A Baby Cat Who Commands the Dog Clan - Chapter 149

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Chapter 149
The Human-Faced Spider raised its two front legs like a praying mantis.
And in that instant, all the children saw it.
Sharp claws protruding from the leg tips, and from them, translucent green venom dripping down in droplets.
Sizzzzz.
Just a single drop, yet the stone floor melted away.
Gulp.
Every child who witnessed it swallowed hard in unison, and the next moment—
Whoosh!
The Human-Faced Spider bounded forward on eight long legs, closing the distance in a heartbeat.
Clang clang clang!
Nam Goong Baek gritted his teeth and drew his sword.
“You face me!”
The Human-Faced Spider descended like lightning, driving its leg down with a thunderous crash.
The ground buckled under the impact, the leg sinking deep. Seizing this moment when the Human-Faced Spider was momentarily immobilized—
Nam Goong Baek swiftly retreated and swept his blade horizontally.
Ting!
The sound rang out as if striking fine steel.
“…!”
Despite channeling sword energy, not a single scratch marred the Human-Faced Spider’s glossy carapace.
“Hrraaaagh!”
Boom!
Yang Do Jin’s Green Bamboo Staff proved equally ineffective.
“Hiyah!”
Maeng Woo Hee charged forward, planting both hands on the ground and driving her heel down with fierce force.
Crack!
“Ugh!”
Even with inner energy reinforcing her body, her heel throbbed with pain.
But the Human-Faced Spider remained unaffected.
It seemed my earlier attack had succeeded only because the Human-Faced Spider had been careless.
Now, with the creature’s guard raised to its limit, there was no room for luck.
I bit my lip hard.
“What… what do we do!”
Pop!
In the meantime, the Human-Faced Spider succeeded in freeing its leg from the ground.
Then it raised its legs high like the front paws of a beast.
In that posture, the Human-Faced Spider began pursuing the three children.
Tap tap tap tap!
Six legs moved in rapid succession, while the remaining two legs struck at the spots where the children’s heads would be.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Human-Faced Spider Lord moved faster than I had anticipated.
A sharp cutting sound.
In that instant, its front leg severed the edge of Yang Do Jin’s qi-infused robe.
“You damnable brute!”
Despite his harsh cry, Yang Do Jin, gripped by sudden fear, unfurled the Eight Trigrams Step and scaled the wall upward.
Maeng Woo Hee moved like a wild beast on all fours, swiftly retreating toward the opposite wall away from Yang Do Jin.
“Brother!”
….
Nam Goong Baek alone came rushing through the air with the Heavenly Wind Divine Method, silently positioning himself before me.
The sight of his back filled me with such overwhelming reassurance that I felt my eyes grow hot.
‘Brother doesn’t hate me after all.’
But then, why did he keep his distance from me?
In the moment that question deepened.
A chilling sound reached my ears.
Sssscreeee…?
The Human-Faced Spider Lord tilted its head in confusion, unable to decide which direction to pursue among the three paths the children had split into.
A gulp.
The sound of Yang Do Jin and Maeng Woo Hee swallowing nervously reached even me.
‘What do we do now?’
All our desperate attacks had proven utterly ineffective against the Human-Faced Spider Lord.
I couldn’t simply wait for the grandfathers, whose whereabouts remained unknown.
‘In the end, there’s only one way.’
With my resolve hardened, a thin whisper escaped my lips.
“W-w-what if we just ran away, everyone?”
A heavy silence fell in that moment.
Running away.
It was something everyone could think of, but not something anyone could easily suggest.
Maeng Woo Hee as the Valley Master’s successor, Nam Goong Baek as the eldest of the Nam Goong Family, and Yang Do Jin as a disciple of the Beggar Sect—each harbored reasons they couldn’t voice such words.
Moreover, the three of them were subtly conscious of one another.
But the moment I spoke, answers suddenly spilled from the others’ lips.
“I’m fine, but if you’re truly frightened, Hong Seol, I’ll go with you.”
“Well, I can hold out until the elders arrive, but…!”
….
It was a truly absurd battle of pride. Exasperated, I scrunched my face and cried out.
“Yes, that’s right! I’m scared!”
Face and dignity meant nothing—I wanted to escape this place as quickly as possible.
Ssshhhhh.
In that instant, venom dripping from the Human-Faced Spider Lord’s claws wet the ground once more.
I trembled and shouted.
“Run, everyone! Now!”
Nam Goong Baek asked at that moment.
“…But where to?”
This cave had only one path.
The Human-Faced Spider already blocked the exit.
‘But if we turn our backs, it will catch us in an instant.’
What could we do?
In that moment.
