The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 55

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Chapter 55

Inside the open chest, a writhing foreign substance could be seen on top of the blackened heart.

[Ugh, disgusting! What is that thing!]

Somi recoiled in disgust, her fur standing on end.

What had taken root in the heart was a mass covered in sticky black liquid.

Like a living parasite, it contracted and expanded with each heartbeat, spewing out toxic energy.

Startled by its extremely disgusting appearance, Somi quickly backed away.

“It’s ugly…”

However, fortunately for Moa’s vision, it only appeared as an ugly germ character from a brightly colored children’s cartoon.

“Hmph, ugly Germ Man!”

Every time Germ Man stabbed the pink heart-shaped heart with his trident, black toxic energy spewed out in real-time like a scene from a cartoon.

‘That thing, because of that thing…!’

Because the evil Germ Man existed in this world, Moa had to do annoying tooth brushing every day.

How unfair it felt when the kindergarten teacher said that Germ Man caused cavities that made teeth hurt.

But now he was even tormenting Grandfather’s heart!

Moa, harboring resentment, picked up a yellow plastic forceps.

“Hiyah!”

Moa tried to precisely grab Germ Man’s body with the forceps and pull him out with a pop.

-Kiiiieeek!

Then the spirit inside the toxic mass screamed and frantically stabbed the heart with its trident.

It was a desperate struggle as if threatening to burst the host’s heart if anyone touched it.

“Ow! The sound is prickly!”

Moa shrank back from the sharp scream that made her ears ring.

Seeing Germ Man, who the spirit had transformed into, resist made her even more displeased.

‘It’s hard to catch.’

It reminded her of moving beans with chopsticks.

Seeing how well it escaped like beans rolling around, this method wouldn’t work.

‘Let me see…’

Moa calmly surveyed the tools floating in the air.

She planned to make it fall off by itself.

Following Moa’s will, one of the floating tools flew into her hand. It was a suction device that resembled a vacuum cleaner.

“Hmph, you can’t resist this!”

Moa placed the suction device against Germ Man’s surface.

Whirr!

With a cheerful sound, the sticky black toxic energy was sucked in.

-Kyaaah!

As the toxic energy cleared like removing a mask, Germ Man’s appearance changed into a small dragon shape.

The moment the true form was revealed, the spirit’s grip on the heart weakened.

“Hiyah!”

Now’s the time!

Moa precisely grabbed the spirit’s body with the forceps and snatched it up in one swift motion.

Pop!

With a cheerful sound like opening a bottle cap, the black mass that had been embedded in the heart fell away.

[Got it!]

Along with Somi’s cheer, Moa dropped the spirit into a disinfectant dish with a splash.

The spirit that fell into the rippling disinfectant immediately became quiet.

-Suturing is required.

The AI called Moa as if telling her to focus on Jin Wonbaek’s open chest.

There was a gaping hole near the heart where the spirit had been extracted.

“But I can’t sew?”

Moa knew what suturing was.

It was that thing where you sew with thread and needle, and later the flesh grows back together.

It was still too difficult a motion for Moa’s short hands.

[Use this!]

Somi pointed to newly appeared tools. A stapler and spray.

[If you stamp this like a seal, the flesh will stick together. And if you spray between the gaps, new flesh will grow!]

“Ooh!”

Moa clapped her hands.

She could see at a glance that it was a tool that could replace difficult sewing.

Moa sat beside Grandfather’s left chest and pulled the flesh on the opposite side.

When she brought the stapler to the gaping chest in that position, a staple was inserted as if reading Moa’s thoughts, holding the flesh together.

Click, click, click.

After stapling four or five places up and down, the gaping chest was closed.

When she sprayed between the gaps that were still open in that state.

“New flesh really sprouted!”

As it was smoothly sutured, the staples also disappeared, becoming completely smooth skin.

It was a perfect finish without a single scar remaining.

[It’s fortunate that small medicines like this can be used on people too, right?]

It was truly fortunate that the disaster of having to call someone else to close the open chest didn’t happen.

Moa let out a sigh of relief.

After completing Jin Wonbaek’s open-chest surgery, the game-like vision changed again.

Grandfather was lying there without a single scar.

Moa first covered Grandfather with a blanket that had fallen nearby so he wouldn’t be cold, then looked at the disinfectant dish where the small spirit was bathing.

-Mmmmph…

Groaning sounds came from inside the dish.

In the clear disinfectant with all the black toxic energy washed away, a plump Baby Dragon was sleeping.

“Oh? How cute!”

Moa’s eyes sparkled.

Germ Man’s appearance was nowhere to be seen, and a cute Baby Dragon with gray scales was lying there weakly.

It seemed to have exhausted its strength from suffering under the curse for a long time.

“You were in a lot of pain too, weren’t you? It’s okay now.”

