A Baby Cat Who Commands the Dog Clan - Chapter 134

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Chapter 134
It seemed I couldn’t conclude my words until this murky situation was resolved.
“What is the matter?”
The Dang Family Master asked the warrior with narrowed eyes.
This was the moment to proclaim his son as the Young Master of the Dang Family. He couldn’t welcome any interruption.
However, conversely, it meant this was important enough to disrupt the ceremony.
Thus, the Dang Family Master asked what the matter was first.
Though he occasionally employed tactics so cunning they were difficult to distinguish from the Orthodox Sects, he was ultimately the head of an Orthodox Sect family. He possessed the discernment to make such judgments.
The warrior from the Fierce Snake Squad caught his breath and cried out.
“The First Young Master of the Nam Goong Family has returned!”
At those words, the Dang Family Master was so startled that his beard bristled.
“What? Is that truly so?”
“Yes! He brushed past the disciples at the Dang Gate and rushed toward the Guest Hall in an instant!”
“His body—is the Young Master of Nam Goong unharmed?”
“Yes, we sent word to the Medicine Master to come to the Guest Hall. However, from what we could see, he merely appeared somewhat gaunt, with no apparent injuries.”
Then a trembling voice suddenly interjected.
“What of Seol? Did she not come with Baek?”
It was Nam Goong Ho, who had leaped from his seat.
At those words, the warrior’s expression darkened.
He knew how dearly the Sword King cherished that young girl, his distant relative.
“My apologies, Sword King. Young Lady Hong Seol was not with him.”
Nam Goong Ho stood frozen as if struck by lightning.
“Hmm….”
Even Poison King Dang Yi Mu could find no words of comfort for his friend.
Among those present, unease began to spread.
Then it happened.
Someone with keen eyes shaded their brow with their hand and gazed up at the azure sky.
A black speck hung in the heavens above the Dang Estate.
“What is that?”
The Sichuan Tang Family’s security had grown even more stringent following the recent incident with Dang Song Baek. Yet one could hardly monitor every bird that flew through the sky.
“Is that not an eagle?”
Then someone well-informed cried out.
“Could it be the Black Eagle that appeared at the Ferry Terminal in Chengdu…?”
At those words, Dang Cheon Gang, who stood upon the Martial Arts Arena, flinched.
The Black Eagle?
Could it be the one from last night’s dream?
Suddenly, an ominous premonition seized his entire body.
The moment Dang Cheon Gang, his brow deeply furrowed, looked up at the sky.
The resonant voice of Dang Family Master Dang Won Pyung shook the heavens.
“Today is an auspicious day when we select the Young Master of the Dang Family. I shall personally sweep away all that is wicked!”
With those words, Dang Won Pyung personally picked up the bow and nocked an iron arrow to the string.
Of course, it was coated with the Seven Jewel Soul-Shattering Poison that would cause instant death from even the slightest graze.
‘Father!’
Dang Cheon Gang cried out silently, gratitude flooding his voice.
His father had clearly noticed how his own expression had wavered the moment he saw the Black Eagle.
Not a single member of the Fierce Snake Squad, nor even the Sam Dok Ro, could stop Dang Won Pyung.
From his eyes, concentrated with terrifying intensity, blue light seemed to pour forth.
The bowstring, drawn taut by every muscle in his body, creaked sharply in that instant.
“Stop this!”
Nam Goong Ho’s resonant voice shook heaven and earth.
At the same time, Dang Yi Mu and Tian Tong Gai burst forth from both sides and seized Dang Won Pyung’s arms.
“How dare anyone lay hands upon the Dang Family Master at the Dang Gate!”
With that thunderous declaration, a thick green killing intent radiated from Dang Won Pyung’s body.
But before his words could even finish, Nam Goong Ho roared with the force of lightning.
“To aim an arrow at my granddaughter! Even if you were the Martial Alliance Master, it would be unforgivable!”
And in the next moment.
The black speck circling in the sky grew larger and larger.
Thud!
With a light sound, two small feet landed on the Martial Arts Arena.
Clinging to the Black Eagle’s talons was a small child—Hong Seol.
“Seol Ah!”
Nam Goong Ho suddenly cried out, his voice rising from deep within his belly.
His shout was so anguished that the gathered crowd trembled.
“Are you unharmed! Are you injured anywhere!”
Nam Goong Ho could not bring himself to step onto the Martial Arts Arena, only shifting his feet anxiously.
To do so might appear as though he were interfering with the children’s match, so he exercised restraint.
Understanding his heart, Hong Seol quickly answered.
“I’m fine, Grandfather!”
