The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 54
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Chapter 54
Just then, Yeonjeong appeared carrying a bowl of herbal medicine.
“Family Head, I’ve prepared the medicine you requested.”
“Perfect timing.”
Saeon smiled broadly as he took the bowl of herbal medicine and handed it to Soya.
“Ugh! The smell!”
Gayul covered her nose and stepped back.
However, Soya couldn’t hide her curiosity as she looked down at the bowl of herbal medicine and asked.
“What is this?”
“It’s medicine that’s very good for your body. Even better for your Spirit Core.”
“…!”
At the mention of medicine good for her Spirit Core, Soya’s face lit up as she reached out.
“I want to drink it! I’ll drink the herbal medicine Saeon gave me and become even healthier!”
Soya gripped the bowl of herbal medicine with both hands and drank it down gulp by gulp.
“Poor Cotton Ball. That really looks unappetizing.”
Gayul looked at Soya with pitying eyes.
“How is it, Cotton Ball? Do you feel healthier?”
“Yes…! I really feel like both my body and Spirit Core have become healthier!”
At her spirited response, Saeon chuckled and took the empty bowl from Soya’s hands.
“You took your medicine well, what a truly spirited Baby Cotton Ball.”
“Hehe.”
It wasn’t just an empty response—she really did seem to have more energy.
Thinking that with a healthier Spirit Core she’d be able to use her special ability freely, she couldn’t help but smile.
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Late at night.
A boy with platinum hair flowing gracefully in the moonlight stood quietly beneath the dark sky.
The boy’s teal eyes gazed at a certain point in the darkness.
Soon, the boy’s pupils contracted vertically like a reptile’s, and golden streaks of light flew snake-like toward the darkness.
Slash—!
Where the light streaked past, a black-clothed assassin fell bleeding.
Hiss—
The golden light sliced through the assassin’s body once more.
The assassin died without even managing a small scream.
The boy glanced coldly at the corpse of the assassin, then walked forward steadily.
What had been a corpse moments before crumbled into black ash.
Slash— Slice—!
Wherever he passed, the thick scent of blood echoed.
Though one might expect him to frown at the vibrating smell of blood, the boy’s face remained expressionless throughout.
Tae Irim, the sixteenth Emperor of Taehwa Kingdom.
As if he had foreseen it, he sought out and eliminated the assassins in the darkness one by one.
The reason he had come to the Western Lands in the first place wasn’t to deliver Dragon Blood Herb to Baek Saeon, nor to meet Soya, but solely for this.
To eliminate Hyeon Rabaek’s puppets hiding in the Western Lands.
After finding and killing the last puppet, he wiped the blood droplets from his cheek with the back of his hand and turned away indifferently.
These puppets were fragments of soul extracted from the Spirit Core of the Northern Lands’ lord who had accepted ‘evil’.
Normally, even if killed, they wouldn’t disappear but would return to their master, but since the Imperial Dragon’s ability had taken their lives, his Spirit Core would have suffered damage as well.
‘With this, Hyeon Rabaek will lie low for a while.’
At least he had secured time until Soya’s First Growth, so it should be fine to return to the Imperial Palace now.
He couldn’t leave the Imperial Palace empty for long.
Though he had seized the imperial throne, he hadn’t yet dealt with all the remaining followers of the escaped First Prince.
‘I seem a bit tired.’
Irim thought as he rubbed his eyes firmly.
Since sending Saeon to the Southern Lands, he hadn’t rested for even a moment.
What he had told Soya about being too busy to sleep well was partly to improve her mood, but it was also partly true.
His physical condition was such that it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed at any moment.
If he hadn’t awakened as the Imperial Dragon, he would have long since become a wandering spirit.
But he was someone who couldn’t afford to collapse.
To avoid losing that child again….
To protect that child at all costs this time….
“Huh? Irim?”
Suddenly.
At the voice coming from the opposite direction, Irim looked up.
Soya was walking toward him with an armful of books.
A gentle smile instantly bloomed across his previously cold face.
“Soya.”
He called her name in a tender voice and stepped out of the darkness.
Thanks to this, Soya didn’t see his face that had been full of coldness moments before, but instead faced him smiling warmly.
“It’s late—what are all those books for?”
“Oh, well.”
Soya explained with a slightly embarrassed expression.
She thought she had manifested a special ability recently, but she didn’t know how to handle it yet.
So she was on her way back from the library with a bunch of books to study about special abilities.
“Your special ability is ‘Purification’?”
“Yes! They said it’s the power to make contaminated things clean!”
“Hmm.”
Irim, who had been listening to Soya’s story, nodded quietly.
“I see. I suppose you could think of it that way.”
He murmured softly, then looked at Soya and said.
“Your special ability isn’t ‘Purification’. You just borrowed that power temporarily. Borrowing power from beings with strong abilities—that’s your real special ability.”
“Borrowing? From whom?”
Soya asked with a puzzled expression.
“I can’t tell you that. You have to find out for yourself.”
“…?”
“Will you close your eyes and listen to your Spirit Core, Soya?”
“Listen to it?”
“Yes. Focus on the sounds you hear from within yourself.”
Soya tried closing her eyes as Irim instructed, but she still couldn’t understand what he meant.
‘I don’t hear any sounds….’
Just as Soya was having such doubts.
—…ttle bird….
Huh?
—…little bird….
This voice…!
It was exactly the voice she had heard in her dream a few days ago!
The moment she recognized it, a huge flame bloomed before Soya’s eyes with a whoosh—.
Even though her eyes were clearly closed, Soya could sense the enormous flame that had appeared before her.
However, the moment Soya tried to approach the flame.
Whoosh—
In an instant, the flame scattered and a cool breeze brushed against her skin as Soya returned to reality.
“Ah….”
Soya blinked blankly, then suddenly turned to look at Irim.
“Irim, just now I….”
Then she unconsciously lowered her head and was startled.
“Huh…?”
Because a small flame was flickering on her palm.
“‘Flame That Purifies All Things’. That’s its name.”
“…It’s so beautiful.”
Soya murmured as she gazed at the flame crackling on her palm.
Even though it was burning brightly, she didn’t feel any heat. Instead, she felt warm and cozy.
Just like that unknown voice she had heard earlier….
“Ah!”
Soya suddenly let out a quiet exclamation.
“I’ve seen this flame before! A ghost came to Saeon’s office. Back then, the flame also sparked like this…!”
So I was using the power of purification even then.
Soya looked at the flame with an excited expression.
Unlike before when it briefly shone and went out, this time the flame didn’t easily extinguish and remained in her hand.
“Say, Irim. Does making things clean also mean healing what’s hurt?”
“If you truly wish for it, anything. You can purify anything. Contamination, curses, wounds.”
“…!”
To be able to heal anything. It was truly amazing.
‘If I can borrow this kind of power, I can be helpful to the Family Clan too!’
Soya’s eyes sparkled with the thought of rushing to Saeon to tell him about her special ability.
“However, great power comes with great sacrifice. Heaven is sometimes cruelly fair and just.”
Irim’s eyes suddenly sank deeply as he said this.
It was such a deep, deep gaze, as if recalling something very sad.
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