The Blue Dragon Clan’s Very Suspicious Little Chick - Chapter 63

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Chapter 63

In this life too, she’d assumed the god cared only for himself and his descendants, ignoring everyone else……
But this was the bare minimum he’d do?
In Aran’s memories, the god had first saved her life in a previous existence on some mountain, when a tiger had nearly devoured her.
A bolt of lightning had struck the tiger as it lunged at her beneath a cloudless sky.
Back then, she’d wept toward the heavens, praying her gratitude with hands and feet trembling.
But as she’d stumbled through a harsh life, repeating similar trials endlessly, that gratitude had faded.
Aran’s past life had been glorious.
She’d accomplished enough to earn the qualification to become an Immortal.
Yet happiness had always slipped through her fingers.
Because Aran had been terribly, hopelessly alone.
So it was rare indeed when Aran offered thanks.
“……Thank you.”
Not for saving her.
The Twins. So Rim. The Cheong Sa Company.
She was grateful that none of them had to die.
She had no wish to live that lonely life twice—surviving alone in an empty land.
Because now Aran had family.

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That same night, at Hwa Gyeom’s Residence.
Hwa Gyeom, who’d retired early to sleep, jolted awake with a sharp, piercing pain near his chest.
“Gasp—!”
His breath caught short.
His mind whirled into chaos.
It felt as though someone had forced a hand inside his ribs and was tearing him apart from within.
Though it was the dead of night, lights flashed before his eyes, and the terror of death crashed over him in an instant.
Hwa Gyeom instinctively pounded and rubbed at his chest.
But rather than ease, the pain only intensified, burning up through his throat until it choked him.
“Cough—, hack!”
When he barely managed to roll over onto his stomach to gasp for breath, his left hand—still beating at his chest—suddenly went rigid.
Then it began to move of its own accord.
No amount of struggle could stop it.
Both hands reached upward against his will, and with a strangled sound—
They seized his throat without hesitation.
“Choke—, ack—.”
Anyone watching would think he was trying to strangle himself to death with his own hands.
Saliva dripped from his gaping mouth.
In the agony that straddled life and death, its fury carved through Hwa Gyeom’s bones and flesh, seeping deep within.
Such naked, undisguised fury.
It had never expressed its anger to him in this manner before……
Could it be—had it failed to kill that girl?
“Did, I, fail, gasp—, please—.”
As Hwa Gyeom choked out the question with his last strength, it only squeezed his throat harder in response.
“Hack! Ack—, don’t, don’t do—.”
Hwa Gyeom’s face flushed crimson.
Cold sweat drenched his body and dripped down onto the bedding.
In the midst of their silent struggle, suddenly the grip loosened and released.
“How dare you—!”
From his throat came a metallic, hollow sound—as though something were trapped within.
“I, how could *I*, have failed—!”
The voice thrummed with fury, growling like a beast.
“I was interfered with—!”
Hwa Gyeom gasped for breath, his head bent low in submission.
Until now, he’d believed they coexisted—that they gave and took from each other as equals.
But perhaps that had only ever been his delusion.
It appeared he had grown stronger through me.
Unlike before, when he needed my aid to move, he could now leap freely between other living creatures, and could even drive himself to the brink of death in doing so.
“You’re wrong……!”
He continued to rage.
“Did you not say that young Azure Dragons have not yet manifested their Supernatural Abilities……!”
“W-we certainly received no such reports, Your Excellency. *Cough*, though whether one awakened their ability in the meantime, I cannot say…….”
“How dare you……!”
Hwa Gyeom’s jaw clenched of its own accord, grinding with an audible crunch.
“How dare a mere whelp of an Azure Dragon defy me……!”
In the darkness, Hwa Gyeom’s eyes turned entirely black. A thick, dark shadow consumed his white sclera.
“Ah, aaaargh……!”
Hwa Gyeom was helplessly tossed about by the creature’s growing fury.
His eyes burned like molten coals, and within his body, a sickening heat crawled like a swarm of insects.
“Rrgh, u…….”

—Screeeeeeeeeeech!

