I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 83

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83

Medical Chart 5. Once Again, Only I Was Serious (3)

Wasn’t that a tone that seemed to distinguish between Shana and Ella?

‘Am I being oversensitive?’

Lili tilted her head with an uneasy feeling. However, she couldn’t find any hostility from the man, and he only appeared harmless and fragile, leaving her with no further reason to be suspicious.

It definitely wasn’t the Apothecary Guild either. He was a face she hadn’t seen in this area before. Besides, the Apothecary Guild wouldn’t bother with the hospital at this point. The rumors about the hospital were already as bad as they could get, so they wouldn’t even feel it was worth dealing with.

In the end, Lili decided to swallow her uneasiness. She figured that because she disliked humans, she was being oversensitive about trivial matters. She was a little worried, but only a little.

I’m different from the twins. Different from that obsessive Evelyn too. I’m different… I don’t overprotect to that extent. Not so disgracefully.

“Lili, good morning!”

“…Shana.”

The clinic door opened and Shana greeted her. Lili was inwardly surprised, but tried not to show her emotions on her face as she answered a beat late.

“Wasn’t Lady Ella supposed to see patients today?”

“No, I overslept so I asked her to go first, but I’ll be the one seeing them.”

“Now you won’t give me a chance to step up.”

Ella had already taken off her gown.

Until Shana turned sixteen, they used to split the medical examinations in half. Shana also had studies to complete, and because she was short, no matter how much she disguised her face, she couldn’t possibly look like the same person as Ella.

“Well, it’s my hospital after all. I should do it as much as possible.”

“Even so. You quickly overdo it, that’s why.”

“Huh? When did I?”

Shana’s eyes widened. Lili and Ella simultaneously shook their heads as if they had expected this.

“Who was it that had a fever and was bedridden for several days recently?”

“…That was me. But that wasn’t from overdoing it…”

“Your mother also said you don’t need to do all the assignments the scholars give you.”

“Well, it helps though. Since I couldn’t attend the Academy, I’m probably lacking in general knowledge.”

“Who spouted such nonsense to our young lady?”

Ella asked with a gentle smile. However, unlike her smile, her eyes were as cold as ice.

“Who exactly fed you such completely wrong information about lacking common sense? When Maria, Bailey, and I put so much effort into teaching you?”

“It’s just my feeling…”

Shana said with an awkward smile. Lili inwardly thought that’s why she might consider information that was ‘excessive in other ways’ as lacking.

“And the fever was because my stamina was insufficient. Normally, people don’t call living with something like this ‘overdoing it.'”

“Lady Shana’s standards are strange.”

Ella declared. That was something Lili wholeheartedly agreed with too.

Shana spoke as if she were some lazy good-for-nothing, but if you watched her even a little, you could see how serious she was about the hospital work.

When the beastmen she adored came back injured, even though they could be treated with medicine, she wouldn’t be satisfied unless she treated them directly, and while saying her power was perfect even without knowledge, she would collect and read research materials and books about beastmen whenever she had time.

Saying it wouldn’t hurt to know, after all.

If she did things in moderation, who would stop her? But Shana’s standard for ‘working hard’ was different from others. No one calls using up all your stamina until you collapse ‘not overdoing it.’

The beastmen who looked painful just to watch and cried while being treated were actually hundreds of times healthier than Shana herself. Who was pitying whom…

Lili’s anger flared up every time she saw those guys who deliberately showed off wounds that could be treated with medicine, grinning foolishly just to see Shana’s face one more time.

From topical ointments to drinking potions, she had provided items with effects no less than Shana’s treatment, but they would give those away to others and pretend to be weak!

‘Ah, how annoying.’

Of course, thanks to Shana, the Rierem District had changed beyond recognition. Winter epidemics disappeared, and the streets became cleaner. Drug-addicted vagrants vanished, and robbers and thugs disappeared from at least the area around the hospital.

In fact, the particularly bad security in the slums was partly due to beastmen who harbored resentment against humans. No matter how much Ron was there, he couldn’t interfere with attacking humans, so fights often broke out.

If Lili had survived with Jake as things were, she might have been attacking humans too.

However, when Shana appeared who could treat beastmen, not only Ron’s pack but also beastmen not belonging to Ron tacitly agreed that they must protect that human. So they absolutely stopped causing fights in the Rierem District.

