Masaomi suggested letting Lucy ponder for a minute, yet he was true, this world is too confusing for Happy and her celestial spirits to help her rest or take care of her when she has a bad fever. Besides, she is sick, which means her magic could run amok and lose control in the process of summoning her spirits to help her or something. Lucy considers Masaomi's suggestion for a complete minute before agreeing to it. It's not like she'll be disturbing him or Akito at work; she'll be just one of their patients who is sick.
"That's fine with me." – Lucy sighs contentedly.
"Then we will visit you after school, Lucy." – Yuusuke grinned widely at Lucy while patting her head twice in a reassuring way.
"Rest for the whole day, don't worry about the festival." – Ema said before following Yuusuke to the door waving back their farewells and see you later.
Masaomi ended up helping Lucy in the car as they dop off Wataru at school before making their way to the hospital where Masaomi works. Happy and Julie are hiding in her bag so they could sneak in without anyone detecting as no animals or pets are allowed in the hospital, except for the veterinary hospital and clinic.
'I should've just summoned Grandeeney to heal me,' Lucy thought, but she remembers that she always had a hard time controlling her magic whenever she is sick, as her focus and concentration are off.
When they arrived, Masaomi opened up her door for Lucy to walk out, but seeing as she is too fragile to walk, he decided to pick her up in a bridal style and put the bag on his back, walking inside the hospital. They ignored the looks of others, especially when it came from seething and envious female nurses, patients, and simply females. Masaomi registered Lucy to a private room with a restricted rule that only he and Akito are allowed to enter and assist her unless she calls a nurse. They enter the room, he sets down the bag first before settling Lucy in the bed, tucking her in while inserting an IV in her. Happy and Julie go out of the bag to close the door.
"You can rest here, I need to go but if you need me this red button is a buzzer connected to my office or by phone to alert me, just press it then it will alert me. Rest and sleep, Lucy."
"Alright, Arigatou Masaomi." – she smiled graciously as he exited the room, while closing the door, Lucy's eyes were barely open, and so, she let tardiness with the darkness and a dreamless sleep envelop her whole sense. Happy transformed into her human form as he and Julie hopped on top of the blanket beside Lucy while Happy placed a cold, wet cloth on top of her forehead.
Akito dropped by the room so many times to check on the blonde, only to find her still sleeping with a blue-haired kid and a small gray squirrel beside her. When he heard that she was sick with a heavy fever, Akito immediately dropped what he was doing and walked very fast towards her private room to check up on her. Akito felt lucky that he wasn't checking any of his patients at that time, or else, he would be breaking the ethics code. At one point, she finally woke up, and Masaomi brought her food and a lot of water bottles so she could eat and drink while resting at the same time. Taking some small medicine to help with her cold, she was playing with Julie and Happy on the bed.
"Dr. Asahina, may I ask why I can't see the patient of this room?" – they heard a shrieking shrill of a woman's voice resounded from outside of Lucy's front door inviting their attention towards the door curious to what is going on outside of her room.
"This is a private room and is only requested only from two doctors." – Masaomi said firmly as he looks at the female doctor in front of him in disappointment.
"Well, it's the patient you keep going on and on about, how important can this person be or more like what makes them better than me?" – she shrieked, causing Lucy's ears to ring a bit.
"The number one ethic of a doctor is to put the patient's well-being first than anything! Are you saying you are more important to a patient? How can you call yourself a doctor when you put yourself more important than a patient's well-being, Dr. Leafa?" – Masaomi rebutted to her quite harshly as other people near them watched in the spectacle as Masaomi blocked her way to the girl's private room.
"Excuse me..." – another deep voice that Lucy knew well enough came into view from behind the curtains.
"Yo, Lucy, I heard you were sick and couldn't help but stop by." – Ichinose smirked, carrying some strawberry desserts and a bouquet of magenta lilac lilies with a mixture of lilac lily flowers. Lucy's eyes widen when she sees the bouquet in Ichinose's hand, and she can't help but squint her widened eyes immediately. She wonders if it has a double meaning to it, or if he just picked it up because it's beautiful. Magenta lilac lily means love and passion, and lilac lily means first love.
"How did you know I was here? More like why you look like a boyfriend visiting his sick girlfriend at the hospital, you're weird." – Lucy giggles cutely as she sees the blush dusted on his cheeks.
"General Ichinose!" – a woman came into view in front of them, she had bright pink hair with dark brown eyes, wearing a revealing outfit underneath her white long coat with a cupcake of over frosting kind of a face. Lucy mentally cringed at the sight of how she dressed as a doctor.
"Oh, so this is the girl Dr. Asahina keeps talking about." – she sneered watching how Ichinose stood beside the girl giving her the bouquet of Magenta and lilac lilies.
