I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 68

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Chapter 15. Why Are You Coming Out of There (3)

 

Though he didn’t realize it himself, the patient who was already fully healed without needing to drink a potion left the clinic with a bewildered expression. I told Lili to prescribe him a three-day supply of potions filled with raspberry juice.

 

For the first few years after opening, I prescribed actual potions even to patients who were faking illness. Since Maria and Ella were the ones conducting examinations, treatment could only be done with potions.

 

However, once I started handling most of the examinations myself, there was no need to give out potions anymore. So I began filling delicious juices instead for people I had treated.

 

There is such a thing as the placebo effect, after all.

 

If you believe something is good for your body and drink it, it should have a beneficial effect. Since they’re already completely healed anyway.

 

“Lady Shana!”

 

Evelyn entered through the inner door of the clinic. Her steps were somewhat hurried. She quickly took in the empty clinic and, with her sensitive nose likely picking up the scent of a stranger, frowned with her straight brows.

 

“I’m sorry. While I was away from my post…”

 

“It wasn’t even that long. Where are the twins?”

 

“Lord Renate took them away. He said they needed to move potions. They’re useless just sitting here anyway.”

 

I laughed, saying that was too harsh, but there was nothing wrong with what Evelyn said. At most, the twins had nothing to do but kill time in the backyard practicing swordplay or physical training.

 

Such a waste. No matter how I think about it.

 

“They’ll be back soon.”

 

“What did you talk about? With the twins.”

 

“The usual nagging. Leon was grumbling so much about being embarrassed in front of Lady Shana, asking me to speak to him separately if I had something to say…”

 

I couldn’t help but sympathize with Leon and Ian.

 

Evelyn had truly become a perfect… Bailey doppelganger.

 

Though she didn’t resemble him in appearance at all, her expressions, gestures, and way of speaking had become exactly like a copy-paste of Bailey.

 

Especially the twins, who had often been scolded by Bailey, would show distaste when Evelyn acted exactly like Bailey—even Ian, who was usually ambiguous with his emotional expressions, would grimace.

 

“What did they get scolded for this time?”

 

“Just the same things. Don’t lie down on the patient beds, don’t dirty the cleanly mopped hallways with muddy shoes, if you’re going to be lazy then go outside and wander the streets.”

 

Evelyn was starting to seem like the twins’ older sister to me. The content of her nagging was almost like a mother or a much older sister.

 

“Still, I could understand their feelings of not wanting to be embarrassed in front of Lady Shana, so I listened to that request, but it won’t work after all. Now that I think about it, if I nag them separately, I’d have to leave Lady Shana’s side.”

 

“I’m fine with it. I’m inside the hospital anyway.”

 

“I don’t like it.”

 

“Ah, I see.”

 

You should have just said that from the start…

 

Evelyn, officially recognized by Lili as obsessive, was suffering from serious separation anxiety. She tried not to leave my side whenever possible.

 

“You badmouthed us to Shana again, didn’t you?”

 

“You’re back already?”

 

“I hurried because I was curious what you might say.”

 

Leon burst through the clinic door with a bang. Ian also showed his face a couple steps behind him. I picked up my warm teacup and prepared to watch the show.

 

Ian quietly came to my side and leaned against the window. When I told him to sit, he declined, saying he was fine.

 

“What would I say? Are you suggesting I would lie to Lady Shana?”

 

“Slandering and defaming us is your hobby.”

 

“Who has such a dirty hobby?”

 

“You, you. You, Evelyn.”

 

“You’re the one doing the defaming.”

 

Evelyn and Leon quarreled fiercely.

 

Of course, they weren’t seriously fighting, just engaging in friendly bickering. Even though they act like this, they don’t actually hate each other, so there’s no need to worry.

 

Ian spoke.

 

“It was someone coming for the first time?”

 

“Yeah. He seemed like a frail young master. Looked like a son from a wealthy family.”

 

“…”

 

Ian looked at me for a moment with eyes that said “Look who’s talking…” Why. What.

 

“His name?”

 

“Nathan. Don’t know his surname. He wouldn’t reveal it anyway. The name might be fake too.”

 

“Suspicious.”

 

“Even so, could he be more suspicious than us…”

 

I let out a hollow laugh. It went without saying that we, who had deliberately gathered people and been playing hospital for several years now, were far more suspicious than a patient with fake illness who came to the hospital secretly while hiding his name.

 

Leon and Evelyn were really bickering over trivial matters, and as I watched the scene with my chin propped up, I suddenly realized that Leon was taller than Evelyn.

 

It was actually a completely natural thing.

 

Even before graduation, Leon and Ian were about a head taller than Evelyn, yet somehow I had been thinking they were the same height as Evelyn.

 

Since I’m 18, the twins are… 22…

 

In terms of my previous life, they’d be like returning students who had completed military service. What the heck. I suddenly feel a sense of distance.

