「Actually yesterday…… No, since the day before yesterday, my stomach hardly felt full from eating. Yet, yesterday was still a bit less objectionable, however…… Ah, the problem is that I hardly felt full even when I have eaten in such amount that make my stomach is bulging….」(Kazura)
Kazura said this while rubbing his stomach.
Valetta also rubbed Kazura’s stomach with confused expression.
Kazura thought for a minute about his condition, however, he didn’t understand the reason.
He thought that maybe his satiety center was broken, so no matter how much food he ate, his body couldn’t feel any satiety. If this was true, then it wasn’t a situation where he could go dilly dallying like this.
He needed to go back to Japan and visit the hospital.
「Uu, I felt so hungry… Maybe I could eat just one piece of fruit……」(Kazura)
Kazura said this and stood up to pick the fruits placed on the table.
But, when he stood up, suddenly his leg staggered. He fell down on the spot.
「Kazura-san!」(Valetta)
Valetta who was beside Kazura, who was going to hit the floor, immediately embrace him to support him.
Because she catch Kazura’s frail body, that seemed look to lack any power to support himself, to stop Kazura from falling.
「So-sorry, somehow I feel lightheaded……」(Kazura)
Grasping Valetta’s shoulder who was supporting him, Kazura fixed his posture to firmly stand at his foot.
And then, after thanking Valetta, he wanted to let go his hand from her shoulder. At that moment, he noticed the faint trembling on his finger.
「……What the……」(Kazura)
His fingers were slightly trembling.
Even if he was standing, his feet felt unsteady.
This was something that Kazura had experienced before.
Yes, it was surely something that happened when he was still working himself like a work horse every day as a company employee.
There was an exhausting work that continued for several days that made him don’t have any time to spare for catching a meal. When he realized, he hadn’t eat anything from morning to evening and was just clinging on the company’s desk. He was experiencing the symptoms like what he currently had.
When he was wondering what was happening at his body, he entered his symptoms on the internet and did a search, it ended in one word.
「Ah…… I see, so it is that, huh?」(Kazura)
He rubbed his stomach with his right hand, while looking at his shaking left hand fingers who grasped Valetta’s shoulder, when Kazura looked that he had realized something. He turned towards the worried Valleta.
「Valetta-san, I am already alright, thank you.」(Kazura)
Kazura thanked Valetta and let go off his hand and then he sat down in front of the travel bag that was placed inside the room and began to search inside the bag.
「That was a close call…… If I don’t notice it, I might died from hunger……」(Kazura)
「Do you already know the reason?」(Valetta)
While Kazura was searching for something inside the bag, Valetta asked him from behind.
Although Kazura seemed to understand something, Valetta completely had no idea of what was happening.
「I believed this is hypoglycemia. Just a maybe though…」(Kazura)
Hypoglycemia was when blood sugar level was extremely low, with symptoms such as trembling hand or lethargy.
There were individual variations in what symptoms someone would experience, however most of the symptoms would appear when the blood sugar level decreased due to prolonged fasting. However after taking something to eat and the blood sugar level increased, the symptoms would subside.[4]
「Hypoglycemia…… Ah, it is something I have learned before. However……」(Valetta)
Hearing the word “hypoglycemia”, Valetta showed an expression that she wasn’t completely satisfied by this reasoning.
This was not surprising since in the reference book that she learned together with Kazura, it was written that hypoglycemia was mostly happened when someone was fasting.
Kazura had just finished eating so he couldn’t possibly be suffering from it.