The Beloved Baby Deer of the Hwangryong Family - Chapter 38

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Yi-ryeong too, and the unknown voice were both cheering her on. That fact gave her even more courage.

Seo-yu bit her lip tightly, then released it and hesitantly revealed her true feelings.

“I’m still very lacking… but I’m studying hard because I think I’d be happy if I could help even a little. If, if you would allow it, I would like to meet Madam too.”

At her words that she finished with difficulty, Li-han twisted the corner of his mouth.

‘Using Mother as an excuse?’

It was such a terrible excuse that he felt pathetic for feeling sorry for that child even for a moment.

‘She must have a reason why she needs to go to the Dragon Palace that badly.’

Once Hyeon-ya started taking action anyway, there would be no way to stop Seo-yu from going to the Dragon Palace.

However, Li-han had no intention of nicely letting that child use the twins as she pleased.

“If you want it that much, take that child to the Dragon Palace too.”

“Wow! Really? Why aren’t you saying anything against it?”

Yi-ryeong cheered excitedly, but then—

“But that child must go to the Dragon Palace on her own feet. That’s my condition.”

At the words that followed, she scrunched up her face.

“That’s ridiculous!”

“Elder Brother…”

Even Li-gon looked upset. Because that was nearly impossible.

But Li-han had absolutely no intention of compromising.

“I’m going to tell Uncle Hyeon-ya everything. If I tell him, he’ll definitely help, right? Seo-yu is Uncle’s disciple!”

Finally Yi-ryeong pulled out her secret weapon, but Li-han had already prepared an answer for that too.

“That child can’t do anything without help, I see.”

When he deliberately spoke to Yi-ryeong without looking at Seo-yu, Seo-yu stepped forward as expected.

“I, I’ll try to do it.”

“Good. A person should be able to do some things on their own.”

At his barbed reply, Seo-yu flinched, then soon bowed her head.

“Thank you for giving me an opportunity, Young Master.”

“…”

Thanking him?

He hadn’t expected to hear such words, so Li-han was momentarily at a loss for words.

But he soon regained his composure.

‘She’s calling it an opportunity because she doesn’t know what it is.’

How foolish.

Then, as Seo-yu raised her head, her gaze fixed on something, and her eyebrows and the corners of her eyes drooped weakly.

Li-han, who unconsciously followed her gaze, froze.

The child was looking at the medicine packet bundle that had been carelessly thrown on the corner of the desk without even being unwrapped.

Li-han, who had unconsciously moved his lips, closed his mouth again.

‘Why should I make excuses?’

Li-han stubbornly erased the child’s sad expression that remained in his eyes like an afterimage.

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As the sun tilted westward and the sunset painted the sky crimson.

Seo-yu left through the main gate together with Yi-ryeong and Li-gon.

“What’s this about? I was planning to go on an outing with our youngest when it got warmer!”

“This is Seo-yu’s first time going outside, right?”

Yi-ryeong grumbled with a disappointed face, while Li-gon asked cautiously.

Seo-yu, who had been lost in thought for a moment, nodded with slight surprise.

“Yes. Now that you mention it, it really is.”

It was the first time she had gone outside the household since living at the Golden Dragon Family.

It wasn’t that she had deliberately avoided going out.

With so many servants, the mansion itself was large enough to be like a village, so she hadn’t felt the need to leave.

Just going back and forth between the medical room and herb garden made the days pass quickly, so she felt even less inclined to do so. Even her master Hyeon-ya didn’t make unnecessary outings.

That’s why Seo-yu hadn’t fully understood what Li-han meant when he said to go to the Dragon Palace on her own four feet.

And now.

“Th-the Dragon Palace is below the cliff?”

A trembling voice escaped from Seo-yu’s lips as she stood atop the mountain peak.

Seeing Seo-yu frozen in panic, Li-gon rolled his eyes.

“Yeah. There’s a sea below, but if you want to go around and down, you’d have to go really far. Sometimes magical beasts appear there too, so none of us go that way…”

Winged Dragons are dragons with wings among dragonkind.

The primordial Winged Dragons always looked down at the world from high places, leaving the warmer and more fertile lands for others.

It was natural for the Golden Dragon Family, which had produced the most Winged Dragons in dragon beast-person history, to live in high places.

Thus, the Golden Dragon Family was situated atop a towering mountain. It was so high that one could look down at the clouds.

The sea where the Dragon Palace was located lay below that mountain, specifically below the cliff.

This meant that to reach the Dragon Palace, one had to descend the dizzying cliff.

“But Ga-ram and Eun-hyang don’t have wings. How do they get there from here…”

“You can take the cloud bridge over there!”

Yi-ryeong pointed her finger at a specific spot.

Indeed, among the fluffy clouds surrounding the mountain, there was one particularly cushiony-looking large cloud.

“That thing? But it’s so far away…”

“I’ll show you how it’s done.”

Yi-ryeong confidently went to the edge of the cliff.

“Be care— Aah!”

Then, before the words were even finished, she leaped with a whoosh!

As if she were flying, she rose upward and soon landed safely on the distant cloud.

“See? You do it like this.”

“How could Seo-yu possibly do that…”

Li-gon sighed on behalf of Seo-yu, who had turned pale as a sheet, and explained about the cloud.

“Originally that cloud was close to the cliff, but it gradually moved down. It’s probably because so much time has passed… Are you scared, Seo-yu?”

“…”

Seo-yu wanted to say she was fine, but her mouth wouldn’t open. Just looking at it from this distance made her feel breathless.

Yi-ryeong, who had somehow jumped back up to the cliff, approached them. Li-gon whispered quietly to Yi-ryeong.

“Yi-ryeong, I don’t think this is going to work.”

“Right? I was thinking the same thing.”

In fact, even without wings, other members of the Golden Dragon Family used the Cloud Bridge just fine.

The beastfolk of the Eastern Lands generally had excellent physical abilities, and snake beastfolk in particular could crawl along cliffs without even needing to jump when in Beast Transformation.

But Seo-yu was a deer. She wasn’t a species with claws sturdy enough to freely scale such dizzying cliffs.

Moreover, there was a fact the two of them didn’t know at all.

‘It’s just like the peak of White Jade Mountain…’

Thump, thump, thump, thump.

At the suddenly surfacing memory, Seo-yu’s heart pounded terrifyingly. She felt as if she might be pushed down below at any moment.

“Seo-yu, are you okay? Your face is pale.”

“I-I’m fine. I guess I was just a little startled.”

Seo-yu, who had instinctively tried to step backward, forced a smile at Li-gon’s words.

‘Don’t let it show. They’ll definitely worry.’

“Little one, don’t do that and just tell Uncle.”

“That would be better. Uncle will help you.”

“That won’t do!”

Seo-yu clenched her fists and objected. Her palms were damp from how much cold sweat she had broken out in.

Still, Seo-yu resolutely shook her head.

“Li-han is right. I want to become someone who can accomplish things on my own too.”

If she continued only receiving help from others like this, she would never be able to do anything by herself.

And then someday…

“That’s right. We’ll all help you, youngest.”

“I’ll definitely let you know if I need help.”

Seo-yu tried to approach the cliff once to get a closer look, but startled and stopped in her tracks.

However, not wanting to show her surprise, she forced a smile and gazed at the Cloud Bridge with feigned nonchalance.

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