The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 30
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Chapter 30
It was Jin Saheon’s hand that touched Moa’s head.
After stroking her hair, he opened his mouth to comfort the child.
“As far as I know, the Emperor has never interfered with such matters before. There’s nothing to worry about.”
“Really?”
At Jin Saheon’s words, Moa pouted her lips and nodded her head.
She had been so heartbroken at the thought of losing the parents she had barely gained that her chin was covered with wrinkles like walnuts.
“Let’s tell the children about this while we’re at it. I’ll have them called.”
Jaseonghwa smiled softly at the father and daughter clinging together like one body and pulled the cord to summon a maid.
Soon, Dowoon and Yeongang, who had rushed over upon hearing the news, were greatly flustered to see Moa with a puffy, swollen face and hiccupping tears.
“What, what’s wrong, little one, who made you cry!”
Yeongang rushed over as if jumping and grabbed both of Moa’s cheeks.
When her cheeks were pressed, her eyes, already swollen from crying loudly, looked even more like a goldfish.
“Your cute face has become like a goldfish!”
Even among fish, he had chosen a goldfish because it looked cute to him.
“I’m not a fish!”
Moa glared fiercely and expressed her dissatisfaction.
“Stop, stop. Yoon, Gang, we called you because there’s something to discuss.”
Worried that Moa’s mood would worsen further, Jaseonghwa separated the two children and called her sons affectionately.
“Actually, we’ve been talking about adopting Moa. Moa agreed, but what do you think? Moa would become your little sister.”
At Jaseonghwa’s words, Dowoon and Yeongang’s eyes widened.
“R-really?”
It was something they had never thought of.
However, Dowoon soon broke into a bright smile and looked at Moa.
‘Big brother.’
Imagining the scene of calling Moa, who clung to him like a chick, ‘my little sister’ and lifting her up in his arms.
Dowoon nodded without hesitation.
“What about you, Gang?”
However, for some reason, Yeongang’s expression had darkened a little.
Since he followed Moa around and took care of her tremendously, they had expected Yeongang to be the first to accept her.
Jin Saheon looked worriedly at the dark cloud that had formed on his youngest son’s face.
“Gang. It’s okay to speak honestly.”
Jaseonghwa subtly signaled for Jin Saheon to cover Moa’s ears and opened her arms to her son.
Yeongang approached hesitantly, then plopped down on the floor and leaned his face against Jaseonghwa’s knee.
“But, but. If that happens. Mother has just barely gotten back up.”
As she gently stroked her rambling son’s head, she could feel her knee becoming warm and damp as Yeongang quietly shed tears.
“What if Mother only likes Moa…”
Of course, Yeongang would also cherish Moa, who would become his youngest sister, but in one corner of his heart was the worry of losing his parents’ affection.
Yeongang was only eleven years old.
Jaseonghwa keenly felt that after she had collapsed, the child had not been able to grow properly.
This was the first time the child, who still desperately needed his mother’s touch, was acting spoiled since she had awakened.
Feeling like they were witnessing the traces of the Emperor’s schemes clawing through their family, both spouses had to swallow their anger.
“Gang. Do you think Mother loves you and your brother differently?”
“…No.”
“When your brother was born, Mother dug a well in her heart. It was a well where love for your brother would spring forth. And when you were born, I didn’t split that well in half.”
When Yeongang was born, a separate well where love for Yeongang would spring forth was created.
Clever Yeongang immediately understood what Jaseonghwa was saying.
“Then, for the little one… will a well for loving Moa also be created?”
“Of course, it’s already been created.”
At the words that it wasn’t about splitting Mother’s heart in half, but that a new heart had been created, Yeongang rubbed his face with his hands.
Yeongang immediately turned around and looked at Moa.
He could see Moa making an extremely anxious expression, worried that he might not accept her.
‘I don’t like seeing that little one’s face like that.’
Moa should be teasing him and laughing cheerfully as usual.
That was Yeongang’s little one.
Yeongang wiped away the rest of his tears and stood up maturely.
“I also have separate wells for Father, Mother, and big brother. And now I have a well for Moa too.”
The couple’s faces brightened as they realized the child had accepted Moa.
Moa saw a golden thread flash! from her body and embed itself in her brothers’ bodies.
“Hooray!”
Moa jumped up, pushed Jin Saheon aside, and ran to Yeongang.
“Big brother, thank you! I love you too!”
Then she gave Yeongang a kiss on the cheek.
Yeongang’s face instantly turned bright red after receiving his first kiss from his little sister.
