The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 187

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Side Story Episode 10

“My little sister is six years old, and though she hasn’t even had her first beast transformation yet, she learned to read and write when she was five. So she already sends me letters like this.”

“….”

“Look at this round handwriting. Isn’t it adorable and amazing? I’ve never seen a six-year-old write so beautifully.”

“….”

“And here, do you see these dried flower petals? Little Sister dried them herself. With those tiny hands like fern fronds, thinking of me.”

“….”

If there was one thing Gaya had learned during the two months he’d shared barracks with Sanyu, it was that he was an incredible sister-obsessed fool who never tired of bragging about his little sister.

He would talk endlessly about his little sister in that gentle voice, and it was more like he was just bragging to himself rather than actually talking to me.

That made sense, since I never responded with a single word, yet he continued praising his sister without showing any sign of being offended.

‘Good grief, people without little sisters must feel miserable living like this.’

Gaya let Sanyu’s bragging go in one ear and out the other while glancing sideways at the letters piled on his lap.

Sanyu’s daily routine ended with taking out the letters his little sister had sent him one by one and reading them thoroughly before bed.

The letters spread out preciously on his lap, one by one, already numbered ten.

In contrast, his younger brothers had sent exactly one letter so far.

Even that was just Ga Hyeon sending a formal greeting, and Gayul hadn’t sent even a single line of scribble.

‘Those ungrateful baby tigers. When their elder brother left for the battlefield, all they knew how to do was scratch their full bellies.’

Thinking of Gayul, who had followed him to his departure ceremony only to snore away, made him irritated for no reason.

‘This is why they say you shouldn’t take in white-haired beasts.’

How much trouble had he gone through raising that troublemaker youngest tiger?

Going up the mountain every day to catch that brat and bring him back…(Though he just grabbed him by the scruff and carried him home while the brat dangled in the air, insisting he didn’t want to go home.)

Washing the dirt-covered rascal clean…(Though all he did was dump him straight into a large bathtub.)

And he even watched over his first beast transformation in Father’s place…!(Though he did sneer at his newly transformed younger brother, calling him a tiger cub far inferior to himself, it wasn’t entirely untrue.)

After carefully looking after him as an elder brother while Father was away, that wicked tiger was repaying kindness with ingratitude.

Gaya felt pointlessly spiteful.

“I’m worried though. That child will soon have her first beast transformation. I’d like to send her a nice gift even from far away…”

“Turn off the lights and get ready for bed.”

Gaya replied in a prickly voice and tossed a pillow at Sanyu.

But perhaps because of his spiteful mood, unlike usual, he failed to control his strength and the angle went wrong.

The pillow Gaya threw bounced off Sanyu’s body and fell onto his lap.

And a minor… no, a major problem that could never be called minor for someone present occurred.

Rustle—

The pile of letters stacked on Sanyu’s lap spilled onto the floor along with the bounced pillow.

Instantly, Sanyu’s body froze and a brief silence flowed through the barracks.

“….”

“….”

Unfortunately, there wasn’t even a common rug laid on the barracks floor, so Sanyu’s precious sister’s letters had to roll around on the dirt floor.

“Um, just now that was…”

Gaya opened his mouth toward the stiffly frozen Sanyu in an awkward voice.

It definitely wasn’t intentional.

He was about to apologize and say he was sorry.

Crash—!

In an instant, his collar was grabbed and his body fell to the floor.

“Ugh…”

Gaya let out a faint groan from the weight pressing down on him.

Sanyu, who had clearly been sitting on the opposite bed just moments ago, was now somehow on top of him, pinning him down.

Gaya, who had reflexively reached out to push him away, was startled.

Sanyu’s eyes looking down at him were half-crazed.

Like a madman.

That wasn’t all.

Sparks were crackling in the air around Sanyu.

‘That’s the Suzaku Family’s special ability…’

Gaya forgot about pushing him away and gulped.

