Trash of the Count's Family

The road leading to the north gate. Cale looked around at his surroundings. Human! There are soldiers everywhere pretending not to be soldiers!

It was definitely a loud and lively marketplace in the capital. Raon could see people that he suspected to be soldiers and knights as his eyes shifted past the market road towards the north gate. Everyone’s expressions look good except for the disguised people! Their expressions don’t look good! They’re stiff!

‘That’s likely so.’

Cale fully understood the fearful hearts of the Empire’s army that was surveying the market while disguised throughout the capital.

The Empire’s capital.

That place was in the midst of a strange tranquility.

“Ah.”

Cale looked at Choi Han, Mary, Tasha, and Eruhaben who were following him at a distance, but turned his attention to his side as a sudden thought arose.

The noisy market.

It was a vantage point where there weren’t any disguised soldiers yet.

It was a good place to talk comfortably.

He covertly asked a question.

“How did you hear the news about me?”

He caught Billos’s trembling eyes that were staring at him.

‘This damn crown prince!’

Cale wondered what Alberu Crossman possibly did to make Billos’s eyes tremble so much like that.

‘How the hell did he start the rumor?’

“About that… the news came from the North.”

‘Huh? …The North? Wait a second. He’s probably not referring to the northern part of the Empire.’

“…The North of the Western continent?”

“Yes, young master-nim.”

Billos nodded with a serious expression on his face.

“The news has been secretly spreading around the merchants from the North and now a good number of people know it. The news will probably spread amongst the people of the Empire soon.”

Cale’s expression grew more and more peculiar.

There was one guy who came to mind when he thought about the North.

That guy still hasn’t contacted him now that he thought about it.

“I wouldn’t have believed it if this rumor had started from the Empire or the Roan Kingdom.”

Billos shuddered as if just thinking about that time was terrible before he continued on.

“It was also rumored that the Northern Alliance that was defeated by the Roan Kingdom was preparing to attack again in response to Commander Cale Henituse’s absence, so I couldn’t help but be concerned.”

Cale’s expression grew more and more strange.

“…My absence?”

“Yes. I heard that you vomited blood and…”

Billos spoke with difficulty as if the news he heard about Cale was gruesome.

“…That you couldn’t steady yourself because of your shaking limbs.”

He looked toward Cale with concern.

“I heard that your current state was like the majority of the people in the past who possessed multiple ancient powers and had collisions occur inside their body which resulted in… um, I heard that there was a history of a lot of these types of people dying. That can’t all be possibly true, right?”

“Mhm, that’s true.”

“…Excuse me?”

Billos’s piggy bank-like face grew pale. Regardless, Cale didn’t have time to pay attention to Billos at that moment. Human! A message came from the crown prince!

It was because of Raon’s words.

Raon read the crown prince’s message in Cale’s mind. I’m busy. I’ll call you later.

‘…What? Aren’t I busy as well?’

Cale stopped walking at the next message which followed as soon as he started to frown. It became like this after I accepted Commander Clopeh’s suggestion. What a shame.

‘What? Whose suggestion did you listen to?’

“Young master-nim, a, are you by chance not feeling well right now?”

Billos approached a bit closer to Cale with a pale expression on his face.

However, Cale couldn’t hear his words.

Only Raon’s voice echoed incessantly in his mind. A message also came from the crazy Clopeh.

‘…Oh god.’ I will leave Cale-nim’s name in history. I will make your path to become a legend into a great one.

‘…God damn it.’

“This crazy bastard-”

“Excuse me? I was just trying to help.”

Billos stiffened in fright. It was because Cale’s expression was that contorted.

The memory of the sixteen-year-old Cale of the past who was famous for being the trash of the Henituse territory and known to have thrown an empty wine bottle at a group of gangsters came to mind at that moment.

The current expression on Cale’s face looked as trashy as it had back then.

“Y, young master-nim?”

“…No, it’s nothing.”

Cale waved his hand and made a gesture that beckoned Billos to hurry up and keep going.

Billos wasn’t sure why Cale was behaving in such a way, but thought that he shouldn’t annoy Cale right now and thus quickly led the way. Cale followed him and started to think to himself.

