The Blue Dragon Clan’s Very Suspicious Little Chick - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50

“What? When did I say that, sister?!”
Ju Hongbi grimaced, but Byeol Gam seemed quite pleased with Aran’s respectful manner.
She moved smoothly to the next matter.
“Next, Hyun Taeoh and Baek Saheom will take the Eastern Pavilion.”
Saheom’s face went pale with sudden dread, while Taeoh remained unmoved.
“The remaining three — Ju Hongwoo, Cheong Min, and Cheong Yeon — will share the Western Pavilion.”
“Ugh, I was hoping to try a different room with Yeon.”
When Min spoke quietly, color flooded Yeon’s cheeks in a mortified rush.
“W-who do you think has wanted to share a room with you since birth?!”
Ju Hongwoo, three years their senior, stood with dignified composure, apparently resolved to play the part of an older brother.
“The Southern Pavilion will be reserved for the guardians who accompanied each heir.”
Attendants from each pavilion began collecting luggage and ushering the guests forward.
“This way, please, ladies.”
Aran waved to Sorim and quickly followed the attendant.
Before Byeol Gam’s eyes, she also remembered to urge Hongbi along with a cheerful “Come along, sister!”

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Following the attendant to the Northern Pavilion, Aran found that only the largest room had bedding prepared.
“You two must use this room.”
As the attendant explained, Ju Hongbi erupted again.
“Why? It’s not as though this pavilion has only one room!”
“I apologize, but that is in accordance with the Gyorae Guidelines.”
Ju Hongbi hurled her small bundle of belongings and cried out.
“If my grandfather learns that I was made to sleep in the same bed as her, do you think he’ll sit still?!”
As if you’re the only one with a grandfather.
Aran almost said it aloud, then stopped herself.
The truth was, she had no grandfather at all. So much for that.
She certainly couldn’t think of Ju Sang Ryun as a grandfather.
Instead, just as she was about to sketch a small snake visible only to Hongbi—
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
Hongbi shrieked and clung to Aran, the very girl she’d been scorning until now.
“W-what—”
Aran was too startled to even form a proper question, as Hongbi pointed beneath the veranda, her distress mounting.
“A s-snake! There, there’s a snake! How am I supposed to sleep here without a nursemaid?!”
When Aran narrowed her eyes and peered into the darkness beneath the veranda, she spotted a black snake she seemed to have seen before, its tongue flicking in and out.
It looked similar to the one that had once brought her a leaf-message—or so it seemed.
Of course, only the sharp eyes of Beast-persons would catch it in the gloom; the Royal Palace’s attendants wouldn’t see a snake hidden in shadow.
Aran widened her eyes in feigned ignorance and asked.
“Sister, where do you see a snake? I don’t see anything.”
“What? You’re not a proper Beast-person anyway, so that’s why! There’s clearly a snake right—!”
But the black snake had already achieved its purpose and vanished into a deep crevice. Hongbi pulled away from Aran with an awkward cough.
“I-it really was there, a snake. What if one crawls out while we’re sleeping?”
Hongbi raised her voice further, apparently embarrassed.
“I have Chwihwa Po, so I can drive it away with fire, but what will you do?!”
As if one needed Chwihwa Po to chase off a living snake.
The black snake had been sent by Hyunmu or Taeoh, no doubt.
That creature would bring Aran ginseng, not harm her—but Hongbi had no way of knowing that.
Aran pretended to be frightened.
“Then I’ll trust only in you. I’m just an adopted daughter, after all, so I don’t possess any of the Cheongryong Clan’s Abilities.”
At least, none of the Cheongryong Clan’s Abilities, that is.
But was it because of those words—that she would trust Hongbi—
—that Hongbi’s eyes suddenly reddened slightly, and she gave an awkward cough?
“Hmph! Well, I’m six years old and a true Phoenix after all, so I’ll be reliable in your eyes, at least.”
Well, well?
“But don’t think I’ll give you the inner spot just because you said that!”
Better to suffer than die. I doubted you’d give way anyway.
Even as Aran thought this, she answered with a bright smile.
“I sleep fine anywhere, really.”
At least, as long as the attendant was watching.

