Imaizumi Keita couldn't help but chuckle at her anxious look.
"Compared to my body,"
He tilted his head and propped up his upper body with his right hand, looking at her with leisure, "I feel like you care more about whether your bento will go bad."
"Ha?! N-No way!"
Two suspicious patches of red appeared on Yanami Anna's cheeks because her thoughts had been seen through.
She stiffened her neck and defended herself with a wandering gaze: "I, I just... I just think that skipping lunch is bad for your health! Yes, exactly! I'm also concerned about your health!"
"Is that so?"
Imaizumi Keita raised an eyebrow. "I feel like your image in my heart is about to turn into a foodie..."
"F-Foodie... that's so mean!"
Yanami Anna puffed out her cheeks in dissatisfaction, but couldn't think of a stronger rebuttal, so she could only mutter softly:
"That's... that's because... when you eat something delicious, your mood gets better. When your mood is good, your body naturally recovers faster... there's a lot of scientific basis for this!"
The more she spoke, the more she felt her theory was impeccable, and her voice became confident again.
Imaizumi Keita's smile deepened as he watched her talk nonsense so seriously, trying hard to find a theoretical basis for her gluttony.
"Hmm," he nodded, naturally accepting her twisted logic, "you're right."
"Right!"
Having received affirmation, Yanami Anna immediately raised her chin proudly.
However, in the next second, she met Imaizumi Keita's eyes, which were a bit too gentle.
That look made her heart flutter, and the long speech she had prepared got stuck in her throat; she couldn't say another word.
She could clearly feel her cheeks starting to heat up uncontrollably again.
"Alright," Imaizumi Keita withdrew his gaze and moved his shoulder, his voice sounding much more energetic than before, "thanks to you, I feel much better."
"R-Really?"
Yanami Anna immediately threw those messy thoughts to the back of her mind, her face showing concern again, "Then... shall we go have lunch together now? I can share some of my bento with you!"
She stood up from her chair as she spoke, looking like she was ready to set off immediately.
However, Imaizumi Keita still sat on the bed without moving.
He tried to lift his left arm, but it only moved slightly before hanging down weakly again.
A dense sensation of numbness, like countless tiny electric currents, surged from his shoulder all the way to his fingertips.
That kind of aching pain that goes straight to the brain is something that anyone who has experienced it would never want to experience again.
"Sss..."
Imaizumi Keita couldn't help but frown, sucking in a breath of cold air.
"What's wrong?!"
Yanami Anna immediately became nervous, quickly walking to the bedside and squatting down, her gaze scanning back and forth over his arm. "Is it still painful? Or... aftereffects of heatstroke?"
"Neither."
Imaizumi Keita looked at her anxious expression, sighed helplessly, and gestured toward his left arm with his chin.
"Just now, you slept with your head on my arm for almost an hour."
"Now, it has completely lost all sensation."
"Eh?"
Yanami Anna's expression froze.
She slowly lowered her head, looking at his limply hanging arm, and recalled the position she was in when she woke up just now.
Guilt and shame rushed to her brain.
"S-S-S-S... Sorry!"
Yanami pressed her hands together, bowing repeatedly to Imaizumi in apology. "I-I didn't mean to! I really didn't know... that I would actually... after I fell asleep..."
"Alright, stop shaking," Imaizumi Keita interrupted her with a bit of a headache. "If you keep apologizing like this, I probably won't get the feeling back in my arm until after school."
"Then, what should I do?"
Yanami Anna straightened up, her face filled with helplessness.
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