The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 92

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Chapter 92

The Emperor raised his hand and felt around his chest.

He had to confirm what he had lost.

Because he felt an overwhelming sense of dread.

‘What happened today?’

He immediately began searching his memories to identify the cause.

There must be something that had suddenly gone wrong.

“Ah.”

The Emperor stroked his chin as he suddenly remembered something he had forgotten.

‘Was that today?’

The order to teach Moa a lesson had already faded from the Emperor’s memory.

It wasn’t like he could capture Moa and exploit her abilities, so what importance could such common venting have?

It was just something to feel satisfaction about when receiving reports.

That was the extent of the Emperor’s awareness of it.

“Damn it all.”

He thought of the Saryeom House and Sasamyeong, then shot up from his seat.

He had instinctively sensed that something was wrong with his forbidden arts.

‘It’s disappearing…’

He could feel part of his power unable to return and slowly being extinguished.

“How dare they touch what belongs to me?!”

The Emperor slammed his desk.

Not knowing about Somi, he was certain Jin Saheon had done something.

‘I must stop this somehow.’

He couldn’t lose Sasamyeong.

Sasamyeong was the only Guardian Spirit the Emperor had secured.

Another opportunity as precious as gold to subjugate a Guardian Spirit wouldn’t come again.

And if the Twelve Families Council were to convene, he would need it as an important pawn to monitor the movements of other Guardian Spirits.

“I must provide support somehow.”

The Emperor muttered.

Whether through divine power or forbidden arts, he had to strengthen Sasamyeong somehow.

For that.

“Bring Danhwi.”

“I obey your command.”

Following the furious Emperor’s order, Danhwi was brought before the Emperor in an instant.

Though his injuries hadn’t fully healed, Danhwi couldn’t defy the Emperor’s summons and quietly entered the room.

“You called for me?”

“Come closer.”

Danhwi approached and hesitated momentarily upon seeing the Emperor’s eyes.

The Emperor’s gaze was strange.

Anxiety, anger, and an impatience as if being chased by something.

‘What’s happening?’

Danhwi instinctively realized the Emperor had called him to drain his power.

The fact that the Emperor was so desperate for power meant something was happening right now.

‘Something feels ominous today…’

The moment Danhwi felt wary.

The Emperor grabbed Danhwi’s shoulder.

Cold, strong hands gripped the boy’s shoulder firmly.

“Ugh…!”

Divine power began draining from Danhwi’s body.

“Stay quiet. It’ll be over soon.”

The Emperor said coldly.

He intended to extract Danhwi’s divine power and send it to Sasamyeong using forbidden arts.

‘It hurts…’

Danhwi squeezed his eyes shut in pain that felt like his entire body was being torn apart.

It felt like his soul was being ripped to shreds.

‘I have to endure…’

Thinking of him as merely a usurper, it was difficult to even tolerate the Emperor and remain in the same space.

Danhwi thought he should control himself internally, endure it, then quickly escape the room.

But then.

A strange sensation suddenly brushed past him.

‘Goseol…?’

The soul resonance with Goseol faintly echoed.

A feeling of unease, as if someone was in danger.

An inexplicable restlessness arose.

‘What is this?’

Danhwi bit his lip, enduring the vague tightness in his chest.

“Ugh, that bastard Jin Saheon…”

Feeling his power dissipate again, the Emperor placed his hand on his chest and muttered through gritted teeth.

“Touching Sasamyeong just to save one daughter? I’ll make him pay the price for his foolishness…!”

‘…!’

Danhwi’s eyes widened.

Jin Saheon’s daughter, Moa.

Was this ominous feeling because of Moa?

‘No.’

Danhwi’s eyes changed.

‘I won’t let you touch Moa or her family.’

The boy gritted his teeth.

Even if he got hurt or died, he couldn’t leave this tyrant alone.

Cold determination settled in Danhwi’s eyes as he looked up at the Emperor who was trying to harm Moa.

‘I probably won’t be unharmed either…’

If he forcibly twisted the draining divine power, the Emperor wouldn’t be unscathed either.

Danhwi reversed and twisted his divine power, pushing it back.

“What is this…!”

The Emperor’s eyes widened as he finally noticed the disturbance.

The divine power began running wild.

It flowed backward from Danhwi’s body through the Emperor’s hands.

“Kraaaaah!”

The Emperor screamed loudly as he directly faced the aggressive reverse flow of divine power.

The power circuits that had been receiving divine power and converting it through forbidden arts burned and were damaged.

“You, you bastard…!”

The Emperor roughly pushed Danhwi away.

