I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 5

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Chapter 1. The Truth About Me Being Reborn as a Baby (4)

“Are you really saying the baby used healing arts?”

The priest’s tone sounded like he was clicking his tongue, thinking “Parents always think their children are geniuses…”

“Are you suggesting I’m lying?”

Mother’s tone was quite authoritative too. Her presence was no joke.

“No, no. Of course not. But as you know, madam, healing arts are a blessed power granted only to high priests among the clergy…”

“Perhaps she has exceptional magical talent and unconsciously used healing magic.”

Father added.

“That’s also impossible. Healing magic is also a very high-level technique. Of course, as the daughter of one of the continent’s most renowned mages, she would have abundant talent, but as you know better than anyone, madam, healing magic isn’t something that can be used simply by having a lot of mana.”

“But…”

“Moreover, healing magic only works on external injuries and cannot cure illness or restore fatigue. So it doesn’t match the recovery you felt, madam.”

Very firm. Is he a firm pumpkin?

“Can you guarantee there’s nothing wrong with Shana’s body?”

“Yes! I can say with confidence. She’s very healthy.”

The priest continued talking for a while longer, but I mostly tuned him out. Right now, it was more important to explore this strange sensation I had just grasped.

That feeling like something had slipped out from inside my body.

That vague sensation was something I had never experienced in my previous life.

For me, who had been living a life of just lying down and staring at mobiles, this was the most interesting toy of all. If I had heard this in my previous life, I would have thought it was something a “Do you know the Way” person would say, but…

There’s real magic here!

‘I had my doubts, but it was real!’

Even when I heard about healing arts and such, I was actually half-skeptical. If I hadn’t seen the wolf’s leg heal with my own eyes, I would have thought it was the blonde kid’s early chuunibyou phase.

“Abu, baa…”

I got so focused that I ended up babbling. At least I didn’t drool.

When I waved my short arms in the air, I could see faint clusters of light. This is it! This is it!

“Bba!”

“Shana, you seem to be in a good mood…”

Father placed his hand on my forehead. The light lingering around my body didn’t flow toward Father.

‘Healthy people don’t need healing? Automatic diagnosis is amazing.’

After waving around a few times, I started to get a rough sense of it. It seemed to gather using something inside my body as a medium.

It was like kneading clay, or stirring water. Very strange, but I liked it most because the faint flickering light was pretty.

‘Earlier I felt something slip out from inside…’

If I controlled it well, I felt like I could draw up more without wasting it.

I lay there and just rolled my eyes to look at Mother.

‘She must not be feeling well at all.’

The light clusters that didn’t flow toward Father at all had been sucked in like they were being uprooted.

I didn’t want Mother to be sick again this time either.

My parents, who had sent away all the people they had called – the priest, healer, and mage – looked somewhat gloomy.

“It wasn’t my imagination, Kail.”

“I know.”

“If it wasn’t divine power or magical power, then what could it have been?”

“For now, since they say there’s nothing wrong with Shana’s body, we can only wait and see.”

“As the priest said, healing arts are very difficult techniques. Priests use borrowed divine power, but mages must use enormous amounts of mana… Since she cleared my breathing in an instant, Shana must have paid some kind of price.”

“Anais, for now just think about the fact that Shana is healthy.”

That’s right, I’m completely healthy.

I knew it, but my mother had a tendency to be overprotective of me since the kidnapping incident (I don’t know about before). At least Father is rational, so that’s fortunate…

“If there’s any problem with Shana, I’ll turn the entire continent upside down to solve it.”

“…I’ll trust you.”

No… He’s not rational either…

Father’s face with gleaming eyes looked quite resolute and determined. Just from his eyes, it looked like he was prepared to kill everyone.

‘There’s nothing to worry about that much.’

Three whole people certified that I’m healthy. I raised both arms toward Mother who was reaching out to me.

“Maa!”

“Oh my, Shana. Mommy is here… Huh?”

Everything flashed before my eyes. You were in worse condition than I thought… Mother…

Watching the light clusters I had deliberately poured out flash and flicker like they were exploding, I saw Mother’s face that looked like she was about to cry.

Oh, she’s pretty.

***

“Shana! Shana, wake up!”

“Anais, calm down. She’s just sleeping!”

