The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 225

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 225

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“Bring clean thread and needle! And water too! Bring more!”

“Yes!”

“All the medicinal herbs have been boiled.”

“What about clean cloth?”

“It will arrive soon!”

The first thing I did upon returning to the barracks wasn’t to settle the chaos or talk with Raon.

It was major surgery to save Dad.

Even though I had given him first aid, he had taken the full force of an explosion powerful enough to turn a person to dust.

I couldn’t be satisfied with just saving his life. Medicinal herbs in quantities enough to save hundreds gathered in one place.

I concentrated my mind together with Mother.

– Bihu wouldn’t mind burns or anything like that.

“No, I can’t tolerate it. Dad… he’ll surely remember today when he sees those wounds, and I hate that.”

When time passed, I wanted all of us to remember today as simply a day of victory.

So Dad had to recover completely.

“And now I can make Dad’s medicine too, right? Let’s try everything together.”

As soon as I returned to the barracks, I received a pouch from Raon. Inside it was the final key to completely cure Dad’s illness.

How much I had longed for this.

‘Let’s talk after everything is finished.’

Raon said this while hanging something around my neck – a mysterious orb that resembled half of Raon’s hair color and half of his eye color.

Strangely, wearing this filled my body with vitality even without touching Raon.

“I feel like I can do anything right now.”

Mother looked at me like that and soon smiled softly.

Mother’s hand stroked my head. Since Raon had returned, I could touch Mother again.

How much I had missed this feeling.

– You’ve grown so much, I feel regretful first. You could grow a little more slowly.

I smiled without answering.

“But if I don’t grow, I can’t treat people. Please love me even when I become more grown up than now.”

– You’re saying something obvious. My baby.

We didn’t say anything more after that. Mother and I focused on our respective roles.

And shortly after.

I finished the most nerve-wracking and trembling treatment of this lifetime.

Finally, one last medicine made with the most earnest wish disappeared into the patient’s mouth.

Now all that remained was to wait.

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“About Dad’s incurable disease… manufacturing the medicine itself wasn’t difficult. I had some that I’d made not knowing how things would turn out. With Bam-bam around, the shelf life extends without spoiling.”

I muttered while looking at the sky.

“The most important ingredient, that only exists in the Imperial Capital, so that’s why it always failed. It was time spent realizing that without that ingredient, it was useless, and nothing could substitute for it.”

Still, I was grateful that the medicine existed. This was the world’s one and only solution that genius me and Mother had put our heads together to create.

When I was alone, I had no choice but to use my lifespan. Finally, I could see the end.

The sky was deep blue. Like the heart of one without any worries. I looked at the cloudless sky and lifted the corners of my mouth.

“There are still plenty of headache-inducing matters, but my heart feels so at ease.”

I slowly lowered my gaze.

Before my eyes sat Sylvester.

“Is that so.”

Unlike when we had secret conversations in the barracks, his expression was quite polite and businesslike.

Two weeks had passed since the Crown Prince had ‘officially’ died.

Considering what happened during those two weeks and the total amount of work that needed to be resolved, how busy I had been would not fall short even compared to the workload of the past three years.

First, the Imperial Palace people refused to acknowledge the Crown Prince’s death.

They seemed to be in great shock, then claimed that the Hei Family Estate had committed treason and that I had killed him.

However, this claim quickly lost strength.

First, the explosives that the Crown Prince had buried were submitted as evidence.

One of the Special Forces agents guarding the explosives confessed to everything.

That person was the general captain of the Special Forces and testified in exchange for sparing his subordinates’ lives.

Most importantly, countless people saw the Crown Prince cause the explosion to kill me. Even the Crown Prince’s subordinates saw it from beyond the barrier.

All circumstances and evidence were clear.

The dead Crown Prince was the worst leader and a murderer who used even his own subordinates as tools.

Even the nobles on the Crown Prince’s side who had been crying treason by the Hei Family Estate until the end couldn’t say anything.

After that, things were resolved swiftly.

‘The Crown Prince is paying for his sins underground.’

The nobles who didn’t want to deal with the Hei Family Estate and the foreign forces cooperating with the Hei Family Estate half-heartedly held talks for settling the matter, then fled to the capital.

All that remained in the Imperial Capital was the dying Emperor.

It was natural that everything became a mess.

Surprisingly, the one who rallied them was Sylvester, who had been living quietly and keeping a low profile.

Now that Shaman had disappeared, as the only surviving prominent heir of the Eight Families, he calmed the nobles in the capital and brought them together.

“That’s unexpected. I didn’t think you’d step forward here. Didn’t you hate both your family and the Imperial Palace?”

“I hate and despise them.”

Sylvester said firmly.

“But my hatred is limited only to the incompetent Emperor and the Crown Prince who was busy exploiting without any ability. I don’t agree with this nation’s destruction. The Imperial Palace is necessary, if only for the countless innocent citizens.”

“Hmm.”

I rubbed my chin.

“Then why don’t you become Emperor?”

“I refuse. Not only am I incapable, but I don’t have the capacity for it either. More than anything… in the current situation, if it’s not someone with legitimacy, all the Imperial Nobles will scatter and wage war. I’ve barely managed to unite them, but each harbors different thoughts.”

