I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 2

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Chapter 1. The Truth About Me Being Reborn as a Baby (1)

“Shana!”

The voice calling someone was desperate and heartbreaking. It sounded like a mother searching for her lost child.

“Shana, you’re safe! Oh God, thank you! Thank you….”

I didn’t know that was me.

“Your lips are blue. Oh my, how could this, how could this happen….”

Someone lifted me up and placed me in the arms of a sobbing woman. The feeling of being picked up by another person was like riding an amusement park ride.

It felt like briefly riding a viking ship. My spine tingled and my toes curled up instinctively.

In short, it was scary.

But I endured it. I have adult dignity, so I can’t just cry easily!

When I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them again, there was a woman’s face covered in tears and snot right in front of me. She looked to be in her mid-to-late twenties.

She was a beauty with bright blonde hair, a slender face, and vivid green eyes.

She looked foreign no matter how many times I looked at her. What should I do? I’m not confident in English conversation. Hello, hi….

‘Oh right, I could understand what she was saying….’

This damn English phobia of mine.

She was as pretty as a foreign actress, but her eyes and nose were red and swollen from crying so much. She wasn’t crying prettily like an actress, but had the face of someone who had been crying as if the world was ending.

When tears welled up again as she looked at me, she squeezed her eyes shut and looked again. Then she cried with her pretty face contorted.

“I’m, I’m sorry, I’m sorry….”

This won’t do.

“Hueng….”

Making sounds was embarrassing as hell, but I had no choice if I wanted to comfort her.

As soon as I made a sound, her eyes widened in a cute and satisfying way. I reached out my arm to touch her surprised face.

That’s right, I have arms and legs too! They’re just short!

“Shana…. You’re trying to comfort me….”

That’s right! That’s right! She understands perfectly!

“Mommy is, mommy is sorry….”

Ah, so she really was my mom.

I felt very strange. The woman in front of me looked about the same age as I was just before I died.

“Because I fell asleep, you almost died.”

“How is that your fault?”

“But if I had stayed alert, Shana wouldn’t have been kidnapped!”

“You just dozed off for a moment. The bad one is that woman. Who could have imagined that someone who was your nanny would kidnap and abandon a child?”

From my mother’s embrace, I only moved my eyes to look to the side. It was a man who also looked to be in his late twenties.

‘From the flow of conversation, he’s probably my dad…?’

As soon as I saw the man who was likely my father, I sincerely wanted to see a mirror.

‘Are they both actors?’

Damn, he’s incredibly handsome….

With both parents having insane beauty, I became curious about my own face that I’d never seen. With those faces as ingredients, even the worst combination would probably be amazing…?

“Stop blaming yourself, Anais.”

“But the place where Shana was abandoned was the Hunting Grounds! If Prince hadn’t happened to find her, Shana would have already….”

“Stop.”

“Look, she’s still pale….”

So that’s what happened. I was kidnapped.

‘I thought he looked extraordinary, and he was actually a prince….’

A prince is similar to a royal prince, right? I quietly rolled my eyes, trying to understand the situation.

‘This isn’t Korea, and it’s not modern times either….’

Well, it wasn’t Korea from the moment wolves appeared.

The wolf quietly left. I was left alone with the handsome boy I’d never seen before, and I wondered what would happen, but fortunately that boy took me to a group of people.

First, they warmed my body in warm water, and during that time, the surroundings became much more chaotic.

And the person who came rushing in was this person.

Probably my mother, who gave birth to me.

‘She didn’t abandon me after all.’

I thought I wouldn’t have the blessing of parents in this life either, but it seems that wasn’t the case.

Mother cried so much she looked like she was about to collapse. Father also looked equally haggard.

I understood they were my parents, but it didn’t feel real.

Of course not. I’m still having trouble accepting that I’ve become a baby.

But humans are simple creatures – once the freezing cold subsided and safety was secured, I felt like everything else didn’t matter much.

My entire body, which had been stiff from tension and cold, melted away, and the arms holding me were firm and stable. The embrace was warm too.

After my Parents passed away, no one had ever held me. I was always the one comforting and holding my Younger Sister.

‘So this is what it feels like to have someone hold me…’

A feeling of natural reassurance, warmth spreading inside my chest.

‘Maybe because my body is small, but I’m already tired even though I haven’t done much…’

And I’m hungry…

As soon as I thought that, a fierce sound was heard.

Growl!

Wow, damn, I thought it was thunder.

‘Did they hear that?’

Even though I learned these were my parents, I was meeting these people for the first time. I was still feeling shy on my own, so I was embarrassed. It was such a loud sound, but the two were having a conversation, so maybe they didn’t hear…

“Look at me losing my mind. Shana, you must be hungry. You’ve been starving for hours already…”

Mother started fumbling around, oh no, that’s right, I was a baby!

