Trash of the Count's Family

After coming out of the prison, Cale put the dragon down in front of the two kittens.

“That looks like it hurts.”

“So sad.”

On and Hong circled around the still silent dragon. The dragon started to show its teeth and growl at them. This was probably the first time in its life it ever saw anything other than humans.

Cale verified the time on his watch. It looked like they had just enough time to escape.

“It looks like it hurts.”

On approached Cale and tapped his leg. She seemed to be thinking about the potion Cale brought in his magic box. She couldn’t ask him for it, so she could only act this way.

“Hold on.”

Cale had brought that potion to use it. However, he needed to wait until the mana restriction chains were off. The potion would only work properly if the mana, which was practically as important as a dragon’s heart, was no longer restricted.

Cale started to head toward the opposite side of the prison, the location the torturer seemed to be guarding. It wasn’t very loud, but he could hear Choi Han fighting in the distance. Cale presumed that Choi Han’s battle would end soon as well.

“Let’s see.”

Cale started to pat the cave wall with his hands. He kicked the torturer with his foot to get him out of the way, and continued to pat every aspect of the wall. The dragon growled after seeing the torturer, but stayed still and continued to focus on Cale.

‘Venion’s last line of defense should be around here somewhere.’

Like all of the members of Marquis Stan’s family, Venion was extremely worried about someone intruding while he was inside. He had created a secret tunnel to use as an escape route if something like that ever happened. If the torturer knew about it, he probably would have used it to escape earlier, but, sadly, even the torturer did not know about this escape route.

‘The novel said there was a flat area on this bumpy wall-, ah here it is.’

There was a flat area about the size of a person’s hand on this bumpy cave wall. Although Venion looked like he had OCD and would never do anything like training, everyone in the Marquis’s family had learned martial arts.

‘If you use a strong enough force on that location, the wall will open.’

It was not a magic device. Instead, the force of the impact made the device move. Cale turned his head to look toward the person who entered and asked.

“All done?”

“Yes.”

Choi Han lightly swung his sword in the air to get rid of the blood on it and then approached Cale. His gaze soon turned toward the dragon, and started to frown. It was a natural reaction to seeing such a small creature being covered in blood. The glare in Choi Han’s eyes as he stared at the torturer was vicious.

“Choi Han.”

That was why Cale had called out to Choi Han. Choi Han was still glaring at the torturer as he reported.

“As you ordered, I left the escaping workers alone. I also made sure that all of the strong individuals would not be able to fight.”

“Good job.”

Cale praised Choi Han before pointing to the flat area on the wall.

“Punch this spot.”

“As strong as I can?”

‘Are you planning on destroying the cave?’

“No. Control your strength. Just pretend you are creating a 10cm dent in this wall.”

“Mm. So, very lightly.”

“Sure.”

Very lightly? Cale quickly stepped away from Choi Han after hearing Choi Han call something that was impossible for Cale to do as only using a tiny bit of his strength.

Choi Han understood that to be Cale telling him to hurry, and immediately punched the wall with his fist.

Boom!

“Wow.”

“Oh.”

Cale picked the dragon back up while the kitten siblings were admiring what happened.

Screeeeeeeech-

A chilling screeching noise came out of the wall, and an area the size of an adult male appeared to one side of the cave wall. Choi Han quickly picked up the torch.

“Let’s go.”

At Cale’s command, the kittens got on Choi Han’s back, as Choi Han stepped into the tunnel first. Cale followed behind him. The dragon remained quiet in Cale’s arms, with only the sound of its breathing coming out of it. However, the eyes that were staring at Cale were still extremely vicious.

Rather than any gratitude for saving him, it seemed to be filled with thoughts of terror about being tortured by someone else, as well as anger and resentment toward humans.

“Stop staring at me like that.”

Cale casually talked to the dragon in his arms.

