The Beloved Baby Deer of the Hwangryong Family - Chapter 29

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Seo-yu, whose eyes were red and swollen, took out the paintings she had prepared.

“What’s this?”

“I tried drawing portraits. I’m not sure if you’ll like them…”

Yi-ryeong and Li-gon, who received the paintings she cautiously offered, exclaimed in admiration.

“Wow, you really drew these well!”

“How did you draw them so exactly the same, Seo-yu!”

“No, it’s not exactly the same. The painting is better than you, Hwang Li-gon.”

“Why are you picking a fight again!”

“I’m not picking a fight. It’s the truth.”

“I’ll draw even better ones for you later.”

At Seo-yu’s shy words, Yi-ryeong and Li-gon became even more delighted.

“It’s good even now? I should hang it in my room.”

“I’ll definitely hang mine up too.”

Li-gon, who carefully hugged the painting to his chest so it wouldn’t wrinkle, soon asked with a serious expression.

“But Seo-yu.”

“Yes?”

“Did you really think we would be disappointed seeing you?”

“Well… that…”

“We’re not that kind of dragons.”

Li-gon said firmly.

“Of course Seo-yu is incredibly cute and pretty, but we don’t judge people based on appearance alone.”

“That’s right. We were taught not to do that.”

Yi-ryeong nodded and chimed in agreement, then slyly added a comment.

“But being pretty is still nice.”

“Hey, Hwang Yi-ryeong. Don’t you have any tact?”

“Ah, why? What’s good is good. I like our youngest even more because she’s cute.”

Yi-ryeong puffed out her cheeks as if asking what was wrong with that.

Seo-yu smiled softly at the sight of the two who had finally returned to their usual selves, took a deep breath, and opened her mouth.

“Um, would it be okay if I showed you my Beast Transformation?”

“You don’t have to show us!”

“It’s okay! We don’t want to force you to show us!”

Yi-ryeong and Li-gon simultaneously tried to stop Seo-yu. At their reaction, a warm feeling spread through her chest.

Seo-yu quietly shook her head and said.

“I want to show you two. If you’re okay with it, of course.”

“We’re naturally…”

“It would be great to see!”

Yi-ryeong intercepted and completed Li-gon’s words.

Seo-yu steeled her heart and concentrated.

Whoosh!

Along with a flash of light, Seo-yu’s appearance changed.

The twins, who had been watching Seo-yu with some tension, tilted their heads as if they had made a promise.

“It’s a baby deer!”

“Wow, so cute!”

They began making a fuss, not knowing what to do with themselves.

“Wow, wow. So small. Hwang Li-gon, are deer originally this small?”

“I don’t know, this is my first time seeing one this close too!”

It wasn’t particularly a fabricated reaction. To them, Seo-yu really was adorable.

Her ears, pointed like small leaves yet round at the tips, kept perking up as if embarrassed, and her large, clear eyes with long eyelashes trembled softly.

Not just because she was their youngest, but objectively speaking, she was truly beautiful.

“Little one, can I touch your fur?”

“Squeak… (Hmm…)”

Seo-yu, who had unconsciously used Racial Language while pondering, quickly changed to words the two could understand.

“Yes. It’s okay.”

The twins, looking at Seo-yu with sparkling eyes, placed her in the middle and began carefully petting her.

Though Seo-yu became very embarrassed by this action that no one had done for her even when she was younger, she didn’t refuse their touch.

‘It feels good.’

She had never experienced this before, so she didn’t know it could feel this good.

As she forgot her embarrassment and quietly enjoyed their touch, Yi-ryeong asked in a voice that sounded truly puzzled.

“But where exactly are you ugly?”

“She’s a spotted deer. Maybe all spotted deer are pretty so they have high standards.”

These were all words she was hearing for the first time in her life, so she didn’t know what to say.

Seo-yu, her flushed face hidden thanks to Beast Transformation, answered in a small voice.

“I’m not a spotted deer.”

“Then what are you?”

“I’m…”

She didn’t want to say she was a great antlered deer. It was embarrassing because she didn’t have large horns, and she didn’t want to reveal her Family Clan either.

“Just, just a deer.”

“Then how about Golden Deer?”

“Oh, that’s good.”

“I like it too.”

Though it was an excessive name, Seo-yu readily accepted it.

She was thinking that she liked it because it somehow felt similar to Golden Dragon.

Yi-ryeong pointed to Seo-yu’s back and said.

“But Hwang Li-gon, doesn’t the fur on the little one’s back here look a lot like ours?”

“Right? I was thinking the same thing.”

Li-gon agreed.

Seo-yu flinched, realizing this was the part that people found particularly strange.

