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

Human, this must be where

blinked after hearing Raon's weak

his left hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was about to

the

Billos’s hands

of Choi Han’s

shaking in disgust while the other was shaking in uncontrollable

started to

at that

“Sob.”

someone's suppressed

Han and Billos

covered the group at that

a soundproof barrier around

group before the knights in the

Did you

We've heard so many people dying that we think we hear moaning all the

started to speak once even

bastards that deserve to

head

could not see the

he could clearly

still had no choice but to lower his

was coming from

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not very

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

was the one who

to

world was shaking after seeing this underground area that he

‘Whose bones are those?

of my siblings? My neighbors? My

Bang, bang!

bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but Rex did not

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

into the

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

going to

dripped from his forehead

Han could only blankly stare

barrier magic prevented the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from looking toward

not much

enemies paid any attention to

they probably could not even see

say about the sight

He could feel despair.

and despair made Choi Han

Han heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

started to walk when he heard Cale's

Cat, Rex, started to descend

to the lowest spot in the

see the skeletons piled up into

seemed to have been dead for

slowly took all of it in with his eyes. The blood from his

into a Cat and

brother, you

heard his noona and

Rex started to speak.

to

going to

know who, when, or how he would do it. He could

himself to not say

Prince…

the

had dried up

“No.”

him. No, he flinched at the feeling

of blood, which

and honestly

Prince

returned to his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm hand that was touching his

someone else’s

“Cale-nim.”

out to Cale

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

eyes

crouched down next to Sir Rex. He then whispered in Rex’s

at the

‘The highest point?’

been focused on the skeletons slowly

hall seemed

was almost unbelievable that such an area was located underneath the

that they managed to not get caught because it was

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain

highest spot in this underground

right beneath

an area there that was sticking out like a terrace to view a

was a terrace surrounded by

just to look down at this pile of

heard Cale's voice the moment his eyes landed on that

voice that was a mix of

“…Found you.”

people visible inside

heavily armed knights and mages, as

weaker than

as

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full of

that and leisurely looking down at the underground

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

wheelchair, making the

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared on

“Human!”