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.

these two are the Saint and Holy

“…Excuse me?”

head shot up as

could see a blonde man with a pure

It was the Saint.

had seen this Saint during the celebrations

‘…Then next to him?’

quickly turned his head to the

“Gasp!”

He then became anxious.

face of the person he knew to be the Holy Maiden was there, however, it looked disgusting

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

her

eyes that appeared through those black spiderwebs made her seem like a completely different person. He heard

Tower used dead mana bombs that turned

“Ah.”

case for the alchemist Rei who had participated in

cut off his hand that was poisoned by dead

started to

mana bombs were made because he had participated

was sacrificed to

were starting to

Rei's remaining hand start to tremble. He realized something at

up dying if you are

did something similar to what he had done and

only other way was to

Otherwise, you die.

Cale’s serious voice at that

thanks to the power of the Sun God, the just power of light, and the power of hope to save the innocent believers who are being used without their

Rei and Sir Rex

his sentence once he made eye contact with

“She overcame it.”

“Ah.”

and the crazy priestess Cage let out gasps

them were

disbelief as well. Cale didn't care as he put on a serious expression and continued to

of that, she lost all of her divine powers of

focused on the Holy Maiden.

must have been

the Holy Maiden to overcome dead mana and survive only

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

and blue eyes to deliver

the sword in order to create a

some things that Cale said

is in the

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

why he

alchemist as

holy healing abilities will join

the alchemist and

order he had

‘Persist.’

them

reward these two

“Billos.”

took something out of his wide sleeve.

“Young master-nim.”

threw that item toward

“Eek!”

shocked, but still managed to catch the

looked down at his

A golden plaque.

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

was unrelated to his

grasped the golden plaque tightly in order to hide his shaking hands as he looked toward Cale. Sir Rex and the alchemist Rei did not know about the identity of the item

it that I

Billos immediately asked

Cale happily responded back.

gather all alchemy ingredients that you find

That word made Rei

yet. He continued to speak

as much as you

wasn’t his

about the

than just items. What he needed to

“Buy people's mouths.”

immediately understood what Cale

People's mouths.

That meant rumors.

he expected to have understood the message

will rise again when the Empire is in danger. That day, everyone will face the sun

in the middle of the

not tell what Cale was

he started to smile as he asked. It was

the palace once they are destroyed, right

ask me something

Cale's response. He could feel

to Cale Henituse was putting him many steps closer

the mouths that

order. The alchemist who was watching this made eye

be ones in hiding or in seclusion. Bring

the core of the new

wait for his response before turning his

“And Sir Rex.”

“Yes sir.”

of your group members

together in order to

bowed his head as he opened his mouth to

“Meeeeeow.”

“Meeow-”

filled the

Paaaat.

teleportation magic circle flashed

“…There's someone else?”

“Huh?”

unexpected teleportation, however, Cale approached the person in front of the newly teleported

It was a knight.

guard knight, Sir

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

Church of the

Shhh.

person in front of this new group of

I do not have any

the middle-aged woman

woman who was working as a sculptor in the Henituse territory and created

also 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

come to the Empire with her

priests starting from today onward. At the same time, you

was because of

else with them as