The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 20

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Chapter 20

The spirit beast control ability gained from solving the main mission.

The moment Somi saw the reward, she could tell what new ability Moa had obtained.

Somi’s eyes sparkled mysteriously.

“A spirit beast? Sister’s spirit beast?”

Hearing Somi’s words, Moa looked around. However, she kept her arms spread wide to block Jin Dowoon.

“Yeonseol is over there!”

Like Dowoon who had been conflicted between his mother and grandfather.

Yeongang, who had been worrying about his mother and older brother, quickly pointed to one side of the bedside, hoping Moa would find some solution.

There crouched a chinchilla with pure white fur like white rice cake.

It was ‘Yeonseol’, a mouse spirit beast symbolizing the Ja Clan, Jaseonghwa’s maternal family.

Though it was a spirit beast said to have the softest fur in the world, it was trembling and had lost its lustrous coat as its master was dying.

‘Ah, so cute… oh, wait!’

Moa, who had been thinking it looked cute and fluffy like a hamster or rabbit, suddenly widened her eyes.

[Moa! Let’s use that guy!]

Somi meowed once and pointed at Yeonseol’s tiny body with her cotton ball-like front paw.

-Squeak! Squee! Eek!

Cat and mouse, Guardian Spirit and spirit beast.

Being in an absolutely unwinnable relationship, Yeonseol cried out in a high voice, startled.

“What in the world…”

As Yeonseol was flattened like a pancake as if something invisible was there, Jin Saheon’s eyes contorted with confusion.

“Now is not the time for this, so move aside immediately.”

“Uncle, I said wait a moment!”

Following Moa’s firm words, even Yeongang, who decided to trust Moa once more, grabbed Jin Saheon’s trouser hem.

“The little one seems like she’ll do something, Father! Just a moment, okay?”

While Jin Saheon was flustered being held back by Yeongang, Somi explained the newly acquired ability to Moa.

[If you command the spirit beasts, they’ll listen to you to some extent! Tell that mouse to plug up the broken vessel!]

At Somi’s words, Moa groaned with confused eyes.

“How can a mouse plug it up?”

[That’s not just any mouse, it’s a spirit beast!]

At Somi’s words that it would be possible through some unknown spirit beast power, Moa nodded without doubt.

Somi would never give Moa unhelpful advice!

“Little squeaky, you heard, right? Get up!”

Moa reached out her hand to the trembling chinchilla.

Moa’s small hand touched the chinchilla’s soft back.

“Go inside and plug up the hole!”

The moment Moa shouted, brilliant golden waves poured out from her palm.

[Squee, squeeak!]

The dying chinchilla’s black eyes snapped open.

When Moa’s will reached it, Yeonseol didn’t hesitate.

As Moa’s command combined with the instinct to save its master, Yeonseol kicked off the bed with its hind legs.

Whoosh-!

The chinchilla shot out like white lightning and touched Jaseonghwa’s lips, then immediately transformed into a stream of energy and seeped in.

Everyone’s bodies froze witnessing the unbelievable sight, but Moa clapped her hands saying “It worked!”

Through her protective glasses, she could see Yeonseol, transformed into energy, circularly blocking the dantian and filling the gaps.

As it plugged up the dantian that had been cracked like patchwork-

“Haah…”

Like a lie, the cold energy outflow stopped and a comfortable sigh escaped from Jaseonghwa’s mouth.

“…!”

Jin Saheon stood with his mouth agape in bewilderment.

He could feel it with a warrior’s senses. His wife’s energy, which had been dying just moments ago, had stabilized.

“Whew, whew… phew!”

Moa wiped the sweat from her forehead and smiled broadly.

“Just now, Yeonseol…”

“Squeaky went inside and blocked it. Uncle, if your fire had touched her, sister would have melted away completely!”

Moa said while gently tapping Jaseonghwa’s flat stomach.

“It’s not leaking anymore. But squeaky won’t be able to come out for a while…”

[Right, that human isn’t completely healed either.]

Somi also chimed in, licking her front paw.

Strictly speaking, she had only used a spirit beast, which was essentially a massive energy mass, as material to prevent energy from leaking through the cracks of the broken vessel.

Jaseonghwa’s curse and illness hadn’t disappeared.

It was only buying some time at most, but since she had saved someone who was about to die immediately, Jin Saheon couldn’t help but tremble.

‘She restored a broken dantian…?’

Converting a physical spirit beast into power was mystical, but as a warrior, fixing an abnormality in the dantian was most amazing.

This was something even divine physicians might not be able to accomplish.

“…Thank you.”

Jin Saheon’s voice trembled finely from the tremor.

He didn’t delay further and placed his hand on his wife’s chest. Since the most urgent fire was extinguished, he planned to gently fill her with warmth.

Warm yang energy flowed from his hand and gently enveloped Jaseonghwa’s body.

“T-this can’t be…”

The Elder Chairman watching from the doorway stepped backward with his mouth hanging open as if his jaw would drop.

It sounded like common sense was crumbling.

“Ah.”

Jin Dowoon, who had been moved feeling his mother come back to life, turned his head at the sigh heard from behind.

