The Blue Dragon Clan’s Very Suspicious Little Chick - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47

“What are you doing?”
Perhaps because Baek Sa-heum had treated her with such deference, Aran found Tae-oh’s question positively irreverent.
But Tae-oh suddenly seized her wrist, pressed his nose to the back of her hand, and inhaled deeply.
“There’s a tiger’s scent coming off you…! Lan, you’re mine….”
Overly sensitive, as always.
Aran shook her head coolly.
“I told you that wasn’t it. When did you last say I was yours?”
Tae-oh fell silent for a moment, his expression growing sullen, before he launched a counterattack.
“Well, then…can I hold hands with that Vermilion Bird girl too?”
Vermilion Bird girl—Tae-oh would hardly even remember Ju Hong-bi’s name.
Aran chuckled softly and shot back a question.
“How could you? You’re mine.”
“But that’s not…!”
As Tae-oh grew flustered, the twins appeared.
“What’s wrong, Arana?”
Aran withdrew her hand from Tae-oh’s grip and extended it to Yeon instead.
“Tae-oh says I smell like something.”
Yeon, who had been sniffing, made a retching sound.
“It’s true…. I usually don’t want to side with Tae-oh, but this time he’s right.”
Aran, now curious, brought the back of her own hand to her nose to smell it, while Tae-oh asked with eyes that threatened to spill tears.
“Why did you hold his hand?”
Aran tilted her head slightly.
“Because he’s a child?”
At this unhesitating reply, Min inserted himself and sniffed as well.
“Ugh, that beast stench….”
Then, his expression darkening just like Yeon’s, he asked,
“Does Arani like him? He’s even bigger than Arani, and older too. So you’re going to keep him?”
Aran caught sight of Tae-oh’s increasingly rigid expression from the corner of her eye and stifled a laugh.
She then feigned deep consideration.
“Well…I suppose there is something cute about how chubby he is…?”
“Arani likes things that are chubby?”
Yeon’s gaze quickly swept across her own body here and there.
Aran laughed softly at the transparent thought process and ruffled her hair.
“Yeon is cute whether she’s chubby or not.”
Satisfied, Yeon began to dash about playfully with Min, teasing and bantering.
When Aran turned her attention back to Tae-oh, his eyes had grown completely cold.
She’d best stop teasing and begin soothing him properly. After all, like with Sa-heum, she wouldn’t see him again until tomorrow.
Even as Aran thought this, she continued to speak as though still pondering.
“Hmm, on second thought, I don’t think I want to keep him after all.”
Tae-oh’s eyes, which had been fixed on the floor, finally turned back toward Aran.
Aran smiled brightly and took his hand again.
“And I made you a promise.”
Despite his displeasure at the smell, Tae-oh did not pull his hand away.
“If you behave well, I won’t keep any other children.”
“You…remembered that?”
His left eye, which was jade-green, seemed so clear that his feelings were far easier to read.
Aran let out a soft laugh at the joy she glimpsed there.
What on earth had Hyeon Mu-shin told this boy to make him so fond of her?
“Of course I did.”
The moment Aran answered, Tae-oh added urgently,
“I’ve been behaving well like I promised you, Lan. Father forbids it, so I haven’t even visited the Azure Dragon Palace lately.”
“Yes, you’ve been good.”
“Is that all?”
Aran tilted her head again.
She wanted to give him the answer he wanted, but children were simple and yet complicated all at once.
“Hmm, you’re pretty?”
It seemed her carefully chosen answer had been wrong after all.
Tae-oh countered with a wounded expression.
“Am I not cute to you anymore? Is it because I’ve grown taller?”
Good heavens, what was I supposed to say to that?
If I said he wasn’t cute, he’d look ready to shrink himself down on the spot.
Aran laughed and reached up to pinch his cheeks, stretching the soft flesh playfully.
“Of course not. You’re the cutest thing there is, Tae-oh.”
His pale green eyes visibly filled with relief.
Only then, satisfied, did Aran grasp Hyeon Mu-shin’s hand firmly and escort him to the Northern Hall.
The moment they arrived at the entrance, Tae-oh spoke up.
“I’ll take it from here.”
Aran laughed, as if she’d known exactly what he’d say.
“No. Cheong Sa-dan is expecting to come with me.”
“But——”
“You’ll write me a letter once a week, won’t you?”
At Aran’s question, Tae-oh nodded reluctantly.
“I’ll miss you a lot, Ran.”
“Now go inside.”
Aran pushed Tae-oh into the hall and turned to leave, but felt his gaze clinging to her back the entire way.
It wasn’t until she’d turned the corner that Aran reached out her arms toward Cheong Sa-dan.
If Tae-oh had seen her embraced by someone else, he might have chased after her on the spot.

