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.

knew he was in control of this discussion. That was why he

easier to handle them. The rational people were the ones who

“5.”

out 5 billion

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

long ago it was discovered, it was an

However, Cale was stern.

“How much?”

immediately shot

“6.”

race in this negotiation. The auction started

The negotiation remained calm.

“How much?”

“7.”

could hear the auctioneer's voice coming from beyond

have 300 million counds! Any other bids?

at the same

“How much?”

getting anxious because of the two words Cale were repeating over and over. He seemed to be flinching every time it

“8.”

gasped at the bishop's

intruder were making it hard for

“How much?”

tell that the man in front of

“10.”

10 billion counds.

price had reached the 10 billion

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

still is not

started to speak before Cale

“15.”

of the Night's Exultation as the

He then added on.

to give you

“How much?”

“Ho.”

could not help

started to glare at the masked

know how to say? You're supposed to respect your

it even

tired of speaking and just asked with his

‘How much?’

lifted his hands up as if he admitted

“20.”

“Gasp.”

in front of them. He seemed to be

“That's the max.”

head with

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

corrupted people one

had given him that advice right before he passed on the team

was very sound

“How much?”

of a

now started

had heard all sorts of swearing directed at him when he was Kim Rok Soo. The corrupt ones always resorted to swearing when they were in a

eyes

“…22.”

“23.”

“…You bastard.”

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

lot of money, try hitting them

not plan to do

use them later, make sure to give

on using the bishop, there was no reason

thinking about the future as he observed the bishop calling the priest over. The priest finally turned around

“Here. 10 billion counds.”

bishop then threw the pouch to

prepared as I expected,

talking casually this whole time

then added

once more in the

bishop start

he would come to see him again with the

paper out of his pocket and put it on top of the table. The location

Screeech.

opened once again. Cale disappeared out of

whole time calmly stood up. The calm expression looked as cold as the

was even colder

investigate that

“Yes, bishop-nim.”

who had been pretending to be a servant bowed his

Click, click.

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

leaned back. He then received

Click.

to that of the

his face and started

is annoying to

voice had turned into that of an old man as

also hard to pretend to be old. But it seems like

sir, he does

the investigation in the Paerun Kingdom since he has

“Yes sir.”

touched the

deal with Raon's questions as he flew back into