
Garfiel thought for a moment.
“Something good…huh? When you put it like that, I don’t really have an easy answer, but…”
“But it was a happy thing, right?”
Still hanging from his hand, Mimi’s round eyes looked up at Garfiel as he struggled to put it into words. She broke into a happy smile.
“Your face looks a lot better now! That’s proof something happy or something like that happened! That’s enough, isn’t it? That’s what Mimi thought when she tried it! And it worked!”
Easygoing as ever, Mimi grinned happily.
Her loud voice drew the gaze of several people in the room, but no one paid it any mind.
It was just natural. Just having someone there who was smiling so happily, so pleasantly, from the bottom of her heart was enough to save someone.
“Sheesh.”
“Oh, you smiled, too. Did you fall in love with Mimi now? Did ya?”
“Nope.”
“Aww.”
“No…but, you know…”
The same exchange they had had dozens of times already. But Garf added one extra line to the end of it.
Hearing that, Mimi’s eyes widened, and Otto watched their adorable exchange in silence.
My mom, my little sister and brother, Subaru, and everyone else who isn’t here…
“Thank you.”
It feels like I’ve managed to move on just a little bit.
Garf grinned, flashing his fangs.
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