The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 51

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Chapter 51

“Older Brother didn’t kill our parents! So why do you resent Older Brother? If our parents’ ghosts really existed, they’d go to Uncle Emperor!”

At Moa’s words that burst out refreshingly, Danhwi’s lips trembled.

“Because our parents wanted me… to remain as crown prince…”

“Why?”

“My divine power… is greater than Older Brother’s…”

“Then! It’s the fault of the person who lacks divine power!”

“They said Older Brother… was too cruel to become emperor…”

“Then he should have used his personality more gently! See, it’s not Older Brother’s fault!”

Frustrated, Moa pounded her chest and stomped one foot.

She put so much force into it that the floor dented.

“That’s…”

Danhwi muttered blankly, then slowly nodded his head.

“That’s right.”

Clever Danhwi realized that he was still trapped in the Emperor’s shackles.

He had thought that his parents regretted supporting him when they died.

He had only believed the words of the Emperor who killed his parents.

‘She’s right.’

Moa’s thinking was very logical.

Danhwi, who had no awareness that he had fallen victim to his brother’s gaslighting, couldn’t understand why he had been thinking and living this way.

“Then… what about the ghost around me?”

“Uh… that’s…”

Moa, who briefly thought about Kkabuyi and Danhwi’s story, hesitated, then seeing Danhwi’s expression darkening again, squeezed her eyes shut and shouted.

“It’s Kkabuyi! The one with pointy rabbit-like ears and a white-tipped tail.”

Danhwi’s breath caught.

The appearance Moa described matched Kkabuyi’s characteristics.

Danhwi swayed for a moment.

“You can see Kkabuyi…?”

“Yeah. When Older Brother acts like that, he gets all restless. Earlier he was barking and jumping around frantically.”

At Moa’s words, Danhwi reached out his trembling hand into the air.

He couldn’t grasp anything.

But earlier, Moa’s eyes had clearly seen Kkabuyi eagerly licking Danhwi’s hand.

“He doesn’t… hate me?”

Danhwi asked as if squeezing out the words. His voice was terribly cracked.

“I was weak… I was pathetic and couldn’t protect him. He died because of me.”

Even if he wasn’t sure about his parents, Danhwi bore some responsibility for Kkabuyi’s death.

After all, he was Kkabuyi’s master.

He should have risked his life to stop his brother.

If not that, then at least he shouldn’t have let his weakness be discovered.

“Oh come on, puppies don’t know about such things.”

Moa approached behind Danhwi and patted him with her small hand.

“He just likes Older Brother. He loved you so much. His tail was wagging like it might fall off.”

Love.

At that one word, Danhwi’s heart crumbled.

Danhwi lowered his head and wept.

Having been taught not to cry aloud, he bit his lips tightly as only dry, choking breaths escaped.

Moa silently continued to stroke Danhwi’s back.

After a long while.

Danhwi raised his head, roughly wiping his reddened eyes with his sleeve.

His ear tips were bright red from embarrassment.

“…Forget about this.”

“I’ll count this as another one of Older Brother’s secrets. Along with hiding the sword and being a crybaby.”

Moa crouched in front of Danhwi and held out her pinky finger.

“We’re accomplices now. No ratting each other out, okay?”

Partners in crime.

To Danhwi, those words sounded like the safest sanctuary in the world.

Danhwi hesitated, then carefully hooked his pinky finger with hers.

“…Yeah. We’re accomplices.”

Once the promise was made, Moa smiled with satisfaction.

“Now, since crying made you even hotter, let’s continue the conversation we were having earlier.”

“The conversation we were having earlier?”

“Oh my, I mean about Older Brother’s stomach ache.”

Moa glared at Danhwi as if asking how he could forget such a thing.

“That… what are you planning to do about that?”

“I’m going to fix it for you.”

Moa’s gaze slanted away from Danhwi toward the air.

-Sub Mission: Restore Danhwi’s divine power flow

‧Reward: ‘???’ upgrade recipe

Moa’s eyes quickly scanned the text floating in the air.

‘Thank goodness!’

Samyeongrok gives Moa problems she can solve, problems that must be solved immediately.

Knowing this well, Moa was delighted that she seemed able to save Danhwi.

‘I’ll definitely save Older Brother.’

Moa approached Danhwi with a determined expression.

But she hesitated and stopped just as she was about to reach out her hand.

