Monster Girl Doctor Vol. 9 by Yoshino Origuchi

Author:Yoshino Origuchi [Origuchi, Yoshino]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2022-07-09T07:00:00+00:00

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“Have you calmed down?”

“Y-yes.” Illy nodded. Her crest feathers were flat, conveying her melancholy.

“Can you tell us what happened?” Sapphee asked. “Your feathers wouldn’t become so disheveled from your daily activities, would they?”

The health of many monsters could be assessed by their body hair, or in this case, feathers. The cause wasn’t always the same, but just as humans’ faces grew pale when they were feeling unwell, abnormalities in monsters’ hair indicated illness.

“Well…I don’t really know. How did this happen?”

“Have you been eating and sleeping properly?”

“Of course! Perfectly! I’ve been sleeping better than I could ever imagine, and I’m eating, too! Sometimes there are even feasts at the Lady’s mansion.”

Illy seemed so happy in her life now, which made Glenn even more concerned about her ruffled feathers. He began the examination.

“We heard you’ve been visiting a spring in the mountains.”

“Huh?! How did you know that? I was being so careful… Ah, did you hear it from Dione?”

“Don’t worry about where we heard it from.”

“Err…but that probably isn’t related, is it?”

“Can you tell us about it anyway?”

“I-I was just bathing!” Illy’s face turned beet red, and she averted her eyes.

Glenn explained that the bathing might be what had caused her ruffled feathers. “Can’t you bathe in Lindworm?”

“W-well…”

“If you don’t tell us what’s really going on, then we can’t provide you with the best treatment.”

Illy turned pale at Sapphee’s warning. She must have been quite upset that the feathers she was so proud of were now a mess. That’s why she’d brought her disheveled self to the clinic.

“I wanted…to make my wings beautiful.”

“Beautiful?”

“Yeah, she—Plum—said not to show off just because I had wings. It made me so upset! I thought if I bathed and made them sparkle, then she’d have to shut her big mouth, so I went to the spring.” Illy sounded as though she were on the verge of tears.

“Why did you go all the way to the mountains for that?”

“All the harpies say that if you bathe there, your feathers will become beautiful. I thought it would be worth the trip if there was even half a chance that was true.”

“Hmm.”

Glenn was growing more and more curious. A rumor like that must have started with some kernel of truth. For example, maybe springs in the mountains had nutrients that were good for feathers. He began musing about the difference in water quality between mountain spring water and the Vivre River…but no. Now wasn’t the time for that.

“But…the more I washed, the worse my feathers got! I thought maybe I hadn’t washed them enough, so I kept going back.”

“How often did you go?”

“About three times a day, between my deliveries.”

“That’s the cause,” Glenn said with a sigh.

Illy stared at him blankly. Even if the spring didn’t make feathers prettier, she couldn’t understand why more washing was a bad thing.

“When you bathe too much, you strip away the preen oil from the surface of your feathers.”

“Preen oil?”

“It’s a sebum excreted by birds and harpies. You rub the sebum excreted from the

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