The Beloved Baby Deer of the Hwangryong Family - Chapter 110

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Choa flinched and looked down below. One of the Golden Dragon Family’s little ones, Hwang Li-gon, was staring directly at her.

“Sister Choa, right?”

When did he come out? She had clearly seen him entering the event hall with the Golden Dragon Family Head and his spouse!

Though momentarily flustered by the sudden encounter, Choa wasn’t one to be unable to handle such a trivial matter.

From the moment she had volunteered to be Nok Su-jeong’s maid, she had anticipated this to some extent.

“Pardon? Young master, I’m sorry but I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else.”

There were many differences between an adult and a child.

She was much more than a hand span taller than when she had lived as ‘Choa’ in the Golden Dragon Family, and she had let down the ponytail she always wore to look younger, plus she had deliberately dyed her hair black.

Not only that, but to change her appearance she had even drawn her eyebrows differently, so no matter how keen someone’s eye was, there was no way they could recognize her.

So she just needed to deny it firmly, but.

“No, you are sister, you’re right.”

“Hoho, I said I’m not.”

“You are though.”

“I said I’m not, didn’t I?”

No matter how many times she denied it, Li-gon showed no signs of backing down.

‘This little brat was always stubborn!’

Come to think of it, it was the same when she stayed with the Golden Dragon Family.

They absolutely had to do what they wanted to do, and if you tried to make them do something they disliked, it took considerable time.

How many months had she struggled just to get the treasure vault key once! The memory of suffering to please those little ones was still vivid.

“I don’t know who you’re confusing me with, but this is the first time I’ve seen you, young master. I don’t know who that person is.”

When she spoke clearly and deliberately with emphasis, Li-gon tilted his head.

“But why is your aura exactly the same as sister Choa’s?”

“…Pardon?”

“Your aura, I mean. Even though Yi-ryeong and I are twins, our auras are different. But sister, your aura is exactly the same as sister Choa’s.”

What is he talking about now?

While it was true that beastkin had unique auras, she had only heard it was enough to identify species, never that it could distinguish between individuals.

“Well… I don’t know what you’re talking about. Anyway, I’m not the person you mentioned, so please let me go now.”

“No way. I promised to tell Yi-ryeong if I met sister Choa.”

Choa’s face went pale. Yi-ryeong was even more stubborn than Li-gon.

Moreover, the Golden Dragon Family Head and his spouse were also here. If Yi-ryeong came over, those two would surely come along as well. If she encountered them and got questioned, it would be very troublesome.

Choa tried to shake off Li-gon by putting strength into her arm, but Li-gon held onto her without even blinking, staring blankly.

‘How is this kid so strong!’

When he was younger, she used to push and pull him around playfully, but had he become this strong in just a few years!

“See? Your strength is weak too. We always went easy on sister Choa.”

Li-gon nodded with a confident tone. Meanwhile, she could see another blonde head emerging from the event hall. It was definitely Yi-ryeong.

‘At this rate, I’ll get caught!’

Feeling anxious, Choa made a decision.

Pop!

“Huh?”

Using beast transformation, Choa instantly changed into a bird and quickly flew up into the sky.

“Hwang Li-gon! What are you doing over there!”

She had worried about what would happen if he followed them all the way to the sky, but fortunately Yi-ryeong caught Li-gon’s attention at just the right moment.

Choa flapped her wings with all her might, using every ounce of strength she had.

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‘What on earth is going on?’

Su-jeong couldn’t understand the current situation at all.

At first, she had her eyes tightly shut, so she thought the painkiller was working properly. There was no pain at all.

The maid really did get some good medicine. As expected, the person Choa introduced is different.

She had been admiring this, but what was this?

She could feel the solid sensation of the ground directly against the soles of her feet!

When she opened her eyes with a start, she was standing perfectly fine on both legs. She had definitely leaned her body back sharply and should have rolled down the hill.

‘Who on earth…!’

Su-jeong’s eyes widened as she quickly turned around.

Just now, someone had definitely supported her body from behind. Otherwise, there was no way her body could have stopped in mid-air with nothing there.

But when she turned around, no one was there. Not even a person, not even a shadow could be seen.

At the edge of the hill, only some strange vine was drooping down, swaying in the wind.

“Seo-yu, are you okay?”

“Wow, I was really startled.”

Su-jeong, who had been continuously scanning the innocent hill area, was startled by the sudden voices and turned back to face forward.

Two students who had appeared from who knows when or where were approaching Seo-yu, making a fuss.

‘A rabbit and a hedgehog?’

Su-jeong’s face crumpled. She couldn’t remember their names, but they were faces she had seen a few times while going to and from the Academic Hall. Both were insignificant enough that she hadn’t paid them much attention.

The rabbit beastkin, Ryeong-ah, felt Su-jeong’s gaze on her and raised her eyebrows sharply as she questioned Su-jeong.

