The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 91

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Chapter 91

A peaceful manor.

Children laughing and chattering.

A warm midday, the time of coiling up for an afternoon nap.

A gentle breeze that wasn’t too hot blowing softly to warm the body, and the sound of chatter like a lullaby…

‘Happy times…’

Moa felt a sudden warm happiness from someone’s memory that flashed through her mind.

But soon.

‘Ahhhhh…!’

A splitting headache rushed over her.

And at the same time, the flow of memories flooding in changed.

She felt lukewarm hands that had lost the ability to regulate temperature due to dying.

A strange sensation that was both limp and wooden like a piece of wood touched against scales.

“Sasamyeong-nim.”

[Don’t speak.]

Sorrow, despair, anger, helplessness…

Why is human life so fleeting and short?

Though he had resolved never to give his heart again, why did he keep giving his heart over and over?

“Sasamyeong-nim… my clan and my child…”

[I will. Don’t worry and… if you leave regrets behind, you won’t be able to go to a good place.]

The old man’s blackened, dying eyes slowly closed and opened repeatedly.

“No… no… just once…”

The old man’s face grew larger and larger.

No, it hadn’t grown larger. Sasamyeong had moved closer to hear his voice better.

Like a candle before a typhoon, the old man’s voice was faint.

“…Follow your heart.”

With his last words, the old man’s hand dropped limply.

Along with a breaking heart, the realization that Sasamyeong felt at that moment was also conveyed to Moa.

Sasamyeong was bound to Saryeom House according to his duty as a guardian spirit.

He was an existence that could only act altruistically.

The old man who had worried about his clan and children encouraged Sasamyeong’s selfish heart in his final moments.

Sasamyeong couldn’t leave his side for a long time, until the old man’s handful of warmth disappeared.

[I will protect him.]

[The child you left behind.]

[For your sake.]

With Sasamyeong’s resolve, the memory soon changed again.

In the darkness.

The man who had inherited the position of head of the manor after his father’s death was having a conversation with someone.

It was the current head of the manor, Rin’s father, and the Emperor.

“Haven’t you ever thought about it? That the Heavenly Deity sent down guardian spirits for the sake of the clan… that thought. That humans worshipped what were merely tools…”

The Emperor whispered dangerous thoughts, reversing the order of truth.

And hearing this, one side of the head of the manor’s face was illuminated as he harbored resentment against the guardian spirit.

“But Sasamyeong, far from helping you, has only passed down a terrible hereditary disease.”

“Kugh… Your Majesty, I will offer everything I have, so please help me.”

“Good. In exchange, I will cure your disease.”

Sasamyeong appeared at the dangerous transaction site.

[You’re not in your right mind. Do you know what you’re selling right now?!]

Sasamyeong painfully shouted at the son who had forgotten his father who worried about the clan and children even while dying.

[That’s a curse. Stop it!]

The head of the manor turned around at Sasamyeong’s interference.

His eyes were cold.

“But Sasamyeong-nim. This heavenly punishment that you couldn’t cure, His Majesty says he can cure it. If I stop this transaction, will you cure it for me?”

[That is…]

“Of course it would be impossible for you! This cold blood disease is a disease that resembles your constitution, created while you protected Saryeom House!”

The reason why the hereditary disease called cold blood disease arose in Saryeom House was simple.

It had come to resemble the constitution of the snake guardian spirit, Sasamyeong, who was a cold-blooded animal.

“What kind of guardian spirit are you, giving us something like this!”

The sound of something breaking could be heard from deep in his heart.

‘The child you loved so much treats me like this.’

The clan he had protected for hundreds of years.

The head of that clan hated him.

‘Sasamyeong-nim! This child is my first child! The Master of Saryeom House has been born!’

The old man’s voice came to mind.

The voice full of joy as he cried out that his first child had been born…

The child who had once lovingly laughed, cried, and run around.

“I will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. Sasamyeong, the clan, my child, whatever it is, I don’t care. As long as you can take away this pain!”

‘Sasamyeong-nim! I want to nap here too!’

Beyond the voice selling him out, the image of the child from his childhood innocently laughing and asking to bask in the sun together came to mind.

It was futile.

The years he had endured, the promise he had tried to keep, the happy times.

Everything had become meaningless.

‘…Fine.’

‘There’s no reason to endure anymore.’

At that moment.

Something black seeped into the gap in his heart.

When the long memory fantasy ended, tears streamed down Moa’s eyes.

