Trash of the Count's Family

“…Suddenly.”

It really had been all of a sudden.

“I suddenly couldn't go berserk. I can’t remember how I did it. I need to quickly overcome it and take care of the issue, but I don't remember the method. It really was all of a sudden. I don't know why-”

“Lock, since when did it not work?”

Pat, pat. Lock stopped talking as Raon patted him on the shoulder. However, his eyes were still showing signs of uncertainty.

Cannot enter his berserk transformation.

This sudden regression of strength.

Lock knew when it had started. That was why he could not say it. It would make him seem too stupid and useless.

“That, you see, the moment it started was…”

The tips of Lock’s lips started to turn blue.

Cale started to speak at that moment.

“No need.”

Lock flinched and looked to the other side.

“I'm sure it'll return some day.”

“···Excuse me?”

Lock could see that Cale was speaking with a calm expression on his face. Lock could feel the emotion coming from Cale through his expression and his voice.

“First, we need to fatten you up. Relax and roll around doing nothing.”

“He's right! Lock, you are too skinny!”

They were extremely calm, as if they had come here to vacation. That made Lock open and close his mouth a few times before finally managing to get a word out.

“…But the battle is coming up.”

Battle.

It was such a scary and fearful word.

“And?”

However, the response he got back was extremely calm.

Lock suddenly felt upset. He started to speak.

“I couldn’t go berserk since I heard about the war!”

‘Oops.’

Lock’s expression crumbled after revealing that fact. He lowered his head and buried his face in his hands.

He recalled the moment he realized he could not go berserk.

It was when Rosalyn told him about the upcoming battle.

It was when she had told him that the Indomitable Alliance was headed to the Breck Kingdom for a final battle.

His heart had started to beat wildly at that moment. It was then that he realized he could not go berserk anymore.

“Since that moment, since I learned that we are going to fight, I can’t go berserk anymore. I should be fighting alongside everyone else. But why is it that I cannot go berserk right before the battle?”

Lock was full of despair at that fact.

In fact, he was despising himself.

Anybody could see why he would be like this with this timing.

“…It’s like I'm trying to avoid the battle. It’s as if I am afraid. I need to grow quickly to help.”

Lock recalled Rosalyn's look of confusion about how to console him, as well as the shocked expressions on the faces of the others whom he had not seen for a while.

Their concerns for him made him hate himself even more.

“Choi Han hyung and Rosalyn noona saved my siblings and I.”

Lock did not think he came all this way on his own. There were too many people who helped guide his cowardly and timid self.

“Young master-nim also saved us and gave us a home. I need to pay you back for that! But why am I like this!”

That was why Lock hated himself right now.

He was embarrassed.

Forget the Wolf King, he was just a weakling.

Lock sighed after seeing that his two hands were still shaking.

He heard Cale's voice again at that moment.

“It’s okay.”

Cale put down his fork and looked toward Lock.

“Lock.”

if Cale was telling Lock to look at him. The young boy slowly raised his head. Cale admitted

people

such an expression on Cale's face

about a wolf’s loneliness. However, I did not want it to be painful.

was not such a terrible person to want something like that for a

had a family. However, this timid child

Loss.

healer Pendrick's death leads to Lock's first berserk

plans on doing something crazy like that. Lock was only 15 years

is no reason for

You saved me,

as soon as Cale asked a

you throw me away if I

“What-”

like that

Lock throw Cale away?

opened wide in shock as Cale smiled back at

“Lock, you wouldn’t, right?”

picked his fork back

something

Something obvious.

at a loss

trust, show me that you are healthy first. And just watch. You

Lock could see Raon pushing a fork toward him. Cale continued to

enough to

in a joking tone. Lock had seen many new expressions on Cale's face today. Lock slowly picked his fork back up

good for the first time in a

food while he had been at

“…Delicious.”

lot if it

food toward him and continued to stuff

out if he did not do that. He suppressed his

quietly watched as Lock did that. The Black Dragon’s dark blue eyes then peeked to the side.

out once he was full

sleep for about three

busy starting early

get at least a short nap in so that he could do that. Of course, there were still people standing guard, but

“Raon.”

“What is it, Human?”

video communication

decided he needed

to protect myself. It will be hard to protect

strength. That was why he was planning on using his

“By the way, human.”

"What is it?”

with the six-years-old Dragon who stopped connecting the device and looked toward him. Raon looked at Cale and

cannot go through my first growth

Raon had buried himself underneath the blanket and cried about how he was not great and mighty because he could not activate his first growth phase. Cale wondered why Raon

berserk transformation situation, but regardless, he chose to answer back after

that last time? Don't ask me something so

it okay if I am

is

Dragon that was far from weak

think you were weak when

touching the round video communication device

The cave.

moment he first met

restricted as he was kept under mana restricting

could not even run away and could only live in the

Then he was saved.

saved even though he was not

his head. He also heard Cale's quiet sigh and mumble about how ‘a six-year-old is

although I am weaker than you, I've lived at least thirty, no, fifteen years more than you. But I am

his mistake and quickly changed it up before

a

Dragon’s stern response made Cale nod his head as if he was saying, ’isn’t that all that

started to

save me?

on the chair

save you? Just

do you keep me by

who seemed to have more

need a

we not need

me and why

not need

not asked until now, but he had been curious. Everything in the world had a reason. All things were connected, and

a reason Cale and he were traveling

be. The human who claimed to have lived at least fifteen years more than he had, answered

is our house. Is that not

is our

it sounded catchy. Raon

He suddenly felt full.

Dragon slowly started to

Human, that

was going on but sternly spoke to the

“The call.”