Since I’m a Time-Limited Princess Who Has No Tomorrow - Chapter 105

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Chapter 105
I rushed toward the Queen, drawing upon my divine power first. I didn’t attempt possession—that would only result in uncontrollable divine energy—using only the power I could wield, stored within this vessel.
The Queen pressed a hand to her mouth, doubling over and curling inward. Her remaining hand clutched at her abdomen.
‘Her stomach? Is she in pain? Did she ingest poison? Was there poison in the tea? That doesn’t make sense—I drank from it too.’
Even as my thoughts spiraled, I imbued the divine power I’d drawn forth with the concept of healing.
‘First, I need to treat her.’
I placed my hand, wrapped in healing divine power, over the Queen’s trembling fingers clutching her abdomen. Simultaneously, I concentrated my divine power into my eyes, awakening that new Celestial Vision—the sensation that made the flow of qi visible.
‘There’s something inside the Queen’s stomach!’
A crimson mass was clustered in her lower abdomen. The organs surrounding it were ravaged and festering.
‘What is that? These aren’t fresh wounds—they look months old!’
Each time the mass writhed, it inflicted new damage on the Queen’s insides, causing them to rot. Months of accumulated trauma like this had spread wounds throughout her organs, even rupturing her stomach.
‘That’s why she coughed up blood. Is that malevolent qi? Whoever did this, I can extract it the same way I did with the Crown Prince.’
I drew out threads of healing divine power while speaking to the Queen, who was barely conscious.
“Your Majesty, I’ll treat you, so please endure this!”
“Ugh… Crown Princess…”
“I’ll have the Royal Physician brought at once! An-si!”
Before pushing my divine power into the Queen, I shouted toward the tent entrance.
“An-si! Fetch the Royal Physician! Now!”
“Yes, Crown Princess!”
“W-what’s happened?”
I felt An-si dash away at my urgent call, and the Lady-in-waiting from the Central Palace Hall who had been waiting with her rushed in, alarmed.
“Your Majesty!”
The Lady-in-waiting turned pale at the sight of the Queen, crying out her title like a scream. I gestured sharply at her.
“She’s coughing up blood! Bring towels and clean water!”
“Y-yes, at once!”
After the Lady-in-waiting rushed out, I focused entirely on the divine power I’d extracted.
‘Gently, gently. The Queen’s body is far more fragile than the Crown Prince’s. I must be far more careful.’
Treating a person isn’t something one can practice easily, so this was my first attempt since the Crown Prince. Tense with concentration, I fed the thread-thin divine power into the Queen’s abdomen.
Fortunately, unlike the Crown Prince, the Queen didn’t harbor darkness within her, nor was she a Gwae-ryeok-nan-sin, so there was no foreign energy in her body. The minute wounds created as my divine power penetrated her fragile human form were instantly healed by the healing properties I’d imbued it with.
‘It’s easier to infuse divine power into an ordinary human with no strength. But they’re also easier to injure, so I must be extraordinarily careful.’
Sweating profusely, I extended the thread further. Soon my divine power made contact with the mass festering inside the Queen.
‘Now I’ll wrap it and eliminate it like I did with the Crown Prince—’
I suddenly froze all movement.
‘What?’
The moment my power touched the mass, I felt something. My fingertips trembled.
‘No? No, this can’t be. This shouldn’t be possible.’
Eyes wide, I looked again at what I’d thought was merely a crimson mass, examining its actual form.
‘Oh.’
Good heavens.
‘This can’t be real. It’s a lie.’
The red mass in the Queen’s lower abdomen had taken the shape of a tiny infant.
‘Not poison… but a baby? A fetus? But why does it look like poison…’
Was this a complication of pregnancy? But did humans really develop holes in their stomachs and cough up blood as a side effect of pregnancy? Did the body rot from within like poison poisoning just because a baby had formed?
‘If I heal this… will the baby disappear too?’
That couldn’t happen.
I was confused. I stood frozen, clutching the thread of divine power, blinking helplessly.
‘Maybe the Queen didn’t become like this because of the baby, but because she ingested some strange poison and the baby got poisoned too? Maybe if I treat it, the baby will be fine.’
I poured more divine power into my eyes and examined the mass in the Queen’s abdomen more carefully—no, the fetus.
But the conclusion remained unchanged.
‘…There’s no trace of poison. The Queen became like this… purely because of the fetus.’
My head spun. To heal the Queen, I would need to remove that mass, but it was a baby.
This was a decision I couldn’t make. Frozen in place, unable to do anything, I felt something warm trickling down my shoulder.
“…!”
The Queen’s body went limp—she had lost consciousness. Her head rested against my shoulder as blood streamed from her lips.
‘This is dangerous! I need to at least treat the damaged organs as a temporary measure!’
I redirected my divine power. The jade-colored thread of energy flowed upward from her lower abdomen, healing the surrounding tissue. Once I had roughly sealed the hole in her stomach, the Queen’s complexion eased considerably. I withdrew my divine power and looked at her lower abdomen again.
The baby stirred uncomfortably, and fresh wounds appeared in the surrounding organs.
‘…If this continues, as long as there’s a baby inside, the Queen will keep suffering internal injuries.’
