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.

were full

must be where they made the

after hearing Raon's

his left hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

was shaking because he was about to

wasn’t the

Billos’s

Choi Han’s hands

while the other

started to

at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

Han and

group at that

put a soundproof barrier around

the group before the knights in

the…? Did you just hear

so many people dying that we

to speak once

bastards that deserve

his head as his

not

he could clearly

still had no choice but to lower

from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

was not

cry after trying to

Cat, Rex. He was the one

managed to

whole world was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had

‘Whose bones are those?

those the skeletons of my siblings?

Bang, bang!

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

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started to

fluid seeped into

stand up. He slowly started to walk as he started

I'm going

blood dripped from his forehead with every

could only blankly stare at the falling blood

enemies located at the entrance of the

much light in

of the enemies paid any attention to the

probably could not even see

didn’t know what to say about the

He could feel despair.

and despair made

Han heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

walk when he heard Cale's

Rex, started

finally arrived underground to the lowest spot in the

see the skeletons

to have been dead for a while, as only

from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him

a Cat

Youngest brother, you can do

his noona

Rex started to speak.

going to

going to kill them

know who, when, or how he would do it. He could not

himself to not say

Prince… The

started to list the people he needed

dried up at

“No.”

coming from behind him. No, he flinched

pressing down on the floating blob of blood, which was where he

bluntly, and honestly

Imperial Prince

blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm hand that was

else’s voice coming

“Cale-nim.”

Han called out to Cale who slowly responded

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes were full of

Sir Rex. He then whispered in

at the

‘The highest point?’

focused on the skeletons slowly

hall seemed to go

an area

to not get caught because it

“…Huh?”

a certain

highest spot in this underground

right beneath

area there that was sticking out like a terrace to view

terrace surrounded

location was built just to look down

the moment his eyes landed

scary voice that was a mix of both joy

“…Found you.”

people visible inside

heavily armed knights and mages, as

weaker than

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

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

the person at the center a wine

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of black

that and leisurely looking down at the

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

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

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared on

“Human!”