The Blue Dragon Clan’s Very Suspicious Little Chick - Chapter 66

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Chapter 66

At that moment, Aran was dealing out torment to a yokai.
But trapped in a five-year-old’s body, it was difficult to use her Supernatural Ability directly—so she waited for the moment when it drew near enough to touch her.
The instant the shadow made contact with the nape of Aran’s neck, Eumyoung-gwi found itself face to face with an overwhelming solar brilliance that should have rendered it instantly ashes.
She’d meant to extract information once it was paralyzed by terror—to wring out who had sent it, and what madness had driven it to the Azure Dragon Palace with such recklessness—but before she could.
Cheong-un burst through the door while the creature was still writhing in agony.
Blinded by the radiance, it never saw his blade coming—it simply split in two and dissolved.

“Kgh……!”

She’d needed to interrogate it, to uncover who stood behind it all.
Aran found it bitterly wasteful, but the real problem was far worse: she’d just used her Supernatural Ability.
The vermillion pattern of the Scarlet Phoenix would be plain on her face, and her eyes would be blazing red.
There was nothing for it but to cover her face with both hands and tremble as though terrified.

“Our daughter—you were so frightened?”

His wavering voice sent a wave of guilt through her, but there was no way around it.
Strange to say, but having only just returned from the Imperial Ceremony in the Imperial Capital, Aran had already grown thoroughly sick of Hong Woo—sick from a single week of collisions within those palace walls.
The thought of returning to the Scarlet Phoenix Palace to become his cousin made her want to die.
And then there was the landslide and Eumyoung-gwi—both deeply suspicious.
The twins were still far too young.
If someone was hunting the children—if that was why she’d never heard Cheong-yeon’s name in her past life—
Then Aran had to remain at the Azure Dragon Palace.
Even if it worried Cheong-un.
Many years passed, yet Aran remained at the Azure Dragon Palace.
Five years still separated her from adulthood, but those nine years had not been wasted.
Now Aran knew who had sent Eumyoung-gwi to the Azure Dragon Palace.
It dwelt within Je Geon-u, and multiple times each year it attempted her life.
Cheong-un would be horrified if he knew, but Aran found the fact rather satisfying.
Her past life had not been graced with fortune and glory, but at least she hadn’t lived under constant threat of death the way she did now.
In her past life, that was because it hadn’t known of her existence.
And she had known nothing of it either.
So she’d blamed everything on the mad emperor.
But that tyrant of old, Je Geon-u, turned out to be nothing but a pitiable victim.
The moment Aran discovered his true identity, he became aware of hers.
It meant that everything she’d done so far had struck him meaningful blows.
Indeed, Je Geon-u’s condition had improved markedly since childhood.
Baek Sa-heum too had grown splendidly; now even Aran could no longer imagine him becoming a puppet of the tyrant.
Yet what lurked within Je Geon-u still endured.
The Imperial Dragon within him watched and waited for any moment of weakness.

“I found you, my lord!”
Hee-rim burst in on the father and daughter lost in their separate thoughts.
Before anyone could so much as ask a question, he thrust forward a massive scroll that gleamed with gold.
“The Imperial Palace has announced the final Imperial Ceremony of the year, it seems.”

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“Sigh…….”
That same night, small sighs escaped repeatedly from the twins’ chamber.
Unable to bear it any longer, Cheong-min sat bolt upright.
“Go to sleep, Cheong-yeon. Just stop.”
In response, Cheong-yeon herself rose up in irritation.
“What? You’re not loyal? Aren’t you worried at all?”
“Who says I’m not worried? Will worrying change anything? Between fretting like you and doing another round of Supernatural Ability training, I’d rather—”
“I’ve never said I didn’t want a Supernatural Ability!”
When Cheong-yeon cried out, the startled Cheong-min hurried over.
“Cheong-yeon, what’s wrong with you? Lower your voice! Father will hear.”
He had a point.
The head of the Azure Dragon House’s Supernatural Ability did tend to trouble those around him.
Cheong-yeon’s chest heaved with excitement, but she quickly fell silent.
Cheong-yeon was the only dragon among the direct lineage Spirit Beings of the Azure Dragon House who had yet to manifest a Supernatural Ability.
Worrying her family by bringing up Supernatural Abilities was one of the things she despised most.

