The Beloved Baby Deer of the Hwangryong Family - Chapter 76

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It was the first time in her life that looking at someone made her feel this way.

 

Suddenly, words that Li-han had said flashed through Seo-yu’s mind.

 

‘Of course, the most dangerous thing is a man whose face is all glossy and shiny.’

 

Could this be why he had said those words?

 

Seo-yu understood exactly what he had meant when he told her to be careful of men whose faces shine with light.

 

To think that just looking at him would make her feel this way!

 

‘As expected, big brother knows everything.’

 

Thinking this way eased her frustration a little, but the feeling of indigestion remained.

 

Feeling like she might really get sick at this rate, Seo-yu forced herself to start walking.

 

Following the map carefully to find her way, she indeed came upon the bamboo forest. Green bamboo stretching upward swayed gently in the wind.

 

Cheongjuk Hall was right in front of it.

 

‘Since there was an academic hall on the way here, it won’t be far when I go to attend classes.’

 

The assigned quarters were quite deep inside the Medical Academy. So it took some time to get here, but she liked that it was close to the academic hall instead.

 

Finding her quarters by the number on the name plate, Seo-yu knocked gently on the paper door.

 

“Excuse me. Is anyone inside?”

 

She had heard that two people shared one room. So the person she would be living with might already be here.

 

‘I wonder what kind of person they are? It would be nice if we could become friends.’

 

But even after waiting for a long time with an excited heart, no answer came.

 

‘They must not be here yet.’

 

It made sense since Hwang Hyeon-rang had brought her early.

 

Seo-yu carefully opened the door. And as she stepped into the room, she was startled.

 

“Eek!”

 

A girl was collapsed on the floor!

 

“A-Are you alright?!”

 

Seo-yu quickly checked the girl’s condition. Fortunately, she was breathing evenly and her pulse was normal.

 

‘I should lay her down properly and call for help!’

 

It would be hard to breathe lying face down like this.

 

Just as she was about to hurriedly support her, a faint sound reached her ears. Seo-yu quickly listened carefully.

 

“Bae…”

 

“Bae? Your stomach hurts? Is it your lower stomach or upper stomach?”

 

If it was the lower stomach, it could be a simple digestive issue, but if it was the upper stomach, it could be appendicitis.

 

‘If it’s appendicitis, that’s dangerous!’

 

It was a frightening illness that could become serious at any moment, so Seo-yu became even more urgent.

 

From the girl’s gasping mouth, sounds flowed out very slowly.

 

Seo-yu concentrated even harder to try to hear what she was saying.

 

“Goo…”

 

“Goo?”

 

“Paa…”

 

“H-hungry… hungry?”

 

Huh? She’s hungry?

 

Seo-yu’s eyes blinked rapidly in bewilderment.

 

‘Did she miss breakfast?’

 

Come to think of it, Seo-yu had been too nervous to eat much breakfast either.

 

‘What do I have to eat… Ah!’

 

Seo-yu quickly rummaged through her belongings and pulled out the sweet red bean jelly that Hyeon-ya had given her.

 

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Although she had started studying later than others, Seo-yu was not ignorant of manners.

 

So she knew well that staring intently at someone while they ate was rude.

 

However, at this moment, Seo-yu simply could not take her eyes off the girl.

 

‘How can someone be this slow?’

 

The girl with grayish-brown hair was slow at everything. Getting up, reaching out her hand, nodding her head.

 

Even eating the sweet red bean jelly was the same.

 

Instead of ‘munch munch,’ it was more like ‘muuuunch muuuuunch muuuunch.’

 

Seo-yu found it so fascinating that despite knowing it was impolite, she kept looking at the girl.

 

“Thank… you.”

 

Only after a long while did the girl speak.

 

A bright smile was drawn very slowly across her face. Seo-yu could see every detail of how her lips curved up and how her eyes crinkled.

 

‘Should I smile like that too?’

 

From that sight, Seo-yu realized for the first time that even smiling required sincerity.

 

‘Coming to the Medical Academy is already teaching me new things!’

 

She already had something to tell her family when she returned.

 

‘Maybe I can even make friends.’

 

Seo-yu gulped, took a deep breath, and mustered the courage to speak.

 

“My name is Seo-yu, Hwang Seo-yu.”

 

I did it!

 

Hwang Seo-yu.

 

It was the first time introducing that name to someone else, so it felt very awkward, but once she said it, she felt incredibly good.

 

“I’m… Woo Bi-neung.”

 

The girl also shared her name. Her speech was just as slow, but perhaps because Seo-yu was getting used to it, it was understandable.

 

‘Bi-neung. That’s a pretty name.’

