I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 90

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Chapter 20. When You’re Having Fun, You’re Bound to Forget Something (2)

“Welcome, Lady Shana!”

“Evelyn!”

When I spread my arms, Evelyn pulled me into a hug. No, I was supposed to be the one hugging her.

‘Evelyn is taller than me…’

It must be because of the height difference. I gently patted Evelyn’s back as she held me.

“You’re safe.”

“Huh?”

“I was so worried…”

I wondered when I had gone off to war and returned. I had just gone to have fun at a ball, but anyone watching would think I was a husband returning from battle.

“I was so frustrated that I couldn’t personally watch over you by your side… I wanted to infiltrate so many times.”

“Let’s not do that.”

It would be troublesome if Evelyn got caught.

“I’m confident I won’t get caught!”

“Still, let’s not.”

Her perky ears drooped and tilted dejectedly. Since her tail wasn’t showing, those ears were a trick she was pulling because she knew I found them cute.

‘She’s so cute I could die…’

I was very weak to fox antics. When a cute girl does cute things, how could I resist finding her adorable…

“We’re here too, you know.”

“Guess we’re invisible.”

“It’s like they’re in their own little world.”

Ian, Leon, and Raven grumbled.

This was an inn that Evelyn had arranged in advance. We couldn’t walk the streets in party dresses, so the plan was to change clothes here. Evelyn pretended not to hear them and spoke to me.

“I only prepared two sets of men’s clothing, what should we do?”

“Let them figure it out. All three are capable, so they’ll find a way.”

“Yes!”

How cheerful, my friend…

Evelyn began taking out the things she had prepared, and I turned around. The three men who had been staring at us blankly blinked their eyes in unison.

“Are you going to stay there?”

“Huh?”

“I’m going to change clothes. Planning to watch or something?”

Raven grinned and said.

“Would that be okay?”

“Does it seem like it would be? Leon, grab him!”

“If he weren’t the prince, I would have called him crazy…!”

Isn’t that basically the same as cursing him out? Ian and Leon, their faces bright red, each grabbed one of Raven’s arms and pushed him out the door. Raven laughed heartily as he was dragged away.

Seeing things like that, their relationship doesn’t seem that bad. I understand it, yet I don’t.

“Lady Shana, shall I tie up your hair?”

“Yeah, do whatever you want with it.”

Evelyn’s cheeks flushed red with excitement. Even though her own hair was much softer and prettier, she loved touching my hair. She braided and tied it so delicately that I could barely tell what she was doing.

“Please take care of me, designer.”

“Leave it to me!”

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The festival street was overflowing with an energy different from usual.

Every shop had their doors wide open to receive customers, and the streets were lined with temporary stalls I’d never seen before. There was variety from jewelry shops that had simply spread cloth on the ground as makeshift displays, to street food stalls giving off appetizing smells.

That wasn’t all. There were people stroking obviously suspicious crystal balls offering to tell fortunes, and in circles of gathered people, acrobatic troupes were jumping around showing off their skills.

The thumping songs overlapped with several melodies so that none could be heard properly, and the shouting was as loud as the laughter.

“I want to eat that too!”

“Shana, you can’t eat it all anyway.”

Ian made a valid point. However, Leon was already taking steps in that direction following my instructions. The line is long though.

“Leon, don’t buy it.”

“Shana wants to eat it. What’s the big deal about eating one or two of these? Leave her alone.”

“When you know she’ll only take one bite and stop.”

“We came out to have fun, do you really need to be so strict? Stop being such a killjoy, Ian. You’ll be hated, you know?”

Raven interjected.

“You can’t read the mood, Lloyd the First.”

“Why don’t you butt out, uninvited guest.”

Now I didn’t even care that the twins and Raven were fighting. Oh, there’s something interesting-looking over there. I was about to walk over as if enchanted when my waist was grabbed.

“You can’t just follow anyone.”

“Let go, Raven. I just want to look at that.”

He seemed busy fighting with Ian, but he was watching everything. Then he naturally placed his hand on my shoulder. The movement was so natural I thought we were dancing.

“What?”

“Let’s remove that hand from my shoulder. I’m scared Evelyn might lose her mind and break your arm…”

“There are too many people, so I’m worried you might get lost.”

“Me?”

“No, me.”

“…”

How shameless. But Raven seemed sincere.

“Even if you get lost, the twins or your maid would find you, but no one would look for me, right?”

“You’re not the type to get lost often, are you? You get around just fine on your own!”

“I can’t be sure since there are three hyenas waiting for any chance to separate me from you if I let my guard down even a little.”

“…”

Indeed, that was convincing.

“What were you trying to look at?”

“Oh, that hairpin.”

I pointed to one of the stalls. It seemed like I had smoothly changed the subject, but since I had come all this way and it would be unfair to leave him out, I decided not to say anything.

