The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 46
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Chapter 46
Crash-! Thud! Thoom!
The brothers’ eyes widened in shock.
What poured out of Hongboki’s mouth wasn’t just simple luggage.
The finest silk, rare medicinal herbs, fist-sized gems and gold bars piled up like a mountain.
Separate from the promissory note Haemuson had given, this was the ‘sincerity’ that Haesoo had personally brought.
“Wh-what is all this?”
Yeongang stepped back to avoid stepping on a gem that had rolled to his feet, asking with a horrified expression.
“Accommodation fee. If it’s not enough, just say so. I’ll have them send more.”
Haesoo said indifferently while dusting himself off.
Yeongang couldn’t close his mouth, and even Jin Dowoon looked clearly flustered.
He clicked his tongue inwardly.
They say he finds hidden mineral veins with his exploration ability—just how much money does the Haejeo Family have?
Then a sudden thought occurred to him, and Jin Dowoon asked with a displeased expression.
“Just how long are you planning to stay that you brought this much?”
“Hmph.”
Haesoo noticed that the brothers were amazed by his overwhelming financial power and smiled victoriously.
“Then I’ll take that as an agreement. Give me the room right next to Moa’s. It’d be even better if you knocked through the wall to make a door.”
“Don’t be ridiculous! Who said you could do whatever you want!”
Yeongang started making a fuss again.
Money or not, giving him the room next to his little sister was an unacceptable matter.
“Oh my, Bokbok. Didn’t your stomach hurt?”
Moa, true to being the eye of the storm, was peacefully examining Hongboki’s belly with a calm expression.
***
Late afternoon, after the luggage was roughly sorted.
Moa, who had been sprawled out on the soft bed, fidgeted around before suddenly sitting up.
Jin Saheon had left to handle clan affairs, and her brothers had also reluctantly left to do their daily tasks.
Haesoo was still unpacking his luggage in the guest hall.
Moa swung her legs back and forth, then suddenly her eyes sparkled.
With people constantly by her side, she couldn’t calm down, but now that she was alone in her room, she remembered something she wanted to do.
‘That’s right, exploration!’
The ability that helps you go where you want to go.
There was a place she wanted to try her newly acquired ability.
“Somi, do you know how to use this? Why didn’t the pig grandfather tell me properly?”
Moa had kept chattering and asking how to use the ability until she left the ancestral shrine, but both the Guardian Spirit and the Haejeo Family members just looked troubled.
They only said she would know instinctively.
[Hmm, I don’t know much about other Guardian Spirits’ abilities either. Think about when you found that bronze incense burner.]
When Somi spoke uncertainly for the first time, Moa’s eyes widened as she recalled that situation.
“When the pig grandfather mentioned the incense burner, I thought ‘I wonder where that is?’ Then suddenly that box seemed to glow!”
It was an intuitive sensation, as if someone was telling her that the incense burner was in that box.
Hearing Moa’s words, Somi swished her tail and let out a long “hmm” sigh.
[Then try doing the same thing. If you think about what you want to find, maybe some method will come up?]
“You think so?”
After pondering briefly, Moa closed her eyes tightly and clasped her hands together.
It felt like this would make her earnestness bubble up more.
‘Now, where should I go to help Grandfather?’
Flash—
Something suddenly flashed in Moa’s mind.
It seemed like letters, or maybe a picture…
It was a unique sensation, as if something was guiding her, saying ‘Here it is!’
“The Imperial Palace?”
Having been there once before made it easier to recall.
Moa was certain she could find a way to help Grandfather if she went to the Imperial Palace, and she sprang up from her seat.
“I need to go to the Imperial Palace!”
It was a place she had to go anyway to keep her promise with the Emperor and meet Danhwi and Goseol.
Creak.
As soon as she made up her mind, Moa opened her door and rushed out into the corridor.
Yehui, who happened to be bringing refreshments for Moa, was startled and gripped the tray tightly. She almost dropped it.
“Miss? Why are you suddenly rushing out like… Oh my.”
Yehui’s face instantly turned red.
From lying around and fidgeting, Moa’s hair was sticking up like a lion’s mane.
But it was also quite cute in its own way, so Yehui had to try hard to restrain herself from fawning over her master.
“Sister Yehui! I need to go to the Imperial Palace.”
“…Pardon?”
Yehui’s hand, which had been setting down the tray after bringing Moa back into the room, stopped dead.
“The Imperial Palace? I thought the Master postponed that…”
“Yeah, but I have a reason to go now! I saw it clearly with my exploration.”
Moa said proudly, placing her hands on her hips with an “ahem.”
When her cute belly stuck out, Yehui almost hit the floor before catching herself with an “oh no.”
“Miss, if you go to the Imperial Palace, the Emperor will try to find fault with you.”
