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 the Church

“…Excuse me?”

up as if he was a

a blonde man with a pure

It was the Saint.

the celebrations of the Church of the

‘…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 with what seemed to

the same smile she had as a

expression- her gaze

made her seem like a completely different

Alchemists’ Bell Tower used dead mana bombs that

“Ah.”

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

that was poisoned by dead mana and had to hide

alchemist started

mana bombs were made because he had participated in experiments like

Maiden was

were starting to be

the alchemist Rei's remaining hand start to tremble. He realized

dying if you are poisoned

similar to what he had done and cut off

only other way was to become

Otherwise, you die.

Cale’s serious voice

and the power of hope to save the innocent believers who are being used without their

Rei and Sir Rex looked toward

and finished his sentence once he made eye contact

“She overcame it.”

“Ah.”

the crazy priestess

them were

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

all of her divine powers of the Sun

his shaking pupils focused on the Holy Maiden. The Holy Maiden’s face was already

must have been

it must have been for the Holy Maiden to overcome dead mana and survive only to lose her most important divine powers

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

holy-looking white hair and blue eyes to deliver

did not despair over the fact that she lost her divine powers and picked up the sword in order to create a new Church of the Sun God on this ground to brighten the future

There were some things that Cale said that were different than

his heart is in the right

to save people. He believed that Cale’s desire to save people would be the light

was why he could

alchemist as

holy

toward the alchemist and

he had given the two of

‘Persist.’

of them had done just

these

“Billos.”

wide sleeve. Billos flinched

“Young master-nim.”

threw that item

“Eek!”

still managed to catch

looked down at his

A golden plaque.

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

unrelated to

Cale. Sir Rex and the alchemist Rei did not

what is it that I

Billos immediately asked for

Cale happily responded back.

ingredients that you find on

word made Rei

wasn’t done just yet. He continued to speak

as much as

his

about

just items. What

“Buy people's mouths.”

understood what Cale

People's mouths.

That meant rumors.

told the merchant whom he expected to have understood the message that he needed

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

in the

tell

started to smile as he asked. It was a smile that

and the palace once

me something so

clenched his fists as Cale's response. He could feel

him many steps closer to becoming the owner of

will go buy the mouths that will shake the

The alchemist who was watching this made eye contact with Cale who

or in seclusion. Bring all the alchemists that

Stecker would become the core of

not wait for his response before

“And Sir Rex.”

“Yes sir.”

group members who are

order to take down the Alchemists’ Bell

head as he opened his mouth to respond.

“Meeeeeow.”

“Meeow-”

and light filled

Paaaat.

circle flashed

“…There's someone else?”

“Huh?”

at this unexpected teleportation, however, Cale approached

It was a knight.

is my guard

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

Church of the Sun God who will

Shhh.

in front of this new group of white-robed individuals removed her

you. My name is priestess Freesia, and though I do not have any

middle-aged woman with a warm

was the woman who was working as a sculptor in the Henituse territory and created Raon's cherished devil rabbit that looked

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

the Empire with her

same time,

was because of Cale’s

was someone else with them as