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1: hold hands

1: hold hands

Rika-chan.

"Please cry," a soft voice whispered into his ear.

Rika-chan.

"Don't freeze up like this."

Rika-chan.

"Can you hear me?"

Don't die.

A pair of arms picked him up but they were unable to snap him out of his terror.

Don't die.

Don't die.

Don't die.

Don't die.

"I'll take you to the hospital, okay? I'll call your parents and they'll pick you up there, alright?"

Don't die.

Please-

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Yua Shihori leaned against the wall just beside Room 314.

Earlier's accident had been so sudden, so brutal, that he couldn't stop thinking about it. The perpetrator refused to take responsibility despite the obvious fact that it was her fault. She kept arguing that the child crossed the road when the light had yet to change.

Shihori called bullshit.

Only those who lacked morals would believe a single shit she uttered.

"How is he?"

Shihori glanced at his fellow nurse with a solemn look and shook his head. "Yuuta-kun is still in shock. I don't think he can hear anything."

A child who was only around ten years old witnessed his friend get run over by a car... how could someone his age not be traumatized?

"Should we, you know," his friend made a gesture of injecting with his hand. "Put him to sleep so he can rest?"

"..." A look of horror painted Shihori's face. "Are you insane? We don't have that kind of authority. Plus, that's immoral, you dumbass."

"Hey," his friend raised his hands in the air, admitting defeat. "I'm just concerned about the kid, alright? He'd been staring into space since he arrived. By the way, Hori." Shihori looked at his friend with a suspicious look.

"What now?"

"... hadn't the other kid been assigned to you before?"

The entire world came to a pause.

His friend was correct.

Rika, that little girl who would never raise her voice towards anyone, had been under his care for some time during her stay at this hospital. He couldn't forget how that child comforted the other children staying in the same room once upon a time.

That memory seemed so long ago when it had just been a few months.

Why did it have to be someone like Rika-chan?

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Yua Shihori, nicknamed Hori, was the youngest graduate of the University of Tokyo in the Faculty of Medicine. His name resounded in the medical community and there were many veterans in the medical field who looked forward to his performance.

However, who would have thought he had taken nursing instead of other professions? They expected him to graduate as a doctor, a surgeon, or even a medical researcher who would pioneer the new age in medical history.