The Morning Star Baby Wants a Family - Chapter 61

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Chapter 61
Cheon-eul’s voice echoed through the Moonstone Cave. His tone was strange.
“What?”
After a moment of silence, Seowan called back. Noticing her voice trembling, Cheon-eul let out a small laugh.
“The Land is still unstable. If we stay like this, we’ll both fall.”
Seowan would have known this better than Cheon-eul.
Yet she showed no intention of releasing his hand, gripping it tightly with her cold, sweat-drenched palm.
He found this inexplicably joyful, and smiled with lowered brows.
If they fell to their deaths like this, it would be a dog’s death, just as Seowan had said.
No body would ever be found, and the Yeo Clan, having lost the star, would crumble to ruin.
The clan was my only reason for living. And yet, instead of despair, I felt a faint joy.
Because Seowan would survive.
Her face, smeared with sweat and dust, still gleamed brilliantly.
Cheon-eul smiled broadly.
“Don’t say such nonsense. Wait. I’ll find a way quickly—”
Seowan murmured, her pale face etched with desperation.
The hand gripping Cheon-eul tightly loosened for just a moment.
In that brief instant, Cheon-eul twisted his wrist gently.
Slipping his hand free from her blood and sweat-soaked grip required nothing more than a simple motion.
Seowan’s eyes flew wide as her hand suddenly emptied.
A faint breeze swept through, and his silvery-white hair fluttered.
With the azure lake at his back, he looked as though he were soaring into the heavens.
Cheon-eul laughed. As always, as if nothing had happened.
Seowan stared at his face without even blinking.
She could see his finely drawn lips moving silently.
[──.]
He spoke without sound.
Her breath caught in her throat.
Unable to respond, Seowan reached out her hand.
It felt as though she might touch him, but her fingertips grasped at nothing.
Cheon-eul’s distant silhouette blurred. It was as if pure white light had swallowed him whole.
In that moment, the countless lights filling the cavern began to vanish one by one.
As if the light were dying, or darkness were surging in.
The bright cave plunged into darkness in an instant.
Simultaneously, the solid ground supporting Seowan’s body gave way with a sickening crunch.
The cave was collapsing.
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Within the pure white light, the first sound to reach her was an old man’s voice.
[…My Lord, why do you abandon us thus?]
The weary, aged voice was laden with sorrow. Before she could respond, another voice spoke.
[Please, save my mother! Waaaah, Mom. Mom….]
A voice younger and more innocent than my own sobbed uncontrollably.
I wanted to comfort the child, but countless voices clung to them instead.
[Have I committed such a grave sin? Why do you punish me so?]
[How can you be so heartless! This cannot be. This cannot…!]
Rage, resentment, sorrow, self-reproach, despair, and pleading.
All those emotions surged through my entire body along with their energy.
“Ugh, uhhh, sob….”
It was so heartbreaking I couldn’t bear it.
I trembled violently, curling my small body into a ball.
Those filled with resentment and sorrow were begging.
Their pitiful cries for help echoed relentlessly through my mind.
As I writhed in agony with my eyes squeezed shut, a small, gentle voice reached me.
“I’ll help you.”
It was the Unknown Woman’s voice. The trembling, wavering tone resembled my own.
“I will help you….”
The voice whispered again.
Without realizing it, I found my lips moving in echo of those words.
“…Don’t cry.”
The moment I finished speaking, the light swirling around me was suddenly drawn into my body.
“Gasp…!”
When I opened my eyes, I found myself collapsed on the floor of the Moonstone Cave.
The surroundings were dim.
The light that had filled the cave was now so faint it seemed ready to extinguish at any moment.
Drip.
A tear that had gathered at my eye fell to the ground.
The remaining lights rushed toward where the tear had fallen, clustering together in a sphere.
Leaving only that small orb of light, absolute darkness descended.
Crumble, crumble….
“Ah, ah ah!”
A sound of something breaking erupted. I jolted to my feet, my mind suddenly alert.
Thud thud, drip drip.
Large and small clumps of earth began falling from the ceiling.
My face went deathly pale at the sight.
‘It’s collapsing.’
The moonstone had transformed into ordinary earth.
All the energy and moonstone power that had filled the cave had been absorbed into my body.
“No, this can’t happen!”
I rushed to support the crumbling wall, but my small child’s body was woefully insufficient.
“Take it back. Hurry, return it now!”
I forced my energy to surface.
But it only shimmered faintly in my palm before dissolving the moment it touched the wall.
‘What do I do?’
Somewhere in this Moonstone Cave, Seowan and Cheon-eul were trapped.
If the cave collapsed, they would both die.
My face twisted with terror and despair, my wide eyes brimming with tears.
I could not lose my family again, helpless and powerless.
I picked up a glowing, round moonstone from the ground.
“Please, please.”
Between my tightly clenched fists, a pure white energy flickered and vanished in endless repetition.
How I wished someone else stood here instead of me.
Seowan, Cheon-eul… anyone stronger than I was.
But it was I who stood here.
A small, weak child with no power at all.
What I could do was infinitesimal.
Perhaps there was nothing I could do at all.
Yet I clasped my hands together and prayed.
Hoping my desperation would reach someone, waiting for even a single miracle.
When my heart beat gently, the energy that had wandered aimlessly through my body stilled.
Then it began to move again.
But unlike before, the energy now flowed slowly, following my will.
Threads of light gathered in my clenched fist, pure white radiance seeping through the gaps between my fingers.
The stars are
fragments of a shattered moon
born from you in the end
The light transformed into thousands upon thousands of silver threads.
The threads extending from my hand began to seep into the crumbling cave.
Do not be afraid.
This is the power I possess.
A voice from somewhere between whisper and revelation.
Sensation flooded from my fingertips.
A fallen star, shed tears.
The land that held them seeks to return to its place.
I felt the vast interior of the entire cave.
Wind seeping through small cracks, earth blocking broken passages.
And far below, water pooled in the depths.
Someone was about to fall into it.
I knew who it was.
The water pooled deep spread outward on both sides, and wind wrapped around them.
‘We cannot stay here.’
A gentle force swept across the gaping chasm in the earth.
I could sense the broken equilibrium.
Things that should not exist here, and things that should have occupied their rightful places.
The child closed her eyes.
The dormant wind awakened, and a tremendous surge of water erupted skyward.
The water flowed along the wind’s path, beginning to drain away from the land.
As the water receded, soil settled layer upon layer into the void, and the roots of trees and grass took hold.
The empty space was filled, and the earth that had risen in defiance of nature subsided into its proper place.
Hae-na’s small feet descended gently onto the ground.
Seowan and Cheon-eul followed, settling softly beside her.
Their shock at the sudden phenomenon was fleeting—their eyes widened at the sight of the child standing before them.
“Hae-na!”
At the urgent voice calling out to me, Hae-na turned her head.
Her pale face, bathed in moonlight, was vacant and unfocused.
In the next moment, the child’s small body collapsed limply.

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