I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 3

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Chapter 1. The Truth About Me Being Reborn as a Baby (2)

“Not sleeping, what a bad child.”

Hey, you’re a child too.

“Kicking off all the blankets too. Sigh.”

“Huaeng…”

“What, got a complaint? I kindly came to check on you personally.”

There doesn’t seem to be much age difference, but I don’t like how you’re acting all grown-up and superior. You’re just a little kid too. From this adult’s perspective, you all look like babies or children.

Through the bars of the crib, I could see the child’s face.

My eyes had gotten somewhat used to the darkness, but my vision wasn’t good enough to see clearly, so the facial features were blurry.

What a shame. It would have been a chance to feast my eyes.

“I didn’t mention being with the wolf.”

How old are you? You speak quite well.

“It seemed like there would be chaos.”

Quick-witted too.

“Ah, not you, but me. I get nagged to not go to dangerous places.”

You look well-behaved but seem to be a troublemaker.

“That wolf definitely had an arrow in its leg, right? I followed the blood trail.”

“Ung?”

“But seeing that it was fine…”

“…”

“It was you, wasn’t it?”

“Ueh?”

I don’t know anything.

“They say only high-ranking priests can barely perform healing magic.”

The child’s handsome face clinging to the crib suddenly came into clear view. He was handsome and cute, but somehow scheming. Ha, haha. They said he was a prince, so his aura is different, this kid…

“What could have happened? Hm?”

“…Uaeaeng…”

Indeed, a baby’s weapon is crying!

“Don’t pretend to cry.”

Ah, what am I supposed to do?

Unable to decide whether to laugh or cry, my face must have looked strange even without seeing it. I haven’t even seen a mirror yet, but he doesn’t bat an eye at what must surely be my cute appearance. This cold-blooded…

“You definitely understand everything I’m saying, don’t you? I heard from the Duke that you were only born three months ago.”

Eek.

“See, you understand everything. Even more suspicious.”

“…”

“Suspicious, but I’ll let it slide.”

The child said with a grin. Well, thank you very much…

“Since I’m the one who found you.”

What do you mean ‘you,’ to a person!

I’m a human being. A person, Your Highness!

Whether he was a prince or an imperial prince, his arrogant upbringing showed in his words and actions. When I was your age, little one, my dad used to brag all around the neighborhood that our Yeona was so good at greetings.

“I was going to raise you myself, but your parents showed up, which is a bit disappointing.”

So you didn’t come looking for me…

How can a child raise a child! Leave it to the adults! You might have money since you’re a prince, but child-rearing requires much more than that!

“Now that you’re safe, sleep well.”

As if he had come just to say that, the child stretched out his short arm and patted my head.

“Auu, ah…”

“I’ve been kidnapped many times too.”

He couldn’t control his strength, so honestly, it hurt.

But the child’s face smiling proudly was so cute that my desire to complain melted away like snow.

‘He came just to tell me that.’

Even though he’s a baby himself. A kid who’s barely five years old, if that.

‘Maybe because he’s an imperial prince rather than just a child, he speaks well and is sharp. Arrogant too.’

Maybe it’s the result of rigorous early education because he’s an imperial prince.

Children should act like children.

‘No wait, this means I’ll have to act like a child from now on.’

Well, there can be mature children too. I lowered my standards. Go ahead and act all grown-up, little one! The more you do that, the more blankets you’ll have to hide under in embarrassment when you’re older! I’ve been through it all!

“Ah, that annoying thing followed me.”

I guarantee you, that ‘annoying thing’ is also a person. No doubt about it.

“I should go. Sigh…”

The child who sighed looked quite tired.

Watching the child move away from the bed with quick steps, I really felt how young they were. Because as the distance grew, I could see just how small the child was.

And I’m even smaller than that kid right now.

“Oh right.”

The child stopped walking and turned around.

“My name is Raven. Remember that, got it?”

Honestly speaking, what would a three-month-old baby understand? I shouldn’t respond.

“Hey, answer me.”

“….”

“If you don’t answer, right now,”

“Baa! Ba!”

Ugh, my pride.

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Several months passed after that. I think about three months have gone by.

“You can do it, Lady Shana!”

I struggled and pushed my belly with all my might! All my might! Ugh ugh ugh!

I crawled! I moved by myself! Even if it was just like a caterpillar!

“Wow! Wooow!”

“Everyone clap!”

“Wooooow!”

Clap clap clap. A shower of applause poured down. At the same time, all the strength drained from my body that had been straining with all its might, and I flopped down.

“Whew… Poo…”

“Lady Shana, you must be tired. Here, here. Shall I give you water? Shall I hold you?”

“Maria, let her rest as she is.”

