I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 105

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105

Chapter 22. This is Science (3)

Lili’s face in the mirror was cold.

“Lili?”

-Why are you being so cautious?

“Well, because you don’t look like you’re in a good mood?”

-I’m not in the mood to smile, but I’m not in a bad mood either. Even if I were in a bad mood, I’m not cruel enough to take it out on a patient who just woke up.

“I’m not a patient though?”

At that, she gave me a fierce look as if telling me not to talk nonsense. Everyone seems too strict with me….

The video call mirror that Mother made for me looked like something from a Disney princess toy series with fancy flower patterns carved into it, though I wondered whose taste was reflected in it, but it functioned very well.

Mother has simple tastes too, so who chose this kind of casing…. Isn’t this an item you can transform with if you recite an incantation?

-Just whose brilliant idea was it to stuff a kid who had fainted into a carriage….

“Our mom….”

-It must have been a decision she made with tears of blood in her eyes. The decisiveness to make painful choices for the greater good, how admirable.

You weren’t this kind of character before….

“To break off the engagement with Raven, we need to get our stories straight.”

-Well, it’s not an easy task.

“Mom and Dad make it sound easy, but still.”

No matter how close they were with the Graceful Empress, there was no way there wouldn’t be repercussions.

-Those people would say anything they could do for you is easy. Honestly, if you want to break off the engagement and they said no, they’d easily commit treason,

-Ack, Lili!

-What, did I say something wrong?

-Still….

Jake looked at me anxiously, fidgeting restlessly.

“Don’t tell me you two also like Raven. And you hate troublesome things.”

-…Yeah, well, relatively speaking, they would.

There were quite a few gaps in that one sentence.

-Anyway, even if Leon apologizes, we have no intention of forgiving him easily, so keep that in mind.

-Um, Lili. I’m not really that angry though….

-Be quiet, Jake. This is why he looks down on you! You can’t just let it slide easily. When you should be angry, you need to be angry!

-I do get angry when I should, but this time I can understand….

-Why should you have to understand him?!

Should I tell them about Leon coming and crying, or not? Lili would definitely use it as teasing material whenever she saw Leon’s face (though who knows if she’ll ever see him again).

If they make up, I’ll tell her, and if they cut ties, I won’t.

“I never said you should make up, did I? That’s up to you. Leon was in the wrong.”

-….

“If you say you don’t want to see Leon’s face, we can just kick him out.”

-…It’s useless since Ian looks exactly the same anyway.

“Does he?”

-If their scents weren’t different, I honestly couldn’t tell them apart. How do you distinguish them when you can’t even smell?

“Because they’re different people?”

Come to think of it, it was amazing how I’d never gotten them confused. I could just tell at a glance that it was Leon, and at a glance that it was Ian….

-No wonder the twins follow you so well.

“Saying they follow me is a bit ambiguous….”

It was true that they cared for me, but something serious like loyalty didn’t seem to fit the relationship between the twins and me. Maybe if it were emotions that would suit siblings, like friendship or affection.

Who gives their lord a knock on the head and sighs openly?

Lili sighed once more and said.

-I don’t know how far you’re thinking, but I heard the whole story too. We’re also responsible for not being able to monitor the situation.

“Huh?”

-This conflict isn’t just a day or two old, and it’s not a problem you can solve. Don’t get caught in between or feel guilty and get pushed around from all sides, just stay out of it, okay?

“I don’t know what you mean?”

-Don’t be swayed by words that resent all humans as being the same!

“Ah, I’ve heard this somewhere before.”

Lili’s face turned bright red. Well, of course, since those were her own words. When I smiled like a sly old man, Lili shrieked.

-There’s no point in worrying!

“You were worried about me! How touching, oh, it cut off.”

If she had been next to me, she would have transformed into Canaria and pecked at the top of my head. What a shame.

Lili would sometimes say she didn’t know what I was thinking. Not in a way that looked down on me, but as if she was genuinely curious.

She wondered why, when I was born into a good family and had parents who loved me without me having to do anything, I was going out of my way to hear unpleasant things.

Well, it’s because I like you all that much too….

And because having something I could do made me truly happy. It was a bit foolish, but I was genuinely happy about it.

It made me realize that I wasn’t powerless.

I briefly contacted my parents to check in, then contacted Raven.

By that time, I was already exhausted and could only think about wanting to sleep quickly. No motivation, no energy, tired….

-That’s too much.

“Yeah….”

