What did you say, Mother…? I kept hearing strange things. Was it wrong to eat a half-cooked sweet and sour pork? It seemed like it was bad because the pork was undercooked. But is it bad for your ears?

“It’s so tiny. Chase, bring it here. Let me hold it.”

“No, if he stays here he’ll cause trouble again. I’ll take him outside and come back.”

“Where do you take a puppy from the hospital? Oh, come to think of it, is it Suin? Oh my.”

“It’s a lot, but… Hey, puppy. Where are you going up to?”

“Kang!”

Chase, whether he screamed or not, quickly climbed onto the bed where his mother was, stretching his arms out toward me. I lay down on the bed, and Chase’s mother patted me and laughed, making a deflating sound.

“So this is your new roommate?”

“Well, that’s true, but it’s just temporary.”

“Why? You say, you had a bad personality so you guys couldn’t live together? That’s why I told you to tone down your temper!”

“Oh, that’s not it!”

“Whoa!”

Maybe I didn’t know that he only chose the right words, I had only known him for five minutes, but I had grown attached to Chase’s mother. I rolled over and hugged him. His arms gave off a cool and warm scent. Except for his personality, his appearance certainly resembled Chase’s a little bit…

“How old is the puppy?”

“…Twenty years old.”

“It’s a real baby.”

“Where is the baby? If you keep saving that, he’ll think he is really…”

“Chase, are you jealous?”

“No, what… Ha, stop. Let’s stop talking.”

The sight of Chase grumbling but not being able to properly refute was so sweet.

I lay down with my cheek against my mother’s arm, laughing at Chase. Chase kept throwing tantrums and begging me to come down, but my mother scolded him to stop. At that moment, the hospital room door opened and the medical staff came in and stood by the bed. The silence quickly fell and tension filled the air.

The doctor who briefly checked his condition said in a calm voice that it was difficult to say that Chase’s mother had fully recovered. Chase clenched his fist at the words that he might have temporarily regained consciousness. Then his mother gently wrapped Chase’s wrist.

“But you said that there is a possibility that the time it takes to wake up will gradually increase.”

“…That’s a possibility.”

“My baby, don’t you trust mommy?”

“Oh no! The doctor is here right now!”

“Kang!”

Not only is there a doctor, there’s also a dog!

A look of embarrassment spread across the faces of the doctor in charge and even the nurse standing nearby. Of course, I was the one who couldn’t stand it the most. Chase, whose cheeks turned red as I kicked the sheet while jumping up and down on all fours, covered my face with his large palm and bowed.

“sorry….”

“Haha, no. It’s better if the patient is positive.”

The middle-aged doctor waved his hand, smiled, gave a few instructions, and left the room. It wasn’t particularly hopeful, but it was still a lot better than before.

My mother spoke to Chase as if comforting him.

“I think I’ll just sleep a little longer.”

“And then you’re going to sleep for a few more years.”

“Child, this time I’ll try to negotiate with the heavenly being to send me back quickly. I told them not to let my child cry.”

“Ah, stop it…”

In the end. Chase also laughed as if he had no choice.

In the meantime, Chase and his mother seemed to want to spend some time alone, so he used the bag on the bedside table as a stepping stone to get down from the bed. After mumbling for a while, Chase must have been emitting enough pheromones to make him feel comfortable. While the two were talking, he took advantage of the moment to slip out of the hospital room. Since he had finally visited Kaisha Medical Center, he planned to wander around here and there..

“Nothing special happened?”

“Yes, I have a few more things to report, Vice Chairman.”

Vice President? I stopped walking and quickly hid behind a nearby pillar. When I was in puppy form, I was always dissatisfied with my small body and short legs, but at times like this, I liked my small body.

It seemed that Vice Chairman Kaisa, the new father, had returned from a long business trip.

“I heard that a patient with Prussic disease regained consciousness a little while ago and the medical team visited him.”

“Do I need to know such trivial things?”

“Ah, that’s the patient that Master Leoruka asked me to take care of.”

“…That desert fox?”

“Yes, he is the mother of Chase Van der Arteon.”

The vice president, who had been moving busily, suddenly stopped walking. Only then could I see his face in detail. My late mother said she fell in love with him at first sight, and I could understand why. Although he was well past middle age, his face looked so young that it made me feel like he was in his mid-to-late 30s. It was surprising how neat and elegant it was.

‘But somehow, your appearance looks familiar. I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere. Who do you look like?”

As I tilted my head and tried to recall my memories, the secretary standing next to the vice president opened his mouth again

“Yes, and the research team at St. Veronica University, who designed the Pruss disease surgical robot, has requested a meeting. What should we do?”

My ears perked up at the secretary’s report that followed.

Pruss disease is a rare disease that Chase’s mother suffered from. It is not the exact name of the disease, but rather an abbreviation for the name of the person who first discovered it. In the original work, the government-supported research team at Kaisha Medical Center develops a treatment through surgery, but that is several years later.