The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 40

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 40

There was no time to ask Tak Minjae what he meant.

The water containing the green medicine smoothly seeped into where the child was.

The child slowly closed his eyes.

“Mi, Minjae!”

“It’s sleeping medicine.”

The child also had insomnia. I looked toward Jeok Yunha.

“It’s more serious than I thought… I think I’ll need several more ingredients.”

Jeok Yunha quickly came to her senses and gave a thumbs up.

“Use as much as you want! There’s nothing my warehouse doesn’t have!”

Jeok Yunha said confidently.

“Even if I don’t have it, I’ll ransack the market and bring it. There’s nothing this market doesn’t have!”

Certainly, ‘Black Forest’ is one of the three largest medicinal materials markets in the Empire.

Not just medicinal herbs, but anything related to treatment.

They sell various things, and Jeok Yunha was ready to scour even the underground to get them.

As if her confidence wasn’t an exaggeration, the ingredients arrived shortly after.

‘Wow… I don’t know about other things, but how did she get the 100-Year-Old Tiger Liver so quickly?’

There shouldn’t be any available for sale, right? She’s amazing even now. I dismissed my doubts and manufactured the medicine again.

Fortunately, Tak Minjae’s illness, the complication symptoms, and the poison were all things I knew about.

‘It’s the poison I experienced in the 3rd round.’

I really did live diligently, didn’t I?

I’ll have to live even more diligently to get home, right? When I go to Korea, I should live as unemployed for a few years…

“Phew…”

I poured the medicine into the sleeping child’s mouth, and used acupuncture needles and injections for several others.

‘That guy was good at acupuncture…’

I recalled a physician who was too distant to be a friend but too close to be just an acquaintance, then erased the thought.

I should bring him along later or something.

The time when the child opened his eyes again was around sunset, the child bathed in the sunset light blinked his eyes.

“Are you awake? Then can you just drink this for me?”

“Ah? …Yes!”

Tak Minjae gulped down the medicine.

‘Phew, I’m tired.’

The room was full of the colorful light and water traces I had left behind, and thoroughly soaked ingredients.

It became messy because I was only focused on treatment.

‘If I become more familiar with my ability, unused medicinal herbs won’t get wet like this. What a waste… Tsk, it’s because I’m still young.’

I stared at the wet medicinal herbs.

How much does all this cost… What a waste! I could have saved one more person with this!

“Is everything okay now?”

“Ah, Dad.”

I nodded at Dad’s question.

“Yeah. Not immediately, but it’ll take about 3 days for a complete recovery. Since he’s a child, I can’t use strong medicine…”

“You.”

I stopped talking.

“Look, you’re exhausted.”

My body was lifted up smoothly. Dad’s face appeared close to mine. He had a stern expression.

“I came to protect Lady Hei Biyu. What does it matter what happens to that kid?”

Well, of course I’m fine… Being tired is honestly unavoidable.

I rolled my eyes around awkwardly for no reason.

Until Uncle Undeok and Jeok Yunha approached with big strides.

“Minjae…!”

“Dad! Look! My cough, I’m not coughing!”

“Your complexion…”

Since I quickly detoxified him as an emergency measure. It’s natural that his complexion became clear.

Tak Minjae seemed most delighted that his coughing had stopped.

“My legs hurt less too…! Will I finally be able to run? And my wind power too…!”

“Minjae… *sob*, Father is finally seeing you laugh so freely…”

Uncle Undeok looked at me. His eyes were red-rimmed, with thick tears welling up.

“This is the first time I’ve seen the child’s healthy face.”

He bowed deeply to me.

“Thank you, truly thank you… For this child, I could have given my life…”

I gazed at Uncle Undeok quietly and just smiled.

Once upon a time, I was curious about what that kind of love was. Both in Korea and here.

‘I guess I just don’t have that kind of connection.’

I glanced at Dad, and for some reason his expression was rigidly hardened.

With the hand not holding me, he was pressing his head firmly.

‘…Oh no, does he have a headache?’

“Dad?”

When our eyes met, Dad’s clouded gaze became clear.

