I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 137

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137

Chapter 27. The Sooner the Apology, the Better (4)

My parents and I held each other and cried for a long time.

I wasn’t actually that sad or struggling, but being held in my parents’ arms made even non-existent sorrows well up inside me.

No wait. Come to think of it, didn’t I have reason to struggle too?

Though unintentional, I nearly died and was frequently kidnapped. Matthias threw me around, grabbed me by the hair, and kicked me. What the hell, I did have it pretty rough.

Though I hadn’t realized it myself, it seemed I was actually quite psychologically cornered.

Being dragged around by Seth was exhausting both physically and mentally, and this time especially, switching bodies and being dragged here and there left me completely drained.

“Baby, your eyes are red.”

“How can such a, *sniff*, big baby be anywhere…”

“Right here.”

We had definitely all been crying together harmoniously just moments ago, but somehow I was crying alone while my parents were comforting me. After crying for so long, it was awkward to find the right timing to stop. I sheepishly wiped my nose with the back of my hand.

“Done crying?”

“…What about you, Mother?”

“Father says he’s done crying.”

Mother cleverly shifted attention from herself to Father. When I looked up at Father, he seemed slightly embarrassed and averted his gaze. Then he cleared his throat briefly and spoke.

“Shana, I should ask you in detail about what happened.”

“Yes.”

I’m ready to confess everything.

When I answered stiffly with determination, Father chuckled and said,

“First, it won’t be too late to hear about it after you go see the people waiting for you behind us, so go ahead.”

“…Yes.”

Mountains to climb: one, two, three… Wow, it’s a wall…

“Welcome back, Miss.”

“You’ve returned safely.”

“Miss, I heard we met recently?”

Bailey, Maria, and Ella greeted me with merciful smiles. Wow. Evelyn and the twins stepped back politely as if waiting their turn, but their eyes were both tender and piercing.

Please spare me…

***

“Never do that again.”

After being held by Ella, Maria, and Bailey for a while, coaxing and soothing them before finally being released, Evelyn suddenly said to me.

“Never again, absolutely never…”

“…”

“Throwing away Lady Shana’s life before my eyes.”

Is this the right timing to say that’s not what happened?

Evelyn, who had been continuing to speak, took a short breath and bit her lip. Then she hung her head low, and I could see her lips trembling.

This is the timing when I shouldn’t say anything at all.

I felt sorry to everyone, but I felt a more specific guilt toward Evelyn and Renate.

Because somehow I ended up showing them in real time that I was dying because of them. Among those who were there, I was psychologically closest to Evelyn and Renate, so my guilt was proportional. Of course, feeling sorry to everyone is the default. It’s basic.

“Rather than sacrificing you because of me, please just kill me directly instead. That would be much better. Even if you die to save me, I won’t be happy at all, not at all.”

“…”

“If something like this happens again.”

Evelyn raised her tear-moistened black eyes and glared straight at me.

“I’ll bite my tongue and die right there.”

“…Are you threatening me right now…?”

My Evelyn. This is shocking. I felt the same shock as a father witnessing the reality of his model student daughter becoming a delinquent.

My Evelyn! She’s threatening me!

“Yes. I’m threatening you.”

While looking straight at me.

“Actually, I was planning to die too after sending Lady Shana off.”

“Evelyn!”

“Why?! Lady Shana also chose death yourself, so why can’t I do the same?!”

“My situation was different!”

“It’s not different!”

Evelyn raised her voice at me for the first time. I opened my mouth wide. Evelyn, Evelyn just now!

I looked at the twins as if to say “did you see that,” but the twins also had an extremely cold expression that I had never seen once in my life.

In movies, everyone warmly welcomes back the protagonist who miraculously returns alive!

Moreover, Evelyn was serious. She had seriously planned to die after my funeral ended. If I had been just a little later, we would have become Romeo and Juliet. I would have been Romeo.

“I had no intention of dying.”

“Yes, but you thought it didn’t matter even if you died, didn’t you?”

“….”

It hurts when you hit the mark….

“You probably thought lightly that it was a gamble you had to take to save us, that it couldn’t be helped even if there was a possibility you might die.”

