I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 134

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134

Chapter 27. The Sooner the Apology, the Better (1)

I hadn’t known from the beginning.

However, after pouring everything out, I was able to understand what I needed to bring. This was quite ambiguous, but to give an example, it was most accurate to say that only after the ground cracked from drought could I see what lay beneath. Before that, I didn’t know what was under the water…

Moreover, because I had poured it all out to just one person, Nathan, being able to control the process of transmitting power a bit more delicately also played a part.

In other words, I had formed a hypothesis that I might be able to draw out another person’s life force using the clay core as a medium.

It was just a hypothesis, so I couldn’t be sure if it would work well, but the moment I grasped Nathan’s hand, I could tell.

This works.

This is a winning stock…!

For me, who had only thought about giving mine to others and never even imagined taking the opposite approach, it was a shock equivalent to heaven and earth turning upside down.

As expected, Nathan only had very small and shallow water, like wash water collected in a basin.

Even that wasn’t properly plugged, so the water was trickling away with a gurgling sound.

Even if left alone, he wouldn’t have lasted more than ten days.

If only he hadn’t been spiteful enough to come to my funeral, he could have enjoyed a perfectly healthy life for just about two weeks.

“Huh?!”

Nathan was startled and tried to let go of my hand. I tried to keep holding on, but sensing something strange, Brandon tried to strike the back of my hand.

I squeezed my eyes shut thinking it would hurt, but surprisingly there was no pain.

“Seth! What are you doing!”

“Brandon, I’ve told you repeatedly not to touch what’s mine.”

Seth had grabbed Brandon’s wrist to stop him. Seth snorted and brushed off the back of my hand with light taps. As if something dirty had gotten on it. But all I was holding was Nathan’s hand.

Brandon shouted at Chloe.

“Chloe! Can’t you keep proper control?!”

“How is this my fault?!”

“Isn’t Seth your responsibility! Damn it, Prince Nathan! Your Highness, are you alright!”

“Br, Brandon…”

Nathan looked back and forth between Brandon and me, Seth, and Chloe with a confused face.

“I, I, this, this is strange. It’s like, like I’ve gone back to the old days…”

His trembling appearance was like a newborn fawn.

“Prince Nathan! Fi, first please lie down. Chloe, call a priest immediately! Right now!”

Nathan, whose strength had drained away as he leaned on Brandon, staggered and collapsed. Brandon looked like he was about to faint, and Chloe also seemed quite flustered.

“Damn it, Seth, what did you do?!”

“I’m doing all this to help you get promoted.”

“You’re talking nonsense. Move! I need to call a priest!”

Now that he’s no longer a beastfolk chimera, I suppose they can freely call priests. I watched as Brandon frantically laid Nathan down lengthwise on the couch. Brandon also turned pale in an instant.

“You wench! What did you do to Prince Nathan! Do you even know who you’ve touched? He is the most noble bloodline in this Empire and the rightful heir!”

“You’re talking about eating rotten chestnuts.”

“What?!”

“Seth, will you side with us?”

Seth smiled brightly.

“Yeah. Should I take Chloe along too? My contract was to help Chloe get promoted. This side is like a rotten rope, so I should cut it quickly and join the winning side.”

“Cunning bastard.”

“Say I have excellent judgment.”

“Miss Chloe seems to have no idea though…”

“There was no condition in the contract to share the process, was there?”

Ah, yes. Do as you please…

As Seth and I were having a leisurely conversation, Brandon screamed in frustration.

“What are you, you wench! Right now, right now Prince Nathan…”

“Wait, wait, Br, Brandon…”

Nathan stopped Brandon, who was screaming at the top of his lungs.

The healthy Nathan had instantly returned to being a sickly prince. No, he had actually gotten worse. Before, he had cut and pasted countless beastfolk to parasitize off their strength, but now he had to endure with purely human strength.

I guarantee that what Nathan is worst at is enduring anything. He probably has never endured pain or despair.

When things got difficult, he wouldn’t have hesitated to steal from others.

“You mustn’t overexert yourself, Your Highness! Please lie down, I’ll kill that wench right now—”

“Shut up! What if you kill her?!”

“What?”

“I have no strength in my body at all, just like the old days…!”

Brandon’s mouth gaped open.

“You did something, didn’t you? Huh? You did something, didn’t you?”

Nathan seemed to be almost losing his reason. Well, of course, since what he thought he had finally grasped had been taken away in an instant, at a moment he never expected. Cold sweat beaded on his pale face.

“I’ll forgive everything now. It’s not too late, so return me back, immediately. I won’t hold you accountable for any crimes.”

“Are you calling that persuasion right now?”

“…Please.”

Nathan bit his lips as if it were the greatest humiliation in the world. Then he added in a crawling voice.

“…I’m begging you…”

After being told to shut up, Brandon seemed very distressed to see Nathan like this.

Is it really that difficult to just say one word of plea? I stayed quiet because it was funny how much he struggled with that one word, but Nathan seemed to have misunderstood something again.

“It was really hard and difficult. You don’t know how hard it is to live a life where you can’t survive without accepting the organs and body parts of filthy beasts.”

