Tokyo: Who would still fall in love after being spoiled?

Chapter 20: In front of the cunning girl patient, the new doctor Inoue gave up thinking

[Takeda: You pervert Inoue! I'm going to start running tomorrow morning too. Training said we're going to run 2,000 meters. How many laps around the park is that?]
On his way home in the evening, while being followed by the mentally ill Amano, he received a Line message from Takeda.

Saotome is truly the root of all evil...

[Inoue: Four.]
[Takeda: I can't outrun you! Don't laugh at me then!]
[Inoue: "Perverted Inoue"?]
[Takeda: Cough! ]
[Takeda retracts a message.]
[Takeda: There’s a problem with the input method!]
[Inoue: Didn’t I accidentally type out my true thoughts?]
[Takeda: Let’s not talk about that—you have to wait for me after running tomorrow!]
[Inoue: Why?]
[Takeda: Do you still want to have barbecue this weekend?]
Is this person's brain circuit not normal?

He raised his head from his phone and looked back at Amano who was standing three meters behind him.

He stopped, and Amano stopped too.

Could it be that in the original world line, he became a psychologist after graduating from high school and fell in love with three mentally ill patients?
[Inoue: I am threatening you, right?]
[Takeda: Oh! You're such a weird person!]
Well, psychopaths always think they are the normal ones.

[Takeda: I wouldn't call this lady a beauty, but I'm pretty, right? You're a normal male with normal sexual function, and you only rob her for money and not for her?]
"..."

Turning intersection, red light.

After reading the message, he put away his phone and rubbed his eyebrows.

Amano, who had been following him all the way, also stood beside him.

"I said..." Now that things have come to this, let's deal with the patient who is closer to me first.

"Inoue-san." Patient No. 1 Amano interrupted Doctor Inoue.

He couldn't stand it anymore.

"Not observing this time?"

"Observation." Amano stared into his eyes, unmoved, and continued to ask her question, "What exactly do you mean by Cybertronians?"

"What else could it mean..."

Amano was silent for a moment, as if trying to organize his words, and then he said, "From the information I searched on the Internet.

"Cybertronians refer to the mechanical bodies created by the combination of the Allspark and the Protocells, which are the inhabitants of the planet Cybertron in the Transformers universe.

"I also gained a deeper understanding of what the Allspark and Protozoa are.

"It has nothing to do with the form Inoue-san is currently displaying."

After that, she frowned slightly in seriousness, grabbed the shoulder bag strap with one hand, looked him straight in the eye and asked, "So, what exactly does Cybertron refer to?"

"..."

The patient in front of him seemed to be terminally ill and incurable.

Inoue sighed in despair and decided to give the patient on the other side of the line another chance.

He looked at his phone—

[Takeda: I've read this and it's been ages since I last replied! What's your point?!]
[Inoue: Why is the rather pretty Miss Takeda still living in a boarding house? Why is she still 300 yen short of buying a bowl of ramen for her classmates?]
[Takeda: Being a lady and being frugal don't conflict! Some noble ladies even get a weekly luxury reward of eating wheat once a week!]
Is there really such a young lady in the real world? Amazing...

[Takeda: I don't care, you have to wait until I get to school, or I'll put the recording of your Prime Minister's announcement on the school radio! Forget about the barbecue, I'll just quit working! We'll both perish together!]
Recording... He turned off the phone screen and remembered the greeting Takeda gave him when he was wringing clothes.

'Your Majesty Prime Minister'...

There's even a recording? You can't judge a person by appearance...

Takeda, who appears to be stupid, actually has such a cunning side!
Let's get back to trying to save Patient One.

"If I say I'm the human form of Ultraman, will Amano-san also believe that I can transform into Ultraman and save the world?"

"Ultraman's human form...what is that?"

It’s okay if you don’t watch Transformers, but you don’t watch Ultraman either?
Didn't this guy have a childhood?
"Anyway, I just made it up, it doesn't have any special meaning." He said, and suddenly he started to worry that Amano would have an emotional breakdown and cry after hearing this news...

"understood."

Fortunately, the scene he imagined did not appear. Amano just nodded, surprisingly calm.

Inexplicably...

The green light came on and he crossed the sidewalk. Even though Amano had already solved the mystery of Inoue's species, he still followed him.

"If Amano-san really wants to know what I'm going to do next, why not just ask me directly?" he couldn't help but say.

Amano responded with a look that said, "Do you think I'll still believe it?"

"Just tell the truth. It won't do me any good if you tell lies." Amano remained unmoved.

He took a deep breath and raised one hand in a formal manner.

"I swear to the gods who don't know whether they can hear me or not! If I tell even one lie, Tokyo will be hit by heavy rain for two days straight starting from Saturday."

Amano finally nodded and instructed him in a condescending manner.

"Go ahead."

"..."

He suddenly didn't want to tell the truth anymore.

Let it rain heavily in Tokyo. Could it be that the gods of this world are so idle that they cannot even take care of such a boring oath?
"There's a river nearby," he said, looking up at the cloudless sky. "After school, I go down to the riverside park where I ran this morning and swim three laps."

"Is swimming allowed in that river?" Amano really started to think about it.

"As long as it doesn't affect other people, it doesn't matter."

"Then?"

"I chased down a thief who had stolen a shoulder bag from the riverbank. After retrieving it, I sat on the riverbank steps and wrung out the water from my clothes."

"Wring it out...swimming with clothes on?"

"School uniforms and swimsuits are too much trouble. Every minute counts."

"Not cold?"

"If you persevere, you will eventually evolve to the point where you won't get sick from it."

"So that's it, what happens next?"

"Go back to the boarding house to change into regular clothes, take your school uniform to the dry cleaners, and then work part-time or study until ten o'clock."

In a sense, he was telling the truth.

"Yeah." Amano nodded, motioning him to continue.

The two of them had walked side by side to the downhill entrance to Riverside Park.

"Then I wash up and finally stand on my head for ten minutes before going to bed."

"Handstand?"

"It would be best to read the book upside down and force yourself to remember the contents of the book." He saw the method of training memory in some strange book, but he had never tried it. If Amano really tried it, he could ask about the effect.

He walked without stopping, passed the fork in the road leading to Riverside Park, and saw Amano standing at the intersection, where he stopped.

He turned around and looked at Amano, who seemed to be smiling and asked him:
"Aren't we going to swim in the river? Three round trips?"

"...You coming too?" Doctor Inoue frowned - he seemed to have underestimated Amano.

"No." Amano shrugged, his tone regretful, "I can't swim yet. I need a lifebuoy to barely get into the indoor pool."

"..."

grumble--

Not far away, the clear chirping of a flock of birds flying low and playing in the water could be heard on the river.

"Ah! It's that high school boy who shouted yesterday that he wanted to be Prime Minister!"

The young man passing by Amano and heading to the riverside waved to him excitedly.

"……prime minister?"

Amano smiled and waited for him to explain the matter.

He raised his head and looked at the infinitely distant sky.

On his first day as a psychiatrist, Inoue wanted to go back to his hometown in Tottori...

(End of this chapter)