The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 98

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Chapter 98

“Wait!”

As Moa rushed forward, the man who had been sitting hastily reached out his hand to stop her.

But the moment he stood up, one of his legs wobbled.

While he limped and tried to regain his balance, Moa was already kneeling beside Danhwi.

“Oppa, oppa…!”

Danhwi’s face was pale.

Blood stains trickled from the corner of his mouth.

His breathing was so weak that his chest seemed motionless.

“Who are you people?”

The young man asked warily.

“Then who are you?”

Jin Dowoon stood behind Moa with his arms crossed, glaring at the man as he asked.

Seeing Jin Dowoon, who despite being disheveled from battle was fundamentally wearing luxurious clothing, the man flinched briefly before obediently answering.

“I am Siheon, a physician from the Imperial Medical Institute.”

“A physician. Where are the other court physicians? Are you the only one treating His Highness the Crown Prince?”

“They only told me to move His Highness here… Everyone else went to His Majesty the Emperor.”

Siheon’s complexion was dark as he said this.

To think that only a mere physician was by the side of the Crown Prince who was hovering between life and death.

Physicians were apprentices who assisted court physicians.

They were in a position no different from palace maids, not yet having become official medical officers.

“I, I’m just a physician… There’s a limit to what I can do…”

Siheon’s blood-stained hands trembled.

He had just been sitting in despair, feeling there was nothing he could do for the Crown Prince.

“…Thank you, sir.”

Moa said tearfully.

“For staying with oppa… no, His Highness the Crown Prince and not leaving him alone.”

Siheon looked at Moa for a moment.

He could feel sincerity in the small child’s eyes.

Who exactly was this child to call His Highness the Crown Prince ‘oppa’?

“You should come out for a moment. I have something to ask you.”

Jin Dowoon glanced at Moa and tried to take Siheon outside the room so she could freely use her divine power.

“I, I must stay here…”

“I am the Master of Jinryong Clan. Nothing bad will happen to you, so come out.”

Jin Dowoon was a precious young master of a status that Siheon would normally never encounter.

Hearing that no disadvantage would come to him, Siheon’s eyes wavered.

“That won’t do… I cannot leave His Highness alone with outsiders…!”

However, Siheon soon squeezed his eyes shut and refused.

Whatever might happen or not happen.

He could not leave a patient alone with unknown people.

‘More than I thought…’

Jin Dowoon found himself slightly liking Siheon, who stubbornly refused to leave despite his fear.

When no one else in the Imperial Palace intended to protect Danhwi, just having the will, regardless of ability, made him seem like a decent person.

“We didn’t come here to do anything harmful.”

Rin said as she set down the bundle of medicinal herbs she had been carrying on her back.

She appreciated his spirit, but they couldn’t let Moa’s abilities be discovered, so this was unavoidable.

“If you step away for a moment, I can treat His Highness with these medicinal herbs. In the name of the Head of Saryeom House.”

Rin showed her hand wearing the head’s seal ring that she had taken from her father’s finger.

With two of the Twelve Families appearing at this place, Siheon’s eyes trembled violently.

“Can’t we just knock him out since this is frustrating?”

Yeongang whispered beside Moa.

Finally realizing his disadvantageous position, Siheon reluctantly accepted their request.

Only Danhwi, Moa, and Yeongang remained in the room.

Yeongang moved a little away from Moa, even holding his breath so as not to disturb her.

[His condition is serious.]

Somi said in a troubled voice.

[His divine power circuits are a mess. It looks like they went haywire.]

‘Haywire…?’

[He deliberately used too much power.]

Moa bit her lip.

What could have happened that made him suddenly use excessive power?

‘On his wrist… handprints.’

Dark bruises in the shape of what appeared to be adult handprints remained on Danhwi’s wrist.

‘Oppa didn’t have enough power to go haywire outwardly and attack others. If that amount had accumulated, the villain would have taken it.’

[Then he must have gone haywire while connected to have his power taken. To strike back at the Emperor. That side’s circuits must be completely ruined too, right?]

Tears flowed from Moa’s eyes.

As expected, he had done this to protect her.

What reason would Danhwi, who had always obediently given his power, suddenly have to rebel against the Emperor?

Danhwi had even said he planned to continue giving his power while waiting for an opportunity.

[And…]

Somi paused for a moment.

[His connection with Goseol has been severed.]

‘Severed?!’

Moa took out the crystal from her chest.

It was lukewarm.

Neither cold nor warm.

Compared to the terrible state before her eyes, it felt far too high a temperature.

[It’s not completely severed. The divine power circuits are damaged, so the contract connection feels like only a single thread remains? That’s probably why the crystal is in that broken state.]

