Sunday, June? 19? 2011

It turned out to be "tomorrow." And it is. And it is.

Dr. Nishikino looked Niko over and said she was ready to be evaluated to start.

The young woman who will do Niko's therapy came in. Her name is Sakamaki Reina. She said her younger sister Chizuko is a school idol like Niko - second-year at Shion Girls Academy. She even showed me a picture of her. She looks more like Nozomi than she does like her sister. Same large breasts and mature body, and she even puts purple highlights in her hair. Niko must have looked too long or something, because the therapy girl laughed. "Yeah, she's a beauty, isn't she? And she knows it, the little brat. I dunno if you'd be her type, though … Anyway, from what I hear …" at that point Dr. Nishikino said we had no time to waste, so they started Niko out by stretching and testing her arms and legs. They didn't do anything that would harm the parts in casts. Still, being stretched and bent and measured really hurt Niko, even with more pain medicine. Towards the end, my tutor arrived. Dr. Nishikino explained that her daughter had offered to help with the therapy once Niko is released. Maki-sempai didn't even speak to say she wouldn't get in the way, she just stood back and observed everything. She fetched Niko water and pain medicine, too.

As usual, things didn't add up with her. It's pretty clear she likes Niko, but to spend so much time helping Niko is still unusual. Niko had a funny thought: Maki-sempai would be well-known at the hospital. What if Reina had taken Niko's jealousy over her sister's more sexy body for … interest? Was girls being like that so common nowadays and Niko missed it? Surely not in Japan. But anyway … what if she was going to say something like .. "From what I hear, Maki has already staked a claim to you."

Niko is not used to thinking thoughts like that, Nikki-chan.