It’S A Cat, Adopted By A Wolf Family? [EN]: Chapter 135

“I…Ideun?”

Kitty gently stroked his cheek with her soft fingertips. He was barely breathing, as if he had fainted.

But when she placed her hand on his chest, she could feel his heart beating rapidly. No matter how she looked at it, he was just pretending to be asleep.

‘This wolf, really, in this situation!’

She had constantly scolded Cride for being sly and acting like a fox, but look at him now!

Sensing her owner’s annoyance, Kitty’s claws popped out and pricked Ideun’s bare skin.

He slowly opened his tightly closed eyes. His complexion wasn’t good after losing so much blood, but his blue eyes were clear.

“Isn’t that a bit much for a patient?”

Malang! [Sound effect for a light hit]

Kitty lightly struck Ideun’s chest in protest. Hearing his brazenly blaming voice brought tears to her eyes.

‘That’s too much!’

Even after hearing from Ben that Karis and Jackal were safely returning to the camp, she couldn’t relax. Now, she finally felt like she could breathe.

Unconsciously releasing the tension she had been holding onto, indescribable emotions surged.

“Ideun…”

“…”

Tears quickly welled up in her emerald eyes. It wasn’t so bad to feel that only her reflection was captured in his tearful eyes.

Ideun raised his upper body and hugged Kitty.

However, that was a mistake.

Kitty’s soft silver hair touched the bare skin exposed by the bandage after his treatment.

Whenever her shoulders shook as she sobbed, her abundant hair flowed over his body, making his sensitive nerves even more sensitive in a different way.

It had only been a few hours since his arm was bitten and bleeding profusely, but he was already having these thoughts.

Ideun struggled to ignore the boiling blood within him and pulled Kitty’s head closer to his chest.

“Why are you crying again, Meow?”

“If you woke up, *hic*, you should have said you woke up…!”

“You can see it, right?”

Ideun calmly stroked Kitty’s head as she mumbled words of resentment.

He didn’t know why he found her hateful words—why are you always acting so mean, you’re bad, you’re awful—so lovely.

He recalled the situation just before he was injured.

The moment he sensed Delta Leopid approaching, all his nerves were focused on Kitty.

In a normal situation, Cride, who was always attached to her side like a ghost, would have emitted magical power, but he had already given the teleportation magic circle to the wolves, so he couldn’t use his power anymore.

There was no one to protect Kitty.

The moment his reason concluded that, Ideun gave up everything and ran towards her.

It wasn’t because she was weak and needed to be protected.

He didn’t think that Kitty, who had mastered martial arts comparable to wolves after much effort and tamed two holy relics, would be easily defeated.

He just didn’t want her to get hurt even a little bit.

The moment he gave his arm to Delta, who was trying to bite her, Ideun recalled Hogwood’s words.

“Ideun. I hope you know that your mother… didn’t die because you were weak.”

He thought his father was just saying that for him, who was becoming increasingly narrow-minded in pursuit of the single value of power.

If his mother had been sure that her young son could avoid or escape the rampaging panthers, she wouldn’t have turned back.

Then his mother wouldn’t have died either.

So he had thought her death was due to his weakness.

‘…But Father was right.’

When Ideun had his arm bitten by Delta instead of Kitty, he could perfectly understand why his mother had tried so hard to protect him.

Because she was so precious that she couldn’t even tolerate the slightest possibility of her getting hurt.

And even if she died as a sacrifice, she believed that the precious being she was trying to protect would not forget her.

Knowing that she could be with him forever in his memory.

That’s why she willingly sacrificed herself to protect the precious person she wouldn’t trade for the world.

“…Kitty.”

Ideun hugged Kitty tightly, who was still muttering that his personality was bad.

Her small frame, which he could fully embrace with one arm, and her easily tearful eyes were still the same.

When he first encountered the little cat at the Gridwolf mansion, he never dreamed that she would change his life so completely.

She even changed him to the point where he could understand his mother’s actions, which he could never accept.

She was truly a scary cat.

“Have you finished all the slander?”

“Not yet.”

Kitty was quite confident, even though she was frightened by his lowered voice. Ideun chuckled and stroked Kitty’s tear-stained cheeks.

“By the way. Didn’t you say something to me earlier?”

“Ah.”

“I was sleeping soundly and woke up after hearing that.”

In fact, he had woken up because Kitty, who was immersed in sadness, was wiping his body with a towel that wasn’t wrung out enough—it was so wet that it made a squishing sound—but Ideun twisted the situation as he pleased.

The mouth that had been busy listing the black wolf’s faults in front of Ideun until just now froze. Her cheeks were flushed like ripe peaches.

“W-What did I say?”

