I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 100

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100

Medical Chart 6. Got You, You Bastard (4)

Leon, Ian, Renate, and Kail’s gazes fell upon Raven’s arm.

“Sorry, but I don’t have such grotesque hobbies.”

Raven’s face twisted fiercely as if he wanted to swat away the finger pointing at him. Where did they get the idea to pin such infamy on him?

“How would you prove that?”

“There’s no way to prove that crazy woman’s words are true either, so why should I be the one to clear up the misunderstanding first?”

“Shouldn’t we sort out the truths we can distinguish first?”

Kail said with a bright smile, as if coaxing.

“If you find it too unpleasant, we can skip it.”

“Isn’t it natural to find it unpleasant?”

Raven answered without missing a beat.

“During the war with Riamd Kingdom, were you ever injured or lost consciousness during treatment?”

“No.”

“That’s impressive.”

“Because Shana always sent me potions.”

Ian unconsciously snorted. He had never heard news of the Prince being injured anywhere. Everything Shana sent was probably just carefully stored away, yet he spoke as if he had been able to endure without wounds thanks to the potions, which was disgusting.

“Well, how should I prove it? Should I strip?”

“…”

“I have no intention of undressing unless it’s in front of Shana, but I’ll endure it. Let me tell you in advance – I don’t have a single scar.”

“If you strip in front of Shana, I’ll kill you, Your Highness. Don’t show my daughter anything strange.”

“…”

Kail spoke.

“So he says. Was it Peti?”

“No, no! I’m certain! The smell is exactly the same! Even if the appearance is different, the blood scent is the same!”

Raven lifted his arm to smell it. There was no scent at all, and no wounds that would produce a blood smell.

“Do I smell?”

“No, you don’t.”

“Smell carefully. That woman says I do.”

“I’m not a pervert who would deliberately smell Your Highness. Please move your arm away.”

“I wash well.”

Renate sighed at Raven and Ian’s conversation.

“It’s not that kind of smell. We have more sensitive noses than humans. Among us, the more sensitive ones can even distinguish blood relatives. There’s a subtle difference. Peti, explain in more detail.”

“…”

“Keeping your mouth shut isn’t the answer. I didn’t spare your lives because I agreed with your claims.”

“…”

“What’s so precious about terrorists who tried to blow up even us who live on this land just because your personal grudge was important? Right? The reason I went to save you guys, leaving behind even my precious child as that damn bastard said, was based on the premise that you would have useful information. So you need to prove your usefulness, don’t you?”

“…”

“Don’t worry. I’ll take responsibility for your end so you won’t die at human hands.”

Renate was more talkative than usual.

Even Raven’s provocations, which he would normally have ignored, he countered completely, probably because he too was in an excited state with blood rushing to his head. And as he said, he had no intention of keeping them alive.

Raven spoke.

“Must be one of the royals.”

“Are there that many royals?”

“Even if there aren’t many direct descendants, there are many collateral branches. There are probably quite a few who inherited the bloodline unofficially too.”

Raven quietly looked down at Peti, who was trembling with fear. That trauma was real.

“Rather, shouldn’t we focus on the fact that an arm was ‘attached’? That woman’s words sound like parts were taken and attached piece by piece, not just an arm.”

“…Peti’s arm, Andre’s eyes, Guy’s legs…”

The man who was kneeling spoke in a daze.

“He said he wasn’t going to use them right away…”

“Beastmen bodies wouldn’t fit humans. It’s not like making a chimera.”

“Right, he said toxins would rise up so they couldn’t be used for long. That’s why they had to keep replacing them… He said useful parts had to be collected.”

Leon muttered. Disgusting.

“Right, it’s disgusting… Not content with putting slave collars on us and using us like tools, now they’re tearing off body parts and sewing them on like accessories…”

“Tell us more.”

“…The person who attacked our village was an ordinary slave trader. We could have escaped immediately, but the children were captured so we had no choice. Still, if they were going to be put up for auction, we thought we’d have time to look for an opportunity, but they were transported elsewhere first.”

The man began to tell everything with a resigned face.

“It was some strange manor… We were washed clean and fed well for several days. We thought someone had rescued us…”

How foolish.