‘Don’t tell me this guy…’

Sanyu’s special ability was running wild in the air flowing through the barracks, along with a subtle killing intent.

As if he was ‘going berserk.’

The phenomenon where beastmen lose their reason due to strong emotions and can’t control their special abilities was called ‘going berserk.’

‘A beastman’s rampage’ couldn’t be ignored no matter how powerless and young the beastman was.

Because the power used in a rampage was the spirit core, the source containing all of a beastman’s energy.

Moreover, his opponent was only twelve years old, but he was the heir of the Southern Jeok Family, one of the Four Great Families.

‘If I get caught up in his rampage, it’ll be hard to survive. Both me and this guy.’

The end of a rampage was the destruction of the spirit core. And only death.

It was when Gaya clenched his fists in a tense stance.

“Wow…”

Sanyu’s mouth slowly opened, and a quiet exclamation flowed out.

“Lord Gaya is truly… truly ruthless.”

He murmured, his eyes crinkling beautifully.

“No matter how much you dislike me, how could you lay hands on letters that my innocent little sister wrote with such care using those tiny fern-like hands? Even beasts wouldn’t do such a thing.”

“…?”

Gaya’s brow furrowed as he quietly listened to that murmuring.

Could a beastman who had reached the point of rampage speak so coherently?

‘Wait. This bastard isn’t going berserk right now, but…’

Suddenly, a hypothesis popped into Gaya’s mind.

‘With a perfectly sound mind…?’

And just before Gaya could organize his thoughts, a sinister gleam flashed in Sanyu’s eyes…

“In that sense, Lord Gaya.”

The flames that bloomed in the air gathered into a giant sphere and flew toward Gaya.

Crash—!

Gaya barely managed to roll his body and avoid the explosion.

However, fierce flames soon blazed up and surrounded him in a circular shape.

And from the spot where the flames had exploded moments ago, Sanyu walked out through the billowing smoke.

Unlike Gaya, he hadn’t dodged and took the flame explosion head-on, but wasn’t hurt at all.

The moment he saw Sanyu like that, Gaya could be even more certain.

That flame explosion just now was Sanyu’s will.

That bastard right now was in a perfectly sound state, far from going berserk.

“I think I’ll fix that ruthless rudeness of yours, Lord Gaya.”

Sanyu said that with a bright smile.

“A-are you crazy? You’re trying to kill someone over something so trivial?”

Gaya shouted, unable to hide his bewilderment.

It was only because he was excellent at everything that he managed, but if it had been others, they wouldn’t have been able to avoid that attack and would have become roasted over the blazing flames.

“Trivial?”

Sanyu asked back in a surprisingly crooked voice that didn’t match his gentle face.

“Is there really such a self-centered wicked tiger?”

Sanyu’s voice, now much lower, fell coldly.

“How should I make you understand that those trivial letters that seem worthless in Lord Gaya’s eyes are someone’s most precious treasure in the world?”

“Just now that was a mistake…!”

“Yes, that’s right, a mistake. Lord Gaya trampling my treasure into the dirt floor was a mistake, and me attacking Lord Gaya was also a mistake.”

“What…?”

“Fair, isn’t it?”

Sanyu smiled brightly and once again conjured flames in the air.

Gaya glared at him in disbelief.

He was completely beyond reasoning with.

No, from the start, he didn’t even seem to have any intention of listening to what he had to say.

“…You, I’m going to report this to the higher-ups.”

Gaya said through gritted teeth.

Gaya and Sanyu, who had been deployed for less than three months, were still trainees here.

Regardless of family clan or status, causing trouble during this period would result in severe punishment.

Using one’s special ability to attack a fellow trainee was an inexcusable offense.

“Perfect. You were getting on my nerves anyway, so this is a good opportunity to kick you out of my barracks.”

However, Sanyu didn’t even blink an eye, and instead smiled even more brilliantly as he asked in a gentle voice.

“Do you have evidence?”

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