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

this must be where they made

hearing Raon's weak

hand

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was

the only

of Billos’s hands

Choi Han’s hands were

shaking in disgust while the other was shaking in

minds started to go

at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

Han and

group at that

put a soundproof barrier

informed the group before the knights in the passage looked behind

the…? Did you just

have heard wrong. We've heard so many people dying that

started to speak once even Billos started

bastards that deserve to

head as his

could not

could clearly imagine an angry

Billos still had no choice

coming from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

was not

was someone who couldn’t help but cry after trying to hold himself back so much that he

He was the one who was

managed to

shaking after seeing this underground area that he had never

‘Whose bones are those?

the skeletons of my siblings?

Bang, bang!

forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started

red fluid seeped into

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

I'm going

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with every step he

stare at the

soundproof barrier magic prevented the enemies located at the

not much light in this

of the enemies paid any attention to

they probably could not

what to say about the sight in

He could feel despair.

despair made Choi

heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

Cale's response. He

Rex, started to descend the

underground to the lowest spot

see the skeletons piled up into

been dead for a while, as only the skeletons

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

into a Cat

brother, you

still heard his noona and hyung's

Rex started to speak.

to

going to

do

himself to not

Prince…

list the people he needed

tears had dried

“No.”

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

on the floating blob of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located, with his

bluntly, and honestly

Prince

cold voice

then heard someone else’s voice coming from behind

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale who slowly

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

eyes

next to Sir Rex. He then

at the

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused on the

underground hall seemed

unbelievable that such an area was

that they managed to not get caught because

“…Huh?”

a certain

the highest

stopped right beneath the

sticking out like a terrace to view

a terrace surrounded

the location was built just to look down

voice the moment his eyes

that was a mix of both

“…Found you.”

people visible

knights and mages, as well

than I

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

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full of

was a person drinking that and leisurely looking

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

a wheelchair, making the

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”