The fetus must have been small when it first formed, so the wounds were small too. As the fetus grew, the wounds grew larger and more severe, until now they had reached a critical point.
‘If the baby keeps growing like this… can the Queen endure it?’
What if it grew more and the baby moved? A horrifying image flashed through my mind.
I stood frozen when loud footsteps echoed outside. Soon people rushed into the tent.
“Your Majesty the Queen! Your Highness the Crown Princess!”
The Royal Physician turned pale at the sight of the Queen with blood covering her mouth and me with blood covering my shoulder. I handed the unconscious Queen to the physician and spoke.
“I’m fine. But Her Majesty is not… I’ve administered emergency treatment for now.”
“Pardon? Your Highness, how did you…ah.”
The bewildered physician seemed to recall the rumors that I had received divine descent and healed the Crown Prince’s wounds, and fell silent. She immediately used her techniques to examine the Queen’s pulse, then let out a relieved sigh.
“I heard she coughed up blood, so it seems she had a wound in her stomach. There’s no trace of poison… It appears that after waking from her coma, Her Majesty’s weakened body was strained from accompanying the royal hunt. She has always had a delicate digestive system, and with fatigue piling up…”
“…”
“The wound in her stomach appears to be almost completely healed—you treated it, didn’t you, Your Highness? That’s remarkable! Even if the Royal Physician attended to her all day with medical techniques, wounds rarely recover this quickly and cleanly.”
“…”
“You’ve truly accomplished something extraordinary. Thanks to you, Your Highness, her recovery time will be shortened considerably. With proper rest and medicine, the remaining wounds should heal quickly.”
The physician spoke brightly and marveled at me, but I couldn’t smile.
‘There shouldn’t be any remaining wounds from the treatment. There shouldn’t be.’
More wounds had formed in the meantime.
As I stared blankly, the relieved physician checked the Queen’s pulse again and her eyes widened.
“This is…!”
“What is it? Is there another problem?”
The Lady-in-waiting asked, and the physician answered with a beaming smile.
“It’s not a problem—it’s a blessing for the nation! Her Majesty the Queen is with child!”
“Is that true? My goodness! The Queen and King have always been so affectionate, and finally!”
The Royal Physician grinned widely, while the Lady-in-waiting clapped her hands in delight.
I squeezed my eyes shut. They hadn’t noticed yet, but soon that Royal Physician would realize the fetus was harming the Queen.
‘Why on earth is this happening?’
Was this some human illness I didn’t know about? Or could it be the work of some supernatural creature? I’d never heard of a similar case in the Heavenly Realm.
‘Wait, hold on.’
Wait. In the Heavenly Realm, a similar case… there was one.
I’d heard about it. A story everyone whispered about. A story everyone had tried to hide from me. A story they’d pretended never happened.
Yet I’d still heard it. From Samshin Grandmother, who presides over the birth of children.
“Princess Cheonmyeong was born without a destiny. Foreseeing that she could not survive even if born, she refused to receive a destiny of her own, so she should have been stillborn… but.”
“The Jade Emperor and the Yama King did not wish for that. They risked their very lives to save the Princess. They truly wagered their lives.”
“Babies born without a destiny normally disappear quickly. But the Princess possessed innate divine power, so she did not vanish immediately. After that, the two of them poured their divine essence to continuously sustain the Princess.”
“I cannot count how many times the Jade Emperor walked the edge of death. Her body continued to deteriorate from bearing a child who should never have been born. Because the state defied the laws of Heaven and Earth, complications were inevitable.”
“As the Princess grew, the Jade Emperor suffered all the more. The Yama King helped by sacrificing his own lifespan, but truthfully, there were moments of genuine danger. She endured because she is the supreme deity of Heaven.”
“When such things occur among humans, one of the mother or child must die. Usually, it is the child without a destined fate who perishes.”
“If the child is born with great power… both can die. The child kills the mother and is stillborn. Most take measures to save the mother before it reaches that point, so such tragedies are rare.”
“A child born without a destiny surviving is likely the first since the creation of the world, Princess. Do you now understand how precious your life is? How much your parents suffered to keep you alive?”
“So, Princess, never again go to the Afterlife of your own accord. It is driving a nail through the hearts of parents who worked so hard to save you.”
That was what I’d heard from an angry Samshin Grandmother after I’d devised a method of self-harm to escape the pain and gone to the Afterlife on my own.
The day I was scolded by someone for the first time in my life.
‘I deserved it. I deserved far worse, but Mother and Father couldn’t bear to scold me—they were at a loss. Samshin Grandmother stepped in because she couldn’t stand it.’
Thanks to that, I learned the secret of my birth, but Samshin Grandmother was punished by my parents for revealing the secret to me. Though the punishment was lifted when I cried and begged.
‘The Queen now… her symptoms are similar to Mother’s, the ones I heard about from Samshin Grandmother back then.’
I felt all the color drain from my body. I stared blankly at the small child in the Queen’s womb.
The child who would become the Crown Prince’s sibling.
‘You… are you in the same state as me?’
Were you also not granted a destiny? Like me? Are you also fated to never be born?
‘I unconsciously refused to be born, so I wasn’t granted a destiny, but you couldn’t have done that. How did this happen?’
It was extraordinarily rare. Truly uncommon. So why here? Why now?

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