The Blue Dragon Clan’s Very Suspicious Little Chick - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62

Hee Rim and So Rim’s family clan, the Suryong House, was the second most powerful force within the Azure Dragon Palace.
Though not quite as vast as the Azure Dragon itself in true form, their transformation would undoubtedly consume far more vital energy than a human frame. The toll on her life force would be immense.
Yet So Rim, having already made up her mind, pulled her hand firmly from Aran’s grip and urged her forward.
“Don’t waste time—transform now, young lady.”
She meant for Aran to flee into the air.
“No. Please don’t, Instructor.”
Aran clung to So Rim again with desperate tenacity.
The dragon might be slightly larger than the carriage itself, yet there was no guarantee that even if Suryong sacrificed her life, she could pull the carriage free from an avalanche without the strength of solid ground beneath them.
The mercy was that a dragon couldn’t transform inside the carriage—as long as Aran wasn’t forced out, So Rim couldn’t attempt such an impossible gambit.
So Rim shook her off again, feigning anger.
“Young lady, transform yourself at once! There’s no time!”
“I won’t die here!”
Aran’s confident cry made So Rim pause, taken aback.
But the words that followed sounded only like the reckless certainty of a child.
“An avalanche alone won’t kill me.”
But So Rim didn’t know.
What Aran’s past life had been.
Over more than a hundred years, countless brushes with death had merely grazed past her, while she survived every one.
It was no accident that Aran had endured, rolling through the abyss of misfortune from the moment of her birth, and now stood beneath the Heavenly Gate.
That’s why when the Heavenly Gate opened, Aran was scarcely surprised at all.
If someone had guarded and drawn her through so much of her wretched life, then surely there must be an ending they desired.
So Aran was resolved never to leave this carriage.
A god—one who had tried countless times to lead her to the heavens—would surely protect even this single carriage.
At the same time, Aran knew another truth as well.
Just as the god had not protected Okdan and her disciples in the past life. Just as they had left Aran alone in a burning world.
That god would not protect this carriage either.
Unless, that is, Aran stepped out.

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Wheeee.
While the two of them struggled inside the carriage, a sudden north wind began to rage without.
Hiiiii!
The frightened horses cried out louder for a moment, yet their pace only quickened.
The howling wind was pushing the carriage forward.
Crack-crash!
Boulders tumbled narrowly past the spot where the horses had just been.
“Please, please…….”
The moment Aran whispered her prayer aloud.
Boom-crash-crash-crash!
A deafening impact erupted directly above them.
“Aah!”
Aran, forgetting entirely that she could transform, clung to So Rim and wrapped her remaining arm around the twins.
Never. Not even at death’s door.
Would this body leave this carriage.
Not leaving these three behind. Never.
Four bodies tangled as one, they trembled against each other’s warmth, waiting for the calamity to pass—but…….
What came instead was an eerie silence.
Aran was the first to lift her head.
She thought she’d heard stones crashing and shattering against the carriage roof, yet nothing had happened.
Yet bizarrely, a bone-chilling cold suddenly enveloped them.
Dragons, being naturally resistant to cold, might have fared differently, but Aran’s teeth chattered so badly she could barely speak.
Her hands, which had just grown numb, buried themselves deeper beneath So Rim’s robe.
Panicked voices from the Blue Guard Unit could be heard outside.
“What, what is this…….”
“Escape now! This instant!”
“Hyah, hyah!”
The horses, startled by something, had slowed for a moment before lurching back into a gallop at the driver’s whip.
At last, the mouth of the Gorge came into view.
The instant they burst onto the wide road, a deep rumbling echoed behind them, and something massive came crashing down.
Aran leaned her head out through the carriage window and looked back.
Across the narrow path they had just traversed, shattered boulders lay heaped like a burial mound, completely obliterating the way.
Had they been caught beneath that avalanche, not even someone from Suryong House would have survived.
What struck her as odd was that beneath the rubble, something silvery glinted among the scattered debris.
The Azure Dragon Clan’s carriage, having escaped the danger, came to a halt a short distance ahead.
Beside Yon, who was breathing hard with a pale face, Min let out a sigh of relief.
“Phew, that added ten years to my life.”
Under normal circumstances, Aran would have corrected the slip of the tongue, but exhausted as she was from the terrible strain, she had no energy for such corrections.
But So Rim, unlike Aran, did not let Min off easy.
“It’s ten years taken off, young master. Still, we ought to get down and figure out what just happened.”
The children followed So Rim out of the carriage without a word.
The moment their feet touched solid ground, the full weight of survival crashed over them all at once.
“What happened here?”
In response to So Rim’s question, one of the Blue Guard Unit glanced toward the boulder-blocked path and answered.
“Well, we’re not entirely sure ourselves…”
“What I mean is, the rocks didn’t touch the carriage…”
So Rim pressed them, her frustration mounting.
“They didn’t touch it, and then what?”
“They just… didn’t touch it, ma’am.”
“What?”
“Yes. It was as if… as if they’d frozen, and simply stopped right there.”
The Blue Guard Unit members murmured among themselves.
“There did seem to be something like ice…”
On the path between Imperial Dragon Ridge and Huang, in the middle of autumn, such talk was hardly what one would call ordinary.
“Ice?”
So Rim, incredulous, turned her gaze toward the Gorge, now nearly blocked by the piled boulders.
Beneath the clear sky, those jagged rocks did seem to glimmer strangely, as though no disaster had just occurred.
“What on earth…”

