The Strongest Daughter-In-Law Of The Black Lion Family [EN]: Chapter 76

#76.

‘White Fox?’

To sense the energy of an imprint from a white fox, not a white weasel.

Jerachiel rubbed his eyes in disbelief and looked again, but it was still only a white fox in front of him.

Moreover, the fish circling and guarding the fox was the Guardian called Tabira.

“Could it be?”

“Chew!”

The white fox burst into tears and ran toward Jerachiel as soon as he saw him. Jerachiel stretched out his arms and safely caught the rushing fox.

It was definitely Chelsea when seen up close. Jerachiel, who didn’t care what she looked like as long as it was Chelsea, immediately started teasing her, happy to see her.

“How did you change your race? You should have changed into a lion if you were going to. A white lion would have been pretty, too.”

“Chewoo!”

Chelsea rubbed her face against Jerachiel’s chest, responding to his playful question. Her body was trembling, likely from shock.

Jerachiel, belatedly sensing something was wrong, stopped joking around.

“Chi Chi, calm down. It’s okay.”

He patted her back several times to calm her down, but Chelsea’s trembling body wouldn’t stop. Tears flowed endlessly from her eyes. Just as Jerachiel’s patience was about to break, Ivan asked with a bewildered expression.

“Excuse me? That fox is Chi Chi? The pheromone that turns people into foxes is a specialty of the fox clan…”

Ivan stopped talking and shut his mouth. Coincidentally, there was one Suin [a creature with both human and animal traits] here who could turn a perfectly fine Suin into a fox.

Keira’s expression was stiff, as if she had the same thought. Jerachiel ordered Ivan with a fierce look.

“Bring him.”

“Me?”

“Then who else would go besides you?”

At Jerachiel’s rebuke, Ivan looked at Keira as if asking for help. Keira said with a fed-up expression.

“It’s not certain yet, and going to catch him without any evidence could lead to a dispute between families in the future.”

“That’s what she says.”

Ivan shrugged, and Jerachiel growled, displeased. It was when Ivan was reluctantly about to move.

In the meantime, Chelsea, who had calmed down a bit, jumped out of his arms and began to write something on the floor. Thanks to that, Jerachiel’s gaze was fixed on Chelsea.

Ivan took this opportunity to step out of Jerachiel’s sight and quietly watched what Chelsea was doing.

Chelsea was trying to convey something with all her might, using her whole body. Chelsea, who had neatly put a period at the end, sent her gaze to Keira, the most trustworthy person.

As if to meet her expectations, Keira frowned and began to read the letters.

“This is…”

Keira, who had been staring at the floor for a long time, looked at Chelsea and asked politely.

“What did you write, exactly?”

At that moment, Chelsea pounded her chest and collapsed. Judging by her actions, it seemed like she was expressing that she was frustrated to death.

‘I believed in you so much, but even you, Keira!’

It was too difficult to convey the urgent situation in her fox form.

‘What should I do? If I stay like this, Mother will be in danger!’

Chelsea was anxious and stomped her feet while lying on the ground.

Meanwhile, Jerachiel familiarly held the collapsed Chelsea in his arms. She still seemed frustrated, pounding her chest and trying to explain something.

Judging by the matter, it must be serious. Keira asked with a guilty look.

“Perhaps, does Jerachiel recognize it?”

No matter how many times she looked at it, the writing on the floor was too bizarre. It was neither an earthworm nor a fish… At first glance, it looked like a new language.

Keira, convinced that even Jerachiel wouldn’t be able to recognize it, opened her mouth.

“First, I’ll go to the medical room and see if there’s any medicine that can *jiedu* [detoxify] the transformation *shu* [spell/art].”

Then, as if she didn’t need to hear an answer, she quickly headed to the medical room. Jerachiel, who had been staring at the floor for a while, said.

“That bastard Erhaden fed Mother a fox bead.”

“Pardon me?!”

