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.

the nobles, mages, knights, and others who ran away with the Imperial Prince are

‘…He's very smart.’

with Choi Han’s deduction and added

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

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

Han started

alone is not enough to confirm that the Imperial Prince

He then added on.

more likely that the Imperial Prince is hiding

nodded his head

believed at first

“…Yes?”

say you injured the

“…I did, why?”

piece of information came

Imperial doctor has disappeared ever since leaving the Imperial

The Imperial doctor.

Choi Han’s expression

Billos quickly added on.

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

after Saint Jack had headed to the

stealthily followed behind the doctor who

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

recalled what he saw outside the

thing we saw were the footprints and carriage tracks of the people who

Han and Tasha started to

had been

Empire’s best healer had headed North out of the

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

Tasha started to speak.

I'm sure that there

he could with the limitations that had been set

biting down

the Imperial

case seemed

hesitated

don’t think that

for hundreds of years was telling her

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

the Imperial Prince is

The capital.

Prince was

was telling

been silent all this time

“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 what he needed to

a while. Do you know what

“…I'm not really sure?”

really was curious about

the golems and the dead mana bombs

must have died by the Alchemists’ Bell Tower for them to have this

single question as an emotion that was

forcibly made citizens of other kingdoms into

“Yes, young master-nim?”

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

did those people

in through the gates and delivered

they brought in with teleportation

large number of

it was for over tens

In addition.

don't really want to say

did they hide

jumped up. Saint Jack

are

not say

all of their minds

is a

call he

walls and Adin's face, but his complexion had been

didn't seem hurt at all even though Choi

healed at the place he considers to be the safest place for

had not said anything

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

nodded his head

is where the Tower

from his seat and gave an order

Guide me to the place where the

also stood up. He heard Cale's voice

Freesia to have her subordinates cautiously

thought about Adin who treasured his

would leave the place he has the

who wants to control everything would leave his bedroom

someone else took

leave the Bell

chances of that carriage being empty are

that the

a bait that he put out while hoping that people like

Cale

from as far of a

I do that

moment Billos

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

device started to

the mage

before he could

Snap!

gold mana surrounded the video communication device and

appeared on the

Freesia.

devil's guard dog and who was currently the

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