I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 64

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64

 

Chapter 14. Excerpts from a 10-Year Diary (1)

 

But that wasn’t a joke. This heartless child.

 

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1. Age 7, summer vacation.

 

The unnamed hospital has fortunately been running smoothly for two months now.

 

‘Actually, it’s not really a hospital… it’s more like a traditional medicine clinic that just dispenses medicine.’

 

Since it was an illegal hospital after all, and because everything could essentially be solved with just clay, there was no need for impressive-looking equipment. Is this the problem?!

 

There’s not enough **** space, damn it… Looking at all the people crowded just in the lobby, I couldn’t tell if this was the neighborhood community center or a hospital. Of course, having lots of people was good. Most of them came to rip me off anyway.

 

Since I’d become a shop—gasp, I mean hospital—with regular customers, I wanted to get more proper equipment.

 

After all, when you say hospital, there should be equipment so expensive it makes your hands tremble. Even if not an MRI machine, I at least wanted an oxygen respirator.

 

“Just say the word!”

 

Fortunately, I had caught myself a new financial backer a few months ago. The beautiful Empress just talked but didn’t give money. She even made me study. She’d have nothing to say if I sued her for fraud.

 

“Magic equipment isn’t exactly my specialty, but after all, there’s nothing money can’t do.”

 

“Unnamed Father said the same thing.”

 

“…When you were little, you used to argue back saying what’s the use of just having money.”

 

Grandfather seemed to think he said it quietly, but I heard everything. Father was, more than I thought… quite the rebel, it seems.

 

‘Dad lived up to his looks… It suits him perfectly.’

 

He cries at the drop of a hat in front of me, but just looking at his appearance, I mean.

 

Summer and winter vacations were set for villas near the capital or at most coastal villas nearby. Mother apologized for not being able to go far, but I was deeply moved.

 

‘Being able to go on vacation at all…’

 

In summer, coming out of a house without air conditioning, Mina, Unnamed Father, and I would put ice water in a washbasin and soak our feet—that was our greatest luxury. I habitually recalled my past life and smiled bitterly.

 

What can I do about something that’s my foundation?

 

And even though it was summer, since I stayed indoors all day, it wasn’t particularly hot. This world, and the area near the Bayard Empire’s capital, wasn’t extremely hot in summer or cold in winter. Compared to South Korea’s steaming summers…

 

Still, this year I was spending summer at another nearby villa that Grandfather owned. Grandfather tried to give me something whenever he had the chance.

 

“All this old man has left is money.”

 

My financial backer who came to spoil me. I indulged in bad habits while taking practical benefits.

 

I left Ella, Maria, and Lili at the hospital. I’d made plenty of medicine, and told them to come get me anytime if it was urgent. Recently, Ella had become close with Lili and seemed to take her places often.

 

My parents were having a conversation with Grandfather, and I lay down in the shade with a book spread open. I wasn’t reading it. Because I’d already read it all.

 

Ian and Leon were having what was supposedly an intense sword fight right in front of me. It would sound impressive to call it sword training, but to me it looked like boys’ war games, swinging wooden swords around going “hyah hyah.”

 

“Cough.”

 

“Lady Shana, stop drinking cold beverages. I’m confiscating this.”

 

“Eeeh, Bailey! I just choked!”

 

Bailey coldly took away my lemonade. Ah, no, my precious!

 

And from that evening, I suffered from a terrible cold. It was an annual event I experienced every year. Why can’t I be happy? Bad premonitions never fail to come true…

 

-I knew this would happen. That’s why I told you not to kick off the blanket even when it’s hot.

 

“Nagging pest, get lost…”

 

-Be more careful.

 

“You worry about yourself…”

 

Like a monk who can’t shave his own head, no amount of clay worked on me. Cough.

 

2. Age 7, short autumn, night.

 

The night was short. I now quite familiarly opened my eyes in my dream.

 

“Ta-da, big sister! I’m here!”

 

“Fail.”

 

“Tch.”

 

Seth in Mina’s form ran over trying to hug me, but I didn’t give him the necklace of approval.

 

“Our Mina is more elegant and refined.”

 

“…That’s not what I saw in the memories though? She was rude and not cute, always ignoring her sister…”

 

“No way? You saw wrong? I was never ignored?”

 

“Isn’t that a delusion?”

 

Seth shrugged and returned to his own form. Looking at his beautiful face, I felt regret for just a brief moment. As if Seth read that feeling, he grinned and asked.

 

“Should I transform? Want to hug me?”

 

“So this is the devil’s temptation…”

 

“Come on, you can hug me all you want!”

 

“Coffee is too early for a 7-year-old.”

 

This demon visited my dreams at all hours. When he came, he didn’t really do anything. He’d just have a conversation and leave, but he always appeared in Mina’s form when he showed up, getting on my nerves.

 

Seeing Mina who seemed similar yet different was stressful in itself. That unlikeable bastard.

 

“This won’t do. Kids need to sleep well when they’re young to grow tall. Let’s set a schedule.”

 

“So can I mess with your friend while you’re not coming?”

 

“….”

 

“I’m fine with it. The contractor seems to be slowly catching on. It looks like they’re preparing to summon other demons besides me.”