“Oh my, are you a couple? What a dazzling pair of beauties!”

Right now I was wearing glasses. To others, I would look like Ella’s face. Our Ella really is a beauty. What terrifying beauty standardization…

“We’re not a couple.”

“We are a couple.”

The Shop Owner blinked. It couldn’t be helped.

“We are a couple.”

“Not yet.”

We really didn’t coordinate at all. Raven couldn’t hold back and burst into laughter, so I changed the subject.

“Shop Owner. Could you show me this?”

“This? Wait a moment, you have excellent taste too.”

The hairpin was flower-shaped, made by layering pale pink chiffon fabric and securing it with pearls. It would create an innocent atmosphere when worn in long black hair.

“Are you going to wear it?”

“No, I want to give it to Evelyn as a gift. I think it would suit her well.”

“Well, if you’re giving it to that girl, wouldn’t anything work?”

“Anything would suit her well, of course…”

“No, I mean as long as it’s from you, that’s all that matters.”

“You keep making our kids sound strange, but even though they have some obsessive tendencies, they’re perfectly normal kids, you know? They’re capable too.”

“At least you know.”

“Well…”

I couldn’t not know.

“I think dozens of times a day about where I started buttoning things wrong…”

Just what did I do wrong.

I could understand that my parents were oversensitive about my safety, but I couldn’t understand how even Evelyn and the twins developed overprotective tendencies. I concluded that it was ultimately because I wasn’t trustworthy. It really was all my fault.

‘I have been living quite peacefully though…’

Living comfortably was my goal, but I was lucky to be in an environment with only good people, so there was nothing to be tense about.

In my previous life, I could stay sharp because I thought I had to take responsibility for my only Younger Sister, but there was no need for that here.

After being reborn, I constantly felt like I was floating on clouds.

I was happy, but secretly suspicious.

Is this okay? Is this really possible?

What price would I have to pay for this happiness? If I had to pay a price someday, what would I have to give up?

I took out coins from my pocket and paid. I planned to keep it preciously and give it to Evelyn as a gift before bed, then ask her to sleep with me in dog form.

Meanwhile, Leon came back with the fruit skewer I had said I wanted to eat and held it out to me.

“Thanks!”

“The juice will drip, so hold it with this.”

Raven took the skewer instead of me and wrapped the bottom with his handkerchief. Even at a glance, it didn’t seem like something that should be wrapped around the bottom of a fruit skewer…

When I hesitated, Raven looked at me puzzled.

“The fruit skewer looks too precious…”

“Oh, Emperor, no, Father gave it to me, so use it comfortably.”

“…”

The source was even the Emperor…

I felt very uncomfortable, but I accepted it anyway. Raven didn’t seem like he would move until I took it, and more than anything, since this was already how the Prince was being treated, what did it matter if the Emperor’s handkerchief got a little dirtier?

It was a skewer made by cutting Niamo fruit into long pieces and grilling them. Niamo looked and tasted similar to pineapple, but differed in that it grew on trees. So it was a bit smaller than pineapple.

Still, when grilled over fire, the sweetness became stronger and the sourness decreased, just the same. When I took a bite, the juice burst out and the warm flesh melted.

“So delicious…”

“That means very delicious, right?”

“It means delicious enough to be respectful.”

“The nuance isn’t very good.”

I could feel Raven’s gaze turning toward my fruit skewer.

“Want some?”

“You’re not giving it because you’re sick of it, are you?”

Even while grumbling, he quickly took the skewer. Leon shouted loudly.

“Shana! Don’t give it to him, throw it away! I said throw it away!”

“You can’t carelessly throw away food, Lord Lloyd No. 2.”

“That’s an indirect kiss! Hand it over right now!”

What am I supposed to say to that.

“What’s the big deal about something like that.”

Having lived in a world where even kindergarteners kiss, I found Leon rather cute for making such a fuss about indirect kisses and whatnot over just eating something I had eaten.

He was supposedly famous as a playboy (that’s how it was set up in my mind), yet he’s making a big deal over just an indirect kiss.

However, as soon as I spoke, Ian and Leon looked at me with shocked expressions, and Evelyn also looked surprised. Even Raven had a startled expression.

“…Give it here, Raven… Evelyn, put this in the basket too… I’ll eat it later…”

The basket already contained a sandwich with one bite taken, a steak with one bite taken, and a cookie with one bite taken. I had given it to Raven because I was worried it might be too heavy for Evelyn to carry.

The twins, Raven, and Evelyn were still looking at me as if I were the most liberal person in the world. Since when have you all been so conservative…

‘I have absolutely no dating experience though.’

Did I act too tough…? Pretending not to notice their reactions, I muttered to myself a bit loudly. Ahem, hmm.

“Eating something someone else has eaten isn’t right, after all. Yeah, it’s gross. That’s not okay, right?”

Someone please answer.

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