Trash of the Count's Family

The bishop remained silent.

All he did was look at Cale up and down repeatedly.

They could hear the auctioneer's voice from beyond the curtain.

“The first item is a fountain pen with a beautiful feather. The feather is, as expected, the remains of a beautiful Beast person.”

The voice was loud enough to break the silence in terrace 1.

“How much do you want?”

A dry voice echoed inside the terrace. The servant almost arrogantly started to discuss the deal. It basically revealed that he was actually the bishop.

He asked his question and did not say anything else.

‘Who are you?’ or, ‘do you really have the item?’

Those kinds of questions were not important at all.

For the bishop, who had experienced all sorts of things throughout his life, the only thing that mattered was the single line in Cale's invitation.

< Do you wish to gain a divine item? >

The sentence written underneath that gave credibility to the reason for the invitation.

< I am in possession of the Night's Exultation that the pope had hidden away. Buy it from me. >

The bishop knew that the dead pope was a greedy man. That was the reason he had given the Night's Exultation as an offering.

He also knew that the pope had a secret area where he kept all of these treasures.

Wasn’t it possible that a divine item would be in such a location?

The bishop wanted to become the pope.

He was just waiting for the right opportunity to seize the position.

He continued to observe the man in the white mask in front of him.

The masked man had yet to answer his question about how much he wanted for the item. The masked man's uncovered mouth slowly started to open.

“They say that the Night's Exultation shines even brighter when it comes into contact with dead mana. This is different than how normal items react when they come into contact with dead mana.”

The bishop sighed and responded back to the masked man who was spewing nonsense.

“What is it? You want to take your Night's Exultation and experiment with the fake one in the temple?”

The bishop could hear the masked man scoff at him.

Cale shook his head while looking at the bishop.

“Old man, what a terrible personality you have.”

“This is normal as you get older.”

The priest in front of them flinched, however, he did not turn to look behind him.

The priest quietly stood there and pretended to not be aware of the bishop in servant's clothes and the intruder.

“How much do you want?”

The bishop asked for the price once again.

The Night's Exultation appeared in front of his eyes at that moment.

“I guess you don't suspect that I'm a spy from the Empire?”

The bishop bluntly responded back to the masked man’s question.

“Spy or not, the fact that you are a merchant trying to sell me an item does not change.”

‘This dude is quite smart.’

This was indeed the case. Whether he was a spy from the Empire or not, the bishop cared more about the chance to recover the Night's Exultation and purchase a divine item.

Cale liked this bishop quite a bit. However, he did not fix the error in the bishop's statement.

Merchant.

Cale was not a merchant.

In fact, he was a hunter.

He was planning on throwing out the baits one by one in order to draw in the prey in front of him into a trap.

The first bait was the divine item.

The bishop would definitely purchase the Night's Exultation in order to get his hands on a divine item.

He needed a way to remain connected to Cale.

Cale opened his mouth to speak.

“How much?”

“What? Ho!”

The bishop laughed in disbelief.

The punk in front of him was telling him to initiate a starting price. However, the bishop actually liked this.

Why?

It was because this merchant knew who held the upper hand.

in control of this discussion. That was why he was trying to pressure the bishop. The bishop liked intelligent people

handle them. The rational people were the ones who understood their

“5.”

called out 5 billion

price for the Night's Exultation. This had been the

it was discovered, it

However, Cale was stern.

“How much?”

immediately

“6.”

in this negotiation. The auction

The negotiation remained calm.

“How much?”

“7.”

the auctioneer's voice coming from beyond

Any other

at the

“How much?”

were repeating over and over. He seemed to be flinching

“8.”

priest gasped at

the intruder were

“How much?”

tell that the man in front of him

“10.”

10 billion counds.

reached the 10

the original selling price, the bishop could tell something after looking

still is

started to speak before Cale could open his mouth once

“15.”

Night's Exultation as

He then added on.

impossible to give you

“How much?”

“Ho.”

could not help

glare at

say? You're supposed to respect your

words sounded as if the bishop was scolding him, the tone was gentle. In fact, it even sounded a bit affectionate, but Cale was not one to be

and

‘How much?’

as if he admitted defeat and

“20.”

“Gasp.”

front of them. He seemed

“That's the max.”

bishop shook his head

he was telling the truth. However, there was something Cale had learned during his

people one extra

taught him everything about working had given him that advice right before he passed on the team

very sound

“How much?”

of

now

directed at him when he was Kim Rok Soo. The corrupt ones always resorted to swearing when they

closed his eyes and

“…22.”

“23.”

“…You bastard.”

face. However, Cale recalled something else his team leader had said during Cale’s time

they have a lot of

did not plan to do

use them later, make sure to give

was planning on using the bishop, there was no reason to rip him off completely and destroy

the priest over. The priest finally turned around and handed over

“Here. 10 billion counds.”

then threw the pouch to

prepared as I expected,

responded as if he had not been talking casually this whole time while the

then added

see you once more in the

made the bishop

would come to see him again with the divine

and put it on top of the table. The

Screeech.

disappeared out of the terrace with the money pouch

anxious this whole time calmly stood up. The calm expression

colder than the bishop's

investigate that

“Yes, bishop-nim.”

to be a servant bowed his head toward the

Click, click.

pocket was activated and the servant’s face changed to that of a forty-year-old man. This

and leaned back. He then received the magic device from

Click.

changed to that of

brushed his face and started

to touch

turned into that of an old man as

also hard to pretend to be old. But it seems

he does not seem

Paerun Kingdom since he has

“Yes sir.”

bishop touched the magic device

to deal with Raon's questions as he flew back into terrace