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.

that the nobles, mages, knights, and others who ran away with

‘…He's very smart.’

showed his agreement with Choi

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

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

Han started to

enough to confirm that the Imperial Prince is

He then added on.

that the Imperial Prince is hiding

his head

was what I believed at first as

“…Yes?”

you injured

“…I did, why?”

of information came out of Billos's

doctor has disappeared ever since leaving

The Imperial doctor.

word made Choi

Billos quickly added on.

doctor went after hearing from our information network

been the night after Saint Jack had headed

had stealthily followed behind the doctor who was

not have too many people so we had to be far away from others as we made our move. That was why we weren't able to see

he saw outside the

the people who we believe to be

Han and Tasha

had

Empire’s best healer had

following the carriage tracks and heading North. One

Tasha started to speak.

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

with the limitations that had been set around

Billos before biting down on her

think the Imperial

of that being the case seemed

she hesitated

that

had been developed for hundreds of years was telling her

what her intuition was telling her. She could tell that

Imperial

The capital.

was in

was telling her

silent all this

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

he looked at

been curious about for a while. Do you know

“…I'm not really sure?”

was curious

the golems and

Bell Tower for them to have this much dead

an emotion that was beyond the

the people from the slums and forcibly made citizens of

“Yes, young master-nim?”

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

who were

did those people come into

openly bring them in through the gates and delivered them to the

they brought in

number of

for

In addition.

don't really want to

they hide

Han and Tasha jumped up. Saint Jack was clasping

master-nim, are

not say

was going through all of their minds was flowing

you think that there is a secret

the call he had with

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

though Choi

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

person who had not said

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

nodded his head and

the

stood up from his seat and

Northern gate. Guide me to

gaze and also stood up. He heard

subordinates cautiously continue tracking the

thought about Adin who treasured his life the

a bastard would leave the place

wants to control everything would

someone else took

also leave

like the chances of that

more likely that the carriage was

hoping that people like Billos, foreign spies within the

course, Cale

observe it from as far

shall I

moment

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

device started to go

in the

could

Snap!

mana surrounded the video communication

face appeared on the

Freesia.

dog and who was currently the leader of Cale’s information guild under

sure if you heard yet, but my