Hong Seol opened her eyes wide and spun around once to show that her body was completely unharmed.
“In fact, I’m bursting with energy, so don’t worry!”
“Thank goodness, thank goodness.”
Nam Goong Ho released a sigh of relief and then asked about his granddaughter.
“Seol Ah, how did you become separated from Baek?”
At that, Hong Seol’s face grew troubled.
“Well, that is….”
“Surely that old woman didn’t do something to harm you!”
At Nam Goong Ho’s urgent question, Hong Seol hastily waved both hands.
“That’s not it! It happened like this….”
Whoosh!
In that instant, with the sound of wind being cut, a dark object shot up into the air.
A weapon with a metal weight attached to the end of an iron chain—a chain hammer.
At the same moment, a clear voice rang out.
“Seol Ah!”
The owner of that voice was Nam Goong Baek, his blue eyes gleaming brilliantly.
His face gaunt as the Fierce Snake Squad had noted, he had somehow retrieved a weapon from the Guest Hall and hurled it.
“Hah!”
Hong Seol sprang upright and caught the chain hammer in mid-air with a single hand.
The motion was so effortless, as though she had snatched a bamboo fishing rod rather than a lump of metal.
“Thank you, brother!”
The moment Hong Seol flashed a bright smile toward Nam Goong Baek.
“That’s impossible!”
A startled cry erupted from the crowd. It was Dang Cheon Gang, who had come to watch the martial match with the support of Sibi A Ran.
“Just four days ago, she could barely lift the chain hammer!”
Hong Seol met Dang Cheon Gang’s gaze and winked at him. Then she addressed Dok Geomi Elder.
“I’m not too late, am I?”
Dok Geomi Elder, bewildered, nodded and announced loudly.
“Then, we shall now begin the martial match between Young Master Dang Cheon Gang and Miss Nam Goong Seol!”
Hong Seol offered a respectful fist salute toward the dazed Dang Cheon Gang.
“Then I humbly request your instruction, Young Master Dang Cheon Gang.”
At Hong Seol’s words, brimming with composure, Dang Cheon Gang gritted his teeth with a grimace and shook out his sleeves.
Jingle.
The sound of his hidden weapons, which always gave him reassurance, somehow brought no comfort this time.
‘Damn it, I had a dream where the Black Eagle dropped bird droppings right on my head at the end.’
His brow furrowed, he rolled up his sleeves tightly and glared at Hong Seol.
‘Huh?’
In that instant, Dang Cheon Gang felt a chill run down his spine.
‘What is this? Her eyes have changed in just a few days.’
The round, innocent eyes of the child had now become as sharp as those of a bird of prey.
That was not all.
‘Is that… a claw technique?’
Hong Seol spun the chain hammer with one hand while simultaneously raising her other hand like a cat, her nails extended and ready to strike.
‘Damn it, this is completely different from what I expected…!’
The martial techniques of the Nam Goong Family, which Dang Cheon Gang had been training countermeasures against, contained no such claw technique.
Claw techniques were typically favored by the Unorthodox Sects.
Only certain martial families accustomed to using their nails could employ such methods.
‘But I cannot show panic!’
Gulp.
Dang Cheon Gang swallowed dryly and drew upon his inner energy. A deep green aura rippled across his entire body.
“No matter what tricks you try…!”
After all, this was the Dang Family Estate.
She couldn’t allow herself to be intimidated by a child of the Nam Goong Family here, of all places.
“This is a martial contest, so I won’t use lethal poison, but don’t come crying to me if you get hurt from my strikes.”
Dang Cheon Gang deliberately intensified his intimidation.
‘That should break her spirit.’
The girl had little experience in martial contests, and her gentle disposition suggested her family kept her sheltered—or so he thought.
But something unexpected happened.
“You should be the one watching yourself, sir!”
A sharp retort came from Hong Seol, who appeared so docile.
“If you get your backside kicked by a girl four years younger and start crying, the shame will spread through all of Chengdu—you won’t even be able to show your face!”
“What?”
Dang Cheon Gang stood utterly dumbfounded.
Dang Yi Woon, standing near the Martial Arts Arena, felt the same shock.
Without thinking, Dang Yi Woon glanced at Nam Goong Baek beside him.
“Brother…?”
What on earth happened during those four days she was taken by the Black Eagle?
Seol Ah’s tone was as if she’d undergone intensive training in the back alleys filled with Heuk’s men.
‘My precious younger sister’s manner of speaking has changed so drastically—is Brother really all right with this?’
Yet Nam Goong Baek stood with his arms crossed, a faint smile playing at his lips as he watched Hong Seol.
Finally, the true martial contest began.

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