Trash of the Count's Family

“…The Directory?”

“Yes.”

Bud smiled brightly at Cale's short answer.

“Then let’s sneak over to the Mercenaries Guild!”

Cale observed the smiling Bud and pointed out his choice of words.

“Sneak?”

‘He doesn’t want to openly go there?’

“Yes. Sneak. We need to go to the city with the Mercenaries Guild’s central headquarters.”

The Mercenaries Guild's central headquarters.

That was enough for Cale to understand what the Mercenary King was thinking about.

“…Arm’s people might be watching the Mercenaries Guild.”

“Correct.”

Bud pointed toward Cale.

“And in my opinion, now anyone above the middle-grade rank in Arm probably knows what you look like.”

Cale had fought with the White Star already and had a high chance of fighting again in the future.

Maybe Arm’s lowest ranking members might not know about him, but the middle-grade and higher members were most likely informed of Cale's appearance for strategic reasons.

“And I'm pretty certain that there are middle-grade ranking members around the central headquarters since they are desperately trying to find me as well.”

Bud did not need to explain any further.

Cale nodded his head in agreement.

The White Star was currently trying to use Arm to gobble up the Mercenaries Guild and kill the Mercenary King.

That was why the Mercenary King was moving around in the name of investigating.

Cale started to speak.

“The last information they have about you is that you arrived at our inn, so it would cause quite the stir if you suddenly appeared in the central headquarters. That’s bad for you and for our inn.”

“Correct. That is why I am saying we should quietly go there.”

Cale nodded his head. He then looked somewhere else.

“Gramps! Are you better now?”

Raon was flying around Eruhaben and inspecting. Eruhaben snorted at Raon before starting to speak with an arrogant expression.

“Little kid, why are you saying something so obvious?”

Eruhaben looked fine on the outside. Actually, he looked very healthy.

The children averaging nine-years-old finally started to smile.

“I'm relieved.”

Ron Molan commented to Eruhaben in a gentle tone. Beacrox bowed once he made eye contact with Eruhaben, while Choi Han smiled back.

This made Eruhaben feel very odd.

He had never had anybody worry about his lifespan or his health during his life.

He couldn’t understand why such a thing was happening in his final year and he was unintentionally getting a lot of concern from those around him.

He didn’t know how to feel in such a situation.

“Goldie gramps! I will build you a house later! Just wait! I'm going to visit you every day! I've gathered a lot of money!”

“Me too!”

Raon and Hong were walking in circles around Eruhaben with excitement. On was slowly roaming around Eruhaben as well.

Eruhaben observed the children for a bit before turning his head. He ended up making eye contact with Cale.

Cale’s gaze looked the same as it always did, however, the ancient Dragon found it difficult to keep looking at him for some reason.

However, he started to smile as he knew that one could not avoid something forever. Cale then started to frown and turned away.

Cale ended up making eye contact with the Mercenary King again as a result.

“What? What is it?”

Cale bluntly asked the Mercenary King who was observing him. Bud approached Cale and asked in a quiet voice that others would not be able to hear.

“The ancient Dragon-nim did use the ancient artifact, right?”

Cale looked at Bud's pupils behind the glasses. Bud started to smile in response and tried to explain himself.

“No, I was just wondering why my friend might have suddenly wanted to enter the training ground alone. That was why I asked one of the many potential situations I had considered.”

Bud's green eyes behind the glasses started to curl up as he smiled.

A similarly smiling Cale was visible through the reflection on Bud’s glasses.

Cale whispered quietly as well. However, his voice was not very quiet.

Other than the children averaging nine-years-old who were still happily chatting away by Eruhaben’s side, the others had moved over toward Cale, who was a bit away from them.

Cale spoke in a quiet tone that was loud enough for experts like Choi Han, Ron, and Beacrox to hear.

“There is no longer an ancient artifact for anyone but Eruhaben-nim to use anymore.”

This was technically the truth.

Although the ancient artifact was in Cale’s possession, he was saving it for Eruhaben.

Cale could see Choi Han who was looking at him after hearing what he just said.

He could see Ron and Beacrox nodding their heads as well.

Cale had suddenly entered the training ground alone. Everyone was curious about what Cale and Eruhaben had done inside there.

They probably had their own hypothesis about what happened.

Mercenary

“So let’s hurry on.”

care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who

frown on his face as he crawled

in a completely

adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was being

heading toward the marble buildings because you said

was rare to see Beacrox sighing

on his body and continued to frown. His white gloves were already

city located in the central region

was built in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used as the

an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that

was a building built with marble

in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

Han nor Beacrox could say anything

you should shut

was because they heard

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of the group

He started to speak.

alerted if an

circles throughout

did

about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and the area at the end of

“Enough, just keep moving.”

Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing to

in advance, but I didn't remember it until we got here. Ha. Ha,

It was the truth.

quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget

at that moment. It was a

the

that that voice was

sounded

Ron was saying that Bud was dead if

Bud quickly shouted back.

at the end of this tunnel,

was currently stealthily entering

Cale's group alone, couldn’t help

why we have been crawling for

the

been crawling

it tiring? Should I give you another apple

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating

even worse after hearing the children averaging

flying around while On and Hong were easily

children averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed by this

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

only

hurry up

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a

held back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an

had had gone down, he had not become a complete

ignored the excessive concerns of the

mind was quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they came into this

the first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild

house built in the forest outside Resting City’s

tunnel was in that

magic circles created by the Mercenaries

only passage to the

asked in

exactly is

Mercenary King had smiled

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

three-story wooden building did not have a path down

Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important pieces

if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type of

group was

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary King’s

faintly see some

the entrance! They are on

the first time in an

warm and gentle

here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time

felt as if the hair on his back was starting

voice,

quickly

quickly continued to crawl and

shining stones here

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

once he touched

Boooooooom-

started to

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

appeared

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the

going to turn the

click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on

had crawled through a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”