Although Mikoto had not noticed it at first, once she got close, she realized sothing was not right with Shido.
"Ugh… I think I caught a slight cold."
Shido said.
"I knew it. Let check…"
The girl held Shido's face and pressed her own forehead against his.
"!!!"
They were far too close. The girl's cute face was right in front of him. Her soft lips were like pudding, her eyelashes were delicate, and her sweet breath made Shido's heart race every second.
"You do have a bit of a fever. Do you want to take the day off?"
After a short while, Mikoto let go of Shido and asked worriedly.
"It's fine. It's just a small cold."
Shido shook his head. Although he felt a little unwell, it was not bad enough for him to skip class.
"I see. But if it gets worse, you have to take leave right away."
Mikoto nodded. Holding Shido's hand, the two walked until they reached a road where other students might start seeing them. Only then did they separate from the shared scarf and hand holding state.
Although she wanted to go to school with Shido hand in hand like that, it would cause him quite a lot of trouble in many ways. So the girl gave up on that idea.
After that, they said goodbye after entering the school. Shido went to the second year classroom, while Mikoto went to the third year classroom.
Classes had been getting busier lately, and the classroom was filled with a tense atmosphere, as if everyone was preparing for battle.
I wonder how Shido is doing.
However, Mikoto was sowhat distracted. While writing notes in her notebook on and off, she thought about him.
Although there were only about four months left until graduation, her grades were very good. The university she wanted to enter was the Tengu City branch of Kokugakuin University1, which was full of Shinto history. Since Mikoto had always been managing a shrine, she also had recomndation qualifications, so entering should not be a big problem.
Right, today is the physical fitness test.
She looked out the window and saw Shido, Tohka, Origami, and the others gathering on the sports field. Because of the special situation of the third years, this physical fitness test had nothing to do with her.
Even from such a far distance, Mikoto could still feel a very weak aura coming from Shido.
"I hope nothing happens."
She said quietly. Although it looked like a simple cold, and normally it would not be sothing to worry too much about, ever since the school trip, Kotori's excessive concern for Shido's body had left a deep impression on Mikoto.
Sohow, she felt that Shido's physical condition might turn into sothing very troubleso.
Just as she was thinking that, a small commotion seed to rise from the sports field. With a Spirit's excellent eyesight, she could see that Shido seed to have crushed a grip strength ter.
Did that grip strength ter get old or sothing…?
Although Shido held a large amount of spiritual power, he did not normally show Spirit like strength. Seeing Shido suddenly display such strong grip, Mikoto thought it was strange.
But soon…
Whoosh!
"Eh? Eeeh?"
She saw a handball draw a straight line into the sky, then burn up from the friction with the air.
This is too strange. Way too strange.
She looked at Shido, who had thrown it, and thought uneasily. No matter how one looked at it, that strength had gone far beyond human limits.
What worried her even more was that even if Shido could throw such a deadly handball, with Shido's personality, he would never do sothing like that in front of so many people. It was easy to imagine that not only his physical abilities, but also his mind, must not be working properly right now.
"Sensei, I'm not feeling well!"
She stood up, asked for leave, and hurriedly ran out of the classroom.
"Hello? Kotori? Yes, it's …"
As she ran, she called Kotori. Right now, Shido's condition had gone far beyond sothing like "a cold and fever." Mikoto believed it was probably the very phenonon Kotori had been worried about.
After hanging up, she ran out of the school building and reached the sports field. At that mont, Shido was running at a speed that could instantly defeat a world class sprint champion.
"Shido…"
Mikoto called his na worriedly and ran near the finish line.
"Yakumo… senpai…"
After crossing the finish line, Shido called out to the girl with a hazy mind, then collapsed limply into Mikoto's arms.
"Shido!"
Feeling Shido's burning hot body, Mikoto ignored everyone around them and held him in her arms, calling out in worry.
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Several hours later, inside an underground facility…
"In short, that idiot Onii-chan has caused trouble for all of you again."
Kotori looked at the gathered Spirits and spoke helplessly. Not long ago, with everyone's help, Shido had been moved to this underground facility for care.
At the mont, only Miku was still in the Kansai region and had not been able to arrive.
But Mikoto felt that considering that girl's obsession with Shido, her appearing in this place was probably only a matter of ti—
"Darlinggggggg!"
Just as she was thinking that, the door opened, and a figure rushed into the room and tightly hugged her.
"Miku? Wait… I'm not Shido… ah…"
The girl hugged her just like that and rubbed against her affectionately.
"Ahh, Darling, what happened to you? You've beco so soft, and you even have such full breasts and long, smooth legs. You're just like Mikoto-san." (TL:Deja vu...)
"No… I am Mikoto…"
Mikoto's face turned bright red as she tried to escape from Miku's clutches.
Seeing this scene, Kotori moved several steps away in lingering fear. If Mikoto had not happened to be sitting between herself and the door, then when Miku rushed in, she would probably have been the victim, the little commander thought.
"Honestly, find sowhere to sit. I'm going to explain Shido's condition now."
In the end, she sighed and said that.
According to Reine, Shido's illness really was not a cold. Instead, sothing abnormal had happened to the spiritual power paths between the Spirits and Shido. Compared to their normal state, the paths had beco much narrower.
Because of that, the spiritual power that should have been stored inside Shido and kept circulating through the paths had begun to build up, causing a heat overload.
The way to recover was simple—kiss Shido again and reset the state of the spiritual power paths.
The only problem was that kissing Shido in front of everyone was embarrassing. But if they entered the room one by one to kiss Shido, Origami requested that the door be locked, and that soundproofing equipnt be installed in the room…
In the end, everyone finally decided to go to Shido's room together.
"Shido, huh…?"
When Mikoto and the others opened the door to the sickroom, ready to carry out the kissing plan, they found that the room was already empty.
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