When Moa spoke as if comforting the dragon, the watch output audio as if it wasn’t over yet.

-Toxic energy is still detected in the subject’s body.

-Recommendation: Antibiotic injection

“Huh? Still?”

Moa made a pitiful expression seeing the injection recommendation.

Though it was a colorful cute toy syringe, it looked somewhat large for the Baby Dragon.

“Oh dear…”

Thinking it was fortunate she wasn’t the one getting the shot, Moa picked up the syringe.

Golden light leaked from inside the yellow syringe.

“They say this one shot will cure everything completely. I’ll blow on it so it won’t hurt~!”

Moa blew air while going “hoo hoo,” then placed the syringe against the Baby Dragon’s body and inserted it.

-Kyuuuuu!

Then the Baby Dragon, writhing greatly, suddenly opened its eyes.

-Kyu, kyuung?

Small cries that seemed grateful followed.

“Huh? Were you originally white?”

Moa looked down curiously at the dragon that had turned completely white once the internal toxic energy disappeared.

-Kyu!

As the dragon answered, rough breathing sounds came from beside them.

“Huh, hah…!”

Jin Wonbaek, who had been lying there like a corpse, took a deep breath and opened his eyes wide.

Like someone who had been submerged in deep water and finally surfaced, he greedily gulped down air.

“What is… this…?”

Jin Wonbaek blinked his eyes in bewilderment.

The hellish burning pain had disappeared.

Blood was flowing through his arms and legs that had been heavy as lead, and his blocked energy channels felt completely cleared.

Was this a dream? Or had he finally died and arrived in the afterlife?

He looked around with trembling eyes.

What entered his vision was a gentle light illuminating the darkness, and a small child standing within that light.

The child was holding his spirit creature, the White Dragon, in her arms.

The sight was so surreal that Jin Wonbaek opened his mouth in a daze.

“You are…?”

Jin Wonbaek muttered with a stunned expression.

Moa wiped her sweat-soaked face with her sleeve.

As the surgery ended, the toy tools had somehow slipped back into her watch.

Moa smiled brightly and crinkled the corners of her eyes cheerfully.

“Grandfather! Nice to meet you!”

Then, in her joy, she threw herself into Jin Wonbaek’s arms.

At the word “grandfather,” Jin Wonbaek’s eyebrows trembled slightly.

He had thought he had already lost the grandchildren who would call him that.

“You, you shouldn’t come near me… Hmm?”

To think she would embrace him so naturally when he was rotting and hideously festering…

Startled, Jin Wonbaek tried to wave his arms and push Moa away.

But seeing his own hand, which had grown new flesh and become clean instead, he was shocked and closed his mouth tightly.

***

Meanwhile, at Naedan.

Though the night was deep, Jin Saheon couldn’t fall asleep.

Strangely, his heart was pounding and he felt anxious.

Something must have happened at the Imperial Palace, as Moa had returned home saying she was tired and went to her room without even eating dinner.

That must be why he felt this unease.

‘Let me check if she’s sleeping well.’

Seeing the child would calm this restless heart.

Jin Saheon got up abruptly and headed to his daughter’s room.

When he carefully opened the door, he saw the dark room.

And an empty bed greeted him.

“Moa!”

Jin Saheon’s face turned pale as he quickly looked around the room.

The child had disappeared.

“No!”

Jin Saheon rushed out to the Inner Courtyard Corridor without even putting on his shoes properly.

The order to find the suddenly missing youngest miss was immediately conveyed to the night guards.

As they searched everywhere for Moa, all the household members of Jinryong Clan who had been sleeping in the middle of the night had to wake up drowsily.

“Miss Moa!”

“Moa!”

People worried that Moa might have been kidnapped, and even Jaseonghwa came out in tears to search for the child.

Everyone made a commotion searching for Moa.

It was Yehui who discovered the child’s footprints in the flower bed.

The searchers began to investigate around Moa’s footprints.

The trail led to the annex.

Only then did Jin Saheon realize that the child had broken the prohibition and gone to see her grandfather, and his face turned pale.

After housing Master Seon Jin Wonbaek in the annex, even the guards couldn’t guard that place due to the naturally occurring poison.

If a young child had gone there, it wouldn’t be strange if she had collapsed, unable to withstand the poison.

“No!”

Knowing that no one could endure it, Jin Saheon stopped the searching household members and rushed into the annex.

The moment he entered the annex, Jin Saheon instinctively held his breath.

The poison that had filled the annex so thickly it could be felt from outside had mysteriously thinned.

And what he encountered there was.

“Hmm… the child won’t let go.”

It was Jin Wonbaek, tightly bound with sealing tools. And with her arms around his neck, Moa was sleeping soundly.

“I couldn’t wake her up.”

Jin Wonbaek wore an awkward expression.

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