The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 101

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

 

Chapter 101

 

Thump!

 

Something fell. But I don’t know what fell.

 

Thump thump!

 

Ah, right. I haven’t eaten yet. Is my head not working because I’m hungry?

 

Thump…!

 

But in the end, I couldn’t ignore the sound and bit my lips. This is the sound of my heart beating.

 

…And the sound of my heart breaking.

 

I moved my mouth several times.

 

I had to give some kind of answer, a response, but my voice wouldn’t come out.

 

‘Hei Biyu, what are you doing right now?’

 

It seemed like someone was whispering inside me.

 

‘Did you really not know? That it would turn out like this?’

 

I…

 

“Pretty Little One.”

 

I saw Father who had approached me before I knew it. He was the person who had been Dad.

 

Until yesterday… he was the person who had been my ‘Dad.’

 

The man knelt on one knee in front of me and stared at me intently.

 

“This is a secluded place, not somewhere a child should come…”

 

His voice was gentle, and his face was relatively warm. I realized.

 

This wasn’t even the cold and stiff demeanor the man had when we first met.

 

Had I been arrogant?

 

Thinking there was no illness I couldn’t treat, that I had come to know this disease very well too.

 

“Who are you? Why did you come here?”

 

At the same question being asked once again, I couldn’t hold back and burst into tears.

 

“Oh… Did I make you cry?”

 

What made this moment even more heartbreaking was that the Dad I remembered was nowhere to be found.

 

Certainly, the way he was looking at me now contained gentleness and even affection, but how could I not know?

 

‘Our Daughter, I love you.’

 

‘Those were words your Mother always said. I feel the same way.’

 

I couldn’t help but know that yesterday I had faced the ‘real thing.’

 

The eyes looking at me, the gaze, the set of his mouth. Even his voice. The affection contained in his eyes was similar, but everything was different.

 

Real and fake are this different.

 

That’s why it felt even more cruel.

 

‘Pretty Little One.’

 

‘Pretty Little One.’

 

‘Who are you? Why did you come here?’

 

‘I asked who you are.’

 

Even the way he used to scold me with a stern face was nowhere to be found in the man before me now.

 

Just his usual feigned kindness hurt me even more. Because everything that made you worth remembering had disappeared.

 

“Sob, sniff, hic…”

 

I thought yesterday would be the last of my tears. But Biyu.

 

Did you really not know?

 

You turned off all your physician instincts yesterday. This is a disease that requires you to use your lifespan for treatment.

 

Did you think it would be this easy?

 

My first life, second life, third life selves who had tasted nothing but misfortune were mocking me.

 

…Did you think you alone would live well?

 

The disease wasn’t completely cured. That meant it could get even worse.

 

It could mean forgetting everything immediately the very next day.

 

I had known from the moment we first met.

 

I knew, but I turned away from it in the past and yesterday too.

 

Ah.

 

Dad.

 

No, Father.

 

‘Call me Father on the day you remember me.’

 

You really are.

 

“Sorry, I’m sorry… I came, sob, hic, I came to the wrong place…”

 

Really.

 

“I’m, sorry… I’ll, go, sniff, I’ll go now. Mister.”

 

A bad dad.

 

Really.

 

Someone who doesn’t deserve to be a dad.

 

* * *

 

“…”

 

Tap tap tap tap.

 

The man, Hei Bihu, stared blankly at the small figure retreating into the distance.

 

It was a very small child.

 

‘Why would a child be in a place like this…’

 

He tilted his head. In truth, he didn’t like people entering the residence where he stayed.

 

No, he extremely disliked and despised it.

 

Regardless of age, he was busy rejecting them. Therefore, he had intended to get angry at the child as well.

 

Was it because she cried first that he couldn’t use his power, or was it…

 

Hei Bihu looked down at his own hand.

 

‘Sorry, I’m sorry… I came, *hic*, *sob*, I came in by mistake…’

 

Wait, what was his intention when he unconsciously tried to reach out to that child?

 

Since it certainly wasn’t with threatening intent, even he thought it was strange.

 

It was also strange that he was concerned about the child’s presence growing distant like this.

 

He found himself unfamiliar, thinking that it would be difficult if she fell like that.

 

‘My head…’

 

His head went blank again. This wasn’t unusual for him.

 

Every time he lost his memory, there were also memories that surfaced in return.

 

‘Do you understand? The condition is that you absolutely never leave your house, your residence. You’ll probably… forget even this. But still, try to remember.’

 

Whoosh. It was a scene where rain was falling. The place was the Main Hall, and he was kneeling like a criminal at the bottom of the steps.

 

The one above the steps.

 

His sister, Hei Haran, was mocking him.

 

‘…if you want to save…’

 

Who was it that he wanted to save?

