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 Maiden

“…Excuse me?”

head shot up as if he was

see a blonde man

It was the Saint.

during the celebrations of the Church of

‘…Then next to him?’

Rei quickly turned his

“Gasp!”

He then became anxious.

person he knew to be the Holy Maiden was there, however, it looked disgusting with what seemed to be

the same smile she had as a Holy Maiden,

her gaze

that appeared through those black spiderwebs made her seem like a

used dead mana bombs that turned the Holy Maiden-nim

“Ah.”

gasped. This was especially the case for the alchemist Rei who had participated in the dead mana experiments the Alchemists’ Bell Tower had conducted

he had to cut off his hand that was poisoned by dead

started

bombs were made because he

was sacrificed to that

people were starting to

hand start to tremble. He realized

you are poisoned

did something similar to what he had done

was

Otherwise, you die.

serious voice at that

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

and Sir Rex looked toward

a gentle smile and finished his

“She overcame it.”

“Ah.”

and the crazy priestess

of them were

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

that, she lost all of her divine powers of

on the Holy Maiden. The Holy Maiden’s face was

must have been

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

for a different reason. However, she held it in as she waited for Cale to continue speaking. However, Cale’s next words only continued to shock the Sun God twins and the crazy

white hair and blue eyes to

up the sword in order to create a new Church of

There were some things that

is

all of this in order to save people. He believed that Cale’s desire

why he

as Cale's

original holy healing abilities

toward the alchemist

an order he had given the

‘Persist.’

two of them had

these

“Billos.”

took something out of his wide sleeve. Billos flinched after seeing

“Young master-nim.”

that

“Eek!”

shocked, but still managed

down

A golden plaque.

the crown prince's insignia was shining brightly unlike everything else in this old house. It was the item that Cale

this was unrelated

looked toward Cale. Sir Rex and the alchemist Rei did not know about the identity of the item and looked at the two

master-nim, what is it that I have

merchant Billos immediately asked

Cale happily responded back.

all alchemy ingredients that you find on

word made Rei Stecker

done just yet. He

as much

wasn’t his money

about the value

What he needed to buy

“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

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

sun in the middle

not tell what Cale

as he asked. It was a smile that was full

Bell Tower and the palace once

ask me something

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

Henituse was putting him many steps closer to

buy the mouths that will shake

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

or in

would become the core of the new

wait for his response before turning his

“And Sir Rex.”

“Yes sir.”

group members

had gathered together in order to take down the

bowed his head as he opened his

“Meeeeeow.”

“Meeow-”

filled

Paaaat.

circle

“…There's someone else?”

“Huh?”

worried at this unexpected teleportation, however,

It was a knight.

my guard knight,

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

of the Church of the Sun God who will be

Shhh.

this new group of white-robed individuals removed her

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

the middle-aged woman with a warm

in the Henituse territory and created Raon's

daring to kill

to the Empire

At the same time,

because

was someone else