The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 95
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Chapter 95
Standing before the reclaimed Azure Dragon Flame Spirit, Soya finally succeeded in awakening the Azure Dragon.
―Hello, Baby Bird.
A massive dragon god with beautiful horns and blue scales revealed itself before her.
“Wow…”
Cheonghae Yongsin, the Eastern Divine Beast.
Before this beautiful and mystical ancient divine beast, the only one among the Death God Beasts to bear the title ‘God ‘, Soya unconsciously let out an exclamation.
‘I can see why it’s called a god.’
It was truly overwhelming.
―Wood is gathered together but fragile. However, this small and delicate seed sprouts life throughout the entire world.
The Azure Dragon spoke to Soya with its clear voice.
―I shall give you the seed that sprouts life.
A small blue-colored seed descended onto Soya’s palm.
Soon it grew enormously, sprouting leaves, blooming flowers, and bearing fruit, then the fruit made of blue light burst open with a pop.
Sparkling light scattered in all directions, sprouting life with pop-pop-pop sounds.
On the spring flower branch from White Tiger Palace that Soya had brought to show Cheongha, bright yellow flower buds bloomed with a ‘pop!’
Soya smiled brightly with joy.
“Thank you, Azure Dragon!”
The entire world sparkled brightly, and soon Soya returned to reality.
“Huh…? Soya, just now something…”
Cheongha, who was with her, felt something strange and blinked her eyes.
Soya suddenly held out the spring flower branch to Cheongha.
“Mother, this.”
“Oh my.”
“Father told me. He said it was the spring flower that Mother used to love.”
“Saeon?”
A slight blush lingered on Cheongha’s face.
Seeing this, Soya giggled.
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The border region separating the Empire and the Northern Lands.
The Imperial Army, composed of talented individuals selected from each family, was protecting the Empire from magical beasts.
Among the numerous generals, two young men stood out particularly.
They were Jeok Sanyu of the Vermillion Bird Family and Baek Gaya of the White Tiger Family.
Both were eighteen-year-old handsome young men who had completed their Second Growth Stage.
Jeok Sanyu with his warm impression like spring sunlight, and Baek Gaya with his cold atmosphere like frost.
If one were to pick the greatest contributors to dealing with the endlessly swarming magical beasts, it would undoubtedly be those two.
Jeok Sanyu, renowned as the master archer of the Southern Region, shot his arrows imbued with his Flame Ability.
Then the magical beasts along the path his arrows swept were caught in blazing flames and died in agony.
Baek Gaya, the cold and beautiful young master of the Western Region, charged directly at the magical beasts like a White Tiger beast-person with Steel Ability, slaughtering them with his steel-like body.
Wherever he passed, the corpses of magical beasts lay scattered amid pools of blood.
Though the sight should have been horrific, Baek Gaya maintained an expressionless face throughout without blinking an eye.
And nearby them, a girl with curly blue hair was Cheong Sua, the Family Head of the Azure Dragon Family.
Each time she swung her spear, plant vines that grew wrapped around the magical beasts.
The plant vines blooming from her blue spear strangled and burst the bodies of the struggling magical beasts, killing them.
Since they had gathered the most capable individuals from each family, each person was worth a hundred soldiers.
However, everyone knew.
That the war wouldn’t end this way.
Unless they eliminated the ‘evil’ of the Northern Region, the magical beasts would continue to surge endlessly, no matter how many they killed.
The role of those guarding the border was merely to prevent enemies from invading the Empire, not to counterattack.
“Really, how tiresome.”
Baek Gaya, who had instantly annihilated all the magical beasts before him, looked indifferently at the desolate land soaked with the blood of magical beasts and wiped the blood splattered on his cheek with the back of his hand.
“Young Master! Prince Gaya! A letter has arrived!”
At that moment, a soldier delivered a letter to Gaya.
It was from his younger brother Ga Hyeon.
“Hmm.”
As Gaya tore open the envelope and read the paper inside, an interesting light appeared in his eyes.
His cotton ball-like little sister had recently undergone her First Growth.
It had already been three years since he heard they had adopted that child.
But he still hadn’t been able to go see her.
Because of this damn war.
“I’m curious too. About Baby Cotton Ball.”
At this rate, Baby Cotton Ball might become Adult Cotton Ball.
Thinking about it made him feel a bit wronged.
Inside the envelope Ga Hyeon sent was also a letter that child had sent to him.
Though he had no time to write replies in this fierce battlefield, Gaya still carefully collected all the letters his family sent.
When he unfolded the paper his youngest sister had sent, something fell out from inside.
It was a small handkerchief.
The child had written in the letter that she had recently learned embroidery, and shyly added that she hoped this tiger would protect him.
Gaya looked at the crooked tiger embroidered on the handkerchief and let out a chuckle.
“The skill doesn’t seem very good.”
The child had concluded the letter saying that since it was her first time embroidering, it might look a bit strange, but next time she would complete it better and send it.
Gaya carefully lifted up the handkerchief to look at it.
The sensitive five senses characteristic of White Tiger beast-people caught a faint scent of blood from that small handkerchief that shouldn’t have been there.
This was the scent of blood from when the child, clumsy at embroidery, had pricked her fingertips with the needle.
“Is there such a fool who would do this for an elder brother she’s never even seen?”
Feeling the child’s sincerity somehow made him chuckle.
Meanwhile, a little distance away.
Jeok Sanyu, the first young master of the Vermillion Bird Family, was maintaining his weapons with a gloomy expression.
Unlike his bright appearance like spring sunlight, dark shadows had always lingered on his face since three years ago.
More precisely, it was since he heard the story that Soya, his young sister, had died.
His young sister, whom he had last seen six years ago when leaving the battlefield.
[Elder Brother, you must return healthy. You understand?]
His young sister who had hooked her tiny pinky finger to his with her innocent face and pretty pink eyes glistening like spring flowers.
‘That child, she wasn’t my real sister…’
Being far away in the Northern Region, he didn’t know the detailed circumstances.
He was just sad.
How shocked that young child must have been upon learning the truth.
How surprised and frightened she must have been to learn such facts when he wasn’t by her side.
And then she left the estate and had an accident.
Upon hearing the death notice of that small child, Jeok Sanyu spent many nights in this cold battlefield shedding painful tears.
If someday when this war ends and he returns home, he could at least find and bury that small child’s body…
That alone was Jeok Sanyu’s only wish as he waited for the war’s end.
Whiiing―
A small piece of cloth came flying this way along with the sound of dry wind.
Jeok Sanyu absentmindedly caught it.
‘This is….’
It was a handkerchief embroidered with a crooked tiger.
He was unknowingly staring blankly at the clumsy needlework when it happened.
Swoosh―!
Rough hands snatched the handkerchief from his grasp.
Slowly raising his head, Jeok Sanyu discovered the eldest young master of the White Tiger Family looking down at him with cold eyes.
“Have even your thieving habits become filthy now?”
As if something dirty had touched it, Baek Gaya shook out the handkerchief vigorously.
“Only as much as your vulgar tongue.”
At this, Jeok Sanyu curved his eyes languidly and shot back.
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