“I heard it.”

“If you heard it, why are you asking?”

“Because I want to hear it again.”

Ideun didn’t back down at all and acted shamelessly. Kitty’s eyes rolled to the side.

“I mean…”

Perhaps because Ideun, who had confessed first, wasn’t embarrassed at all, her mouth was frozen, and she couldn’t say anything.

Ideun decided to give his frozen student a hint.

“If you’re too embarrassed to say it, can you just confirm if what I heard is correct?”

For some reason, Kitty nodded as if she had found an escape route at his gentle voice.

Ideun slowly slid his hand that was stroking her cheek and stroked her soft lips with his thumb.

“That you like Ideun.”

“…”

“That you want to kiss me.”

“…?”

“I think that’s what I heard.”

Kitty was shocked to see the incredibly brazen wolf in front of her. She had never said anything about wanting to kiss him, but even if she had no conscience, there was a limit!

But if she shouted like that, Ideun’s face was too close.

His straight nose, deep blue eyes, sharp jawline, and disheveled black hair drew her in with a strange fragrance.

It was as if he was tempting her to fall into a huge swamp of unknown depth.

After hesitating for a moment, she slowly closed her eyes.

“That’s right.”

Kitty answered briefly and then pouted her lips. She tilted her head slightly to avoid Ideun’s high nose and brought her lips to his, planting a quick peck.

It was just lips touching lips, but she felt like all the hairs on her body were standing on end.

Ideun didn’t let Kitty move away after touching him lightly as if stamping a seal.

His large hand grabbed Kitty’s cheek. She could feel the heat of her flushed face, even though he had only touched her slightly.

“Kittyah.”

Kitty’s eyes widened, and she froze.

“Can I kiss you?”

Bang— [Sound effect for a heart pounding]

Kitty’s cat ears perked up in surprise.

Ideun, reading her affirmative answer, carefully overlapped his lips with hers. Her cat tail, which had popped out on its own, stood up stiffly in the shape of an exclamation point.

Ideun gently tasted her lips so that Kitty wouldn’t be surprised anymore, and then pulled away.

The lips that had overlapped and separated dozens of times in just a few minutes were moist and glistening.

“I like you too, Kitty.”

“…”

“I’m sure you already knew, so that’s why you responded.”

Ideun wrapped his arm around her waist with his one good arm. He was planning to drive a wedge in while the atmosphere was strange.

His soft lips moved at a distance that was almost touching the nape of Kitty’s neck.

“Don’t forget what you just did.”

“…”

“It’s our first time. You’re a cat, so you don’t know, but wolves place great importance on things like this.”

Had Ideun’s voice ever been so pathetic? He was speaking softly, as if he had heard her say she was abandoning him.

She hadn’t even thought of leaving, but it was as if he was begging her not to leave.

‘How could Ideun do this…!’

Was Mrs. Weebis on the fox’s side after all?

Kitty couldn’t help but doubt Ideun’s bloodline.

Kitty nodded to Ideun, who had been shameless until just now but was now looking up at her with pitiful eyes.

Ideun expressed his satisfaction and spoke again in his usual mischievous voice.

“Then let go of my bandage.”

“…!”

Since when had she been holding on like this?

Kitty’s hands were gripping the bandage Ideun was wearing as if she was about to tear it off. Her cat claws had popped out when they kissed, leaving claw marks on his chest.

“Oh my gosh. I’ll go get someone right away.”

“No, it’s okay. I’ll take care of it myself, so go back to the Gridwolf camp.”

Considering the distance, Jackal and Karis should have arrived near the camp by now. Ideun tried to send Kitty out of the camp, who was looking at his chest and feeling sorry again.

“…”

Then, he slowly examined the traces Kitty had left on his chest.

He could still vividly feel the sensation of her two hands slowly curling up on his body when their lips lightly touched.

He probably wouldn’t be able to forget it until he died.

“Lord, Lady Kittyah asked me to change your bandage again…”

Ideun’s aide, Cale, who had entered the camp after receiving Kitty’s request, paused for a moment.

It had been 20 years since he started serving Ideun under Hogwood’s orders.

“…Cale. Go out for a while and come back in.”

He saw Ideun with a reddish face for the first time, as if he had lost all reason.

Even if he explained this sight to the vassals who had spent a long time in Weebis, they wouldn’t believe it. Hogwood would probably laugh it off, telling him not to joke around.

It was the first time the cold young master had shown such a reaction.

‘What on earth did Lady Kittyah do….’

Cale vowed to serve the future mistress well from now on and left the camp.

Ideun, who was left in that spot, rested his chin on his hand and looked at the ceiling, trying to cool down his face for a long time.