Doctor Resignation

Since the night I kept looking after Erhan was over, his condition had improved considerably.

He is not yet cured completely, but his high fever, which has been bothering him continuously, has improved a lot, thanks to my hard work and careful prescription of herbs.

“…Thank you.” (Erhan)

Erhan came to my room and said thank you in person while clearing his throat.

“I’m feeling much better.” (Erhan)

“Absolutely. Who do you think prescribed it.” (Lise)

“Weren’t you tired that day? Nursing me all night.” (Erhan)

“Well, it was hard indeed, keeping on injecting herbs infusion, observing the mana flow… changing the wet towels and… when you’re having a nightmare, holding your hand to calm down your raging mana discharge.” (Lise)

“But I slept well thanks to you. I’ve never had such a good night’s sleep.” (Erhan)

“A good night’s sleep is a necessary condition for health. Did you sleep well last night?” (Lise)

Erhan shook his head slowly.

“I want to sleep well again…. but I don’t want you to be exhausted because of me.” (ryu: no baby no no no we all love you)3

With my eyes shining because my efforts gave good results, I said to him.

“There’s a way to get a good night’s sleep even If I don’t do all that.” (Lise)

“What is it?” (Erhan)

“Are you going to listen to me?” (Lise)

“…Yes.” (Erhan)

“Really?” (Lise)

I put out my little finger.

“When I say listen to me, you have to do it unconditionally.” (Lise)

“…For the time being.” (Erhan)

He grabbed my little finger slowly.

The condition was ‘for the time being,’ but I laughed with joy inwards anyway.

‘I’ve got you now!’

Now I had to train him to listen to me better than Wederick does.

“If you’re done eating, let’s go out first. You need to move your body and receive some sun.”

After the short tea time was over, I led Erhan by the wrist. The weather was nice and the sun was warm today.

“Would you like to run over there with me?”

Erhan’s disease is a chronic one, and his current immunity level was terrible. If a 13-year-old doesn’t move and doesn’t eat properly, his health will inevitably be poor.

“You’ll have a hard time at first because you don’t move a lot, so eat this first…”

I fed Erhan some herbal medicine to strengthen his physical ability while he blinked. He spent most of his time lying in bed, so for the time being, this prescription will be necessary to make it possible for him to exercise lightly.

Still, last time when we played ball, I thought he was good at sports, so he might start to have fun right away.

I planned to make these simple things a little bit easier for him before handing him over to the Knights when he gets a little stronger. After all, knights will be better than me in building his body through training.

To do so, he had to learn the joy of moving his body first. The running match was just a bait. After that, I ordered him to do it over and over again.

“Master Erhan! Run! More!”

I sat under a beautiful tree and shouted, drinking the lemon juice Jenny brought me.

“One more round! Seeing you run is so cool!”

It was a rough remark, but Erhan glanced at me and started running even more vigorously.
(TN: Poor boy, so naive.) (ryu: that’s why we love him)3

With all this hard work, the amount of food he eats will increase. Anyway, during the growing season, it was best to move a lot, eat a lot, and sleep a lot.

“Let’s run two more laps and have dinner together!”

I was only planning to make him exercise and spend some of his energy, but I also ended up having dinner with him.

“Master Erhan, you have to finish it.”

“But…”

“You’re hungry right, eat it all. Go on.”

I figured out a well-balanced diet and started feeding foods full of nutrients for growth. For him, I would even cut the steak, salad, seafood, and put it in his mouth.

When I held out a fork, he would eat it helplessly.

Wederick constantly brainwashed him with, ‘You shouldn’t eat it. You’ll become a mess and everyone will think you’re funny.’ I eagerly pushed a fork into the 13-year-old small Duke to break the belief of such messed up lies.2

‘It’s like taking care of the younger kids at the nursery.’

Seeing him open his mouth, I felt a strange sense of pride inside.

“Now, wash up and read until you’re sleepy. I’ll keep you company.”

“Book?”

“Yes, there are many books here.”

