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

looked as if it could easily

the red thunderbolt that had

It was as if-

“…God.”

seemed to be a

noble's hand started to

the lake that the

could not

“Aaaaaah!”

“F, f, fire!”

terrace. The people who had been shocked by this

see people reacting in many different

noble

Chhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

see vapor

fire on the wooden pillar was put

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

that was amplified with magic echoed throughout the

be

noble turned his head to the

earlier in the day. Duke Sekka was going

a terrace and speaking to the

known as the, ‘Guardian Knight,’ to the people. Rock started to speak

Paerun Kingdom. Fire cannot defeat our

Paerun Kingdom was located in the coldest part of

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

cannot win against

to

to the knights. The

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

of this as they moved

“I'm relieved.”

He really meant it.

bit shocked as

current Duke

that there would be a noble to calm the crowd

it to be

makes it

who had been looking at Cale almost

why are you smiling like that

flinch. It was because he could imagine how Cale was smiling by simply listening

that reaction. He had no

front of the crowd as if

fire will soon be

‘Soon?’

Duke was

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

will not be able to keep his promise to

as he looked, not at the Sekka Estate,

The Paerun Castle.

Knight

was not the only one who had his sights on the castle. Duke

His son, Clopeh Sekka.

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

gates of the castle opened as if it

Screeeech-

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

“Let’s go.”

the short order before quickly

been taking care of business in the castle before taking a short break while looking toward the brightly lit

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

even though he looked calm on the

What was going on?

hair fluttering in the wind. That made him recall the events of the other day even

had met

words that the priest had said

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

something while listening to the

seemed to be full

been full of certainty. Clopeh remembered all of the things that the priest

will be visible

humans and left because of human greed. He never showed any

hands that were holding

his head up. He needed to

“Woah, woah-”

did 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

not say anything about the sight of the lake in

specific, all he could see was the pillar

“How could this-”

the lake and just continued to shoot up toward the

Anger.

wildly. The mages who had

“Captain-nim!”

order with

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