11 Virtues A Hero's Civilian Friend Must Uphold (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 67

I shouldn’t have brushed off the advice from my closest friend—the person I spend the most time with daily aside from lying in bed, and who’s been my confidante for seven years by the calendar.

Na Eun started her period the very next day and felt a slight shiver run through her body.

Right now, she deeply regretted having started her academy part-time job that morning, thinking, “Surely it’ll be fine. It can’t be that bad.”

“Teacher, are you okay?”

She realized just how rapidly her condition was worsening when even a student handing in a vocabulary test was startled by her pale face and asked in concern.

Forcing a faint smile, Na Eun nodded and collected the tests, then quietly went about her duties at her assigned seat in the study hall.

Grading papers, reporting the results to the homeroom teacher, assisting in class—even though her usual tasks weren’t particularly strenuous, each one now felt exhausting.

Thank goodness she’d had the foresight to cancel her evening tutoring session by contacting the student in the morning.

Her usually mild menstrual cramps had struck rather abruptly today. A sharp ache gnawed at her lower abdomen, and on top of that, she felt as though a fever was rising on her forehead.

Her scheduled shift normally ended at 6 p.m., but she decided she’d tell the department head later that she wasn’t feeling well and needed to leave early.

Why is this elevator so slow?

Holding the collected tests to her chest, she sighed as she waited to take the elevator up to the 10th floor where the staff room was, watching helplessly as the elevator—which had just left the 4th floor—remained stubbornly motionless on the same floor.

Cough. She hastily stifled the small cough threatening to escape.

Right now, every sound she made was being transmitted straight to Hee Won through the communicator in her ear, and she was doing her absolute best not to let him notice she was unwell.

She didn’t want to show him her pitiful state after he’d even kindly warned her the day before—only for her to neglect her health and end up like this.

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