Kimi no Shiawase wo Negatteita 3 (I Wish You Happiness 3)

Part 30

"Please stay here and rest. It's an auto-lock, but please make sure you lock the door guard when I leave the room."

It was good to be in the room, but I was beginning to worry about letting Yurika go alone. She said she felt sick from her morning sickness, and if she tripped and fell, she would be in trouble.

"Yurika, I'm still worried about letting you walk alone. What if you don't feel well on the way?"

"Well, Mr. Suzunari, pregnant women are not sick people. If you take too much care of them and do not move them, they will not get enough exercise."

"But we still haven't received any report that the men from earlier have been caught. Yurika-san's face was seen by the man in the security uniform, right? There is a possibility that they might attack you out of spite."

"...... I understand. I'll tell the people at home and have them call Ren so that no one will notice. In the meantime, I'll make you some tea to calm you down. We only have caffeine-free tea for pregnant women, though."

After contacting them on her phone, Yurika started to make a pot of tea with her familiar hands. She can now make her own tea. I'm still only able to make instant coffee.

I was so relieved when the scent of the tea came up that I slumped against the back of the sofa I was sitting on. I'm so tired. ...... I feel sluggish, but my body is not strong enough.

"Here, wipe your face with this. I'm afraid I don't have a first aid kit. I'll have the front desk bring it to you later."

"Thank you for everything."

She was working quickly while the tea was steeping, but she had made me a steamed towel. When I pressed it against my face, the mint scent softly tickled my nose, and my shoulders relaxed.

"Oh, I feel alive again."

She couldn't help but chuckle when my voice sounded like an old man soaking in a hot spring.

"Takamichi got a good wife. I envy you."

I would have been thrilled if someone had shown me such concern when I came home after a hard day's work.

"I'm glad to hear you say that. I did my best. Didn't Takamichi-san tell you? I couldn't do anything when I first came to live with him. I thought that meals would be prepared on time, cleaning would be done before I knew it, and laundry would be put away in the closet. I never thought about someone else doing it for me, I didn't know anything about it.
I was always making mistakes, but Takamichi-san patiently taught me how to do things. The one time I was careless and almost dropped a knife on my foot, he got very angry."

"I'm the same way. At my age, I was living alone for the first time, and I had to deal with things left and right. I still can't drip coffee very well."

"Oh, I have a friend."

We looked at each other and laughed.

It's strange, isn't it? Until this morning, I never imagined I would be smiling and talking with Yurika.

"I'm sure you must have been terrified. I wonder how long we Omegas will have to live with the feeling that we can't even safely go to the bathroom."

"They say life is a lot easier than it used to be, but Omega still has a low social status. I'm sure the same problems will still exist when we're old."

What happened to me this time was an attempt by someone who admired Shigure to get rid of me, but Yurika-san, who didn't know the details, seemed to think that it was an incident of discrimination due to my gender as an omega.