“…”

“It was miserable. Really miserable. I prayed to God over and over. Every night, asking to let me live a human-like life…”

What is he saying.

“I finally got it! It was a new life I obtained through struggling and effort! I don’t know what you did, but please give it back. My life starts now! I’m going to stand at the pinnacle of this Empire…!”

“I don’t want to.”

“…No matter who ordered you or what instructions you received, I won’t ask about any crimes and will give you five times the compensation you were supposed to receive.”

“I have plenty of money.”

“Like this, I’m begging you…!”

Nathan gritted his teeth and crawled down from the couch to kneel. Brandon was now almost on the verge of wailing. It reminds me of that crying monkey meme…

“Your Highness…! I’ll do it instead! Please stand up…!”

“No, Brandon. I have to do this…!”

What kind of farce is this…

“Let me ask one thing. You said you struggled and made efforts, but what did you do?”

“What…?”

“Wasn’t everything done by that old man over there? Making contracts with demons, sacrificing lifespan, taking care of you.”

Brandon shouted “For Your Highness’s sake!” but yes, that’s enough. I can’t listen to any more.

“Even kidnapping beastfolk for surgery was all done by that old man. You didn’t sacrifice anything, so what effort did you make? Ah, breathing?”

Should I even count that as effort…

“No, I’m asking because it’s so absurd listening to this. What effort? Why do you think only flower paths will be laid out for your future…? Thorny paths aren’t even an option?”

“Well, I am…”

“Think about it objectively. There’s nothing you’ve achieved through your own excellence, so what makes you believe you’re excellent…?”

I gestured over my face with my hand so he could understand easily. I’m talking about everything included.

“It’s been a week. Since you became healthy. What has changed significantly in your life?”

“I, I… from now on…”

“Isn’t it time you realized? Even if you were healthy, you wouldn’t have been able to do anything.”

I took off my hat. As my face was revealed, Brandon and Nathan’s expressions changed dramatically. Brandon turned pale, and Nathan was shocked. However, the shock soon turned to joy.

Nathan clung to my feet. Ugh.

“Shana! It was Shana!”

As if we’ve been friends for 20 years.

“You’re alive! I’m so relieved. I’m happy. I really mean it!”

“…Ha.”

“You don’t know how much it weighed on my mind that you seemed to have been sacrificed because of me. That’s why I went to your funeral too, to commemorate you…!”

“…”

“You’re angry at me, right? I had no choice but to use slightly rough methods, so please understand. Of course you’d be angry. Yes, I understand!”

“I’m speechless…”

“I was really surprised, really surprised…! I, I properly reflected, so now that you’ve given me enough punishment, shouldn’t you treat me again?”

“What?”

“I’m Raven’s older brother. Your childhood friend and fiancé… If I die, how sad would Raven be. And if I die, Raven would be suspected…”

“Where is this place?”

If my memory is correct, this seems like your residence that I visited as Sena.

“It’s your residence. If you suddenly died in your own residence, why would Raven be suspected.”

“You’re good at jokes too. There’s no way you, a healer, would kill me. You who couldn’t leave even lowly beasts to die and sacrificed yourself to treat me…”

I pulled my leg back.

“I’ve been finding it very irritating to listen to, but those beasts you mentioned are my precious people.”

“Huh…?”

“They’re precious to me, people I love, so I couldn’t leave them alone, but you’re different.”

Nathan seemed unable to understand my words at all. So it seems his thinking stopped because the idea that his existence is insignificant to me is impossible.

Then, perhaps despairing or enraged by my reaction that showed not a trace of sympathy, he contorted his face.

“You, cruel bitch! It was all planned!”

What? Me?

“You made me taste happiness and then tried to take it away like this! You pretended to be dead!”

Surprisingly, that wasn’t my intention. Yes, quite surprising…

But if I kept my mouth shut, I could become not a fool manipulated by that grinning lunatic, but a calculated, meticulous, and cruel person. There was no reason to refuse when he was making me into an awesome mastermind on his own.

And if I add a slight smile to that.

“Aaaaah! This can’t be! Brandon!”

“Your Highness! I’ll kill this woman right now!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! Shana is the only one who can save me! …That’s right, Shana! Everything that’s been done so far was all Brandon’s doing! I have nothing to do with it!”

How far will you go…

“Kill Brandon! Huh? And forgive me!”

“Your Majesty?!”

“Brandon, die for me. Consider it an honor! I’m giving you the chance to be loyal to the very end!”

“…Loyalty, you say.”

Brandon, who had probably made a contract with Matthias for Nathan’s sake and sacrificed no small amount of his lifespan, seemed to finally realize what he had been serving.

“Let’s go back before Chloe returns, Seth. There’s nothing more to see.”

“Don’t you want to watch him die?”

I looked at Nathan screaming and trying to grab me, and Brandon who had collapsed with a thud. There seemed to be no need to show the kindness of watching their final moments. I had listened to enough of their bullshit.

“There’s no need to watch.”

Ignoring attention-seekers is the best medicine.

It didn’t leave a bitter taste, but it felt empty.

If they were going to crumble like this. They were such insignificant people.

What did Cordelia and countless lives die for.

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