I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 22

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22

Chapter 6. For a Rehearsal (1)

The next day. The twins didn’t come, but Raven visited.

“Ahahahahaha!”

“…You’re laughing too much…”

“You said you’d create patients, ahahahahaha!”

I had said it thinking he would laugh, but still.

“Ah, my stomach, hurts… Kuk, keuk…”

“If someone hears, they’ll think I’m bullying you.”

“You are bullying me, right? I’m suffering from laughing.”

Raven only calmed down after laughing for quite a while longer. His upturned lips wouldn’t come down. Then, as if he couldn’t help it, he buried his forehead on the table again. His shoulders trembled violently.

You’re really breaking character. Weren’t you the cold and indifferent type?

‘It’s true I tried to make him laugh because he seemed strangely gloomy, but now that he’s laughing too much, it’s kind of annoying.’

This is exactly a child’s heart. It’s okay, I really am young.

If a 3-year-old said they’d build a hospital, people would normally laugh, but I had brought it up because I thought I could really pull it off. Is he laughing because he thinks I can’t do it?

I pouted and sulked, then glanced at Raven.

He was still handsome, so he was the best eye candy. His smiling face was much better to look at than his gloomy one, so I decided to forgive Raven for his excessive and rude laughter.

‘Besides, even if I didn’t forgive him, there’s nothing I could really do about it.’

I buried the reality that didn’t need to be faced directly.

Raven had come to see me after several days.

He said he wanted to come see me the very next day, but he had been busy with things that came up during that time. I thought what could an 8-year-old, who would have been a first-grader in elementary school in my previous life, possibly be so busy with, but I had forgotten that he was a prince.

‘Even young princes are busy, I see.’

His cheeks, which should have been plump with baby fat, were hollow, and his two eyes, which should have shone innocently, were full of fatigue and world-weariness that didn’t match his age.

“What made you laugh so much?”

“Those twins are funny.”

“Ah, it wasn’t me…?”

“What’s funny about you?”

I felt embarrassed. I had gotten a little angry thinking he was mocking me.

Raven looked at my face and said with a grin.

“You thought I was mocking you and felt bad?”

“Yeah, a little…”

“There’s no way I’d mock you.”

Oh. I’m a bit touched…

“You’re mine.”

I almost fell for it. Of course that’s how it is.

I’m great = what I own is also great = so you’re great too…?

As befitting a prince, even his way of thinking was supremely confident.

It’s also kind of annoying how well arrogance suits him.

“Well, since you can even treat beastmen, you’d probably do well if you opened a hospital. But to avoid the Temple’s nitpicking, it would be better to learn magic.”

“Ah, they said I can’t.”

“Huh?”

“They said I don’t have enough mana.”

“You?”

“They said I’d need to gather it for 10 years to use magic…”

“…”

Raven’s expression became strange.

What, is it because I’m more incompetent than you thought? I got unnecessarily spiteful and gathered clay on my hand to knead it. So far, there was nothing this clay couldn’t heal. It’s easy to say, but do you know how amazing that is?

I can’t use magic, but! I just can’t use magic, that’s all.

“Wasn’t your ability magic?”

Raven said.

“Yeah, Mom said it’s not. Doesn’t Raven know what kind it is?”

“I didn’t know. I just thought you used magic innately. Like a talent that manifests before learning. That’s what I thought when I first picked you up, and after learning your origins, I thought it was natural since you’re that duchess’s daughter. I thought it might be magic that manifests without incantations, which is why it works on beastmen too. I could only speculate since I’d never seen it precisely.”

Raven frowned. For an 8-year-old, he was excessively smart and mature, which was strange.

‘Is he really living a second life too… What kind of 8-year-old is like this?’

Maybe it’s thanks to his position as a prince and his education.

Perhaps this world is one where you have to become an adult much earlier than in my previous life. In my previous life, 20 was the standard for adulthood, but even in the Joseon Dynasty, people married and had children much earlier. Standards differ from world to world.

Even so, Raven was still excessively smart. I wondered if I looked like that to other people’s eyes too.

After pondering for a moment, Raven grinned and said.

“Then I’ll have to become your first customer.”

“It’s just a future dream. I’m still young.”

“I’m an exception. I’m special.”

“…Because you’re a prince?”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

Raven asked back as if it was absurd.

“I’m your lifesaver and first friend. I’m special.”

“When did we become friends? I’m younger.”

“I could take you as a little sister.”

“I don’t want that.”

“I figured you’d say that.”

“….”

“Then we can only be friends.”

“….”

“I’m taking a 5-year loss, but I’ll let it slide.”

So this is how someone can say “let’s be friends” in such an annoying way. From another perspective, it was quite an admirable way with words.

“Is there a sick person around you?”

“There is.”

“There are clergy and mages too.”

“No one could cure them.”

“…Then I might not be able to either…?”

So far there hadn’t been a case I couldn’t heal with clay, but I still didn’t know the exact capabilities of this clay.

