The Pegasus Family’s Little One Wants to Be Carefree!
CHAPTER 80……………………………………………
Puh-heung.
In the end, Kaidan the tiger let out a big sigh, shook his front paw roughly to shake something off, and then—
“Ah! No, don’t! If I stay like this, they’ll… uh?”
Snap.
He bit down on the servant who was thrashing on the ground, thinking he was about to be abandoned.
“Uh, uh? You… won’t ignore me, right?”
The servant, seeing the sharp tiger teeth up close, asked in a terrified, trembling voice, but Kaidan had no time to care about that in the middle of all this.
Rattle!
Every time Kaidan, the tiger humanoid, ran on all fours, the teeth sank deeper, and the terrified servant’s screams were audible.
Hearing the screams from inside the mouth as he ran, Kaidan soon came face-to-face with a sudden light sweeping through the forest.
“!”
Kaidan froze on the spot, his tiger pupils widening.
‘This is…!’
The servant rolled off the ground from Kaidan’s wide-open mouth, but Kaidan, completely startled, didn’t even notice.
‘How is this power…?’
Recalling the events at the hunting festival, Kaidan remembered something about the witness he had brought along.
“The servant, chased by the monsters, begged me to save them and said they would testify to certain information.”
At the time, Kaidan thought he had been too late to prevent what happened to Lin’s guardian while rescuing someone he didn’t know.
But considering the events that followed, it wasn’t all bad.
It turned out the servant, who had clung to his front paw persistently and delayed him, later revealed an important confession.
“I-I have important information that can help the young lady!”
The servant, who had promised to give helpful testimony if only saved, followed Kaidan, the savior of their life.
Standing before Theodore, looking intimidated and humbled, the servant nervously and haltingly revealed the secret.
“I-I am the attendant of a mage. Master Teiman, who manages the sealing orb.”
From the moment the word “sealing orb” came from the servant’s mouth, every eye in the room fixed on him.
The strange phenomenon that had occurred at the hunting festival had started with the ritual using that very sealing orb.
The mage’s attendant who managed the orb.
Everyone could instinctively sense that what would come from his mouth would be unusual.
“Master Teiman is a good person, but in truth, he has a lazy side. For trivial matters that didn’t necessarily require the mage’s hand, he often left them to me, his attendant.”
Indeed, the attendant knew important information as he had claimed.
“It was the same on the day of the hunting festival. Knowing the sealing orb would be used in the ritual, Master Teiman instructed me to check it, as usual.”
Clench.
As if aware of what he was about to confess, the servant clasped his own hands tightly, continuing through trembling lips.
“Under someone’s orders, I switched the sealing orb in the storage box.”
“!”
It was a story that would shock the entire Pegasus family.
The Pegasus family council, shut down by the head of the family, the mercenary king Felrod, had strongly opposed the policy of hiring talent regardless of species and had insisted on privileges for pure-blood Pegasus family members only.
Even those who committed crimes were excused solely for being pure-blood, until Felrod, angered, shut down the council entirely.
However, they showed no reflection and only resented losing all power within the family.
Initially, the council, suppressed by the strong head of the family, did not dare voice complaints, but as Felrod’s disappearance dragged on, they slowly began to think differently.
“It’s been several years… At this point, can we assume the head has died somewhere on the eastern continent?”
“Given the lack of news, yes. Ha, he never listened to the council anyway, running wild like a colt.”
“Then, the action of the head arbitrarily closing our long-standing council… since the one who gave the order is gone, couldn’t we say it’s now invalid?”
Reversing an already enforced order for no reason was absurd, but the council, long intoxicated with their privileges, didn’t consider formal rules more important than their desires.
“Felrod appointed the acting head… just some young upstart past adulthood, right?”
“Not even a Pegasus beastman, just a wandering beastman from the streets, they say.”
Tsk!
The council sneered, already treating the missing Felrod as if deceased.
“In his youth, he was just a street mercenary, and now he’s picking up beggar orphans?”
“Clearly, he has low tastes. Didn’t he leave the family just to marry some commoner?”
“Tsk tsk. The world’s going to hell. And then he even gave the Pegasus castle to an orphan he picked up?”
“Absolutely absurd!”
The council believed only noble pure-bloods were worthy of treatment.
In their eyes, Theodore, a grizzly bear beastman with neither noble lineage nor family, wielding full authority over the Pegasus family, was extremely wrong.
“Is it right to entrust the family to an orphan of unknown origin?”
“It’s the acting head’s mistake. Here we are, the elders of the family, still holding firm.”
“Exactly. If the head’s authority is to be entrusted, it should obviously be to us.”
Confirming they thought similarly, the council exchanged secretive glances.
“Shouldn’t we correct such wrongdoings?”
With a cunning smile, Elder Feonal spoke first.
“What if the acting head were to become incapacitated by an accident?”
Feonal’s plan was as follows.
The sealing orb, a strategic resource of the Pegasus family and a device capable of permanently imprisoning monsters, was highly valuable across the continent.
Though carefully managed, there were always loopholes when humans were involved.
Feonal secretly investigated the circumstances of the sealing orb’s handlers and found a mage’s attendant whose family urgently needed money due to serious illness.
“Need a large sum? Family comes first, of course. Here, take this. What you need to do isn’t much.”
“I, I…”
“I said it’s not much. Just place this in the storage box during the hunting festival.”
The mage in charge of the orb only personally performed the magic to unseal the box; all other trivial tasks were delegated to the attendant.
Thus, it was possible for the attendant to secretly swap the orb in the storage box.
Feonal had the attendant place the orb containing the infamous “Thornhorn Monster” and on the day of the festival gave further instructions through subordinates.
“You said it ended last time!”
“Huh? Raising your voice? You feel proud of scheming after taking money?”
“Well, I needed the money then…”
“Exactly. Now it’s time to pay for that. Or do you want to confess about the swapped item? Do you think anyone would praise you for admitting it?”
The subordinate grabbed the fearful attendant, who tried to escape, and scolded him in secret.
Emphasizing repeatedly that he would be safe as long as he followed orders, the subordinate reassured the pale-faced attendant.
“Just finish this task properly, and the higher-ups will make sure you’re rewarded. Don’t worry, just handle this.”
The object handed by Feonal’s subordinate was a transparent ring-like item that could be worn on a finger.
