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 of a black

Human, this must be where they made

after hearing Raon's

his left hand

It was slightly shaking.

he was about

wasn’t the

of Billos’s hands

of Choi Han’s hands were

disgust while the other was shaking

minds started to go

at that

“Sob.”

someone's

and

the group at

soundproof barrier

group before the knights in the

Did you just hear

heard so many people

to speak once

that deserve to

head as his body started to

not

he could clearly imagine

choice

from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

hear

was not

after trying to hold himself back so much that he was twisting

was the one who

to survive,

was shaking after seeing this underground

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings? My

Bang, bang!

head on the ground. His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but Rex did not

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

into

pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up. He slowly

going to go

voice was shaking and blood dripped from his forehead

could only blankly stare at the

located at the entrance

was not much light in

the enemies paid any attention to the falling

could not

Han didn’t know what to say about the sight

He could feel despair.

sorrows and despair made

Han heard Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed

started to descend

arrived underground to the lowest spot in

see the skeletons piled up

for a while,

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

into a Cat and

you can

his noona and hyung's

Rex started to speak.

going to

to kill them

how he would do it. He could not

himself to not

Imperial Prince…

list the

dried up

“No.”

him. No, he flinched at the feeling of a soft cloth covering his

which was where he

bluntly, and

Imperial Prince

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

then heard someone else’s voice coming from

“Cale-nim.”

out to Cale

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

eyes were full

next to Sir Rex. He then whispered

Rex, look at

‘The highest point?’

that had only been focused on the

underground hall seemed to go

was almost unbelievable that such an

also thought that they managed to not get caught

“…Huh?”

at a certain

highest

eyes stopped right beneath the

was sticking out like a terrace to view

was a terrace surrounded

the location was built just to look down at

heard Cale's voice the moment his eyes landed on

was a mix of both joy

“…Found you.”

people

knights and mages,

weaker than

as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly deducted the strength of the

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at this

“It’s dead mana.”

wine glass was full

was a person drinking that and

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

shirtless and sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared

“Human!”