"That's good."
Unaware of what Kousaka Yukiho was thinking, Senba Gari let out a slight sigh of relief, then picked up the paper bag beside him and placed it in front of Honoka Kosaka's parents.
"These are some snacks I specially made myself. Please accept them as my apology."
"You made them yourself? Then we won't stand on ceremony." Hearing that he had made them by hand, Kousaka Yukiho accepted them without further politeness.
"Aren't you going to see Honoka?" Kousaka Yukiho suddenly asked.
"No. It's enough that they go see Honoka. If I went, I'd just make it crowded."
While Senba Gari was downstairs speaking alone with Honoka Kosaka's parents, the other girls of μ's arrived at Honoka Kosaka's room.
"Honoka..." Umi Sonoda opened the door, keeping her voice as low as possible.
"Ah, Umi, Kotori." Seeing her friends arrive, Honoka Kosaka immediately greeted them excitedly.
But from the look of Honoka Kosaka, she had not fully recovered. She was sitting against her pillow, a fever-reducing patch on her forehead, a mask she had taken off still hanging at her mouth, and in her hand she held a cup from a pudding she had just finished eating.
"Thank goodness. You can already sit up." Minami Kotori breathed a sigh of relief and said in reassurance.
"Mm. Because I caught a cold, I was allowed to eat three puddings."
Umi Sonoda and Minami Kotori walked over to Honoka Kosaka's window. Honoka Kosaka placed the empty cup in her hand on the bedside table, then put her mask back on.
"We worried over you for nothing."
"Just like your mother said."
Seeing Honoka Kosaka's spirits restored, Yazawa Nico and Nozomi Tojo also breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, how's your foot?"
Yazawa Nico crouched beside Honoka Kosaka's bed