People’s reactions were as if I had won a gold medal or something. These people did the same thing when I rolled over…

Especially Maria and Bailey were on the verge of tears from being so moved. Don’t cry… I just did some belly crawling…

“Sob, sniff, Lady Shana, you’ve already grown so much…”

I said it was just belly crawling…

“You’re only six months old! Already like an adult!”

It would be a big problem if adults crawled around belly-crawling…

“That’s not all, Maria. Our Lady Shana, you see. She already understands everything we say!”

“That’s right! How amazing!”

“A month and three days ago, she said ‘Baa!’ to His Grace the Duke!”

“Oh my goodness!”

Are these people planning to embarrass me to death…?

“She already called the Duchess ‘Maa!’ a month and a week ago! Our young lady is a genius!”

“That’s right!”

Just kill me instead…

I lay face down, clenched my fists, and trembled. I could tell my face had turned red without even looking.

This embarrassing shower of praise that repeated several times a day was really… hard for me to endure.

The problem is that this is all sincere! It’s not sarcasm!

“There’s more! When Lady Shana takes her afternoon nap, Bailey reads books.”

“Do you have some complaint about that? I’m still paying attention to Lady Shana.”

“No, it’s not a complaint! You fall asleep while reading!”

“….”

Yeah, he sleeps often. Bailey pretends he doesn’t sleep, but everyone actually knew. Bailey’s cheeks flushed red.

“Th-that day I was ti-ti-tired…”

“Yes, anyway, when you sleep, Lady Shana shows interest in the books.”

“Oh my.”

“She begged me as if asking me to bring them to her…”

“…If Lady Shana begged you, there was nothing you could do… You did well, Maria.”

“Right?”

I want to cover my ears.

“When I brought her the book!”

“No way!”

“Frowning like this! Just like that!”

Maria scrunched up her pretty eyes and made a fierce expression. But no matter what she did, the cute-looking Maria just looked adorable. Aww, how cute.

I recalled the moment when my expectation that I might be able to read letters just by looking at them, like how I could understand speech, came crashing down.

‘It felt like someone was mocking me, asking where the understanding speech part went…’

I was definitely going to have to study letters.

“So seriously! Like you’re really going to read it!”

“Our Lady Shana is a genius!”

Please be quiet. Let me be alone…

I covered my ears and made a groaning sound. Whenever I opened my mouth, unlike my mature self-consciousness, only unserious sounds like “kyu!” or “baa!” would come out, so I tried not to make sounds as much as possible.

“But she doesn’t usually speak in front of us…”

“Don’t say such things. You know how difficult and strict the selection process was for us…”

“His Grace the Duke is someone who will never compromise on Lady Shana’s personal safety and security. He won’t tolerate any possibility. Until she grows up to a certain extent, let alone friends…”

“We’re here to make sure she’s not lonely.”

I’m not lonely. I’m so not lonely that it’s a problem.

Rather, throwing me among babies saying they’d make friends for me would be a bigger problem.

‘What kind of friends when we can’t even communicate in the first place…’

With Bailey, Maria, and Ella chattering beside me all day, I was far from lonely—it was annoying.

Bailey, Maria, and Ella were the people who took care of me, playing with me and caring for me all day in place of my busy parents. Among them, Bailey was around my mother’s age and had given birth around the same time, so she was serving as my wet nurse.

My mother was weak and didn’t have enough milk, so I often nursed from Bailey rather than my mother.

Nursing is sacred. I’m not embarrassed. Yeah.

‘I hope she doesn’t hurt.’

My mother from my previous life was also weak and often sick. Are all the people who gave birth to me destined to be frail?

‘If only I could heal mother like I healed that wolf…’

I wanted to use healing magic or whatever that arrogant brat Raven had talked about, but I hadn’t been able to do anything since then.

‘Realistically, would there be injured people around a baby?’

Moreover, I wasn’t just any baby, but the only daughter of a duke who had been kidnapped by her mother’s wet nurse and abandoned in the Snow Plain when she was only three months old.

Yes, a duke.

A real duke…

This place was what you’d commonly call a fantasy world.

In the empire called ‘Bayad’ with the largest territory on the continent called El Campana, I was reborn in the Wentworth Ducal House.

My name is Shana Perry Wentworth.

Six months old, truly a precious jewel.

“Quickly bring His Grace the Duke and the Duchess! We must show them Lady Shana’s crawling scene!”

Six months old, truly a precious treasure.

“Quickly bring His Grace the Duke and his wife! We must show them Lady Shana’s birthing scene!”

“Baaah!”

I’ve gotten stronger, but I still hate the baby crib!

“Now, Lady Shana! Shall we lie down again!”

“Ahhhhh!”

I’ve gotten stronger, but I don’t want the crib!

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