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 was just waiting for you to get home,

“Really?”

in his hand

talked

“Sophia, happy birthday.”

but you like me saying

“Yes I do!”

into the house. Hong quietly watched

is a

day you were

day you were born a

However, Hong asked a different question after looking at

birthday? And when is

at her younger

‘Birthday-’

It was faint.

However, it was when she was so little that she didn’t know

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

also faintly remembered that her brother

‘We were young.’

too young to accurately remember something like their birthday when they ended up alone. To be more

It was just...

‘Today is On’s birthday.’

in her memories like an

birthdays or to celebrate it by the time they learned some

and ignored while being

‘How persistent.’

at such young things persisting through

emotions behind Hong’s pure eyes but looked away and

know about our birthdays. I don’t remember anything about them at

did not say anything about birthdays to each

* * *

topic for the

“I don’t understand it.”

child who was younger than them that the siblings rescued from the

the Dragon and the Cat siblings were aware of each other but

"What is a king?”

and he looked at On after

“Mm.”

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

great and

tilted his

“I don’t understand it.”

thing

so much because it is the

getting more beautiful as

the day you are born

over to the black Dragon's side. The black Dragon slightly flinched but Hong ignored it and

spot in the room away from

to know why a

could see the pair of dark brown eyes that were visible

at the map of the capital, observed the black Dragon and the Cat siblings

‘Birthday...’

differently about it when he was young, but it was just another day with a different name as he

been a

‘That-’

about the past for a

don’t have

rising from the darkness on the ground that were different from the

the

for the

was no way to know anything in that dark cave. The flow

get information was from the things the humans said

less food?

years enough for you to stop glaring

if the bastards guarding the

know

I

quietly observed the black Dragon's dark

spoke almost in a

don't have

his small front paw on the black Dragon's

if

‘Of course!’

family he had seen at one point but smiled.

even brighter after seeing that his reflection was filling up those empty

that no emotions

fine if you don’t

also fine

what Cale

‘However...’

memory from his

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

‘Rok Soo.’

‘What is it?’

this year

‘So?’

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

a time when it had been

birthday but because of the

as to why a birthday is

Cat siblings and the black

we are alive

Cale closed his eyes.

special because we realize that

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

opened his eyes. He then looked at the

to be your birthday

vicious and scary three children didn’t have birthdays or

“Then just make it.”

“...Make it?”

Hong’s ears twitched.

“Yeah.”

slowly approached Cale. The black Dragon did not approach

recalled the

to know if I can really choose a random day

black Dragon

“...Is that really okay?”

heard Cale’s response

“Why wouldn’t it be?”

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

them choosing

that be an

ask what the issue with

an extremely odd manner. However, his neck was short and his face was round,

this Dragon will think

Dragon did not choose

he had not

there was a day

was the day he first

an even better day might appear in the future. He wanted

own anniversary

great,

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