“What does finding fault mean?”
“He’ll keep his eyes peeled looking for anything you do wrong.”
At Yehui’s words, Moa answered with a smug expression.
“I’ll do the same thing and look for anything that bad uncle does wrong, so it’s fine!”
“No…”
Yehui sighed deeply and looked at Moa with determined eyes.
“Tuck in your waist!”
“Huh!”
Startled by the booming voice that suddenly came from Yehui’s mouth, Moa quickly pulled in her belly.
“Your shoulders are hunched!”
“Y-yes!”
Moa’s back straightened up.
With an awkward, mortified expression, Moa glanced at Yehui.
“Don’t stand on one leg!”
“Hiiing—!”
Moa whined as she put both feet down properly.
“This is basic. Until you learn proper etiquette, Miss, you cannot go to the Imperial Palace.”
“Wh-why not?”
“Because showing the proper demeanor of a noble family’s young lady is the first step to being able to set foot in the Imperial Palace!”
That wasn’t true. If the Emperor summoned her, she would have to go.
However, Yehui told a white lie to quickly teach Moa proper etiquette.
‘Right now, I can’t protect Miss by her side.’
She remembered having to wait helplessly in the Imperial Palace waiting room last time.
Yehui needed to protect Moa by her side, but if she couldn’t follow her inside, it would be meaningless.
First, she would teach her etiquette so no one could find fault with her.
‘I need to find a way to freely come and go within the Imperial Palace.’
A murderous glint appeared in Yehui’s eyes.
***
“Hey! I told you not to come in here!”
Yeongang’s shout upon meeting his nemesis echoed loudly around them.
Yeongang and Dowoon, who had returned after finishing their daily duties, encountered an unwelcome guest right in front of Moa’s room and frowned.
Haesoo was peering around the window of Moa’s room.
“What are you doing in front of the window?!”
“You said I can’t enter Naedan, right? This is outside Naedan.”
When told that outsiders shouldn’t freely enter and exit Naedan, Haesoo’s explanation was that he had thought to enter through the window instead.
“Then that makes it okay?”
“What do you mean okay?!”
Yeongang grabbed the back of his neck after hearing Haesoo’s shameless answer.
“Bear with it, Gangah. It’s not just for a day or two.”
Dowoon pressed his temples firmly while restraining his younger brother.
But Dowoon’s eyes weren’t kind either.
How dare he come and go from Moa’s room as if it were his own bedroom.
While the two glared disapprovingly, Haesoo slipped right into Moa’s room through the open window.
“We need to go in and kick him out.”
Yeongang, who was fuming, couldn’t bring himself to climb through the window like Haesoo, so he and Dowoon went around through the corridor and burst into the room.
“Hey! You right now… huh?”
However, Yeongang couldn’t finish his words. The scene inside the room was different from usual.
Moa, who should always be rolling around on the bed or playing while eating snacks, was today for some reason creaking around in the middle of the room.
With a thick book on her head, hands clasped together, stepping lightly… no, wobbling, wobbling.
Her gait was precarious as if she might fall at any moment.
“…Kid, what are you doing?”
When Yeongang asked in bewilderment, Moa moved her lips and whispered.
“Shh! Be quiet. I need to concentrate.”
“Concentrate? Books are meant to be read with your eyes.”
“Oh my! I’m practicing etiquette!”
Moa dodged the book that nearly fell on her feet and retorted solemnly.
“I’m going to the Imperial Palace!”
“…Where?”
“The Imperial Palace! I have business to attend to there. So I’m receiving special training from Sister Yehui.”
“What? His Majesty already told you to come?!”
The first to react to Moa’s bombshell declaration was, as expected, Yeongang.
“No way! How long has it been since you came home and you’re leaving again?”
“Gang is right. Did you get Father’s permission?”
Dowoon also chimed in with a serious face.
“Hmph, I’m going! I can only save Grandfather by going there!”
Moa stubbornly stamped her foot.
Then the book on her head swayed, but this time the special training seemed to have paid off as she surprisingly regained her balance and held steady again.
Haesoo’s expression turned cold as he watched this scene.
He had thought Moa was practicing walking unsteadily, but he didn’t know she was preparing to go to the Imperial Palace.
“The Imperial Palace…”
To him, the Imperial Palace was a place reeking with foul odors, a collection of terrible memories.
Haesoo quietly approached Dowoon and Yeongang.
“Even if she could save Grandfather…”
“We can’t send Moa away so suddenly like this.”
The two brothers, who had wavered at the mention of Grandfather, agreed that they couldn’t send young Moa to the Imperial Palace alone.
While the brothers were flustered and didn’t know what to do, Haesoo quietly whispered to them about devising a plan.
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