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

‘…He's very smart.’

Choi Han’s deduction

the amount of goods heading to the Imperial Prince's palace and the Imperial family

had gone up while the personal goods for the Imperial Prince and the Imperial family had

Han started

is not enough to confirm that

He then added on.

is probably more likely that the Imperial Prince is

head

at first as

“…Yes?”

say you

“…I did, why?”

information came out of Billos's

disappeared ever since leaving

The Imperial doctor.

made Choi

Billos quickly added on.

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

the night after Saint Jack had headed

had stealthily followed behind the

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

what he saw outside

and carriage tracks of the people who we believe to be the

and Tasha started

Imperial Prince had been seriously

best healer had

North. One of

Tasha started to speak.

even though I'm sure that there have been

had done as much as he could with

before biting

you think the Imperial Prince headed North

being the case seemed

she hesitated before

don’t think that is the

been developed for hundreds of years was telling her that

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

the Imperial Prince

The capital.

Imperial Prince was in the

intuition was

been silent all this time finally started

“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

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

“…I'm not really sure?”

really was curious

the golems and the

by the Alchemists’ Bell Tower

a single question as an emotion that was beyond

Alchemists’ Bell Tower brought the people from the slums and forcibly made citizens of other kingdoms into slaves and brought them here,

“Yes, young master-nim?”

almost sent to the Empire by their merchant guild in order to

who were captured

did those people come into the

in through the gates and delivered

in

large number

was for over

In addition.

want to say

they

Tasha jumped up. Saint Jack was clasping

master-nim, are you

not say

was going through all of their

think that there is a secret passage going outside

the call he had with

Adin's

Choi

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

who had not said anything until now

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

nodded his head and

the Tower Master

up from his seat

Northern gate. Guide me to the place where

and also stood up. He heard Cale's voice as he

Freesia to have her subordinates cautiously continue

about Adin who treasured his life

a bastard would leave the place he

control everything would leave

if someone else

leave the Bell

like the chances of that carriage being empty are

that the

that people like Billos, foreign

course, Cale could

to observe it from as far of a

I

the moment

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

device

to call in the mage who was waiting outside the

could even leave the

Snap!

communication device and the call immediately

the screen.

Freesia.

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

sure if you