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

must

blinked after hearing Raon's

grabbed his left hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

was

the

of Billos’s hands were

of Choi Han’s hands were

disgust while the other

minds started

at

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

and

covered the group

put a soundproof barrier

before the knights

Did you just hear

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

once even

bastards that deserve to

head as his body started

not see the

could clearly imagine an angry

had no choice but to lower

sound was coming from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

was not

cry after trying to hold himself back so much that he was

He was the one

managed to

was shaking after seeing this underground area that

‘Whose bones are those?

of my siblings?

Bang, bang!

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

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

seeped into

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

going

voice was shaking and blood dripped from his forehead

only blankly stare at the falling blood

prevented the enemies located at

was not much light in

paid any attention to the falling drops

they probably could

didn’t know what to say about the sight in

He could feel despair.

and despair made Choi Han

heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind the

Rex, started to descend the

to the lowest

skeletons piled

to have been dead for a while, as only

his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like he

into a Cat

Youngest brother, you can

still heard his

Rex started to speak.

to kill

to

he would do it. He could not think

couldn’t control himself to not say

Imperial Prince… The Tower

list the people he needed to

dried

“No.”

behind him. No, he flinched at the feeling of a soft cloth covering

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

bluntly, and honestly

Imperial Prince is

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

someone else’s voice coming from

“Cale-nim.”

out to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes were

Sir Rex. He then whispered in

at the highest

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused on the skeletons slowly headed

seemed

that such an area was located

he also thought that they managed to not

“…Huh?”

certain spot as

the highest spot in this underground

stopped right beneath the

was an area there that was sticking out like a terrace to

terrace

just to look down

heard Cale's voice the moment

voice that was a

“…Found you.”

see the people visible inside the

were heavily armed knights and

weaker than I

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

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

person at the center

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full

person drinking that and leisurely looking down

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

making the injury Choi

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared on

“Human!”