I Opened an Illegal Animal Hospital in Another World - Chapter 99

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99

Medical Chart 6. Gotcha, You Bastard (3)

The culprit of the bombing terror was someone familiar.

As Raven had easily predicted from the start, it was the beastman that Shana had rescued from the auction house. He glared at Raven as if he were his mortal enemy, which was quite an absurd reaction from Raven’s perspective, considering he had at least helped, if not been a benefactor.

Raven wasn’t the type to let such shamelessness slide.

Honestly, he couldn’t understand Duke Wentworth’s patience in not immediately cutting off all their heads. If information was needed, they could just leave one alive. There was also the method of torturing them by killing them one by one. He was confident he could make them unable to endure without speaking, and he was even accustomed to it.

He didn’t want Shana to catch the scent of blood on him, but if necessary, he wouldn’t hesitate.

Raven wanted to kill those bastards one by one right now. He didn’t care about ruining the festival or the rumors that would follow. The only thing that mattered was that Shana had risked her life and lost consciousness because of those ungrateful idiots.

And look at this.

Even those idiots didn’t have a single scratch. No one was hurt. They lived thanks to Shana, maintained their lives and regained their health thanks to Shana, and thanks to Shana, they still had the strength to resent someone even while kneeling here.

If they had thought to use the brain in their heads with all that overflowing energy, would things have been different? The brain isn’t just decoration, but they seem not to know that. Raven sneered coldly.

“So repaying kindness with enmity, even with murderous intent, must be the way of beastmen.”

“…If you intend to insult all of us, I’ll gladly respond to your provocation.”

Renate retorted sarcastically. Of course, Raven, who had no intention of losing even to whatever protector who monopolized Shana’s affection and trust, sneered back.

“Well, even an incompetent protector who couldn’t protect the precious child he claimed to care about and left her alone to be caught in an explosion would naturally have his blood boil at a simple provocation if he’s the same beastman.”

“Your words are unnecessarily long. If you have complaints, come at me.”

“You’d better refrain from words you can’t take responsibility for, white-haired wolf. I’m already struggling to suppress the urge to kill you right now.”

“You’re the one who should watch your words. You act superior just because you’re a fiancé in name only, when you’re just an outsider who wasn’t by Shana’s side for a long time.”

“I should have killed you long ago. I shouldn’t have spared that prey that was bleeding from an arrow wound.”

“I agree, you damn brat.”

“Must be nice being old.”

Despite their deadly verbal fight, Raven and Renate didn’t move from their spots. Ian let out a hollow laugh and said.

“So you both know how to fight with words too.”

“If I kill him, Shana would hate it.”

“…Same here.”

Raven answered first, followed by Renate. It was perfect timing considering they had been fighting as if they’d kill each other and glaring with contempt.

Ian and Leon smiled bitterly.

‘Right, that’s what it comes down to.’

Everyone gathered in this place, unsuitably living like pacifists, was all because of that.

In the end, no one gathered here was free. Because they didn’t want to be hated by that small, weak girl.

Of course, Shana wouldn’t easily hate anyone, but she would surely be just as sad.

The twins had disliked Raven since childhood, and Raven felt the same. The twins didn’t particularly like Renate either. Yet they got along reasonably well with Renate and had some interaction with Raven at the Academy, all because they didn’t want to look bad in Shana’s eyes.

It was so pathetically clingy that it wasn’t even funny.

“But this is the end of that too. Shana follows you calling you uncle or whatever, not knowing your true feelings, but she must have clearly realized from this incident. That beastmen are beastmen and humans are humans. Isn’t that right?”

“…Don’t speak carelessly when you know nothing.”

“She built a hospital because she liked you all since childhood, gave everything away for you to use as you pleased, and despite being cursed and hearing all kinds of insults from humans about being contagious and diseased, this is what she got in the end.”

“What do you know!”

“Then am I wrong? In my eyes, Shana was just being used by beastmen. To an irritating degree that I couldn’t stand to watch. You’re the one who isolated her from humans while not accepting her into the beastmen’s world, Renate.”

“…”

“Well, I understand. Mere sympathy couldn’t resolve your deep resentment. I get it.”

Raven changed his attitude and smiled brightly. It was a refreshing smile.

Ian had seen Raven smile exactly like that while crushing the head of the Riamd Kingdom’s prince who had been clinging to him. Saying that if he had done well from the start, he wouldn’t have become a bother either. All his classmates had witnessed that scene.

Could the people who had been in the same place as him have imagined?

That the reason this arrogant prince, who seemed to view people as chess pieces and would never lose his temper emotionally no matter what happened, was throwing such a fit was simply because someone had hurt his childhood friend’s feelings.

“How convenient it must have been to have a useful human girl following you around. But when push comes to shove, one’s own kind comes first. Renate, I’m not blaming you. I’m trying to tell you that you made the natural choice.”

