The Beloved Baby Deer of the Hwangryong Family - Chapter 6

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Seo-yu quickly covered her mouth.

If people discovered her now and helped her, word would surely reach the siblings’ ears.

Then she would obviously face interrogation about whether she had found the Snow Scale Flower.

Fortunately, the herb gatherers didn’t notice Seo-yu’s presence.

“What sound? Must have been a squirrel passing by. The sun will set soon, so stop saying strange things and let’s look for that Snow Scale Flower herb or whatever it is.”

“Got it.”

Soon the herb gatherers moved away.

Seo-yu, who had been watching carefully, dragged her injured leg and climbed the mountain again. She couldn’t return to the village where the siblings were waiting.

‘Where should I go?’

Her limping leg hurt, her chest felt tight, and everything seemed utterly hopeless.

Though she had matured early with no adults to comfort her mistakes, Seo-yu was still young.

She had no idea what to do in this situation.

‘But I can’t go back with this.’

However, she knew one thing for certain – she must not hand over the Snow Scale Flower to the siblings.

Seo-yu gently clutched the pouch containing the Snow Scale Flower and looked up toward the mountains beyond.

‘…Could I possibly go to the Kirin Family?’

She didn’t even dare hope for the Heavenly Medicine Forest. If she went and offered the Snow Scale Flower, she might be able to enter the Medical Academy.

‘If I disappear, everyone will be happy…’

No matter how much she thought about it, there wasn’t a single person who would be sad.

‘Let’s leave. I have to leave.’

Having made up her mind, Seo-yu climbed the mountain.

To reach the Far West where the Kirin Family was located, she first had to cross White Jade Mountain.

Seo-yu walked diligently.

However, when bluish darkness began to settle around her, she became completely exhausted.

‘Ugh, my knee hurts so much.’

The unbearable pain continued to torment her.

She wanted to give up right away, but Seo-yu no longer had a home to return to.

She forced herself to drag her leg and walk, but because she hadn’t properly applied hemostasis, drops of blood fell scattered across the white snow field.

As Seo-yu struggled forward, she discovered a familiar plant at the edge of the mountain ridge.

‘It’s Cucumber Grass!’

Cucumber Grass with red flowers shaped like puppy tails would quickly stop bleeding when crushed and applied to wounds.

Though it was a commonly seen medicinal herb on high mountains, she had given up finding it on snow-covered White Jade Mountain, but there was Cucumber Grass near the cliff.

Seo-yu squeezed out her remaining strength and approached the cliff. Even though the roots were buried in snow, it was definitely Cucumber Grass.

Seo-yu carefully cleared away the snow with her hands and was just about to pull out the Cucumber Grass.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m bleeding. I need to use Cucumber Grass for hemostasis…”

Seo-yu froze after instinctively responding to the sudden voice.

Whoooosh—

A cold wind blew at that moment, carrying a scent that wasn’t her own.

A large shadow fell over Seo-yu as she remained frozen in place.

The shadow had a familiar horn shape. A very large horn created a threatening shade as if it would devour her.

“I told you to come by the Hour of the Dog. Don’t you even know what time it is now?”

It was Nok Su-jeong.

Somehow having chased her all the way here, Nok Su-jeong was glaring at her with eyes colder than the winter wind.

Seo-yu’s face turned deathly pale.

“Ah, Miss, how did you get here…?”

“This mountain is our family’s land, so is there anywhere I can’t go?”

Nok Su-jeong snorted and took a step closer.

“Anyway, I’m asking what you’re doing over there.”

Seo-yu hastily got up and stepped backward.

Nok Su-jeong’s gaze turned to the pouch Seo-yu was carrying.

“That pouch looks heavy?”

Seo-yu instinctively clutched the pouch. Su-jeong spoke coldly.

“Hand it over right now.”

“Th-this is mine.”

“What? Ahahaha!”

Nok Su-jeong burst into laughter as if she had heard something very amusing, then hardened her expression coldly.

“Where is there anything of yours here.”

“…”

“You heard something, didn’t you?”

Certainty could be felt in her sarcastic tone.

“What are you planning to do with that? Go visit the Qilin Family?”

“…!”

Seo-yu flinched in surprise and trembled. Seeing that reaction, Nok Su-jeong’s lips curled up mockingly.

