The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 107
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Chapter 107
Soya gulped and stared at him.
‘What, what! Why, why!’
Looking into the baby bird’s bean-sized eyes that were shaking violently, Sanyu smiled brightly.
“Come with me, pretty baby bird. I’ll take you to a safe place.”
“Peep…!”
‘Absolutely not!’
Soya was about to shake her head vigorously to say absolutely no to those words, but stopped when a sudden thought occurred to her.
A bird like Chirpy that had long interacted with humans might be different.
She remembered that ordinary birds couldn’t understand human speech.
With her wing injured so she couldn’t fly away, and unable to say she didn’t want to, Soya had no choice but to go with Sanyu.
“Peep…”
When she drooped her body with a dejected face, Sanyu let out a small laugh.
“Why such a deflated face? Don’t you want to come with me?”
Sanyu chuckled and stroked the baby bird’s tiny head.
“Even if you don’t like it, just bear with it a little. This place is very dangerous for a small baby bird like you to wander alone. It’s a land crawling with demon beasts.”
Speaking in a calm voice, he suddenly lifted his head to look somewhere.
“I wonder what’s happening, but since a while ago the demon beasts have suddenly been losing their strength and running away…”
‘The demon beasts lost their strength?’
Soya’s ears perked up at his muttering in a serious voice.
‘It’s because the evil fled!’
Soya’s bottom wiggled as she became curious about the detailed story.
She wanted to quickly meet Father and Elder Brother to hear what had happened.
“But you can’t let your guard down. You’re a small baby bird after all.”
Soon Sanyu smiled at Soya again and spoke.
‘Hmph. You don’t need to worry about me.’
Soya lightly snorted and turned her head away.
“Where is your family, baby bird?”
Sanyu, who had started walking slowly again, asked in a gentle voice.
Naturally, since he knew Soya as a baby bird and not a beastman, he wasn’t asking expecting an answer.
“Come to think of it, what kind of bird are you? I’ve never seen one like you before… Small and plump, you seem to resemble a bunting…”
‘Small and plump, did you have to add anything else?’
Soya, who responded crookedly in her mind out of pointless defiance, pretended not to understand his words at all and rolled around doing other things.
“Your down feathers look exactly like snowflakes, so fluffy and very pretty.”
‘Huh?’
Soya, who had been acting indifferent, perked up her ears at those words.
“Have you ever seen snow? In the southern lands where I lived, it doesn’t snow, so I only saw snow for the first time after coming here.”
However, Sanyu, who didn’t notice Soya’s reaction, continued his story calmly.
“My little sister also had pretty white down feathers like you, they said.”
“…?”
“Ah, I didn’t see it myself. I always hoped that child would become a magnificent bird, but I was out on the battlefield and couldn’t be there for her first beast transformation.”
“…”
Suddenly his voice sank sadly.
“And I’ll never see it in the future either. That child eventually left this world. While I was away…”
“…”
Soya stared at him blankly for a moment.
For a very brief moment, Soya couldn’t understand his words.
The Vermillion Bird Family members always wanted her to disappear.
So she had disappeared as they wished…
Why is he saying that?
With that face.
With that voice.
As if… he’s sad that I’m gone.
“Ah, sorry, baby bird. Did you become serious because of me?”
Sanyu, who suddenly came to his senses, smiled and changed the mood.
“Sorry for making things serious. By the way, you really seem to understand what I’m saying. How clever.”
‘Oh, bird act! Bird act!’
Soya chirped and sang, pretending not to understand his words.
Then he burst into laughter again.
“Your singing skills are quite terrible.”
‘What’s wrong with my singing skills!’
It was a singing voice that the White Tiger Palace people always praised as cute.
Soya was indignant but couldn’t show it, so she pretended it was an accident and pecked his palm with her beak.
It was when Jeok Sanyu was chuckling as if tickled.
Swoosh—!
The sound of cutting through the wind struck past their ears.
Sanyu quickly pulled Soya into his arms and pulled his body back.
‘…?’
For a moment, Soya froze, not knowing what had happened.
Pure white hair fluttered before her eyes.
And through it, blue eyes filled with killing intent…
‘K-killing intent?!’
Soya gasped in surprise and blinked her eyes.
It was a chilling killing intent that seemed ready to tear the opponent apart at any moment.
And the owner of that killing intent was none other than…
‘Gaya Elder Brother…!’
Soya, who belatedly recognized him, dropped her beak open.
‘Then that wind sound from before was…’
Swoosh—!
Before Soya could continue her thoughts, another attack immediately flew over.
Crash—!
The tree that had been where Sanyu dodged fell with one strike from Gaya’s attack.
He had knocked down a tree with his bare hands.
“Lord Gaya, have you lost your mind?”
Sanyu couldn’t properly counterattack with Soya in his hands, so he dodged and snapped back.
If he had been even a little slower to dodge, there would have been bloodshed.
The killing intent in Gaya’s eyes was genuine.
“You stole mine first.”
Gaya tilted his head crookedly and said.
“Stole? What kind of nonsense is that!”
“Give her back. My Somsom.”
“…?”
“That bird in your hands. Give her here. She’s mine.”
He pointed at the small baby bird in Sanyu’s hands, with only her bean-sized eyes peeking out, and spoke.
“Ha. Now you’re even making unreasonable excuses and being stubborn…”
“Peep! Peep!”
At this moment, Soya began flapping her wings toward Gaya.
Sanyu looked at Soya in confusion.
“Wait, baby bird. Your wing hasn’t healed yet, so if you do this it’s dangerous…”
“Peep! Peep!”
“Uh, uh, Baby Bird. Wait a moment. Just calm down for a second….”
“Piyaaaa!”
Though Sanyu tried desperately to soothe her, Soya cried out even louder with bird sounds and struggled frantically.
“See? I told you she was mine.”
Baek Gaya stood in front of Sanyu with an arrogant face, letting out a sneer.
Then he stretched out his hand toward Soya.
Soya, who had been struggling in Sanyu’s hands, leaped up and landed on Gaya’s palm.
“Pia, ppyaaaa.”
Soya rubbed her head against Gaya’s palm and chirped sweetly.
At this, Gaya’s blue eyes curved gently as if they had never been so fierce.
“Somsom. Didn’t you miss this Elder Brother?”
“Ppya! Ppya!”
“Yes. Elder Brother missed you too.”
“Pit pit!”
“Hmm. You’re just chirping so I don’t know what you’re saying. Are you saying this Elder Brother is the coolest in the world?”
“Piiii!”
Baek Gaya, who always swept through battlefields with a cold face, was attempting conversation with the baby bird while wearing an uncharacteristic warm smile.
It was truly an unbelievable sight.
If others had seen this, they would have been shocked, thinking ‘Baek Gaya has finally gone mad because of the prolonged war!’
“….”
Sanyu stared at the scene in a daze.
His suddenly empty hands felt hollow.
‘Really, that bird was actually his?’
Baek Gaya and the baby bird looked as familiar as if they had known each other for a long time.
Glance.
Gaya, who had been conversing with Soya, raised his head and looked at Sanyu, then immediately let out a bitter sneer and turned his body around sharply.
Then he just walked away, taking the chirping baby bird with him.
“…Somsom, huh. When did he even give her a name.”
Sanyu muttered while watching his retreating figure, feeling a strange sense of emptiness washing over him.
“Even so, that’s a bit much. I even gave her healing treatment.”
Sanyu smiled bitterly, recalling how the baby bird had struggled toward Gaya with her injured wings as soon as he appeared.
“Does she like him better? She just left without even looking back.”
His bitter voice seeped into the quiet air.
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