I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 31

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31

Chapter 8. Things Are Getting (2)

Things proceeded in an instant.

“Do you understand, Shana? There’s nothing better than money to make people work.”

“Yes, Father. I’ll engrave it in my bones.”

Mother scolded him saying “You’re teaching her good things,” but even Mother didn’t say he was wrong. Because Father’s words were generally correct.

“Now then, let’s get to work too!”

“Yes, Lady Shana!”

Evelyn, Maria, and Ella answered energetically.

“Lady Shana, we can handle it ourselves. You don’t need to do it directly.”

“No, since I suggested it, I should take responsibility!”

“Our young lady is so admirable…”

Ella and Maria were about to cry. Before another praise hell could unfold, I quickly escaped to Evelyn’s side.

“A precious daughter of a ducal family, and still so young, yet she wants to clean personally…”

“Leave her be, Bailey. Shana wants to do it.”

“If she says it’s hard, we can spoil her then.”

No matter how I think about it, my parents’ educational policy is perfect for spoiling a child.

‘If it weren’t for me. Their child would have grown up to be an incredible lunatic. Rich, with doting parents…’

It’s fortunate I’m still an only daughter with no siblings… It’s fortunate I’m actually an adult… Phew, phew!

I need to keep my wits about me and cleverly, cleanly, and sensibly milk them dry. If I become real trash, I won’t even be able to milk them. My life would end quickly.

I entered the First Building. I had to quickly treat all the patients before the others finished cleaning.

If I wanted to insist that the illness was cured because the environment became clean, it was better for me to personally clean and walk around. The clay had a very convenient automated medical system that healed just by touch, but since the severity of illness varied by person, it was more comfortable to have patients nearby.

‘It would be troublesome if I over-treated and everyone collapsed…’

Of course, it’s just their bodies relaxing and falling into comfortable sleep, but to others it would look like we barged in claiming to clean and beat everyone up…

No matter how I think about it, this ability is as troublesome as it is useful…!

‘I know it’s a luxurious complaint.’

It’s neither magic nor divine power, so it’s hard to use and difficult to gain recognition for, and everything else about me is below average. My stamina is trash, my magic is trash…

‘Am I not just trash pretending not to be trash, but actually just trash…?’

I almost got depressed for a moment, but I don’t give up. Even without stamina and magic, I have beauty and wealth.

‘Isn’t that plus minus zero…?’

I decided not to listen to the voice in my heart that kept making me realize reality.

“Shana, come here!”

“Do you think I’m a dog? Should I come when called?”

“You’re coming anyway.”

Well, I happened to want to clean there too.

“You should prioritize hovering around the patients. The others will do all the cleaning anyway.”

“Got it. But shouldn’t I do some cleaning myself?”

Raven stared at me intently. His golden eyes moved up and down.

“You?”

His expression was like a snob’s.

“Are you picking a fight, Raven?”

“No… How could I dare do that to a friend who ran all the way to a plague-stricken place for my sake.”

“You would. You definitely would.”

“I’m really grateful. I’m serious, Shana.”

“Why don’t your kind words sound sincere…?”

“I wonder. I’m doing my best because I want to win your heart.”

“You…?”

I looked at Raven with a dumbfounded expression.

“You’re mine from the start, but it’s better if you like me too.”

“Ah, yes, yes. Still saying that? What should I do about this prince complex…”

“I’m not a prince, I’m the Crown Prince.”

“…”

He’s stating facts, but why is it so annoying and irritating… My detestable childhood friend pressed a medicine bottle into my hand.

“Drink it.”

“What is it? Mm, it tastes bad.”

“…You drank it right away without even asking what it was. What if it was poison?”

“Ah, is it poison?”

Ugh. Then I’m dead. The clay is of no use to me. Raven laughed as if dumbfounded and said.

“Drink this too.”

“Ugh, this tastes bad too…”

Raven looked at me with a complicated expression for a moment. Then he placed his hand on my shoulder and spoke with a sigh.

“Shana, you shouldn’t trust people so easily.”

“I don’t trust just anyone. I drank it because you gave it to me.”

“….”

“Let’s go.”

Raven sometimes said funny things. He himself would eagerly accept whatever I gave him without even asking what it was.

‘I can’t tell if he gets jokes or not.’

Raven was quite witty and good at joking around me, but he was very strict and stoic with himself. He didn’t know how to act spoiled, and his pursuit of high ideals sometimes felt obsessive.

‘He’s going to collapse at this rate….’

Clicking my tongue, I approached the person lying helplessly on the floor. Even though strangers were ransacking their home, they seemed to lack the energy to protest.

“Who…?”

“Hello, Aunt. I’m called Shana.”

“Shana…?”

Her clouded eyes couldn’t seem to see my face clearly. I took her skeletal hand. It felt like a burning coal, probably from the high fever.

“You’ll get better soon.”

“What…?”

Not soon, but right now.

When I carefully pushed the clay in, it was absorbed smoothly. I made sure to absorb the clay through the patient’s back so no one would notice. Hmm, it’s glowing under the blanket.

‘Can’t do this at night.’

