The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 149

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

 

Chapter 149

 

I’ve heard it somewhere before.

 

That young children try to imitate whatever adults do. That’s probably why there’s a saying about not even drinking cold water carelessly in front of your children.

 

But Ayan was a bit special. From 5 years ago, she wanted to imitate everything I did, not her dad.

 

‘What! I gave birth to her! Why does she only like you!’

 

‘Hehe. What do you mean you gave birth to her? Sister-in-law gave birth to her~’

 

Was it because I was the one who rescued her from that cave? Ayan followed me particularly closely.

 

To a strange degree.

 

‘What is this? Is it like an imprinting effect where a chick that just hatched follows the first person it sees?’

 

The warehouse where Ayan was trapped was quite dark after all. How scared the child must have been.

 

Even thinking about it again makes my teeth grind.

 

‘I shouldn’t have let Hei Jihye die so peacefully…’

 

Hei Jihye died along with Sinion’s subordinates that we captured 5 years ago when they died. Probably, she was punished by Sinion.

 

The reason I feel regret about Hei Jihye’s end whenever I see Ayan must be because I’ve grown attached to this Female Lead.

 

She was that cute and lovable.

 

To the point where I thought my real childhood probably wasn’t this adorable.

 

But I didn’t feel any inferiority complex or twisted thoughts at all.

 

Rather, I thought it was fortunate that this child could grow up bright and healthy without experiencing those difficult trials from the Original Work.

 

Anyway, once she becomes the Family Head, she’ll see all sorts of dirty things. It’s like a Family Head’s heart wanting her to grow up purely at least until then…

 

‘Sister! Me! Me! Ayan!’

 

It wasn’t for any other reason that I didn’t teach the child anything related to medicine.

 

She’s too young, isn’t she?

 

I thought education could start from age seven. But whenever I made medicine, she would raise her hand high from beside me.

 

‘I taught her that. If you have something to say, raise your hand and speak!’

 

The daughter-obsessed Uncle beside us would get teary-eyed saying Ayan raised her hand and spoke just as he taught her.

 

‘Hey, she says she wants to try… let her do it a bit.’

 

‘No way, are you planning to get herb stains on the child’s hands already? I didn’t think Uncle Poo was like that, but you’re a bad dad.’

 

‘Who, who! No… the child is crying because she wants to do it.’

 

Ayan really wanted to try everything I did. And she wanted to eat everything I ate too.

 

Uncle was disappointed each time. Dad scoffed, and Uncle chuckled.

 

In the end, I taught Ayan step by step, starting with the safest medicinal herbs.

 

Honestly, since Ayan was so young, I didn’t expect her to understand everything…

 

‘Sister, ouchie ouchie! Tea tea! Chop!’

 

…I changed my mind when I saw her making very simple ointment at three years old.

 

‘She’s not the Protagonist for nothing.’

 

Of course, it was an ointment that any novice physician or pharmacist could make. But this kid couldn’t even hold chopsticks properly!

 

‘Our child is a genius!’

 

In the book, Ayan showed her talents several years from now, so this was even more surprising.

 

Actually, from this point on, I got a bit excited and enthusiastically taught her various things.

 

‘…Because I felt reassured that I could leave.’

 

I could instinctively tell.

 

Even if I disappeared, Ayan would take over treating Uncle and Uncle and definitely cure them completely.

 

I raised my head. When I lifted my gaze slightly, I could see the child clinging to me.

 

After several years, the child who had grown like a bean sprout was now almost as tall as me.

 

‘…It’s a bit frustrating though.’

 

It couldn’t be helped. Our Female Lead was so healthy she’d be a corpse if you took away her health.

 

Even when she got hurt, she healed quickly. She rarely got sick. She truly had natural talent as a physician.

 

I patted Ayan’s head.

 

‘I guess this is what they call a giant baby…’

 

I smiled softly at the nickname that suddenly came to mind.

 

“Did you make medicine? Let’s see what amazing thing our Ayan made this time.”

 

“Yes!”

 

Let me see, I think what I assigned yesterday was diabetes medicine…

 

Ayan’s ability is Healing Through Cooking.

 

Since she’s still young, Uncle and the other adults won’t let her near fire, so she can’t use it yet.

 

I was diligently teaching Ayan the basics before she could properly use her ability.

 

At this rate, it seemed like I’d have to leave the mountain soon.

 

“Elder Sister. There are many people outside. They all say their eyes hurt. They hurt.”

 

“…Eyes?”

 

I listened to those words quietly, then gently pinched Ayan’s cheek.

 

“Don’t tell me you were among the patients again? Elder Sister told you not to do that.”

