Chapter 61
Chapter 61
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 61
Chapter Title: Impostors
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“Are you listening? It felt foul.”
“Uwaaah, lemme go!”
*I have no idea what’s gotten into you, but that foul tone! You sound just like my younger uncle!*
Let go of me, you!
“I told you, I remembered the day you were born.”
“I know dat!”
“And just now… something else came to me.”
I stopped trying to pry my father’s hands off me.
*Suddenly?*
“What did you remember?”
“…An empty building.”
My father muttered, lightly pressing his temples.
“The Eastern Palace… You were standing there alone.”
My father’s eyes grew somber.
*He came to see me?*
“Our eyes met.”
“Huuuh?”
Did that really happen? I quickly searched my memories.
*No, that never happened.*
“Our eyes met, but I didn’t know? Maybe I just didn’t see you?”
“That’s likely. I was hiding when I went.”
That just raised more questions.
Then why didn’t you say anything? It was a genuine question.
“That’s not the problem. That wasn’t the only thing I remembered.”
My father’s expression was grave.
“Behind you… there were people after you. They looked like assassins, no matter how I saw it.”
“What? Me?”
Likewise, I never saw a single assassin while I was abandoned in the Eastern Palace.
*Did he really see me? Are his memories all jumbled up?*
I grew serious as well.
“Den why…”
Just as I was about to speak.
“Make way!”
A commotion erupted in front of the clinic.
Since we were talking near the door, we could immediately see what was happening.
The crowd parted like the Red Sea.
The group that appeared was dressed in familiar black clothes.
*…What? They’re warriors from the Heuk Family.*
On this street, only the Heuk Family wears black clothes with gold and silver embroidery.
That’s the warriors’ uniform.
And the man standing at the very front of the warriors was someone I had seen once in a previous life.
*I can’t quite recall his name.*
“Is this the recently opened ‘Heuk Biyu Clinic’?”
…Damn it, my name is so embarrassing right now. I was too lazy to change it, but I should have replaced the sign!
“Dat’s wight.”
I felt a sense of trouble as I watched the Heuk Family warriors scan the inside of the clinic with hawk-like eyes.
Jeok Yunha, who acts as our representative, had stepped out for a moment with the two poisoned patients.
It was true that Father had gotten official permission to come out, but his relationship with the main family didn’t seem very good.
I didn’t foresee a good outcome.
*It’s the face I remember.*
*‘Stop! I said stop! Don’t step on it!’*
*‘A shame, isn’t it? But it can’t be helped.’*
*‘…!’*
*‘You should have become a renowned physician then.’*
That warrior. He was the one who looked down on me in my second life.
The hierarchy of the Heuk Family goes in this order: physicians, apothecaries, warriors, and then maids and servants.
However, this hierarchy is sometimes upended.
This happens when a competent warrior encounters an unskilled apothecary or physician.
*In my case, it wasn’t a lack of skill but a lack of backing.*
The moment I saw that face, I had a good idea of what was about to happen.
*I figured a situation like this would come eventually.*
The man at the front stared at me and my father, his expression stern and unyielding.
Then he took out a piece of paper and held it out.
“We are from the Heuk Family.”
A paper stamped with the family’s official seal.
“We heard there is an impostor here, daring to use the Heuk Family name.”
The warrior’s glinting eyes turned to me. A sneer flickered in his gaze.
“We’ve come to apprehend the impostor.”
The warrior shouted, making a spectacle for everyone to hear.
No, he definitely wanted them to hear.
As expected, the crowd began to murmur.
*Wow, how many interesting sights are the spectators getting today?*
I sneered inwardly.
If I weren’t the main character, I’d be in that crowd eating popcorn and watching the show, wouldn’t I?
*Besides, to say something like this with my father standing right here…*
I secretly raised the corner of my lip.
*It’s a trap, isn’t it?*
What else could it be, accusing us of being impostors with a direct descendant of the Heuk Family standing right here?
Some sinister plot.
There’s definitely someone behind that warrior.
Yes, good.
Very good.
*This is the Heuk Family I know.*
I clapped internally.
Bravo, you bastards!
* * *
The Heuk Family.
A noble family of healers, revered in this city.
Beneath it, a vast number of physicians and apothecaries are active.
On the surface, they appear clean, noble, and elegantly authoritative.
But in truth, the inside has long been rotting away.
*The family was always sustained by the charisma of an absolute powerhouse.*
For physicians and apothecaries, a powerhouse refers to someone with overwhelmingly superior healing abilities.
When they first crossed over to the Western Continent, the head of the Heuk Family at the time, Heuk Ahwa, possessed superhuman abilities.
Not only could she use water to heal people, but rumors even claimed she could bring the dead back to life.
It was said that when she appeared on a battlefield, there were no deaths or injuries.
Patients completely cured by Heuk Ahwa’s power were so captivated they would follow her around like shadows.
It would be no exaggeration to say that her radiance still shines upon the Heuk Family.
Furthermore, rumors abounded that the guardian deity of the Eastern Continent, a dragon, was by her side.
And that’s not all.
It was also a famous story that, despite being a healer, she could command the wind and summon lightning.
*A munchkin, a total munchkin.*
Recalling my friend’s story, the original novel mentions that the female lead, Heuk Ayan, bears a resemblance to this famous Heuk Ahwa.
Moreover, she was called her successor due to her incredible healing abilities.
Anyway, back to the story.
After Heuk Ahwa established herself in this land, generations of charismatic individuals with great healing powers took the position of family head.
The current head, Heuk Moran, was no different, but…
*She failed to cure the emperor when he fell ill ten years ago.*
Since then, the Heuk Family has been on a quiet decline.
But the Heuk Family was struggling desperately behind the scenes to hide it.
Above all, they were like a beacon for the Easterners living on the Western Continent.
The decline of their influence sparked fears that discrimination against Easterners might worsen across the continent.
And in reality, it did.
*That’s why the female lead worked so hard in the original novel.*
This family, rotting from the inside out, is incapable of self-correction until the original female lead grows up. That’s what this means.
And what does that mean?
*That they won’t even tolerate a genius they haven’t sanctioned.*
The very things I suffered through so tiresomely.
The Heuk Family has long since become a hotbed of politics and tightrope-walking.
The overall skill of its physicians and apothecaries has declined.
Furthermore, no charismatic genius like the previous heads has emerged.
There was even talk that the next head of the family would be whoever was best at playing politics.
“The Heuk Family does not permit just anyone to use its name.”
In my second and third lives, I also tried to open a clinic in this market.
And I was brutally crushed.
*‘That person is not a physician recognized by the Heuk Family! They’re an impostor!’*
Only a fool would fall for the same trick two or three times.
In my third life, I didn’t have a decent warrior by my side, so I just had to leave, but things are different now.
“Why am I an impostow?”
As I asked calmly while held in my father's arms, it was the warrior who was taken aback.