*Morning comes, the bright rays of the dawning sunshine through the windows of the ICTF West hospital.*

A loud morning reveille trumpet played today, I was startled by it, waking up with cold sweat on my brow and breathing heavily.

“Finally wake up eh? It’s a good thing that you’re not in JB or Asako’s class or they’ll strap you up on to a pole and take a riot hose and spray you with it.” Niko said.

She was sitting on the chair right side to my bed.

I answered hastily.

“Ms Niko, I’m sorry I…”

Before I could finish my sentence, she cut between my responses with a stop hand signal she then point me to the left side of my bed.

To my surprise, Asako-nee was sleeping there, and her shirt was somewhat ripped on the back collar and she had two red rashes from friction from some sort of suffocation. My thoughts were scrambling, out of shame, confusion or may be both. Had I lost control and violated my saviour, had I committed yet another crime…

I spaced out, looking down to my hands and asked what happened and afraid of what Niko was about to say.

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Niko: “Can’t you tell? She’s sleeping.”

Nozumi: “Then who did that to her, who choked her to even leave a mark and the ripped collar on her shirt.”

Niko: “Oh the mark…you did that…and also the collar was from when she tried to fight back.”

Nozumi: “eh..?”

I turned blue to the words I just heard, did I really try to kill her?

Niko: “Don’t be so blue, it’s noting of the sort that Asako couldn’t handle (since she’s a ICTF SPARROW operator)...”

I sighed with relief as she said that but could still feel the guilt from my actions.

Niko: “Ah! Chin up…She’s just tired cuz she had to look after your little ass last night.”

I raised an eyebrow after hearing her said that. Did I do something wrong again? Did I tried to kill myself or something?

Niko: “Before you ask anything else, just let me ask you a question, have you ever held a gun before? Or more specific had someone point a gun towards you?”

Nozumi: “I don’t think I had ever held a gun and ms Niko, from the dossier you gave me I could deduct that a gun had pointed my way once. During a room clear, guns would not be holstered nor laid down until there is a clear sigh.”

Niko: “Very good! I think… But let me explain what happen last night. Asako brought a toy gun to your room last night. She wanted to have some fun with you, but somehow you were able to knock the gun off her hand and put her in a choke hold, she was able to break free from that choke hold. But then you broke down and had a 39.5 degree fever….and that girl looked after you the entire night.”

She…took care of me? I caused harm to her, or worst almost killed her,… but she ignored it to take care of a mere fever?...

Niko interrupted my thoughts again with a flick to the forehead and continues.