Miss Su-jeong had found it especially disgusting, saying the skin in that area looked exactly like scales.

“I, I’ll change back to human form now.”

Seo-yu hurriedly released her Beast Transformation.

Actually, she had worried it might look strange, but seeing the twins looking disappointed before quickly managing their expressions, she was able to feel at ease.

“Could you keep it a secret from the others? My appearance, I mean. The fur and all…”

Seo-yu decided to ask them just in case.

Even if these two were fine with it, others might view it unfavorably, so she planned not to use Beast Transformation outside in the future.

“Of course. If Seo-yu doesn’t want us to, we won’t tell anyone.”

“So it’s a secret that only the youngest and we know? I like that kind of thing.”

Fortunately, Li-gon and Yi-ryeong readily agreed to her request.

Feeling so grateful and happy about that, Seo-yu decided to put Hwang Hyeon-rang’s advice into practice.

“Um, excuse me. And there’s a gift… no, it’s not really a gift, but there’s one more thing.”

“There’s more?”

“What is it?”

The twins sent her expectant looks.

Seo-yu squeezed her eyes shut and called out timidly.

“Y-Yi-ryeong unni!”

It was Hwang Hyeon-rang’s advice to try calling the twins by the titles they wanted at least once.

Hwang Hyeon-rang was confident that just that alone would bring about reconciliation.

But contrary to expectations, silence fell. Seo-yu was terribly embarrassed, but she tried to finish what she had prepared to say. Or rather, she tried to.

“And Li-gon orabeoni, thank you for always being so kind to me… mmph!”

“She called me unni! I’m so happy!”

However, her words were cut off as Yi-ryeong rushed over and pulled Seo-yu into a full embrace.

“Youngest, call me that one more time. Please?”

Li-gon, who had been staring blankly in a daze, hurriedly stopped Yi-ryeong.

“Hwang Yi-ryeong, you crazy dragon! Let go first! The youngest can’t breathe!”

She had hugged her so tightly that she really couldn’t breathe, but Seo-yu loved even that and was giggling happily in Yi-ryeong’s arms.

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That night, the three of them decided to sleep together in Seo-yu’s room.

Lying side by side on the wide bedding that Ga-ram and Eun-hyang had laid out, the three of them chattered away enthusiastically.

In the midst of this, talk about a festival came up.

“Dragon Moon Night?”

She knew about dragons. The kind people who had saved her were dragons.

‘Moon means dal. Night means bam, so…’

Seo-yu tried combining the characters she had learned from Hwang Hyeon-ya one by one.

“A night when the moon rises?”

Knowing that Seo-yu always tried to think through words in her head before answering, Yi-ryeong and Li-gon waited patiently before giving their explanation.

“That’s right! It’s a festival held on the night when the full moon is at its largest!”

“Every year all the dragon beast-people gather. So many people come! There’s lots of food too!”

“Wow, that sounds fun.”

A banquet full of dragon beast-people!

Just imagining it was so wonderful that Seo-yu let out an exclamation.

When Seo-yu showed interest, the twins who had peeked their heads out from under the blanket sparkled their eyes.

“Does our youngest want to go too?”

“Let’s go together with Seo-yu!”

“Me too? But I’m not a dragon.”

“It doesn’t matter! Ga-ram and Eun-hyang went to Yongwolya many times too.”

“That’s right. I saw many non-dragon beast-people at Yongwolya too.”

But didn’t those two go there for work?

Seo-yu still wasn’t convinced, but the twins were already excited.

“Especially this time, Yongwolya is being held at the Dragon Palace!”

Yi-ryeong jumped up from her seat in excitement. Taking advantage of that moment, Li-gon quietly pulled Yi-ryeong’s blanket over and covered Seo-yu with it while asking.

“Youngest, you said you’ve never seen the sea, right?”

“Yes. I read in books that it’s water much bigger than a pond…”

“The sea can’t even be compared to a pond!”

Yi-ryeong raised both arms high toward the sky and drew a large circle.

“You’d have to combine a hundred, a thousand ponds. It’s probably even bigger than that?”

“Really? Wow…”

When Seo-yu opened her mouth in amazement, Li-gon also chimed in.

“Also, the sea has waves. Ponds don’t have waves.”

“Waves?”

“Yeah. Big currents that come and go. When you look from the Dragon Palace, it looks just like the sky is moving, so it’s really amazing?”

Li-gon moved his hands and arms in a swaying motion, imitating waves.

Seo-yu, who had only ever seen ponds, actually couldn’t grasp it at all, but she smiled a little because Yi-ryeong and Li-gon explaining so enthusiastically was amusing.

Then suddenly her expression darkened.

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