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 Imperial Palace right

‘…He's very smart.’

showed his agreement with Choi Han’s deduction and added

Imperial Prince's palace and the Imperial family has remained the same ever since the Imperial

Imperial Palace had gone up while the personal goods

Han started to

not enough to confirm that the

He then added on.

the Imperial Prince

nodded his head and

believed at first as well. But, Choi

“…Yes?”

you injured the

“…I did, why?”

final piece of information came

has disappeared ever since leaving

The Imperial doctor.

word made Choi Han’s expression

Billos quickly added on.

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

Jack had headed

had stealthily followed behind the

had to be far away from others as we made our move. That was why we

what he saw outside

were the footprints and carriage tracks of the people

Han and Tasha started

Prince had been

Empire’s best healer had headed

why two of Freesia’s subordinates are currently following the carriage tracks and heading North. One

Tasha started to speak.

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

done as much as he could with the limitations that had

before biting down on

think the Imperial Prince headed

case seemed high based on

hesitated before

don’t think that is the

of

eye contact with Choi Han as she raised her head while thinking about what her intuition was

believe that the Imperial Prince is

The capital.

was in the

intuition was

person who had been silent all this time

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

action, making Billos flinch as he looked at Cale. Cale

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

“…I'm not really sure?”

was curious about

the golems and the

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

had a single question as an emotion that was beyond the level of anger filled his

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

“Yes, young master-nim?”

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

who were captured

those people

gates and delivered them

in with

large number

was for over

In addition.

really want

they

Tasha jumped up. Saint Jack was clasping his

are you

could not

all of

is a secret passage going

about the call he

Adin's

even though Choi Han’s sword had cut

getting healed at the place he considers to

said anything until now

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

head and

is where the Tower

up from his seat and

to the place

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

Freesia to have her subordinates cautiously continue tracking

about Adin who treasured his

bastard would leave the place

who wants to control everything would leave

if someone else took it

would also leave the Bell Tower

the chances of that carriage being

likely that the carriage was

was a bait that he put out while hoping that

Cale could

as far of a distance

I

moment Billos

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

video communication device started to go

to call in the mage who was

could even

Snap!

video communication device and the call

appeared on the screen.

Freesia.

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

sure if you heard yet, but my subordinates have