In the spirit of service to the Duke of Cerseus, I even decided to take care of the successor’s studies.

After washing up with the help of a servant, he was already half-asleep wearing an indoor apparel. I handed him the thickest book I found, and I, too, opened a herbal book for paternity testing.

“Tell me when you feel like you’re about to fall asleep.”

You’ve moved quite a bit today unlike usual, so of course, you’ll fall asleep if you look at a boring book.

But it was my mistake, and Erhan was concentrating on the book until midnight.

‘This can’t go on. You have to sleep early to get bigger.’

Slightly embarrassed, I quietly spoke to Erhan.

“Aren’t you sleepy, Master Erhan?”

“The book is fun. It’s been a long time since I saw it.”

“Long time?”

“I read a lot until Wederick told me not to.”

“…”

No matter how you look at it, Wederick was the problem.

I made a gentle suggestion.

“…Then would you like to close your book and just sleep?”

“I can’t sleep.”

“Lie down for now.”

After dimming the lights, I sat by his bedside and held his white little hand, as I did to the Duchess. Erhan was startled, but soon smiled and held my hand back.

I didn’t have to inject mana because he didn’t have a headache, but I had to pretend to do something.

“If you close your eyes and stay like this, you’ll fall asleep.”

“Aren’t you uncomfortable, Lise? How about sitting with me?”

“What? I’m fine like this.”

“It’s wide here. Would you like to lie down with me? You should be tired, too.”

I shook my head in surprise.

Even if a 13-year-old suggested it with pure intentions, I could not imagine myself lying side by side on a man’s bed.

“It’s all right, Master Erhan. Just close your eyes and sleep. I’m going to watch over you until you fall asleep comfortably.”

I patted him slowly, looking at his long eyelashes, red lips, and his high nose.
I thought I would watch him fall asleep, but when the lights dimmed, my eyes flickered, and fell asleep myself.

Come to think of it, I couldn’t sleep well yesterday and studied from dusk to dawn, so I also lack some rest. After that, I began to doze off without even realizing it.

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“Lise.”

It was Erhan’s bed.

‘I definitely said I wouldn’t lie down with you…’

But before I knew it, Erhan was already holding my hand gently.

‘Uh, but why are your hands so big?’

When I looked up and saw Erhan, I swallowed my breath.

Not a 13-year-old boy, but a young man with a surprisingly strong body looked down at me.

‘Dream? It must be a dream…’

While realizing that it was a dream, I was so surprised that I couldn’t say anything.

It was completely different from the dry and skinny appearance of Erhan before my return, but the beautiful features and black eyes were definitely his.

“You said that you don’t lie.”

The decadent, cold atmosphere in his eyes bent slightly. His presence on top of me was so great that I almost choked.1

He was a man with a breathtaking appearance and a sense of intimidation.

“You said that you’re the smartest and most straightforward person I’ll ever meet… You said that you’re the only one who truly cares about me.”

Uh… I did say so.

He blinked his eyes in silence, his gaze only fall upon me.

“Now I know that all that you said was right.”

His legs intertwined with mine, then he whispered softly in my ears as if trying to seduce me.3

(TN: That escalated tooooo fast. Even if it’s only a dream.)1

“But let you go? I’m not a fool, Lise.”

It was so close that even his breath could be felt. I couldn’t help but stare at his long eyelashes. For the first time in my life, I thought my heart was going to explode. I was going to die.

I haven’t felt like this before.

As soon as I was about to say something with my trembling lips, my eyes suddenly opened.

(TN: ….Why you do this to us…. ( ಠ ʖ̯ ಠ))9

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“Ah.”

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Likewise, it was Erhan’s room.
I was thirteen years old, and likewise, a thirteen years old Erhan was sleeping beside me.

“It must be just a silly dream…”

I tried to let go of the hand I was holding to go back to my room, but it won’t detach because of how strong his grip was, even if he was sleeping.

I wrestled and groaned on my own, and when I finally pulled out my hand and returned to my room, the hazy dream I had was all forgotten.