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.”

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

people around

an expression on Cale's

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

such a terrible person to want

knew that he had a family. However, this timid child seemed to have felt pressure and

Loss.

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

years old. You had to be a lunatic to do something like

is no reason for you to

You saved me, and

soon as

me away if

“What-”

that was

Lock throw Cale away?

wide in shock as Cale

“Lock, you wouldn’t, right?”

picked his

don't ask something obvious. Just

Something obvious.

at a loss for

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

Lock could see Raon pushing a fork toward

am strong enough to

Lock had seen many new expressions on Cale's face today. Lock slowly picked

for the first time in a

most luxurious food

“…Delicious.”

a lot if

toward him and continued to stuff food in his

would pop out if he did not do that. He suppressed his

blue eyes then peeked to the side. The six-years-old Dragon continued to

out once he was full and looked around the

I can sleep for about

would be busy starting early in

that he could do that. Of course, there were still people standing guard, but one of his roles

“Raon.”

“What is it, Human?”

video communication

decided he needed to call that

protect myself. It

was planning on using his network. He watched as Raon

“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.

cannot go through my first growth

how he was not great and mighty because he could not activate his first growth phase.

Lock's berserk transformation situation, but regardless, he chose to answer back after seeing

time? Don't

Is it okay if I

heck is he talking

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

when

small paw touching the round

The cave.

moment he

he was kept under

weak back then. He was so weak to the point that he could not even run away and could only live in the dark cave, pretending that

Then he was saved.

though he was not

the rough hands caressing his head. He also heard Cale's quiet sigh and mumble about

fifteen years more than you. But I am still weaker than you. I am not even as strong as you front paw. Is that

realized his mistake and quickly changed it

is not a problem

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

you save me? I am

see Cale leaning on the chair as he

I save you? Just

do you keep me

Raon who seemed to have more

you need a

not need

and why

we 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

that there must be a reason Cale and

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

is our house.

house is our

know why but it sounded catchy. Raon thought about

He suddenly felt full.

Dragon slowly

Human,

didn’t know what was going on but sternly

“The call.”