The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 44

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 44

“Huh?”

“No, never mind. Anyway. Your Dad has been monitoring all the way here.”

Dad has?

I looked up at the air. Come to think of it, I think I’ve been feeling wind this whole time.

“…You said you met First Sister, right? Hei Haran.”

You mean First Aunt?

“Yeah, why?”

“You’ll handle things well on your own. And you have Nana Brother by your side but…”

My ally. I felt reassured, forgetting about the situation.

“Be careful of that sister.”

Hei Birang’s expression was the most serious I’d ever seen.

“Nana Brother and I can’t go outside with you because our outdoor ban hasn’t been lifted. We’ll try to get it lifted though.”

“…”

“Until then, avoid contact with Hei Haran as much as possible. Since your Dad has no memory, I’m letting you know.”

“Why?”

Hei Haran is someone with tremendous ambition. She didn’t discriminate between means and methods to become Family Head.

In fact, in the original story, she killed the Family Head and briefly sat on the Family Head’s position, but it was a role where she got taken down by the Female Lead.

“Your First Aunt tried to kill your Father several times.”

This is the first time I’m hearing this.

“Since she hates your Dad, the sword will turn toward you. You’ll definitely become a target.”

“…”

“Most of all, if she finds out you have such genius talent, she’ll target you even more.”

I can’t deny it since that’s actually what happened in my previous life. That’s what I think too.

Though this is the first time I’m hearing she targeted Dad.

“But why are you making sure Dad can’t hear this? It would be better to talk together.”

“I will tell him. And I didn’t put up the barrier just because of Hei Haran. It’s killing two birds with one stone.”

Hei Birang lets out a small sigh.

He looked like he was debating whether to speak or not.

“How much do you know about your Dad’s illness?”

Instead of being swayed by his meaningful words, I tilted my head.

“What are you trying to say?”

I’m used to grasping the main point from people who speak in roundabout ways.

Hesitant attitudes too. Telling lies and then confessing later.

These are all things patients do.

“Is it something hard to say?”

“Huh? No, no… It’s not like that.”

Hei Birang scratched his cheek.

“Do you trust your dad?”

What could he mean by that? It’s not like he’s suddenly going to warn me that he’ll betray me or something. It must be because of his illness.

“I trust him. I’ve decided to trust him. As a physician, I’ll trust and help a patient who’s putting all his will and effort into getting better.”

“…”

“Same goes for Uncle Poo. I trust him.”

Hei Birang made a dazed expression. Then he hung his head low and ruffled his own hair.

“Right, what am I saying something anxious for… Even to a three-year-old who cured me.”

Hei Birang rolled his eyes this way and that, then soon smiled bitterly.

“Sorry. I had something on my mind, so I said something strange for no reason.”

“It’s okay.”

I understand your anxiety. Those long moments of living with an incurable disease, unable to see even an inch ahead.

‘I don’t know when my regression will end either.’

That’s why I want to go back even more.

“Please pretend you didn’t hear that.”

“Okay.”

The water barrier disappeared.

Hei Birang’s figure with his hand on his waist, gazing at the moon, looked wistful.

“When I look at the moon… I think of my daughter.”

Uncle’s voice, which had been full of prickliness, softened. His face also looked gentle.

‘He was a daughter fool, this person.’

Uncle turned his head.

His face looking at me seemed comfortable. There was also some longing contained in it.

“You know, I hope our Ayan also grows up to be spirited like you and, well… wise and good.”

“What if she doesn’t become that kind of kid? Then what will you do?”

I’m not particularly a good person. I’m treating you guys because I have ulterior motives.

“What? What does that matter?”

Uncle burst into laughter. It was an unguarded face.

“Even if she turns out that bad, she’s still my daughter. What would change?”

“…”

“Ah, of course even if you can’t treat me, you’re still my niece. Just so you know.”

Uncle gently tapped my forehead.

