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.”

The young boy slowly raised

people

never seen such an expression on Cale's

you could learn about a wolf’s loneliness. However, I did not want

person to want something like

a family. However, this timid child seemed to have felt pressure

Loss.

in the novel, healer Pendrick's death leads to Lock's first berserk transformation

only 15 years old. You had to be

reason for

saved me, and you trusted

soon

you throw me away if I was

“What-”

like that

Lock throw Cale away?

wide in shock as Cale

“Lock, you wouldn’t, right?”

picked his fork back

ask something obvious. Just

Something obvious.

at a loss for

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

Raon pushing a fork toward

enough to protect

new expressions on Cale's

the first time in a

enjoyed even the most luxurious food

“…Delicious.”

lot if it

food toward him and continued to stuff food in his

did not do that. He suppressed his emotions by stuffing his face with

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

Lock out once he was full and looked

can sleep for about three

be busy starting early in the

at least a short nap in so that he could do that. Of course, there were

“Raon.”

“What is it, Human?”

the video communication

and decided he

enough to protect myself. It will be hard to

of strength. That was why he was planning on using

“By the way, human.”

"What is it?”

connecting the device

first growth

and cried about how he was not great and mighty because he could not activate his first growth phase. Cale wondered why Raon was suddenly bringing that

of Lock's berserk transformation situation, but regardless, he chose to answer back after seeing the Dragon's gaze that seemed to be begging for

answer that last time? Don't ask

okay if I

the heck is

that was far from weak was saying

when

paw touching the round video

The cave.

the moment he first met

as he was kept

he could not even run away and could only live in the

Then he was saved.

saved even though he

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

thirty, no, fifteen years more than you. But I am still weaker than you. I am not even as strong as you

quickly changed

a

as if he was saying, ’isn’t that all that matters?’ Raon

started

why did you save me? I

on the chair as he responded

I save you?

do you keep me by your

who seemed to

you need a

not need

me and why you

really not need

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

that there must be a reason Cale and he

as to what that reason might be. The human who claimed to have

our house. Is that not

house is

didn’t know why but it sounded catchy. Raon thought about

He suddenly felt full.

Dragon slowly started

Human, that is

but

“The call.”