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

giant pillar of fire that looked as if it could easily decimate this plaza had scared the shit out

red thunderbolt that

It was as if-

“…God.”

be a

hand

that the god left from start

not

“Aaaaaah!”

“F, f, fire!”

The people who had been shocked by

He could see people reacting in many different

noble was not

Chhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

see vapor

fire on the wooden pillar

mages

a loud voice that was amplified with magic

can be

his head to

Sekka was going to visit the wooden

Sekka Duchy’s current Duke. He was standing on a terrace and speaking to the

Sekka, was still known as the, ‘Guardian Knight,’ to the people. Rock started to speak with a

Paerun Kingdom. Fire cannot defeat

located in

the fact that it

win

Rock pointed to the

to the knights. The

the Sekka Estate's knights that Duke

started to speak while watching all of this

“I'm relieved.”

He really meant it.

bit shocked

current Duke would come

there would be a noble to calm the

expected it to be the Duke

it quite

had been looking at Cale almost obsessively, started to

why are you smiling like

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

that reaction. He had

front of the crowd as if

fire will soon

‘Soon?’

was speaking

do. They will only think about the Empire’s alchemy after a few days. They should know about the pillar of

be able to keep his promise to

at this unexpected situation as he looked,

The Paerun Castle.

Knight

had his sights on the castle. Duke Rock

His son, Clopeh Sekka.

the lake with his people. He was confident that his son would take care of

the castle opened as if

Screeeech-

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

“Let’s go.”

gave the short order before quickly heading toward the

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

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

heart was beating fast even though he

What was going on?

That made him recall the events of the

priest he had met a few

words that the priest had said

thin air. The identity card he had been presented had

lake fills back up

something while

seemed to be full

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

visible in

gathered up his gift to the humans and left

were

up.

“Woah, woah-”

do anything. The horse stopped on its own. It just stood there without being able to move any farther.

could not say anything about the sight of

was the pillar of fire

“How could this-”

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

Anger.

started to beat wildly. The mages who had been with

“Captain-nim!”

gave an order with a

on putting out the fire. Knights, cut the nearby trees