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?’

and the Wyvern knights who had fought against the Empire during the battle of Maple

‘…This bastard-’

Cale’s mouth crookedly crept up. Clopeh was truly crazy

at

“Meeoow.”

A Cat meowed.

the marketplace and arriving far from where the north gate could be

necessarily close to the gate nor the

in the dark and

“Meeeoooow.”

as he approached the

a Cat with short red

pouch was tied to

into Cale’s arms once he opened them

a while, Sir

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

“Meeoow.”

Cale’s shoulder with his front paws a

the pouch that was tied to the Cat-form Rex. Human! It’s a

spatial pocket bag undoubtedly contained the video storage devices

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

signal with his eyes to his group who was

‘Let’s go.’

up from Eruhaben and Raon, instantly turning Cale

“Is that it?”

gate

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

that is it, young

castle walls thanks to Raon’s flight magic, was awkwardly nodding

was startled by the rapid flight movement, as he stared

be seen when one left

small open

wild flowers filled that area because

of some trees. It was a peaceful

remained hidden some distance

hunters. Those are

“That is correct.”

Choi Han also agreed.

if they’re alert for any intruders even though they look like

corners of Cale’s

He looked at Billos.

turned his gaze away from the hunter he was looking at

“That face, that face!”

pointed at one of the five

definitely the knight that

whispered with an excited

where the

The secret passage.

was on Cale’s shoulder quickly

through the sewers. There was an unknown

alone made the fur on Sir

what

that he

older sister and

‘They-’

thinking about it

“I can see it.”

Rex turned his head.

gold hair

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

the alarm magic in a way that would inform those in the Alchemists’ Bell Tower if someone tries to break the illusion magic.”

quietly listened then bluntly asked

matter though,

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

grinned and gently made a gesture to

stroke the Cat’s fur and

we try to

and Billos

was

like anyone getting hurt, you

and the plump merchant

a state of emergency. You 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.”

strike their neck in

Rustle. Rustle.

answering while lying under the tree’s

grabbed the sword that clearly belonged to an Empire knight but was

Rustle. Rustle.

Two? No, three

Rustle, rustle.

place looks like a

man who had excitedly entered the area flinched and his eyes opened

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

“Meeoow.”

that was in his arms kept tilting its head left

him came a plump man carrying

“…What is it?”

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

“No, just…”

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

entered the flower field as they continued to lie on the ground or

captain stealthily stood up

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

Shhhhh-

from the

We were just within the city

to refute the hunter’s statement

gate? They let these frolicking bastards outside the

people out

hunter shouted as he was full

patience and fuck off, alright?

can I watch a fight

‘What?’

young man’s expression change in

the moment

Shhhh-

the leaves started

“Ugh!”

“Ack!”

out from beneath the soil

bones shot out in an instant and blocked the

“Ack!”

“M, mmfh!”

Shhhh.

top of the large tree that the hunters

upside down on a tree branch