Trash of the Count's Family

“Human! I can’t connect with Clopeh Sekka's video communication device! He must be busy!”

Unfortunately, Cale was unable to contact Clopeh Sekka right away.

‘Should I call Witira instead?’

He thought about the Whales Witira and Paseton but decided to push it off for later.

“I guess we will first go visit the Singten Merchant Guild Leader.”

Cale put the top's whip down and opened the map Rosalyn gave him. He then looked out to the night sky over the Mogoru Empire’s capital.

He needed to be back before morning.

“Damn it!”

Clang!

A glass cup crashed into the wall and broke into pieces.

Plavin Singten, the Singten Merchant Guild Leader, felt suffocated thinking that the broken glass resembled his own future.

He felt as if those sharp glass shards would be pointed at his neck.

‘Who knew it would end up like this?!’

Plavin Singten clutched his head with both hands.

“…Guild leader-nim.”

“Be quiet.”

Plavin Singten just clutched his head even harder without looking at his trusted subordinate who called out to him.

The trusted subordinate shut up after seeing that the usually calm and collected guild leader who only focused on his personal gains had reached his limits.

It was because he was in a similar situation.

The trusted subordinate sitting across from the merchant guild leader quietly put down the wine glass in his hand.

He and the Singten Merchant Guild leader were drinking wine with their late dinner.

Plavin didn't even look at his quiet trusted subordinate as his mind was in a chaotic state.

‘…The crown- the Alchemists’ Bell Tower was destroyed!’

The Singten Merchant Guild.

This merchant guild had risen to the position of being one of the top five merchant guilds in the Mogoru Empire in just 10 years.

The Singten Merchant Guild was famous for being close with the crown.

But that was not the only reason they grew so much in a short period of time.

‘Black magic! I should never have been involved with it!’

The Singten Merchant Guild had sold people off to the crown and the Alchemists’ Bell Tower for their experiments.

Those people were slaves they kidnapped through human trafficking in other nations around the Western continent.

Plavin Singten had earned a chance to get close to the crown and the Alchemists’ Bell Tower while profiting immensely through these slaves.

He opened his mouth to speak.

“You got rid of all of the evidence?”

Plavin had ordered his trusted subordinate to get rid of all evidence related to the human trafficking and slaves as soon as the Alchemists’ Bell Tower battle ended.

“Yes sir, everything is destroyed.”

They had gotten rid of the evidence in the capital as soon as possible, so the trusted subordinate was saying that there were no traces anywhere to tie them to it.

“You made sure nobody saw you?”

“Guild leader-nim, of course I made sure nobody saw me.”

“…You know that is not what I am talking about.”

Plavin’s eyes turned cold.

The trusted subordinate bowed and responded to Plavin's statement.

“Yes sir, all of them are gone. They will all come up as missing.”

The merchant guild leader finally started to smile.

“Good. Exactly how it should be. People and evidence as well. We have to get rid of them even if they are on our side.”

The trusted subordinate gulped.

if it was a secret, one person was not enough to stealthily destroy the records of something the merchant guild

subordinate to kill anybody involved in getting rid of the evidence, in other words, anybody who had been involved in this stealthy operation for over ten

The ones who helped him were the assassins who were the merchant guild leader’s other trusted

‘…What a scary person.’

who had erased

such a scary person could have committed a terrible deed like human trafficking for over

‘It’s quite hilarious.’

trusted subordinate barely managed

had been involved in this terrible

to resort

leader had his head in both hands and seemed

guild leader was currently living in hiding in this secret residence that only he, the trusted subordinate, and his

of the Sun God who defeated

it should be fine as long as we

did his

of the evidence is

shake

it

the guild

be part of the

two hands

seemed to be deep in thought. The guild leader slowly

why are you looking at me like

see the merchant guild leader’s

“…Guild leader-nim.”

it? You don't look too

sad as

someone who is about

mouth turned dried at those words. He tried to take

was at

“Ugh!”

if

seemed to cover his

subordinate could see the merchant guild leader smiling. The trusted subordinate slumping with blood in his mouth was reflected in

merchant guild leader started to speak to the trusted subordinate who

rid of all of the

trusted subordinate started to

reward for dutifully doing terrible deeds

ugh, damn

subordinate realized that poison was in the food or

not say it out

to the poison and

“Hey, are you okay?”

guild leader looked up at the ceiling and started to speak

“Get rid of it.”

Shhhhh.

from the roof and one of them

Shhhhh.

guild leader watched and filled a new glass handed to him by the other assassin with

that he had shown earlier was not

looked calm and

low for a

the assassins who were his

keep sending money to the

subordinates silently nodded

The South.

to think about the Alchemists’ Towers located

Plavin Singten was now supporting were

back on the couch and calmly assessed the

okay. There’s still

still a chance for his power and status to be

reason he was staying in this secret residence in the

had stayed in the capital even as other shady bastards of other merchant

of it was because of this secret residence that looked normal on

troops have not moved

capital's troops. He also needed to keep

he was able to create

last reason he

connection with the Church of the Sun God as

eyes started to

Kingdom’s VIP auction

agreed to purchase the Determination of Fire

uncertain about what to do when the man in the white mask first offered him the Determination of Fire in a

Determination of Fire was a treasure that served as evidence of his secret bribe to the former pope even as he had a close connection with the

had with that masked man was letting

the Church of the Sun

the man

should know about