The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 27

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Chapter 27

Moa’s gaze turned toward the air as she tightly held Yehui’s tear-soaked hand.

-Sub Mission: Break Bukgung Yeohi’s manipulation

·Reward: Passive Skill [Thread Network] unlocked

“Thread Network?”

As Moa muttered quietly, Somi slowly explained while inside Moa’s emergency bracelet, recovering her energy.

[It’s the ability to immediately recognize threads of fate. Something like the curse on that puppet is also a strongly bound connection, so you’ll be able to see it.]

Though she didn’t know exactly what it was, it seemed like a good ability.

Since she was going to help Yehui anyway, getting an ability on top of that was truly a buy-one-get-one-free deal!

‘Hmm, maybe I can do the same thing to unnie as I did for Madam?’

Jaseonghwa’s chains and Yehui’s black threads were essentially the same.

Moa judged that since threads would be weaker than chains, this time it would be easier to resolve.

Then she placed her hand on the bracelet containing the emergency kit and thought of the forceps.

Though she thought of the tightly gripping forceps, the bracelet remained silent.

‘Ah, that’s right!’

Now that she thought about it, the forceps were clamped between Jaseonghwa and Jin Dowoon’s chains.

“Uncle, I don’t have the clamps. I left them attached to Madam’s chains… If I had those, I might be able to solve unnie’s threads.”

Jin Saheon, understanding what Moa was saying, nodded his head.

He too had heard from Moa and knew how she had temporarily treated Jaseonghwa and Jin Dowoon.

“Then let’s go to Madam’s room. We need to report this commotion anyway.”

He nodded and gestured to the servants around them.

“You all clean this up. Make sure no one approaches that statue.”

“Yes, Master!”

The servants rushed to clean up the broken Golden Dragon Statue.

Meanwhile, Jin Saheon picked up Moa and headed to Jaseonghwa’s Room with Dowoon.

Yehui also followed behind them with the heart of a sinner, trudging along.

The Corridor leading to Jaseonghwa’s Room was quiet.

Everyone had remained near the statue, so there was no one around.

‘I’ll tell the Master everything. And I’ll beg him to kill me… no, I’ll plead to somehow repay him while alive.’

Even in this situation, she wanted to live.

Finding herself ridiculous, Yehui swallowed a sigh as Jin Saheon’s broad back came into her blurry vision as he walked ahead.

She could see his usually flawless massive body with Moa dangling from his arms like she was hanging on.

That’s when it happened.

[Kill him.]

Though no actual words were heard, a command filled with murderous intent echoed only in Yehui’s mind.

“…!”

Regardless of Yehui’s will, the black threads wrapped around her neck became taut like mad.

It activated the forced command, targeting the moment when the target showed his back.

“No, no…!”

Yehui screamed internally, but her body was no longer her own.

She tried desperately to resist, but invisible threads bound her right hand and moved it on their own.

Yehui slid out an ornament from her hair and gripped it tightly in her hand.

It was something she had received from the handler who trained her before infiltrating Jinryongseoga.

‘How is this happening?’

Her hand moved on its own in a completely unfamiliar way.

What she thought was a simple hair ornament like a hairpin became a purple poison-coated hidden weapon when she simply turned the decoration.

Her eyes alternated between being filled with murderous intent as she resisted internally and being soaked with tears.

At this moment, Saheon’s reaction was slightly delayed as he was speaking affectionately to Moa.

But Moa, who had her chin resting on Saheon’s shoulder and was looking behind them, witnessed Yehui’s change head-on.

‘Huh? Unnie’s eyes are strange. The threads are moving wildly!’

Unnie was trying to stab uncle’s back.

An instinctive sense of danger dominated Moa’s entire body.

“Haak-!”

Soft cat ears popped up above Moa’s head.

A puffed-up tail stood stiffly, lifting her skirt hem.

Pop-!

Moa kicked off from Saheon’s embrace and leaped up.

It was an elasticity unbelievable for a human child.

Clang!

Moa’s small but sharp claws struck Yehui’s poison needle precisely.

With a sharp sound, the poison needle was deflected into the air and embedded in the corridor wall.

Hiss.

The wall surface turned black and melted as soon as it made contact. It was deadly poison.

“…!”

