Trash of the Count's Family

On and Hong's innocent faces that were looking at Cale turned toward Sir Rex. Hong seemed to be very shocked.

“He really is a baby! He doesn’t even know about berserk transformation!”

“That's okay. He can learn like our youngest if he doesn’t know. He seems like an adult.”

On prevented her younger brother Hong from approaching Sir Rex with her front paw as she calmly answered back. Of course, Sir Rex just had a confused expression on his face as he had no idea what was going on.

Cale asked calmly, similar to how On had answered.

“Sir Rex, as a Cat, did you never look up any information on Beast people because you were curious?”

“There was no such information when I was in the slums and I had no time once I became a knight.”

There was no way for him to figure out that information when he was young because he was in the slums, and he could not do anything that stood out once he became a knight as he was planning for his revenge.

“Most importantly, I thought that it would be bad if they found out that I was a Cat.”

Pat.

Hong, who still managed to approach Rex, patted Rex's foot in understanding, making Rex flinch and stiffen up with each pat. He didn’t know why he was subconsciously reacting like this.

For some odd reason, Sir Rex felt a bit afraid of these two Cats. He couldn’t explain why, but he sensed some sort of pressure coming from them.

However, On was watching him with an odd gaze in her eyes.

The Fog tribe was known for being the stealthiest tribe among the Cats.

For Cats, being the stealthiest meant that they were the strongest. Even within the Fog tribe, only a select few had special abilities.

On's fog and her younger brother Hong's poison were two of those special abilities.

On was a mutant Cat who had the blood of the ruler of the Fog tribe.

Her brother Hong was still innocent, but On was not that naive. Three years. It wasn’t a large age gap with her younger brother, however, On had taken her younger brother and escaped from the tribe that had thrown them away.

They ran away in January of the year that she had turned 10 years old. Spring of that same year was when she had met Cale.

On’s eyes looked over Sir Rex once more before turning back toward Cale. Cale saw On lifting her front paws up asking to be held and picked her up, even though this was not her usual tendency.

‘On’s grown quite a bit too.’

Cale wasn’t thinking about much as he picked On up and noticed her weight. He heard On’s calm voice in his ear.

“I'm stronger than Sir Rex.”

Cale suddenly flinched.

He had brought the kittens because he wanted Sir Rex to have people he could feel close to, as well as because it was nagging on his mind that he had left On and Hong behind last time.

But what was this little girl saying?

“Looks like I'll be getting a new subordinate.”

Cale became anxious after hearing On's casual comment.

‘Who? Sir Rex? The twelve-years-old On is going to have Sir Rex as a subordinate?’

Cale’s pupils shook for a moment.

On the other hand, On was happy that she might be able to help Cale.

Cale looked at On while On looked back at Cale.

The two exchanged glances.

On then smiled before swiftly jumping out of Cale's arms and landing on the floor. She then gracefully walked away from Cale.

‘…What the hell?’

Cale watched On walk away in bewilderment.

On and Hong.

The two of them were similar to Raon for Cale.

They were just children that Cale took in.

Lock's siblings were the same.

However, Cale knew that On was not one to speak nonsense. He suddenly realized something.

He didn’t know anything.

‘There's pretty much nothing that I know about the Cat tribe.’

He only knew the basics.

Part of the reason was because the Cat tribe was a stealthy tribe and not much was known about them in general, however, for Cale who only learned about Beast people through the novel, he had no way of knowing about the Cat tribe that never appeared in the first five volumes.

Of course, he had heard about On and Hong's situation and learned about the Fog tribe and mutants, but that was not enough.

Cale looked at On and Hong and realized that there was one more thing to add to his plate of things to do.

‘I'll need to ask Eruhaben-nim for details about the Cat tribe later.’

There was someone approaching Cale who was lost in his thoughts.

Rei Stecker.

The alcoholic alchemist of the slums and someone who ran away after being disgusted by the evil-doings of the Alchemists’ Bell Tower.

Currently, he was someone who had been waiting for Cale more than anybody else while not even taking a sip of alcohol.

“Young master-nim.”

He cautiously started to speak to Cale.

The white-haired and blue-eyed Cale who was deep in thought was giving off a vibe that made it difficult to even speak to him.

