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

mana. Human, this must

blinked after hearing Raon's

left hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

because he was about to

the only

of Billos’s

Choi Han’s hands

in disgust while the other was shaking

minds started to go

at

“Sob.”

someone's

and

the group at that

a soundproof barrier

group before the knights

the…? Did you

many people dying that we think we hear

once

that

his head

not

clearly imagine an

no choice but

from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

was not very

help but cry after trying to hold himself back so

was the one who

managed to

felt like his whole world was shaking after seeing

‘Whose bones are those?

skeletons of my siblings?

Bang, bang!

ground. His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough

“Soooob, ugh!”

started to mix

fluid seeped into the ground without turning

of his shaking legs to stand up.

going to

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with every step

could only blankly stare at the

the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from looking

much

the enemies paid any attention to

they probably could not

what to say about the sight in front of

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made Choi

heard Cale’s voice at

“I’ll go with you.”

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

started to

the lowest

the skeletons

been dead for a

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

a Cat

you can

heard his

Rex started to speak.

to

going to

when, or how he would do it. He could not think about

himself to not say anything right

Imperial Prince… The

started to list the people he

had dried up at some

“No.”

the voice he then heard coming from behind him. No, he

the floating blob of blood, which was where he

and honestly explained to

Imperial Prince

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

heard someone else’s voice coming from behind

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes

crouched down next to Sir Rex. He

look at the

‘The highest point?’

that had only been focused on the skeletons slowly

seemed to

was almost unbelievable that such an area

thought that they managed to not

“…Huh?”

certain spot as

was at the highest spot in

eyes stopped right

that was sticking out like a terrace to view

a terrace

the location was built just to look down

Rex heard Cale's voice the moment his eyes landed

a scary voice that was a mix

“…Found you.”

the people visible inside

armed knights and mages, as well

weaker than I

the person at the center of the group as the ancient Dragon,

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

pointed out was handing the person at the center a wine glass.

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of black

that and leisurely

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

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

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared

“Human!”