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

must be where they made the dead

blinked after hearing

hand with his right

It was slightly shaking.

was shaking because he was about to go crazy

wasn’t the only

Billos’s

Han’s

while the

started

was at

“Sob.”

someone's suppressed

and Billos

the group at that

soundproof barrier

before the knights in the passage

the…? Did you just hear

people dying that we think we

once even Billos started

that deserve to

turned his head as his body

could not see

clearly imagine an

no choice but

from

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

not

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

Cat, Rex. He was the one

to

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

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings? My neighbors? My

Bang, bang!

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

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

fluid seeped into the ground without turning

to stand up. He slowly started to walk as he

I'm going

voice was shaking and blood dripped from

only blankly stare at the falling

the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from looking

much light

attention to the falling

could

say about

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han

heard Cale’s voice at

“I’ll go with you.”

started to walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed

Rex, started

arrived underground to the

the skeletons piled up

seemed to have been dead for a while, as only the skeletons

his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like he was crying

into a Cat and

Youngest brother, you can

still heard his noona

Rex started to speak.

to

to kill

or how he would do it. He could not think about anything right

couldn’t control himself to

Imperial Prince… The Tower

list the people

dried up at

“No.”

then heard coming from behind him. No, he flinched at

blob of blood, which was where he presumed

then bluntly, and

Prince

hearing the blunt and cold voice that

heard someone else’s voice coming from behind

“Cale-nim.”

out to

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes were full

down next to Sir Rex. He then whispered

look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

only been focused on the

seemed to

that such an area was

they managed to not get caught because it was so deep

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain

was at the highest

right beneath

an area there that was sticking out like a terrace to

was a terrace

the location was built just to look

voice the moment his eyes

that was a mix of both joy and

“…Found you.”

see the people visible

knights and mages, as well as some

weaker than

the center of the group as the ancient

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

doctor that Billos pointed out was handing the person at the

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of black

drinking that and leisurely looking down at

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

on a wheelchair, making the

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared

“Human!”