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

must be where they made the dead

blinked after hearing

his left hand

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was

wasn’t the

Billos’s hands

Choi Han’s hands

the other

started

at

“Sob.”

someone's

Han and Billos

group

put a soundproof barrier around

the knights in the

the…? Did you

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

once even

bastards that

turned his head

could not

he could clearly

Billos still had no choice

sound was coming from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

not very

trying to hold himself back so much that he was

He was the one who

managed to

shaking after seeing this underground area that he had never clearly seen

‘Whose bones are those?

the skeletons of my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

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

“Soooob, ugh!”

started to mix

seeped into the

pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up.

I'm going

blood dripped from

stare at the falling

soundproof barrier magic prevented the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from

was not much light in this

the enemies paid any attention to the falling

probably could not

didn’t know what to say

He could feel despair.

and despair made Choi Han think of

heard Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

walk when he heard Cale's response.

started

arrived underground to the lowest

could see the skeletons

dead for a

all of it in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached

a Cat

Youngest brother, you can

heard his noona and hyung's

Rex started to speak.

to kill

going to

when, or how he would do it. He could

control himself to not say

Prince… The

list the people

had dried up

“No.”

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

blob of blood, which was where he presumed

and

Imperial Prince

voice that was

then heard someone else’s voice

“Cale-nim.”

out to

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes were full

down next to Sir Rex. He

look at

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused on the

underground hall seemed

unbelievable that such an area was located underneath the

not get caught because it was

“…Huh?”

stopped at a certain spot as they

the highest spot in

stopped right beneath the

area there that was sticking out like a terrace to view

a terrace surrounded

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

Cale's voice the moment

a scary voice that was a mix of

“…Found you.”

see the people

were heavily armed knights and mages, as well as

than

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

at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

the person at the

“It’s dead mana.”

wine glass was

person drinking that and leisurely looking down

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

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

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared

“Human!”