Maria-sama ga Miteru:Volume2 Chapter4 1
Just what is going on? Part 1.[edit]
Yumi suddenly had a phone call from Yoshino-san, who'd been absent from school for almost a week. Well, phone calls are almost always quite sudden, but as Yoshino-san had never called her before she was a bit, no, she was quite surprised.
It was a bit after eight in the evening.
"Yumi-. Phone call."
Her brother yelled – a rare occurrence – from downstairs.
"Hurry up. I think it's a public telephone."
"Public telephone?"
She tilted her head to the side in confusion, and when she picked up the telephone, she heard Yoshino-san's voice.
"Your brother?"
"Oh, yes, he's being cheeky again."
"He seemed like a reliable person."
"If you say so."
As her brother mentioned, it did seem like she was calling from an outside telephone. She could faintly hear the bustling of people underneath Yoshino-san's voice, an indication that she probably wasn't at home.
"You're so blessed. I'm an only-child, so I admire siblings so much."
But Rei-sama was around, like a sibling, so she probably couldn't have been that lonely. Is what Yumi thought, but Yoshino-san didn't mention Rei-sama, at all.
Incidentally, Yoshino-san seemed bright and energetic. She'd been resting since the "Yellow Rose Revolution," so Yumi was worried about her, but she didn't seem to be that ill, at least at the moment. Rosa Foetida and Rei-sama seemed more like the ill people in question.
On that note, did Yoshino-san know how disastrous things have become at school? And how people perceive what she did?
"What have you been doing, while you've been away?"
Of course she was probably resting at home, but she seemed so healthy Yumi bluntly asked. Plus, it seemed difficult to ask directly about Rei-sama.
"Mm. I've been having exams taken at the hospital, and such."
"Exams?"
"Yes. Like blood sampling and electro-cardiograms."
"You're sick…?"
"No, I'm not. They're not performing exams because I'm sick-"
Yoshino-san froze.
"It's a bit hard, to talk about it by telephone. Actually, I called because I wanted to see Yumi-san."
"Me?"
Which meant Yoshino-san had no intention of returning to school just yet. "I'm sorry to call you over like this," Yoshino-san said, and then she designated the time and place for Yumi.
"Eh?"
Yumi asked again, while writing everything down on a memo book. She'd said she wanted Yumi to see her, so Yumi assumed she was going to Yoshino-san's house, but…
"Yoshino-san you weren't receiving treatment at your home…?"
And right as she asked, she heard the unique announcement from the receiver.
-- Doctor OO, please come to the nurse station immediately.
Yoshino-san was actually in a hospital.
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