The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 63

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Chapter 63

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Inside the carriage heading to the Imperial Palace.

Jin Saheon was tightly holding Moa’s small hand, earnestly giving her instructions.

“Moa, please remember our promise. Something feels off about this.”

There was still plenty of time left until the date promised with the Emperor.

However, this time the interval wasn’t being maintained due to the excuse that Goseol was sick.

Jin Saheon had tried not to send Moa, but the Emperor made the ridiculous claim that Goseol fell ill right after Moa’s visit.

‘If she doesn’t come, he’ll consider that the child did something wrong…’

Jin Saheon ground his teeth.

In the end, he had no choice but to personally take Moa to the Imperial Palace.

“I can do well! You didn’t need to come, Dad.”

Moa clasped Jin Saheon’s hand in return and nodded resolutely.

However, Jin Saheon knew the child’s good heart.

When some problem actually arose, Moa might jump into doing the ‘right thing’ rather than looking after her own safety.

That’s why he decided to personally accompany this ominous trip to the Imperial Palace to protect the child.

“Doesn’t our daughter want to go on an outing to the Imperial Palace with Dad?”

“Mmm-hmm.”

At Jin Saheon’s question, Moa shook her head back and forth.

“Dad is busy though.”

At Moa’s mature words, Jin Saheon inwardly swallowed a sigh.

Before his long illness, Yeongang, who was the youngest child, was a child who easily threw tantrums and acted cute.

However, after falling ill and recovering, he suddenly seemed to mature… deprivation makes children grow up quickly.

Moa was also too mature and grown-up for a child due to deprivation.

Apart from acting cute, she had a tendency to be overly considerate of adults and other people’s thoughts.

‘She’s at an age where it would be perfectly fine to throw a tantrum and say she won’t go because she’s scared…’

When the whole family surrounded her saying it was dangerous and they had a bad feeling, she could have been scared, but Moa said she had no choice but to go since the Emperor called for her.

Jin Saheon watched Moa, who was making a dark face and swinging her feet for a moment, then patted the child’s head.

“Does Moa find studying fun?”

“Studying?”

Moa rolled her eyes around for a moment, then shook her head.

She remembered her older siblings lamenting that studying was such a boring thing.

“Dad feels the same way. If our daughter doesn’t take me along like this, the Elder Chairman and the chief steward will bully Dad.”

When he deliberately acted pitiful, Moa’s eyes widened.

The face of the vice-chairman who became the new Elder Chairman in place of the previously punished Elder Chairman came to mind.

‘He was a strict-looking grandfather.’

Was he bullying Dad for not working?

Moa thought she should scold the Elder Chairman and chief steward sternly next time she met them, telling them not to bully Dad.

And to reassure Jin Saheon, she burrowed into his arms and whispered.

“Dad, don’t worry. I’ll definitely keep our promise to hide my abilities.”

“Yes. If it’s dangerous, just cry instead. Then I’ll help you somehow.”

Moa obediently nodded her head.

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As soon as they arrived at the entrance to the Imperial Palace Garden, a murderous atmosphere greeted Moa.

Armed guards were guarding the entrance like an iron wall, and from beyond them came the bizarre cries of a beast.

“There will be a brief inspection.”

“What inspection?”

For someone of the Head of Jinryong Clan’s status, his face was practically identification itself.

Hearing this for the first time at the Imperial Palace he’d visited countless times, Jin Saheon’s eyebrows shot up diagonally.

“We received orders to strengthen the palace security since the cause of His Majesty’s worry is right ahead.”

The Guard Captain was firm.

There was nothing to say when the guards who had to protect the Emperor were strengthening security.

Jin Saheon eventually showed the Head of Jinryong Clan ring to prove his identity first, and underwent inspection to confirm he wasn’t carrying dangerous items.

Next came Moa’s turn.

“What is this, Miss Jin?”

The soldier searching Moa’s pocket discovered the toy car.

The watch on her arm was at least treated as a strangely shaped accessory, but the toy car was a completely unfamiliar object to the people here.

“This is a toy car.”

Moa pretended to roll an ambulance in the air.

The Guard Captain stopped the soldier who was about to return it at those words.

“If thrown, this could become a weapon. Confiscate it.”

The Guard Captain waved his hand.

It was a crisis. She might lose the toy car that could receive Somi’s support if needed.

