It’S A Cat, Adopted By A Wolf Family? [EN]: Chapter 123

“Are you going to pretend you didn’t hear that?”

Ethan asked playfully.

Kitty, forgetting that her face couldn’t blush in her cat form, buried her face in her round paws.

She couldn’t believe that Ethan, of all people, would say such a thing in front of everyone.

Kitty squeezed her eyes shut, afraid to meet his eye-smile like Clyde’s. If she saw that, she might want to make a heart shape with this wolf’s tail right away.

But when she closed her eyes, the sound of her heart pounding was too loud.

“Your emotions are still all over your ears and tail.”

Ethan stroked Kitty’s slightly clipped tail and whispered in her perked-up cat ears.

“I wasn’t joking. You knew that, didn’t you?”

“……”

“Then rest well, Kitty.”

Ethan said plainly and left.

After he disappeared, Theo and Deon took over with their fuss.

“Kitty! Ethan just confessed to you publicly!”

Kitty, sniffing her pink nose to double-check that Ethan was gone, cautiously opened her eyes.

The two of them were so over the top that it made her feel calmer.

“Ethan is a wolf, after all. And he was unusually playful.”

“Good heavens, this cat is talking nonsense.”

“Wolves only say they like someone to one person. They just gloss over it with everyone else.”

Somehow, Theo and Deon seemed to be resembling Sir Elliot more and more.

Kitty was surprised by her own composure. Of course, it might have been because her two brothers were showing a variety of reactions for her.

But the real reason was, as he said…….

“Because I knew.”

Every time they shared a goodbye kiss, she saw the rough emotions that he usually hid swirling in Ethan’s eyes.

When he kissed her and nibbled her cheek, she felt like the most precious and happiest cat in the world.

‘He strokes my fur so softly, too.’

She was a little surprised by his confession that he had been aware of her even before she was aware of him, but she must have unconsciously expected him to say he had liked her for a long time.

‘I feel like a cat for the first time in a while!’

Kitty was very pleased with her own haughty attitude.

* * *

Thanks to Theo and Deon’s devoted care, her strength recovered faster than expected. The morning after a good night’s sleep, she was well enough to take human form.

I ate a few slices of large tuna and leaned back against the backrest, full.

On the table was enough food to feed ten wolf knights to their fill.

All of it was prepared by the Polly couple and the bear shifters for me.

“The Polly couple are very grateful to you. When I told them you were feeling better, they asked to have tea time.”

“It’s only natural, since the couple saw the Sacred Relic for the first time.”

Theo and Deon were using the excuse of nursing to stay in my room and enjoy a hearty meal.

I didn’t dislike talking to them about this and that, so I didn’t kick them out.

“Kitty, so what are you going to say to Ethan?”

“Do I have to answer?”

“No, do whatever you want. I’m curious to see how Ethan will react if you say you still prefer to spend time with your family, though.”

Did her brothers believe without a doubt that she would give such an answer?

Instead of refuting, I drank the sparkling cold tea in my mouth.

After eating my fill and taking a nap, my body was completely healed. Enough to withstand even shocking facts.

“Then shall we have tea time with the Polly couple?”

“Okay. I’ll send someone.”

As I expected, the Polly couple’s invitation wasn’t just for thanking me.

They knew what I wanted. Now that I was happy to have obtained Polly’s Mirror, they would surely give it to me.

‘I’ll be able to see the rock containing Dad and Oppa’s [older brother’s] last words soon.’

I calmed my pounding heart and headed to the glass greenhouse with my brothers.

There, Katrina and the Polly couple were waiting for us, dressed in thin but formal attire.

Polly’s Mirror was emitting considerable magic, sitting on a luxurious velvet cushion.

The box surrounding the cushion also looked really cozy.

“Miss Kittia.”

“This way. Please sit in the warmest seat.”

I was grateful that the bear shifters, who preferred cool environments, had chosen the greenhouse for me.

I sat down and ate as many of the desserts offered by the bear shifters as I could. The Polly couple looked at me with pleased eyes, then cautiously opened their mouths.

“Today, we would like to thank you and share an important decision.”

“An important decision…….”

“It’s information that must be shared with our ally, Gridwolf.”

Katrina, who had been watching the conversation with a meaningful face, stroked Polly’s Mirror and continued.

“Miss Kittia. I told my mother and father about what happened at Lake Aurora.”

“I’m so sorry I couldn’t see it with my own eyes.”

“I would have run out if I had been healthy.”