“I don’t know exactly what I can do. What if you get disappointed after getting your hopes up?”

“Think of it as practice. You can take it lightly.”

“…I have to ask Mother and Unnamed Father too.”

“That would be the trickiest problem. So you mean you’ll do it if you just have the Wentworth Couple’s permission?”

“Ah.”

Does it work out that way?

“Well… since we’re friends. I’ll give you special treatment.”

“I appreciate that.”

Raven smiled brightly.

‘He looks like a kid when he smiles.’

I felt like I’d been tricked somehow, but seeing that smile melted away my childishly sulky feelings. If I could heal a sick person, that would be good, and to open a hospital in the future and treat patients, I needed to know in detail what I could do with this clay.

Most of all, though I hadn’t seen him many times, if the reason the always confident Raven was dejected was because that person was sick, I wanted to do what I could to help.

‘He really is my lifesaver.’

He only said annoying things like “you’re mine” and “I picked you up,” so I couldn’t honestly say thank you, but if Raven hadn’t picked me up, I wouldn’t have met my current Parents.

“Then let’s go to the Wentworth Couple.”

“Huh? Right now?”

“Then when were you planning to go.”

Raven got up from his chair and looked at me. His eyes said, what are you doing not getting up quickly.

“W-wait a minute….”

“…?”

“…Raven.”

I, who had been gauging the distance between my dangling feet and the floor, raised both arms up high.

“…Help me down….”

“Pfft.”

Don’t laugh, you bad guy.

***

Honestly, I naturally thought Parents would refuse.

But even after Raven finished speaking, Parents didn’t say anything for a long time.

Seeing Parents, who were overprotective enough not to let me meet strangers, contemplating, the “sick person” Raven mentioned might be someone my Parents knew too.

Then I can’t just stay still.

Thump, thump thump, thump!

Making sounds that still prevented me from being taken seriously, I approached Parents.

“Unnamed Father, I want to do it.”

“Shana?”

“I want to try. Please? Mother.”

“Shana, Mother is against it.”

When I started pestering, instead of silence, I got opposition.

“As I said before, we don’t know what your ability costs. Mother absolutely cannot allow Shana to do something that might be dangerous.”

“But!”

“Shana.”

“I’m fine!”

“We don’t know that. You’re still young so it might not show, but the burden might be accumulating in your body!”

“No! It’s this!”

I spread my hand wide and gathered clay to fill my palm. When I increased the purity, a gentle light gathered enough to be visible. Mother shouted sharply.

“Shana!”

“It’s not dangerous. I’m fine.”

Mother’s face hardened.

“Gather around the warm thing flowing in your body. It’s not hard at all.”

“….”

“It’s nothing at all. But I can make the hurt thing better.”

“….”

“Then it won’t hurt anymore….”

“Shana, you, perhaps….”

Mother bit her lips.

“How can you be so kind….”

“When I grow up later, I’ll make money with this!”

“Huh?”

“I’ll make lots of money! And buy yummy things for Mama and Papa!”

I’ll give you the good life! I grabbed Mother’s skirt hem and looked up at her, shouting energetically that I would be filial. Honestly, if I can heal external injuries, internal injuries, and diseases all, isn’t my future incredibly promising?

Raven chuckled briefly and said.

“Shana, no matter how much money you make, you probably won’t earn as much as the Wentworth Family’s wealth, right?”

“Th-that’s different!”

It’s, it’s different. Of course it’s different.

“Duke, and Madam. Shana said she wants to build a hospital.”

“Shana did?”

“She said she wants to heal sick people with her own power. That it’s her dream for the future.”

Coming through Raven’s mouth, my materialistic future dream sounded incredibly admirable and praiseworthy. What’s this about.

‘It was a plan to live comfortably by exploiting my lucky innate ability, two workers I could use cheaply, and wealthy parents to leech off of…?’

Honestly, wasn’t it kind of a spoiled plan from someone born with a golden spoon…? When I looked at Raven in disbelief, he smiled faintly while his golden eyes gleamed.

That guy is definitely on his second life.

“Shana. My kind daughter!”

“Will you buy me yummy things? Mama can eat even poison if Shana buys it for me!”

As if I would give you poison….

“Shana, Papa too! Anything you give Papa is good. That’s right, our daughter wants to do it! She should do whatever she wants!”

“That’s right, we can’t keep her locked up in the manor forever.”

“We’ll have to keep it secret that she can treat beastmen too.”

“We can somehow deceive the Temple’s eyes. No, honestly, even if they know….”

“We were trying to hide it because they might try to take her away claiming she’s a Saint.”

What? A Saint?

‘There’s such a thing too?’

Mother lifted me up in her arms. Every time I was held by Mother, I was amazed by her slender arms. She hugged me tightly and said.

“We just need to protect you so the Temple doesn’t dare spout nonsense.”

When Mother said it, it was incredibly convincing.

Father lightly kissed my forehead and said.

“Shana should do what she wants to do. We’ll protect you.”

Father, your eyes are glowing ominously. It’s scary.

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