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Akane Tsunemori sneezed into her face mask, closing her eyes shut. She then took her temperature which was very high. She had a fever and she wasn’t feeling her best at all. She was very immobile, and remained in bed most of the time. She also wanted to keep her distance from others to prevent spreading her sickness. She called off of work for both reasons. Nobuchika Ginoza and the whole crew understood that she had to stay home. In addition, she had made sure to tell Shinya not to visit her. Little did she know that he would do just that, despite her warnings.
Just in that moment, she heard the sound of knocks on her front door.
Akane flinched, then immediately assumed who it might be.
“This must be the mailman.” she assured herself. “I had ordered some medicine recently for my fever.”
The knocks kept coming, and then she started to feel suspicion from the familiarity of it all.
“Hmmm, Shinya knocks this exact way.” She thought. From his frequent visits prior to her fever, she had caught on to how his door-knocking pattern was.
She felt very weak, but managed to climb out of her bed, and slowly walk to the front door. When she reached the door she made sure to peek through the door’s tiny view. And to her dismay it was revealed that this was indeed Shinya Kogami.