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.’

Choi Han’s

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

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

Han started to

is not enough to confirm that the Imperial Prince is not

He then added on.

Imperial Prince is

nodded his head and

was what I believed at

“…Yes?”

you say you injured the Imperial

“…I did, why?”

piece of information came out of Billos's

doctor has disappeared

The Imperial doctor.

Choi

Billos quickly added on.

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

the night after Saint Jack had headed

behind the

from others as we made

recalled what he saw

last thing we saw were the footprints and carriage tracks of the people who we believe to be the doctor

and Tasha started to

had

healer had headed North

heading North. One

Tasha started to speak.

sure that there have been a lot of

had done as much as he could with the limitations that had

before biting down on her

you think the Imperial

of that being the case seemed high

she hesitated

don’t think that

for hundreds of years was telling her that that was

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

Imperial

The capital.

Prince was

intuition was telling her

who had been silent all this

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

as he looked at Cale. Cale didn't care and just said what he needed

for a while. Do you

“…I'm not really sure?”

really was

after seeing the golems and the

the Alchemists’ Bell Tower for them to have

question as an emotion that was beyond the level

slums and forcibly made citizens of other

“Yes, young master-nim?”

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

people who were captured as

did those people come into the

they openly bring them in through the gates

brought in with

large number of

was for over tens of

In addition.

really want to say this,

they

Saint

master-nim, are you

not say anything

through all of

there is a secret passage going

the call he had

and Adin's face, but his complexion had been

seem hurt at all even though Choi

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

not said anything until now finally

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

nodded his head

the

from his seat and gave an order

to the place

stood

subordinates cautiously continue tracking the

who

a bastard would leave the place he

control everything would leave his bedroom

if someone else

leave the Bell Tower

like the chances of that

likely that the carriage was a

a bait that he put out while hoping that people like Billos, foreign

course, Cale could be

them to observe it from as far

I do

was the moment Billos

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

device started

the mage who was waiting

before he could even leave

Snap!

the video communication device and the call

on the screen. Young

Freesia.

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

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