17. The Flu (5)

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Yeah. Somehow, I had a feeling this would happen.

If it had been someone else, maybe, but this was Neria.

What place could be more dangerous to a game-addicted shut-in witch than outside her blankets?

Fortunately, Neria's condition didn't seem too serious.

It would have been a disaster if she'd been lying there groaning, but all Neria was doing now was coughing with her blanket wrapped around her like a cape.

For now, I closed the front door so the winter wind wouldn't seep inside.

"I told you several times that you might catch it from me and that you didn't have to come."

"I was unlucky. I didn't expect to catch it right away, either."

"Besides, since Lady Neria normally stays at home, you should have been even more careful…."...