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The Saesin Family had all departed.
With their absence, the Imperial Palace grew quieter than ever before. The Crown Prince’s Residence, which was always causing commotion, had fallen still.
A week later, Hwa Gyeom encountered an unexpected sight when he visited the Crown Prince’s Residence before leaving court.
The Crown Prince was sitting face to face with a palace maid, playing together.
The maids of the Crown Prince’s Residence were usually bruised and melancholy as a matter of course, yet here one was laughing alongside the Crown Prince?
Looking closer, Geon-woo was playing String Play with the maid.
What is this? He’s so delighted just playing with string?
Seeing the shocked scholar’s face, the head chamberlain Nam spoke in a pleased voice.
“His Highness has been in excellent spirits these past few days. Perhaps it’s because he met playmates his own age during the Saesin festival?”
The chamberlain Nam’s complexion too seemed brighter than it had been in some time.
Hwa Gyeom’s eyes narrowed.
“You attribute it to the Saesin Family’s peers?”
“Ah, it’s merely my speculation, but…… His Highness still frequently asks about the friends he met then.”
The Crown Prince, who was always seeking his dead mother.
He’d shown no interest in his own father in the same palace, yet now he sought out friends from the Saesin Family?
Had they truly left some sort of mark upon the Crown Prince?
The White Tiger Palace kept sending medicinal materials for the Crown Prince, so he’d cautiously substituted them with other things, but could they have employed some other scheme?
“How does he fare at night?”
“These past few days, it appears His Highness has not been troubled by Nightmares.”
“Is that truly so?”
In that case he ought to have shown his relief, but Hwa Gyeom, caught off guard, managed only to curl the corners of his mouth upward slightly.
What in the world was happening?
How could the Crown Prince——
Then, abruptly, a cold voice rang out in the scholar’s mind.

—So the brat’s grown spirited and lively because of those arrogant Saesin whelps?

Hwa Gyeom’s eyebrows twitched.
It had been so long since he’d heard that voice.
Recently it had been suspiciously quiet.
Could it have actually separated from that blood-soaked body?
As Hwa Gyeom churned through various theories, the voice rumbled again.

—So that’s how it is……

Hwa Gyeom finally understood.
For reasons he couldn’t quite name, that thing had clearly taken a blow from the Crown Prince’s transformation.
So it must have been searching cautiously for the cause all this while.
And just now, in his conversation with Madam Nam, he had discovered the thread leading to it.
The moment Hwa Gyeom’s face went rigid, Madam Nam spoke in alarm.
“Your Excellency? Your Excellency, your complexion—it’s not good.”
Hwa Gyeom shook his head lightly.
“It’s nothing. Just a spell of dizziness.”
Madam Nam nodded quietly.
“With all your concerns over His Highness alone, you must be exhausted—and now tending to the affairs of state as well. Why don’t you retire for some rest?”
“…Yes, I shall.”
As Hwa Gyeom left the Crown Prince’s Residence, a chilling voice continued to echo through his mind.

—Summon them all back. I must discover which wretched thing is interfering with me……!

The voice, clawing through his consciousness for the first time in a while, made his eyes burn and his stomach turn inside out.
“Ugh.”
Before he could even leave the Crown Prince’s Residence, Hwa Gyeom found himself leaning against a wall and retching.
But instead of bile, blood clots came pouring up from deep in his throat.
Hwa Gyeom gritted his teeth.
In the moment before anyone could see, he moved frantically to cover the bloodstains.
But the blood clots writhed across the ground like insects, tracing characters as they went.

「Death」

A character signifying death itself.
Gooseflesh rose beneath his dark red official robes.
This was the first time it had extended its power outward like this, moving something beyond itself.
Could its strength have grown?
Indeed, it was far more manageable when it dwelt in the Crown Prince’s body……!
The Azure Dragon Family’s Suspicious Chirping — Episode 47
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