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.

could not pay attention

it could easily decimate

recalled the red thunderbolt that had just descended onto

It was as if-

“…God.”

to be a

hand started to

lake that the god left from

not

“Aaaaaah!”

“F, f, fire!”

the terrace. The people who had been shocked by this unexpected event

who were running away and others who kneeled and started to pray. He could see people reacting in many different ways. People may end up getting hurt if the plaza

noble was

Chhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

see vapor starting

the wooden pillar was put

of the fire being put out made people stop moving. The mages had poured

was amplified

can be put

noble turned his head to the

Duke Sekka was going to visit the wooden pillar in the

Duke. He was standing on a terrace and speaking to the

known as the, ‘Guardian Knight,’ to the

the Paerun Kingdom. Fire cannot defeat

in the coldest part of the

do with putting out the fire. In fact, the fact that it was dry made

win

to

the knights. The

plaza, as well as the Sekka Estate's knights that Duke Rock had brought with

while watching all of this as

“I'm relieved.”

He really meant it.

was a bit shocked

didn't know that the current Duke

there would be a noble to calm the

expected it to be the Duke

it

looking at Cale almost obsessively,

are you smiling like that

he could imagine how Cale

reaction. He had no choice because of the

of the crowd as if it was the

soon

‘Soon?’

was speaking

matter what they do. They will only think about the Empire’s alchemy after a few days.

not be able

situation as he looked, not at the Sekka

The Paerun Castle.

was where Guardian Knight Clopeh

had his sights on

His son, Clopeh Sekka.

the lake with his people. He

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

Screeeech-

from within the castle. There was a knight holding a white flag in the front with Guardian Knight

“Let’s go.”

order before quickly heading toward

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

was planning on moving south as soon

beating fast even though he looked

What was going on?

in the wind. That

white-haired priest he had met a few days

words that the priest had said were dominating his

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

that the lake fills

thought of something while

gaze seemed to be

gaze had been full of certainty. Clopeh remembered all of the

visible

up his gift to the humans and left because

hands that were holding the

then lifted his head up. He

“Woah, woah-”

own. It just stood there without being able to move

could not say anything about the sight of the

was the pillar of fire filling the

“How could this-”

extend beyond the lake and just continued to shoot up toward the sky. Looking at

Anger.

started to beat wildly. The mages who had been with him soon

“Captain-nim!”

order with a stoic

Knights, cut the nearby trees and bring over large quantities of dirt. Mages, start to use