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

Human, this must be where

blinked after hearing Raon's

hand

It was slightly shaking.

was shaking because he was

wasn’t the

Billos’s hands were

Choi Han’s

the other was

minds started

at

“Sob.”

someone's suppressed

and Billos

the group

soundproof barrier around

knights in

Did you

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

started to speak once even

that deserve to

flinched and turned his head as his

not

could clearly imagine an angry

had no choice

coming from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

hear

not

someone who couldn’t help but cry after trying to hold himself back so

He was the

managed to

shaking after seeing this underground area that he had

‘Whose bones are those?

skeletons of my

Bang, bang!

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

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started to

fluid seeped into the ground without

stand up. He slowly started to walk

going

from his forehead

stare at the falling

prevented the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from looking

much light in this

any attention to the falling drops of

probably could

didn’t know what to say about the sight in front of

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han

Han heard Cale’s voice at

“I’ll go with you.”

Cale's response. He slowly followed

Cat, Rex, started to

the lowest spot in the

see the skeletons piled up

been dead for a while, as only the skeletons

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

Cat and

you can do

heard his noona and

Rex started to speak.

to kill

going to kill them

or how he would do it.

couldn’t control himself to not say anything right

Imperial Prince… The

to list the people

tears had dried up at

“No.”

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

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

then bluntly, and honestly explained

Prince

cold voice that was different from the

then heard someone else’s voice coming from

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale who slowly

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes were full

Rex. He

look at the

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused

hall seemed

that such an area was located underneath

managed to not get caught

“…Huh?”

at a certain spot as they went

was at the highest spot in this

right beneath

there that was sticking out like

terrace surrounded by

the location was built just to

the moment his eyes landed on that

was a

“…Found you.”

people visible inside the

knights and mages, as well as some

than

at the person at the center of the group as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly deducted the strength of the

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

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

“It’s dead mana.”

was full

that and leisurely

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

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

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared on Cale's

“Human!”