-I didn’t expect you to be bursting with energy, but to think I’d be the very last one.

His voice didn’t sound particularly disappointed, so I felt relieved.

“So how did it go….”

-Shana, your pronunciation is slurred.

Whether he was teasing me or not, it was Raven, so what did it matter.

-How did it go? It’s the same as always.

“Still….”

-Your mother said it too, didn’t she? That she expected as much.

“Mm….”

-What’s surprising is that you also got a bad impression of him. That guy should have looked decent enough on the surface.

That was an underestimating remark about me.

I may look like this, but I! My intuition may not be good! I may be told that my ability to judge people is rock bottom! But I had plenty of accumulated data.

They say that feeling something is fishy is a warning from big data accumulated throughout life.

And most importantly.

“He was so blatantly suspicious, what do you mean….”

-Puhaha!

“Anyone could see he was shouting ‘I’m plotting something, you know I’m not someone who’ll end here, I’m not as nice as I appear to be’…!”

-Ahahaha!

Raven burst into laughter.

Thanks to Raven laughing so loudly that the ring vibrated slightly, I woke up a bit. No, honestly, that’s how it was, I said, adding the three phrases essential for any Korean.

“Just from the atmosphere alone, I could tell. He was trying to paint you in a bad light while acting like he was the pitiful protagonist of a tragedy….”

-Please stop being so funny.

“Does he think he’s Juliet or something…. Though Juliet is actually the protagonist of a comedy.”

-What’s Juliet?

“It’s something that exists.”

-Right, I’m sure it is. I’m used to it now.

Unlike Seth, who knew everything by looking into my memories, to Raven my words must be nothing but incomprehensible nonsense. But perhaps because he’d been hearing it since he was so young, he now brushed it off quite naturally.

In the past, he used to ask what this was and what that was. It seems he quickly realized that my earnest explanations were equally useless nonsense.

‘I feel sorry for him….’

But Raven only said he couldn’t understand, never once ignoring me. He just shook his head saying he didn’t know where I’d seen what.

Considering Raven’s personality, where he had to know everything to be satisfied, that was quite remarkable tolerance.

“Even without any great observation or insight, it was obvious, what do you mean….”

-If he appeared too harmless, he’d be seen as easy and useless, so it must have been an attitude he carefully considered.

“If you’re harmless, be harmless, if you’re pitiful, be pitiful, but going around dropping hints like lukewarm goldfish poop saying ‘Heh, this isn’t all I am’ makes you neither here nor there.”

-I told you to stop being funny.

“I’m being serious….”

I recalled the day Nathan came for treatment.

Actually, my first impression of him was quite a bumbling person. I remembered his well-behaved impression like a model student and the fragile atmosphere from his overly thin body. But his deliberately wide-eyed look and his smile that seemed to say ‘this is how I look cool’ was somewhat, how should I put it….

‘Like a pretentious class president?’

My impression after learning his identity later was just relief that I hadn’t voiced thoughts about plaque or cavities.

Of course, anyone could see he was a precious young master, and even when acting nice, he wasn’t openly honest.

-But this will be quite a good opportunity for me. If I can prove that my brother’s body isn’t that of a complete human, even His Majesty, who finds it hard to give up his attachment to the eldest son, won’t be able to drag this out any longer.

I closed my eyes and listened to Raven’s voice.

There’s no law that brothers must get along well.

-I just need to find the manor where my brother did his ‘work’. Maria will be there too. I’ll make sure to finish everything while you’re in the duchy. It’ll be possible to catch them all at once.

“…Don’t tell me, you did it on purpose….”

-Breaking off the engagement with me and going to Wentworth Duchy was your scheme, wasn’t it?

“…That, that’s right.”

I misspoke.

-I didn’t expect you to be caught easily, so it’s fine. One or two broken engagements, it’s all life experience.

“Huh?”

One was breaking the engagement with me, and… he’d break off with someone else too? That’s a bit….

“…Raven, then you… will you get a reputation as a playboy like Leon?”

-It’s fine. Whether it’s my engagement, broken engagement, or marriage, the other party will always be just one person anyway.

“….”

-It’s not strange to have one or two princes or emperors chasing after a healer, right?

That’s really strange though….

In the most benevolent voice, Raven made a statement that wasn’t benevolent at all. Now unable to dismiss it as youthful obsession, I stared blankly at the broken ring.

He wasn’t someone who wouldn’t understand when told no. Could it be….

‘Did he find out?’

That I was a little, excited back then.

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