The moment a horrific wail erupted in his mind, the candles in the room ignited of their own accord.
The shadow that engulfed the wall was far too massive to be his own, and it bore no resemblance to a human form whatsoever.
Hwa Gyeom’s heart pounded as though it might burst.
Seized by terror, he bowed his head low, but no matter how hard he tried not to look, it was useless.
The shadow writhed like a twisted tree branch, then like a beast with dozens of legs.
Its shape shifted with every glance, until it became impossible to say what form it truly held.
Whoosh!
The candles extinguished as suddenly as they had ignited.
And in that moment, a darkness as absolute as the end of the world descended.
The creature intoned like an incantation.
“I shall annihilate those green-tinged dragon whelps as I would any vermin…….”
He had been told he must not harm the children of the Four Celestial Palace, that they would one day become Geon-u’s servants.
Yet Hwa Gyeom could not so much as speak that simple truth.
He was far too afraid.
If he opened his mouth, it felt certain he would lose his life at once.
Yes, the Azure Dragon Clan had other grown sons…….
Hwa Gyeom grasped for excuses in his heart.
So it would be acceptable if a few children died and disappeared.

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Four days later.
Cheong-un waited with anxious eyes for the children.
Word that all were safe had arrived a day earlier.
But having heard of the landslide, he could not ease his mind from mere reassurances.
As he fidgeted and removed his coronet, the distant sound of hoofbeats began to ring out.
Cheong-un leapt from his seat in gladness, and Hee-rim rose to follow, unwilling to be left behind.
The two reached the Palace Gate just as the Cheong Sa Company began to pass through.
Upon spotting Cheong-un, the soldiers of the Company quickly dismounted and bowed.
“We greet the Patriarch!”
“You have labored greatly.”
Cheong-un nodded lightly.
Then three carriages passed through the Palace Gate and entered in single file.
Unlike the gleaming new carriages in which they had set out, the returning vehicles were as battered as a supply wagon.
Cheong-un’s lips were drawn tight when the door opened and the Twins tumbled out first.
“Father……!”
Cheong-un bent forward with both arms spread toward the children descending from the carriage.
“Welcome home to my youngest ones. Are you well……?”
And last came Aran, racing toward them.
“We have returned……!”
As Cheong-un lifted all three in his arms at once, the Twins chattered away like a round song.
“Father! On the way back, there was a landslide!”
“It was so scary! Our instructor, he changed to his True Form to try to stop it…….”
“Oh, Aran stopped us!”
As the Azure Dragon Clan patriarch’s earthy gaze softened toward his youngest daughter, Yeon added her own words.
“Aran did the right thing, didn’t she? We can’t just transform into dragons whenever we want……!”
“Well, well. Our Aran truly has grown wise.”
Cheong-un praised Aran and smiled, yet his eyes held a troubled, distant look.
If the mountain had truly collapsed and they’d been pinned beneath rocks, they should all have reverted to their true forms without hesitation.
That way, they could have escaped or suffered fewer injuries.
Losing some of their life force was preferable to dying together in that place.
But since they’d returned without incident, could he really conclude that Aran had handled it well?
The fact that Future Sight showed nothing suggested the children weren’t fated to die…….
Could this accident have been engineered by someone?
Was it truly just chance?
While Cheong-un listened to the children’s chatter despite his tangled thoughts, Hwa Gyeom and Su-ryeon came rushing in, breathless.
“Children!”
Cheong-un entrusted the youngsters to his brothers and turned back to So Rim.
So Rim bowed her head, her face still clouded with worry.
“I’ve returned, Patriarch.”
“Good. I hear it was quite an ordeal.”
At Cheong-un’s question, So Rim could not answer, only gazing down at the ground with a dejected expression.
Whatever miracle had saved them all, she could not shake the bitter feeling that she had failed in her duty.
Of course, even had she protected the carriage in the form of the Water Dragon herself, she might not have been able to clear away all those massive boulders blocking the Gorge…….
“Stop such thoughts, So Rim.”
So Rim started at the sudden use of her full name and lifted her head.
“You promised me you would bring the children back safely.”
Cheong-un’s voice cut through with cool precision.
“And you did. So what regrets remain?”
The Azure Dragon Clan’s Questionable Chick: Episode 63
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