I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 14
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14
Chapter 3. Because You’re Cute (4)
Wow, seriously.
“Now you know, Shana. You shouldn’t judge hastily based on appearances alone.”
“Amazing….”
“What?”
Incredible! Insane!
“Look, Raven! Transform!”
“…Transform?”
“Was a tiny puppy! Whoosh!”
“…Whoosh?”
“In a blink! Became pretty sister!”
“Pretty… sister….”
“So cool!”
“….”
“Amazing! Awesome! Super!”
“…What does ‘super’ mean….”
“The best!”
Raven made an ambiguous expression. He muttered quietly, “What is she saying?”
Regardless, all I could see was a small girl.
The girl looked to be around Raven’s age rather than mine. She had long black hair, pale limbs, and fiercely glowing black eyes. There were blood-like stains around her mouth.
It must hurt. How badly injured must she be to have blood around her mouth.
I was certain that the wounds the puppy had were from being beaten somewhere. She wouldn’t have coughed up blood unless her insides were a mess.
Who on earth would do this to such a small child.
Her body wrapped in something like sackcloth was terribly emaciated, and her face covered in dried blood had sunken cheeks. Good heavens….
“Are you okay? Baby, don’t be scared, it’s okay, it’s fine….”
“What’s fine about this?”
“Don’t, Raven! You’re scaring her! It’s okay, come here….”
The pale face glaring at us was pretty, but full of wariness, perhaps from fear.
I pushed away Raven’s arm that was trying to move me back and reached out my hand. Raven didn’t budge an inch. What kind of kid is this strong?
“Come here, baby….”
“You cannot, Lady Shana.”
“Maria?”
“I cannot watch any longer.”
Maria spoke firmly and picked me up. At the same time, Ella approached the girl. Bailey said.
“Ella, is it a venomous species?”
“No. Although it belongs to a large dog breed, it was a puppy. The human form shouldn’t be much different either.”
“Weapons?”
“None. But since we don’t know what she might do, it’s better not to approach when she’s in human form. I’ll handle it.”
The conversation… seems somehow professional…. I felt like I’d discovered the double lives of my nanny and sitters. They said A-rank mercenaries, so it must be true.
Raven shook his head and said.
“Too late.”
“I judged it wasn’t dangerous.”
Raven seemed to have a lot to say but kept his mouth shut. I grabbed Maria’s sleeve and said.
“Maria, don’t hurt her!”
“That’s what I should be saying. What is this, look at all this blood.”
“Ella, don’t hurt the puppy! Okay?”
Ella answered with an amused voice.
“I’ll capture her without injury. Lady Shana, aren’t you going to worry about me?”
“Ella too…. Be careful….”
“Yes.”
Coolness overflowed from her relaxed answer. This gap moe thing… is explosive….
Ella, who had looked like some rich family’s young lady with her elegant and refined appearance, subdued the frightened girl who tried to bite without any difficulty at all.
“Maria, let’s go!”
“Where to?”
“To the puppy!”
“Oh my, I don’t see any puppy.”
“Don’t tease me!”
“How could I ever win against Lady Shana. Yes, yes. We’ll go.”
Raven sighed.
“I can’t tell if this is overprotection or neglect.”
“If it were Anais, she wouldn’t have allowed any approach from the start, of course.”
“Ah, as expected?”
When did Father arrive. Ignoring the conversation from behind, I approached the girl while being held by Maria.
The girl was on her knees with her hands bound behind her back by Ella.
Getting closer, I could see the girl was even more pitifully thin. Ella holding her from behind looked like the villain.
Seeing the thin girl’s venomous gaze, tears welled up in my eyes without me realizing it.
“Sh, Shana-nim?! Are you crying?”
“What?”
“What did you say?”
Two surprised voices burst out from behind simultaneously. Raven, why are you surprised too…
“Shana-nim, what’s wrong? You’re scared of blood, aren’t you? I’m sorry, I’ll clean it up right away…”
“No hurt!”
“Pardon?”
“Don’t hurt her, she’s my younger sister Maria!”
“…Younger sister…?”
Ella and Maria, Bailey and Raven’s eyes turned to Father. Father let out a hollow laugh and said.
“Shana, Mom and Dad never gave you a younger sister.”
“I found her!”
“You can get a younger sister by finding one?”
“Don’t hurt her, I’ll be good to her…”
I struggled with all my might in Maria’s arms. Now that I look at it, Maria is incredibly strong. I’m flailing with all my strength but she’s not budging at all…
I need to change tactics.
“Put me down, Maria. Please?”
“Acting cute won’t work either.”
“…If you don’t put me down, I’ll hate you…”
“Ah. That would be troublesome.”
Maria pretended to think for a moment, then gently set me down on the ground. Then she spoke as if reading from a book for everyone to hear.
“Aah. Shana-nim was so strong that I accidentally! Let go!”
“You’re being ridiculous, Maria.”
Bailey, who had somehow gotten close, quickly picked me up again. Well, she really was being ridiculous.