"Why is it that you are here?" – Lucy raised an eyebrow.
"I am a doctor here at the hospital, I am allowed to do whatever I want." – she scoffed, acting high and mighty, which irked Ichinose more as the ugly woman in front of him disturbed his great time with Lucy.
"When there are patients around the hospital who need to be treated and taken care of, you are merely showing an appearance towards someone you think is lower than yourself. Especially with the General visiting someone like me today, you are trying to show yourself even more pathetic. What kind of doctor are you? A doctor without self-respect and ethics in life as a doctor, a shameful existence in the doctor's community." – Lucy glared that sent shivers down all their spines, which made Ichinose smirk gallantly with pride oozing from his very being.
"I'm sorry you were disturbed Lucy." – Masaomi frowned as the blonde girl only giggles waving him off as it's not his fault.
"You are only a commoner who seduced the General into getting in your ways, I am a much better person than you are in this world. Don't you dare tell me what to do!" – she raised her hand about to hit the sick girl, but before Masaomi or Ichinose could even do anything, Lucy was quick to pin the girl to the ground with glaring eyes and snarling face.
"Raising your hand to a sick patient in the hospital is very threatening in the world, or working in the hospital, isn't it?" – Lucy tightened her grip as she squirmed around.
"That arrogant attitude of yours won't even last a day from where I came from, you'll be dead or maybe tortured and raped at the same time." – she whispered to the woman trembling with tears threatening to escape from her eyes.
At the threat Lucy stand up but wobbled a bit which Ichinose responds by catching her before falling to the floor, he carried her in bridal style as Lucy's head is nuzzled in his chest under his chin. Ichinose could feel Lucy's temperature going up and her shaking breath, Masaomi pulled Dr. Leafa up to stand then practically drag her out towards the CEO's office to discuss her 'attitude' for being a doctor.
Ichinose laid Lucy on her bed and then pressed a button that could crank up her bed to a more comfortable sitting position for her to eat some strawberry dessert he bought. It's an apology gift for keeping Lucy out too late, which caused her to get sick. He felt bad and guilty about it when he found out through one of his connections that he was the number one general in Japan.
"Oh, I almost forgot..." – Lucy gasped out loud
"You can come out now, Happy... Julie."
"What are you..." – Ichinose got cut off when a blue cat and a grey squirrel approached them from beneath the bed, they hopped onto the bed as the cat immediately snuggled into the blonde's arms and the squirrel went onto her shoulder snuggling into her neck.
"These are my friends, Happy and Julie." – Lucy smiled.
"Oh, so this is the man that got Lucy sick that she ended up in the hospital." – Julie started squeaking all over again, complaining and saying mean stuff about Ichinose's grandiose and immeasurable mistake.
"A blue Neko?" – he questioned tilting his head picking up the unusual cat who looked back concerned at his weird staring like a mad scientist ready to dissect him any moment.
'Ichinose has a deep fondness for cats, so just act like a regular one since he doesn't know where we're actually from...yet' Lucy sent telepathically as Happy nodded his in response, but in Ichinose's view, he sees a cute and innocent cat that he begins to play with Happy.
"Lucy, how are you feeling? I heard you were up, so I finished my schedule plan for the time as soon as possible to check up on you." – Akito walked into the room in a hurry, then stopped in his tracks when he saw a familiar face in the room.
"Ichinose?"
"Akito?"
"Am I missing something here?" – Lucy, Happy, and Julie look at both of them back and forth, confused by the sudden circumstance.
"Ichinose is one of my close cousins, what are you doing here?" – Akito scrunches his brow in confusion.
"I just came to visit my sick friend, Lucy... (he grins, slugging an arm around his cousin) ...you knew her before, and you didn't bother to introduce her to me?" – teases Ichinose.
"This is Aki-chan's cousin? The man who was weird enough to ask me out as our first meeting, then brought me out to the cold that made me get sick in the end?" – Lucy tried to wrap her head around the information while teasing Ichinose by a guilt trap.
"You got her sick?!" – Akito exclaimed, looking at his cousin smacking him up the head.
"Oi, I'm not weird. Take that back!" – Ichinose pounced on the girl jokingly, Lucy started laughing all over, trying to shove the man away, who kept grinning while tickling her on the side of her stomach.
"I...ICHI...AHHAHA...STOP..."
"Take back about me being weird and I will stop," he prompted before meeting a face full of a cake slice covering his face with frosting and strawberry.
"Take that!" – Lucy shoved him to the floor, getting her revenge for the tickling savage in front of her.
"What the hell AHAHAHA!" – the dark-haired man started laughing, shoving the cream from his face onto the girl.
"What can I do with them?" - Akito rubbed his temple with his thumb and pointer finger, massaging and leaning on the wall while shaking his head.