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.

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

‘…He's very smart.’

agreement with Choi Han’s deduction

the Imperial Prince's palace and the Imperial family has remained

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

Han started to

alone is not enough to confirm that the Imperial Prince is not in the

He then added on.

the Imperial Prince

his head

what I believed at

“…Yes?”

you say you injured the

“…I did, why?”

piece of information came

has disappeared ever since leaving the

The Imperial doctor.

word made Choi Han’s expression

Billos quickly added on.

that doctor went after hearing from our information network that the Imperial doctor and

night after Saint Jack

behind the

away from others as we made our move. That was why we weren't able to

recalled what he saw outside

tracks of the people who we believe to be

and Tasha started to

had been seriously

best healer had headed

One of my mages is

Tasha started to speak.

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

as much as he could with the limitations that had been set around

Billos before biting down

Imperial Prince headed

chances of that being the case seemed high based on

she hesitated before adding

think that

hundreds of years was telling her that

while thinking about what her intuition was telling her. She could tell that Choi Han felt

believe that the Imperial Prince is

The capital.

was in the

was telling her

all

“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 didn't care and just said what he needed to

been curious about for a while. Do you know

“…I'm not really sure?”

really was curious

had become even more curious after seeing the golems and the dead

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

as an emotion that was

forcibly made citizens of other

“Yes, young master-nim?”

and almost sent to

those people who were captured

those people come into the

gates and delivered them to the Alchemists’

in

large number of

was for

In addition.

don't really want to say

they hide their

Saint

are

not say anything

was going through all of their minds was

is a secret passage going outside

the call

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

at all even though Choi Han’s sword had

he considers to be the safest place for him. Then where

who had not said anything until now finally chimed

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

nodded his head and added

where the Tower

seat and gave an order to

me to the place where the

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

subordinates cautiously continue

who treasured his life

bastard would leave the place he

control everything would

someone else

would also leave the Bell Tower

of that carriage being empty are

that the carriage was a

while hoping that people like Billos, foreign spies within the capital, would get

Cale could be

them to observe it from as far of a

I do that

moment Billos was

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

communication device started to

to call in the

he could

Snap!

surrounded the video communication device and the call immediately

face appeared on the screen. Young master-nim! You're

Freesia.

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

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