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.

that the nobles, mages, knights, and others who ran away with the Imperial Prince are most likely staying in the Imperial Palace right

‘…He's very smart.’

showed his agreement with Choi Han’s deduction and

heading to the Imperial Prince's palace and the Imperial family has remained the

the Imperial Palace had gone up while the personal goods for the Imperial Prince

Han started

confirm that the Imperial

He then added on.

fact, it is probably more likely that the Imperial Prince is hiding with the others

nodded his head and responded

believed at first

“…Yes?”

you say you injured the

“…I did, why?”

final piece of information came out

Imperial doctor has disappeared ever since leaving

The Imperial doctor.

made Choi

Billos quickly added on.

went after hearing from our information network that the Imperial doctor and his students had all

after Saint Jack

the doctor who

we did not have too many people so we had to be far away from others as we made

he saw outside the capital's

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

Tasha started to

Imperial Prince had

best healer had headed North out of

why two of Freesia’s subordinates are currently following the carriage tracks and heading North. One of my mages is with them as well so

Tasha started to speak.

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

done as much as he could with the limitations that

before biting down

the Imperial

the case seemed high based

hesitated

don’t think that

that had been developed for hundreds of years was

contact with Choi Han as she raised her head while thinking about what her intuition was telling her. She could tell

believe that the Imperial Prince is still

The capital.

Imperial Prince was

intuition was telling

all

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

as he looked at Cale. Cale

been curious about for a while. Do you know

“…I'm not really sure?”

really was curious

seeing the golems and the dead mana bombs

the Alchemists’ Bell Tower for

had a single question as an emotion that was beyond the

the people from the slums and forcibly made

“Yes, young master-nim?”

the Roan Kingdom's Gyerre territory were turned into slaves and almost sent to the Empire by their merchant guild in order to be used as

those people who were captured

people

the gates and delivered them to the Alchemists’

brought in

large number of

it was for

In addition.

want to say this,

they

Tasha jumped up. Saint Jack

are

could not

thought that was going through all of their minds was

a secret

the call

seen black walls and Adin's face, but his

all even though Choi Han’s sword had cut right by

at the place he considers to be the safest

not said anything until now finally chimed

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

his head and added

where the Tower

seat and gave

to the

stood up. He

subordinates

about Adin who treasured

would leave the place he has

who wants to control

if someone else took it

would also leave the

of that carriage being empty are very

more likely that the

while hoping that people

course, Cale could

as far of a distance

shall I

was the moment Billos was

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

video communication device started to

tried to call in the mage who was

before he could even leave the

Snap!

video communication device and the call immediately

face appeared on the

Freesia.

that resembled the devil's guard dog and who was currently the leader of Cale’s information

sure if you heard yet, but my subordinates have found the