 

For what did he endure mockery and choose submission?

 

And…

 

‘It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s really okay. I’ll make everything okay. I’ll treat everything.’

 

Who was it that said this?

 

An expression of crying sorrowfully while smiling flashed by. It was a woman whose face and name he couldn’t recognize.

 

Even while all of this was passing through his mind, Hei Bihu

 

couldn’t detach his senses from the child’s presence growing endlessly distant.

 

His chest felt a little queasy.

 

* * *

 

‘Ah, I’m sleepy…’

 

Hei Birang was sitting comfortably in his dwelling, just yawning.

 

The time to sleep was gradually approaching.

 

‘I’ve held out long enough.’

 

I realize this keenly that it’s not yet a complete cure.

 

It’s because my niece’s medicine was so perfect that I’ve been living like a normal person all this time.

 

While I was satisfied with this kind of life, on the other hand, I also felt greedy.

 

‘It’s okay! It’s a very good thing for a patient to have ambition, Uncle Poo!’

 

Hei Birang chuckled softly.

 

What his brother Biwon had been working hardest at lately was getting Biyu to call him ‘Uncle.’

 

Suddenly, he thought that he too wanted to hear not ‘Uncle’ but ‘Little Uncle.’

 

Actually, he’d had that thought for a long time.

 

And more, he wanted to get better. To get better so that…

 

He wanted to go see Ayan.

 

The more adorable his niece became, the more he thought of his own daughter left far away. Biyu and she were about a year apart, weren’t they?

 

He would give Ayan an elder sister. The two children would get along very well.

 

Hei Birang smiled a gentle and beautiful smile that would have shocked anyone who knew him.

 

It was such a happy thought that just thinking about it made him smile.

 

‘I’ll have to protect them even more diligently.’

 

Well, Biyu had also ended the spread and treatment of the epidemic with her amazing ability. Soon she would go to see the Family Head… Now wouldn’t there be nothing but good things ahead?

 

It was when Birang was smiling once again.

 

Tap tap tap tap!

 

Footsteps were heard. It was the familiar presence of Biyu. These small footsteps could only belong to that adorable niece…

 

However, as the footsteps approached, the smile disappeared from Birang’s face.

 

Then he jumped up from his seat. No, he tried to get up.

 

“Un, Uncle Poo…!”

 

If only the child hadn’t rushed straight into his chest like that. Birang froze in place while holding the child.

 

“Waaah, Uncle Poo, Un, *hic*, cle Poo, Uncle Poo…! Waaah, I, I…”

 

“What, what is it. What is it. What’s wrong? Hey, are you hurt somewhere? What’s going on!”

 

Birang grabbed the child with trembling hands. He was indescribably flustered.

 

From the first moment he saw the child, she had hardly ever cried. Not only that? This was the first time he’d seen her cry so heartbreakingly.

 

Even when her dad collapsed and she came running, she didn’t cry like this!

 

“Where does it hurt!”

 

“No, *hic*, Uncle Poo, Uncle Poo… I, I…”

 

“Tell me. I’m listening. Uh, sorry for shouting… So, will you tell me?”

 

“I…”

 

The heartbreakingly crying child barely managed to grab Hei Birang’s finger. It was a weak yet desperate movement.

 

“I, let me live here, *sob*, *hic*, I want to live here…, no, it’s okay with Nephew too.”

 

“…”

 

“With Dad and, that, person, *hic*, waaah, I don’t want to live, I don’t want to…!”

 

What on earth was going on? Just yesterday there was no father and daughter more affectionate than them.

 

Although they hadn’t had proper conversations for a few days or seemed a little awkward…

 

From Birang’s perspective, it wasn’t a bad direction.

 

But what on earth is this.

 

“Uncle Poo, Uncle Poo… Father, he, *sob*, *sniff*, lost all his, memories.”

 

After comforting her for a while, the reason and truth flowed out from the child whose crying was gradually subsiding.

 

“He looked at me and asked, who I was…”

 

The child’s eyes were unfocused.

 

He knew that people became like this when they faced too great a despair all at once.

 

Just like himself long ago when he learned he had an incurable disease.

 

“…He was getting better. Why was it? *Sob*, he was definitely getting better… *Waaaah*!”

 

Watching Biyu burst into tears again, Birang firmly suppressed the emotions that came flooding in.

 

‘So it ends up like this after all…’

 

Blame toward his brother, displeasure, anger, and a bit of sympathy.

 

Lastly, it was anger and lamentation toward himself.

 

“…For now, cry all you want.”

 

Birang held the child properly in his arms. The child buried her face in his chest and let out another loud, sorrowful wail.

 

Birang stroked the child’s back while closing his eyes tightly as if in pain.

 

“I think I know the reason why your father became like that.”

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