4 ❀ 花吐き病

[konnosuke]

H A N A H A K I ✿

Hanahaki is a fictional disease in which the victim coughs up flower petals when they suffer from one-sided love. It ends when the beloved returns their feelings (romantic love only; strong friendship is not enough), or when the victim dies. It can be cured through surgical removal, but when the infection is removed, the victim's romantic feelings for their love also disappear.

Comments

[tsukijiji]

... Just a cough? It's been going on for a few days. And it's not letting up.

[And then Mikazuki crouches and picks something up. A stray petal that traitorously escaped Mutsunokami's grasp.

He's too old not to know the stories, and when he looks up, the petal on his palm, he doesn't say anything, but Mutsunokami will know the game is up.]

[tosa]

( Usually one to meet the eyes of others, he can't do it this time. He looks away from Mikazuki and lies, )

It's nothing.

( It's a bad lie and he knows it. )

[tsukijiji]

Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki.

[Seriously, you starter punk, who do you take him for?]

Does Aruji know?

[Obviously not, since he is trying to hide it. But she will need to. It will become much more obvious very soon anyway. Unless it resolves itself one way or another, there will come a point where it won't be possible to hide it.]