I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 126

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126

Chapter 25. How to Distinguish Between Dreams and Reality (4)

“Huh…?”

What’s with this reaction, like someone who’s never been told they’re ugly in their entire life.

Nathan’s expression looked so bewildered, and Brandon and Chloe also had faces that couldn’t understand what they had just heard, so I was momentarily speechless.

“Are you, are you talking to me…?”

“…”

Did no one ever tell you how high the sky is… I stared blankly at Nathan, who was asking while stammering as if extremely flustered.

“Have you never looked in a mirror?”

“I have. Of course…”

“You only looked at mirrors, didn’t you?”

“…”

Ah, ah. After saying a few words and clearing my throat, my voice finally started coming out properly.

“I guess you never looked at other people.”

“What… do you mean?”

His trembling lips were amusing. There was no need to go as far as Raven.

“Well, I mean… just look to the side.”

I didn’t particularly want to praise Seth’s appearance, but it was true that he looked better than Nathan, so it was good for giving hints. Nathan’s mother bird, Brandon, bristled and said.

“Are you disparaging His Highness right now?”

“Who are you? And what’s with the informal speech when we’re meeting for the first time?”

“…Didn’t you say His Highness was uncommonly polite and shy?”

“Uh, yeah. That’s definitely… what I said.”

Nathan still seemed bewildered. I had experienced too many things to remember clearly when I had last met him as myself, but for him, it was as if a person had completely changed in just a few days, so it would be bewildering.

What do I care.

“No matter how I look at it, this isn’t a normal situation.”

I snorted.

“You kidnap someone and expect them to be polite to you? Do you have any conscience?”

“Are you being arrogant knowing who’s in front of you?”

“Why don’t you reveal who you are first. And does knowing who you are make the fact that you’re a kidnapper disappear? And you’re the one speaking informally to me without knowing who I am?”

“How insolent!”

“I can see your vocabulary is lacking, but if all you can say is ‘insolent,’ then shut up and get lost. I don’t want to speak informally to an adult who’s like my father either, but if you keep acting crooked, I can’t treat you like an adult.”

Maybe because I spoke a lot after a long time, my throat hurt even from just this much. I grimaced.

“So Nathan, I’ll speak comfortably too. That’s okay, right? I know you’re older, but I was born with quite decent bloodline too, not inferior to yours. I think it’s ridiculous to judge people by bloodline like they’re Korean beef or racehorses, but that’s important to you, isn’t it.”

“Ha…, haha.”

Standing behind Nathan who was laughing mysteriously, Seth was almost on the verge of bursting into laughter. Chloe had her mouth wide open, and Matthias was indifferent.

Brandon huffed until his face turned red, then said bluntly.

“You pretend to be smart but can’t grasp the situation. Do you think this is a situation where you can be rude?”

“What’s wrong with it?”

“Ha…”

“If I quietly kneel down and beg desperately, saying ‘Please spare me, I’ll do anything if you just let me live,’ what would change? If you’re going to kill me, kill me, if not, then don’t. Why so much talk.”

“…This is really absurd.”

“Who should really find this absurd?”

Wouldn’t that be me?

“Nathan, you kidnapped me and asked if I slept well as soon as I woke up – what was your intention? Did you want me to answer ‘Yes, I slept well. But who are you?'”

“Haha!”

“Don’t laugh ‘haha’ and give me an answer.”

Nathan had a talent for making people frustrated.

I thought Raven had no affection for Nathan. That they had become worse than strangers due to such special circumstances.

However, at this moment with Nathan right in front of me, I realized that Raven had been displaying tremendously deep brotherly love.

The fact that he never hit this guy even once while dealing with him was proof of his brotherly love, wasn’t it.

The man in front of me was utterly detestable.

Hiding behind Brandon who would step forward for him even when he stayed still, wielding his weak body as a weapon to control those around him, trembling his shoulders once like a pitiful deer to make others into perpetrators.

That’s what it was when he cried asking them to bring Sena.

Making others uncomfortable and confirming his own existence by watching them struggle because of him.

Even if he had been healthy, he would never have become a proper emperor.

That pretentious male lead smile doesn’t suit you. Nathan, who resembled the Emperor, was quite prettily featured, but compared to Raven who resembled the Graceful Empress, he was nothing more than a firefly before the sun.

“Your Highness, don’t bother with her. It seems the Wentworth Noblewoman never learned how to choose her words with her parents.”

“Rather, I learned it precisely.”

“Can’t you shut up?!”

As I kept babbling without rest, Brandon raised his hand high. I had been babbling while prepared to get hit a few times, so I didn’t even close my eyes.

However, Brandon’s hand was blocked in front of my face.

“Violence against a girl isn’t right, don’t you think?”

Seth blocked him. Brandon let out an incredulous laugh and said.

“Since when did you care about women and men?!”

“…So kidnapping is okay but violence isn’t?”

I was also dumbfounded. My eyes met Seth’s. He smiled prettily as if nothing had happened.

My strength drained away. Nathan spoke, seeming to notice that my fierce momentum from the moment I opened my eyes had softened.

It was just amusing to see him stay back when things were most aggressive, then step forward when he saw an opportunity.

“I know you’re confused and upset.”

“…”

I suppressed the urge to respond that if he knew it would upset me, he shouldn’t have done it in the first place.

“But I had no choice.”

