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

dead mana. Human, this must be

hearing Raon's

hand with

It was slightly shaking.

was shaking because he was about to go

the only

of Billos’s

of Choi Han’s

in disgust while the

minds started to

at

“Sob.”

someone's

and Billos

the group at

a soundproof barrier

the group before the knights in

Did you

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

to speak once even Billos

bastards that deserve

flinched and turned his head as his

could not see

clearly imagine an angry

Billos still had no choice but

was coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

hear

not

after trying to hold himself back so much that he was twisting in

was the

to

shaking after seeing this underground

‘Whose bones are those?

the skeletons of my

Bang, bang!

started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor,

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started to mix

seeped into

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

going to go

dripped from his forehead

blankly stare at the falling blood

at the

not much light in this

any attention to

they probably could not even

say about the

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han think of his

heard Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

he heard Cale's response. He slowly

Cat, Rex, started to descend

to the lowest spot

see the skeletons

dead for a while, as only the

in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making

a Cat and run

Youngest brother, you can

his

Rex started to speak.

to

to kill them

how he would do it. He could not think about

himself to

Prince…

the people he needed to

tears had dried

“No.”

coming from behind him. No, he flinched

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

bluntly, and honestly explained

Imperial Prince is

hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different

then heard someone else’s voice

“Cale-nim.”

out to Cale who slowly

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes were full of

to Sir Rex. He then whispered in Rex’s

Rex, look at

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused on the skeletons

underground hall seemed to

that such an area was located underneath

that they managed to not get caught

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot as they went

the highest spot

stopped right beneath

was sticking out like a

was a terrace surrounded

just to look down at this pile of

the moment his eyes

that was a mix of both

“…Found you.”

see the people visible inside the

heavily armed knights and mages, as well as some

than

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

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

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

“It’s dead mana.”

was

a person drinking that and leisurely

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

on a wheelchair, making the injury

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”