Trash of the Count's Family

Choi Han looked as if he was running across a flat plain, even as he jumped across roofs with Cale on his back.

‘This is more comfortable than a carriage.’

Cale was admiring Choi Han’s extreme stability while enjoying the apple pie that was fed into his mouth every time he opened it.

The smell and texture of apples along with the sweetness. Cale licked his lips after finishing one slice of apple pie and felt more relaxed.

‘Much better.’

The only issue with the Fire of Destruction was this extreme hunger that came afterward.

‘But this time was much better than the time at the Ten Finger Mountains because I didn’t cough up blood-’

He could not finish his thought.

Cough.

Cale coughed, and blood seeped into Choi Han's clothes.

‘Damn it.’

Cale realized something after seeing that he was coughing up blood.

‘There’s always blood when the Vitality of the Heart moves with urgency.’

This was the case whether it was the Plaza Terror Incident, the Ten Finger Mountains incident, or the recent incident in the Empire when he used the shield again. Whenever he used a significant amount of strength, the Vitality of the Heart would urgently start to work in order to restore his health. It always made him let out one bloody cough.

‘But I feel so much better.’

It always made him feel better afterward.

Cale was relieved that something terrible like coughing up blood while eating apple pie did not happen and looked toward Raon.

“…What are you doing?”

“…Nothing, human.”

Cale could see a piece of apple pie flying away as dust. He could also see the poisonous fog starting to come out of On and Hong’s bodies.

He had an iffy feeling about it all as he patted Choi Han's back. Shouldn’t he at least apologize for getting blood on him?

“Sorry.”

“…It was not a problem.”

Choi Han responded after a while. That made Cale think that Choi Han was annoyed that there was blood on his back but had calmed himself down.

Even he would have been angry if it had happened to him.

Cale wanted to move away from the angry Choi Han. He had filled his belly with apple pie, so he could probably walk on his own now.

“I should be okay to get off now. Let’s start moving again once you put me down.”

“…It is not a problem.”

‘Not a problem?’

Cale found Choi Han’s response to be odd. Choi Han quickly added on.

“It is like moving with a broom on my back. You are lighter than a haystack. Furthermore, I can move more efficiently and stealthily than you can, Cale-nim.”

‘…Did he just compare me to a broom and a haystack?’

Cale knew that Choi Han was speaking honestly, but he couldn't help but feel upset. Raon shoved another piece of apple pie toward him at that moment and started to speak.

“Listen to Choi Han, weak human.”

“But-”

Raon shoved the apple pie in Cale’s mouth when he opened his mouth to speak. Cale looked toward Raon with shock, but the Black Dragon had a determined look on his face.

“Human, I don't care what you have to say. Listen to our will this time.”

‘What does he mean by our will?’

Cale was flabbergasted. However, he did not say what he was originally going to say. What he had planned to say was not different than this, ‘will,’ that Raon was talking about.

‘I don't mind, this makes it easier for me.’

It was relaxing to be carried and fed apple pie as they headed up the hill to the white Duke’s Estate.

However, the streets underneath them were becoming completely chaotic.

Cale looked down at the streets.

The streets were busy even though it was night time. The wooden pillar was still burning. However, neither laughter nor music could be heard.

All of them were looking in the same direction.

They were all looking toward the lake of legends. They could not see the lake itself, but they could see the tall pillar of fire that was shooting up toward the sky.

“T, there’s a pillar of fire at the l, lake……!”

One of the nobles who was enjoying his meal in a VIP room walked out onto the terrace in shock.

pay attention to the

if it could easily decimate this plaza

that had just

It was as if-

“…God.”

seemed to be

hand started

lake that the god

he could not

“Aaaaaah!”

“F, f, fire!”

looked down below the terrace. The people who had been

to pray. He could see people reacting in many different ways. People may

noble was

Chhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

could see vapor starting

on the wooden pillar was

the fire being put out made people stop moving. The mages had poured water onto the wooden pillar, leaving behind only

a loud voice that was amplified

be

his head to

had heard some information earlier in the day. Duke Sekka was going to visit

He was standing on a terrace and speaking to the crowd down in

current Duke, Rock Sekka, was still known as the, ‘Guardian Knight,’

the Paerun Kingdom. Fire cannot defeat our Paerun

in the coldest part of the

In fact, the fact that it was dry made it more susceptible to fires. However, people started to calm

win against

to the

The fire will

had been stationed at the plaza, as well as the Sekka Estate's knights that Duke Rock had

to speak while watching all of this as they

“I'm relieved.”

He really meant it.

a bit shocked as

know that the current Duke would come to the

be a noble to calm

he never expected it to be

makes it quite

at Cale almost obsessively,

you smiling

flinch. It was because he could

reaction. He had no choice

had said it in front of the crowd as

soon be put

‘Soon?’

was

fire would not go out no matter what they do. They will only think about the Empire’s alchemy after a few days. They should know about the pillar of fire that the Empire used on Maple Castle since they are in

be able to keep his promise

as he

The Paerun Castle.

Guardian Knight Clopeh was currently

not the only one who had his sights on the castle. Duke Rock was also looking toward the

His son, Clopeh Sekka.

toward the lake with his people. He was confident

the castle opened as if it was responding to the

Screeeech-

gate opened as knights on horseback appeared from within the castle. There was a knight holding a white flag in the

“Let’s go.”

the short order before quickly heading toward the

taking a short break while looking toward the brightly lit plaza. However,

good for Clopeh, who was planning on moving south as soon as

though

What was going on?

fluttering in the wind. That made him recall

white-haired priest he had

had

identity card he had been presented had ended up being a fake. The

pray that the lake fills

of something while

gaze seemed to

said he was praying for it, his gaze had been full of certainty.

will be visible

humans and

hands that were holding

his head up. He needed to stop

“Woah, woah-”

its own. It just stood there without being able to move any farther. Clopeh

about the sight of the lake in front of

be specific, all he could see was the

“How could this-”

did not extend beyond the lake and just continued to shoot up toward the sky. Looking at this made him

Anger.

started to beat wildly. The mages

“Captain-nim!”

an order with a

on putting out the fire. Knights, cut the nearby trees and bring over large