Saheon and Dowoon hurriedly turned around and froze.

In the corridor without servants, Moa had landed with her pink cat ears and tail puffed out, breathing heavily.

“…Moa?”

Dowoon muttered as if he couldn’t believe it.

Though Jin Saheon had already witnessed this scene before, he was still shocked by Moa’s amazing physical abilities.

But Moa had no time to answer.

When the assassination failed, the enraged black threads tightened around Yehui’s neck, trying to strangle her to death.

“Kheuk… kkeueuk!”

Yehui grabbed her own neck and collapsed to the floor, struggling.

‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it, I want to live too…’

Yehui’s wet gaze, seeming to cry out like that, collided with Moa’s.

In Moa’s eyes, the movement of the threads coiled like a snake was clearly visible.

As the cat beastkin’s detection ability activated, she could see the starting point of the threads that normally would be too subtle to notice.

The threads tied to Yehui’s body in a knot formation.

The moment she saw that.

“You bad threads!”

Moa, excited, rushed toward Yehui without hesitation with her sharp claws that had protruded slightly due to her agitation.

And like throwing a cat punch, she swung her claws precisely toward the knot of threads.

Slash-!

When the divine power emanating from Moa’s fingertips combined with the beastkin’s physical strength, the threads snapped without being able to resist.

“Heoeok!”

Yehui, who had turned black and was on the verge of turning bluish, collapsed to the floor like a doll whose strings had been cut.

Moa breathed heavily, her ears and tail trembling.

“Hiyu.”

Only then coming to her senses, Moa turned around.

Saheon and Dowoon were staring at her with their mouths agape.

“Uh… uncle said it was a secret.”

Remembering how Jin Saheon and Sehui had earnestly warned her that such secrets must not be discovered by others, Moa hurriedly covered her head with her hands.

In her panic, Moa’s ears perked up backward.

Seeing the flattened ears, Dowoon’s eyes trembled slightly.

‘Father already… knew.’

Animal ears and tail on a human head.

He had never heard stories of such beings existing.

But…

“…Cute.”

Forgetting even the seriousness of the situation, Dowoon unconsciously voiced his thoughts.

That was understandable, because Moa, with her pink ears poking up sharply between her pale hair and her eyes wide with surprise, was absolutely adorable!

It was unusual, but there was no sense of rejection.

“Huh? Hehe…”

Similarly, Moa, having received praise, forgot the seriousness of the situation and reflexively grinned foolishly.

“Let’s keep this as our little secret.”

Jin Saheon placed his hand on Dowoon’s back and whispered.

“…Ahem.”

Dowoon quickly came to his senses at his father’s words.

‘What kind of disgraceful behavior is this.’

There had been an assassination attempt, and with the assassin lying unconscious, here they were calling her cute.

But looking again, those pink ears hiding behind Saheon and wiggling… objectively, they were just too adorable.

When Moa calmed her heart again and hid her ears and tail, he almost felt disappointed.

“I’ll keep quiet about it.”

“Good. It seems to me there’s no longer any need to go get tools, am I right?”

Jin Saheon finally checked with Moa to confirm the situation.

After carefully examining Yehui, Moa discovered that the severed black threads had vanished into thin air like vapor and nodded her head.

“Yes. I cut them off!”

A thrill ran through Jin Saheon’s heart at that moment.

He didn’t know exactly whether Moa’s power was divine or what kind of being she was.

However, a faint hope arose that the child’s mysterious and mighty power might someday be able to break his wife’s chains.

“My wife will be worried, so it would be better to clean up the entire situation first before going over.”

“We’re not going to Madam right now?”

“This situation looks suspicious no matter how you look at it, so I should examine the statue again.”

Jin Saheon’s eyes sharpened.

After Dowoon slung the limp Yehui over his shoulder, he took Moa back to the Statue Location.

Since the servants had cleaned everything up, the area in front of the statue was empty.

Jin Saheon approached the broken dragon’s torso.

While it appeared to be gleaming pure gold on the outside, the torn cross-section revealed a pitch-black interior.

“This is… Dowoon. Look at this.”

“Gasp…!”

Dowoon, who had laid Yehui on the ground using his outer garment as a cushion, came over and looked at the cross-section, gasping in shock.

An unbelievable scene was visible.

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