“Excuse me, Su-jeong! You’re really a strange person!”

“Strange? Why should I have to hear such words? How truly rude.”

Su-jeong quickly managed her expression and played innocent. But Ryeong-ah retorted with an incredulous face.

“You were just trying to fall backward by yourself! Wi Un and I saw everything clearly!”

They saw?

While she hesitated, Ryeong-ah continued speaking.

“You were trying to frame Seo-yu again, weren’t you? How terrible of you!”

“I, I saw it too.”

The hedgehog beastkin Wi Un also nodded beside her and added a word. Looking at the spot he pointed to with his finger, there was indeed a small burrow dug in the ground.

“We were hiding in this burrow here. We saw everything Su-jeong did.”

When on earth did those things…?!

Su-jeong’s face turned pale. A gap had appeared in the plan she thought was perfect.

‘Could it be that when she asked me to wait and stalled for time earlier, it was for this reason? She deliberately bought time?’

Just as Su-jeong was shocked.

Seo-yu quietly faced Su-jeong, who was glaring fiercely. She had no intention of bowing her head or avoiding her like before.

‘I knew Su-jeong wouldn’t call me to a place like this for no reason.’

In fact, Seo-yu had already sensed it. That Su-jeong would never call her for anything good.

So instead of going to meet her family earlier, she had hurriedly sought out Ryeong-ah and Wi Un, who were watching the festival.

‘Um, guys. I have a favor to ask.’

When Seo-yu carefully brought up the topic, Ryeong-ah answered while crunching on the cucumber she was holding.

‘What is it? Is something wrong?’

‘Su-jeong called me aside, and I’m feeling uneasy about it. I was wondering if you could come with me.’

‘Of course! We’ll help you. Where did she tell you to come?’

Ryeong-ah understood immediately and grabbed Wi Un’s hand.

‘She told me to come to the hill up there. But she said to come alone. So I was wondering… could I ask you two to use Beast Transformation?’

Seo-yu remembered how she always carried Bi-neung in her arms when she was in beast form. So she decided to take Ryeong-ah and Wi Un to the hill the same way.

Fortunately, both of them were small enough that hiding them in her arms wouldn’t be noticeable at all.

Having safely hidden the two and climbed the hill, Seo-yu pretended to adjust her shoes just before meeting Su-jeong and secretly set her two friends down on the ground.

Ryeong-ah quickly dug a burrow, and she and Wi Un hid inside to watch.

She had sincerely hoped her prediction would be wrong this time, but Su-jeong really had devised a plan to cause her trouble.

It wasn’t even just ordinary trouble. It was a plan to frame her for a serious crime that could result in severe punishment if things went wrong.

And she was using a method that would bring back Seo-yu’s worst memories.

But fortunately, Su-jeong’s plan failed.

Actually, she thought there would be no way to prevent Su-jeong from falling backward.

But the moment she reflexively reached out her hand shouting ‘No!’, the landscape vines that were there instantly grew long and softly caught Su-jeong as she fell backward.

As if they were responding to Seo-yu’s heart.

It was something even Seo-yu herself had never imagined possible.

[We saved her!]

[The human didn’t fall!]

[Did we do good?]

Seo-yu listened to the chattering voices. Several clear voices poured out all at once.

Seo-yu instinctively realized these were the voices of the landscape vines. It was the first time since the spirits that she was conversing with plants that grew above ground rather than from the earth.

Though she was amazed and dumbfounded, expressing her gratitude came first.

‘Thank you, everyone.’

Seo-yu conveyed her words through her heart.

‘I almost had to go through another unfair ordeal, but thanks to you all, I was able to stay safe. Thank you so much.’

When she conveyed her sincere gratitude, the vines that had returned closer to the ground trembled in response. The thin stems swayed in the wind as if dancing.

[No, no. Seo-yu gave us good energy.]

[That’s right. That’s why we grew so much!]

[Look at my berries, don’t they look huge?]

Joyful voices from the vines poured out.

Each one proudly swayed their stems and showed off their round berries in such an adorable way that a smile almost naturally spread across her lips, but she barely held it back.

Seo-yu once more expressed her gratitude to the vines in her heart, then slowly turned her head and fixed her gaze on Su-jeong again.

Until now, she had tried to avoid confrontation because she was afraid of facing her lonely past and didn’t want to get entangled with Su-jeong anymore, but she couldn’t keep running away forever.

Now she was determined to face her with dignity and confidence.

“Not content with theft, are you now planning to pin the crimes you committed onto me, Young Miss?”

“Theft? Crimes?”

Su-jeong’s face contorted terribly.

“What is this insolent thing saying to me right now?”

Finally, Su-jeong threw off the mask of the gentle young lady she had been desperately maintaining.

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