Trash of the Count's Family

‘The Imperial Prince can’t be found in the capital?’

Cale motioned to Billos with his chin.

“Explain.”

He had not had any time to look through the information about the Empire. It was now time to carefully listen.

“…So, what you are telling me…”

Cale, who was sitting on a couch in a room that Billos had guided him to, started to get an image of the current situation in the Empire after hearing everything that Billos had to say. He then explained it in one phrase.

“The information in the capital is being controlled right now.”

He brushed back his magically brown hair.

“Yes, young master-nim. That is why there are soldiers from the Empire undercover and monitoring myself, as well as the other merchants of the Empire.”

Billos thought about the Flynn Merchant Guild's building as well as his other residence that was publicly known as his official residence.

There were currently people he believed to be the Empire’s soldiers and knights stationed undercover to watch his every move.

Cale thought about what Billos had just explained to him.

‘Furthermore, the number of soldiers at every gate heading into the capital has been fortified.’

The true reason for the increased number of soldiers was to control the information going out, however, the regular citizens would just think that they were doing this to prepare for war.

“There already seems to be many merchants from other nations who have been captured by them.”

Billos gulped at Cale's stoic expression before continuing to speak.

“All of the video communication devices that do not belong to the royal family nor the nobles have all been confiscated as well. The official video communication device belonging to the Flynn Merchant Guild has been confiscated as well.”

“…But there should be others like you who have a secret video communication device, no?”

“Yes sir, I'm sure that there are. I believe a few people including myself know about the situation outside the capital right now.”

Cale pointed out the most important thing in what Billos just said.

Controlling the gates.

Controlling the merchants.

Confiscating the video communication devices.

The result of doing all of those things.

“The citizens of the capital must not know about the current situation with the war.”

Billos nodded his head with a serious expression on his face.

“Yes sir.”

He quickly added on.

“And the people who do know are not able to easily open their mouths.”

“Because they might be captured?”

“That is the case.”

Cale thought about Imperial Prince Adin and commented.

“Trash really is trash.”

Billos flinched at Cale’s extremely annoyed voice. Tasha, who was next to them, interjected.

“Then the citizens of the capital must know nothing right now.”

Billos looked toward Tasha and nodded his head.

“Yes, the only thing that the royal family said was that the war was going to go longer than expected.”

He thought about the current situation in the capital.

The elongation of war.

That made the citizens gather in different spots in the capital while hoping for the Empire to win and for the Imperial Prince to save the Empire.

“…The majority of people do not know about the Empire’s defeat, about how the Imperial Prince and the nobles ran away, nor aboutas the reappearance of black magic.”

Billos peeked to look at Cale before continuing to speak.

“That was why Sir Rex, Miss Freesia, and I focused on figuring out the current state of things rather than spreading the truth.”

It would have been bad if any of them had ended up being captured while blabbing about the truth.

Especially while Cale was not there.

“Then what do you mean by the Imperial Prince not being here?”

Billos turned his head toward the source of the voice.

Choi Han, who was standing there with brown hair, was looking at him.

Ahem.

Billos let out a fake cough before resuming his explanation.

“You should already know that I have connections with the purchase of goods for the soldiers.”

The group nodded their heads.

That was how they had been able to tell when the Imperial Prince would head to the Whipper Kingdom and how large his force would be.

“I was able to figure a few things out using those connections.”

Billos lifted up one finger.

“First, the amount of goods entering the Imperial Palace has gone significantly up ever since the Imperial Prince’s group ran away from the Whipper Kingdom battle.”

Choi Han commented on this.

“The number of, ‘mouths,’ to feed in the palace suddenly went up.”

“That is the case.”

Billos could see Choi Han saying the things he had deducted after hearing that information.

and others who ran away with the Imperial

‘…He's very smart.’

Choi Han’s deduction and

the Imperial family has remained the

amount of goods going into the Imperial Palace had gone up while the personal goods for the Imperial Prince and the Imperial

started to

to confirm that the Imperial Prince is not in

He then added on.

probably more likely that the Imperial Prince is hiding with

nodded his head and responded

I believed at first as well.

“…Yes?”

you say you

“…I did, why?”

final piece of information came out

Imperial doctor has disappeared

The Imperial doctor.

made Choi Han’s expression

Billos quickly added on.

and I tried to figure out where that doctor went after hearing from our information network that the Imperial doctor and his students

Saint Jack had headed to the

the doctor who was leaving the

far away from others

he saw outside

carriage tracks of the people who we believe to be the doctor and his students outside

Han and Tasha started to

had

had headed North out of

One of my mages is with them as well so that they can check

Tasha started to speak.

even though I'm sure that there have been a lot of restrictions

much as he could with the limitations that

complimented Billos before biting down on her

think the Imperial Prince

chances of that being the case

she hesitated

think that

that had been developed for hundreds of years was telling her

intuition was telling her. She could tell that Choi Han felt

believe that the Imperial Prince is

The capital.

was in

was telling

been silent all this time

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

looked at Cale. Cale didn't care and just said what he needed to

I’ve been curious about for a while. Do you know what it

“…I'm not really sure?”

was curious

the golems and the dead

have died by the Alchemists’ Bell Tower

had a single question as an emotion that

the people from the slums and forcibly made citizens of other kingdoms into slaves

“Yes, young master-nim?”

into slaves and almost sent to the Empire by their merchant

those people who were captured as

people

bring them in through the gates and delivered them to the

in with teleportation

number of

it was for

In addition.

don't really want

they hide their

Tasha jumped up. Saint

are you

could not say anything

that was going through all of their minds was flowing out of Cale's

a secret passage going outside the

call he had with

Adin's face,

didn't seem hurt at all even though Choi Han’s

at the place he considers to be the

not said anything until

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

head

the Tower Master

his seat and

me to the place where

also stood up. He

to have her subordinates cautiously

Adin who treasured his

leave the place he has

to control

if someone else took it

would also leave the Bell Tower

the chances of that carriage being empty

more likely that the carriage

hoping that people

course, Cale could

observe it from as

I do

the moment

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

communication device started to go

in the mage

he could even

Snap!

gold mana surrounded the video communication device and the

the screen. Young master-nim! You're

Freesia.

guard dog and who was currently

I'm not sure if you heard yet, but my subordinates