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

after hearing Raon's weak

hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was about to go crazy in

wasn’t the only

Billos’s hands were

Han’s hands

was shaking in disgust while the other was

minds started to

at

“Sob.”

someone's

and

the group at that

a soundproof barrier

the knights

you just hear

must have heard wrong. We've heard so many people dying that we

speak once even Billos started to

that

and turned his head as his body

could not see

clearly imagine an

had no choice but to lower

sound was coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

was not very

cry after trying to hold himself back so much that

was the

to survive,

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

‘Whose bones are those?

those the skeletons of my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

forehead started to bleed after being scratched by

“Soooob, ugh!”

started

seeped into

pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up. He slowly started

going

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead

blankly stare at the falling

at the entrance

much

the enemies paid any attention to the falling

could not even see

say about the sight

He could feel despair.

made

Han heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

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

Cat, Rex, started to

arrived underground to the lowest spot

could see the skeletons piled up

seemed to have been dead for a while, as only

took all of it in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like

into a Cat and

brother, you

heard his noona

Rex started to speak.

to kill

to kill

or how he would do it. He could not

couldn’t control himself to not say anything right

Prince… The

to list the people

tears had dried up at

“No.”

then heard coming from behind him. No, he flinched at the feeling of a

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

and

Prince

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

then heard someone else’s

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes were

down next to Sir Rex.

look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

that had only been focused on the skeletons

seemed to go

was almost unbelievable that such an area was located

to not get caught because it was so

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot

the highest

stopped right

was an area there that was sticking out

a terrace surrounded

as if the location was built just to look

Cale's voice the moment his eyes landed

voice that was a mix

“…Found you.”

the people visible inside the

knights and mages,

weaker than I

of the group as

at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

that Billos pointed out was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full of

was a person drinking that and leisurely looking down at the

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

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

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”