The Morning Star Baby Wants a Family - Chapter 34

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Chapter 34
With each blink, Seowan drew closer. Her neatly styled ash-gray hair fluttered in the night breeze.
‘Sister really came.’
Hae-na drew in a sharp breath. It felt like a dream. Or was it truly just a dream?
But in that moment, a firm and warm body swept her into an embrace.
Seowan’s arms wrapped around her with all their strength. The grip was so tight it bordered on painful.
“Hnn….”
If anything, that pain anchored her to reality. In my sister’s arms, I caught the scent of the night breeze mingled with her familiar warmth.
Tears began streaming down Hae-na’s cheeks.
Seowan carefully lifted the child’s face with one hand, her small shoulders trembling with sobs.
“Are you hurt anywhere?”
Seowan’s voice wavered at the end. Hae-na’s vision blurred and cleared repeatedly through a veil of tears.
Hae-na, whose mouth had been gagged, shook her head. Only then did Seowan notice and gently remove the cloth binding her lips.
“Cough, hack, gag, cough!”
As the cloth fell away, Hae-na coughed softly. Coughs mixed with tears continued in labored succession.
Alarmed, Seowan stroked the child’s back before pulling her close again.
“S-sister. Sister….”
Hae-na called out through her tears. The small, delicate voice made Seowan’s heart clench painfully.
Looking down, she saw rope binding the child’s tiny wrists tightly.
She tried to sever it with her spiritual power, but the water droplets hovering in the air kept dispersing.
After several failed attempts, Seowan finally managed to cut through the rope.
From how tightly it had been bound, angry red marks covered the child’s delicate skin.
With her arms freed, Hae-na threw herself into Seowan’s embrace. Her small hands desperately gripped her sister’s clothes.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
Seowan poured out apologies in a disjointed stream. Beyond the small body in her arms, she could see the gruesome scene.
She recalled Hae-na sitting in a daze, staring at the pool of blood.
Seowan pressed Hae-na’s head firmly against her chest, shielding her from the sight.
She didn’t want her to see this horror. But the moment she saw strangers holding Hae-na, whose face had gone deathly pale, her spiritual power moved of its own accord.
The force she’d once lost control of surged within her body.
Seowan looked at the pool of blood and thought.
‘I need to clean this up.’
Otherwise, Hae-na might see this sight again. Seowan channeled her spiritual power once more.
“Ugh….”
But in that instant, overwhelming pain struck her down. As her entire body felt like it was shattering, she let out a short gasp.
“S-sister?”
Sensing something wrong, Hae-na tried to lift her head.
Seowan raised her hand and buried the child’s face against her chest. Her hand, resting on Hae-na’s round head, trembled noticeably.
“Good heavens, what is happening!”
Awakened by the commotion in the night, people rushed out of the Residence in shock.
Chung-yeon, her face drained of color, ran barefoot toward the sisters.
“Master, Miss. Are you all right?”
Chung-yeon bent down urgently to check on her two charges, heedless of the blood pooling across the floor.
Seowan handed the child to her.
“Take Hae-na away.”
Seowan’s words came out unsteadily, as though he were struggling to suppress unbearable pain.
At that, Chung-yeon’s eyes shifted—the gaze of someone who had grasped something crucial.
She quickly accepted Hae-na and began backing away from Seowan.
“No, let me go! I want to stay with my sister!”
Hae-na thrashed about desperately.
Chung-yeon held the struggling child close and cried out loudly to the bewildered residents of the estate.
“Everyone, leave the estate at once! There’s no time to waste. Hurry!”
Though her words came abruptly, no one in the household questioned their meaning.
The urgent sound of footsteps echoed in succession.
“Chung-yeon. Sister, what about you?”
Hae-na asked desperately. Seowan, squeezing his eyes shut before opening them again, forced himself to meet the child’s gaze with a smile.
“It’s all right, Miss. This has happened before. I’ll overcome it this time as well.”
Hae-na stared at Chung-yeon in confusion. Overcome what?