“Sometimes you have a face that carries a huge burden. I’m saying that at three years old, you don’t need to shoulder all the weight. Little one.”

He no longer pushed me around without controlling his strength like when we first met.

“I was going to escort you back, but I won’t. Your dad is protecting you quite thoroughly.”

Hei Birang waved his hand.

I also smiled and waved my hand widely.

“Take care, Uncle Poo!”

“Alright.”

Don’t worry.

I’ll make sure Uncle’s lovely daughter can see.

* * *

The next day.

Chirp chirp chirp. Morning with birds singing.

I was hmm, pondering something ahead of me.

“What are you doing?”

Startled by the presence that suddenly approached from behind, I turned my head and saw Dad.

“When did you come here?”

“Around the time you woke up.”

…I slept in the next room, but he sensed my presence? I guess renowned warriors really are different.

‘Now his complexion seems to have almost returned to normal.’

“How’s your body feeling?”

“No problems.”

“What about your head and memory?”

“It doesn’t hurt, and nothing more is coming back.”

I concluded that when Dad remembers something important, it might be accompanied by pain.

It’s still just a hypothesis though.

For now, his body can’t overcome it and it comes with pain and fever, but there’s a high possibility it will gradually get better.

‘Since we’re treating a disease that normally wouldn’t be curable, relying on a miracle.’

I turned my gaze to stare at the floor. On a small blanket was a breathing life of various colors.

It was the puppy I had rescued.

After Dad collapsed, I had Uncle and Little Uncle help take care of Dad while also looking after the puppy and other creatures.

‘It still can’t open its eyes…’

Dad plopped down next to me.

“What’s this?”

“What do you mean what. It’s the puppy I picked up back then.”

Dad made a bewildered face.

“A puppy? This thing?”

That’s right, isn’t it? I was just thinking the same thing.

After taking care of Dad, I washed and treated the puppy, and realized it wasn’t a puppy.

“Isn’t it a fox? A white fox.”

“Right?”

Pointed ears, pointed snout, and a fluffy tail.

No matter how I looked at it, it was a fox.

A very small fox that seemed to have been born not long ago.

“But Dad, this one… has three tails.”

That was right. Unlike ordinary foxes, it had three tails.

“Dad, could this possibly be a Divine Beast?”

“…I do feel some kind of power from it. But it seems a bit different from a Divine Beast.”

So even Dad doesn’t know. Dad pointed at the tail.

“White foxes only exist on the Eastern Continent to begin with. I’ve never heard of one with three tails though. Isn’t it a mutant?”

“Huh, there are no white foxes on the Western Continent?”

“None. Unless it was poached and brought here?”

He said that on the Eastern Continent, white foxes are considered sacred, so their export is strictly prohibited.

So in the end, this little one was secretly smuggled in?

“How pitiful.”

I carefully stroked the sleeping baby fox.

“One day it suddenly opened its eyes in a strange world. How scary that must have been. Everything in the world would have been unfamiliar… It would have had to adapt to survive.”

A child similar to me.

I had already felt sorry for its injuries, but now I felt even more heartbroken.

‘Could we send it back to the Eastern Continent?’

It might be possible after the Female Lead becomes the Family Head.

Dad, who had been listening quietly, suddenly asked.

“Is that from experience?”

“…Huh?”

“Since you’ve also lived in this Eastern Wing where there’s no one else?”

I blinked my eyes. Oh, that startled me. He means that…

I rolled my eyes around and affirmed.

“That’s right. So I’m thinking of becoming this little one’s guardian and friend.”

“Then I should become your guardian.”

“Huh?”

Dad leisurely rested his chin on his raised knee as if amused.

“Let me see… The years you spent without me were three years? Since that’s how it turned out, I’ll work twice as hard for the next three years. Captain.”

“…That damn captain thing.”

Dad smiled meaningfully as if he knew everything.

“If you acknowledge someone as family, they become family.”

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