 

But it was strange. Usually beastkin had a distinctive aura, so even if they were different species, they could sense what kind of beastkin each other was.

 

But from Bi-neung, no particular animal came to mind. It was an aura she had never encountered before.

 

“Um, Bi-neung, what kind of beastkin are you?”

 

Seo-yu asked cautiously.

 

‘Could she be a raccoon?’

 

Her droopy eyes and overall relaxed atmosphere were quite similar to a raccoon.

 

But Bi-neung slowly shook her head from side to side—buzzing, buzzing.

 

It was as if she had read her thoughts and was saying no.

 

“I’m… a sloth… beastkin.”

 

“A sloth?”

 

Seo-yu rolled her eyes around. It was an animal she had never heard of before.

 

Then Bi-neung blinked as she looked at Seo-yu, and soon performed her beast transformation.

 

Whoosh.

 

A soft light enveloped Bi-neung and then disappeared, revealing an animal she had never seen before in her life.

 

“Wow!”

 

So cute!

 

Her round, droopy eyes and the corners of her mouth that were slightly upturned as if smiling were truly adorable.

 

Her entire body was covered in grayish-brown fur, and most impressively, she had long, curved claws.

 

‘She’s completely different from a raccoon! Rather…’

 

Suddenly, a childhood memory came to mind.

 

A strange animal she had met in the Great Antlered Deer Family backyard.

 

‘That’s right, a mole! A mole had claws like that.’

 

A small animal that looked so weak it seemed ready to collapse as it dug up from the ground.

 

While all the other children avoided it, calling it dirty, Seo-yu thought it looked like herself being shunned, so she secretly brought it food.

 

Later, when she looked it up out of curiosity, she learned it was an animal called a mole. Since it lived in the deep forest and was active at night, it couldn’t be seen often.

 

‘That friend also had a completely black body.’

 

Come to think of it, among the friends Seo-yu had met, there were many animals with black bodies.

 

The squirrel, the whale, and the turtle were all like that.

 

‘I guess I have a connection with black animal friends.’

 

While Seo-yu was lost in thought, Bi-neung undid her beast transformation.

 

Bi-neung thought that now Seo-yu would be afraid of her or look at her strangely.

 

‘Or maybe she’ll lose interest.’

 

Bi-neung, who was naturally slow, knew herself well and had arrived at the Medical Academy quite early.

 

But oh no.

 

Because she had arrived too early, the wait had become longer than expected.

 

‘I’m hungry.’

 

She had barely managed to get directions and arrive at Cheongjuk Hall, but her stomach kept making rumbling sounds.

 

She had no choice but to transform into her beast form and eat some leaves.

 

‘Eek! What is that? It looks so strange!’

 

Another medical student passing by was shocked to see Bi-neung hanging from a tree.

 

That’s when Bi-neung realized that animals like her weren’t common in this place.

 

It was natural. Bi-neung wasn’t from the Western Region. To be precise, she had lived at the northwestern border, in a deep jungle where few people ventured.

 

A land very far from this place.

 

“Bi-neung, those claws…”

 

Oh right. Are you scared of this?

 

Bi-neung quickly tried to hide her hands. However, since her movements were naturally slow, she ended up moving two beats too late.

 

“So cool! Can you dig through the ground by any chance? Or are you good at climbing trees?”

 

Bi-neung’s eyes widened.

 

Am I not scary?

 

“Trees… I’m good… at climbing.”

 

“Amazing! I don’t know how to climb trees. I can dig through the ground though… but probably not very deep.”

 

Watching Seo-yu giggle, Bi-neung gradually felt at ease.

 

‘She seems like a good child.’

 

It wasn’t because she had given her sweet snacks as a gift. The child truly gave off a good feeling.

 

Among beastkin, sloth beastkin who lived particularly integrated with nature tended to have good instincts about such things.

 

It was the first time since the Herb Gatherer Grandfather who had invited Bi-neung to the Medical Academy that she had received such a good feeling from another beastkin.

 

“Seo-yu, what are… you?”

 

Though she asked, Bi-neung thought she knew what kind of beastkin Seo-yu was.

 

She had a similar aura to the Herb Gatherer Grandfather, and similar hair color and eyes.

 

So probably Seo-yu was…

 

“I’m, well… a deer, a deer.”

 

“A… deer?”

 

Huh?

 

When Bi-neung tilted her head, Seo-yu bit her lips with an embarrassed expression, then spoke with determination.

 

“Yeah. But I came from the Golden Dragon Family. So I’m Hwang Seo-yu.”

 

“Mmm. Golden Dragon.”

 

But that grandfather said he was a qilin.

 

Blink.

 

Bi-neung’s eyes blinked slowly.

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