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.

containers were full of a black

was dead mana. Human, this must be where they made the

blinked after hearing

hand

It was slightly shaking.

was about

wasn’t the

Billos’s

Choi Han’s hands

shaking in disgust while the other

minds started to

at

“Sob.”

someone's

and Billos

group at that

soundproof

group before the knights in

you just

heard so many people dying that we think we hear moaning all the

to speak once even Billos

that

head as his body

could not see

could clearly imagine an

still had no choice but to

coming from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not very

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

was

to survive,

whole world was shaking after seeing this underground

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings? My neighbors? My

Bang, bang!

ground. His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but Rex

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

seeped into

slowly pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up. He slowly started to walk as he started

going to go

and blood dripped from his

blankly stare

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

not much light

of the enemies paid any attention to

probably could not

Han didn’t know what to say about the

He could feel despair.

sorrows and despair made Choi Han

Han heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

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

Rex, started

finally arrived underground to the lowest

see the skeletons piled up

seemed to have been dead for

The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making

into a Cat and

brother, you can

heard his noona

Rex started to speak.

going to

to

didn't know who, when, or how he would do it. He could not think

to not say anything right

Prince… The

to list the people

dried up at some

“No.”

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

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

bluntly, and honestly explained

Prince is

the blunt and cold voice that was

someone else’s

“Cale-nim.”

out to

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

eyes

Rex. He then whispered

at the

‘The highest point?’

only been focused

seemed to go up

that such an

thought that they managed to not get

“…Huh?”

at a certain spot as they

was at the highest spot

stopped right beneath the

sticking

terrace surrounded by

was as if the location was built just to look down at this pile of

Rex heard Cale's voice the moment his

was a scary voice that was

“…Found you.”

the people

and mages, as well as some

weaker than

the person at the center of the group as the ancient

at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

doctor that Billos pointed out was handing the person at the center a

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full

a person drinking that and leisurely looking down

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

and sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by his heart visible to

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared

“Human!”