‘What did this crazy bastard do?’

Ultimately, the truth was that the full account of the horrible news regarding Cale was created through the collaboration of crown prince Alberu and Guardian Knight Clopeh.

‘…It was a wise choice to spread the rumor starting from the North, but…’

It started from the three Northern kingdoms that were outwardly cooperating with the Roan Kingdom since they had no choice but to submit to them. Thus, it would be easy for third parties and their allies to believe it if the rumors regarding Cale’s life or death came from the North. Human! I think Clopeh has really lost it!

‘I know, right?’ He said that he’s sending over the Holy Knights! We don’t have Holy Knights though, do we?

‘What?’

who had fought against the Empire

‘…This bastard-’

up. Clopeh was truly

was at that

“Meeoow.”

A Cat meowed.

turned his head after leaving the marketplace and arriving far from where the north

was one of the quiet residential areas that were not necessarily

crouching in the dark and narrow alley

“Meeeoooow.”

he approached the

was a Cat with short red

pouch was tied to his

leapt into Cale’s arms once he opened

a while, Sir

sneak around the Empire’s capital by taking the form of a Cat despite still being the wanted criminal who had attempted to murder

“Meeoow.”

tapped on Cale’s shoulder with his front paws a few times as

to the Cat-form Rex. Human! It’s a spatial

undoubtedly contained the video storage

dark alley where the Cat had been while

gave a signal with his eyes to

‘Let’s go.’

to rise up from Eruhaben and Raon, instantly turning Cale and the group

“Is that it?”

the north gate of

his voice rang out from a particularly sturdy-looking tree that

that is it, young

to Raon’s flight magic, was awkwardly nodding his head while holding onto the tree

Billos, who was startled by the rapid flight

the forest that could be seen when one left through the

a small open area inside the

modest wild flowers filled that area because

getting some rest against the bottom of some trees. It

voice as he remained hidden some distance away from

not hunters. Those are

“That is correct.”

Choi Han also agreed.

tense as if they’re alert for

Cale’s mouth crept up

He looked at Billos.

from the hunter he was looking at

“That face, that face!”

one

definitely the knight that was with the

with an

this is where the secret passage

The secret passage.

was on Cale’s shoulder quickly stiffened up after hearing

had escaped the Alchemists’ Bell Tower through the sewers. There was an

made the fur on Sir

wonder what

that he was visiting for the first time in

sister

‘They-’

couldn’t handle thinking about

“I can see it.”

Rex turned his head.

white gold hair

passage is covered with highest-grade illusion magic at least three

Someone set up the alarm magic in a way that would inform those in

listened then bluntly

matter though,

moment. I’m a Dragon. I am the great Raon Miru!

gently made a gesture to Sir Rex, who

Cat’s fur and started to

we try to

Billos could see

crooked smile was on

anyone getting hurt, you

the plump merchant

state of emergency. You can’t let

to the field of

down, eating, or doing maintenance on their hunting bows

“Of course.”

strike their neck in

Rustle. Rustle.

who was answering while lying

gaze as he grabbed the sword that clearly belonged to

Rustle. Rustle.

Two? No,

Rustle, rustle.

a nice place for flower viewing-

had excitedly entered the area flinched

as if he was startled by the appearance of the

“Meeoow.”

Cat that was in his arms kept tilting its head left and

a plump man carrying an unknown number

“…What is it?”

a man who looked a few years younger than the young man in front and had the same

“No, just…”

the front scratched his brown-haired head and shifted his eyes here and there as if he

the three who had just entered the flower field as they

stealthily stood up

the fuck out of here. This is not some flower viewing place. It’s a rest area for hunters, so don’t bother

Shhhhh-

fluttered from

to bother you. We were just

refute the hunter’s statement

gate? They let these frolicking bastards outside the

these ordinary people out since they weren’t

as he was full

up. Don’t test a hunter’s patience and fuck off, alright? This is not some

watch a

‘What?’

hunter saw the young man’s

the moment he felt

Shhhh-

leaves started

“Ugh!”

“Ack!”

beneath the soil and grabbed

out in an instant

“Ack!”

“M, mmfh!”

Shhhh.

the large tree that the hunters

down on a tree branch