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

after hearing

his left hand with

It was slightly shaking.

was about to go

wasn’t the only

of Billos’s hands

of Choi Han’s

shaking in disgust while the other

minds started to

was at

“Sob.”

heard someone's

and Billos

the group at that

soundproof

the knights in

Did you just

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

started to speak once even

that deserve

his head as his

not

he could clearly imagine

still had no choice but to

was coming from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

not very

trying to hold

He was the one

to survive,

was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had never

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings? My neighbors? My

Bang, bang!

forehead started to bleed after

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

seeped into the ground without turning

of his shaking legs to stand up. He slowly

I'm going to go

dripped from his forehead with

Han could only blankly stare at

magic prevented the enemies located at the entrance of the passage

not much

the enemies paid any attention to the falling

they probably could not even

know what to say about the sight in front

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made Choi

Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

to walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind

Rex, started to descend

to the lowest spot in the

skeletons

dead for a

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

a Cat and

Youngest brother, you

still heard his noona and hyung's

Rex started to speak.

going to

going to

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

himself to not say

Imperial Prince…

started to list the people he needed

tears had dried up at

“No.”

No, he flinched at the feeling

of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located, with

then bluntly, and honestly explained

Imperial Prince is

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

else’s voice

“Cale-nim.”

Han called out to Cale who slowly responded

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes were full of

next to Sir Rex. He then whispered in

Rex, look at the

‘The highest point?’

eyes that had only been focused

underground hall seemed

that such an area was

thought that they managed to not get caught

“…Huh?”

stopped at a certain spot as

was at the highest

eyes stopped right beneath

sticking out like a terrace

a terrace surrounded by

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

moment his eyes landed

was a

“…Found you.”

people visible inside

were heavily armed knights and mages, as

than

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

shouted at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

pointed out was handing the person at the center a wine glass.

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of black

drinking that and leisurely

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

the injury

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”