Deterioration

It was morning. Lettie had stayed at the hospital again last night, so in the hospital room were me, Lettie, and Miu. 

Miu was still asleep. As I was talking with Lettie, the old men arrived. 

From their frantic appearance, I could guess the reason without asking. 

"Fay has gone missing, right?"

"My boy, how did you know that..."

I didn't need to be told to figure it out. Fay was nowhere to be seen. 

While it may be jumping to conclusions that he's disappeared just because he's not here, it's unlikely he'd be sleeping alone at the inn, nor is he the type to shirk his bodyguard duties to go play around. 

More than anything, yesterday he had...

"Sorry, it's my fault. I didn't expect a man like him to end up like this." 

"My boy, do you know something?"

"Big brother?"