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.

knights, and others who ran away with the Imperial Prince are most likely staying in the

‘…He's very smart.’

Choi

the Imperial family

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

started

to confirm that the

He then added on.

Imperial Prince is hiding with the others in the Imperial

nodded his head and

at first as

“…Yes?”

say you injured

“…I did, why?”

final piece of information came out of Billos's

has disappeared ever

The Imperial doctor.

word made Choi

Billos quickly added on.

hearing from our information network that

after Saint Jack had

followed behind the

too many people so we had to be far away from others as we made our move. That was why we weren't able to

he saw outside the capital's

people who we

and Tasha

had

the Empire’s best healer had headed North out of

carriage tracks and heading North. One of my mages is with them as well so that they can check in very

Tasha started to speak.

that there have been a lot of restrictions

could with the

biting down on her

Imperial Prince headed

of that being the case

she hesitated

don’t think that is the

for hundreds of years

intuition was telling her. She could tell that Choi Han felt the same way and

Imperial Prince is still

The capital.

was in the

intuition was telling

been silent all this

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

changed with Cale’s action, making Billos flinch as he looked at Cale. Cale didn't care and just said

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

“…I'm not really sure?”

was curious about

after seeing the golems and the dead

the Alchemists’ Bell Tower for them to have this

a single question as an emotion that was beyond

and forcibly made

“Yes, young master-nim?”

into slaves and almost sent to the

those people who were

did those people come

openly bring them in through the gates and delivered them to

they brought in with

number

was for over tens of

In addition.

want to say

they

Saint Jack was

master-nim, are you

could not say anything

thought that was going through all of their minds was flowing out of

you think that there is a secret

the call he had

only seen black walls and Adin's face,

hurt at all even though Choi Han’s

is probably getting healed at the place he considers to be the safest place for

said

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

head

is where the

from his seat and gave an

Northern gate. Guide me to the place

at Cale’s cold gaze and also stood up. He heard Cale's voice

subordinates cautiously continue tracking

about Adin who treasured his life the

the place he has the most

control everything would leave his bedroom

else

also leave the

chances of that carriage being empty

more likely that the carriage was

he put out while hoping that people like Billos,

course, Cale could

as far of a distance

I do

was the moment Billos was

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

communication device

call in the mage

before he could

Snap!

video communication device and the call

face appeared on the

Freesia.

who sculpted the rabbit that resembled the devil's guard dog

speak with urgency. I'm not sure if you heard