This is chapter 4. Enjoy!
"Are you sure you want to stay, Sakuya?" Eirin asked her patient.
"Yes. It's better that I get well soon than overexert myself," Sakuya replied.
"Then I will ask Reisen to begin preparations to hospitalize you. Reisen!" Eirin called to the tall rabbit. "Begin preparations for Sakuya's hospitalization!"
"Yes, ma'am!" Reisen called back.
Eirin turned to Meiling and Patchouli, who were sitting on a bench in the room. "I'll have Reisen come to alert you if Sakuya's condition has gotten better or worse. Don't worry; she'll be in good hands," Eirin informed them.
"Well, we best get back to the mansion. Are you sure you're going to be okay here, Sakuya?" Patchouli asked.
"Yes, Patchouli-sama, I'm sure I'll be fine. I'm going to try to get better as quickly as I can so I can return to the mansion. Speaking of the mansion, who will take over my job as the head maid?" Sakuya asked.
"Hmmm...I haven't thought of that yet. I'll ask Remilia that when we get back to the mansion," Patchouli replied.
Suddenly, knocking sounded on the door. "Come in," Eirin said.
Reisen opened the door and stepped inside, shutting it behind her. "Preparations are complete, Eirin-sama," Reisen informed the doctor, bowing politely.
"Nice work, Reisen. Let's go to your room, shall we?" Eirin asked Sakuya, who nodded and hopped off the table.
Patchouli, Meiling, and Sakuya followed Eirin down the hallway toward where Sakuya's room would be. Eirin opened a door at the end of the hallway and held it open for the other 3 girls.
"This is where you'll be resting while you're staying here. If you need anything, just pull this rope," Eirin explained, pointing to a rope hanging from the ceiling beside the bed, "and either Reisen or myself will come to assist you in whatever you need."
"Thank you for putting her under your care, Eirin. I trust that you will be able to take care of her," Patchouli said to Eirin.
Eirin nodded. "I'll have her all well and ready to go back to the mansion as soon as possible," Eirin informed Patchouli and Meiling.
"Well, we should be going back to the mansion. I'll ask Remilia if I can send Meiling over occasionally to check up on how Sakuya is doing," Patchouli told Eirin.
"Visiting hours are from noon to 3 o'clock in the afternoon. It would be best to send Meiling over in between that time range," Eirin stated.
"Okay. I'll send her over here again later today. Goodbye," Patchouli waved to Eirin and Sakuya.
"We hope you feel better, Sakuya-san!" Meiling said, waving.
Sakuya and Eirin waved goodbye and Patchouli began to make her way out the door, Meiling following close behind her.
When Meiling and Patchouli arrived back at the mansion, they were immediately greeted by Remilia and Flandre.
"So? How is she?" Remilia asked. "Where's Sakuya?"
"We had her hospitalized in Eientei. Eirin has no idea what she could have, so we left Sakuya under her care," Patchouli answered.
"Is she going to be okay?" Flandre asked.
"We don't know," Patchouli and Meiling said at the same time.
"Who are we going to put in her place as the head maid?" Remilia asked, titling her head to one side.
"That's exactly what I was wondering," Patchouli replied. "Who should we put in as the head maid?"
"Well, wasn't Meiling the original head maid before Sakuya came here?" Remilia recalled.
"Oh, that's right! We could put Meiling in as the head maid," Patchouli suggested.
"Me? Who will guard the gate?" Meiling asked, surprised.
"Nobody ever guarded the gate in the first place!" Remilia exclaimed. "Besides, you have experience in cleaning and cooking, so you can probably at least clean a few floors correctly and maybe serve up a good meal. And Patchouli can't do it, because she has asthma and the dust will make her wheeze and feel sick," Remilia explained.
"I see now, Remilia-sama," Meiling said. "It's just been so long since I've last cooked or cleaned..."
"The fairy maids will help you. But, you won't be starting your job until tomorrow because today I gave you the day off. The fairy maids can take care of everything for today," Remilia announced to the remaining members of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, excluding Koakuma. "You're all dismissed," Remilia said, turning and walking away with Flandre trailing after her.
