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.

who ran away with the Imperial Prince are most likely staying in the

‘…He's very smart.’

Choi Han’s deduction and added

heading to the Imperial Prince's palace and the Imperial family has remained the same ever since the Imperial Prince headed out

Imperial Palace had gone up while the

Han started

not enough to confirm that the Imperial Prince is not in

He then added on.

that the Imperial Prince is hiding with the others in the Imperial

head

I believed at first as well. But,

“…Yes?”

you injured the

“…I did, why?”

of information came out of

has disappeared

The Imperial doctor.

Choi Han’s

Billos quickly added on.

figure out where that doctor went after hearing from our information network that the Imperial doctor

Jack had headed to the

behind the doctor who was leaving

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

saw were the footprints and carriage tracks of the people

Tasha started

Prince had

healer had headed North out

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.

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

as much as he could with the

Billos before biting down on her

the Imperial Prince headed

being the case seemed high based

hesitated

think that is

of years was telling her that that was

as she raised her head while thinking about what her intuition was telling her. She could tell that Choi Han felt the same way and

Imperial Prince

The capital.

Prince was

intuition was telling her

who had been silent all this time finally

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

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

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

“…I'm not really sure?”

was curious about

after seeing the golems and the dead mana

Bell Tower for them to have this much dead

a single question as an emotion that was beyond

Alchemists’ Bell Tower brought the people from the slums and forcibly

“Yes, young master-nim?”

almost sent to the Empire by their merchant guild in order to be used as experimental

who were captured

did those people

them in through the gates and delivered them to the Alchemists’

in with

large number of

when it was for over tens

In addition.

don't really want to say this,

did they hide their

jumped up. Saint Jack

are you

could not say

of their minds was flowing out of Cale's

you think that there is a secret passage

thought about the call he had with

Adin's face, but his

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

Prince is probably getting healed at the place he considers to be the safest place for him. Then where would

had not said anything until now

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

head and

the

seat and gave

me to the place

Cale’s cold gaze and also stood up. He heard Cale's voice as he did

to have her subordinates cautiously

Adin who treasured

a bastard would leave the place

wants to control everything

if someone else took

also leave

like the chances of that carriage being empty

more likely that the carriage

hoping that people like Billos, foreign spies

course, Cale could

as far of a distance

I do that

moment Billos

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

video communication device started to

call in the mage

he could even

Snap!

communication device

face appeared on the screen. Young

Freesia.

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

speak with urgency. I'm not sure if you heard yet, but my subordinates