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

blinked after hearing

grabbed his left hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

was shaking because he was about to

wasn’t the

Billos’s hands were

Choi Han’s

while the other was shaking in

minds started

was at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's

and Billos

covered the group at that

a soundproof barrier

the group before the knights in the passage looked

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

that

turned his head as

could not see the

could clearly

Billos still had no choice

sound was coming from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

was not very

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

He was

to survive,

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

‘Whose bones are those?

of my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

Cat slammed his head on the ground. His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but Rex did not

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

into the

shaking legs to stand up. He

going to

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with every step

stare at the falling blood

barrier magic prevented the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from looking toward

much light in this

attention to the

they probably could not even

say about the sight

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han think of his

heard Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

Han also started to walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind the Cat’s

started to

to the lowest spot in the

skeletons piled

to have been dead for

from his

into a Cat and run

brother, you can do

his noona

Rex started to speak.

going to

to kill

or how he would do it. He

couldn’t control himself to not

Imperial Prince… The

list the people he needed to

dried up

“No.”

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

blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located, with his

then bluntly, and honestly

Prince is

to his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice

heard someone else’s voice coming from

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale who slowly responded

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes were

down next to Sir Rex. He then whispered in

Rex, look at the

‘The highest point?’

been focused

hall seemed to

that such an area was located

they managed to not get caught because it

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot as

was at the highest spot

right

that was sticking out

terrace surrounded by

as if the location was built just to look down at

Cale's voice the moment his eyes landed on that

that was

“…Found you.”

could see the people visible

armed knights and mages,

weaker than I

center of the group as the ancient

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

out was handing the person at the center a wine glass.

“It’s dead mana.”

wine glass was full

a person drinking that and leisurely looking down at the

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

making the injury

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared

“Human!”