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.

containers were full of a black

dead mana. Human, this must be where they made the dead

hearing Raon's weak

hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was

wasn’t the

Billos’s hands were

Han’s

while the other was shaking in uncontrollable

minds started to go

was at

“Sob.”

heard someone's

Han and Billos

group

a soundproof barrier around

knights in the passage looked behind

the…? Did you

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

to speak once even Billos started

that deserve to

his head as his body started to

not see

he could clearly imagine

still had no choice but to lower his

from

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear

not

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

Cat, Rex. He was the one

managed to

his whole world was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had never clearly

‘Whose bones are those?

those the skeletons of my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

to bleed after being

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to mix

fluid seeped into the ground without

pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up.

I'm going to go

was shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with

only blankly stare at

soundproof barrier magic prevented the enemies located at

was not much light in this

paid any attention to

probably could not

say about the sight

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made Choi Han think of his

Cale’s voice at

“I’ll go with you.”

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

Rex, started to descend the

to the

see the skeletons piled up into

for a while, as

blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look

Cat and run

brother, you can do

his noona and

Rex started to speak.

going to kill

going to kill

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

himself to not

Imperial Prince… The

the people

tears had dried up at some

“No.”

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

the floating blob of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s

and honestly explained

Imperial Prince is

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

someone else’s

“Cale-nim.”

to

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

eyes

next to Sir Rex. He then

look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

been focused on the skeletons slowly headed

underground hall seemed to

that such an area was located underneath the

also thought that they managed to not

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot

the highest

right beneath

was sticking out like

a terrace surrounded by

was as if the location was built just to look down at this pile

voice the moment his

voice that was

“…Found you.”

people

heavily armed knights and

weaker than

of the group as the ancient

shouted at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

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

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of

and leisurely

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by his heart visible to

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared on

“Human!”