“But Kail!”

“More importantly, we need to check your body.”

Anais was startled with her tear-stained face. Kail took Shana from Anais’s arms and held her skillfully.

“Is my body important right now?”

“It is important. Look, Shana is breathing well. She’s sleeping peacefully.”

“Suddenly falling asleep isn’t normal!”

“Using healing arts isn’t exactly normal either.”

“How can you be so calm?!”

“Do I look calm to you?”

Anais caught her breath.

“No…”

“To protect Shana, we need to stay sane first.”

“…You’re right, we have to… We can’t repeat the same mistake twice.”

Anais’s green eyes darkened deeply.

When Shana was kidnapped, Anais was literally out of her mind. She never imagined that the nanny who raised her would kidnap her daughter, and she was going crazy with fear that she might lose her daughter due to her own carelessness.

From the shock of that incident, Anais developed an illness.

It was a disease where her magic power became twisted and tangled, destroying her body.

Since it was a condition that couldn’t be cured by healing arts or even healing magic, she had been restraining her use of magic power as much as possible and focusing on managing her physical strength first.

“…I’m completely… healed…”

“That’s a relief.”

“What’s a relief? What… What if there was some bad influence on our Shana because of me…”

“That won’t happen. Our daughter seems to be an incredibly filial child. She wouldn’t do anything to worry us.”

“What Shana used wasn’t healing magic. It wasn’t healing arts either…”

“It seems that way.”

“But there can’t be power without a price. Even if Shana is fine for now, if the Temple finds out such power exists, they won’t leave her alone.”

“All three who examined Shana will keep their mouths shut.”

“We need to make sure they can’t open them.”

“How ruthless.”

“Do you dislike that?”

“Not at all.”

Kail kissed Anais’s temple. Though Anais looked like she couldn’t bear her worry for Shana, she didn’t cry anymore.

She calmly reached out and ran her hands over Shana’s body.

“Even though she’s so small.”

She’s just a tiny baby who can barely crawl on the ground…

“Her magic power is stabilized too… Her breathing is steady. She really is just sleeping.”

“You need to trust your husband’s words a bit more.”

“…But we can’t let her use it on people anymore.”

Shana’s ability had to be kept secret.

They were determined not to tolerate any threat that might come to their daughter who had miraculously returned alive.

***

“Renate. You said you injured your leg. It looks fine.”

“A human baby healed it.”

“…Healing arts don’t work on us, right? No, more than that, a baby?”

The man called Renate nodded his head. Then he spoke to the man sitting across from him.

“So I was hesitating about what to do.”

“Are you listening to me?”

“A human kid came and took her away.”

“A human… kid? You’re talking about humans, right? Not our beastmen?”

“Right.”

“Does it make sense that a human kid picked up a baby? How can a child raise a child? Well, for us, we don’t age according to our appearance, so even a kid could be an adult, but…”

The wolf beastman, Renate, recalled the young boy with blonde hair and golden eyes. His intelligently shining eyes never wavered even when facing a wolf.

It was probably because he was confident that his safety was assured at any time. Certainly, with that many guards attached, he would be safe at any time.

‘That would be better for the baby.’

He didn’t have confidence in raising a baby anyway.

He had made the foolish mistake of accidentally entering the Hunting Grounds while trying to take a short walk. He only realized it was the Hunting Grounds after getting an arrow in his leg, so he must have been quite absent-minded.

Light golden hair and pale cheeks, clear green eyes.

The baby abandoned in the Snow Plain looked straight at him with big eyes.

Without any fear.

Renate rested his chin on his hand and fell into thought.

“If the baby grows up well.”

“Hm?”

“I wonder if she’ll show us kindness too.”

Healing arts don’t work on beastmen. They don’t really need it much anyway since their natural healing ability is so high, but they were very vulnerable to diseases.

“What favor could you expect from humans?”

“True.”

But that baby was somehow different. She looked at him, a wolf, and smiled as brightly as sunlight.

Eyes filled with nothing but goodwill.

And a scent that made his heart feel at ease.

‘Do all babies smell like this?’

It didn’t seem like it.

“I should have brought her with me after all.”

He memorized the scent.

Once she had grown up a bit, it would be fine to bring her along.

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