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 black

must be where they made the dead

blinked after hearing Raon's

grabbed his left hand with his right

It was slightly shaking.

because he was about to go crazy

the only

Billos’s

of Choi Han’s

was shaking in disgust while the other was shaking in

minds started to

was at

“Sob.”

someone's

Han and Billos

group at that

soundproof barrier around

the knights in the

the…? Did you

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

speak once even Billos started to

bastards that

flinched and turned his head

not see

he could clearly imagine an angry

Billos still had no choice but to lower his

coming from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear

was not very

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

Rex. He was

managed to

his whole world was shaking after seeing this underground area that

‘Whose bones are those?

of my siblings? My

Bang, bang!

bleed after being scratched by

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

fluid seeped into the ground without

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

I'm going to go

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with every

Han could only blankly stare

enemies located at the entrance of the passage from

much

of the enemies paid any attention to the

probably could not even see

didn’t know what to say about the sight in

He could feel despair.

sorrows and despair made Choi Han think of his

Han heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind the Cat’s small

Cat, Rex, started to descend

underground to the

the skeletons piled up

have been dead for a

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

a Cat

Youngest brother, you

heard his noona and

Rex started to speak.

going to

to kill them

how he would do it. He could

himself to not

Imperial Prince… The

the people he

tears had dried up

“No.”

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

blob of blood, which was where he presumed

and honestly explained

Imperial Prince is

hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different from

heard someone else’s voice coming

“Cale-nim.”

Han called out to

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes

Sir Rex. He then whispered in

look at the

‘The highest point?’

been focused on the skeletons

seemed

an area was

managed to not get caught because

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot as they went

highest spot in this underground

stopped right beneath

there that was sticking out like a terrace

was a terrace surrounded

as if the location was built just

Cale's voice the moment

voice that was

“…Found you.”

see the people visible inside

knights and

than I

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

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

doctor that Billos pointed out was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of

person drinking that and leisurely looking down at the underground

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

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

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared on

“Human!”