‘Sasamyeong-nim…’

So this is how much it hurt. This is how lonely and miserable it was.

Being abandoned by someone you trusted was this sad.

‘I’ll help you.’

Moa cried out inwardly.

‘I’ll free you. I promise!’

But then.

The black thing rushed in along with the memories.

“Heuuk…!”

The forbidden technique embedded in Sasamyeong tried to seep into Moa as well.

It was because Moa had peered into the memories and become too synchronized.

Black threads climbed up Moa’s hands.

Moa tried to pull her hands away, but the connection had become too deep to easily break free.

“Kid!”

Yeongang’s voice was heard from far away.

It was faint, like shouting from across a great river.

“Damn it, I can’t get close!”

Jin Dowoon also cried out in a trembling voice, flustered.

Black fog was blocking Moa and the group.

The black threads that normally couldn’t be seen were clearly visible to everyone, perhaps because they had condensed while containing Sasamyeong’s energy.

They looked dangerous and evil, as if no one should touch them.

“Moa! Snap out of it!”

Jin Dowoon urgently shouted.

Rin also flailed toward Moa with a pale face.

However, Moa couldn’t answer.

The black thread was climbing past her wrist up to her elbow.

[Moa!]

Somi flew over to Moa, abandoning even her hover car, and shouted.

[Moa, answer me!]

But Moa couldn’t respond.

Her vision blurred, and her consciousness gradually faded away.

[…This is.]

Somi looked at the black thread wrapped around Moa’s arm.

A rotten smell hit Somi’s pink nose.

A disgusting, evil smell.

It was the smell coming from the black thread entwining Moa.

[How dare.]

Somi’s eyes blazed.

Somi’s eyes, which had always been warm like amber, froze sharply.

[How dare you touch my child.]

Something boiled up from within her body.

Something that had been sleeping for a long time.

Something hidden deep in her instincts.

It was the aura of a predator.

To protect her one and only beloved child-

Starlight burst forth from Somi’s body.

-The Guardian Spirit transcends its own limits.

-Guardian Spirit Growth: Stage 4

·Digestion ability unlocked

An even more divine aura surrounded Somi’s body.

[Evil things.]

Somi’s voice also changed, becoming low and deep.

[I will devour them all.]

Somi’s mouth opened wide.

Her small mouth quickly became dark as a black hole.

The black thread wrapped around Moa’s arm trembled.

The black thread that had desperately clung to her arm shook violently, and then.

Swoooosh-

It was sucked into Somi’s mouth.

A cat never lets go of what it has caught in its mouth.

Soon, gulp.

Somi swallowed the black thread.

“Haa, haa…”

As the thread disappeared, Moa breathed heavily.

Moa, who had regained consciousness, turned her head.

“Somi, Somi did…”

She could feel that her beloved friend had done something.

[Ugh…]

Somi staggered for a moment and grimaced.

[Really tastes awful…]

“Somi! Are you okay?!”

[Wait… I need to rest…]

Somi swayed again.

But without collapsing, she turned her head toward Sasamyeong.

Countless black threads wrapped around the giant snake’s body.

She had to swallow all of those for Moa to be safe.

[I’ll swallow them all.]

“B-but… you went ugh! just from swallowing a little. I can cut them!”

[They’re too tangled in the scales. And it’s dangerous, so you rest over there.]

Somi pushed Moa’s back toward her brothers and Rin.

Everyone was dumbfounded as Moa, who hadn’t been able to regain her senses, suddenly became fine.

Only her brothers, who knew about Somi, roughly understood and simply embraced Moa.

[I’ll make them pay for touching my child.]

For that, she could endure the disgust.

Somi leaped toward Sasamyeong.

The tiny cat Guardian Spirit, several times smaller than the giant snake, opened her mouth wide.

She began sucking in the black threads and devouring them frantically.

[Kiiiiiek-!]

Sasamyeong screamed.

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Meanwhile, far away at the Imperial Palace.

“…Urgh!”

The Emperor suddenly clutched his chest.

He felt as if a part of himself, something, was being destroyed.

“What is this…”

An inexplicable sense of loss.

Something important had not returned.

“Your Majesty, are you feeling unwell?”

The Emperor didn’t answer the eunuch’s question.

Normally, even if a spell was broken, the power would return to its original owner.

But the power that Somi had devoured was different.

That much had completely disappeared from this world.

‘Why do I feel so terrible.’

He didn’t know yet.

The fact that what had destroyed his power was just a small cat less than three spans long.

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