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“Then, young ladies, please call if you need anything.”
The attendant bowed and left, closing the door behind him. Aran immediately scampered to the inner room and flopped down onto the bedding.
Ju Hongbi’s eyes went wide with alarm as she rushed over.
“Hey, didn’t you say you’d sleep outside? You said you could sleep anywhere!”
“I did? When?”
As Aran replied from where she lay, Hongbi’s crimson eyes flickered in confusion.
It was the expression of someone trying to retrace their own words.
“What? You, you definitely said——”
Hongbi, still trying to make sense of it, pressed further.
“And why are you suddenly speaking casually to me? Did you forget I’m your older sister?”
“Huh? I use casual speech with my oldest brother at home too, and he’s eighteen. You’re only six years older.”
“What? Anyway, get up! I can’t sleep out there! What if a snake gets in?!”
“So what? You said you’d chase it away with that Chwihwa Po thing or whatever.”
“You just said ‘you’!”
“Once you chase the snake away with Chwihwa Po, I’ll start calling you older sister. Deal?”
“What? What do you mean ‘deal’? Get up, I said!”
“Ah, ah, ah—I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you.”
Aran drummed her fists on the bedding and sprawled out dramatically. Hongbi, frustration rising, reached to grab her by the hair.
At that very moment, the door swung open and a gust of cold wind rushed in.
“Ugh, ugh, it’s cold——!”
Both were young Jujak, so they naturally felt the cold keenly, but Hongbi, who’d grown up warm in the southern lands, was especially sensitive to the chill.
The moment Hongbi realized the doorway was colder and grabbed for Aran’s hair again——
A bleak voice came from outside the open door.
“Let go of her.”
Startled, Hongbi dropped her hand and turned toward the source of the voice.
Hyun Taeoh and Baek Saheom stood in the doorway. Baek Saheom rushed in first.
He demanded sharply, his voice thick with anger.
“What are you doing? Is this how the Jujak Family treats a friend?”
Well, well—my boy’s got it right.
Aran nearly teared up with gratitude before asking,
“Saheom? Did you finish unpacking?”
Not that she’d moved from where she lay sprawled.
An old body (or so it felt) got tired from long carriage rides.
“W-we just left the luggage for now. Aran, are you——alright……?”
Saheom swallowed an honorific that kept trying to slip out, struggling to keep his tone casual.
“I-it’s not that, it’s just that there are snakes living in this pavilion. So neither of us wanted to sleep at the doorway——”
Though a tiger shapeshifter, Saheom was younger than Hongbi, but his body was considerably larger.
He looked down at her with cold eyes.
“If you both didn’t want to sleep at the doorway, shouldn’t you naturally have given way to the elder?”
At that, Hongbi brightened and agreed eagerly.
“Right, that’s right, isn’t it?”
“It is. So you should have given way.”
“Me? I’m six years old! She’s only four!”
“A-Aran is four……?”
Saheom asked, as if startled, then quickly corrected himself.
“Then shouldn’t you, as the elder sister, give way to someone younger? Don’t you see how exhausted little Aran must be from such a long journey?”
“Wha——? A moment ago you said to give way to the elder, so why are you changing your words now?”
It was then that Hyun Taeoh slowly entered the room.
At the same moment, Hongbi screamed again and this time clung to Saheom.
“Kyaaaaaah! A snake! A snake! Look there, a snake!”
Aran covered her ears and turned to look. A black snake was slithering at Hyun Taeoh’s feet.
The more she looked at it, the cuter it seemed to become.
Hyun Taeoh asked Hongbi in a bleak tone.
“Is this snake really that terrifying?”
“What—what is it? Is that thing yours?”
Ju Hongbi whispered from behind Baek Saheom, barely audible, and Hyun Taeoh answered without emotion.
“It’s not mine. It just happens to follow me.”
“It… follows you?”
Hyun Taeoh, the youngest of Hyunmu Palace.
Ju Hongbi recalled the rumors that circled about him and hesitated slightly.
Hyun Taeoh offered his warning to Ju Hongbi in an offhand tone.
“You’d do well to give Aran what she wants. If Aran’s unhappy, I’m unhappy. If I’m unhappy, the snake’s unhappy too.”
“What? Are you threatening me right now?”
His tongue really had grown quite long.
As Aran marveled at this, Hyun Taeoh tilted his head.
“I was only stating facts. The way you’re twisting my words makes me feel a little disappointed.”
At that moment, the snake conveniently chimed in.
“Hisss……!”
The Cheongryong Clan’s Conspicuously Suspicious Chick — Episode 50
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