‘I’m not hungry! I’m not hungry! I won’t be hungry!’

No, no, no!

This is ridiculous. I just opened my eyes as a baby. I have the consciousness of someone who was perfectly fine as an adult, but even if it’s for survival…

Mmph.

“Eat plenty, Shana. We’ll never let you go again. Don’t worry. Trust us.”

“That’s right, we’ll never make this mistake again. I’ll definitely protect you.”

It’s delicious…

In the face of survival instinct, reason was like a sandcastle before waves. What’s wrong with nursing? It’s a noble act.

Right, adult or baby, you have to eat to live. Suck suck.

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Humans are truly simple animals.

‘I didn’t want to realize this in such a way.’

When my body, frozen from cold, thawed and I could feel my hands and feet that I thought didn’t exist because they were stiff and wouldn’t move, I became hungry.

And when my stomach, which had rumbled like thunder, was filled, drowsiness poured over me.

‘I’m embarrassed… I’m ashamed… I’m completely driven by instinct.’

My stomach wasn’t even bloated and felt light, but the cleanliness of my bottom… Let’s not think about it anymore. That’s the way to preserve my dignity…

I think I probably fell asleep while nursing in the arms of the woman who is my mother.

I say “think” because I don’t remember it.

But seeing that I was gently laid down in a dim room, it must be right. I couldn’t even say thank you for the meal.

‘No, that’s not right. I can’t speak anyway, so I couldn’t have said thank you.’

Dad always said you should greet people properly no matter what. I taught my Younger Sister to always greet people no matter what happened.

‘Let’s stop escaping from reality…’

It’s time to think properly, Han Yeon.

In the Snow Plain, it was too cold to continue thinking, but now I’m truly in a state of being well-fed and warm. I slept enough too, so my mind is very clear.

First.

‘Am I really dead?’

What if I’m not dead?

‘It felt similar to when I fainted from overwork, but slightly different.’

I often collapsed from overwork, but this time there was a feeling of falling into a more distant place than usual, and I intuitively knew, ah, this is death. …It would be really embarrassing if I was mistaken…

But if I wasn’t dead, there was no other way to explain this situation where I’m now a baby.

I must have died and been reborn as a baby, probably.

‘Is this called reincarnation?’

Whatever you call it, it was clearly not a normal situation. Normally, when you die, you shouldn’t remember your past life… I blinked my eyes. In my eyes that had grown accustomed to the darkness, I could see vague shapes.

The faces of my new Parents weren’t very clear either, but I could see them well up close. The same went for the handsome blonde kid’s face. My eyesight didn’t seem to be very good yet.

‘Since I can see, has it been about 100 days since birth?’

I wasn’t sure exactly, but it definitely wasn’t right after being born. Maybe being abandoned in the Snow Plain and nearly dying was what triggered me to remember my past life, something like that.

Wow, fantasy. It’s fantasy.

My Younger Sister might have liked this. Every time I nagged her to study, she’d argue that reading novels helped with reading comprehension, and we’d fight about it often.

‘She just became an adult. Now she’s ended up like me.’

Just like me, who lost my Parents in the spring when I turned twenty, my Younger Sister had also lost her guardian as soon as she turned twenty.

But I was too exhausted to continue. I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them again, feeling like I could hear my Younger Sister’s resentful voice.

‘Let’s say it’s true that I died and was reborn, but where is this place?’

If it’s not Korea and not modern times, then where is this?

The language my new Parents were using earlier was something I’d never heard or seen before. I could tell they were foreigners, but I couldn’t pinpoint exactly which nationality, though I could tell they were beautiful.

‘What they were saying about Hunting Grounds earlier, and the place the blonde kid took me to looked like a setting from The King’s Game… Their faces were too striking so I couldn’t see well, but their clothing definitely wasn’t modern either.’

If it’s not modern, then the past? The Western past?

There were dramas and movies about that too. Time slip. But it’s hard to specify which era exactly.

Their faces obscured too much, so the information I gathered was minimal. My eyesight probably isn’t good yet, but only the handsome faces seemed to have good resolution…

“Kyung…”

No! I was making a groaning sound! Like my head hurt! But the sound that came out of my mouth sounded like I needed to poop!

“Ah, ah! Ah!”

I tried moving my arms and legs frantically because I wanted to sit up, but at best it was just flailing. Only the blanket covering my stomach slipped down. I don’t like being cold!

“Ahuu, uu! Ah, ah?”

“Not even sleeping.”

“Ah?”

It’s the blonde kid.

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