The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 196

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 196

For the first time since coming to this world, Biyu had been given a choice.

Of course, abandoning her family and leaving had also been her choice.

But if she had stayed, she would have been trapped and used just like in the second round, so it was no different from the family pushing her to leave.

So this was Biyu’s first real choice, and the Shaman was also the first person to make an offer while respecting her freedom.

Biyu slightly lowered her eyes.

“What will you do?”

A calm answer came back.

“There are many physicians in the world.”

Was that really true?

It was likely that all the renowned physicians had already given up and left. Though she had made a name for herself, the nobles had dismissed Biyu.

Yet if places like Wolfsbane had to resort to kidnapping her.

‘The chances are probably hopeless.’

Until now, Biyu had been treating patients out of habit. In fact, she had worked harder at treatment because it was all she had left.

If she stayed still, loneliness and helplessness would come for her.

A single hand extended to a life that drifted like a buoy without goals or purpose. And rather than trying to use her, it actually sought to set her free.

“What if I’m your last chance?”

“….”

“What if I’m the last physician who can save you?”

It would be a cruel question. Yet Biyu asked it calmly.

In both the first and second rounds, there had been people who were kind or gentle to her.

They had simply been willing to sell Biyu out when faced with their own crisis, when faced with profit. Biyu no longer believed in shallow affection.

“If this becomes known later, will you come to capture me?”

“Hmm….”

The young boy scratched his cheek. His coughing had stopped at some point. Biyu felt his gaze looking directly at her.

“Still, if you say you don’t want to, I won’t tell them to bring you.”

“Why?”

The young boy covered his mouth with his thin hand and rolled his eyes. The smile he soon made looked a bit fierce combined with his eye shape.

It seemed to look fierce just because of his facial features.

“Because you’re pretty.”

“What?”

The young boy’s smile deepened.

The young boy gently shook the hand that was still being held by Biyu.

“When a pretty girl says she doesn’t want to, I don’t feel like forcing it.”

Even Biyu could tell he had answered carelessly.

“What kind of stupid thing is that to say?”

“It’s true though.”

Nevertheless, Biyu felt absurd as she felt her frozen guard melting away.

“Go quickly. I’ll tell them.”

Looking back, this was also a big decision for Biyu. She had been sick and tired of being confined and used in the second round.

To willingly step into the snare again with her own feet.

“It’s fine.”

But still. Even so.

“Don’t be surprised.”

Biyu didn’t seem like she would regret her choice.

A person who respects me without even knowing me well.

Wasn’t she curious?

If such a person escaped fate, became healthy, and survived. What kind of life would she live?

As you said, I am someone who saves people.

In a world like this where everyone just uses each other, I’m a foolish physician.

It was the first moment Biyu accepted herself.

That’s why Biyu couldn’t let go of this hand that saved her for a long time.

* * *

Whoooosh.

The wind wildly tousled her hair. Biyu frowned as she struggled to hold down her long hair.

“What are you thinking about for so long?”

When she turned her head at the voice, she saw a man with equally long hair getting whipped by it – Shaman.

Biyu chuckled.

“I was thinking about when we first met.”

“Hmm?”

Several years had passed. Both of them had reached adulthood. And currently, they had left Wolfsbane where Biyu had been confined and were traveling around the Empire.

To be precise, it wasn’t sightseeing but traveling to treat people.

‘Since we take money, it’s not volunteer work either.’

Though Biyu thought this way, Shaman would often say, ‘We don’t take money from poor people, so isn’t it volunteer work in the end?’

It was killing two birds with one stone. Killing two birds with one stone.

“Our first meeting. I wish you’d forget about it already.”

Shaman grumbled beside her. Biyu glanced at him sideways.

The two had spent their adolescence together. After puberty, Shaman had groaned about his whole body hurting.

‘It was growing pains, right?’

He had grown tremendously in just one month. It would have been nice if he had given her just a span of that height.

So Biyu always had to look up at him. Sometimes it was annoying and sometimes her neck hurt.

When she said ‘If I get a herniated disc, it’s your responsibility,’ Shaman would laugh and say things like ‘I don’t know what a disc is, but I’ll gladly take responsibility.’

“Why would I forget that?”

For Biyu, their first meeting was an unforgettable memory.

It was the first salvation she had received since being born into this world.

Biyu had decided to save this child, just like a chick that hatches from an egg follows the first person it imprints on.

However, to the Shaman, telling him to let Biyu go seemed like nothing special, and since he himself never revealed his true feelings afterward, the Shaman still seemed to want to forget that moment.

Biyu liked the Shaman’s good nature for casually releasing the shabby girl physician who had been captured to treat her illness.

Though it was something she couldn’t reveal to him.

However, it seemed different for the Shaman, as he rubbed his face vigorously.

“Ah, please just forget it already… That pathetic appearance was the first sight you saw of me. I want to bite my tongue off.”

“Is that so.”

Biyu tilted her head indifferently. The third-life Biyu was more cynical and pessimistic than any of her previous lives.

“I only thought you were handsome though.”

And she was more direct.

“Huh, what?”

“I thought, ‘There’s a child who’s this handsome and radiant even though he’s thin and sick.’ Your nature wasn’t bad either.”

“…”

“Your hair color was also interesting… Why are you acting like that?”

Biyu was slightly surprised when she turned her head because the Shaman’s side was too quiet.

The Shaman was floundering and covering his face that had somehow turned red. Even his ears were bright red.

Biyu looked at the sky for a moment. The two had just stepped onto the edge of the desert.

Had he become exhausted from the desert they’d crossed for several days? Heat stroke?

They had already encountered a sandstorm and lost some of their luggage.

The Shaman had given all the insufficient supplies to Biyu and endured with sheer willpower.

Even when she told him not to, she was overpowered by his strength.

Biyu grabbed the Shaman’s collar.

“Hey, wait, Biyu, Biyu?”

“Hold still.”

Biyu grabbed his ear. The Shaman trembled while his collar was being held.

The Shaman was dying of embarrassment. How could a girl who had been sweating profusely crossing the desert with him smell so good?

It was dizzying.

Meanwhile, Biyu was serious. The Shaman’s fever had risen higher. She felt around his ear and touched his forehead and cheeks.

“You idiot, that’s why I told you to stop giving me water! You have a fever!”

“That, that fever… I think I know the reason.”

“What is it?”

Their gazes met in the air. The Shaman, whose ears had turned even redder, looked away first.

“…No, I think you’re right.”

“Geez, you fool.”

Biyu let go of his collar and hit his forearm repeatedly. Of course, the Shaman didn’t feel any pain.

“Take care of your health. How am I supposed to carry you if you get sick?”

“Ow, ow ow. Is that the problem? What about worrying about me? Well, of course I’d like you to carry me.”

“What are you saying? How could I leave you behind?”

The Shaman grinned.

He felt affection directed toward him from Biyu’s grumbling like this.

‘What nonsense are you talking about, leaving, abandoning the family! That’s ridiculous.’

‘Shut up and stay in your position!’

‘Even if you say that, I’m going. Find a new son, or bring one of those illegitimate children you saw when you were young. Well then, farewell.’

‘Shaman! Shaman Wolfsbane!!’

Indeed, abandoning both the family and the heir position to follow Biyu was the best thing he had ever done in his life.

Shaman smiled warmly as he watched Biyu huffing and rummaging through her herb pouch.

Then he took Biyu’s hand and lightly kissed the back of it.

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