But Danhwi desperately clung to the Emperor, not stopping the rampage of power.

“Ugh, uaaaaaaah-!”

The Emperor staggered and collapsed to the floor.

Blood poured from his mouth like a waterfall.

His hands trembled violently, and chills began coursing through his broken body.

‘Those, those eyes…!’

For the first time, the Emperor’s spine went cold seeing Danhwi’s expression.

From Danhwi, who was prepared for mutual destruction, emanated an intensity so powerful that even the Emperor couldn’t ignore it.

It was the first emotion he had ever felt toward Danhwi, whom he had always seen only as prey.

Danhwi was smiling happily as if he were content.

Just as much pain as the Emperor was feeling, Danhwi was also enduring unimaginable agony all the same.

However….

‘It hurts… but….’

If Moa is safe.

Then how could this not be good?

He could get revenge on the Emperor, and save both Moa and the father she loves.

‘Except that I might not be able to see Moa anymore….’

He felt a thread of regret, but even that feeling he tried to use to cling desperately to the Emperor.

“Let go of this! You, you…!”

The Emperor couldn’t even utter a curse, and realizing he had entered a place where he would die, he struggled wildly in resistance.

Was it because his will to live was so strong?

Finally, the Emperor was able to push Danhwi away.

Danhwi’s body rolled on the floor like a fallen leaf.

However, the Emperor was not unharmed either.

The surroundings were completely covered in blood, and he didn’t even have the strength to retaliate against Danhwi.

‘…Thank goodness.’

The anxious and urgent sensation he had felt earlier subsided a little.

Danhwi smiled faintly while collapsed.

The ceiling spun round and round.

His consciousness was fading away.

Even in the midst of this, his thoughts were directed toward only one person.

‘Moa.’

He remembered when they first met.

Her chattering voice that went meow this and meow that.

Looking at him with pity, applying medicine, and saving him….

‘Was it from then?’

No, he didn’t know when it started.

That kind of thing wasn’t important.

‘Just….’

A bloody breath escaped shortly from Danhwi’s mouth.

‘I like Moa.’

It wasn’t simple friendship.

It wasn’t just family-like affection.

It wasn’t only reverence for a savior.

This was.

‘Love.’

An emotion too early for a nine-year-old boy to realize.

But it was certain.

To protect Moa, it would be okay even if his own body was destroyed.

If that wasn’t love, then what would it be?

“His Majesty…! His Majesty’s sacred body…!”

The sound of eunuchs rushing to the Emperor rang out muffled, as if heard from underwater.

Everyone was horrified at the tragic scene of the Emperor and Crown Prince collapsed together, coughing up blood.

The Emperor, who could have explained the situation, had already been down for a long time.

Fortunately, both were not yet dead.

Though they were clearly each standing with one foot on the path to the underworld.

“Just in case, we must also take care of Crown Prince!”

One of the eunuchs instructed another person from beside the Emperor.

Though he was the Crown Prince whom the Emperor hated, if something happened to his sacred body, Danhwi would be the only heir.

If they prioritized the Emperor’s feelings and left him to die like this, causing problems, they would all lose their heads together.

In the end, Danhwi was also moved by the eunuchs.

***

At the same time, at Saryeom House.

The power that had been pouring into Sasamyeong, which had suddenly become vivid as if receiving strength from somewhere, was suddenly cut off.

[The power suddenly weakened!]

As the resistance of the black threads weakened, Sasamyeong, who had been fiercely holding out, couldn’t maintain it and sank down limply as if coiling.

[Ugh!]

Somi opened her mouth wide and began frantically swallowing the last remaining portion of black threads.

Watching this scene, Moa sighed with relief, then suddenly felt her heart turn cold and jumped in surprise.

‘It’s cold!’

Suddenly her chest became as chilly as if ice had frozen there.

Tears immediately welled up in Moa’s eyes as she placed her hand on her chest.

‘B-brother….’

Moa wore the crystal from High Cliff strung on a cord around her neck.

The crystal hidden inside her clothes had frozen like a sheet of ice.

‘What on earth happened?’

She couldn’t understand why a crisis had suddenly come to Danhwi, who should be at the Imperial Palace.

The situation was too urgent to whine and find out news about Danhwi.

While Moa was just stamping her feet….

[Burp.]

Just as Somi, who had finished eating all the black threads, let out a small burp.

“Oh my, you’re not crying because Father is too late, are you?”

“Moa! Gangah, Yunah!”

Jin Saheon and Jaseonghwa came flying down the stairs from above.

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