The Little Baby Snake of the Vermilion Bird Family - Chapter 69
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Chapter 69
And then, into Baeksa’s ears came a magnificent voice the likes of which she had never heard in her life.
Baeksa understood instinctively that this was the voice of the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast.
It had answered her wish.
For the Divine Beast to respond directly with its voice like this was exceedingly rare.
Ordinarily it either did not respond at all, or concluded all communication by simply bestowing a Divine Blessing in silence.
Ju Jeokseo himself had not heard the Divine Beast’s voice for more than ten years now.
Yet that Divine Beast was speaking directly to Yeoryun.
Of course, the little serpent had no idea how extraordinary this was, how rare an occurrence.
The Divine Beast draped a towering inferno over Baeksa’s body and continued to speak.
Indeed, the Divine Beast had been watching over everything. Baeksa nodded in admiration.
Baeksa trembled as she listened quietly to the Divine Beast’s words.
And she spoke hesitantly within her heart.
‘But, Divine Beast… I’m not a dragon, am I?’
Why did everyone keep calling her a dragon?
Was it because of this bead?
Perhaps it was.
Once they saw her unremarkable form in Beast Transformation, surely no one would say such things.
It was just as Yeoryun was worrying about this.
The Vermilion Bird Divine Beast spoke reproachfully.
The Vermilion Bird Divine Beast spoke in a grand voice.
The Divine Beast stroked the head of the small white serpent with a warm, flame-like wing.
‘Three Trials…’
The voice of the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast was tender, like a mother soothing her daughter.
And in the next moment, a colossal Vermilion Bird flame wrapped around Baeksa’s body.
Yet it was not hot at all.
Rather, it was very warm.
The Divine Beast’s Divine Blessing descended upon Baeksa.
The Divine Blessing of the Vermilion Bird—to warm the body with flame and burn away all that is wicked.
It was engraved upon Baeksa’s very being.
Yet Baeksa had no intention of opening her eyes just yet.
There was still something she needed to ask.
The girl called out to the Divine Beast softly.
‘Divine Beast.’
Baeksa spoke carefully, her eyes still squeezed shut.
‘Am I truly a Young Dragon? Then why do I have no horns, no whiskers, no Cintamani…?’
If she had possessed such things, she would never have been abandoned in the Imperial Palace.
She would never have spent a lifetime being abused as a worthless, pitiful serpent, never have died so sorrowfully and alone.
But why did even the Divine Beast, and the Ghost Dragon too, look upon her and call her a dragon?
‘This feels strange.’
For her entire life, Baeksa had harbored a vain dream that she might be a dragon.
Was it not for that dream alone that even after returning to the past, she had willingly allowed herself to be abandoned in Namto?
And now, to be called a Young Dragon—
‘What is this feeling?’
Unknown emotions welled up inside her, surging and crashing like waves. It was as though she had swallowed scalding water and was now expelling it, bit by bit.
If she truly were a dragon, what explained this pitiful form?
And if she were a dragon, why had she needed to be abandoned…?
What then of everything she had suffered?
Until now, she had believed that because she was a worthless serpent, such treatment was only natural.
But if she were truly a dragon…
‘I wish it weren’t true.’
Then all that she had endured would not cut so deeply.
A single tear fell from Baeksa’s tightly closed eyes.
It was a tiny, faint tear, seeping into the earth of the Vermilion Bird Family like a single drop of rain.
At that, the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast clicked its tongue in gentle reproach and dried Baeksa’s tears with the flames from the brazier, leaving her cheeks soft and downy.
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