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.

She was

“Really?”

man handed the present in

talked to the

“Sophia, happy birthday.”

the morning, but you like me saying it once more after

“Yes I do!”

walked into the house. Hong quietly watched

what is a

day you were

day you were born a

Hong asked

is my birthday?

looked at her younger

‘Birthday-’

It was faint.

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

officially started getting hot.

her brother was

‘We were young.’

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

It was just...

‘Today is On’s birthday.’

roamed in

birthdays or to celebrate

neglected and ignored while

‘How persistent.’

looked down at such

the emotions behind Hong’s pure

don’t know about our birthdays. I don’t remember

anything about birthdays to each other

* * *

topic for the siblings again because of a

“I don’t understand it.”

rescued from the

and the Cat siblings were

"What is a king?”

opened wide and he looked at

“Mm.”

observed the night view of the capital that was visible through the terrace window in Cale’s room

are great

tilted his head to

“I don’t understand it.”

black Dragon said the same thing once more before

they are doing so much because it is the

getting more beautiful as they prepared for the celebration of the King’s 50th

day you are

The black Dragon slightly flinched but Hong ignored it and

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

know why a birthday

pair of dark brown eyes that were visible

looking at the map of the capital, observed the black Dragon

‘Birthday...’

be very important. He didn’t know whether he felt differently about it when he was

had been a time when it was

‘That-’

thinking about the past for a

don’t have a

looking at the lights rising from the darkness on the ground that were different from the stars in the night

the day I was

obvious for the

dark cave. The flow of

was from the things the humans said whenever they showed

he grew this big after two years? Should we give him less food? Shit, the cost to make the restraining

Isn’t four years enough for you

have known how old he was if the bastards guarding the cell didn't shout at him with

don't know my

a result, I don’t have a

quietly observed the black

spoke almost in a

don't have one either,

Hong placed his small front paw on the black

if

‘Of course!’

seen at one point but smiled. The black Dragon's eyes that

brighter after seeing that his

so monotone that no emotions seemed to be

if

fine to

was what

‘However...’

a memory from

the orphanage and also the day that he received the suffocating hardship of becoming an adult and having

‘Rok Soo.’

‘What is it?’

alive this year

‘So?’

you dreary bastard! Are you going to act this cold toward me even

time when it had

birthday but

me for a reason as

the black

is because we are

Cale closed his eyes.

be special because we realize

their heads slightly. On slightly smiled while looking at the two of them tilt their heads

then looked at the night view outside the window as

doesn't have to be your

vicious and scary three children didn’t

“Then just make it.”

“...Make it?”

Hong’s ears twitched.

“Yeah.”

slowly approached Cale. The black Dragon did not

moment before speaking. He recalled the

can

Dragon asked as

“...Is that really okay?”

Cale’s

“Why wouldn’t it be?”

was celebrating turning 50. It was also a world where some bastards were going

just them choosing an

would that

ask what the issue with it was,

odd manner. However,

this Dragon will think about

black Dragon did not choose a

he had not

was a day he wanted

day he first saw

even better day might appear in the future. He

am going to make my own anniversary because I am

was a great, mighty,

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