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.”

Lock to look at him. The young boy slowly raised his head. Cale admitted his mistake

are people

never seen such an expression on Cale's

left you here alone hoping that you could learn about a wolf’s loneliness. However, I did not want it to be painful. I

person to want something

he knew that he had a family. However, this timid child seemed

Loss.

Pendrick's death leads to Lock's first berserk

Cale had no plans on doing something crazy like that. Lock was only 15 years old. You had to be a lunatic to do something like that

reason for you to

You saved me, and you trusted

soon as Cale asked a

throw me away

“What-”

like that was

Lock throw Cale away?

shock as Cale

“Lock, you wouldn’t, right?”

his fork

ask something obvious.

Something obvious.

a loss for

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

Raon pushing a fork toward him. Cale

I am strong enough to protect you during

on Cale's face today. Lock slowly picked

good for the first time in a

had not enjoyed even the most luxurious food

“…Delicious.”

if it is

food toward him and continued

did not do that. He suppressed

quietly watched as Lock did that. The Black Dragon’s dark blue eyes then peeked to the side. The six-years-old Dragon continued to chew as he

Lock out once he was full

I can sleep for

busy starting early in

so that he could do that. Of course, there were still

“Raon.”

“What is it, Human?”

video communication device

and decided he needed to call that

is difficult enough to protect myself. It will be

could not trust his own level of strength. That was why he was planning on using his network. He watched as Raon prepared to

“By the way, human.”

"What is it?”

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

first growth phase. Is

cried about how he was not great and mighty

transformation situation, but regardless, he chose to

I answer that last time? Don't ask me something

okay if

the heck is he

in disbelief at what the scary Dragon that

you were weak when

the round

The cave.

moment he first

he

he could not even run away and could only live

Then he was saved.

was saved even though he was

also heard Cale's quiet

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

and quickly changed it up

is not a problem

if he was saying, ’isn’t that

started to

why did you save me? I am

see Cale leaning on the chair as he

I save you? Just

keep me by

who seemed to have

need

not need a

me and why

need a reason for

now, but he had been curious. Everything in the world had a reason. All things were

must be a reason Cale and he were

as to what that reason might be. The human who claimed to have lived at least fifteen years more than he

is our house. Is that not

is our

repeated that statement in his head. He didn’t know why but it sounded

He suddenly felt full.

six-years-old Dragon slowly started to

right! Human, that is

on but

“The call.”