The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 78

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Chapter 78

Beyond the open door, Rin and the eunuch stood tall.

Rin’s face turned pale and rigid.

“What… is this?”

The scene unfolding before her eyes was a nightmare itself.

A house-sized shadow demon was growling toward Moa and Danhwi.

‘No wonder they said it was urgent news but nothing serious…!’

The other children who suddenly couldn’t come.

The message sent from the clan for no particular reason.

The place where that message was delivered was even very far from Gyeonganggung.

When she realized the Emperor was plotting something and returned, this was the state of things.

‘Moa can’t, no. Moa is…!’

Rin instinctively tried to enter to save Moa.

“Young Master of Saryeom! It’s dangerous!”

However, the eunuch blocked Rin’s path.

That eunuch was the Emperor’s spy who had called Rin out earlier.

“…Remember your role and exercise restraint.”

Rin’s role was ultimately that of a watcher.

Rin realized that her role in this sinister plot was nothing more than an extension of that.

The Emperor had placed her in this position because he wanted her to become a witness who observed this situation.

As she thought, the eunuch immediately shouted before fully grasping the situation inside.

“This is terrible! His Highness the Crown Prince has summoned a demon into the palace!”

At that cry, Moa’s tear-filled gaze momentarily shifted from the demon toward this direction.

‘Sister, it’s not true!’

Moa’s gaze seemed to plead like that.

Rin’s heart ached sharply the moment she met that gaze.

‘What should I do? The Emperor hasn’t stationed anyone capable of saving the children nearby.’

The Emperor’s intention was clear.

He didn’t care whether Moa lived or died in this place.

Unless she had abilities, Moa wasn’t an absolutely necessary card for the Emperor anyway.

There was even less reason to save her life because Moa hadn’t been able to completely subjugate Goseol to the Emperor even after a certain amount of time had passed.

‘No. Moa really does have abilities…!’

She just couldn’t show that to the Emperor.

Moreover, the bigger problem was that Rin herself would have difficulty saving Moa.

Rin was not a warrior.

Baeksa was also skilled at gathering information, but wasn’t a spirit beast helpful in combat.

“Sister, mister, please help me…!”

Moa looked this way and shouted loudly.

Then Baeksa tightly squeezed Rin’s arm from inside her sleeve.

As if saying they should save Moa right away.

“If I don’t do anything, the relationship between Jinryong Clan and Saryeom House will inevitably worsen. So…”

She quickly made excuses as if for the eunuch to hear and rushed into the pavilion.

“Bite!”

As soon as Rin finished speaking, Baeksa shot out from her sleeve.

Baeksa immediately charged toward the demon.

However, Baeksa’s attack, weakened by the cold blood disease, was indeed lacking in power.

In the end, it only resulted in the demon’s shadow being slightly torn.

The demon nonchalantly tried to pounce on the children as if toying with them.

“No…!”

Rin’s face contorted.

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-Keeeeek!

The demon let out a sharp scream and pounced on Moa.

“Moa!”

Danhwi threw his body to embrace Moa.

Sharp shadow thorns tore across Danhwi’s back.

The blue clothing that Moa had wondered until morning whether she would look upon fondly was torn along with his flesh.

“Ugh!”

“Brother!”

Moa screamed.

Blood flowed down from Danhwi’s back.

‘What should I do? What do I do?’

Moa instinctively knew that the eunuch standing at the door was not on her side.

In this crisis situation, instead of calling others or trying to save them, he was only making sounds cursing Danhwi with an observing gaze.

‘He’s, he’s on the Emperor’s side. That’s certain.’

Moa gritted her teeth.

[Moa, it’s better than getting hurt, so take out the car!]

Somi urgently shouted from inside the watch.

Somi was worried that even a single hair on Moa might get hurt.

Anxiety and despair kept flowing from Moa.

Anger at seeing the demon.

Fear that if she used her abilities, she would be dragged away by the Emperor.

Guilt toward Danhwi.

[Please! What if you die like this!]

Moa’s heart kept screaming, making even Somi’s heart ache.

She wanted to possess the car and save Moa on her own, but she couldn’t do so without permission.

Possessing the car as a Guardian Spirit was an act that required permission from within Moa’s heart.

“Father, Mother, Brother…”

Moa’s face was completely distorted because she couldn’t know which choice would be wise.