‘Then can it be reconnected?’

[…I don’t know. I’ve never tried it before.]

At those words, Moa bit her lip.

[But Moa. You don’t have much power left. You used almost all of it today treating Baeksa and Sayeongryeong.]

‘I still have to do it.’

Moa took Danhwi’s hand.

It was cold.

As if the previous crisis had been child’s play, Danhwi felt like he was on the verge of death.

“…Is it really difficult?”

Yeongang asked carefully.

Though it was because she was having an internal conversation with Somi, Moa had been sitting in front of Danhwi with a hardened expression, doing nothing.

“No, I’ll do something.”

Moa firmly pressed the red cross on her watch.

A smart AI would tell her how to heal Danhwi.

Surely, it would.

If not…

‘Get it together!’

Moa bit her lip hard.

She couldn’t heal Danhwi by just whimpering like a child.

Crying could wait until after the treatment was finished.

She had resolved herself firmly, but…

-Patient scan complete

-Diagnosis: Divine Power Circuit Destruction (Self-inflicted)

-No recommended medical tools available.

“That’s a lie! It’s a lie!”

Moa’s entire body trembled violently.

In her vision, she could see Danhwi’s insides through a hologram.

The golden divine power circuits that Moa had previously connected for him were all burst open.

‘Oppa did this to himself…’

[Yeah. To deal damage to the Emperor…]

‘Stupid oppa…’

Seeing it completely collapsed like powder left her feeling hopeless.

There’s no way? She has to just let Danhwi die like this?

‘He, he ended up like this protecting me?’

[Moa. Calm down, get a grip!]

-Warning: Heart rate rapidly increasing

-Action: Executing condition stabilization mode

-Limit: 1 time per day / 0 remaining

Moa’s head instantly became dizzy.

If it weren’t for the watch’s stabilization function, she might have collapsed right there.

[You said you wanted to try something. The tools, well… we couldn’t get a recommendation. But still, there might be some other way…]

‘I, I… can’t give up on oppa like this. I don’t want to!’

Moa felt her head strangely cold from the watch’s function-

And placed her hand on Danhwi’s chest.

She wasn’t confident yet about using divine power directly without tools.

But…

‘They said it can’t be healed with medical tools. Then maybe I can do it with just my own power.’

In her vision where she could clearly see the circuits inside Danhwi’s body, Moa poured her power into Danhwi’s burst circuits.

‘Connect oppa… connect oppa’s circuits. Please. It’s my power. I’m begging you…!’

To her own power, to her family, to Danhwi, to the Heavenly Deity…

She called out to Goseol and Kkabuyi too. She prayed while repeating every name she could think of.

Her back instantly became damp with cold sweat.

A dizzying headache that made her head spin came over her.

Throughout the time she carefully drew out her divine power thinly and cautiously poured strength into the circuits to that extent.

In Moa’s heart, there was only the will to revive and help Danhwi.

Twitch.

Like a branch sprouting, Moa’s power filled with will grabbed both ends of Danhwi’s severed circuit lines and connected them.

[Ah… well done. Next.]

With Somi’s encouragement, Moa connected the next line.

Then the next.

And then the next again.

She didn’t know how much time had passed.

Moa was enduring purely through mental strength and guilt toward Danhwi.

[Moa, you don’t have much strength left.]

‘I haven’t finished connecting everything yet…’

[I know. But…]

Somi said in a worried voice.

[The connection with the spirit beast is important too. If we miss the right timing for this, it might disappear completely. Since you’ve connected the main trunk, the smaller branches should be able to self-repair slowly.]

Moa nodded slightly.

She didn’t even want to imagine Danhwi losing Goseol.

‘Just the thought of losing Somi makes my heart hurt so, so much…’

Moa discovered a faintly glowing line on Danhwi’s chest.

It was a line connected so thinly it seemed about to break.

‘I’ve seen this before, the connection between Goseol and oppa.’

Seeing the line so faint it seemed about to break, thinner than a strand of hair, Moa hurriedly drew up her power.

She was already almost at the bottom.

But she somehow squeezed it out.

Down to the very last drop.

Thick, solid-

‘Connect…!’

The line that received all of Moa’s power became a bit more colored and solid, even if not back to its original state.

[Ah! It’s working well!]

Moa tried to smile.

But.

‘…I’m dizzy.’

[Moa?!]

Everything went dark before her eyes.

Strength left her body, and her consciousness became hazy.

“Little one, little one! Get a grip!”

Somi’s voice grew distant.

***

“Where… is this?”

Moa slowly opened her eyes.

The surroundings were strange.

It was a completely white and empty space.

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