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 during the battle

‘…This bastard-’

mouth crookedly crept up. Clopeh was truly

was at that

“Meeoow.”

A Cat meowed.

the marketplace and arriving far from

of the quiet residential areas that were not necessarily close to the

figure crouching in the dark and narrow alley was

“Meeeoooow.”

he approached the

Cat with short

was

leapt into Cale’s arms once he opened

a

to sneak around the Empire’s capital by taking the form of a Cat despite still being

“Meeoow.”

front paws

tied to the Cat-form

contained the video storage devices prepared by

entered the dark alley where the Cat had been while holding the Cat and pouch in his

eyes to his group who

‘Let’s go.’

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

“Is that it?”

the north gate of the

the moment his voice rang out from a particularly sturdy-looking

is it, young

awkwardly nodding his head while holding onto the tree trunk as if

the rapid flight movement, as

forest that could be seen when one left through the

small open area inside

wild flowers filled that area because it was spring

to be getting some rest against the bottom of some trees.

voice as he remained hidden some

not hunters. Those

“That is correct.”

Choi Han also agreed.

tense as if they’re alert for any intruders even though they look

corners of Cale’s

He looked at Billos.

from the hunter he was looking at and hurriedly started

“That face, that face!”

at one of

knight

with an

this is where the secret passage

The secret passage.

Sir Rex, who was on Cale’s shoulder quickly stiffened up after

the sewers. There was an unknown secret passage

alone made the fur on Sir Rex’s body stand on

what is

the Alchemists’ Bell Tower that he was visiting

sister

‘They-’

thinking

“I can see it.”

Rex turned his head.

with white gold hair

covered with highest-grade illusion magic at least three times.” That’s right! Goldie gramps saw it

Someone set up the alarm magic in a way that would

then bluntly asked

matter though,

that moment. I’m a Dragon. I am the great Raon Miru! Human, do you still not know

to Sir Rex, who

Cat’s fur and

we try to

Billos

smile was

anyone getting

the

in a state of emergency. You can’t let your guard

the field of

doing maintenance on their hunting bows looked at the speaking hunter and replied with expressions that

“Of course.”

strike their neck in

Rustle. Rustle.

while lying under the tree’s shade

the sword that clearly belonged to an Empire knight but was covered and disguised in worn

Rustle. Rustle.

No,

Rustle, rustle.

this place looks like a nice place for flower

had excitedly entered the area flinched and his eyes

as if he was startled by the appearance of the hunters had brown hair and

“Meeoow.”

red Cat that was in his arms kept tilting its

him came a plump man carrying an

“…What is it?”

younger than the young man in front and had the same brown hair and brown eyes as him, entered the flower field as

“No, just…”

the front scratched his brown-haired head and

had just entered the flower field as they

captain stealthily

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

Shhhhh-

fluttered from the

me? Oh no, we don’t plan to bother you. We were just within

man who tried to refute the hunter’s statement with a tearful expression

they even properly managing the gate? They let these frolicking bastards outside

these ordinary people out since they

he was

off, alright? This is not some place for

can I watch a fight

‘What?’

young man’s expression

moment

Shhhh-

the leaves started to

“Ugh!”

“Ack!”

beneath the

out in an instant and blocked

“Ack!”

“M, mmfh!”

Shhhh.

person appeared on top of the large tree that the hunters were leaning

hanging upside down on a tree branch as she grinned