Sylvester’s face became somewhat serious, as if he considered this matter very important.

“So please, return the next Emperor to us, no. Please send him back, Family Head.”

I made a displeased expression, then soon shrugged my shoulders with an innocent face as if I didn’t know.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Isn’t he here! The Second Prince!”

When I played dumb, Sylvester shook his head back and forth. Then he soon relaxed his expression for a moment.

“Is Lord Hei Bihu alright?”

This time it was my turn for my face to become serious. This was also brief as I nodded.

“Of course. His wounds were treated well, and there are no scars. My Dad is just…”

I directed my gaze to the sky visible beyond the window.

“He just hasn’t been able to open his eyes yet.”

Sylvester wouldn’t be unaware of the situation. Perhaps because of that, he looked at me and briefly moved his lips before closing them again.

Then he changed the topic again.

“So about the person who will become the next Emperor…”

Knock knock!

“Family Head!”

At the untimely rude knocking, Sylvester briefly frowned but kept his mouth shut.

‘Could it be?’

There was an order I had given to definitely report even when important guests were present. Soon after, an attendant who entered with my permission reported with an urgent face.

“L-Lord Hei Bihu has opened his eyes!”

I shot up from my seat.

“Sorry, Sylvester. I’ll come back. Please wait a moment!”

“Huh? Ah, yes, go ahead! When you return, please tell me Lord Raon’s dwelling, please!!”

Sylvester seemed to be shouting behind me as I ran off, but I casually ignored it.

‘He fell asleep again, but he definitely opened his eyes!’

A moment later, when I arrived in front of the dwelling where Dad was staying, I was breathing heavily.

The servants and warriors guarding the dwelling quietly stepped aside as if they understood.

I quickly entered the room.

– Biyu.

“Mother…!”

Mother, who had been watching over Dad, welcomed me.

“Huff, huff… Is it really true?!”

Mother nodded with a tearful expression.

– Yes, I saw him open his eyes. Though he closed them right away.

After Dad received treatment for the bomb injuries, he took medicine to treat his incurable disease.

Mother said that since she suffered from a memory-related illness, the treatment wouldn’t be ordinary either.

So she was calmer than me while watching Dad, who couldn’t open his eyes after taking the medicine.

She said that his inability to wake up was probably because his brain was functioning properly and needed time to organize his memories.

However, I couldn’t be as calm as Mother. I was worried that I might have done something wrong in the treatment.

I was afraid I had made a mistake when manufacturing the medicine.

Mother said no, but I couldn’t hide my anxiety. After all, this was my lifelong wish.

I approached sleeping Dad.

My breathing gradually calmed down.

“Dad….”

Looking at sleeping Dad somehow reminded me of when I first met Dad in this life.

Back then, Dad was sleeping leaning against Under the Tree.

I swallowed my breath and gently took Dad’s hand.

Squeeze.

Dad’s hand moved…!

“Mother.”

– Yes, I saw it too.

Mother answered with a slightly tense expression.

Dad’s eyelids trembled, then slowly opened his eyes.

I gulped and looked at Dad. His bright red pupils moved around before our eyes met.

What would Dad say?

I thought that even if, just even if, he said something like ‘Who are you?’ here.

I would be okay with it.

Then we could look for another way.

Just having Dad alive would be enough.

The red pupils that had been looking at Mother and me for a long time now held only me.

His well-shaped lips moved, then soon.

Held the most beautiful smile in the world.

“Pretty baby.”

I know this voice and these words.

The words Dad said on the day we first met.

Back then, the next words were.

‘Who are you?’

That’s what it was.

I swallowed my breath.

“My Daughter.”

“….”

“Whose daughter could be this pretty.”

And from his voice, different from the first time, I could tell that Dad also remembered that day.

This alone was enough.

“Whose daughter am I? I’m Mother and Dad’s daughter.”

Because I could tell that Dad now remembered everything.

“Now, Mother remembers everything too, right? All the memories with me?”

Even right before the meeting, Dad’s memories had been unstable. He would sometimes forget Mother’s name, or occasionally return to his childhood. He couldn’t remember everything that happened with Mother.

“The day of my wedding with Arin was one of the happiest days in my world.”

Mother quietly covered her mouth. I watched the tears of joy flowing from Mother’s eyes and soon smiled brightly.

“Now that you remember everything, Dad only has days of atonement left for me and Mother.”

“…Yes.”

“But don’t say you’re sorry.”

I firmly grasped Dad’s hand and still smiled with a face glistening with tears.

“Instead, tell me you love me. Very, very much.”

In the end, saying it with a face streaming with tears wasn’t very convincing. But still, I smiled.

It felt like we had somehow returned to the day we first met, to my childhood.

Dad stood up from his seat and hugged me tightly.

“Yes, I love you very, very much.”

Dad, who couldn’t express himself properly at first, now remembered all of me, acknowledged his wrongs, and said he would love me forever.

Soon Mother also joined us in Dad’s embrace.

Where else could there be such a happy day?

It was the moment I became certain that the happiness I once thought would never be mine would stay by my side for a long time.

“Yes, I love you very, very much too.”

Perhaps I had been dreaming of this moment since childhood.

The day when I would cry loudly with Dad, showing him all of my true self, realizing that I too was loved, and confessing my love.

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