Because Shana was so weak she’d die from one hit, so let’s not scare her.

Because she was a miraculous healer for beastmen.

As far as Lili knew, rumors about Shana were spreading quite widely in beastmen society outside the capital too. For now, thanks to Ron and Renate, half-hearted threats weren’t reaching out, but even that couldn’t be taken lightly.

Shana didn’t know all this, but she felt great responsibility knowing she was the only person who could treat beastmen.

Opening the hospital at such a young age unreasonably, and insisting on treating patients directly – it was all because of that.

‘Even so, she only has one body.’

Lili looked at Shana with disapproving eyes.

If you know your stamina is weak, shouldn’t you be careful and conserve your body? After collapsing several times, shouldn’t you realize ‘this is a level I can’t endure’ and learn from it!

However, Shana dismissed the people around her who worried about her as being overprotective, saying what’s the big deal about this much.

‘I’ve never been like that. When did I ever overprotect her to have my words treated the same as those people?’

But Lili prided herself on having an objective and rational opinion. I’m different.

“Lili, why are you looking at me like that?”

“…You have dark circles under your eyes.”

“What!? But I slept really well!?”

“You didn’t sleep soundly. Did you have another strange dream?”

“Mm, it was a good dream though….”

Ella looked at Lili and shook her head. It meant not to say anything.

Lili recalled the time when Shana was only half her current size. The hand that had held hers when she was trapped in terrible nightmares had been truly small.

‘It’s all a dream.’

‘When you wake up, all the painful and difficult things will be over….’

A seven-year-old who seemed to understand the heart of someone having nightmares so well.

That was because she herself often had nightmares. Though she always said she had good dreams, on days when she said such things, her eyes were particularly red and her expression was dark. And a few days later, she would inevitably fall ill.

Whatever made her so sorrowful and longing, she would cry while curled up in a ball.

That’s why Evelyn and the Wentworth couple, along with Ella and Bailey, took turns watching over Shana’s bedroom in the middle of the night. To at least hold her hand when Shana cried.

Yet the next day, she would smile so prettily and say she had happy dreams, so no one could say anything.

‘Who in the world would call dreams where they cry sorrowfully good?’

It was even more frustrating because she was sincere about it. Lili changed the subject.

“Your fiancé isn’t coming today, I guess?”

“Ah….”

“…?”

It was meant to be a light change of topic, but Shana’s expression only became more serious. She seemed to recall something and frowned slightly.

‘A friend who hasn’t even come to see her for 11 years, yet whenever his name comes up, she would smile as if talking about a beloved younger brother….’

Now for some reason, her face looked bitter, as if she had chewed on sour medicine. Lili tilted her head in confusion, unable to understand why.

‘Are they going to break up?’

That would be really good.

If she married the Prince, Shana definitely wouldn’t return to this street again. The twins might still be able to stay by Shana’s side then, but it would become difficult for the beastmen to see her often.

The only beastmen healer would disappear.

“Oh, cute. Show me that again.”

“What, what?”

“The head tilting!”

Here she goes again. Lili primly turned her head away with a huff.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Yeah, being sulky is cute too! Lili, let me hug you just once!”

“I don’t want to?!”

“If you’re going to hit me, hit me with your feathers!”

“When, when, when, when did I ever hit you!”

There was nothing she wouldn’t say with Ella listening. Lili jumped up in fear of being falsely accused. Ella remained calm, but the real ambush came when the clinic door opened.

“Lady Shana got hit…?”

It was Evelyn. The universally acknowledged Shana fanatic….

“No! No! It’s not true! Shana, tell her it’s not true!”

“Let’s have a chat, Lili.”

“Don’t call me so sweetly! It gives me chills!”

Lili shrieked loudly in shock, and eventually transformed into a canary and fluttered up into the air. The safest place at times like this was on top of Shana’s head. When the small canary perched on her crown, Shana smiled brightly as if she owned the whole world.

‘That was close!’

Lili caught her breath without seeing Shana’s smiling face and the shape of her mouth saying thank you, or Evelyn smiling proudly at the sight.

“As expected….”

Shana said with a grin.

“You’re the best!”

No, don’t say things that could be misunderstood. Lili couldn’t bear the jealous stares pouring down on her and burrowed into Shana’s hair.

Don’t say such things when you don’t even mean it.

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