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“Don’t go.”
Without thinking, Aran stepped forward and wrapped her arms around So Rim’s thigh, stopping her from moving toward the Gorge.
So Rim froze in surprise.
“Young mistress…”
“What if another stone falls? You mustn’t go. Please?”
Aran hid her hands, which had turned numb from cold as she’d traced the outer wall of the carriage moments before, deep within her sleeves, and deliberately ignored the ice marks that were already melting into puddles. Instead, she deliberately stretched out both arms in a gesture asking to be held.
It was a clear plea to be embraced.
There was merit to what Aran said, so So Rim hesitated.
They were still on Imperial Dragon Ridge, which meant the accident needed to be reported to the court, and the cleanup delegated to them.
There was no reason for Azure Dragon Palace to undertake an investigation.
Besides, So Rim’s duty was simply to ensure the children’s journey was safe.
As she wavered, one of the Blue Guard Unit members approached and spoke.
“If you permit it, ma’am, we could return to the Gorge and determine what occurred.”
“No.”
But So Rim had already made up her mind.
She shook her head as she spoke.
“We’ve been fortunate enough to have danger pass us by. Let’s be grateful for that. I doubt anyone on that high mountain meant us deliberate harm.”
The Blue Guard Unit had pledged themselves to be So Rim’s eyes and ears, hands and feet during this journey to the capital.
Eyes and ears, hands and feet do not argue—they simply obey.
“Yes, ma’am.”
So Rim gave another command.
“Let the young masters and the young mistress rest a while, then we’ll set out again. In the meantime, inspect the carriage and send word to the house head, just in case.”
“Understood, ma’am.”
When the Blue Guard Unit examined the carriage, they found it had aged as though it had been driven for another ten years, though fortunately nothing was seriously damaged.
Once the carriage was readied, the twins climbed aboard first.
Aran watched So Rim, who still seemed to have matters to discuss with the Blue Guard Unit, then turned his gaze toward the northern sky.
The north wind, which had grown still, suddenly gusted with a petulant whistle, brushing against Aran’s hair.
“…I understand already.”
Aran grasped the god’s desire to take credit for his work.
Just moments before, he had intervened in the lives of others more deeply, more extensively than at any point in his past life.
Not only the carriage that Aran had wished to protect, but all the Blue Guard Unit members had survived and were here with him now.
The Azure Dragon Clan’s Considerably Suspicious Chronicles — Episode 62
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