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.

ran away with the Imperial Prince are most likely

‘…He's very smart.’

showed his agreement with Choi Han’s

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

amount of goods going into the Imperial Palace had gone up while the

started

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

He then added on.

more likely that the Imperial Prince is hiding with

his head

I believed at first as well. But, Choi

“…Yes?”

you say you injured

“…I did, why?”

final piece of information came out of Billos's

the Imperial doctor has disappeared ever since leaving the Imperial

The Imperial doctor.

Choi Han’s

Billos quickly added on.

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

Jack had headed to the Whipper Kingdom's

the doctor who was leaving the

have too many people so we had to be far away from others as we made our move.

what he saw outside

saw were the footprints and carriage tracks of the people who

Tasha

Prince had been seriously

healer had headed North out of the

and heading North. One of my mages is with them as well so

Tasha started to speak.

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

he could with the limitations that had

complimented Billos before biting down

you think the Imperial Prince headed

chances of that being the case seemed high

hesitated

that is

intuition that had been developed for hundreds of years was telling her that

her head while thinking about what her intuition was telling her. She could tell

believe that the Imperial Prince

The capital.

Prince was in

was

silent all

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

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

I’ve been curious about for a

“…I'm not really sure?”

really was curious

the golems and the dead mana bombs

Alchemists’ Bell Tower for them to

that was beyond the level

Tower brought the people from the slums and forcibly made citizens

“Yes, young master-nim?”

Gyerre territory were turned into slaves and almost sent to the Empire by their

those people who were

did those people come into the

through the gates and delivered them to the Alchemists’

in with teleportation

number

it was for

In addition.

want to say this,

did they hide their

up. Saint Jack was clasping his

master-nim, are

could not

all of their minds was flowing

think that there is a secret

call he had with

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

at all even though Choi Han’s sword had cut right by his

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

had not said anything until

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

head

where the Tower Master

stood up from his seat and gave an order

Northern gate. Guide me to the place

gaze and also stood up. He heard Cale's

have her subordinates cautiously continue tracking the

thought about Adin who treasured his life

bastard would leave the

one who wants to control everything

someone else took

also leave the Bell

of that

more likely that the carriage was a

that he put out while hoping that people like Billos, foreign spies within the capital, would

Cale could be

from as far of a distance as

shall I do that

the moment Billos was

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

video communication device started to

the mage

before he could even

Snap!

communication device and the call

on the screen.

Freesia.

the rabbit that resembled the devil's guard dog and

to speak with urgency. I'm not sure if you heard yet, but my subordinates have found