I wonder if Sakuya is doing okay... Meiling thought to herself.
For the rest of the day until around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Meiling simply wandered around the mansion and explored the many rooms inside it. Then, just out of habit, she went outside and checked on the flowers in the garden.
She watered a small patch of roses and picked a few, making them into a bouquet. Sakuya might like these... Meiling thought, holding the bouquet in her hand.
Suddenly, the mansion's door slowly opened and Patchouli poked her head outside. "Meiling! Please go check on Sakuya. I've already told Remilia that you're on your way," Patchouli called to Meiling.
"Yes, ma'am, Patchouli-sama! I'll get right on it!" Meiling called back to Patchouli, saluting to her and then taking flight toward Eientei.
Uh-oh! Some of the roses are falling out of the bouquet! Meiling thought to herself, tightening her grip on the bouquet of flowers. Wait a minute...isn't Sakuya mildly allergic to flowers? Hmm...if she is, the flowers might make her condition worser than it already is... Meiling shrugged and let the flowers slip out of her hand and onto the ground below. Better safe than sorry.
When Meiling arrived, she opened the door only to run right into Reisen. "Oh, I'm so sorry! Are you okay?" Meiling asked, taking a step back.
"Thank goodness you're here! Sakuya's having another seizure! Come quick!" Reisen said, panicked.
Meiling's heart skipped a beat and she quickly walked with Reisen to where Sakuya was staying. Meiling could hear Eirin shouting orders at something through the door.
"I don't know if you're allowed to go in or not," Reisen said, and then opened the door to Sakuya's room. "Wait here," Reisen said before disappearing behind the door.
Meiling took a deep breath. Honestly, she was terrified of what she might have found if she had entered that room. What if Sakuya was dying at the moment, and the only thing Meiling could do was stand by and listen through a closed door? Why was this happening to Sakuya?
Suddenly, Eirin's yelling calmed to a regular volume, and the door to Sakuya's room opened.
"You can come in," Reisen said, holding the door open for Meiling.
Meiling nervously stepped inside the room where Sakuya was staying. She saw Eirin standing over a strange device and pressing a bunch of colorful buttons.
"Is she going to be okay?" Meiling asked after a while.
Eirin turned to Meiling. "I don't know," Eirin said honestly. "I really wish I did know."
Meiling observed her surroundings some more. She noticed that Sakuya was laying in bed, with her eyes closed, hooked up to a strange device that had a bunch of glowing hills on the screen, and another device that looked like a giant tube.
"What are those machines?" Meiling asked.
"The one with the glowing hills is a heart monitor. The one that has a bunch of tubes is a device that will help her breath," Eirin explained.
"Oh."
"You can sit with her in this chair, if you like," Eirin offered, bringing a chair up next to Sakuya's bed.
Meiling nodded and sat in the chair. "Thank you," Meiling said politely.
Suddenly, Sakuya stirred in her sleep. Her hand twitched a little and she began to breath a bit deeper than she was, signaling that she was probably about to enter a deep sleep.
Eirin stopped pressing buttons on the machine and went over to take Sakuya's temperature with a thermometer. The red liquid inside of the thermometer didn't go up too high for Sakuya to have a fever and stayed only in the 98.7 section of the thermometer.
"No fever...that's good. But she had a seizure..." Eirin murmured to herself. "What has she eaten today?"
"Only a cookie. I think she didn't want to throw up again, so she ate very little today."
"I'm going to make her some soup when she wakes up. Is she allergic to anything?" Eirin asked.
"No, not that I know of," Meiling informed her.
"Then I'll have no problem making her soup when I need to," Eirin said. She glanced at a clock on the wall. "A patient will be coming here soon for an appointment they scheduled. Come Reisen, we're about to have a patient," Eirin said to Reisen, beckoning for the tall, purple-haired rabbit to follow her.
Reisen left the room first, but Eirin stopped for a moment before leaving, so she could say, "If there seems to be anything wrong with Sakuya, please alert me immediately, Meiling," Eirin told Meiling. Then she left the room, leaving only Meiling and Sakuya in there.
Thanks for reading!