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 a

Human, this must be

after hearing Raon's weak

grabbed his left hand with his right

It was slightly shaking.

was shaking because he was about to

wasn’t the only

of Billos’s

Choi Han’s

disgust while the other was shaking

started to

at

“Sob.”

someone's suppressed

and Billos

group

put a soundproof barrier around

group before the knights in the passage looked behind

the…? Did you just hear

many people dying that we think we hear moaning

started to speak once even

bastards that

turned his head as

could not

could clearly

had no choice

sound was coming from

“Soooob, sob.”

hear

was not

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

was the one who was

managed to

seeing this underground area that he had

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings?

Bang, bang!

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

“Soooob, ugh!”

started

red fluid seeped into the ground without

his shaking legs to stand up. He slowly

I'm going to

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with

blankly stare

enemies located at the entrance of the passage

much

attention to the

could not even

didn’t know what to say

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han

Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

he heard Cale's response. He

started

finally arrived underground to the lowest spot in

see the skeletons

seemed to have been dead for a while, as only

his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look

into a Cat and

you can

his noona

Rex started to speak.

to kill

to

would do it. He

to not say anything

Prince… The Tower

list the people he needed

tears had dried up

“No.”

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

the floating blob of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located, with his

then bluntly, and

Imperial Prince

senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm

heard someone else’s voice coming

“Cale-nim.”

Han called out to Cale who slowly

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes were

Sir Rex. He then

Rex, look at the

‘The highest point?’

been focused on the

underground hall seemed to go

an area was located

also thought that they managed to not get caught

“…Huh?”

certain spot

highest spot in this

right beneath

there that was sticking out like a

was a terrace

just to look down at this pile

voice the moment

was a scary voice that was a mix of both joy and

“…Found you.”

see the people

armed knights and mages,

than

as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly deducted

shouted at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

person at

“It’s dead mana.”

was

drinking that and leisurely looking down at the underground

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

was shirtless and sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared

“Human!”