A Dragon That My Cat Brought Home - Chapter 21

The man and I both stared blankly into the air with our mouths open. The blue dragon floated about one meter above the head of a standing person. Wings, are those wings? Two pale blue wings fluttered behind their shoulders.

“Kyaoooong!”

Beneath it, Baek-ho growled in anger. We’ve lived together for 7 years, but this is the first time I’ve seen Baek-ho like that. He wasn’t even that big, but his whole body was inflated from his back to the tip of his tail, so he looked twice as big as usual.

His body lowered as if he was about to run away and his ears pulled back closely was typical of a cat’s anger posture. His green eyes were burning with hostility.

As the man turned his eyes to Baek-ho, he rolled up his lips and blew a threatening hiss through his exposed fangs and clenched his paws.

“Sssss!”

The blue dragon, who was floating and fluttering in his sitting position, raised his small front paw as if threateningly, and followed Baek-ho and lowered his jaw.

“Haaaak!”

What, what’s this! The man screamed. At that moment, from his breath, a bluish-white beam of light came out of the blue dragon’s mouth. Although it was not large, a light with a clear shape came out, dragging its tail like lightning, wrapped around the tip of the iron pipe the man was holding, and sparks splattered. The man screamed at her and dropped her pipe.

“Oww!”

The man knelt down on her knees and wrapped his right arm with his left hand.

“Myung-hoon! Myung-hoon! Are you okay?”

My sister ran to me with a taser gun.

***

“I should have worked harder in jiu-jitsu class.”

I said bluntly. I had been hospitalized for three days and had just returned home in Hae-in’s car.

“I’m glad I stopped. Oppa, it could have been worse. But is it okay for you to be discharged so fast?”

While I was in the hospital, Ah-in, who had stopped by to take care of the blue dragon and the white tiger, was displeased.

“I don’t know either. Both the police and the hospital were surprised that I was fine for a person who was hit with an iron pipe. The recovery rate was incredibly fast.”

I caressed the wound sutures on the back of the head. I’ve been with Blue Dragon all this time, so my stamina has improved.

“I asked for a quick release. I’m too anxious to leave only Baek-ho and Blue Dragon at home.”

“I’m so glad it wasn’t severe. But this time, Myung-hoon, you did a great job. We finally caught him thanks to you.”

Was it because of me, or was it because of my cats?

The man who was arrested after being tased by my sister kept saying that he was tased by a winged, flame-breathing cat. But no one believed him.

“Everyone who heard that started laughing. I mean, if he was going to get charged, he should get charged quietly. He really saying that he was caught by a Pikachu or what not.”

“He originally claimed to be schizophrenic. You’re still a habitual offender? The park’s first victim, the old man, is still in the hospital. Maybe you could put it in an attempted murder? He shouldn’t have been commuted for reasons of schizophrenia or mental and physical weakness.”

That night went very quickly. While I was unable to move properly, my sister untied the cat’s cage from her bike.

The man was wriggling on the floor after being repeatedly attacked by Blue Dragon’s hissing (?) and my sister’s taser gun. Blue dragon, who was flapping in the air, jumped into my arms while my sister was tying him up.

As soon as I came to my senses, I put the blue dragon in the trunk of my sister’s car, and put Baek-ho in the back seat, as soon as I heard the siren of the police car, an ambulance rushed in.

After that, after receiving a call from my sister, Haein, who came to pick up the blue dragon and Baek-ho, was terrified when she took out the blue dragon.

“Bro, how surprised I must have been that when I went to the district office to get my car keys, Myung-seo noona didn’t say anything. As soon as the trunk was opened, Blue dragon cried and floated up and down and fell backwards, and I almost fell backwards.”

“Pirolong~”

As soon as I got home, the blue dragon, who was right next to me, cried as if he understood and got up. Blue dragon floated eastward over the head of Hae-in, who was telling his story, and proudly flapped his wings.

“Come here, Blue Dragon. Let’s take a closer look.”

Wings protruded from the long, thin projection behind his shoulder. There were no wounds, and the wings naturally protruding as if they had opened a pocket looked a little small compared to his plump body.

The outer surface is covered with thick and shiny hairs, just like the body, and the inner surface is hairless and smooth. When I open and fold it by hand, it moves softly like a brisket.

When we released the blue dragon, it flapped its wings and hovered over our heads. It doesn’t seem like it can fly high because its wings are still small, but it has a much better shape than when I first saw it that night. That day, it felt like he was sitting on his hind legs and floating, rather than flying, but now I feel like he’s flying quite a bit.

“Bro, I was rightt? Our blue dragon…”

Hae-in looked at me and corrected his words.

“Your blue dragon has horns and webbed webbing, and now it has wings and breathes elements. What is his identity?”

“········”

I looked back at Baek-ho that caused all this. Baek-ho, Baek-ho. Where the hell did you pick him up from?

Bae-kho lay peacefully next to my thigh. It is a typical example of a chubby, docile, good listener, and a lazy, open-minded house cat. There was nowhere to be seen of a wild beast that stood in front of the man with the weapon that night.

Baek-ho, who was always easygoing, who never once did anything bad to people, our Baek-ho, protect me like that.

“I was really impressed. Oppa I’m impressed about Baek-ho, but Blue Dragon has finally awakened. To protect oppa brother because he was in danger! Isn’t that right, Blue Dragon?”

“Piropirolong!”

As the blue dragon confidently breathed toward the air, only a small spark of sparks flashed.

“peep peep!”

That boy doesn’t even want to hide his identity anymore. The guy who sometimes said meow to pretend to be a cat.

My head got complicated, and I put my hand on my temple and looked at the blue dragon flying around the room.

***

I’m back there. On the pond in front of the cave at the top of the mountain.

It’s the same dream again. You are in a dream, but you know you are dreaming yourself.

Will I be able to meet the owner of the cave today? I feel him approaching from the water. At last, the water rose up, building up a wall, like a splash of water and the Red Sea parting. A gigantic creature appeared beneath it.

As the rippling water calmed, the creature looked down at me from a tower-high neck. A gigantic, majestic creature with its lower body submerged with its head, neck, back and chest exposed, silvery horns with beautiful blue scales and branches, and amber eyes.

I’ve never seen it before, but I knew it the moment I saw it. This creature is a dragon, a dragon. And it’s ‘her’.

She bent her huge neck gracefully and brought her face closer to me. I felt like an ant under a man’s feet.

She is trying to tell me something. Something is whispering in my head, but I can’t understand it. She made a sad face. It’s amazing how you can feel the expression even though it’s so huge. What are you trying to say to me? I focused my mind.

***

Piro Piro Long!

“Oh, it’s cold!”

The blue dragon who dropped a drop of water on me laughed and flew away. You. I was in an important moment. Your mom was about to…

Huh? Your mom?