Now people were wearing masks in an attempt to ward off the virus. Everyone has a curfew in the city of Tokyo. They are expected to be indoors by 8pm. If people were out after that, they were to be detained. ‘It was for their safety’ they say.
Choromatsu sighs heavily under his mask, he had gotten a call, stating that his older brother was being held for being out late after curfew. This was what? The fifth …show more content…
Ichimatsu had refused to leave his brothers side. No matter, how much he was told to leave. He remained with his brother, which was a cause for alarm. Choromatsu feared that, despite him wearing the mask, it would spread to him too. If they force his brother out the room, he would put up a fight. It was something that he wanted to avoid, it was inevitable. They had to do it.
He had been watching from a distance, he was in and out of the room for several weeks now, tending to his younger brothers need’s, he had tried to give him over-the-counter medication. It didn’t help. He tried everything to help, he had put a cold rag over his brother’s head to dispel the fever. He had taken off his shirt and turned on the air conditioner in an effort to cool him down.
Choromatsu had tried to feed him. Jyushimatsu had ended up throwing up the rest of the food. He was losing weight. He looked frail and thin.
He didn’t know what else to do. There was another option. It was to take him to the hospital, though the hospital was probably backed up by patients with the same symptoms and even if they did see him, it was likely they would send him to the quarantine zone where they send all the people with the same symptoms, however, once they are in the quarantine zone, it was possible that they wouldn’t see their brother