“Don’t worry, Cheong-yeon. The mightiest Supernatural Abilities bloom latest of all.”

Aran had offered this comfort, but it was clearly a brazen lie.
Su-ryeon, who had inherited the Azure Dragon House’s most formidable Ability—command over storms—had already summoned rain by the time he was ten years old.
Cheong-yeon found her own inadequacy unbearable.
Cheong-min, sensing what his twin sister was truly feeling, regretted speaking so carelessly moments before.
“Cheong-yeon, my Ability is just as useless right now, believe me.”
Cheong-min had gained his Healing Ability about a year ago.
It had come miraculously right after Aran had contracted a plague and nearly died—but in truth, his training was still incomplete, and he could barely use it properly.
There was no reason to wound his sister’s heart deliberately in such circumstances.
“We’re twins, aren’t we? You’ll awaken your Ability soon too.”
Cheong-min continued with greater care.
“I mean this sincerely—I’m hoping you’ll gain an Ability far stronger and more useful than mine. One that lets you help our brothers.”
In truth, Cheong-yeon knew it already.
That no one in their family resented her for being late.
That even though they’d been rivals since birth, Cheong-min genuinely cheered her on.
Yet frustratingly, her body refused to follow.
And autumn was drawing near.
A major incident occurred every Imperial Ceremony, yet the Emperor threatened to use his imperial decree, forcing their attendance at the rite year after year.
And Aran always stood at the center of the catastrophe.
Cheong-un had tried to keep Aran from attending by claiming she wasn’t direct Imperial Dragon lineage, but the Emperor wouldn’t allow it.
So Cheong-yeon couldn’t sleep and had grown melancholy.
“I’m scared of the ceremony too.”
Cheong-min offered a light jest, wanting to lift his sister’s mood.
“Still, Aran is a child blessed by the Deity.”
A child blessed by the Deity.
Cheong-yeon knew it was true.
Otherwise, Aran couldn’t possibly have survived all those brushes with death, time and again.
“Aran is the youngest in our household, favored by the Azure Dragon Deity. Unlike us, she awakened her Ability remarkably early too.”
When they were younger, Cheong-yeon had struggled alone for a long time to hide that Aran had awakened as a vermillion sparrow.
But at some point, she realized that all the elders of the Azure Dragon House already knew.
Around then, Cheong-min learned Aran’s secret as well.
When Cheong-yeon nodded in agreement, Cheong-min brightened and continued.
“Remember that time at White Tiger Ridge? We went out by ourselves and got lost, and the great serpent came to fetch us, remember?”
Cheong-min had always taken pride in that memory.
He believed it was proof that the Azure Dragon Deity protected Aran and our Azure Dragon House.
Cheong-yeon hesitated and raised a question.
“But… was that really a great serpent? It didn’t have horns.”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
Cheong-min forgot all about telling his sister to be quiet and started growing excited instead.
“Then what else could it have been? We made it all the way to White Tiger Ridge and got lost, so the Azure Dragon Deity sent us a great serpent! Just like how Hyeon Tae-o commands turtles and soft-shelled turtles!”
Though, to be fair, Hyeon Tae-o also commanded snakes.
And they’d been enormous snakes at that.
Of course, Hyeon Tae-o hadn’t gone to White Tiger Ridge that day, so Cheong-yeon couldn’t find a response.
And besides, the idea that the Northern Basalt Deity protected Aran seemed rather odd.
Cheong-min added confidently.
“Fool—don’t you see that wind is always blowing around Aran?”
But the wind that blew around Aran wasn’t sharp and cold like the East Wind that their father or Su-ryeon summoned, was it?
Could that really be the Azure Dragon Deity’s care?
The Azure Dragon House’s Many Suspicious Chicks — Chapter 66
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