Trash of the Count's Family

The crow observed the fainted rat in Choi Han’s hand. The crow on Cale’s shoulder approached the rat and thoroughly observed it.

“The Illusionist seems to control rats.”

Choi Han put the fainted rat down and picked his sword up again after hearing the certainty in Gashan's voice.

Slaaaaash, slash!

The ground underneath the entire alley was flipped over. Choi Han frowned every time he stabbed his sword into the ground. Once the sword stabbed a certain length into the ground…

‘…There’s a path!’

He felt a small underground path that small animals such as rats would be able to cross. Choi Han quickly flipped the ground over. He then raised his senses to become as sensitive as possible.

Squeeak, squeak-

He then heard a quiet noise. Choi Han turned his head. Somewhere in the dark alley… A shaded spot in the corner of the wall that even Choi Han who was hiding there had ignored…

Squeeak, squeak, squeak!

Choi Han made eye contact with a rat that started to run away. He looked around at the ground, the alley, on top of the wall, and then across the Dubori territory.

‘…We're on top of the White Star's palm!’

He had no idea where else those small rats might be hiding. He had no way of knowing where they might be hiding and observing them.

‘Since when…since when were we being observed?’

Choi Han got goosebumps on his back.

Had they been observed by those rats as soon as they entered the Dubori territory? Or were they being observed long before they even arrived at the territory?

‘The rumbling we felt in Young-en when we were meeting with crown prince Valentino. Was that rumbling from the West we felt the Illusionist's doing as well?’

Choi Han had known the White Star was strong this whole time, but for some odd reason, he had not been afraid of the White Star. He felt as if the White Star was an enemy they could defeat at any moment.

‘Why did I have such thoughts?’

The White Star and his subordinates were not people they could look down upon.

The White Star had clashed with Choi Han and the others many times, but it had been as if he had been hiding himself every time. The situation in the Mogoru was something he did by making the Empire's people move.

But now, the White Star was revealing himself without hiding at all in the Caro Kingdom’s Dubori territory. It felt as if the White Star’s power, influence, and abilities were coming out of hiding and surrounding Choi Han.

‘…Shit.’

Choi Han finally started to feel a sense of danger.

‘I didn't think I’d only realize I was stuck in a spider web until after I was already stuck.’

Since they entered this small city with the Lord’s Castle, no, since they entered the Dubori territory or even the Caro Kingdom, they had been caught in the White Star’s web and had been moving on top of his palm.

Caw, caw.

Choi Han realized he could not hear anybody speaking through the crow's cawing.

‘Even Cale-nim is quiet.’

He felt the weight of this dangerous situation even more after seeing that both Gashan and more importantly, Cale, were quiet. His gaze headed toward his silent liege.

“…Cale-nim?”

Choi Han could see the silently smiling Cale. His smiling gaze met Choi Han’s eyes. Choi Han then realized why he had not been scared of the White Star until now. Every time he was about to be shocked because of the White Star’s strength, there was someone who was always smiling as if it was nothing.

“Choi Han, there's none left around us now, right?”

Choi Han closed his eyes after hearing Cale’s question. His sensitive swordsman’s senses were activated again and he soon opened his eyes.

“There are no living creatures other than us here.”

The Illusionist's rats were nowhere to be found.

“Is that so?”

Cale then crouched down on the ground. The ground that Choi Han had overturned earlier… Cale put his hand inside the now soft dirt.

Caw, caw.

A few crows surrounded Cale and Choi Han. Choi Han's eyes opened wide as this small area outside the White Star's gaze was created.

The Western continent’s common language was being written on the ground.

< Choi Han, Gashan. They won't be able to see this. >

There were no rats nearby. That meant that they would not be able to read these words.

Shh.

Cale quickly erased the words he had just written. He then started to write something else in the ground.

< Go call your friends over right away. >

‘Friends?’

The crow looked toward Cale in confusion but Cale shook his head. Choi Han also looked confused but Cale kept on writing.

Go call your friends over right away. And then…

< Tell your friends in the desert about our situation. >

Choi Han started to move his hand.

< Cale-nim, who are you talking to? >

Who was Cale giving this order to? Cale looked at him and started to speak.

"The White Star used his head very well.”

Shhhhh.

ground were covered up once

He separated Raon and I with the mana disturbance and hid his ears

Gashan's existence. They were all revealed to the

something the White Star did not know about. Cale tightened his grip around

be back

I think it’ll be better

I

breeze brushed past Cale and rose

Han, you heard

them

Cale-nim, I

soldiers had

feast today for the

are you planning

heard Gashan’s voice through

“First.”

mouth. He looked toward Choi Han. Cale started to write on the ground again as Choi Han was about

Gashan, an Illusionist this strong can probably bewitch people easily, right?

things. The crow read

Caw, caw.

crows left Cale’s side at

Shhhh.

rid of the evidence. Cale

the Lord’s Castle where

a terrible territory that nobody would visit because it had the Land of Death, one

I never expected a day like

fancy suit instead of his armor raised his wine glass

Clang!

clinked against a different glass in the air, making a clear

first

his suit. He continued to touch this new suit of his. There was a gold-plated

I don't know where the lord found

and took a sip of the wine. His eyes then peeked

of the territory. Today was the

feast

enjoy! There were beautiful chandeliers, expensive wine, and food that was both beautiful to look at and delicious

who knew we would get to enjoy such luxuries after guarding the entrance to the

were people who

calling everyone here to

to his subordinate knight

‘The lord’s giving?’

the Lord-nim but those new individuals who are

greed as he looked toward the three people standing next to

and had brought over

did such people come to the Dubori territory? I can’t understand what they saw in the

Screeeech-

ear after hearing a sharp

“Ugh.”

“Sir, what’s wrong?”

“No. It's nothing.”

suit glowed red for a moment before returning to normal. His eyes clouded

are you

ourselves when such a grand welcome feast is taking part in

individuals had disappeared from the laughing knight’s mind. He picked up

Plop.

“Hmm?”

his wine glass. The knight frowned and looked up. He could see the banquet hall's old ceiling

ceiling or something. There are things falling

will get you

wine glass and the atmosphere became merry

‘That scared me.’

in the old ceiling

created a small hole in the ceiling to look inside

‘Do it properly.’

Choi Han who had

head side to side as he mouthed silently.

Han, there are no

nodded

Cale-nim, there are no rats

“Haaaaa.”

a sigh before stretching

‘These… rats!’

dirty as he

this hard to

for Cale to infiltrate the Lord’s

is

in freely. Cale frowned as he recalled how he had to roll around in the dirt as the new employee Kim Rok Soo

‘…Why! How?!’

Han was clean. Cale finally felt the difference

Tap. Tap.

and pointed toward the holes in the ceiling. There were two holes and Cale held

looked through one of the

‘Ha!’

people enjoying themselves. Cale thought about the different rooms in

room, the military strategy room, and the

empty. Only black mages were walking through the

crown prince Valentino's calls and are

meant that crown prince

everybody raise your

the territory lord raise his glass through the small hole.

for our Dubori and the Dubori territory! Look over here!

pointed

‘Aigoo.’

Cale sighed.

Star, the Bear

feeble-looking Bear King were smiling while wearing fancy

person the

smiling while standing between the

‘It’s not here.’