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 a

this must be where

hearing Raon's

left hand

It was slightly shaking.

was about to go crazy in

the only

of Billos’s hands were

Han’s hands were

while the other was shaking

started

was at

“Sob.”

someone's

and

group at that

a soundproof

informed the group before the knights in the passage looked

you just hear

many people dying that we think we hear moaning all

to speak once

that deserve

head

not see

he could clearly imagine

had no choice but to

sound was coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

was not very

trying to hold himself back so much that he

was the one who

managed to

felt like his whole world was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had never clearly

‘Whose bones are those?

of my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but Rex did not

“Soooob, ugh!”

started to mix

into the ground without

slowly pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up.

going to go

dripped from his

only blankly stare at

enemies located at the entrance of

not much light

attention to the falling

probably could not even

what to say about the

He could feel despair.

sorrows and despair made Choi Han think

Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind the Cat’s

Rex, started

the lowest spot

the skeletons

to have been dead for a while,

his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look

a Cat

you

his

Rex started to speak.

going to

to

would do it. He

to

Prince… The

to list the people he needed

had dried up at some

“No.”

voice he then heard coming from behind him. No, he flinched at the feeling of a soft cloth covering his

which was where he

bluntly, and honestly

Imperial Prince is

returned to his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm hand that was touching his

else’s voice coming

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes were full

to Sir Rex. He then whispered in

Rex, look at

‘The highest point?’

that had only been focused on the skeletons slowly headed

hall seemed to go up

an area was

not get caught because it

“…Huh?”

stopped at a certain spot as they

at the highest spot in this underground

right beneath

sticking out like a terrace to view a

a terrace surrounded

built just to look down at

the moment his

was a mix of

“…Found you.”

people visible inside

armed knights and mages, as well

than

center of the group as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly deducted

shouted at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full

and leisurely looking down at the underground

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”