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.’

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

have made Choi Han carry

long dragon was pretty heavy. It would not be this hard if he

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

Cale’s black clothes started

dark and narrow tunnel for a few

a wall in

the same

“I understand!”

some strength into his fist and hit the center of the wall with the same

Boom!

night sky. They were outside

Disturbance Tool to work on the entire mountain. Venion had put a magic recording device on this secret tunnel entrance as well. He

entrance was located, necessitating the Mana Disturbance

out of the range of the magic recording device in the next one or two minutes. But it

some traces as they passed. After surviving in the Forest of Darkness on his own for so long, he was an expert at

“Stop.”

suddenly stopped blarring.

“Huuuu~.”

Shield around his heart was gathering strength every time his heart beat like that, just in case an emergency

plans to use it right

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 ancient power, ‘Vitality of the Heart,’ To strengthen this shield. Only then would

time to look around, Cale looked

than the cave walls in its four years of life. Cale understood what the dragon was

to look at it. The dragon looked right back at him. Its eyes were once again filled with anger and resentment, as it curled its body up and looked ready to

it continued to get tortured for

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, he didn’t think he had the strength

“Hey.”

scissors-shaped cutting tool. There were a lot of magic seals on both of the blades for cutting. He then put on

cutter was one of the two items that had to be rented in Billos’s name. This was not something

why you need this, but, young master, I hope to see you

think I’m going to

that you plan

‘…Shut up.’

Han was looking at the cutter with chaotic eyes, while the kitten siblings had moved away from Cale and were hiding

dragon was still just

“Tsk.”

it

then grabbed the

“Gasp.”

fast as possible. The cutter headed for the

dragon closed its

heard the

Sizzle. Sizzle.

restriction chain was

you looking

and handed it to Choi Han. Choi Han put the glove on and Cale handed the chain to him before taking the potion

this cost quite a bit to purchase. It made Cale feel bad for asking for an allowance the last few days before he left. Cale clicked

know how much money I spent on

to me when I spent so much money on you? Guess you need to be beaten

However.

money on you, you better

dragon did not feel

poured about half of the potion onto the dragon’s back, and poured the rest into its mouth. Thankfully, the dragon

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

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

made Cale think about just how scary and powerful of an existence dragons really were in

“Hey.”

seemed to understand what

The baby dragon curled up while continuing to observe Cale. Cale

do you want to

smile while looking at the dragon that remaining

speak the human language. You are a dragon. The

Cale asked once more.

you want to do once

“…I.”

It was much smarter than humans. There was no way it

“I.”

his heart. With his current strength, he could easily kill the man in front of him. He was scared of the man in the back, but it would

the dragon finally said the thing he had thought to himself over and over for the last four years. However, this was the first time

“I will live.”

no matter

“I will go away.”

to

his

will not be

“Yes. You are right.”

saying the dragon

a dragon. A DRAGON. You have the right

enough strength to survive on its own, and, normally, dragons were extremely independent and prideful. They generally wanted

into the eyes of the dragon, that still did

will not take care of

him around to pay back for Cale’s help. It was different from the children from the