The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 205

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 205

“…What if it’s not a lie but the truth? What if I really don’t remember?”

“Then there’s nothing we can do about it.”

I shrugged my shoulders once again.

The man lifted his head. At the same time, I smiled.

“You’ll never be able to know. That would be the end of it.”

I truly think this way. After hearing Raon’s story, I realized that I was curious about the ending of the dream.

That’s why I decided to face it.

Even so, if I can’t know until the end, I’ll accept this as another kind of ending.

What I want is to bring things to a close.

The man who had been staring at my smile for a while lowered his eyelids.

A faint, dejected smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

“Since you put it that way, I suppose I must confess. You’re right. It was a lie.”

“If you were only going to lie anyway, why did you come here?”

“Because my purpose was to see your face, just once?”

The strength left his tone.

At the same time, it sounded clearer than before.

The Shaman avoided my gaze, stared into the void, then turned back this way.

He clasped his hands together while still bound.

It was a habit he had before saying something serious. I watched silently, or perhaps indifferently.

“Let me say this first – I am not that man from your dream.”

“I know. You told me that yourself.”

He nodded.

“Still… I wanted to convey the story that he could never tell forever. Yes, I came because I had something to say, and when I was alone with you, I chose not to say it. I lied.”

“What do you want to say?”

“That person loved you.”

At those words that suddenly burst out, I frowned like someone who had stumbled on a stone while walking on a smooth path.

Soon a hollow smile escaped.

“That’s it?”

“The story won’t be long.”

I nodded slightly. As if telling him to go ahead.

“Do you know about magic?”

I nodded lightly.

“Isn’t it something only those in the Northern Kingdom can use?”

There were mages in this world too. However, they were so extremely few that their presence wasn’t noticeable.

Instead, Fire Mages and Earth Mages also boasted magic-like attack power.

“Wolfsbane, which once boasted a tremendous presence, helped a Northern Family and received a very rare gift. It’s a long explanation, but to put it simply, it’s a magical drug that can incite people, castrate emotions, and brainwash them.”

“….”

“There are such bad drugs on the market too. Though this is somewhat different from those.”

I thought of patients addicted to narcotics.

“The Man in the Dream fell victim to this.”

I moistened my lips. I realized I had stopped breathing for a moment.

…So that’s what it was.

The sense of unease I had been feeling continuously from one day. The feeling that he had become a different person.

As the Shaman spoke about the drug in detail, I began to understand one thing at a time.

“It’s insidious. Memory and personality remain the same, but it gradually, bit by bit, castrates emotions. However, habits remain, so ordinary people find it difficult to notice, and it cleverly inserts trigger words in their place. One person’s world gets turned upside down. Moreover, since it’s neither a disease nor an illness, it doesn’t get caught in physician’s diagnosis. Because it’s magic.”

I got an answer, but I didn’t feel relieved.

I had known from the beginning.

…That no matter what answer I heard, I wouldn’t be completely relieved. It was natural.

The wounds I received wouldn’t disappear no matter what. My expression darkened for a moment.

“I see.”

“….”

“It wasn’t that he came to dislike me, nor was it something I did wrong.”

I muttered quietly. Even so, the Shaman seemed to have heard and his shoulders flinched.

“And it wasn’t your fault either, Shaman.”

I murmured quietly. I could see the man’s clasped hands clench into fists.

I lowered my gaze.

“…The man very occasionally came to his senses. He tried to tell the truth but couldn’t.”

When he said that, I did recall some things. The words he shouted telling me not to go to the Imperial Palace, and the words saying he didn’t have time.

I smiled faintly.

“I see.”

It was a calm voice, but I couldn’t tell if I was truly calm. I just listened as if turning pages of a book.

“…The man who abandoned and betrayed his beloved and returned only came to his senses after returning to his family estate, but ended up confined.”

So that’s why I heard rumors that he had died. I raised my head at the puzzle pieces fitting together one by one.

I thought there would be nothing more to hear.

“And after hearing of your death, he plotted rebellion. Actually, it was closer to destruction than rebellion. Because the Empire was destroyed.”

My eyes widened slightly.

“He cut off the necks of those who led his beloved ones, including his father, to death one by one. But in the end, he lamented that he couldn’t kill the Emperor and Crown Prince, who were the main culprits, with his own hands, and slit his own throat.”

“….”

“This is the end of the dream that I know.”

The Shaman brushed his face with slightly trembling hands. As if he too couldn’t calm down, he dry-washed his face several times.

“…It’s an absurd story, isn’t it?”

The smiling man had a politely respectful face with somewhat sunken eyes.

“I only learned recently that it was a life someone desperately regretted.”

I opened my mouth. I tried several times to make a sound but failed. On my last attempt, I barely managed to open my mouth again.

“…I see.”

You were still alive even after I died. The truth was something I had never imagined, and yet it couldn’t be undone. So it was bitter.

My chest ached sharply. But it wasn’t because of a wound. It was just phantom pain from a scar.

You loved me, and after my death, you died in desperate regret.

But after hearing the whole story.

I realized that in this life, I could neither hate nor forgive you.

I am here in this place.

But you are not.

So this is just a past ‘story.’ I smiled dimly and bitterly.

We really missed each other terribly.

“Thank you for telling me.”

Before I knew it, my tone had returned to the slightly cynical yet calm way I spoke when I was with him.

“Thank you, Shaman.”

Only after hearing it did I realize.

I had to know his circumstances. Thanks to that, I could feel the lingering attachment I had held onto until the end disappearing.

As it disappeared, regret and pain spread like a mirage.

If I had trusted you more, if I had followed you to Wolfsbane, would the outcome have been different?

What was so important about the Empire’s recognition? I should have gone to the Kingdom instead.

Perhaps we could have become a happy family together.

It was the first salvation I had received in that life, and I was clumsy. Because I was clumsy, I trusted you even more than myself, so the betrayal came back too greatly.

I closed my eyes tightly and then opened them.

“Thank you. Shaman Wolfsbane.”

I expressed my gratitude to the man and bowed my head sincerely.

“I have no lingering attachments now.”

Even while saying this, I didn’t look at the man’s expression. I simply closed my eyes again.

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