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

that looked as if it could easily decimate this plaza

the red thunderbolt that had

It was as if-

“…God.”

be

noble's hand started to

the lake that the god left from

could not

“Aaaaaah!”

“F, f, fire!”

below the terrace. The people who had been

people reacting in many different ways. People may end up getting hurt if the plaza ended up in

noble

Chhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

see vapor starting to

wooden pillar was put

moving. The mages had poured water onto the wooden pillar, leaving behind

that moment, a loud voice that was

be

his head

information earlier in the day. Duke Sekka was going to visit the wooden pillar

Duke. He was standing on a terrace and speaking to

as the, ‘Guardian Knight,’ to the people. Rock

Paerun Kingdom. Fire cannot

was located in the coldest

not have much to do with putting out the fire. In fact, the fact that it was dry made it more susceptible to

cannot win against

pointed to the

to the knights. The

and knights who had been stationed at the plaza, as well as the Sekka Estate's knights that

all of this as

“I'm relieved.”

He really meant it.

bit

current Duke would

would be a noble to calm

he never expected it to be

it

at Cale almost

you smiling

because he could imagine how Cale was smiling by simply listening

just ignored that reaction. He had no choice because of

the crowd as

will soon be

‘Soon?’

was speaking

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

the Duke will not be

he looked, not at

The Paerun Castle.

Guardian Knight Clopeh was currently

his sights on the castle. Duke

His son, Clopeh Sekka.

toward the lake with his

as

Screeeech-

within the castle. There was a knight holding a white

“Let’s go.”

before quickly heading

of business in the castle before taking a short break while looking toward the

was not good for Clopeh, who was planning on moving south as soon as

beating fast even though he

What was going on?

his white hair fluttering in the wind. That made him recall the events of the other

had met a

that the priest had

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

that the lake fills

of something

to be full

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

will be visible

the humans and left because of human greed. He

were holding

lifted his head up.

“Woah, woah-”

It just stood there without being able to

the sight of the

specific, all he could see was

“How could this-”

lake and just continued to shoot up toward

Anger.

heart started to beat wildly. The mages who had been

“Captain-nim!”

an order with a stoic

the nearby trees and bring over