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?’

recalled Clopeh and the Wyvern knights who had fought against

‘…This bastard-’

Clopeh was truly crazy

at

“Meeoow.”

A Cat meowed.

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

one of the quiet residential areas that were not necessarily close to the gate nor the

figure crouching in the dark and narrow alley was gazing at

“Meeeoooow.”

grinned as he

a Cat with short

was

Cale’s arms once

a while, Sir

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

“Meeoow.”

on Cale’s shoulder with his front paws a

the pouch that was tied to the Cat-form Rex. Human!

the video storage devices prepared by

dark alley where the Cat had been while

his eyes to his group

‘Let’s go.’

from Eruhaben and Raon, instantly turning Cale and the group

“Is that it?”

north gate of the

lifted the moment his voice rang out from a

that is it, young

nodding his head

the rapid flight movement, as he

the forest that could be seen

was a small open area inside the

modest wild flowers filled that area because it

the bottom of some trees. It was a peaceful sight no

Eruhaben’s voice as he remained hidden some distance away from the

hunters. Those are

“That is correct.”

Choi Han also agreed.

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

Cale’s mouth

He looked at Billos.

gaze away from the hunter he was looking at and

“That face, that face!”

pointed at one of the

was definitely the knight that was

whispered with an

this is where the secret

The secret passage.

Sir Rex, who was on Cale’s shoulder quickly

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

the fur on Sir Rex’s body stand

what

Bell Tower that he was visiting for the first time in fifteen

sister and

‘They-’

handle thinking about it

“I can see it.”

Rex turned his head.

gold

at least three times.” That’s

way that would inform those in the Alchemists’ Bell Tower

then

doesn’t matter though,

heard the voices of two Dragons in his mind at that moment. I’m a Dragon. I am the great Raon Miru! Human, do you still not

gently made a gesture to Sir Rex, who slowly leaped into Cale’s

Cat’s fur and started

we try

Billos could see

crooked smile was

like anyone getting hurt,

and the plump

can’t let your guard down even for a

to the

gathered under the largest tree trunk and were laying down, eating, or doing maintenance on their

“Of course.”

their neck in one

Rustle. Rustle.

while lying under the tree’s

he grabbed the sword that clearly belonged to

Rustle. Rustle.

No, three

Rustle, rustle.

place looks like a nice place for flower

young man who had excitedly entered the area flinched

startled by the appearance of the hunters had brown hair

“Meeoow.”

was in his arms kept

a plump man carrying

“…What is it?”

the same brown hair and brown eyes as him,

“No, just…”

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

the three who had just entered the flower field as they continued to lie on the

the knight captain stealthily stood

not some flower viewing place. It’s a rest area for hunters,

Shhhhh-

from the

We were just within the city

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

They let these frolicking bastards outside the

probably let these ordinary people out since they weren’t

hunter shouted as he

a hunter’s patience and fuck off, alright? This is not some

can I watch

‘What?’

young man’s expression change in

occurred the moment he felt

Shhhh-

the leaves

“Ugh!”

“Ack!”

bones shot out from beneath the soil and

out in an instant and

“Ack!”

“M, mmfh!”

Shhhh.

appeared on top of the large tree that the

was hanging upside down on a tree branch as she