Cale's gaze headed toward the alchemist, Rei.

“What is it?”

“Umm, you have not introduced those people behind you.”

“Ah.”

Cale finally remembered the four people behind him.

So he just casually introduced them.

“That’s Choi Han who you met last time.”

Choi Han took his hood off. The alchemist gulped as he remembered this cold swordsman, but still casually bowed his head to greet Choi Han.

It was the moment his head was about to go down to bow.

"This is the excommunicated priestess, Miss Cage.”

Cale continued to nonchalantly introduce everyone.

two are the Saint and Holy Maiden of

“…Excuse me?”

alchemist's head shot up as if he was a broken

could see a blonde man with a pure

It was the Saint.

seen this Saint during the celebrations of the Church

‘…Then next to him?’

Rei quickly turned his head

“Gasp!”

He then became anxious.

Maiden was there, however, it looked disgusting with what

had the same smile she had as

her

seem like

and the Alchemists’ Bell Tower used dead mana bombs that

“Ah.”

Rei and Sir Rex gasped. This was especially the case for the alchemist Rei who had participated in the dead mana

poisoned by dead mana and had to hide

alchemist started to

bombs were made because

Maiden was sacrificed to that

starting to be harmed

hand start to tremble. He realized something

if you

what he had done and cut off the poisoned area right

way was to become

Otherwise, you die.

heard Cale’s serious voice at

to the power of the Sun God, the just power of light, and the power of hope to save the innocent believers who

and Sir Rex

gentle smile and finished his sentence once he made

“She overcame it.”

“Ah.”

alchemist Rei and the crazy priestess Cage let

of them

Holy Maiden, Hannah. Hannah seemed to be in disbelief as well. Cale didn't care as

of that, she lost all of her divine powers of the

his shaking pupils focused on the Holy Maiden. The Holy

must have been

Maiden to overcome dead mana and survive only to lose her most important

for Cale to continue speaking. However, Cale’s next words only continued to

holy-looking white hair and blue eyes to deliver that holiness to

despair over the fact that she lost her divine powers and picked up the sword in order to create a new

some things that Cale said that were different than

is

Saint found to be important. Cale was doing all of this in order to save people. He believed

why he could smile

alchemist as Cale's voice continued

Saint-nim's original holy healing abilities will join

alchemist

order he had given the two of

‘Persist.’

two of them had done

these

“Billos.”

something out of his wide sleeve.

“Young master-nim.”

threw that item

“Eek!”

still managed to

down

A golden plaque.

shining brightly unlike everything else in this old house. It was the item that Cale had

course, this was unrelated

Rex and the alchemist Rei did not know about the identity of the item and looked at the two of

master-nim, what is it that I have to

merchant Billos immediately

Cale happily responded back.

alchemy ingredients that

That word made Rei

wasn’t done just yet. He continued to speak

can use as much as you

wasn’t his money

knew about the

What he needed to buy this

“Buy people's mouths.”

understood what Cale

People's mouths.

That meant rumors.

whom he expected to have understood the message that

will rise again when the Empire is in danger. That

sun in the middle

tell what Cale was

started to smile as he asked. It was a

the palace once they are destroyed,

me something

as Cale's response. He could feel the golden plaque

that he was tied to Cale Henituse was putting him many

the mouths that will shake the

bowed deeply and accepted his order. The alchemist who was watching this made

or in

become the core of

for his response

“And Sir Rex.”

“Yes sir.”

all of your group members who are in the

who had gathered together in order to take down the Alchemists’ Bell

arrived and bowed his head as he opened his mouth to respond. However, he could not help

“Meeeeeow.”

“Meeow-”

and light filled the

Paaaat.

magic circle

“…There's someone else?”

“Huh?”

all became worried at this unexpected teleportation, however, Cale approached the person in

It was a knight.

is my guard

at the white-robed individuals behind him. He explained to the alchemist and

of the Church of

Shhh.

new group of

meet you. My name is priestess Freesia, and though I do not have any divine powers, I wish to follow the will

the middle-aged woman with

working as a sculptor in the Henituse territory and

active in the Roan Kingdom's southwest region before daring to kill her leader and escape. Now she was the leader of the Henituse territory's information group that

had come to the Empire

At the same

because

else with