Chapter 30
Chapter 30
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 30
Chapter Title: A Taste of Her Own Medicine
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“Don’t underestimate your little brother.”
Heuk Biwon didn’t stop there, grinning as he gestured toward a certain spot.
“If I had gotten serious, your son would be dead.”
“……”
“And what about Bihu over there? He has no memories. Wouldn’t it be easier to just kill a bothersome child?”
While everyone’s attention was focused on my eldest uncle and first aunt, I secretly opened my bag and took something out.
‘This isn’t what I made it for, though.’
It was a round pill.
Hiding it in my hand, I looked at my eldest uncle.
“The intruder is over there. Heuk Daewi bullied my son and my niece.”
“……Do you have proof?”
“Of course I do. Whether it’s the entry log, traces of a doggy door, or even just a search of the servants’ eyes, it’ll turn up.”
“That’s not true! I’ve been framed!”
Proof, huh? Does he really have any?
Heuk Daewi came here to eliminate me and Heuk Gyewon in the first place, so he probably erased his entry records before he came.
“Dahddy, if it becomes a battle of evidence……”
“There will be nothing to worry about.”
As my father raised his hand, a wind began to blow. A small whirlwind, visible to the eye, appeared.
The next moment, astonishingly, voices began to flow from the empty air.
They were familiar voices.
It was Heuk Daewi’s voice.
A murmur erupted from the crowd that had been watching in silence.
Heuk Daewi’s eyes widened as if they would tear.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
My voice is coming out, too? What is this?
When did he make something like this?
“I stored it in the wind.”
“……”
Although he seemed to be explaining it to me, his voice must have been clearly audible to my aunt over there.
And to the onlookers.
“This ability of a wind master is well-known enough to be used by the imperial family. It should be more than sufficient as evidence.”
Indeed, wind masters were regarded as precious talents even in the imperial family and were said to serve in roles similar to the police.
‘Or as assassins…’
I swallowed. I was starting to feel good. My, my, so this is how things are turning out?
I guess I’ll have to deliver the final blow.
I know that first aunt over there better than anyone.
That woman is…
‘The type who’s obsessed with saving face.’
I secretly popped what I was holding in my fist into my mouth and swallowed it.
Just then, my eyes met with my father’s, who had been watching me. I smiled brightly and whispered.
“Don’t be twoo shocked. I’m otay.”
“……What?”
I couldn’t answer. My stomach was churning.
‘Ugh, it’s been a while since I felt this.’
Soon, a cough burst out. *Cough, cough.* It was a loud cough, and naturally, all eyes turned to me.
My eyes met with my eldest uncle’s, which had gone wide.
‘Ah, I should have told Eldest Uncle beforehand.’
Well, I can just explain later.
“*Cough, cough-cough! Cough!*”
“You…”
My father adjusted his hold on me.
My stomach roiled. And then it happened.
“*Cough!*”
*Splat.*
Blood gushed from my mouth.
Jet-black blood.
One of the onlookers watching us screamed.
“Blood, that’s blood…!”
All attention was on me. I barely managed to lift my head to look at my father, and I saw his eyes trembling. It was strange.
‘I told him beforehand… why is he so agitated?’
Since he doesn’t remember me, even if I was introduced as his daughter, I should be no different than a stranger to him.
Ah, but I guess he’s worried since we’ve bonded a bit over the past few days?
Even considering that, his expression was full of shock.
I tried to reach out a hand to tell him I was okay.
‘Oh dear, I have no strength…’
My vision started to blur.
It’s fine. This was my intention.
“A physician! Dammit, a physician! They’re all over the place here! Hell, someone get over here now!”
My eldest uncle, who had rushed over in a hurry, shouted. I thought I saw someone running toward me.
“It’s, it’s poison!”
“Who doesn’t know it’s poison? Why did this suddenly happen?! No, forget it, just treat her. Now! Save her! Or I’ll go crazy and kill every last one of you here!”
“B-but this poison is…”
Listening to the half-faded sounds, I grinned to myself.
Black spots must be blooming all over my hands. Like mold.