Dad shook his head as if it was nothing.

I wanted to say more, but the child whose symptoms had improved was watching us and Uncle Undeok carefully.

‘Young patients are one of two types.’

Either they become excessively tyrannical, or excessively mature.

I leaned my body back. Light fatigue seemed to be washing over me.

“The medicine I left there is for 3 days, so you must take it exactly at the times I told you.”

There are always patients who don’t listen even when I tell them this clearly.

“You must take it properly. Only then will the remaining symptoms heal in 3 days.”

Fortunately, Jeok Yunha nodded with a determined expression.

“Don’t worry. Even if it’s dawn, I’ll wake her up and make her take it.”

“…Why would you hit the child?”

This man. I don’t give medicine that needs to be taken at such unreasonable hours.

After giving other precautions, I told her to contact me if there were any symptoms that didn’t improve after 3 days.

Though that wouldn’t happen.

“And….”

I whispered to Dad for a moment.

“Dad, can you make it so the child can’t hear?”

Dad made a sound with his index finger and thumb. A gentle breeze was felt.

“It is done.”

“Good.”

The child looked puzzled saying she heard singing, and Uncle Undeok had a surprised expression.

Finally, I looked back and forth at Jeok Yunha and spoke.

It was time to reveal an uncomfortable truth that would do no good for the child to hear.

“Listen carefully. That child has been poisoned.”

When I pointed at the child, Jeok Yunha’s eyes widened as if they would tear.

“It’s quite a malicious poison. You must find the culprit.”

I hesitated then continued.

“If she takes it again, she might die next time.”

* * *

Caw. A crow that constantly eyed the market vendors’ goods cried from somewhere.

The day was ending.

“Hmm….”

I stretched long in Dad’s arms.

“Let’s buy just a few more things and go back.”

After leaving Jeok Yunha’s warehouse.

We went around here and there collecting ingredients.

‘Please take this.’

Jeok Yunha gave us a plaque made of platinum.

She said that anywhere the Baekryong Trading Company’s influence reached, they would grant any request.

‘This won’t be enough. Please let me give you the rest of the compensation in 3 days.’

She even said to charge everything we bought to the Baekryong Trading Company.

I didn’t…refuse.

‘What a windfall? I never refuse free rice cakes.’

That’s to say, I was hoarding to my heart’s content like someone who had gotten their hands on a black card.

“Ah, Dad, next is over there, over there!”

Premium ingredients shopping? Thrilling! Unboxing haul? So exciting!

Dad looked at the stall I pointed to and frowned slightly.

It was bustling with people.

“…Do we really have to buy from there?”

“Dad doesn’t know. Someone with amazing Drying Ability is selling medicinal materials there.”

“How do you even… Fine. I’ll go.”

Dad put me down. Then he created a small whirlwind around me and left.

‘A whirlwind protecting me, how cute…’

I crouched down and watched Dad.

‘Dad squeezing into a clearance sale, how rare.’

It was quite amusing.

He seemed like the type who would frown once and blow everyone away with his ability, telling them to hand it over.

But there he was, obediently waiting in line.

I looked up at the slowly setting sun, then suddenly turned my head.

‘…Animal sounds?’

I heard whimpering sounds from somewhere. But no matter how much I looked around, I couldn’t see anything.

The stalls that couldn’t operate at night were being packed up, making the area quite eerie.

After looking around for a while, I figured out the source.

The alley.

I hesitated for a moment, then started walking.

I have the small whirlwind beside me, so it should be fine, right?

In front of the alley, I could see an abandoned stall. Flies were buzzing around.

I frowned at the unpleasant stench.

‘…This smells similar to corpse odor.’

It was a smell I’d encountered in places where epidemics were spreading.

But there’s nothing here, right? I thought there would be something…

At that moment, I stepped on something soft.

“Eeeek!”

I jumped up from where I stood. My heart was pounding wildly.

‘That startled me, what was that?’

I finally found the cause on the ground. This is…

“Whine… ing…”

It blinks its eyes.

‘An animal? A puppy?’

Hmm, no.

“It looks like… a fox too?”

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