While she couldn’t act, Danhwi was gritting his teeth and not letting go of Moa.

Only to protect Moa from getting hurt.

“B-Brother, please let me go… That thing is following me, so I’ll run away…!”

The demon born from Moa using Danhwi as a medium only targeted Moa.

Moa’s heart was breaking because it seemed like Danhwi was sacrificing himself to protect her.

“It’s okay… stay still.”

Danhwi’s voice trembled.

However, while embracing Moa in a circle, only his face was smiling.

He was scared and in pain, but he was worried that Moa might be frightened.

“I, I don’t hurt at all. Something like this is nothing.”

His only friend, the child who had saved him.

If he couldn’t protect Moa, it felt like nothing would remain for him.

Danhwi stubbornly refused to let go even as Moa tried to push him away frantically.

Meanwhile, Danhwi’s back and body gradually became a mess like rags.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…!”

Rin also lost her usual composure in the face of a crisis she had never experienced before, only making meaningless responses.

“No… at this rate, everyone will die…!”

Moa squeezed her eyes shut.

The tears that had been pooling fell down with a patter.

If she used divine power, the Emperor would find out.

But if she didn’t use it, Danhwi would die.

Rin would definitely get hurt too.

‘Someone please save Danhwi oppa!’

Moa desperately wished.

And at the same moment.

‘Please protect Moa. Please….’

Danhwi also made the same wish.

“I… have no choice…!”

Just as Moa gritted her teeth and was about to grab the Bungbungka.

Bang!

With a thunderous roar, the pavilion’s pillars and roof were half destroyed.

Black feathers scattered wildly as if summoning darkness.

-Kiiiiiiaaaaa——!

Moa couldn’t believe her eyes.

It was Goseol.

Though no one had called it, it had flown all the way here from the distant Emperor’s Garden, breaking its chains.

The restraining chains hung broken from Goseol’s legs and wings.

“Goseol…!”

Moa was so shocked that she blankly called out to Goseol.

Goseol’s condition was different from usual.

It wasn’t the crazed appearance it showed before the Emperor, nor the gentle lamb-like appearance it showed before Moa.

Like a guardian spirit protecting its master, Goseol spread its wings wide, sheltering Danhwi and Moa behind it.

“How…?”

Danhwi looked up at Goseol with disbelieving eyes.

Goseol didn’t answer.

It simply charged fiercely toward the demon.

Golden flames bloomed from its black feathers.

-Ki, kikikigik!

The demon let out a sharp scream and lunged at Goseol.

Shadow thorns poured toward Goseol.

But Goseol didn’t dodge.

Golden flames that felt almost sacred burned away the demon’s shadows.

These flames mysteriously didn’t burn Moa, Danhwi, Rin, or any of the furnishings at all.

-Kigigigeuggeuk!

The demon screamed.

Every shadow that touched the flames was burned away.

This wicked seed resembling a goblin needle was created through dark alchemy.

Under Goseol’s golden flames that purified only wicked things, it couldn’t endure and disappeared.

-Kiiiii-!

Goseol let out one final loud cry.

Golden flames spread out explosively.

The demon couldn’t even scream and scattered as a handful of ash.

“…Is it over?”

Moa asked in a trembling voice.

Where the demon had been, only a strange object of black ash clumped in a seed shape remained.

Goseol slowly folded its wings and turned around.

Then it gently landed in front of Danhwi.

-Cooo….

It wasn’t a crazed cry.

It was a gentle sound, as if worried.

“Goseol…?”

Danhwi looked at Goseol blankly while bleeding.

Goseol was clearly close to Moa, so he couldn’t understand why it was looking at him first now.

For some reason, tears came to his eyes.

Something surged up from deep in his chest.

Something like an inexplicable longing.

It felt as if he had reunited with something he had lost long ago.

“…Thank you.”

Danhwi stroked Goseol’s head with a trembling hand.

Then Goseol closed its eyes and accepted Danhwi’s touch.

“I’m so relieved, really….”

Moa also wiped away tears of emotion and embraced both Danhwi and Goseol at the same time.

Rin watched the scene with narrowed eyes.

‘That….’

Goseol’s reaction to Danhwi was unusual.

Like a spirit beast meeting its original master.

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