A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 90

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 90

“Hey, why are you worrying about medical bills, child?!”

Veil, overcome with emotion, shouted loudly without realizing it.

When Basto immediately glared at him with a fierce expression, Veil barely managed to take a deep breath before lowering his voice as if frustrated.

“Who was the most excited when the old man said he’d buy a house? It was you. Our situation is very different from the beginning now. We have plenty of money now, you know?”

But Tie still looked quite dejected.

“…But everyone worked so hard to earn it.”

“Everyone earned what? It’s all cores you gathered from conquering Mastone and gems your skeletons picked up from underground…!”

“I can endure a cold until it gets better!”

Tie, who had let go of the bear doll, sniffled with her reddened nose.

“Even without shots for something like a cold, even without medicine, if Tie just endures it, everything will get better!”

Though it was long ago, it still remained faintly in Tie’s memory.

The day when her throat hurt so much and she was coughing, so she went to the neighborhood hospital with Father.

That day, Father spent all the money he had earned over several weeks just on Tie’s injection and emergency treatment.

Tie watched Father counting money the entire time while clinging to his back.

Tie was so upset then that she thought she shouldn’t have learned how to count money from 203 Aunt.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

‘Wait a moment, sir, the child’s condition right now shows high fever and severe coughing. This could be bronchiolitis. The way the child keeps touching her ears makes me suspect acute otitis media too…’

‘What is that?’

‘To put it simply, the child’s small bronchi leading to the lungs are swollen due to inflammation, making it difficult to breathe.’

‘Ah…’

‘At the same time, there’s a possibility that inflammation has developed in the ears too. Originally, when a cold gets severe, these complications arise. Since the child is young and is having difficulty breathing right now, I think we need to monitor her closely… This would be a bit difficult to do at home.’

The doctor had a very, very troubled expression.

‘If necessary, we might need to provide oxygen therapy at the hospital. To make medication administration immediately possible, hospitalization for about 4 to 5 days would be best. It would be dangerous if the child develops respiratory distress.’

‘…’

‘Um, please don’t worry too much for now. Bronchiolitis and otitis media are really common in children this age. With proper treatment, she’ll recover quickly, but since you mentioned being a foreigner earlier, the treatment costs might be a bit burdensome… The hospital doesn’t share treatment records with immigration services or anything like that, you know? So you can rest assured about that part…’

The amount the young doctor mentioned after hesitating for so long was truly enormous.

Enough money to buy five hundred, no, even over six hundred Taniping sticker books.

But Father paid that money to the hospital as if it were nothing.

And he kept telling the anxious Tie that she had misheard, that it wasn’t that expensive.

Even though Tie had already heard everything.

Still, should it be considered fortunate in any case?

After that, Tie never got seriously ill again.

At most, she only had light colds.

But the memory of that hospitalization day was already clearly etched in the child’s mind.

“If I endure it, everything will get better.”

“…”

“If I really endure it hard, it won’t hurt anymore…”

Lucalion, who sighed, firmly grasped Tie’s hand as she shed sorrowful tears.

Then Lucalion spoke soothingly.

“Alright. We won’t go to the hospital.”

Tie wiped her eyes and looked at Lucalion.

“Really?”

“Yes, we won’t go. Just sleep a little more for now.”

Only then did Tie stop crying.

And she weakly crawled back under the blanket.

She had felt hot just moments before, but now she felt so cold that her body was shivering.

Raul and Enzo gently patted the dejected Tie’s back.

Fortunately, Tie soon fell back into deep sleep.

The falling rain fortunately stopped quickly.

After the bright sun rose and confirming the road had dried, Enzo took the reins again.

Meanwhile, Tie was still deep in sleep.

At her somewhat pitiful appearance, Veil ground his teeth as he always did.

“I’ve always been annoyed by doctors charging patients ridiculous amounts.”

Basto, who had been looking out the window, nodded.

“Right. I’ve also seen a doctor charge 10 gold just for wrapping some bandages.”

Listening, Lucalion roughly converted Talochium’s currency units to Korean won in his head.

‘1 gold was roughly about 10,000 won.’

10 gold meant they charged 100,000 won for wrapping bandages.

“All doctors are trash, I tell you. There was one like that in my hometown too. When my fifth sibling got sick and went to the hospital, didn’t he demand 30 gold for one bottle of medicine that barely helped…”

Veil, who muttered curses while speaking, added.

“Obviously that doctor the child met was the same. Being a quack, just how much did he extort?”

Lucalion looked at Veil indifferently.

“That doctor wasn’t a quack.”

Veil narrowed his brow and faced Lucalion.

“What?”

“That world has its own complex rules, so medical costs are expensive. As a result, Astie was treated by that doctor and recovered completely.”

“What the hell are you talking about? No matter how complex the rules are, how complex could they be?”

Lucalion, who was about to explain South Korea’s medical insurance, Tie’s hospital accessibility as someone who was essentially an illegal resident, and the reasons why Tie couldn’t even receive public medical support from health centers or private organizations…

“Such things exist.”

Just closed his mouth.

It seemed the Agavert unit members wouldn’t understand even if he explained anyway.

Veil clenched his fist in anger, then sighed.

“At this point, I want to go see it once too, damn it.”

“Where?”

“That damn country you and the child lived in. I want to see what the hell kind of place it is.”

Lucalion burst into laughter.

Unless dimensions flipped and timelines got twisted, such a thing would never happen.

‘But if it did happen, it would be quite a sight.’

Astie’s unit members floundering in a completely different world’s civilization.

Lucalion turned his head back to Tie.

The child’s condition was improving as time passed.

Her coughing had subsided considerably, and her fever had completely gone down.

Waking the child intermittently to feed her rice porridge seemed to have been effective.

Suddenly, Lucalion was seized by a strange feeling.

Once, there was a time when he didn’t like that Astie missed that man.

‘Well, it was only 4 years after all.’

No matter how much of a father he was, the time they spent together was only 4 years.

Even if his memories weren’t complete, Lucalion knew he had existed in the world for a very long time.

So compared to his life, 4 years was truly just a moment.

Therefore, he thought that if Astie grew up just a little, she would be able to forget the time spent with that man.

4 years was truly nothing, just a brief moment.

But today.

Lucalion felt he could somehow understand Astie’s inability to let go of that man.

In truth, it was that man, not Lucalion, who had safely watched over the feverish child through the night.

Everything Lucalion had done was merely an imitation of that man from the past who had desperately nursed Tie.

It was when Lucalion, his mind grown complicated, quietly fell into thought.

Knock knock-

A knocking sound came from the front window.

When Basto opened the window, Enzo from the driver’s seat pointed somewhere ahead and spoke.

“Look over there. It seems we’ve found a place to stay for tonight.”

Lucalion indifferently raised his gaze.

Between the massive trees surrounding them.

A huge cloth was hanging from a rope in the middle of the road, fluttering in the air.

【Welcome to ‘Caldenvine Ridge’!</p】

←This way to Inn, Grocery Store, Pub>

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