Chapter 422.<h4><b><strong>Chapter 422. Heading to a Bustling City: </strong>Scamming a Doctor. (1/4)</b></h4>


    <span style="font-weight:400">I set off in the direction the doctor and surgeon went. After I turned the corner, I regained a direct line of sight. They were entering the elevator. I was toote and couldn’t make it in time at this rate.


    <span style="font-weight:400">I ran over to the elevator and kept an eye on the floor it stopped at. It had gone all the way to ground level. Based on the conversation I overheard just now, they were likely leaving the building together and going to get something to eat. I could wait at the entrance for them to return, but I didn’t know whether they were only going for lunch or if their shift was over.


    <span style="font-weight:400">As I couldn’t be sure, I had to hurry. There was no time to wait for the elevator. I rushed over to the stairs and ran down them at top speed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">When I burst out the door on ground level I spun around in a circle and scanned the surroundings in all directions. I didn’t see them anywhere inside so I immediately ran to the exit to see if I could catch them heading to a car in the parking lot outside.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Just as I ran out the exit, someone turned in to enter. I collided with them head-on, pushing them down to the ground, Inded on top of them.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Ouch. Hehe~ so you just couldn’t resist pushing me down first thing after not seeing me for so long~… big brother~”


    <span style="font-weight:400">I hadn’t gotten a good look at them since I had tunnel-visioned on the exit, but as soon as their words and tone of voice registered, I immediately knew who it was.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Huh? Wisteria?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">I was, of course, naturally shocked and dumbfounded.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What are you doing here? No, wait, now’s not the time for that. Wisteria, did you see a man and woman leaving together? One was a doctor and the other was a surgeon. I don’t know whether they’ve changed out of their work clothes already.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Wisteria whined, “What~ it’s been so long since we’ve seen each other in person and the first thing you ask me after pushing me down to the ground is whether I’ve seen another woman?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Can you please not phrase it in such a misleading fashion?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What’s misleading about it? It’s a fact that you pushed me down onto the ground.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I collided into you and we fell down.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Same thing.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wisteria, please, did you see them or not?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Haaaaah. I saw them.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">I stood up, held my hand out, and pulled her up to her feet.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Where’d they go?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Wisteria pointed and said, “Over there.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">When I looked where she pointed I frowned as the two of them entered a car together. Were they just working at the hospital together… or were they something more than that?


    <span style="font-weight:400">If it was thetter and this really was Dawn’s mother... was it best to not tell Dawn about her? It was a tough call in all honesty.


    <span style="font-weight:400">I was toote to catch them. If I hadn’t lost time from bumping into Wisteria I might have caught up, but they were too far away already. The car had just backed out and was already headed to the exit.


    <span style="font-weight:400">I could try to follow them on my motorcycle, but I’de across as a creeper stalking that woman. If I wasn’t careful I might get the cops called on me. That or the man with her might try to act like a big shot to look good in front of her. If it turns out I was wrong about her being Dawn’s mother, they might think I’m crazy too.


    <span style="font-weight:400">The ideal scenario was an encounter with her at the hospital. I''d missed that opportunity by a hair.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“You give up on chasing after that woman?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Haaaaaah. For the time being.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What were you chasing after that woman for?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well, it’s a littleplicated. The short summary is that I suspect she’s the mother to Rosa’s new friend.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Hmmm, so you really do have a thing for mothers? As expected considering your first time was with Irene.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I don’t have a thing for mothers.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She rolled her eyes and gave a sarcastic reply, “Sure you don’t, and I don’t have a thing for cheaters or big brothers.” When it came to her, big brothers could be interpreted in two ways. I wasn’t sure which she meant, nor did I care to find out.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I like big ones in case you were curious.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Didn’t ask.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What~ but-”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Before she had the chance to continue harassing me with a string of her sexual innuendos, I cut her off and asked, “Wisteria, why are you in this city? You’re not going to tell me coincidences like this really exist, are you?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“But they do, it’s fate~ we were clearly destined to reunite here today.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“My ass we were.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Haaaah. So cold… can''t you y along a bit for your cute little sister and say something like it’s a small world?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“There are so many ces in the world, the odds of you coincidentally picking this city toe to with this timing is impossible.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Haaaaah. The truth is I heard from Rosa yesterday that you two were going to be hanging around this city for the next week. It just so happened that there was an assignment avable in the academy rted to this city so I chose to take it. This assignment is quite old, nobody has ever been willing to take it because the risk to reward just isn’t worth it. You hardly get any points forpletion and there is essentially no financial incentive toplete this assignment.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“By assignment… you mean…”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. I’ve got a target.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She took an assignment like that just to make a chance for us to possibly meet?


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Is that target at this hospital?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. I took the first flight here yesterday and I’ve been staking out this hospital since this morning after I met the client and signed the... work contract.” She discreetly checked the surroundings before she finished her sentence.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I saw when you entered the hospital earlier but I didn’t approach since you were with that blond girl though. I hadn’t intended to approach you at all even if I saw you during this assignment since this was supposed to be a trip between just you and Rosa… but when I saw that girl you were with… the thought you were cheating… I just couldn’t resist when I saw youing out alone. I got too horny. It’s all your fault I’m like this now, big brother~.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Why was this little sister defective like this? I looked up at the sky with distant eyes and contemted that oh so difficult question.


    <span style="font-weight:400">She fidgeted a bit as she continued, “Honestly… with how big the city is… I wasn’t even really expecting we’d run into each other at all. I was just hoping we somehow might though… since I… uh… missed my big brother… and wanted to... see him…” She peaked up at me from the corner of her eyes shyly.


    <span style="font-weight:400">And then she goes and delivers a cute line like that in an adorable fashion. If only I hadn’t heard the part before, maybe I could pat her on the head and give this weird little sister of mine a hug or something. But I definitely wasn’t about to fall into that trap right after she effectively dered she was in heat.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Are you annoyed to see me here?” She anxiously probed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Haaaaah. I’m not annoyed to see you. In fact, I’m quite happy.” It was actually my good fortune that she appeared with this timing since I couldn’t catch up to Dawn’s mother… even if her appearance here was at fault for that.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“... really?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She really was cute when she was in little sister mode. Too cute. The problem was big sister mode. I had to avoid flipping that switch at all costs. I wouldn’t be able to survive that scary mode.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, really.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Thankfully there hadn’t been anyone close enough to hear our extremely abnormal brother-sister conversation. If there had been, the number of misunderstandings wouldn’t have been funny. Trying to exin would have resulted in far too great a headache.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Although I hadn’t caught Dawn’s mother, I had the second-best alternative. With Wisteria’s assistance getting a doctor to do a free MRI scan shouldn’t be too difficult.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wisteria, there’s something I need your help with.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Hmm? What is it?” She tilted her head to one side.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Do you think you can convince a doctor to do a free MRI scan?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“By convince… do you mean…” her eyes narrowed.