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

this must be where they made the dead

hearing

hand

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was about

wasn’t the only

Billos’s hands

Choi Han’s hands

disgust while the other was shaking in

minds started to go

at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's

and

covered the group at that

soundproof barrier

knights in the passage looked

you just hear

people dying that we think we hear moaning all the time

to speak once even Billos started

bastards that deserve

head as his body started

not see the

clearly imagine

choice but to

coming from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not

to hold himself back so much that he

Rex. He was the one who was

managed to survive,

after seeing

‘Whose bones are those?

those the skeletons of my

Bang, bang!

His forehead started to bleed after being

“Soooob, ugh!”

started to mix

into the ground

stand up. He slowly started to walk

I'm going to go

voice was shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with

blankly stare at the falling blood

prevented the enemies located at the

was not much

of the enemies paid any attention to the falling

could not even see

know what to say about the sight

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made Choi

heard Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

also started to walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind the Cat’s

Cat, Rex, started to

to the lowest

could see the skeletons piled up

been dead for

blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making

into a Cat

you can do

his noona

Rex started to speak.

to

to

who, when, or how he would do it.

he couldn’t control himself to not say anything

Prince… The Tower

to list the people he needed

had dried up at

“No.”

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

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

and honestly explained

Prince

after hearing the blunt and cold voice

someone else’s

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes were full of

crouched down next to Sir Rex. He then

at

‘The highest point?’

focused on the skeletons

seemed to

was almost unbelievable that such an area was located underneath

they managed to not

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot as they went

at the highest spot

right beneath

area there that was sticking out like a

terrace

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

Rex heard Cale's voice the moment

that was a mix of

“…Found you.”

the people visible inside

armed knights and mages, as well

weaker than I

as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly

at that

“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.”

glass was full of

that and leisurely looking down

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared

“Human!”