Raven looked over the kneeling man and his companions in turn.

“The rift between humans and beastmen isn’t a recent thing. I can’t say humans have done well. I know. Humans have repeated violent and disgusting acts. It’s natural for ‘you’ to hate ‘us’. Humans are indeed a species that deserves to be hated.”

“…Stop your babbling. There’s a limit to my patience.”

“I’m not blaming you, I said. Even if you left Shana alone in the underground passage where the explosion occurred, in a place where the ceiling could collapse at any moment…”

Raven deliberately paused. The expressionless Duke Wentworth and the twins were quietly watching the situation.

“If luck hadn’t been on our side, what I found might have been Shana’s corpse crushed under rubble, but I’m saying there’s no responsibility on your part for that.”

“Shut up! If you don’t want to die.”

“Well, setting aside whether you can kill me, aren’t you thinking about the damage that would come to your kind from touching a prince? Guardian of beastmen. If you kill me, all the beastmen on the continent might become prey. I’m quite a beloved prince, you see. In case you don’t know, let me tell you – today’s festival was held to celebrate my return.”

Renate gritted his teeth. Murderous intent flowed over him as if it would cut anyone who touched it, but he managed to suppress his anger. Leon spoke.

“That’s enough, Your Highness.”

“Why should I?”

“Shana cares for beastmen. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she loves them. I’ll probably get scolded to near death for what I did to Lili, but if you go any further with Renate…”

“What.”

“…Shana might not speak to you for years.”

“Ha, no matter what, I can’t be worse than that white-haired wolf…”

“…Shana melts just from Renate transforming into a wolf and letting her ride on his back.”

“…”

“If he lets her pet his tail, she’ll forgive him no matter what he does.”

“…”

“If he lets her touch his ears, she might forgive Renate even if he killed Your Highness…”

The atmosphere in the room became solemn.

Raven felt pathetic that he couldn’t confidently deny it. Then Kail, who had been quietly watching, chuckled.

“I knew my daughter was popular, but I didn’t know it was to this extent.”

“It’s more than just popularity. If it were simply popularity, that would have been better…”

Ian said. Kail shrugged his shoulders.

“But if we don’t go this far, we’ll waste the whole day without any results. Then Anais would be angry.”

“…That’s scary.”

“Right? So let’s each handle our own business and find out what we need to know first. Leon.”

Leon stepped forward. He bent down to meet the eyes of the kneeling man.

“If you answer my questions obediently, I won’t hurt you, friend.”

“Who’s your friend?”

“Well, I don’t call you friend because I like you either.”

Leon smiled brightly.

As Lili had once commented, Leon had a cheerful personality and laughed often. He seemed hot-tempered at first glance, but when he was truly angry, he often became calmer instead.

This incident had revealed that when it came to matters involving Shana, his reason and judgment flew out the window, making him even more useless, but usually that was the case.

The angrier Leon got, the more quietly he smiled, and Ian became expressionless, but both became much more violent than usual.

“Because of you, I suspected Lili.”

“Leon, that’s because you were stupid. Don’t blame others.”

“Ah, can’t you let me shift the blame a little at times like this! You’re being so strict.”

“Wrong is wrong.”

“…Anyway, tell us who your previous master was.”

Kail sat in a chair, crossed his legs, and spoke.

“An interrogation scene with no tension whatsoever…”

Raven also stood beside him, clasping his hands behind his back. It was to keep from crushing that head.

“No one ever owned us. We’re free monkeys.”

“Who said you weren’t free? Who were you sold to?”

“…”

“Then Peti, should I ask you?”

Leon turned his gaze. Peti’s breathing became rough.

“I don’t want to hurt you with my own hands, Peti. We were pretty close, weren’t we?”

“Le, Leon…”

“Who cut off your arm?”

Leon grabbed Peti’s arm.

“Who gouged out Andre’s eyes, hm?”

“Hic, hiccup.”

“Don’t cry. Crying won’t solve anything. Just answer well and we won’t have to kill you, okay?”

Renate let out a small sigh.

Leon, Ian, and Evelyn had appeared before Renate just before the last big explosion occurred. They threw themselves to save them.

It was also Leon, who had some acquaintance with them, who saved Peti and her younger brother Andre. Though he changed completely after learning they were the culprits. For Peti, who had overcome her trauma somewhat thanks to her fondness for Leon, that cold smile would be even more painful.

When he learned that Shana was alone and ran to her, Renate thought he wouldn’t return, but Leon came back with a smile.

‘I did something wrong, so I need to earn some points. I should at least contribute to catching those guys so Shana will hate me less.’

“Ugh, hic, th, th, those eyes…”

“What?”

“They were exactly like yours, with the same eyes, they cut off my arm!”

Leon frowned.

“A human with a similar smell to that man attached my arm to his body…!”

Peti’s finger pointed toward Raven. Raven pointed to himself.

“Me?”

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