‘Wait. What if I transform again if I just touch him?’

She still didn’t clearly know when she transformed into a cat.

But she remembered that when she touched Goseol and Danhwi, she felt something like divine power reacting inside her body before transforming.

‘It should be fine if I wear gloves and touch him, right?’

Moa pondered briefly, then placed her hand on her bracelet and imagined if there was anything that might help.

They were thin, durable blue surgical gloves that doctors often used in medical dramas.

“They appeared!”

“You…”

Danhwi froze seeing something appear from thin air.

However, Moa completely ignored this and put on the gloves that appeared.

‘Wow, they fit me perfectly!’

The blue gloves were exactly the right size for Moa’s maple leaf-sized hands.

Snap-!

The crisp sound of rubber wrapping around her wrist rang out.

Her tiny hands instantly turned blue. When she took out safety goggles and put them on her eyes, it became truly perfect.

Moa felt an elation as if she had become an even more real doctor and grinned.

“Now, I’m going to fix Older Brother! First, I need to see what the problem is.”

Danhwi found the blue hands a bit unfamiliar, but trusted Moa and remained still with his back straight.

Even so, when Moa carefully placed her hand on Danhwi’s chest, he couldn’t help but flinch and tremble.

Whooom-

The hot energy boiling up from inside Danhwi’s body could be felt through the gloves.

‘Let me see.’

Moa closed her eyes and concentrated on the massive stream flowing through Danhwi’s body.

‘It’s damaged all over the place…!’

With the naked eye, she had only felt that something was strange, but wearing the safety goggles definitely made it much clearer.

The circuits through which Danhwi’s divine power flowed were blocked or damaged, preventing smooth circulation.

An excessive amount had stagnated around his chest where divine power continuously surged, looking as if it might explode at any moment.

[This child’s divine power is increasing faster than his body can grow. That must have been incredibly painful…?]

Like learning from an experienced master, Moa listened carefully to Somi’s advice.

‘Is having too much the problem?’

[There’s too much, and the pathways this power flows through have collapsed—that’s also a problem.]

Moa pondered for a moment before asking Somi.

‘Then, can’t we draw out what’s overflowing to the outside?’

[We could try that. After drawing out a lot, we should be able to heal those pathways.]

Moa finished her diagnosis and opened her eyes wide.

Danhwi, who had been watching Moa’s serious, concentrated expression as if entranced, suddenly startled.

“Brother, where is your spirit beast?”

Moa’s treatment method involved healing the spirit beast that would have similar problems, thereby curing the owner.

Naturally, she had to find the spirit beast, but Danhwi shook his head.

“Imperial family members don’t have spirit beasts. Only the one who becomes Emperor receives a spirit beast upon ascension.”

“What?!”

This was like a bolt from the blue for Moa.

‘How can I heal him without a spirit beast?’

Moa gaped in confusion.

However, Somi didn’t panic and instantly calmed Moa’s anxiety.

[The reason only spirit beasts can be treated is because of divine power. Spirit beasts can accept divine power, but humans aren’t born with it.]

Clever Moa realized what Somi was trying to explain and jumped up.

“I see! Brother can use divine power!”

This meant Moa’s treatment would work on Danhwi!

“It’s fortunate that brother is from the imperial family!”

“Me, me?”

Danhwi, who had only heard complaints and laments about why he was born into the imperial family, was bewildered by Moa’s innocent joy.

Not understanding why Moa had been confused and was now happy again, he simply smiled the same joyful smile as if infected by her mood.

‘I’m going to heal brother…!’

Moa imagined how this method might work and pulled items from her bracelet.

Then.

Pop-!

An object that looked like a small toy gun with a cup attached and a tube containing jelly-like medicine appeared.

“What’s that?”

“A pump to clear blockages! And this is glue to patch up holes.”

“…Glue?”

“Yes. The pathways inside brother’s body are a mess, so we need to do some construction work.”

Moa pushed up her safety goggles with determination.

“It might pull a little. Don’t be surprised.”

Moa reached for the hem of his clothes to get a better look at Danhwi’s chest, where the divine power appeared most severely clumped and blackened.

“H-how can I not be surprised!”

As his front garment was suddenly being undone, Danhwi hastily covered himself modestly with both hands.

Faced with the mysterious tools and Moa’s bold touch.

His pupils shook violently as if struck by an earthquake.

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