“Shana, give me your hand.”
“Oh, Mother…”
The boss had appeared.
I obediently extended my hand to Mother. The finger the puppy had bitten had a wound that was honestly hard to call very small, but fortunately the bleeding had stopped.
Mother’s expression looks very ominous…
‘If I could have healed myself, I could have pretended nothing happened…’
What a shame.
Even in this situation, I kept glancing at the kneeling girl because I was worried about her.
Even though all her wounds were healed, her condition hadn’t fully recovered yet – her complexion was pale and her breathing was rough. Should I have used more healing clay?
“…Shana really doesn’t hurt…”
“It was bleeding so much but it doesn’t hurt? Our Shana is tough, isn’t she?”
“Doesn’t hurt! Shana is tough!”
She doesn’t seem as angry as I thought.
“The puppy was scared, so scared…”
“Shana seems to want to raise a puppy.”
“Y, yes! Will you allow it?”
“Well, Mother is…”
Mother raised her downcast eyes. Her long eyelashes lifted, revealing cold green pupils. Gasp.
“A dog that hurt my daughter… I don’t see why I should forgive that mutt.”
“…M, Mother, scary…”
There was definitely a curse word after ‘dog’.
“I came because it was strangely noisy, and Shana is injured.”
Ella, Maria, and Bailey flinched.
“I was relieved because she was with Kail, but I don’t understand why you were just watching.”
Father’s complexion turned pale.
“Even His Highness is here…”
“I tried to stop it.”
“If you can’t handle one Shana, how do you plan to become a great ruler?”
“Your wife’s daughter should know when to stop…”
Raven clicked his tongue. Is he really 8 years old?
“Shana, what Mother fears most is Shana getting hurt.”
“…Woo…”
“I’m sorry, but we can’t raise that puppy. Who knows when it might turn violent and bite Shana again.”
“Won’t happen…”
“Really? Can you guarantee that? How long have you known that puppy?”
“But…”
“This might be Shana’s first time seeing a beastkin, but beastkin can transform into animals, and unlike humans, they’re strong and fierce. They’re beings that can’t be tamed without a slave collar.”
“That child is hurt! She’s in pain…”
“She looks fine to Mother’s eyes.”
Well, of course, since I healed her… But saying that would obviously just add fuel to Mother’s anger.
Mother looked more resolute and stern than I’d ever seen her. It meant she cared about me that much, but on the flip side, I was really anxious.
The girl with black hair and black eyes looked particularly like Mina.
Imagining what it would be like if Mina were abandoned, skinny like that girl, felt like my heart would tear apart.
Even if I couldn’t keep her with me forever, I wanted to at least feed her one meal.
“Uu, uuu…”
“Shana?!”
What’s a baby’s weapon?
“Waaaah! Uwaeaeng!”
Tears.
Since I was forcing it out, my crying sounded awkward. Tears, I need to squeeze out tears. I covered my face with my hands and tried my best to think of sad thoughts.
By the way, my hands are still much smaller than my face…
Oh right, I need to think sad thoughts.
Is Mina doing well? It must have been hard when I suddenly died, right? For 4 years after Father passed away, Mina and I were each other’s only family in the world, so we were very close. We were close before too, but the past 4 years were even more so.
‘Sister, please don’t overdo it.’
I didn’t overdo it. Even when I overdid it, it wasn’t hard.
I miss her.
I was only pretending to cry, but thinking of Mina made real tears burst forth. Mother’s expression, who had been sighing and watching me at first, changed completely.
“Shana… A child who only pretended to cry but never actually cried!”
So she knew I was pretending to cry all along…
“Uheng, uhuheng… Can’t send away.”
“Shana, please don’t cry. Wh-what should Mommy do for you, hm?”
“That, little, little sister…, hiccup.”
“Little sister? Are you asking me to have a little sister?”
No, surely not that far.
“To, together bring want… Huueng!”
“O-okay. Okay! I understand, so please stop crying. I’m going to collapse at this rate…”
Tears are the best.
I wanted to quickly stop crying as if I had never cried, but perhaps because I had thought of Mina, even when I blinked, the tears wouldn’t stop easily.
Since Mother gave permission, there was nothing to stop me. I got down from Bailey and approached the girl with my own feet. When I approached, Ella restrained the girl even more roughly.
“Please, Ella!”
“But Lady Shana…”
“It’s okay!”
“…”
“I said it’s okay.”
Ella reluctantly let the girl go. I threw myself at her before the girl could run away. She could have just let me fall and run away, but the girl caught me in her arms.
See, she’s kind.
“It’s okay. Don’t worry…”
I wanted to pat her back, but my arms were too short to reach her back. As I flailed my arms that barely reached her sides, the girl spoke in a tearful voice.
“Why are you being nice to me…?”
“Because you’re cute.”
“What’s that…?”
Isn’t that the most important thing? Cute things must be protected.
So when you’re a puppy, can I hug you just once? Let me give you one kiss on the nose.
Must protect the doggy.
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