Extending my spiritual perception, I felt the current of air brushing past above my head.
‘What?’
The instant I looked up.
Splash!
The Human-Faced Spider’s pitch-black body leaped into the air.
Screech!
Its sharp claws dripping with venom aimed precisely at my round crown.
“Upward, up there!”
As I cried out, the children each unleashed their movement techniques and shot skyward.
* * *
Above was pitch darkness.
“Is, is everyone alright?”
The children felt each other’s bodies to confirm their safety.
“Silver-haired one, are you injured anywhere?”
“…Don’t touch my body.”
Even so, Nam Goong Baek rejected Maeng Woo Hee’s touch with a sharply cutting tone.
“I was worried my second husband might be hurt. Is my third husband unharmed?”
“Uhhhhh….”
The naive Yang Do Jin could only accept Maeng Woo Hee’s touch without resistance.
As befitted the sect leader, Maeng Woo Hee also praised my efforts.
“Little one, thanks to you discovering that hole leading to the upper cave in time, we’re all safe. Well done.”
As it turned out, the cave was indeed a dead end.
But there was another path as well. Right above our heads.
In other words, this cave was structured like a pavilion, divided into a first and second level.
Of course, since there were spider webs, the Human-Faced Spider could climb to the upper cave as well….
“If by any chance the Human-Faced Spider tries to shoot its web up through this hole and climb, I’ll quickly sever it!”
Maeng Woo Hee placed her hand on the axe tucked in her belt and laughed heartily. But I couldn’t laugh along.
Now that we’d overcome the immediate danger, I couldn’t help but worry about the adults’ situation.
“Hey, Do Jin.”
“Yeah! Just trust me!”
Before I could finish speaking, Do Jin quickly pressed his ear to the ground.
“Hmm…. From the sound of violent tremors, they’re definitely fighting.”
Maeng Woo Hee, startled, clicked her tongue.
“My third husband certainly has sharp ears!”
At this rate, the second husband’s position would be in danger.
Yang Do Jin pretended not to hear Maeng Woo Hee’s murmur and looked down below.
The eerie human face pattern carved into the Human-Faced Spider’s back was clearly visible from here as well.
“The Human-Faced Spider is here, so… could it be that the two of them are fighting?”
I’d heard they fought quite often in the past.
At Yang Do Jin’s words—scratching the back of his head while looking at Hong Seol—Nam Goong Baek’s face contorted.
If Yang Do Jin was right, then both Tian Tong Gai and Nam Goong Ho were adults who didn’t act their age.
Maeng Woo Hee asked.
“So what do we do now?”
“The upper cave doesn’t seem to have a separate exit. Wouldn’t it be better to go deeper inside and reunite with Master?”
These were the words of Yang Do Jin, who had been lying on the ground for quite some time, gauging the adults’ positions.
“There seem to be occasional holes leading down to the lower cave. If we head toward the upper cave and find a hole near where Master is, we can descend through it easily.”
To get outside, we would have to pass by the Human-Faced Spider no matter what.
From the beginning, there was only one path the children could choose.
“Let’s go.”
Following Maeng Woo Hee’s words, the group moved their feet cautiously.
Before long, the path narrowed, and then an open space appeared.
Faint light seeping through the cracks in the ceiling rocks illuminated that place.
The children who peered inside all drew in sharp breaths.
“This is… the Human-Faced Spider Lord’s Nest!”
Torn eggshells hung from the ceiling like legs made of beads.
The floor was piled high with stones of various shapes, white and tinged with yellow.
Yang Do Jin picked up one of them.
“What is all this… ugh!”
Yang Do Jin’s legs gave out, and he dropped what he was holding, stumbling backward.
The object he had picked up thinking it was a stone had finger bones clinging to it.
Everything scattered there was human bone.
Long shin bones, half-shattered skulls, broad pelvises…
Not a single bone was intact, as if the creature had numbed them with venom before crunching them down.
Dried spider silk fluttered eerily across every bone surface.
It was a sight one wouldn’t want to see even in nightmares.
“Brother…!”
Hong Seol unconsciously gripped Nam Goong Baek’s sleeve tightly.
She had thought she’d become quite resilient by now. But it seemed she still had a long way to go.
‘G-ghosts might even appear!’
Hong Seol trembled, hiding behind Nam Goong Baek with her head peeking out slightly.
It was right then.
“Father!”
Maeng Woo Hee, who had been laughing heartily just moments before, hardened her face and rushed toward the pile of bone fragments.
With trembling hands, she lifted a bone from among the fragments—one that still bore a relatively intact finger attached to it.
It was the bone that Yang Do Jin had overlooked moments before.

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