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.

away with

‘…He's very smart.’

agreement with Choi

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

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

Han started to

enough to confirm that the Imperial Prince is

He then added on.

more likely that the Imperial Prince is hiding with the others in the Imperial

head and

was what I believed at first as

“…Yes?”

say you

“…I did, why?”

piece of information came out of

the Imperial doctor has disappeared ever since leaving

The Imperial doctor.

Choi Han’s

Billos quickly added on.

tried to figure out where that doctor went after hearing

the night after Saint Jack had headed to the

had stealthily followed behind the doctor who

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

saw

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

Tasha

Imperial Prince had been

Empire’s best healer had headed

subordinates are currently following the carriage tracks and heading North. One of my mages is with them

Tasha started to speak.

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

as much as he could with the

Billos before biting down

Imperial Prince headed

being the case

hesitated before

think that is

had been developed for hundreds of years

about what her intuition was telling her. She could tell that

believe that the Imperial Prince is

The capital.

Prince was in

intuition was

person who had been silent all this

“Billos.”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Cale started to smile.

“Did you know this?”

“Excuse me?”

he looked

I’ve been curious about for a while.

“…I'm not really sure?”

was

more curious after seeing the

Alchemists’ Bell Tower

as an emotion that was beyond

slums and forcibly made citizens of other kingdoms into slaves and

“Yes, young master-nim?”

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 as

who

did those people come into

openly bring them in through the gates and

they brought in with teleportation

number of

was for

In addition.

really want

they hide

Han and Tasha jumped up. Saint

are you

could not

of their minds was flowing

a secret passage

call

walls and Adin's face,

all even though Choi Han’s sword had cut

Imperial Prince is probably getting healed at the place he considers to be the safest place for him.

person who had not said anything

“The Alchemists’ Bell Tower.”

It was Mary.

nodded his head

is where the Tower Master would

from his seat and gave an

Guide me to the place where the tracks

looked at Cale’s cold gaze and also stood up.

Freesia to have her subordinates

Adin who treasured his life

leave the

wants to control everything

someone else took

would also leave

of that carriage being

more likely that the carriage

he put out while hoping that people like Billos,

Cale could be

from as

I do

moment Billos was

Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeeep-

video communication device started to

quickly tried to call in the mage who was waiting outside

could even leave

Snap!

video communication device and the call

on the screen. Young

Freesia.

the rabbit that resembled the devil's guard dog

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