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?’

fought against the Empire during the battle of

‘…This bastard-’

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

at

“Meeoow.”

A Cat meowed.

the marketplace and arriving far from

were not necessarily close to the gate

in the dark and narrow alley was gazing at

“Meeeoooow.”

grinned as he approached

a Cat with short red

small pouch was tied to his

Cale’s arms once he opened them

a while,

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

“Meeoow.”

with his front

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

bag undoubtedly contained the video storage

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

his eyes to

‘Let’s go.’

and

“Is that it?”

gate of the

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

that is it, young

Raon’s flight magic, was awkwardly nodding his head while holding

rapid flight movement, as he stared

that could be seen when one left through

open area inside

that

some rest against the bottom of some trees. It was

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

not hunters. Those are

“That is correct.”

Choi Han also agreed.

for

corners of Cale’s mouth crept

He looked at Billos.

his gaze away from the hunter he was looking at and hurriedly

“That face, that face!”

pointed at one of the

was definitely the knight that was

with an excited

is where the secret

The secret passage.

face of the Cat, Sir Rex, who was on Cale’s shoulder quickly stiffened

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

fur on

what is

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

older sister

‘They-’

thinking about

“I can see it.”

Rex turned his head.

with white gold hair calmly

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

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

then bluntly

doesn’t matter

in his mind at that moment. I’m a Dragon. I am the great Raon

and gently made a gesture to Sir Rex, who slowly

fur and started to

we try to go

Billos could

was

don’t like anyone getting hurt, you

the

state of emergency. You can’t

the field

or doing maintenance on their hunting

“Of course.”

their neck in one go if

Rustle. Rustle.

hunter who was answering while lying

shifted his gaze as he grabbed the sword that clearly belonged to an Empire

Rustle. Rustle.

Two? No, three

Rustle, rustle.

place looks like a nice place

excitedly entered the area flinched

was startled by the appearance of the hunters had brown hair and brown

“Meeoow.”

his arms kept tilting its head left and

a plump man carrying an unknown number

“…What is it?”

in front and had the same brown hair and brown eyes as him, entered the flower

“No, just…”

and shifted his eyes here and there as if

had just entered the flower field as they continued to lie on the ground or sit down while pretending to be a

the knight captain stealthily stood up

flower viewing place.

Shhhhh-

leaves fluttered from the spring

We were just within the city and the weather

young man who tried to refute the hunter’s

the gate? They

out since they weren’t

shouted as he was full

patience and fuck off, alright? This

watch

‘What?’

man’s expression change in an

occurred the moment he

Shhhh-

the leaves started to

“Ugh!”

“Ack!”

beneath the soil

in an

“Ack!”

“M, mmfh!”

Shhhh.

appeared on top of the large tree

down on a tree branch as she grinned at