 

Seth seemed excited even though he was in danger of being abandoned. I knew it would be pointless to try to understand the mind of this sociopath, or perhaps psychopath, but I asked anyway. Since I was summoned, the night was long.

 

“Then what happens? Do you break the contract and go back?”

 

“No. The contractor was just an excuse to come out and play in the middle realm anyway.”

 

“….”

 

“Thanks to that, your friend is living very safely even after leaving the Empire. I did well, right?”

 

This irresponsible employee. I looked pathetically at Seth who was sticking his head forward as if asking for praise.

 

“What if you really get cursed at and fired? Doesn’t that ever happen?”

 

“It’s not my fault they can’t recognize me and use me properly, is it? Your mind is more interesting than that anyway.”

 

“Shaflix, Shacha, Chabing, Shatube. Pay the subscription fee.”

 

“If you think about it, it’s similar to watching You*ube. I only need to pay for one, right?”

 

“….”

 

Now we were naturally exchanging conversations about my past life.

 

Looking at Seth who was smiling slyly, I let out a small sigh.

 

I couldn’t deny the comfort of not having to explain when I said something. And he even taught me how to handle my powers well. As a subscription fee, he said.

 

“If I can’t sleep well and don’t grow tall, it’s all your fault.”

 

I’ll be sleepy all day again today….

 

3. Age 8, Spring.

 

“I don’t want to go.”

 

“Why do we have to go to the Academy?”

 

“We’re already living as pages….”

 

The twins were slow to give up. And what do you mean page lessons when you barely did any while going to the hospital with me.

 

“Just go already.”

 

Lili said as if feeling refreshed. While seeing off the twins who grumbled until the end, I entrusted them with Raven’s share of gifts.

 

“Jake will like it!”

 

“As expected, Lili, are you dating Jake?”

 

Lili looked at me coldly. No, I won’t tease you anymore…. Scary.

 

4. Age 9, on a day when snow piled up heavily.

 

Maria said.

 

“I really want to learn healing arts.”

 

“You want to? Then I’ll give you money, so go learn. …Should you enter an Academy or something?”

 

Where do you learn healing arts?

 

“Enter an Academy at this age? You’re joking, Lady Shana.”

 

“Then how do you learn?”

 

Maria smiled instead of answering. It meant don’t ask. I knew that my former nanny and current illegal substitute doctor, whom I’d watched for nearly 9 years, wouldn’t do anything particularly honorable.

 

“I’ll pass my role to Ella.”

 

Maria left. I hoped Maria would safely become a healer and become our hospital’s only legal employee.

 

I slept in Evelyn’s arms that day.

 

Raven hadn’t contacted me for three months, and even Seth hadn’t come. I thought he was a wandering minstrel, but now that he suddenly stopped coming, it was bothering me.

 

5. Age 12, Spring.

 

I couldn’t enter the Academy. Because I was always sickly. Hey, I feed this body well, let it sleep well, and play with it well, so why is it like this? Don’t you have a conscience….

 

I heard there were even rumors that Shana Perry Wentworth had already died from illness. Because I lived such a secluded life.

 

Of course, I was living perfectly fine, basking in the warm sunlight with Ella. Nice weather.

 

Renate often received long-term requests and was away for extended periods, and I occasionally went to Ron’s Orphanage to give the children mud showers. The kids had already grown up quickly and become independent. I’m still short though.

 

“It’s nice not having to study. Hehe.”

 

“Lady Shana, please do the homework the scholar gave you.”

 

“Why does that old man bother to come all the way here….”

 

The old scholar from the Imperial Palace who had taught Raven and me was attending our hospital, having even refused an Academy professor invitation. Sob sob. His obsession is intense.

 

Now I was 12 years old, Raven was 17, and the twins were 16.

 

The twins came way too often. It reminded me of a colleague’s story about sending her boyfriend to the military, and since he was in the air force, they dated more often than before he enlisted.

 

“His Highness is really busy. It seems like he’s being called everywhere for Pire Kingdom business.”

 

“His personality is getting more and more eccentric, you know? It could get even worse from there. Shana, now’s your chance.”

 

I was in contact with Raven almost daily and having trivial conversations with Seth. I wasn’t particularly lonely, but I was still somewhat disappointed about not being able to go to the Academy. The twins only said it was boring with words, but their expressions were full of vitality.

 

Are my paramedics going to leave? I considered recruiting Ben, Bill, or Jake as paramedics. Without even dreaming of what was in my head, the twins spoke simultaneously.

 

“Break off the engagement.”

 

As if they weren’t twins.

 

6. Age 12, my birthday.

 

The rumors about my death seemed like they would completely disappear.

 

I came out to the manor lobby with Mother and Father, standing there with my mouth agape. I hadn’t even received gifts from my parents yet…

 

“That crazy bastard Raven…”

 

What am I supposed to do with all these flowers?

 

Even from far away, you manage to torment me. You’re really a clever son of a bitch…

 

7. Age 13, spring when flowers bloom.

 

Grandfather and aunt from the Lepoer Viscountcy came to see me.

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

Their eyes were exactly like those relatives who didn’t welcome Mina and me.

 

I thought I had returned to my previous life.

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