I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 41

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Medical Chart 3. Rierem District Hospital (4)

The white building appeared in that spot in just one night.

Magic was employed, and the addition of beastmen labor, who were stronger than humans, made the work progress at an unreasonably fast pace. To those who didn’t know the detailed circumstances, it seemed to have appeared in the blink of an eye.

The sudden appearance of a three-story building was already eye-catching, but its exceptionally white and clean exterior walls drew even more attention.

Every passerby inevitably glanced at it once or twice, and those gathered nearby whispered about the building. Most of their words were concerns about who owned this mysterious building and whether it might be dangerous.

Renate, who had returned to his hometown after a long time, briefly stared at the white building that was showing off its presence next to his dwelling.

Near the building, there was definitely a scent he recognized. He frowned and roughly kicked open the door to Ron’s tavern.

Ron, who had been standing inside the bar, jumped in surprise and hunched his large shoulders. Renate set down his luggage and immediately grabbed Ron by the collar.

“Ugh, Renate?! You’re already back…?”

“Explain.”

“What… what?”

“Why I smell Shana’s scent from your next door.”

“Hiccup!”

“It’s very strong here too.”

When Renate put strength into his fist, Ron’s large frame was helplessly dragged along. Ron quickly shouted before Renate’s other clenched fist could fly toward his face.

“I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you everything!”

“Know that if you lie, I won’t give you a single penny.”

“Of course…”

Renate released his grip on Ron’s collar. Ron thought his attitude seemed a bit servile, but Renate had already surpassed Alpha Ron’s strength and was a precious source of income. He was only enduring hardships to repay a debt and out of loyalty, so it was natural for him to become weak.

At that moment, children’s crying could be heard echoing from a nearby alley.

***

Leon and Ian tilted their heads.

“What made you think you could take us on?”

“Waaaah…”

Next to the boy who burst into tears, a slightly larger boy shouted angrily.

“Don’t cry, Ben! If you cry, we lose!”

“But, but, waaaah!”

“How can you cry in front of these slimy noble brats? Have you no pride?!”

“It’s not like pride will save us!”

Watching them fight among themselves was completely deflating.

“What’s with you kids? What made you think you could take us on?”

“Sorry, but it’d be better if you don’t do bad things around here anymore. If you really need to pull jobs, find somewhere else.”

Ian also seemed to judge that seriously fighting these children would be foolish, so he spoke in a somewhat gentler tone to reason with them.

“We don’t usually do it here either! There’s nothing to steal!”

“That’s something to be proud of…”

Leon looked in turn at the two boys and one girl who had fearlessly tried to rob them.

Their appearance was, needless to say, shabby. However, they were wearing clothes and shoes, and their faces seemed fairly clean as if washed once. They didn’t appear to be children living on the streets without shelter.

Leon clicked his tongue.

“I heard the Prince provided plenty of food support while cleaning up this district. Did that bastard just leave stingily?”

“Leon, you should say ‘His Highness.'”

“There’s no one listening anyway.”

“Those kids are listening.”

Ian smiled lightly and gestured with his head. Despite being thoroughly beaten (they didn’t hit the girl) and kneeling, the children glared fiercely when the Prince was spoken of badly.

“I just called something stingy what it was. What’s the problem?”

“Prince gave us enough to eat all winter! We’re not doing this because we’re hungry!”

“Ah, so you just tried to rob us for no reason?”

“Because we need money!”

After shouting angrily, he bit his lips tightly.

The twins looking down at him were clearly children who had been born with incomparably better luck than themselves. They were obviously nobles, and they would be living lives with guaranteed safety.

“If you need money, get a job…”

“Shh, Leon.”

“Ah, why?”

“If Shana were here, she would have told you to read the room.”

Read the room, Leon! Leon shut his mouth tight as he seemed to hear Shana’s voice shouting as if he were pathetic. Ian crouched down to meet the children’s eyes and asked.

“You’re not short on food and you have homes, right? Then why did you urgently need money?”

“You think we’ll just tell you honestly?!”

The child who seemed to be the leader stubbornly held out to the end, but the crying child seized the moment and quickly opened his mouth.

“We need medicine!”

“Hey, Bill!”

“They might help us!”

“How can we trust these guys!”

“We attacked first, but they’re asking us questions! And what changes if we don’t talk and just endure?”