 

Just like my body, Evelyn, and Lili, the twins had really grown up well too.

 

If they used to be like mischievous angels with red hair, now they were sturdy and handsome knights. The faces that had been cute and handsome since childhood were the same. Leon had a cheeky and spirited impression, while Ian had a relatively calm and cynical impression, but… they basically looked identical.

 

Still, I had never once confused the twins. Their expressions were different, and their eyes were different too.

 

If they were determined to deceive me, I might be fooled.

 

After staring up at Ian for a while, he noticed my gaze and looked at me.

 

“Is there something on my face?”

 

“Yeah, handsomeness.”

 

“….”

 

“Don’t glare at me like that. If you don’t like it, just say so… Even when I compliment you, you act like that.”

 

“…It’s not that I don’t like it.”

 

“You must have received plenty of compliments before, so why act like this?”

 

“Not really.”

 

Ian said coldly. Is he embarrassed?

 

“Don’t you have lots of people following you around asking for dates?”

 

“I told you there weren’t any. Well, Leon does a bit.”

 

Leon, who had been arguing with Evelyn, somehow heard and shouted “Ian!”

 

“Didn’t one of the Guard Knight members persistently chase after you?”

 

“He’s just a colleague! Ian, you know that too!”

 

“He only asked me once and that was it though?”

 

“That’s because you’re scary…”

 

Ian sharply raised the corners of his eyes. Hmm. I understand.

 

“So he only bothers me because I’m easier than you.”

 

“That’s why you should have handled yourself better.”

 

“…This is just a personality issue. You’re so merciless…”

 

“What?”

 

Leon shut his mouth.

 

I had been listening quietly and then spoke.

 

“Aren’t you both too young to be rotting away here?”

 

Oops. The atmosphere turned cold.

 

Not only Ian, but even the cheerful Leon was now serious.

 

“Are you saying we’re not needed? Shana. Why would being by your side be rotting away?”

 

“That’s not what I meant, I’m saying this because it seems too good for me…”

 

If they joined the Royal Guard, they would obviously be much more active than now. Rolling around like unemployed bums with nothing to do in this secluded building and getting nagged by Evelyn…

 

It was too inefficient.

 

‘If I had known their futures would be this promising, I wouldn’t have said I’d take responsibility for them.’

 

I would have left them alone whether they cried or not!

 

However, Ian and Leon still had serious expressions.

 

“I told you it’s meaningless if it’s not by your side.”

 

“Do you dislike us?”

 

Asking that was unfair.

 

“Who said I dislike you. Of course I like you.”

 

“Then that’s settled.”

 

What’s settled, you stubborn fools…

 

Ian and Leon, perhaps because they graduated from the Academy’s Knight Department, knew many people. The twins would never say it, but there were definitely people who coveted them.

 

Right, they would have connections.

 

“Ian. Leon. Evelyn. You three are on my side, right?”

 

“Of course.”

 

“No need to even ask.”

 

“I’ll be on Shana’s side alone even after death.”

 

Evelyn’s love is a bit heavy.

 

“Then can you do me one favor? It’s a secret from other people.”

 

“What are you scheming?”

 

“I’m worried…”

 

“I’ll do anything if it’s what Shana wishes!”

 

The twins pulled back slightly, but when Evelyn suddenly stepped forward and shouted, they spoke as if they couldn’t lose.

 

“I’ll do anything for you.”

 

“Just tell us. We’ll prove that we’re useful.”

 

Who said you weren’t useful? I said you were too good for me…

 

“I want a private auction invitation.”

 

“….”

 

“….”

 

“….”

 

The three of them shut their mouths as if they had made a promise.

 

***

 

Despite how they looked, the twin knights who never went back on their word and Evelyn who was excessively loyal to me, admirably brought me the invitation I had requested that very evening.

 

Their abilities are good too.

 

When asked how he got it, Leon’s face became gloomy. Ian smiled brightly.

 

“He agreed to go on a date.”

 

“Ah, with that Guard Knight?”

 

Ian nodded his head as if satisfied.

 

“When is this? Huh, tonight?”

 

“Are you planning to keep it secret from Kail and Anais too?”

 

Ian asked.

 

“If you’re planning to keep it secret, will you cooperate?”

 

“Of course. I said I’m on your side.”

 

Oh. I hadn’t expected that much.

 

“I should tell them. If I say I’m going with the three of you, they’ll give permission. Let’s hurry.”

 

My parents, who had gone through a rough adolescence, seemed to be careful that I might go astray like they did. Grandfather told me they worried about what would happen if I ran away from home because they were being too restrictive.

 

‘When I’m at home with a full belly and warm back, why would I do something like run away…’

 

I roughly left a note for Father and Mother, then hurriedly changed my clothes. Since nobles would be gathering, there were many things to pay attention to. Oh, I should bring my glasses too.

 

I was so excited gathering this and that that I didn’t notice the gold ring sparkling with light.

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