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.

are the Saint and Holy Maiden of the Church of the

“…Excuse me?”

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

a blonde

It was the Saint.

had seen this Saint during the celebrations of the Church

‘…Then next to him?’

Rei quickly turned his head to the

“Gasp!”

He then became anxious.

there, however,

was still blonde and had the same smile she had as a Holy

her gaze

spiderwebs made her seem like a completely different person. He heard

the Alchemists’ Bell Tower used dead mana bombs that turned the Holy Maiden-nim like

“Ah.”

who had participated in the dead mana experiments the Alchemists’ Bell Tower had conducted

that was poisoned by dead mana and had to hide in the slums

alchemist started

mana bombs were made because he had participated in experiments

Holy Maiden was

importantly, people were starting to be harmed

hand start to

if you are poisoned by dead

what

only other way was to become

Otherwise, you die.

serious voice

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

Sir Rex looked

gentle smile and finished his sentence once he made eye contact with

“She overcame it.”

“Ah.”

the alchemist Rei and the crazy priestess Cage let out gasps

of them were

seemed to be in disbelief as well. Cale didn't care as he

lost all of her

on the Holy Maiden. The Holy

hard it must

Rei could not imagine how painful it must have been for the Holy Maiden to overcome dead mana and survive only to lose her most important divine powers in

she held it in as she waited for Cale to continue speaking. However, Cale’s next

hair and blue eyes to

divine powers and picked up the sword in order to create a new Church of the Sun God

things

his heart is in

found to be important. Cale was doing all of this in order to save people. He believed that Cale’s desire to save people would be the light for

was why he could smile

smile convinced the alchemist as

original holy healing abilities will join the two

looked toward the alchemist and

he had given the two of

‘Persist.’

them had done just

would reward these two

“Billos.”

wide sleeve. Billos flinched after seeing the

“Young master-nim.”

that

“Eek!”

was shocked, but still managed

looked down

A golden plaque.

insignia was shining brightly unlike everything else in this

was unrelated to

Rex and the alchemist Rei did not

what is it that I

immediately asked for

Cale happily responded back.

gather all alchemy ingredients that you

That word made Rei

Cale wasn’t done just yet. He continued to speak

can use as

his

about

than just items. What he needed to buy this time was a

“Buy people's mouths.”

understood what

People's mouths.

That meant rumors.

merchant whom he expected to have understood the

Empire is in danger. That day, everyone will face

in the middle of

tell

smile as he asked. It was

Bell Tower and the palace once they are

me something so

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

he was tied to Cale Henituse was putting him many steps closer to becoming the owner of the

the mouths that will

bowed deeply and accepted his order. The alchemist who was watching this made eye contact with Cale who

or in seclusion. Bring all the

become the core

did not wait for his response before turning

“And Sir Rex.”

“Yes sir.”

up all of your group members who are in

in order

bowed his head as he opened his mouth to respond. However, he could

“Meeeeeow.”

“Meeow-”

light filled

Paaaat.

circle flashed

“…There's someone else?”

“Huh?”

worried at this unexpected teleportation,

It was a knight.

my guard

Eruhaben, who was wearing a knight's armor, and looked at the white-robed individuals behind him. He explained to the alchemist and the

the Church of the Sun God who

Shhh.

person in front of this new

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

the middle-aged woman with

Henituse territory and created Raon's cherished devil rabbit that looked

an assassin who used to be 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

the Empire with her

At the same

was because

else with