My fingernails would be turning black from the tips.
And spots would be blooming like flowers on my neck.
There was no way a skilled physician here wouldn’t know this poison.
Its nickname was ‘Hakjeonghong.’
This poison was a lethal toxin.
The Heuk family’s rise to greatness was due not only to their excellent healing abilities but also to their top-tier poison-crafting skills.
Poison and medicine are one and the same.
‘Besides, this is a poison developed by someone famous.’
The very poison created by my first aunt.
The recipe and the cure are known only to her and her direct lineage.
I strained to lift my hand. Then, panting and gasping, I pointed directly at one person.
“Hee… made me eat it…”
What will you do now, First Aunt?
It’s clear I’ve been struck by the poison you created.
‘Serves you right for raising your son so poorly.’
My first aunt trembled. How could this situation be interpreted?
There was only one way.
A poison for which only she knew the recipe and the antidote.
Her son, Heuk Daewi, also knew it.
“Good heavens… to poison a child…”
“My word, was what Lord Heuk Biwon said true? He wasn’t the one who kidnapped her?”
“From what I know, that child is… already in poor health…”
The murmuring grew louder.
Feeling a sense of victory, I slowly closed my eyes.
Worried about the aftermath? Not at all.
Who am I?
The greatest genius physician and apothecary on the continent.
And a master capable of perfectly healing my own body!
‘If I’m not cured when I wake up, I can just use my ability to do it myself.’
In any case, that bastard Heuk Daewi.
He’s so screwed.
Who told him to mess with me?
I closed my eyes with a sense of catharsis.
Unaware of the expressions on the faces of the two men watching me, my father and my eldest uncle.
* * *
“Hey, your family doesn’t have stuff like this, right?”
In my third life. It was a time when I was slowly getting used to the way this family operated.
Heuk Daewi, that pig-like cousin of mine, for whatever grudge he held.
From the time I turned six, he tormented me relentlessly.
In every single life.
He’d say, “My mom really hates you,” but what did I care what that damn mama’s boy said?
I let it slide.
Instead, in each life, I recorded it bit by bit. The poison his mother always boasted about.
‘I know the ingredients. The main one is a crane’s crest, right?’
And it was mixed with a highly venomous snake poison.
I snuck that poison out and trained with it. To be honest, my training wasn’t anything special.
It was the ability to completely cure my own poisoning and injuries. Trusting in my power.
“*Blech! Cough, cough-cough!* This hurts like hell… *Haah, haah.*”
I would foolishly consume it and find a cure through trial and error.
Of course, I never died.
And in the end, I obtained the recipe and antidote for the one poison known only to my first aunt.
“Aargh! Aaaaargh! Mom, Mother! *Cough,* Mother!”
The sight of that bastard Heuk Daewi rolling on the floor after being poisoned was so satisfying.
I heard he looked for me as soon as he recovered, but it was already too late.
I had already left the family.
Even though I had left with a firm resolve, I think a small part of me was a little envious that he had a mother to call for when he was in mortal pain.
* * *
‘Ah… an old dream.’
I blinked my eyes open.
The ceiling wasn’t familiar. Where am I now?
‘My body feels light…’
I looked at my hand; there were no spots. Did they detoxify me?
‘Well, her reputation would have been ruined if she hadn’t, so she must have done it by any means necessary.’
My first aunt would never want to lose her image as a noble and merciful physician.
Though she’d die without ever realizing she was the furthest thing from merciful.
“*Yaaawn…*”
I was terribly tired. Maybe I’ll diagnose my body once I get some energy back.
Who knows. My first aunt might have detoxified me, but she could have left a little bit of poison out of spite.
‘Is it daytime?’
It was late afternoon when I closed my eyes.
“Did I schleep for a day?”
“Five days.”
“Gah!”
Startled, I turned my head. I had no idea how long he’d been there.
Through the wide-open door, I saw my father, sitting and leaning against the adjacent wall.
Why is that man sitting there without making a sound? My heart was pounding.
“Dahddy…? Why are you sitting over dere?”
“I’m keeping watch.”