A Dragon That My Cat Brought Home - Chapter 30

Chapter 30: Baek-ho’s past

She was also worried that she might have felt abandoned, but she seemed to have found stability sooner than she thought. For the first two or three days, as expected, she kept hiding in a corner, and I did not fall down when I heard that she used to look around and cry as if looking for a blue dragon and a white tiger.

However, Yuri, who lives with her, is a kind cat, so she takes good care of seri, and her adoptive family also takes care of her, so she was happy that she adjusted quickly. She also frequently sent pictures of her doing well with the seri.

Our blue dragon couldn’t understand why seri had gone, so it was dead for days. When I saw her back, sitting in a circle looking at the door or window without even playing in the water, which she likes, it hurts and hurts my heart.

I’m a blue dragon who doesn’t even understand the situation even though it’s empty after spending a taxpayer. Being a human or an animal is a very scary thing.

It took almost ten days for the blue dragon to regain energy under the warm care of the white tiger. Baek-ho must have felt empty after sending a tax collector, but seeing him not showing off is very reassuring and confident. I am happy that Baek-ho and Blue Dragon have each other, and it gives me strength too.

Even such a proud Baek-ho had a kitten period. I remember the day I first picked him up a long time ago.

Baek-ho’s mother is a yellow-eyed stray cat who was the head of the neighborhood where I grew up.

Originally, my sister was feeding the local cats, and I used to go out and get used to her sometimes when she gave me food.

A feral cat that has not been neutered (TNR) gives birth two or three times a year. However, for some reason, Yellow did not give birth even after becoming an adult cat, so at first I thought it was a male, but after confirming that it was a female, I wondered if it was a cat that received TNR somewhere.

A clever and charismatic cat, even though she was a female, she dominated the neighborhood and served as the leader of all the stray cats in our neighborhood.

One day, the yellow cat appeared with a baby. They were two kittens with pretty silver gray fur. It was a rare hair color, and the features were remarkably clear, so everyone who saw it said it was pretty.

I was just approaching my high school graduation at that time, and I used to go every evening to see how cute the kittens were, who were still clumsy and roamed around with their mothers. There were times when I went with the Hae-in siblings, and there were times when I went alone.

The afternoon after the graduation ceremony, an old lady from the laundromat, who loves the local cats, often brings snacks and pours clean water, ran to our house.

She said, “Do you have Myung-hoon? come out a little Yellow is injured and looks like everyone is going to die!”

“Yes? why?”

“No, someone is trying to pick up the yellow baby because he is pretty, but the yellow one is attacking me, so I hit him with a stick. How mercilessly beaten even when my family’s yangban is drying up…”

By the time Yellow ran to the table with her aunt, it was already too late. Yellowy collapsed and was unable to move, breathing his last breath, and there was no man to be found who said he hit Yellowy while trying to steal the young.

One of the two pups was nowhere to be seen and the other was dead in her mother’s arms.

“How clever and quick she is, she wouldn’t have been beaten if it wasn’t for her. I got hit with all of that just to wrap my bastard… I was looking out the window of the store that I was going to come out sooner, but did you think it would?”

The dry cleaner groaned and rolled his feet.

“Another cub? Did he catch him?”

“No, Gee was stuck in her mother’s arms and she hid in her bush over there a while ago. I don’t even call Myung-hoon gave me food every day, so Yellow followed well, so wouldn’t it come out when Myung-hoon called me?”

“I would have to go to the hospital from yellow cat.”

I sat down next to Yellow. Yellow was bleeding from his mouth and nose with his eyes open. She was holding the kitten tightly inside her forelimbs, which had already begun to stiffen. The kitten appeared to have no visible trauma, but was already not breathing. A kitten of this age can die with just one wrong shot. I felt like my heart would explode.

“Hey, here comes the baby.”

When I looked up at the sound of the laundry lady’s words, a frightened kitten came out of the bushes and scrambled to my side. The kitten crawled over to see if people were afraid, but came up to my mother and dug into her chest. It was sad to hear a small creaking cry.

Yellow’s eyes, which were losing their light, moved for a moment and met me.

I looked straight into his eyes and stroked Yellowy’s head.

“Yellow, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you, but I will definitely protect the rest of the baby. I’ll promise.”

With the help of the laundry man, Yellowy and the kittens were taken to the local veterinary hospital, but Yellowy was already dead. Fortunately, the surviving kitten was not injured.

“Is there such a bad guy, no matter how small it is, to hit and kill a mother who is trying to protect her cubs. You’ll be guilty of it, not of cancer. I’ve been seeing Yellow since I was a kitten, but Anne is really smart and kind, so it hurts my heart to be like this.”

The elderly veterinary hospital director kicked his tongue and fixed yellow.

“Yellow and the baby, I will take care of them for you. You’re still a student, but what’s the cost? But what about the rest of the kittens? Can the hospital find an adoption place?”

“No, I will raise them. I made a promise with Yellow.”

