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.

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

‘…He's very smart.’

with Choi Han’s deduction and added

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

Palace had gone up while the personal goods for the Imperial Prince

Han started to

is not enough to confirm that the Imperial Prince

He then added on.

likely that the Imperial

head and responded

at first as

“…Yes?”

you say you

“…I did, why?”

final piece of information

disappeared ever since

The Imperial doctor.

Choi

Billos quickly added on.

Freesia, and I tried to figure out where that doctor went after hearing from our information network that the Imperial doctor and his students

after Saint Jack had headed

the doctor who was leaving

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

recalled what he saw

we saw were the footprints and carriage tracks of the people who we believe to

Han and Tasha started to

Prince had

best healer had

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

Tasha started to speak.

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

with the

complimented Billos before biting down on her

the Imperial Prince

case seemed high based

she hesitated before adding

think that is

hundreds of years was telling her that that

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

believe that the Imperial Prince is still

The capital.

Prince was in

intuition was telling her

silent all this time finally

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

flinch as he looked at Cale.

a while. Do you know what it

“…I'm not really sure?”

really was curious

after seeing the golems and the dead mana bombs in

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

that was beyond

and forcibly made citizens of other kingdoms into slaves and brought

“Yes, young master-nim?”

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

who were captured as

those people

them in through the gates and delivered them to the Alchemists’

in with

number of

it was for over tens of

In addition.

want

they hide

Han and Tasha jumped up. Saint Jack was

master-nim, are you

not say anything

was going through all of their minds was flowing out of

a secret passage going outside the

about the call he

seen black walls and Adin's face,

though Choi

place he considers to be

had not said anything

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

his head

is where the Tower Master

up from his seat and gave an order to

gate. Guide me to the place where the

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

subordinates cautiously continue tracking the

about Adin who

leave the place he has the most

who wants to control everything

if someone else took it

leave

the chances of that carriage

more likely that the

that people like Billos, foreign spies

course, Cale could be

to observe it from as

shall I do that

was the moment Billos was

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

communication device started to

quickly tried to call in the mage who was waiting outside the

could even leave

Snap!

surrounded the video communication device and the call

face appeared on the screen. Young

Freesia.

the rabbit that resembled the devil's guard dog and

if you heard yet,