Moa immediately deployed her ‘five-year-old ultimate technique.’

“Waaah! No!”

Moa grabbed the soldier’s pant leg and clung to it.

“That’s my car! It’s my toy! I can’t go in without my car because I’ll be scared! Waaah!”

Moa stamped her feet and threw a tantrum.

When the young lady of Jinryong Clan burst into loud wails inside the Imperial Palace, the eunuchs and soldiers standing around began murmuring in confusion.

The child was crying so pitifully that he felt like a complete villain for taking away just one toy.

“…Captain, it just looks like a toy, so let’s give it back. It’ll be more troublesome if she throws a tantrum saying she won’t go in without it.”

“Tsk.”

The captain looked down at the toy car with disapproving eyes.

The Emperor had told him to take away Moa’s personal belongings.

Especially items that seemed related to sorcery, without fail.

But thinking that a mere five-year-old’s toy couldn’t be anything significant, the captain returned the toy car to Moa.

“Hmph! I hate you uncles!”

Moa glared at them with teary eyes, then carefully put the toy car in her pocket.

[You’re totally award-worthy at acting.]

That was Somi’s praise.

Moa sniffled and looked up at Jin Saheon.

“Well then, I’ll go in.”

“Yes. Dad will stay here with these ‘uncles.'”

Jin Saheon affectionately saw her off while glaring at the guys who dared make Moa cry like he was looking at prey.

Moa, who entered the garden, looked at Goseol bound in chains.

Goseol’s eyes were bloodshot and bright red with burst blood vessels, and foam was dripping from its beak.

Unable to bear the pain, it had torn up all the surrounding ground, making the area look devastating.

“Please untie him quickly! Goseol is in pain, how can you leave him like that!”

When she got angry at the eunuch who followed, the eunuch quickly undid the seal with a frightened face and swiftly fled outside.

“Goseol!”

As if it couldn’t even hear Moa calling, Goseol was crying even more unresponsively than before.

It was the moment when Moa was about to approach to check its condition directly.

The watch flashed.

-Patient scan complete

-Diagnosis: Foreign object detected in right wing underarm area

‘Foreign object?’

Moa’s eyes narrowed.

With the watch taking on some of the burden of the thread network, Moa was constantly using her abilities.

When she focused on looking at Goseol’s underarm as it flailed and flapped, she saw a thin needle related to curses.

‘Why is a cursed needle stuck there?’

After thinking for a moment, Moa’s face slowly contorted.

[Oh no….]

Somi, who had also realized the cause of the problem, let out a small sigh.

Only the Emperor could cast such a curse.

So the Emperor had deliberately stuck a needle into Goseol to cause it pain in order to draw Moa out.

Using that as an excuse to see if Moa would use her abilities to save Goseol!

‘He’s a real villain!’

If the needle wasn’t removed, Goseol would continue to suffer.

However, since it was a cursed needle, it couldn’t be removed without using divine power.

[The Emperor is near the door!]

Somi spotted the Emperor and informed Moa.

Moa glanced back slightly.

No one was visible at the entrance.

‘He probably can’t see me from out there, right?’

[He’s probably waiting there to immediately detect it if you use your divine power.]

Moa glared at the garden entrance, feeling like she was trapped in a corner.

[Moa, I know it’s heartbreaking, but you can’t do it now.]

Somi stopped Moa from using her abilities.

If the Emperor found out that Moa possessed divine power, there was no telling what he might do.

Even if he let her go for now, if Moa visited the Imperial Palace alone to help Goseol without Jin Saheon, he might kidnap and hide her away.

Somi felt sorry as he sensed Moa’s anguish.

‘…I promised Dad.’

To hide my abilities no matter what.

So Moa knew that if she was a wise child, she should pretend to give up here.

Moa trembled with regret and curled up like a shrimp.

‘Isn’t there a good way to hide my abilities and still heal Goseol?’

As Moa agonized, the outline of the toy car took shape in her hand.

‘The toy car… That’s it!’

Moa’s face instantly brightened as she thought of a good solution.

Just then, Goseol, who had lost its reason after sensing the Emperor nearby, glared in this direction.

-Kieeeek!

Goseol instantly charged toward Moa.

Its sharp beak, which looked like it could pierce steel, came dangerously close to touching Moa’s body.

‘Somi!’

Moa transmitted her plan to Somi through thought while crouching down.

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