That worked out well. I need to sleep at night to grow taller.

“I can, breathe…?”

The aunt, whose complexion had brightened considerably, carefully sat up and blinked her eyes. Now that she could see my face properly, she looked at me, her hand held in mine, and the rapidly cleaning surroundings, opening and closing her mouth.

“You, no, a child like you shouldn’t be here!”

“It’s okay.”

This would be the normal reaction….

“You need to leave here right now….”

Looking at her skeletal hands, exposed wrist bones, and gaunt arms, it would be strange if she hadn’t gotten sick. I’d need to hurry with preparing meals to provide as well.

“Sleep well.”

I’ll fix everything completely in the meantime.

By afternoon, I was getting the hang of it. I became accustomed to pushing clay only under their bodies so light wouldn’t leak out, and my speed increased too.

‘It’s fun doing simple labor after so long….’

The hardest part was having to say a word or two to each patient to avoid suspicion, but I solved that by just varying the expression of “I came to help your parents, I’m a good child! I came with Prince Raven because we’re friends!” Deflection at its finest.

It reminded me of working part-time giving out samples at the mart during holiday breaks. My boss praised me for my mechanical script.

‘Huh?’

When the smoke I’d spread to check how many patients were upstairs brushed against the wall, it brightened as if it had been disinfected.

‘Some kind of purification effect…?’

What exactly is this ability?

‘Well, good is good….’

Let me purify the places I’ve finished cleaning too. I have energy to spare anyway.

‘I could open a hospital like this later.’

I hope I’ll be able to use healing magic by then….

The most basic healing magic ‘Heal’ was 3rd class, but it wasn’t very strong and only worked on small scratches. That’s why ‘Heal’ wasn’t even considered real healing magic.

It might be fine to heal using only Heal and give nutritional supplements pretending they’re prescriptions….

But Mother said with my pitiful amount of mana, I’d have trouble casting even one Heal. Sob. This ability is definitely good, really good, but I can’t explain it….

“Let’s keep going….”

I clenched both fists tightly and headed toward another building that needed cleaning.

***

Several days had passed.

Raven watched Shana’s back as she busily moved around treating patients today as well. It was almost the end now. By today, there would be no more sick people in this district.

“Duke Wentworth. Isn’t this having the opposite effect?”

“Hmm, you think so too?”

A small girl who unhesitatingly took the hands of patients with infectious diseases and spoke warm words to them.

Despite being the most precious bloodline in the Empire after the Imperial family, she walked through the lowest streets comforting people. Wasn’t this a beautiful story that could appear in any fairy tale?

Lady Shana Perry Wentworth’s actions spread as rumors throughout the capital in just a few days.

People who knew that during epidemics, the authorities would either neglect patients until they died or gather them up and burn them alive were deeply moved by her noble actions of not fearing disease.

Not only that.

When the adorable little girl would grasp the fingers of the sick with her small hands and offer a word of comfort, their pain would disappear as if washed away and their vision would brighten…

‘Well, of course she’s treating them.’

It was only natural.

But to people who had no idea that Shana was providing treatment, it appeared as if the little girl was performing miracles not through any ability or power, but through her ‘smile’ and ‘warm words.’

‘Is this really a better outcome than not having that mysterious power discovered?’

Hadn’t this actually stirred up even more rumors…

‘Thanks to that, the fact that I was here first got buried.’

From the beginning, Raven had intended to bring Shana in to quickly calm this situation, so praise didn’t matter much to him.

“Duke, do you want to make Shana famous, or do you want to hide her?”

“At first, I tried to hide her. Because Shana’s ability is dangerous.”

“Is it different now?”

“I changed my mind from the moment His Majesty requested that she treat Her Majesty the Empress. If I keep Shana completely hidden, she might be safe but she’ll be unhappy.”

“For all that, Shana doesn’t particularly seem to want to stand out.”

That’s why Raven had also agonized when bringing Shana into this.

This epidemic was particularly virulent and highly contagious. Many people were dying rapidly, so he had been concerned about it even without Count Algren’s provocation.

He knew the fastest and most efficient way to resolve the situation, but he couldn’t refrain from using that method while knowing people were dying.

“No matter how much we hide Shana, she’ll stand out.”

“What do you mean…”

“Because she’s pretty.”

“…”

“Because she’s cute.”

“…”

“Because she’s mine and Anais’s daughter, so her abilities are tremendous too!”

“Ah, yes…”

Raven unconsciously looked at Kail with cold eyes. This doting fool. Sensing that gaze, Kail chuckled and said.

“There are some suspicious fellows around, but it’s more convenient for her to come out than to hide. She’s already managed to hide well for four years now, hasn’t she.”

Those suspicious fellows were also Raven’s enemies. It was the reason why the Wentworth ducal house was helping Raven, even if temporarily.

“Besides, even though she’s doing conspicuous things, Maria, Ella, Bailey, myself and Anais of course, and even Wentworth’s Knight’s Order and the Royal Guard are protecting her. So any rash actions…”

That’s when it happened.

“Your Majesty, Your Grace! The Princess has disappeared!!”

A Guard Knight shouted.

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