The anguished tone of Seowan’s voice echoed in her mind.
Hae-na whipped her head around to look back at Seowan.
Chung-yeon hastily covered the child’s eyes, but Hae-na had already seen clearly.
Around Seowan, who lay clutching at his chest, dark crimson droplets swirled—clustering together, then scattering, growing larger with each moment.
Those black-tinged spheres seemed utterly beyond Seowan’s control.
“Is it a rampage?” Hae-na whispered, trembling violently.
Chung-yeon’s body went rigid. It was answer enough.
On a full moon night without a single cloud, all members of the Seven Star Army kept themselves confined. Seowan, possessed of such formidable power, had to be even more vigilant.
Yet on such a night, Seowan had lost his reason and unleashed his spiritual force.
Fear and self-loathing had cracked the solid barrier within him, and the power raging under the full moon had finally shattered it.
“Chung-yeon. Sister, what will happen to you?”
“…”
“Please tell me, quickly!”
Hae-na’s voice rose as tears spilled forth. Chung-yeon soothed the trembling child and spoke.
“It’s not a rampage.”
At those words, Hae-na held her breath and looked up at Chung-yeon.
“His control over his power has simply loosened slightly. That’s all—he’s being swept along for the moment.”
She smiled weakly as she spoke.
“It’s uncommon, but this has happened before. Each time, he has returned safely.”
Chung-yeon appeared anxious and uneasy, yet she did not seem to be lying.
“The Master will be fine. But anyone who gets caught in this by mistake will be gravely injured. That’s why.”
Despite Chung-yeon’s explanation, despair still shadowed Hae-na’s face.
“Then… has this happened before?”
“….”
“Did you suffer like this before, sister…?”
The last time I’d seen Seowan, he looked terribly anguished. That fleeting glimpse had burned itself into my mind, surfacing again and again.
Chung-yeon bit her lower lip with a devastated expression. Then, from the direction of the Yeon-ga Estate’s main gate, Chung-su’s voice thundered out.
“What are you doing! Get out of there now, it’s dangerous!”
Before Chung-su’s words even finished, the air became parched in an instant.
It was the moment Chung-yeon, her face drained of color, urgently broke into a run.
Crack!
Hae-na thrashed with all her might and tore herself free from Chung-yeon’s embrace. Her palms and cheeks scraped against the dirt as she fell.
Chung-yeon, collapsed on the ground, reached out her hand to Hae-na, but the child didn’t even look back—she simply began to run.
“Ah, Miss, Miss!”
Chung-yeon’s desperate voice echoed behind her.
Hae-na’s eyes twisted with sorrow, but she didn’t stop—she kept running.
The blood-red droplets that had been hovering around Seowan had now become a colossal Water Barrier.
The moment I glimpsed Seowan through the opaque water, I plunged into the barrier without hesitation.
In an instant, my ears went numb and my vision blurred. Inside the barrier, it was as dark as the deep sea, with whirlpools churning everywhere.
I wasn’t suffocating, but my body went rigid.
The terror of nearly drowning crept up from my fingertips.
Yet, far ahead, I could see Seowan huddled in on himself.
Seowan had saved my life three times.
In the burning Yeon-ga Estate, in the Garden Pond, and here.
But I could not save Seowan.
I was weak and helpless. I possessed no remarkable abilities, no extraordinary wisdom.
Fear made my body tremble violently. Yet I drew a deep breath and pushed further into the water.
I swam toward Seowan. My movements were less swimming than desperate thrashing.
The water was cold and dark. To advance even a little, I had to kick with all my strength.
My breath grew short and my body shook, but I continued drawing closer to Seowan.
I couldn’t save him, but I could be with him.
Being alone was too unbearable.
I knew how agonizing it was—this loneliness that bored into the very marrow of one’s bones.
My body slowly, slowly began to draw nearer to Seowan.
Soon I was close enough to see his face.
I reached out with all my strength. And at last, my fingertips grasped the hem of Seowan’s garment.

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