‘Ah, I’m a bit out of breath.’

out of breath as he tried to keep up with Choi Han, who

Choi Han carry the

be this hard if he was

anger. There was no way he could leave it here after

him. Cale’s black clothes

running through that dark and narrow tunnel for a few minutes,

is a wall in

fist with the same strength as before. Then we

“I understand!”

put some strength into

Boom!

They were outside the

on the entire mountain. Venion had put a magic recording device on this secret

didn’t know exactly where this entrance was located, necessitating the Mana

left. They needed to get out of the range of the magic recording device in the next one or two minutes.

some traces as they passed. After surviving in the Forest of Darkness on his own for so long, he was an expert at creating and following tracks. After running away from

“Stop.”

off in the area suddenly stopped blarring. The Mana Disturbance Tool had

“Huuuu~.”

took a deep breath, calming his rapidly beating heart. The Indestructible Shield around his heart was gathering strength every time his heart beat like that, just in case an

plans to use it right

Cale was not planning on using this shield just yet. After freeing this dragon and saying goodbye to Choi Han in the next city, he was planning on gaining the

to look around, Cale looked down toward the dragon. He then

saw anything other than the cave walls in its four years of life. Cale understood what the dragon was feeling,

to look at it. The dragon looked right back at him.

it continued to get tortured for four years. It won’t back

himself. Growing up being abused as an orphan, Cale, well, Kim Rok Soo, had given in. After that, he didn’t want to be the main character of a story, like Choi Han. After giving in at a place he called home,

“Hey.”

took out a pair of gloves and some scissors-shaped cutting tool. There were a lot of magic seals on both of the blades for cutting. He then put on the electricity-resistant

rented in Billos’s name. This was not something you

this, but, young master, I hope to see

I’m going to

that you plan to

‘…Shut up.’

with Billos, before realizing that his surroundings suddenly became extremely quiet. Choi Han was looking at the cutter with chaotic eyes, while

dragon was still just staring

“Tsk.”

approached the dragon. The mana restriction chain was made with something similar to rubber. If it was made of metal, it would not have fit the growing dragon. That was

grabbed

“Gasp.”

as possible. The cutter headed for the dragon’s neck. The sharp blade shone under the moonlight, and the dragon just paid attention to Cale’s eyes. Cale’s eyes were emotionless

dragon closed its

heard the snapping noise of something getting

Sizzle. Sizzle.

chain was causing

you

to look at him and took off one of the gloves and handed it to Choi Han. Choi Han put the glove on and Cale handed the chain to

purchase. It made Cale feel bad for asking for an allowance the last few days before he left. Cale clicked his tongue and sharply stared at

how much money I spent

he heard quite often. He had heard it almost every day since he was born. Why do you not listen to me when I spent so much money on

However.

you, you better heal properly, you

dragon did not

and poured the rest into its mouth. Thankfully, the dragon did not resist, and

a dragon. The mana, which was the equivalent to the dragon’s heart and the source of all of its power, started

and a blue aura that seemed to be the dragon’s mana surrounded

made Cale think about just how scary

“Hey.”

get injured anymore. The smart dragon seemed to understand what had happened to its body,

curled up while continuing to observe Cale. Cale ignored the dragon and

you want

to smile while looking at the

you can speak the human language. You are a dragon. The smartest and strongest

Cale asked once more.

to

“…I.”

to speak the human language. It was much smarter than humans. There was no way it did

“I.”

of the man in the back, but it would be possible for

dragon finally said the thing he had thought to himself over and over for

“I will live.”

will live, no matter what

“I will go away.”

was going to

revealed his

not be

“Yes. You are right.”

was saying the

DRAGON. You have

four-year-old dragon was stronger than most of the animals in the world. It had enough strength to survive on its own, and, normally, dragons were extremely independent

the dragon, that still did not trust humans, and sternly

not take

have a reason to look after something that was stronger than him. There were also too many potential headaches to keep him around to pay back for Cale’s help. It was different from the children from the Cat Tribe, On