Chapter 265 (2/2)

In fact, I was wondering why the royal doctor was checking Beatrice’s condition instead of treating her.

She was losing a lot of blood, so I was looking at her anxiously. But the black-haired woman, not the royal doctor, came in.

“I heard you called me, Your Majesty…”

Did she see something strange? Smile on her bright face disappeared little by little. Her coquettish voice also gradually faded away.

Jiun was now looking at the emperor. Her eyes fixed on him were burning with something mysterious, as always.

The moment I hated her cold look, I heard him calling her from my behind,

“Lady Jena, I need to borrow your divine power for a moment.”

“… Ah, yes, Your Majesty. ”

Jiun, who replied belatedly with a blank expression like a woman who just woke up from her dream, looked at me and frowned.

What? Did she recall her past just like I did?

When I looked back with a puzzled expression, she already stood beside Beatrice. I tilted my head, watching her muttering something, with her hands folded.

‘Is her divine power supposed to be used for this kind of purpose?”

Her actions at the moment were different from what I had seen before, compared with what the high priests usually did.

But no matter how suspicious I was about her actions, there was nothing I could do.

What if I disturbed her by speaking to her?

How much time passed? The royal doctor who arrived very late greeted the emperor hastily and immediately checked Beatrice’s condition.

The emperor looked out the window by turning his head when the doctor removed her dress urgently. I turned my eyes to Beatrice, trying to turn away from him who was as cold-hearted as ever.

When I moved a few steps from the doctor so as not to disturb him, I saw Jiun frowning hysterically while muttering something until then. I thought her actions strange from the beginning. It was certain that something didn’t work out right to her expectations.

‘Then, what is it that she did this afternoon?’

Suddenly a question occurred to me. I’ve heard from the High Priest that her divine power was incomplete. Was she struggling now because of that? Was she supposed to use her divine power only a few times per day or was the success rate of her divine power very low?

I was still puzzled about her divine power, but I took my eyes off her and looked at the doctors. Unlike Jiun with an annoyed face, they were talking to each other very seriously.

While looking at the doctors, I suddenly felt one of them was familiar to me.

‘Oh, that man is… ‘

The sweaty doctor in his late 30s, who gave her first aid because he said he was not well versed in this area, was the very man who, as one of the royal doctors, notified me that I was infertile in the past. He was also on call in case of the medical emergency situation.

“Whew! What a relief! I was worried because she lost so much blood.”

“Yes, you’re right.”

“But why did you call me? I know you are a specialist in this field.”

Was it because I was close to them? Even though they spoke in a very low voice, I could hear them well enough to understand what they were talking about.

I frowned unconsciously at that. Come to think of it, it was not true that he didn’t know about gynecology. As a layman in this field, he wouldn’t have been appointed as one of my doctors in the past. Then why did he lie? Was there any reason for him to refuse to treat Beatrice?

“Well, I’m only a beginner, compared to your excellent skills, Dr. Hares. Besides, her condition looked very serious.”

“Well, two are better than one anyway. I think we’re almost done. Let me report then.”

The middle-aged woman who wiped her hands with a clean towel approached the window and bowed deeply to the emperor.

“I, Hares Lant, am honored to greet the Sun of the Empire. Please forgive me for not properly greeting you as I was so absent-minded.”

“No problem. What about the baroness’s condition?”