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.

attention to

that looked as if it could easily decimate this plaza had scared the shit out

recalled the red thunderbolt that had

It was as if-

“…God.”

seemed to be a

hand

would the lake that the god left from

he could not

“Aaaaaah!”

“F, f, fire!”

people who had been shocked by this unexpected event

could see people reacting in many different ways.

the noble was

Chhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

vapor

wooden pillar

The mages had poured water onto

that moment, a loud voice that was amplified with magic

be put

noble turned his head

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

was standing on a terrace and speaking to the crowd down in the plaza. The citizens

as the, ‘Guardian Knight,’ to

Fire cannot defeat our

in

In fact, the fact that it was dry made it

cannot win against

to the wooden

knights. The

the Sekka Estate's knights that

to speak while watching all of this

“I'm relieved.”

He really meant it.

a bit shocked as

didn't know that the current Duke would

be a noble to calm the crowd

it

makes it

at Cale almost obsessively, started to

you smiling

he could imagine how Cale was smiling by

reaction. He had no

it in front of the crowd as if it was the

fire will soon

‘Soon?’

Duke was speaking

a few days. They should know about the pillar of fire that the Empire used on Maple Castle since they are in

will not be able to keep his promise to

situation as he looked, not at the Sekka

The Paerun Castle.

where Guardian Knight Clopeh was currently

who had his sights on the

His son, Clopeh Sekka.

believed that his son would be heading toward the lake with his people. He was confident that

the castle opened as if it was responding to the Duke's

Screeeech-

as knights on horseback appeared from within the castle. There was a knight holding a white flag in the front with Guardian Knight Clopeh

“Let’s go.”

order before quickly

toward the brightly lit plaza. However, a red thunderbolt suddenly shot down to the ground and the

was planning on moving south as

beating fast even though he looked calm on the

What was going on?

white hair fluttering in the wind. That made

had

had said were dominating his

into thin air. The identity card he had been presented had ended up being a fake. The priest

the lake

thought of something while listening

to

was praying for it, his gaze had been full of certainty. Clopeh remembered all

will be visible in due

humans and left

were holding the reins

his head up. He needed to stop

“Woah, woah-”

not need to do anything. The horse stopped on its own. It just stood there without being able to move any farther. Clopeh quietly observed the situation in front of

could not say anything about the sight of the lake in front of

see was the pillar of fire filling the

“How could this-”

not extend beyond the lake and just continued to shoot up toward

Anger.

started to beat wildly. The mages who

“Captain-nim!”

gave an order with

fire. Knights, cut the nearby trees and bring over