The Elder Chairman and Dowoon’s gazes collided.

Between Jin Dowoon and the Elder Chairman, it was the Chairman who moved first.

He quickly composed his expression and shouted.

“I-it’s truly fortunate that the lady of the house is safe! I was only worried for the family’s well-being…”

“…Well-being?”

Dowoon’s eyes sharpened.

“Calling my mother a living corpse was loyal devotion for the family?”

Dowoon’s cold voice cut off the Chairman’s words.

He no longer bent his waist and furrowed his brow enduring pain, nor remained emotionlessly silent.

He was simply greatly angered by the Chairman’s shameless words.

His eyes shone more brilliantly than ever before.

“I saw it clearly with my own eyes. This child, whom the Chairman insulted as a fraud, saving my mother and me.”

“Master, I was merely speaking about propriety…”

The Elder Chairman looked somewhat wronged.

Dowoon wasn’t unaware of why he made such a face.

If they really considered only propriety, outsider Moa shouldn’t be in this place.

His attempt to evacuate Dowoon and prevent Moa from approaching was probably his own form of loyalty.

However, that loyalty was misdirected.

‘This is the real me.’

His senses were clear as if fog had lifted.

Loving his mother, worrying about his younger brother, being grateful to Moa…

Dowoon’s emotions came alive more vividly than ever before.

Only then could he realize that he had lived in a state worse than a lowly creature for all these years.

He had been no different from a rolling stone. A stone that inherited the Jinryong Clan bloodline.

“Does it mean that as long as you faithfully perform your duties, it doesn’t matter what happens to me as a person?”

Dowoon was disappointed, recalling the former Elder Chairman who had cherished his childhood self beside his grandfather.

“Have you ever worried about me—not as the future of the family, not as the Master, but just me?”

“…!”

“Stop. That’s enough.”

Jin Saheon stepped forward and blocked Dowoon.

He had keenly sensed that his eldest son was upset.

“M-Master. I don’t know what the Master is taking issue with, but I was only sincerely worried about the Master.”

When Jin Saheon blocked Dowoon, the Elder Chairman, mistakenly thinking he would take his side, forced a smile and made excuses.

Dowoon without being the Master?

Such a thing wouldn’t happen until Dowoon died, so what on earth was he talking about?

He still didn’t understand what Dowoon was taking issue with.

“I was just saddened to see him bewitched by some unknown child—”

“Chairman, look here.”

Jin Saheon turned his head to reconfirm his beloved wife’s condition.

Jaseonghwa’s chest was rising and falling slowly but regularly.

The cold energy that had been pouring out like it would cut flesh had stopped as if by magic, and the white frost flowers that had covered her face had melted away.

She had gone to death’s threshold, but ultimately lived.

After thoroughly checking on his wife, Jin Saheon slowly turned his head, hiding his trembling hands.

Dowoon, whose eyes still hadn’t lost their redness, Yeongang tightly holding his mother’s hand, and….

“Phew.”

The small child sitting collapsed on the bed, breathing a sigh of relief.

Moa was wearing large protective glasses, brushing back her sweat-soaked bangs.

Jin Saheon couldn’t believe that this tiny child had brought about all these changes.

However, since he had confirmed it with his own eyes, it was something he couldn’t deny.

“I have seen what happened here today.”

Following Jin Saheon’s gaze to look at Jaseonghwa, the Elder Chairman’s complexion turned ashen.

Bringing an outsider of unknown origins into this place had violated protocol.

However, since that child had saved the family matriarch, something beyond protocol had occurred.

For the Elder Chairman who had continuously insisted on driving Moa away, something that shouldn’t have happened had happened.

“Rather….”

“Rather, you wish this hadn’t happened—is that what you’re thinking?”

Jin Saheon sharply questioned, catching the Chairman’s unconscious small mutter.

“Is the Chairman truly devoted to the family, or to your own petty stubbornness?”

“…!”

Hit right on target, the Chairman’s face contorted.

If something good had happened to the family matriarch and Master, he should welcome it, yet he was resentful that his will had been thwarted.

“Bihui, and I as the head of the family accepted this child, yet the Council of Elders kept trying to overturn that.”

“…Master.”

“Without this child, my wife would have died, and my sons would have been bound in suffering for life. So Moa is truly a benefactor to our family.”

When her name came up, Moa, who had been panting from exhaustion, opened her eyes wide.

Me? Moa pursed her lips and pointed at herself with her finger.

To such Moa, Jin Saheon bowed his head deeply.

“Thank you for saving my wife and children.”

“Master!”

“Ah, mister!”

Receiving a bow from an adult, Moa was startled and waved her hands frantically.

Even the Elder Chairman jumped, making it feel like she was receiving thanks she shouldn’t accept.

However, soon her chest swelled full, and her whole body felt like it was floating like a balloon.

Moa had truly done something helpful for this family.

And Jin Saheon slowly turned his gaze to glare at the Elder Chairman.

“Elder Chairman.”

The Elder Chairman’s face turned deathly pale.

“Now it’s your turn.”

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