TCF S4.5

The baby kitten with red fur kicked the floor.

Tatap!

“Huff, huff.”

The breath was lacking in his chest despite taking deep breaths. His whole body was hurting as if he was being pricked by needles.

That was why he stopped walking. It was too hard.

“Those damn street cats!”

The red kitten curled his body up at that moment. He felt warmth embrace his body.

He then heard a scary noise.

Pow!

The kitten opened his clenched eyes.

A big rock slammed into the ground not too far from him.

His legs were shaking.

He was scared.

“Hong.”

However, the red kitten put some strength into all four of his legs.

The warmth he could feel behind his back...

That was his sister, On.

Hong quickly kicked off the ground and ran forward after hearing his sister’s calm but shaky voice. On followed behind him as if she was protecting him.

“That, that!”

They heard an angry voice behind them.

“Meeow!”

On ran past Hong and charged into the dark alley first. Hong followed behind her after hearing her meow.

“These damn petty thieves!”

Pow!

Hong heard a rock hitting the ground behind them again but he did not turn around. No, he couldn’t do that.

He could only do whatever he could to continue breathing and push forward.

No.

He could only run away.

“Huff. Huff.”

He ran and ran until they finally made it to a quiet place.

It was an alley with regular looking houses.

Hong stopped in front of a small house with the lowest fence and tried to catch his breath.

“Meeow.”

On came over and looked to see where Hong was injured.

She did not let her guard down even as she did that.

Hong quietly whispered so that nobody else could hear.

“I'm sorry, noona.”

Even On and Hong, who were used to all sorts of situations, found it difficult to find food whenever they came into a city and hunting became tough.

“J, just...”

Hong recalled what just happened in front of the bakery.

"I subconsciously touched it because the bread looked so warm.”

He wasn’t planning on eating it. He was roaming around the shop to see if there was any food that someone threw away but the bread on the stand looked so delicious that he subconsciously walked over and touched it.

That was the reason he had to be chased by that bakery shop owner.

“It’s okay.”

Hong had to curl his body even after hearing On’s calm response.

‘I'm hungry.’

He was hungry.

However, he could not complain. His sister roamed around even more than he did every day. She should be even hungrier than he was.

"What the?”

They heard an unfamiliar voice at that moment and Hong curled his body even more.

“Hmm.”

The man looked at On and Hong for a bit before looking away and walking through the door of the gate within the fence.

‘I guess that’s the person who lives here.’

Hong slowly hid in the shade underneath the fence.

The sun was setting.

They might have to sleep underneath this fence tonight. That was why he didn't want to do anything to anger the person who seemed to live in this house.

Slam!

The door to the small house opened at that moment.

“Daddy!”

The door opened and a young child ran out.

“Sophia! Were you waiting for daddy?”

The man smiled brightly and opened his arms toward the approaching child.

The child jumped into the man’s arms. She then asked with a smile on her face.

"Daddy, my present!”

"Aw. You care more about your present than your daddy.”

The man was smiling despite sounding disappointed. A woman appeared at the door. She shook her head at the child before talking to the man.

singing about presents left and right. She

“Really?”

the present in

talked to the

“Sophia, happy birthday.”

said happy birthday in the morning, but you like me saying it once more

“Yes I do!”

the child walked into the house. Hong quietly watched them before

is

day you

day you were born

However, Hong asked a different question after

is my birthday? And when is

looked at her

‘Birthday-’

It was faint.

celebrated like this girl named Sophia. However, it was when she was

the rainy season when the weather officially started getting hot. All she remembered was that it was during the

faintly remembered that her

‘We were young.’

young but Hong and On were too young to accurately remember something like their

It was just...

‘Today is On’s birthday.’

in her memories like

to tell On and Hong about their birthdays or to celebrate it by the time

neglected and ignored while being

‘How persistent.’

looked down at such young

knew the emotions behind Hong’s pure eyes but looked away

birthdays. I don’t remember anything

anything about birthdays

* * *

the siblings again because of a new

“I don’t understand it.”

them that the siblings rescued from the dark cave with Cale and Choi Han... The

a time when the Dragon and the Cat siblings were aware of each

"What is a king?”

and he looked at On after hearing that

“Mm.”

view of the capital that was visible through

are great and

his head to one

“I don’t understand it.”

said the same thing once

so much because it is the King’s

the Roan Kingdom's capital was slowly getting more beautiful

you are

side. The black Dragon slightly

then peeked toward a dark spot in the room away from the terrace window and opened

want to know why a birthday is a special day,

that were visible

at the map of the capital, observed the black Dragon

‘Birthday...’

know whether he felt differently about it when he was young, but

been a time when it

‘That-’

past for a bit

don’t have

black Dragon was looking at the lights rising from the darkness on the

know the day

obvious for the black

no way to know anything in that dark cave.

get information was from

Should we give him less food? Shit, the cost to make the restraining device

enough for you to stop glaring

wouldn’t even have known how old he was if the bastards guarding

know my

a result, I don’t have a

black Dragon's dark

spoke almost in a

have

placed his small front paw on the black

okay even if

‘Of course!’

family he had seen at one point but smiled. The black Dragon's eyes that were looking outside seemed

his

a voice that was so monotone that

not wrong. It’s fine if you

also fine to forget

what

‘However...’

a memory from

find his birthday to be important. He just remembered that it was the day he got seaweed soup at the orphanage and also the day that he received the suffocating hardship of becoming an adult and having to figure out his life outside the

‘Rok Soo.’

‘What is it?’

alive this year

‘So?’

Are you going to act this cold toward me even on my

time when it had

not because it was his birthday but because of the memories

a reason as to

the black Dragon

is because we are

Cale closed his eyes.

we realize that we are still

Hong tilted their heads slightly. On slightly smiled while looking at the two of them tilt their heads in the same

He then looked at the night view outside the window as he

to be your birthday to

cared if these vicious and scary three children

“Then just make it.”

“...Make it?”

Hong’s ears twitched.

“Yeah.”

slowly approached Cale. The black Dragon did

before speaking. He recalled the

if I can really choose a random

black Dragon asked

“...Is that really okay?”

Cale’s response

“Why wouldn’t it be?”

the King was celebrating turning 50. It was also a world where some bastards were going to terrorize the people

them choosing an

that be an

as if to ask what the

However, his neck was short and his face

this Dragon will

did not

he

there was a day he wanted

he

in the future. He wanted to think about it

going to make my own anniversary because I

great, mighty, and

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