Trash of the Count's Family

Cale put down the gulping Cat Knight Sir Rex from his arms and started to walk.

Tap.

Cale walked down the dark entrance into the underground with only the sound of his steps being heard around him.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

This dark path had torches at equidistant intervals. There were some water drops falling from the ceiling that looked as rough as a cave.

Only the sound of the water drops filled this area.

There was a long straight path as soon as they arrived at the bottom of the stairs. It was wide enough for a carriage to travel through.

‘It really was a secret passage.’

Choi Han was in the front of the group looking around.

He started to frown.

He could smell the scent of death.

Corpses.

It was a terrible smell that he wished he did not know. It was the smell that he had smelled too many times in the Forest of Darkness and in Harris Village.

His gaze started to turn cold. …Human, this smell-

Raon stopped before telling Cale what it was. He tightly clenched his chubby front paws while his round face started to frown.

The front paws of the Cat that was walking down the passage were shaking.

He was used to this smell.

The same thing he smelled a long time ago when he had left his siblings without even saying goodbye in fear that he might be caught overwhelmed him now fifteen years later.

He was barely able to walk. Human! There are people up front!

Cale stopped walking after hearing Raon's warning.

Two knights and one alchemist.

There were two knights standing guard on either side of the wide passage. The alchemist was next to one of the knights reading a document.

Tap.

Cale tapped on Choi Han's shoulder.

Choi Han started to walk without responding back.

‘It’s fine if we catch the hunters, however, we will be quickly be found if we touch anybody within the Alchemists’ Bell Tower.

‘That is why we will not touch anybody and instead quietly go in and come back out.

‘That is the only way to successfully save the footage and give us time to spread it to the citizens of the Empire.’

Choi Han started to think as he recalled what Cale had said to him.

‘He chooses to take such a difficult path.’

Someone would eventually realize that they had infiltrated the tower, but wouldn’t they work faster and more efficiently if they just knocked everyone unconscious?

However, Choi Han could only move seriously as he was not making that decision.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

A strand of breeze blew by.

“Wow, the outside air really is warmer now that it is springtime.”

The knight holding the spear commented while the alchemist reading the document started to grumble.

“I'm just thankful its Spring. Do you know how hard it was in the Winter? All that cold air coming in from the outside, sigh.”

Cale walked past the knights and the alchemists quite leisurely while making sure to remember their faces. Human! I will remember these bastards’ faces! I will not let them survive! I won’t forgive anyone in the Alchemists’ Bell Tower! I promised Mary that we would destroy it together!

The six-year-old was constantly being loud, however, Cale looked around without any emotions visible on his face.

They soon came to the end of the passage.

A wide area appeared in front of them.

He suddenly heard the voice of the alchemist behind him.

“There will be no ventilation and this rotten smell will fill the area if we close the entrance. That's even worse than the Winter cold.”

‘…You son of a bitch.’

Cale started to frown.

It was an extremely wide and large underground hall.

There was also a path coming into it from the east, west, and south, in addition to the northern passage they had come through.

Cale closed his eyes. Human, I don't think I can look at this.

Cale could feel the round front paws that grabbed onto his back.

Raon was holding Cale's back.

Choi Han's hand was shaking with a sword in his hand.

They saw a staircase heading down as soon as they entered the hall.

He could not help but look down the stairs.

There were skeletons.

“Oo-!”

‘Ugh!’

Billos covered his mouth.

He was looking a few meters underneath the ledge they arrived at after entering this hall.

There was a mountain of skeletons.

He could see that these bones were wearing clothes that had not rotted away.

‘…These damn crazy bastards!’

Choi Han’s body started to shake.

‘How could people, how could people do such things?’

It was a large pile of corpses.

There were cylindrical containers located at many spots within that pile of corpses.

full of

Human, this must be where they made the

blinked after hearing Raon's

left hand with

It was slightly shaking.

because he was

wasn’t the

of Billos’s hands were

Choi Han’s hands were

disgust while the other was

started to

at

“Sob.”

someone's suppressed

Han and Billos

covered the group

a soundproof barrier

the knights in the passage

Did you just hear

We've heard so many people dying that we think we hear moaning all the

to speak once even

that deserve

flinched and turned his head as his body started

could not see

he could clearly imagine an

no choice but to lower

coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not very

someone who couldn’t help but cry after trying to

He was the one who

managed to survive,

whole world was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had

‘Whose bones are those?

the skeletons of my siblings? My neighbors? My

Bang, bang!

His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor,

“Soooob, ugh!”

started

fluid seeped into the ground without

to stand up. He slowly started to walk

I'm going to go

dripped from his forehead with every step

Han could only blankly stare

soundproof barrier magic prevented the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from

was not much light in this

attention to the falling drops

could not even see

to say about

He could feel despair.

despair made Choi Han think of his

heard Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

Han also started to walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind

Rex, started to

the lowest spot in

skeletons piled up

been dead for a while, as only the

in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look

a Cat and

Youngest brother, you can

still heard his noona and

Rex started to speak.

to

going to

do it. He could not think

couldn’t control himself to not say anything

Imperial Prince… The

list the people he needed

tears had dried

“No.”

he then heard coming from behind him. No,

floating blob of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located, with his

then bluntly, and honestly

Prince is

the blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm hand that was touching

then heard someone else’s

“Cale-nim.”

Han called out to Cale who slowly responded

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes were

Rex. He then whispered

Rex, look at the

‘The highest point?’

only been focused on the

hall seemed to go

that such an area was located

not get caught

“…Huh?”

a certain spot as

was at the highest spot in this underground

right

was sticking out like a terrace to

a terrace surrounded by

the location was built just

Rex heard Cale's voice the moment his eyes

a scary voice that was a mix of both joy

“…Found you.”

could see the people

were heavily armed knights and mages, as well

weaker than

as

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

pointed out was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at this and added

“It’s dead mana.”

wine glass was full

and leisurely looking down at

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by his heart

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared

“Human!”