"Eh? But Umaru clearly remembered Onii-chan saying it..." With Sogo Doma adamantly denying it, Lady Umaru looked somewhat dejected—or perhaps disappointed?
"Umaru must have remembered wrong!" Sogo Doma declared.
"Then Umaru will think about it properly..."
"There's no need to think about something like that! Onii-chan definitely never..." Sogo Doma hurriedly stopped her. Why was this little dumpling so obsessed with leeks? No, perhaps what she was fixated on wasn't the leek, but...
"I remember now!" While someone was trying to stop the dumpling and letting his thoughts run wild, Lady Umaru, who had not been interrupted, suddenly said, "Onii-chan, Umaru remembers now. It was the Gorilla Curator. The Gorilla Curator said leeks could cure colds..."
"Phew..." Sogo Doma inwardly breathed a sigh of relief. He chuckled. "Umaru, how can humans listen to what a gorilla says? Obviously..."
"Onii-chan, Umaru never said it was something the Gorilla Curator said..." Lady Umaru said, folding her arms.
"But didn't you just say the Gorilla Curator...?" Sogo Doma froze.
"Um, Umaru meant that the Gorilla Curator personally experienced the effects of leeks in treating colds. Onii-chan even scared Umaru back then, saying that if Umaru didn't take care not to catch a chill, Umaru would receive the same treatment as the Gorilla Curator—like putting a leek on her head..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
There was no need to remember things from the past so clearly!
"Umaru, that only worked on gorillas!"
"But didn't Onii-chan grab a leek and chase Big Brother Hijikata, who had the same cold, around for dozens of laps?" Lady Umaru tilted her head again.
"Onii-chan was just trying to see whether it worked on humans too. Also, not Big Brother Hijikata—it was Mr. Hijikata..."
"Umaru remembers that Mr. Hijikata got better afterward. Doesn't that prove it was effective?"
"No, it