“…”

“I desperately needed you to grant my request. I had no other way to approach you. As you know, your parents are a bit, overzealous.”

“Are you insulting my parents right now?”

“No, I didn’t mean it that way. It’s just that they try to protect you too much…”

This is frustrating to death. I wasn’t getting anywhere dealing with Nathan pretending to be nice. Just say it straight.

“So you kidnapped me?”

“That’s about right.”

Surprisingly, he admitted it readily. If he had said it wasn’t kidnapping but just secretly bringing me along for a while, I would have punched him in the mouth no matter how many times I got hit.

“So?”

“…Really interesting. If you had been my fiancée, I wouldn’t have needed to pull this stunt. It’s regrettable in many ways.”

“…”

I have a lot to say but I won’t.

I remembered that the reason I had to get engaged to Raven was his marriage proposal. If Raven hadn’t stepped up then, by now…

‘I would have become a healing shuttle and then been torn apart by Matthias… Seth would have been giggling on the side…’

Even now, Matthias was clearly holding back his desire to kill me immediately. Even with an indifferent expression, his gaze looked at me like nuclear waste with disgust. He was suppressing it for Brandon’s sake.

“Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want.”

“I’m in a lot of pain.”

“…”

I quietly looked into Nathan’s face.

For the first time, sincerity was in his voice.

“I know you’re working as a healer in Rierem District.”

“…So?”

“I’d like you to heal me.”

“…I already did. Back then.”

A strange light flickered in Nathan’s eyes. They sparkled with familiarity as if meeting a welcome friend.

“Thanks to that day, I was able to sleep well. But what I want is to completely heal this tattered body.”

“…”

“Do you understand what I mean?”

Should I say I understand here, or…

I glanced at Seth, who was still smiling inscrutably. To him, this probably looked like a cheap comedy show.

I held out my hand. Nathan stared blankly at my empty hand.

“Give me your hand.”

“Ah, I don’t need to stick out my tongue this time?”

Brandon looked at me with horrified eyes. What’s wrong with asking him to stick out his tongue? It’s not like I asked him to take off his pants, yet he’s treating me like a pervert.

Nathan placed his hand on mine like an obedient puppy. I snorted at Chloe and Brandon, who were holding their breath not knowing what I might do, then carefully examined Nathan’s hand.

Well-maintained nails and long, slender fingers…

It didn’t feel out of place for a man’s hand, but this wasn’t Nathan’s hand. It made me want to vomit.

I wrapped Nathan’s hand with clay. When I only covered the surface, there seemed to be no problem and no reaction, but as I continued pushing clay in, there was a response.

It functioned well as an organism, but that was all. Rather than healing wounds, I would need to heal and regenerate almost from the cellular level.

If healing a wound just before amputation required 10 units of clay, I needed to inject 1000 units just to get a response.

‘How much more would I need to inject to actually heal it…?’

It didn’t add up. When I sensed what the body of the man before me was ‘made of’, I couldn’t bear the disgust.

I tried to quietly pull my hand away.

“I can’t, argh!”

Matthias’s large hand grabbed the back of my head hard enough to split it and yanked me backward. Tears welled up from the pain of my hair being pulled out and my neck suddenly being twisted.

What kind of formula does this bastard have for joking around then resorting to violence?

“Matthias!”

“I won’t kill her. I’m just trying to make this stupid woman understand her situation.”

Seth burst into anger, but Matthias paid no attention. As if it was fine as long as he didn’t kill, Seth didn’t add any more words.

If you’re going to stop me anyway, keep stopping me, you bastard.

“You don’t have the option of refusing.”

“….”

“If you can’t heal me, all the beastfolk you care about will die. Look over there.”

Really, it was nothing but a third-rate threat.

“He’s speaking with a smile, so doesn’t this guy not know his place and act up?”

I couldn’t bear to look directly at the screen where Evelyn, Renate, Ron, and Lili would be displayed. Because Evelyn would probably be crying, and Renate would be angry.

“Matthias, let her go.”

Nathan didn’t miss the chance to act nice and stepped forward. This time it was fortunate. Matthias obediently let me go, and instead Nathan grabbed my right hand.

Damn it, grab me by the hair again.

“…If you just heal me, I’ll release all those kids too.”

“…If I heal you, if you become healthy, do you think you’ll be able to beat Raven?”

“Well.”

Nathan smiled brightly.

“At least there would be a possibility.”

“….”

“To you, all of this must look like futile struggling, right? Wentworth and Raven had things to protect and tried to eliminate me, so they had no choice but to move as I wanted. But I have nothing. That’s why even someone like me could drag things this far. Just looking at this, no one knows what will happen in the future. If I get a future, many things could change. That’s all I want.”

His words flowed like water.

“Shana. You just need to heal me.”

“…You’re saying this knowing I have to risk my life, right now? Are you telling me to die?”

“Well, don’t you think not all lives have the same value?”

Since your life is more precious than mine, there’s no choice, is there? You really like saying there’s no choice. How convenient.

I was so angry that I pressed my heated eyes firmly with my left palm.

Actually, there wasn’t much to think about.

I had already made up my mind the moment I saw Cordelia.

“If I just heal you, you’ll release everyone.”

“Of course. I promise.”

Brandon, Matthias, Chloe, and Seth—none of them said they promised. I nodded even though I clearly knew that only Nathan, who was good at lying, had promised.

“Fine, I’ll heal you.”

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