“But one by one, in turn, we were dragged somewhere. And never came back.”

“Where was that place?”

“I don’t know. We had collars put on us as soon as we were captured.”

Slave collars had the function of controlling power as well as dulling cognitive abilities.

“There, something terrible…”

They experienced something truly terrible. At that time, the monkeys resolved to definitely repay this grudge. Even though they were under recognition-impairing magic and couldn’t properly see their enemy’s face, they made a firm resolution to remember at least the faint scent of blood.

“I thought we were all going to die like that. There was a human named Maria trapped there too… At first I couldn’t remember, but she was captured together with us.”

“That woman told us. That we weren’t the only ones captured. That several packs had already suffered the same fate. That she wanted to save us somehow but there was no way to do it right now… Just as she said, as soon as we were moved to another room, we could meet other packs too. They were all in terrible condition.”

Peti continued the man’s words. Peti squeezed her eyes shut and opened them. As the tears that had been welling up fell, her vision became a little clearer. She could see Leon’s face looking at her with a cold, expressionless stare.

His red hair and neat facial features, the slight mischievousness that lingered in his features remained the same, but his eyes had sunk incomparably cold.

“What about Lady Maria?”

“…”

“Where was she cut?”

“…I don’t know, I don’t remember well… But she gave my crying son a handkerchief.”

“Did you have that?”

“…No, I don’t know. My son was dragged away while holding the handkerchief. I begged them to please return my son, but they, right before my eyes, my son…”

Leon looked down at Peti, who was sobbing, for a moment. His feelings were complicated.

She had suffered terrible things.

She would have had no choice but to harbor resentment. There was no way she could forget just because she had received a little warmth.

If Leon himself had experienced the same thing as Peti, he would have surely done something far worse than just bombing the town square. But in the end, the only one they had hurt was Shana.

The weight in his heart was different from understanding.

The side that was precious to him tilted heavier. Sympathy and forgiveness were different matters.

“But how are you still alive?”

Raven asked.

Leon, and even Ian glared at him as if asking how he could ask such a question. However, Kail and Renate were nodding their heads. Renate kicked the monkey alpha’s knee as if urging an answer.

“What do you mean by that? Do you mean we deserved to die?”

“You did deserve it, but that’s not what I meant. Looking at your current state, it seems like everything that could be extracted has been extracted, so why did they let you go?”

“…”

“You’re the only one who looks intact on the outside, and the rest wouldn’t fetch much of a price even if sold.”

Being honest was also a sin. Raven, who never thought about the listener’s feelings, was always like that except when in front of Shana.

“They could just kill you and burn the bodies, so why bother releasing you and doing something that could get them caught? I wouldn’t do such a thing. Isn’t that right, Duke?”

“…Well, that’s right.”

Kail seemed reluctant to agree with such an unpleasant opinion, but after reminding himself that Shana wasn’t present, he readily acknowledged it. After all, he only needed to be kind to Shana.

Renate also nodded.

If they had put collars on them and even cast recognition-lowering magic, the perpetrators also knew their actions were dangerous. It meant they had made their own efforts not to be discovered.

“You said there were other packs besides you? Do you know what happened to them?”

“…They all died, died…”

“Then did you escape on your own?”

“…They said we were no longer useful, that they would sell us…”

It was a very simple fact.

It was very strange and awkward to deliberately abandon traces that should be hidden, and weren’t even that difficult to hide, in a place clearly visible to the eye. Leon muttered.

“You mean they deliberately released bait to lure someone?”

Moreover, if these people hadn’t dropped Maria’s handkerchief, it meant someone had deliberately dropped it.

Someone connected to Maria.

To find the one who ‘helps’ the beastmen.

Leon drew his sword. There was a quiet metallic scraping sound, and the cold blade touched Peti’s neck.

“Remember, Peti. Who was it that cut off your arm? You must remember something. If not a name, then appearance, or even a smell or trace would be fine, just say something. Otherwise.”

“Otherwise?”

“…”

Leon froze. It was the voice of someone who shouldn’t be here.

Raven, Kail, Renate, and even Ian gulped. As if they had made a promise, they slowly turned around.

Shana, wrapped in a blanket, was standing at the door, smiling brightly.

“Why? Keep going.”

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