Yeongang covered the cheek that had been kissed with his hand and blinked his eyes.
“You, you, you… when did I say I loved you!”
“You already dug the well!”
Hee hee hee.
Along with Moa’s tinkling laughter.
The new family was firmly united.
After the family’s welcome ended, Jin Saheon and Dowoon moved to the next room.
There sat Yehui, who had regained consciousness, staring blankly.
She was trembling at the fact that she was alive, and that the curse that had weighed down her body had disappeared.
“Are you conscious?”
“…Master.”
As soon as Yehui saw Jin Saheon, she got down from the bed and banged her head on the floor.
“Please kill me. I have committed an unforgivable sin.”
“It’s not your sin. You were merely controlled by a curse.”
“However…”
As Yehui sobbed, Moa, who had been hiding behind Jin Saheon, came running out.
“Sister!”
“Mo, Moa…”
“Here, eat this. Somi says it will help.”
Moa extended her small hand.
In it, a star-shaped pill was sparkling.
It was a painkiller she had used before, taken from a medicine bottle in the first aid kit.
‘It’s for spirit creatures, but they said humans can eat it too! It should have some effect.’
Unlike Dowoon who had been in extreme pain, it would be enough to block simple pain in the arm.
As Moa shook her hand as if telling her to take it quickly, thick teardrops fell from Yehui’s eyes.
“I saw that sister kept trying not to do it. That’s why your arm hurts, right? Eat this and don’t be in pain.”
Moa’s keen observation was sharp enough to notice that Yehui’s arm was not in perfect condition.
It was pain that had developed from frantically resisting the control of the black thread.
“Ah…”
Yehui let out a small sigh.
The Emperor who had tried to use her as a tool and discard her, and this small child who saved her and worried about her.
She felt she knew where she should dedicate her life.
“…I swear.”
The venom disappeared from Yehui’s eyes, and a cool determination filled them.
“Master may kill me right now and I would have nothing to say, but until then, my remaining life belongs to Moa, no… to the young lady.”
At that moment, Moa saw a thin thread extending from Yehui come to her and wrap around her smoothly.
It was a silver thread that shone loyally, replacing the ominous black thread that Yehui had lost.
“…You were merely manipulated, and I don’t think you committed any sin. However.”
“Yes….”
“If you devote your life to Moa in atonement, I will accept that.”
“Thank you, thank you…!”
Yehui bowed her head again and repeatedly expressed her gratitude.
It was clearly a decision made considering that she had brought Master Seon’s token and was a victim girl who had been manipulated.
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to cast her out immediately, calling her ominous.
The fact that he would keep her in this house meant he would protect her when the Emperor tried to cut ties and dispose of her, which she couldn’t fail to understand.
“Thank you, Master! Miss!”
Though she didn’t yet understand much about loyalty, Moa somehow felt the seed of responsibility.
“Sister, your face is a mess! Let’s go get pretty again!”
Moa approached briskly, grabbed Yehui’s wrist, and urged her to go wash up.
Along with her chattering voice saying that Sehui would wash her clean and give her pretty clothes too.
The two children quickly disappeared.
Jin Saheon and Dowoon, who remained in the room afterward, fell into heavy silence.
“Father, shouldn’t we overturn the Imperial Palace immediately?”
Dowoon asked with a boiling voice.
“With this statue and Bukgung Yeohi as witnesses, we have sufficient justification to strike at the Emperor.”
“No, it’s insufficient.”
Jin Saheon coldly shook his head.
“In politics, one must never lose cold composure.”
He looked at his successor and sternly admonished him.
Dowoon saw Jin Saheon’s blazing eyes and realized.
The fact that his father wasn’t showing a calm appearance because he wasn’t angry.
“The Emperor is like a snake. If we present the statue, he’ll claim traitors switched it midway and cut ties, and if Yehui testifies, he’ll behead her on the spot, saying a mad woman is insulting the Imperial Court.”
“…!”
“None of that would be a decisive blow to take the Emperor’s head. If we move rashly, we might instead be framed for treason and endanger the entire clan.”
It was frustrating but true.
The Emperor was someone who had spent years scheming to bring down the Jinryong Clan.
A half-hearted attack wouldn’t work.
“Then what should we do? We can’t just leave Grandfather like that….”
“Now is not the time. But….”
Jin Saheon’s eyes gleamed fiercely.
“We can keep watch.”
“Keep watch, you mean….”
“Go get Moa’s adoption seal, and we’ll need to confirm what schemes he’s plotting from now on.”
Jin Saheon silently glared out the window toward the north, where the Imperial Palace lay.
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