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.”

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

are people around

seen such an expression on Cale's

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

person to want something

would not feel too lonely as he knew that he had a family. However, this timid child seemed to have felt pressure and

Loss.

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

Lock was only 15 years old. You had to be a lunatic to do something like

reason for you to

You saved me, and you trusted

as soon

away

“What-”

like that was

Lock throw Cale away?

shock as Cale smiled

“Lock, you wouldn’t, right?”

his fork

don't ask something obvious. Just

Something obvious.

suddenly at a

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

Raon pushing a fork

to

many new expressions on Cale's

good for the first time in a long

luxurious food while he had

“…Delicious.”

if

full of food toward him and continued to stuff food

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

that. The Black Dragon’s dark blue eyes then peeked to the side.

out once he was full and looked

sleep

be busy starting early in the

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

“Raon.”

“What is it, Human?”

video

and decided he needed to call

difficult enough to protect myself. It will be hard to protect that

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

“By the way, human.”

"What is it?”

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

through my first

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

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

that last time?

it okay

heck is

the scary Dragon that was

think you were weak when I met you in

the

The cave.

the moment

he was kept under mana

run away and could only live in the

Then he was saved.

even though

head. He also heard Cale's quiet sigh and mumble

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

realized his mistake and quickly changed it

not a

Cale nod his head as if he was saying, ’isn’t that all that matters?’ Raon went

started to

you save me? I am

leaning on

save

do you keep me by your

honestly responded back to Raon who seemed to have

you need

not need

and why you travel

need a reason for

had been curious. Everything in the world had a reason. All things

must be a reason Cale and he

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

is our house. Is

house is our

head. He didn’t know why but it sounded catchy. Raon thought about that for a while before storing

He suddenly felt full.

slowly started

Human, that is

what was going on but

“The call.”