Their eyebrows drooped slightly as if they were really sorry.

Katrina slyly pushed the box containing Polly’s Mirror towards me and asked.

“Miss Kittia, what do you think?”

“The depth and material look very comfortable. I think you made it as a set with the cushion inside.”

“……?”

Deon added from the side, ‘Kitty, not the box, the mirror!’

“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…… Polly’s Mirror contains a lot of magic. I think it’s a warm and strong power.”

Moreover, its abilities seemed to be very useful.

“You can create multiple images as the mirror’s characteristic. It seems to have good compatibility with other Sacred Relics.”

“Everyone who saw that scene must have thought so. So-”

Katrina carefully got up from her seat and handed me the box containing the cushion.

I stiffened for a moment as I received the box with the Polly family crest delicately engraved on it.

“Please accept it, Miss Kittia.”

I blinked slowly.

The Polly family’s sacred treasure. The reason for their rule and the source of their power.

I wasn’t sure if I could take such a thing.

“Can I take this? Isn’t this something that Katrina-nim [honorific title] should inherit?”

“In the current situation, it would be better for someone who knows how to use it properly to have it.”

Katrina said that she had tried her best to use Polly’s Mirror during the day I was unconscious.

However, she explained that she had not discovered any particular function other than replenishing the magic that had been running out.

She had also tried shooting an arrow at the mirror’s surface to create dozens of arrows, as I had done, but others could not do it.

“This is a set with the Gridwolf’s bow that Kittia-yang [term of endearment] has. It’s something that only Kittia-yang can use properly.”

“…….”

“If you need to replenish your magic sometimes, please let me visit. I would be happy if the alliance is maintained more tightly thanks to the Sacred Relic.”

Katrina smiled.

It was such a friendly smile that it was hard to believe that she was the young lady of a family that had been insisting on a closed-door policy until recently.

The Polly couple were also looking at me with eyes as warm as the greenhouse.

The brothers and Ethan, who attended together, also sent me looks of trust, as if telling me to do whatever I wanted.

“Then I will gratefully accept it in the name of the alliance.”

I took a deep breath and took the mirror out of the box.

My magic sparkled along the surface of the mirror. It felt like taming a newly bought item.

The warm magic enveloped my body and the Sacred Relic. I felt filled with an unknown emotion.

Malang-

While I was fiddling with the surface of the mirror, the Polly mansion’s servants wheeled in a large handcart.

Something so large and heavy that it couldn’t be considered a dessert was placed on it.

“We also prepared the item you’ve been wanting.”

I was drawn to the handcart as if possessed by the words. When the servants pulled back the cloth, a cold, chilling rock appeared.

A plain rock that I had seen more than five times on the way to Polly Castle.

However, the thought that my dad and Oppa’s traces were contained within it made my eyes hot.

Katrina handed me a handkerchief and explained.

“It was sent by the bear shifters of the commoners some time ago. They requested Polly’s management, saying that strange sounds were coming from the rock.”

“Ah…….”

“If you put your hand on the surface, you can hear what the rock remembers.”

She said that only sounds could be heard.

I was a little scared even as I reached out my hand immediately.

Dad and Oppa passed away when I was very young. If I heard their voices and didn’t remember them, I felt like my heart would break.

Because if I missed them properly, I wouldn’t forget the memories of my loved ones.

‘Still, I still want to hear it.’

Even if I don’t remember. Even if I feel like a complete stranger and hate myself, I wanted to feel the traces of my loved ones.

I touched the surface with a desperate heart.

Then, a dim magic began to bloom from Polly’s Mirror, which had been placed on the tea table.

‘It’s the same as the magic contained in the rock.’

Hushka said so. The reason why the rocks in the bear territory arbitrarily remember the surrounding noises is because they have been with the Sacred Relic for a long time.

Then, I might be able to use the Sacred Relic to hear Dad and Oppa’s voices more clearly.

I brought the mirror and carefully reflected it on the rock.

Then, a video began to play in the mirror that should have reflected the rock.

A surprisingly vivid video.

Theo and Deon rushed over and placed their hands on my shoulders.

“Kitty, are you sure you’re okay to watch it now?”

“Malangson [term of endearment], we can wait as long as you want.”

“I’m okay.”

Because I’ve been waiting for this moment.

I mustered up the courage and shifted my gaze. But as soon as I looked into the mirror, my heart plummeted.

[“Keuk…… Ugh…….”]

[“Father…… Ugh!”]