I pulled a kitten from the corpses its mother and trying not to drop him, I held them to my chest.

How could you kill the mother and the kitten together, who wanted to take the kitten because she was pretty? How could you be so cruel?

There are those kinds of people in the world who want to destroy what they want if they can’t make it their own.

“Beep beep lol~”

I woke up from my thoughts at the sound of the blue dragon’s cry and looked at the white tiger lying on the cat tower.

At that time, the slender kitten came to our house and was given the name baek-ho, which his father himself had given him, and took over the cuteness of his family by acting as the youngest.

He grew up early because of painful memories, so he didn’t get into trouble like a kitten and was overly clever, but he had a lot of aegyo and I don’t know how much love he did.

Now, I’ve become such a dignified, proud, um, very lazy adult cat.

“Nyay~”

As if wondering what he was thinking, Baek-ho turned his head and looked at me and wept languidly.

******

“Sir, long time no see. How have you been?”

“It’s been a really long time since the manager. Nice to meet you.”

After a long time, I made an appointment for lunch with Hyunwook Yoo, the head of Silver Books.

“Writer, I thought you might have gotten tired from just writing at home, but I’m glad that you look healthy. Does your face look better than before for some reason?”

Director Yoo smiled, holding soft fine lines on the corners of his eyes. This person always seems like a kind eldest brother. Even though he is a lot older than me, he never speaks a word, and he is always upright and polite.

When I first took the manuscript and started working with him, I was too shy to hear the author’s voice, so I just asked him to call me by name, but he used to encourage me by saying, Writer, don’t be shy because the writing is good.

Thanks to that, he seems to have worked harder to write as well as the real writers.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, but you eat something good, even though I live.”

“No, writer. You know I like bibimbap, right?”

Thanks to CHP, I won a prize in the contest, and I wanted to serve lunch, but Director Yoo said that he wanted to eat wild vegetable bibimbap. The restaurant, which Director Yoo showed us, looked modest on the outside, but the table setting was neat and the taste was good.

“Did you say you have a manuscript you want to show me?”

Director Yoo asked, while we talked about our current situation, we talked about writing, finished a comfortable meal, and drank coffee.

“Yeah, I thought I’d send you an email in advance, but it’s been a while, but I haven’t sent it yet because I thought it would be rude to just send it by email.”

“Please send. It’s my job to read manuscripts, but I’ve been waiting for a long time to read Short Pencil’s manuscript again. I am very much looking forward to it.”

“Don’t expect too much and just take it easy. It’s not finished. Now that I have written about half of it, I hope you will take a look.”

I took out my laptop and sent the manuscript of the story of Dragons and the Four Gods to Director Yoo’s email.

“The amount seems to be quite large, so I will go into the company and read it carefully before contacting you. I really enjoyed today and had a good lunch. Next time I will shoot something delicious.”

I broke up with Director Yoo and returned home. I felt refreshed as if I had solved my old homework.

I was very curious as to how Director Yoo would evaluate the story of the Dragon and the Shinigami. Director Yoo is basically a warm person to the artist, but his eyes on his work are fierce. He praises the parts to be praised generously, but he also points out the parts to be pointed out, so his heart is pounding secretly. If you wait, I will read it and contact you.

Even the wind in March smells like spring, and the wild vegetable bibimbap was very tasty. I found a good restaurant that wasn’t too expensive, so I’ll go with Hae-in and Ain next time.

“Beep beep lol~”

Hearing the song of the blue dragon while playing in the water, the blue dragon seems to have overcome the aftermath of seri’s departure, so it puts her mind at ease.

After looking at the photo of the taxpayer I received yesterday without Blue Dragon’s knowledge, I gave Baek-ho and Blue Dragon snacks.

Now, shall we watch a movie after a while? No, I have a few new books borrowed from the library, so should I start looking at them?

Ring ring! Ring ring!

I was lying on my stomach reading a book, with Baek-ho and blue dragon, when I got a phone call.

“Yes, Chief.”

“Writer, you

This is Hyun-wook. I just read the whole manuscript. This is very exciting. After I started reading it, I couldn’t sell it even once in the middle and read it all the way to the end. I am very curious about the back.”

“Oh really? Are you really okay?”

To hear that Director Yoo said it was so much fun, I felt like I was going to go up to the sky.

“Yeah, did you really write it well? The setting in which a dragon from another world and a god of the east are together is interesting, and even though it is a fantasy, it has a strangely realistic feel, so it has a good sense of immersion. I especially like that the descriptions of the Blue Dragon from the other world and the white tiger among the four gods are as vivid as if they were seen by yourself and written.”

“···········.”

“Writer?”

“Oh, yes, thank you. It gives me confidence that the manager gives such a good evaluation. Thank you very much.”

I gave strength to the corners of my lips that went up to the temple as I looked at the white tigers and blue dragons attached to both sides.

When a kitten was a white tiger, it looked like the picture above.

Alpin, thank you for your support.