 

“Waaah. Ayan didn’t!”

 

“Really?”

 

“Yes!”

 

Ayan nodded vigorously. She sniffled with an aggrieved expression.

 

“Bibi saw it.”

 

Bibi was the nickname for Ayan’s Sparrow Divine Beast. Since I called my Divine Beast ‘Baembam’, she started calling hers something similar too.

 

She’s really so cute.

 

“Yes, well done. Our Ayan is still young, so you can’t go near the patients. Understood?”

 

“Yes!”

 

Uncle had good reason to feel disappointed.

 

‘Our Ayan… doesn’t listen to Dad but only listens to me.’

 

Previously, Ayan was eating her most precious sweet confection. Uncle jokingly asked for some and was refused.

 

But then Uncle next to him encouraged me to try the same thing. So I asked Ayan for some… and she gave it to me without hesitation.

 

At that moment, Hei Birang really looked like he was about to cry…

 

‘I thought, so this is what a normal father-daughter relationship feels like.’

 

After all, I was an orphan in Korea, and in this life… Dad and I aren’t exactly a normal father-daughter pair.

 

“But Ayan, what do you mean when you say people’s eyes hurt?”

 

“Their eyes hurt a lot. Here hurts and here hurts too.”

 

Ayan explained earnestly while gesturing with her hands. Actually, our Ayan speaks and pronounces things very well.

 

She just deliberately slurred her pronunciation slightly when in front of me.

 

‘She wants to always look like a baby to you? She said Elder Sister is the best. I’m so frustrated I could die!’

 

…How can a person be this cute? Is she even human? Isn’t she a fairy?

 

“People’s eyes hurt a lot underneath. Here goes like this, oww!”

 

‘Eye disease…’

 

Over the past 5 years, I hadn’t stayed only in the Hei Family Territory the entire time.

 

Sometimes by the Family Head’s orders, sometimes voluntarily, I would go to other territories to treat diseases.

 

Those diseases were almost always infectious diseases. Or things that people didn’t realize were infectious diseases, but had the risk of becoming epidemics later.

 

‘Crazy bastards.’

 

The insane schemes of the Eight Families that I’ve thwarted would number more than ten fingers.

 

Thanks to that, I’ve survived many near-death moments.

 

What allowed me to overcome all of this was entirely…

 

Whoooosh!

 

Before I could finish my thought, wind blew.

 

I held onto Ayan while feeling the wind and smiled brightly.

 

Where the wind had settled, someone was standing. Gently swaying long sleeves and black hair.

 

When our eyes met, a smile unconsciously spread across my face.

 

“Bihu-nim.”

 

The man’s eyebrow rose crookedly upon hearing my form of address.

 

“Oh, wah!”

 

When the man waved his hand, Ayan and I were lifted up by the wind and floated. Ayan, still awkward with this, hugged me tightly.

 

Me? Of course, this was familiar to me so I remained calm.

 

“Why are you calling me that way.”

 

I had only blinked, but a handsome and beautiful face appeared before my eyes. At the same time, it wore a slightly sulky expression. Uncharacteristically so.

 

I smiled broadly.

 

‘He has his memory today.’

 

I reached out my hand.

 

“I was going to see if you remember today.”

 

“….”

 

“Welcome back, Dad.”

 

Over the past 5 years. Dad had lost his memory more than ten times by my count. After it passed ten times, I decided to stop counting.

 

It had become a familiar occurrence now.

 

Because.

 

‘My… daughter?’

 

‘…Don’t cry.’

 

‘I was wrong.’

 

Even when he forgot, he would somehow remember me. I decided to be satisfied with that until we reached the Imperial Palace.

 

“You were unconscious until yesterday. When did you wake up?”

 

“…Not long ago.”

 

Dad answered reluctantly. It was the face of someone full of complaints about my words but unable to speak because he knew he was at fault.

 

I pretended not to notice and smiled even more brightly.

 

“More importantly, it seems we need to go together. There are people looking for you.”

 

“Huh? Who?”

 

Suddenly asking to go somewhere. I tilted my head in confusion, and Dad answered.

 

“It seems a new disease is spreading in the Village.”

 

A new disease? I recalled Ayan’s words. Was he talking about the ‘eye disease’?

 

“And there’s a guest.”

 

“A guest? Who would that be?”

 

Dad was silent for a moment before answering.

 

“Wolfsbane. One of the Eight Families.”

 

I froze completely.

 

‘Hey, Physician. Greet him properly. He’s the great Young Master of Wolfsbane.’

 

Wolfsbane. How could I not know that name?

 

It was the Family of the person who had been my only ‘Friend’.

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