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?’

the Wyvern knights who had fought against the Empire during

‘…This bastard-’

crept up. Clopeh was truly crazy in

at

“Meeoow.”

A Cat meowed.

turned his head after leaving the marketplace and arriving far from

the quiet residential areas that were not necessarily close to the gate nor the marketplace and

in the dark and

“Meeeoooow.”

as he

was a Cat

small pouch was

Cale’s arms once he opened

a while,

form of a Cat despite still being the wanted criminal who had attempted to murder the Vice

“Meeoow.”

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

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

spatial pocket bag undoubtedly contained the video storage

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

signal with his eyes to his group who

‘Let’s go.’

rise up from Eruhaben and Raon, instantly turning Cale

“Is that it?”

gate of

was lifted the moment his voice rang out from a particularly sturdy-looking tree that stood amongst a dense group of

is

flight magic, was awkwardly nodding his head while holding onto the tree trunk as if it

rapid flight movement,

that could be seen when one

a small open area inside the

flowers filled that area because it

some rest against the bottom of some trees. It was a

as he remained hidden some distance

not hunters. Those

“That is correct.”

Choi Han also agreed.

alert for any intruders

corners of Cale’s mouth crept

He looked at Billos.

gaze away from the hunter he was looking

“That face, that face!”

pointed at one of the

the knight

whispered with an

where the secret passage

The secret passage.

who was on Cale’s

Alchemists’ Bell Tower through the sewers. There was

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

wonder what is

going on inside the Alchemists’ Bell Tower that he was visiting for the first time

older sister and

‘They-’

handle thinking about it

“I can see it.”

Rex turned his head.

white gold hair calmly continued to

with highest-grade illusion magic at

to the illusion magic. Someone set up the alarm magic in a way that would inform

quietly listened then bluntly

doesn’t matter though,

Dragons in his mind at that moment. I’m a Dragon. I am the great Raon Miru! Human, do you

to Sir Rex, who slowly

fur

shall we try

Billos could

smile was on

like anyone getting

Cat and the

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

the field

eating, or doing maintenance on their

“Of course.”

neck in one go if

Rustle. Rustle.

was answering while lying under the tree’s shade

belonged to an Empire knight but was covered and disguised in

Rustle. Rustle.

Two? No,

Rustle, rustle.

this place looks like a nice place for

man who had excitedly entered the

man that looked as if he was startled by the appearance of the hunters had brown hair

“Meeoow.”

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

him came a plump man carrying an unknown number

“…What is it?”

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

“No, just…”

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

they continued to lie on the ground or sit down while

stealthily stood up and

some flower viewing place. It’s a rest area for

Shhhhh-

leaves fluttered from the

plan to bother you. We were just within the city and the weather was

refute the hunter’s

gate? They let these frolicking bastards

out since they weren’t merchants nor high-ranking

as he was full

fuck off, alright? This is

watch

‘What?’

hunter saw the young man’s

the moment he

Shhhh-

the leaves

“Ugh!”

“Ack!”

out from beneath the soil and grabbed the

an instant and

“Ack!”

“M, mmfh!”

Shhhh.

on top of the large tree that the hunters were

hanging upside down on a tree branch as she grinned