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.

containers were full of a

this must be

hearing Raon's

hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

was about to go

wasn’t the

of Billos’s hands were

of Choi Han’s

shaking in disgust while the other

started to

was at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

Han and Billos

covered the group at that

put a soundproof barrier

group before the knights in the passage

the…? Did you just hear

must have heard wrong. We've heard so many people dying that we think we hear moaning all the

to speak once even Billos started to

that deserve

his head as

not see the

clearly imagine an angry

choice but to lower

sound was coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

hear

was not

couldn’t help but cry after trying to hold

He was the one who was

managed to

seeing this

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

on the ground. His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the

“Soooob, ugh!”

started to mix

seeped into the ground without turning

his shaking legs to stand up. He slowly started to walk as

going

shaking and blood dripped from his

could only blankly stare at the falling

prevented the enemies located at the entrance

much

enemies paid any attention to

probably could not

what to say about

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han

Han heard Cale’s

“I’ll go with you.”

Cale's response.

started to descend the

arrived underground to the

could see the skeletons piled up

to have been dead for a while, as only the

his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like he was crying

Cat

brother, you

his noona and

Rex started to speak.

to kill

going to

do it. He could not think

he couldn’t control himself to not say

Imperial Prince… The Tower

list the people he needed to

dried up

“No.”

coming from behind him. No, he flinched at

pressing down on the floating blob of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located, with

bluntly, and

Imperial Prince is

voice that was different from the

else’s voice

“Cale-nim.”

to Cale

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes were

down next to Sir Rex. He then whispered

look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused on the skeletons

underground hall seemed

unbelievable that such an area was

to not get caught because it was so deep

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot as

at the highest spot in

right

that was sticking out like

was a terrace surrounded by

if the location was built just to look down at

voice the moment his eyes landed on

a scary voice that was a

“…Found you.”

could see the people visible

knights and

weaker than

group as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly deducted

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at this and

“It’s dead mana.”

was

was a person drinking that and

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by his heart

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared on

“Human!”