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

mana. Human, this must be where

blinked after hearing Raon's

his left hand with his right

It was slightly shaking.

was about to go crazy

wasn’t the only

of Billos’s hands

of Choi Han’s hands were

the other was shaking in

minds started to go

was at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

and Billos

group at that

soundproof barrier around

the group before the knights in the passage looked

Did you just

must have heard wrong. We've heard so many people dying that we think we

once even

bastards that

his head

could not see the

could clearly imagine an

had no choice but to

was coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

was not

after trying to hold himself back so much that he

He was the one who was

to

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

‘Whose bones are those?

those the skeletons of my siblings? My neighbors? My

Bang, bang!

forehead started to bleed

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started

red fluid seeped into the ground without

stand up. He slowly started to walk

I'm going

blood dripped from his forehead

Han could only blankly stare at the falling blood

barrier magic prevented the enemies located at the

not much light in this

attention to the falling

could not even see

what to say about the sight in front of

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made

Cale’s

“I’ll go with you.”

to walk when he heard Cale's response.

Cat, Rex, started to descend

to the lowest spot

see the skeletons piled

been dead for a while, as only

it in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like he was

into a Cat and

you can do

heard his

Rex started to speak.

going to

going to kill

or how he would do it. He could

he couldn’t control himself to not

Prince…

to list the people

had dried up at some

“No.”

from behind him. No, he flinched

of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s

bluntly, and

Imperial Prince

slowly returned to his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm hand that

then heard someone else’s voice coming

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale who slowly

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

eyes were full of

crouched down next to Sir Rex. He then whispered in

look at

‘The highest point?’

that had only been focused

seemed to go

was almost unbelievable that such an area was located underneath the

they managed to not get caught because it was so deep

“…Huh?”

stopped at a certain spot as

the highest

stopped right beneath

was an area there that was sticking out like a terrace

a terrace surrounded

as if the location was built just to look down

heard Cale's voice the moment his

was a mix of both joy

“…Found you.”

could see the people visible

and mages,

than I

looked at the person at the center of the group as the

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

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

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of black

that and leisurely looking down at the underground

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

on a wheelchair, making the injury

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared

“Human!”