บท 177: As Sweet As A Micahberry

"So--how long was I out for exactly? Felt like roughly an hour."

Ren asked after retreating his hand before the flustered girl could chomp it, stretching his arms as he had to stop himself from fully sitting up. 

"Three days."

"...Three days?"

Repeating her answer quietly, Ren's question was confirmed as Aiko nodded her head, her tinted cheeks dissipating back into their pale complexion. 

"That's…quite a bit." 

Ren scratched his cheek with a nervous chuckle, lamenting the time that was completely swept from him. 

"Anyway—where's Iris?" 

The sudden question from Ren seemed to make Aiko fidget a bit before she responded while fiddling with a strand of her straightened hair, "Last I saw, she saw playing with the children."

"She really is a nice girl, huh?"

Ren commented, nodding his head a few times as if talking to himself. 

"Yeah…She is."

Though she agreed with him, there was no joy in her voice.