Keira turned around in surprise. It was such a huge deal that her usual poker face completely crumbled.

For a Suin to have nothing better to do than to feed someone a fox bead! That was a serious crime that should never be committed.

A moment later, her expression became very cold. It was because she understood Rachel’s actions since the fox bead was mentioned.

Keira gritted her teeth.

“I wondered why Rachel was so quiet, unlike her usual self!”

Right. Rachel would never file a custody lawsuit against Zachari in the first place.

She would have chosen to use her body rather than bother using her head.

Look at her just now. As soon as she saw Zachari disguised as a yellow lion, she rushed to kill him.

Keira served her as her lord because she liked that aggressive appearance. She felt relieved when she realized that her lord’s strange behavior was not due to a change of heart or something she intended, but because of that fox.

‘Well, the fox bead can only be controlled when it’s nearby.’

I was suspicious from the beginning when the fox brazenly stayed in the mansion and lingered around Rachel.

As the doubts were resolved one by one, she wondered why she hadn’t noticed it all along. Maybe he had used some trick on me too.

“I’ll get that fox bastard…!”

Keira, who looked like she was about to go catch Erhaden right away, suddenly stopped and looked back at Jerachiel.

“?”

When Jerachiel looked at her as if asking why she wasn’t going, Keira pursed her lips. A moment later, she asked with a serious face.

“But you recognized that?”

That hellish handwriting?

Really?

Jerachiel smiled as if asking why she was asking such a thing when Keira asked back in disbelief.

“Of course. Whose handwriting do you think it is?”

It was a statement worthy of the former master and current husband, who had become a great foot-wiper for the white weasel.

To exaggerate a little, he could interpret what it meant even if she only *jjigeo nwado* [stamped] her footprints. There was no way he wouldn’t recognize it when she kindly wrote it down.

Jerachiel raised his chin as if he was very proud. At this, Ivan, who was next to him, joked.

“As expected, you’re worthy of being Chi Chi’s great foot-wiper.”

“Do you want to be stepped on by my feet?”

“What are you talking about?”

Ivan shook his head and stepped back. It was because there was a high risk of being stepped on by Jerachiel as it was.

“Chew!”

At that time, Chelsea, who had become a white fox, stroked Jerachiel’s head as if praising him. Then, Jerachiel smiled as if he had never been angry.

A black lion even blushing. It was the first time Keira had seen such a sight in her life.

The more I know about this family, the more absurd it becomes.

‘Let’s not think too deeply.’

Keira gave a hollow smile, having given up on thinking altogether, and then began to run to catch Erhaden.

The only reason she was faster than before was because she felt like she would be *dyeom* [infected] with that strangeness if she stayed here any longer.

* * *

Right after Keira completely disappeared. Suddenly, with a pop, Chelsea regained her original form.

“Huh?”

She tilted her head, looking down at her palm as if she didn’t know what was going on. At that time, Ivan poked his face in and muttered in confusion.

“Huh? You’re back already?”

“I know. What’s going on?”

“That’s strange. There’s no way the fox has been caught already.”

Keira had just gone to catch him. No matter how fast she was, there was no way she could have caught him already.

Chi Chi and Ivan looked at each other with bewildered eyes and kept tilting their heads.

On the other hand, Jerachiel became quite serious. He stared intently at Chelsea without moving.

‘Did the healing *xi* [system/element] have such an ability?’

The healing *xi* was literally a pheromone that helped recovery. I knew it could *jiedu* [detoxify] poison, but I didn’t know it had the function of *jie* [release] transformation *shu* [spell/art].

But to release Erhaden’s pheromones so quickly.

Erhaden Roden came from a family that was very skilled in transformation *shu*, even among fox Suins.

There was no way he would have made such a clumsy mistake. Then Chelsea must have released the pheromones herself.

Jerachiel’s expression didn’t ease when he remembered that she had woken up quickly even after being hit by my pheromones during our first meeting.