Sugimoto wants to find the situation funny, but seeing you wriggle around in pain while looking nearly green in the face stops him.

His immune system is off the charts, yet yours isn’t, so it’s obvious who caught the stomach bug.

It was going around lately, and a bug finally wrung itself up in your body. Constant stomach cramps, a heavy urge to puke… and other unmentionables.

And for some reason your sense of smell was severely heightened, so even the tiniest whiff made you feel sicker than before.

It was awful. You groan and cover your nose and mouth as to not smell anything else, and Sugimoto takes pity.

He rubs your back with a solemn expression, “there there.”