The Blue Dragon Clan’s Very Suspicious Little Chick - Chapter 29

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Episode 29

“Chirp?”
(Did you sleep well, Tae-o? What’s that?)
Tae-o smiled sadly at Aran’s question.
“A Summoning Circle. With this, I can call Yuk-an-gwi and head home.”
“Peep?”
(Without going to Hwangdo to see your family?)
“Right, there’s no need.”
Had he simply pretended to go along with Cheong-un’s suggestion to travel to Hwangdo just to buy time?
As Aran tilted her head, observing, the Summoning Circle was completed in an instant.
The small characters inscribed within the perfect hexagon were so flawless that admiration escaped unbidden—as if a god’s hand had rested for just a moment on the brush.
“Chirp.”
(Wow, you really are talented at drawing.)
Tae-o cleared his throat playfully.
“Ahem, there is nothing beneath heaven that this one cannot do.”
Aran giggled and fluttered above Tae-o’s head.
Tae-o held up the completed Summoning Circle and went before Cheong-un with Aran, bowing respectfully.
“I will never forget the kindness you have shown me. I must return home now.”
Cheong-un, busy with preparations for the elder children’s journey to Hwangdo, tilted his head slightly.
“Hmm? The current lord promised that Sogaju Hui would escort you all the way to Hwangdo.”
“I can return straight home and see my father now—there’s no need to trouble you further.”
If it were true, it would have been the right thing to say.
For traveling by road to Hwangdo and then meeting his family only to return northward would be a long and arduous journey.
Moreover, the current lord would not come to Hwangdo.
Cheong-un examined the paper the boy showed him carefully.
“A Summoning Circle? You can summon Yuk-an-gwi with this? Is that something anyone of direct Hyeonmu Palace lineage can do?”
Even knowing it was not so, Cheong-un asked; Tae-o hesitated before answering.
“I’m not certain if my other brothers can.”
It sounded as though at least the lord could.
“Do you need water?”
At Cheong-un’s next question, Tae-o thought for a moment and nodded.
“If you would permit me to use Cheong-yeon-ji, I would be grateful.”
In truth, with a Summoning Circle, water was not necessary when calling a Spirit Creature belonging to Hyeonmu Palace.
Yuk-an-gwi moved faster in water, but could live on land as well.
He simply answered so because he feared that the Eastern Lord might grow uneasy knowing that he could summon Yuk-an-gwi easily from anywhere.
Did Cheong-un catch on to that fact?
Cheong-un chuckled softly.
“Very well. Let us go together.”

***

“Take care, Aran.”
Before summoning Yuk-an-gwi, Tae-o said farewell while stroking Aran.
He even lightly touched the Necklace that Aran still wore.
“Peep-peep.”
(I’m not taking this Necklace off, so you have to keep all your promises? I’ll write as soon as I have a Humanoid Form.)
Tae-o gave a perfunctory wave to the twins who kept waving their hands, then whispered to Aran.
“It doesn’t matter to me what form you take.”
That much was curiously comforting to Aran.
Everyone was anxiously waiting for her to gain a human body, so it was all right if one person wasn’t.
Even as Aran thought this, she was busy extracting a promise from Tae-o.
“Chirp!?”
(You absolutely cannot run off from the palace on your own! If you do, I said the twins will get one too, remember?)
Tae-o gazed down at Aran as if disappointed and murmured.
“I’ll keep all my promises, so don’t say things like that again.”
Then he placed his small palm upon the Summoning Circle set before Cheong-yeon-ji.
The moment he recited the incantation, a heavy chill surged outward in an instant, consuming everything around him.
Everyone at Cheongryong Palace held their breath, watching the once-still waters churn violently.
Soon a turtle emerged from the depths, and tears streamed from all six of its eyes.
“Croak, croak…….”
(Young master, I thought you had forgotten me……)
Tae-o answered in a tone far colder than anything he’d used at Cheongryong Palace.
“Useless sentiment.”
Yuk-an-gwi immediately ceased weeping, then trembled and swelled his body to twice its size.
“Croak……?”
(I beg your pardon. Are you prepared to depart……?)
“Yes. Let’s go.”
As Yuk-an-gwi bowed his head, Tae-o casually stepped on it and settled onto his back.
Aran looked startled at the sight, but Yuk-an-gwi’s eyes shone with nothing but pride.
‘So this is Hyeonmu’s return—truly born to command,’ she thought.
Tae-o offered Aran a final farewell.
“Aran, you must stay healthy until we meet again.”
Before she could even respond, water exploded upward with a thunderous splash.
The twins started in alarm, gasping as they looked around, but the pond had gone still once more—no one remained.
As if they had never been there at all.

