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.”

look at him. The young boy slowly raised his head. Cale

people around

never seen such an expression on Cale's face

loneliness. However, I did not want it to be painful. I also did not want you

was not such a terrible person to

Lock would not feel too lonely as he knew that he had a family. However, this timid child seemed

Loss.

Pendrick's death leads to Lock's first berserk

15 years old. You had to

reason

You saved me, and you

as soon

me away if I

“What-”

that was

Lock throw Cale away?

opened wide in shock as

“Lock, you wouldn’t, right?”

his fork back

don't ask something obvious.

Something obvious.

was suddenly at a loss

my trust, show me that you are healthy first. And just watch. You friends, your family, are

could see Raon pushing a fork toward him. Cale

enough to

expressions on Cale's face today. Lock slowly picked his fork back up and started

tasted good for the first time in a

luxurious food while he had

“…Delicious.”

if it

of food toward him and continued to stuff food

as if something else would pop out if he did not do that. He suppressed

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

Lock out once he was

sleep for about three

busy starting

at least a short nap in so that he could do that. Of

“Raon.”

“What is it, Human?”

video communication

Lock and decided he

myself. It will be

That was why he was planning on using his network. He watched as Raon prepared to take the

“By the way, human.”

"What is it?”

made eye contact with the six-years-old Dragon who stopped connecting the device and looked toward him. Raon looked

first

how Raon had buried himself underneath the blanket and cried about how he was not great and mighty because he could not activate

he chose to answer back after

that last time? Don't ask me something so

Is it okay

heck is

disbelief at what the scary Dragon that was far from weak was saying before casually

were weak when I met

the round video communication

The cave.

recalled the moment he first met

restricted as he was kept under mana

was so weak to the point that he could not even run away and could only live in

Then he was saved.

though he was

Cale's quiet sigh and mumble about how ‘a six-year-old is still a

at least thirty, no, fifteen years more than you. But I am still weaker

realized his mistake and quickly changed it

is not a

stern response made Cale nod his head as if he was saying, ’isn’t that all that matters?’ Raon went back to connecting the video communication device

then started to speak

why did you save me? I am

leaning on the

save you?

keep me by

back to Raon who seemed to have

need

we not need a

you saved me and why you travel with

really not need a

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

a reason Cale and he were

what that reason might be. The human who claimed to have lived at least

is our house.

is our

repeated that statement in his head. He didn’t know why but it sounded catchy. Raon thought about that for a while

He suddenly felt full.

Dragon slowly started to

right! Human, that is

didn’t know what was going on but sternly

“The call.”