“Do you think the Qilin Family Head will treat you as some great benefactor? Do you think your life will suddenly change?”

“…”

“How naive.”

Nok Su-jeong clicked her tongue disapprovingly.

“You’ll become a thief who stole the Snow Scale Flower I gathered and ran away. Do you think the Qilin Family Head will be grateful for medicinal herbs offered by a thief?”

“I-I’m not a thief! I’m the one who picked this Snow Scale Flower.”

“How will you prove it? Who would believe the word of someone like you?”

“That’s…”

Suddenly Seo-yu was at a loss for words.

Miss Su-jeong was right.

Seo-yu had no way to prove she was the owner of the Snow Scale Flower, nor any witness to take her side.

“If you understand, hand it over.”

Nok Su-jeong reached out toward the Snow Scale Flower. Seo-yu trembled but still clutched the pouch tightly and hid it behind her back.

“This ungrateful thing doesn’t even know the grace of our parents who raised you.”

Nok Su-jeong’s eyes became even more fierce.

With each step Nok Su-jeong took forward, Seo-yu stepped backward.

And finally, she was pushed to the very edge of the precipice where there was nowhere left to step.

Even then, Seo-yu kept the pouch hidden tightly behind her back and wouldn’t take it out.

“You stubborn little brat!”

Nok Su-jeong stepped back, grinding her teeth and chewing her lips in frustration.

“Fine! Just come here first. If you fall from there, it’s over! The herbs and everything will be smashed to pieces!”

Then she extended her hand toward Seo-yu.

Seo-yu’s eyes widened at the unexpected situation. However, Seo-yu couldn’t easily grasp that hand.

Then Nok Su-jeong frowned in irritation.

“Do you really want to die? Do you want rumors spreading that I killed my own sister?”

While Seo-yu hesitated at the unexpected words, Nok Su-jeong pulled her forward.

It was unbelievable, but relief came first.

‘I was scared.’

Seo-yu was stroking her chest in relief.

Thud—

‘Huh?’

Before she could properly understand the situation, her body was pushed.

Her now-empty hands held nothing at all.

The Snow Scale Flower pouch that had definitely been in her hands was now in Nok Su-jeong’s possession.

“I told you to listen to me.”

With those words as cold as frost, Seo-yu fell down the distant cliff of White Jade Mountain.

Whoooosh—

Fierce winds whipped around Seo-yu as she plummeted down the endless precipice.

‘So this is how I die.’

Perhaps because she had already lost so much blood. Her exhausted body didn’t even have the strength left to scream.

‘I wanted to live well too.’

A single tear that she had held back again and again flew away into the void on the wind.

Now it was all over. With no family to search for her, she would fall from this cliff and die.

It was the moment when Seo-yu finally gave up everything and closed her eyes.

‘…Blackie?’

Somehow she felt like she had seen Blackie on the cliff.

‘That can’t be right.’

Still, I’m glad my last hallucination before death is of my little friend.

The moment she sadly accepted her death.

Fwoosh—

Instead of the pain that should have come, a warm sensation enveloped Seo-yu. Something soft and fluffy caught Seo-yu as she fell toward the ground.

‘Just like a cloud…’

Golden wings reflected in Seo-yu’s large eyes as she carefully opened them.

“My goodness…”

Seo-yu gasped in admiration without realizing it.

Massive wings that seemed large enough to cover the entire earth glided gracefully, shining golden as they caught the sunset.

The movements cutting through the air were so graceful that Seo-yu realized a beat too late that she was flying through the sky.

And she was riding on someone’s back, no less.

‘Who on earth?’

Seo-yu unconsciously raised her head and discovered two horns.

Below them, at the nape of the neck, abundant fur like a lion’s mane fluttered in the wind, and the body was covered in beautiful golden scales.

Wings and horns, and scales with a mane too.

As far as Seo-yu knew, there was only one beast in this world with such a combination.

‘No way…’

The king of all scaled beasts in this world.

The ruler of the East who governs the earth that embraces all things and the water that holds endless vitality.

The being called the strongest among the dragon race existing in this generation.

‘G-Golden Dragon?’

The Golden Dragon, the sole surviving descendant of the Winged Dragon, was flying with her on his back.

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