Ah! Shizuka Hiratsuka's response seemed perfectly normal. After all, there had been a murder right before her eyes. As a teacher, calling the police was absolutely beyond reproach. But all Sogo Doma wanted was for her to say, "I promise you. I promise you everything. No matter what you say, your teacher promises you, so wake up already!"
Um, wouldn't those lines have been much more dramatic? Yet Shizuka Hiratsuka ignored all that and chose to call the police. Had all the hot-blooded manga she read been eaten by dogs!?
"Cough, cough..." Sogo Doma, pretending to be a "corpse," had no choice but to cough twice. If the police really came, he wasn't afraid of this country's government organizations, but dealing with them would still be troublesome. "H-Hiratsuka-sensei, I-I think I can still be saved a little..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka, who had been about to dial: "..."
Huh!?
A-a corpse had risen!? She had personally checked just now—his heart had even stopped beating. What the hell...
Well, for someone whose Biology was at LV3, Body Control at LV3, and whose medical skills were practically beyond the limits, stopping his own heartbeat was nothing much. Forget his heartbeat—even stopping his pulse was perfectly ordinary.
But Shizuka Hiratsuka didn't know that. "D-Doma?" He could come back to life even after his heart stopped? This...
"Cough, cough..." Sogo Doma could only cough a few more times. "I-I really can't stop worrying about that stupid little brother of mine. I-I want so badly to see him get married off. I-I..."
"Idiot, stop talking!" Before he could finish, Shizuka Hiratsuka cut him off. "Hang in there! Hang in there! Whatever you want to see, you can only see it if you stay alive!"
"Wheeze, wheeze..." Doma, breathing heavily, Sogo said, "H-Hiratsuka-sensei, c-could you p-promise me... t-to