You know me too well. Now stop… I don’t want you to die, so I should keep my mouth shut.

“No, it wasn’t just one or two people. If I could save everyone by sacrificing myself alone, it would be a profitable deal.”

“No one wanted that! And don’t put your life on a scale.”

“I can’t guarantee that.”

“Even if there were, I would have killed them, so there weren’t any.”

“….”

“And knowing that Shana’s power was based on lifespan, everyone would have wanted to die even if I didn’t kill them.”

“There’s a misunderstanding.”

But anyway….

“So please, never do this again….”

Evelyn, who had been making threats so boldly, buried my face in her palms. I made a groaning sound and pulled Evelyn’s shoulders to hug her. She obediently nestled into my embrace. Since Evelyn was a little taller than me, I had to stand on my tiptoes earnestly.

The twins finally approached as well.

I was very impressed that our family thoroughly maintained hierarchy and order even in this chaotic situation. The twins’ rank is definitely lower than Evelyn’s….

Let’s not tell Lloyd about this.

“We’re angry too.”

“Sorry.”

When I apologized lightly, Leon raised his eyebrows.

“Isn’t that too insincere for us?!”

“Ian, I’m really sorry. You must have suffered a lot mentally too.”

“Wait, what about me?!”

Leon is… the neighborhood punching bag after all.

When I looked only at Ian and apologized seriously, Leon got choked up and threw a tantrum. Ian looked at me and his twin with disbelief for a moment, then seemed to read my desire to change the atmosphere and chuckled.

“Yes, you really suffered.”

“I thought so.”

“After you and Evelyn disappeared, your grandparents and Wentworth Castle were turned upside down. When we contacted the capital, they said it was chaos. Do you know how much chaos there was after the body was found? When I heard the news that you had died and frantically rode back to the capital, Evelyn was out of her mind, Ella had turned cold, and the stories about you that I barely heard from Bailey were all things I was hearing for the first time.”

“….”

“Everyone moved to protect you alone, but we couldn’t believe the reality that only you had died, so we felt like dying too.”

“Ah, I was wrong! I’m sorry! I didn’t mean for that to happen either!”

When I tearfully shouted my apology loudly, Ian finally smiled with satisfaction.

“Welcome back, Shana.”

Ian welcomed me with a brotherly line. My nose tingled for no reason.

“Come to think of it, what about meals?”

“….”

Come to think of it, when was the last time I ate?

I thought carefully while holding Evelyn. I don’t think I’ve eaten a single meal since getting caught up in the commotion. The longer I didn’t answer, the colder not only Ian’s but also Leon’s eyes became.

“Answer me, Shana.”

“A week ago…?”

“….”

“I think the meal Grandmother prepared was the last one.”

“….”

“I ate so much then that I’m still not hungry!”

“….”

Why do they look angrier than before? They’re cursing at me with their eyes to stop talking nonsense….

“Evelyn, step away.”

“I was going to do that anyway. Don’t order me around.”

Evelyn stepped away from my embrace. I was secretly grateful since my calves were about to cramp anyway. I thought this was the moment and spoke seriously.

“I’m sorry, Evelyn. Never again….”

You shouldn’t make promises you can’t keep, right…?

I couldn’t promise not to sacrifice myself.

“I won’t gamble.”

“You just need to remember my threat.”

Evelyn was much more skilled.

She was saying not to sacrifice myself for her because it would be useless anyway. The scary thing is that she’s not bluffing. When I nodded reluctantly, Evelyn simply lifted me up.

“Then let’s go eat.”

“Suddenly?!”

“We need to hear all the stories we haven’t heard at once.”

Yes, that’s right…. There’s no way you’d let me slide by.

Still, if it was a briefing I had to do anyway, it was better to do it all at once. Since I had experience giving Raven an explanation that wasn’t really an explanation, I wasn’t as nervous as the first time.

When things get bad, blame Seth unconditionally. State the facts, state the facts.

Throughout the journey to the dining hall while being carried by Evelyn, Ian and Leon took turns grumbling.

“No matter how close you came to death, you still need to eat your meals!”

Most of it was ridiculous nonsense.

***

“Well then, let me explain my miraculous survival story…”

I know it’s a terrible title too.

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