***

That same afternoon.
Hyeonmu Palace was in turmoil once more, this time over the youngest’s sudden return.
“You, you reckless boy……!”
Ui-cheon had every intention of delivering a severe punishment, but Tae-o surprisingly knelt before him without resistance.
“I apologize for the worry I’ve caused you, Father. I simply wished to see if I could meet a friend my own age who could truly speak to me…….”
Had there been more eyes watching, the matter would have warranted a sharp rebuke, but his elder sons had all left for Hwangdo for the Archery Festival.
Ui-cheon was secretly pleased by his youngest’s unexpected obedience and cleared his throat.
“Ahem! You rascal, you……! Hmm, hmm! So, was it good to meet someone your own age?”
“The Cheong Clan twins were only toddlers taking their first steps, and the youngest hasn’t yet achieved a humanoid form, so there was quite a gap in maturity.”
Tae-o carefully crafted his words to ease his father’s mood while highlighting his own superiority.
Ui-cheon’s mouth quirked upward ever so slightly.
“Still, it was good. The Cheong children all welcomed me, and both their patriarch and elder brothers treated me well.”
Tae-o added his next words with deliberate cunning.
“The Cheong Clan’s Sogaju in particular was quite kind—he made time in his busy schedule to play with us often.”
That Hyeonmu Palace’s Sogaju, Tae-su, was avoiding the youngest had long since crossed the line of what Ui-cheon could ignore.
So Ui-cheon’s heart grew contrite as he gazed down at his youngest.
“Is that so? The Cheongryong may seem gentle and kind enough, but that’s only when they’re in a good mood.”
Unable to find words to defend Tae-su, Ui-cheon instead spoke ill of the Cheongryong clan.
“You do realize the Cheong Clan is our only true rival in the Northern Region, yes?”
Of course, both Hyeonmu and Cheongryong spirits possessed true forms so enormous and destructive that manifesting them would drain their very life force.
If war broke out, it was obvious that Baekho Palace and Jujak Palace could not match the power of the two great clans.
Tae-o understood this well enough, yet the kindness the Cheongryong had shown him had seemed genuine.
Still, he did not contradict his father.
“……Yes, Father.”
It was to prevent Aran from removing her necklace, or from seeing the Cheongryong as anything other than Aran’s own possession, equal to herself.

“You are absolutely forbidden from running away. You must not cause trouble that gets you expelled from the clan, nor commit treason at such a young age. You cannot skip meals or sleep. You must not harm anyone who means no harm to you, nor…….”

Tae-o’s wishes were only two in number, yet why did Aran’s conditions seem so endless?
But those two wishes were too important to him for him to refuse her terms.
Knowing nothing of these circumstances, Ui-cheon mused that the training methods of Cheongryong Palace seemed to have unexpectedly good effects on his youngest.
“Hmm! But how on earth did you come up with the idea of drawing from a Hexagonal Diagram to summon Yuk-an-gwi?”
Ui-cheon finally asked the question that had been nagging at him most.
The moment he realized Tae-o had gone to Cheongryong Palace on his own, he’d summoned Tae-gyeong, his eldest and most gifted in summoning arts, to draw a Hexagonal Diagram.
Tae-gyeong, remarkably skilled in both drawing and calligraphy, had rendered a Summoning Circle as fine as Tae-o’s own, though she had not been able to use it to summon Yuk-an-gwi.
So Ui-cheon tried using Tae-gyeong’s Summoning Circle himself, only to find that unlike drawing on the Hexagonal Diagram, it consumed so much of his vital energy that vertigo struck him.
Yet Tae-o merely answered with an untroubled expression.
“I just……thought I could do it?”
The Cheong Clan’s Increasingly Suspicious Youngest—Episode 29
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