It was a realistic answer. Ian thought the crybaby boy was much more suited to be a leader than the leader boy.

“Who’s sick?”

“I heard that our Shana, no, the Prince recently cured the epidemic that was spreading in this district.”

“…There aren’t any among the humans.”

Leon and Ian perked up their ears. The twins exchanged glances, then Ian asked in a deliberately gentle tone.

“Then it’s a beastman?”

“Gasp, how did you know?!”

The leader boy sneered, “You said it all with your own mouth…”

“If it’s not human, it must be a beastman. I heard there’s a beastman tavern next to the ‘hospital’ anyway.”

“Hospital?!”

The crybaby boy’s eyes sparkled.

“A hospital is a place that heals sick people, right?! Please help us! I’ll pay later, so please! There’s a sick kid!”

“Where are they?”

“If you follow me…”

“You idiot, I told you not to talk! Lili already doesn’t trust us, what if you tell other people?!”

“Then should we just leave her to die?”

Leon whispered to Ian.

“Don’t those kids get along worse than they look?”

“It’s probably similar to why Teacher Maria and Teacher Ella fight often.”

They fight because they’re close. Ian left the boys who had started fighting among themselves alone and spoke to the Small Girl who was sitting quietly in fear.

“Is that beastman sick? Is it an epidemic?”

“I-I don’t know well, but they said the symptoms are the same…”

“They said? You haven’t seen directly?”

“Jake said it’s contagious so he won’t let us get close…”

Leon said.

“That was the right thing to do.”

“Even if it wasn’t that, Lili hates humans so she won’t let us get close. She’s hiding in an abandoned building basement right now, but even before she got sick, she would hide if we got too close.”

“The kidnapper, no, the adult beastman?”

“Lili is alone. When I asked Jake, he said only we know about her. Oh, Jake is a beastman we’re friendly with, but the adults tell us not to play with Jake either.”

Ian nodded.

The children seemed to live in this area. The young beastman named Lili appeared to be living in hiding, and it seemed only the child named Jake went in and out to take care of her.

“What should we do, Leon?”

“…You always ask after you’ve already decided everything.”

Leon grumbled. The answer was already decided, so he didn’t know why Ian had to make him say it out loud.

“Shana said so. Our job is to find sick people and bring them to the hospital.”

“We haven’t started the job yet though.”

Ian shrugged.

Shana had said ‘paramedics’ then quickly changed it to ‘rescue knights’. She was being considerate of the twins who were training to become knights. The twins had no complaints whether they were paramedics or rescue knights, as long as they were Shana’s knights.

“From what I’m hearing, she seems very wary.”

Leon looked at Ian and said.

“You’re good with words, so if you charm her well like you did with those kids, won’t she come around?”

“I know you’re trying to pass it off because it’s bothersome. And I’m not confident in persuasion.”

Leon looked at Ian as if surprised. It was unexpected that he would honestly admit he wasn’t confident.

“Threats are more my specialty than persuasion.”

“…Oh, I see…”

“And logic doesn’t work on people who have no intention of listening. It’s not about making them understand.”

That was true too.

To someone who distrusts humans, saying things like ‘follow us and we’ll save you’ or ‘we’ll help you for free even though we just met’ would only create suspicion.

Since the twins had no great affection or interest in anyone other than Shana, they had no sincerity to show with care. They were only doing it because Shana ordered them to.

There was no way anyone would believe and follow such insincere words about doing something because a superior ordered it.

After a brief moment of consideration that wasn’t really consideration, the twins decided to choose the rational method.

***

A little while later.

After hearing that preparations were complete, Shana came to the hospital holding Maria’s hand after finishing her lessons and faced the girl the twins had brought.

“Mmph, mmph…”

“We had no choice. She said she doesn’t trust humans…”

“She wouldn’t let us approach…”

Shana said nothing. The twins rattled off explanations no one had asked for.

“She tried to bite her tongue so we stopped her…”

“She was clawing at herself so we tied her up.”

The thin girl was thrashing about relentlessly on the bed with her hands and feet bound and her mouth gagged. Shana looked at the twins who were making excuses while seemingly hoping for praise and sighed deeply.

Ian shamelessly added.

“It was an emergency situation, so there was no choice. You understand, right?”

Understanding my ass.

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