Trash of the Count's Family

Cale looked back and started to speak before walking any farther.

“Wait for me outside the door.”

Choi Han quietly nodded his head and started to close the door. Human! I’ll be waiting with Choi Han!

Raon said goodbye to him without coming inside as well.

Screeeech-

The door slowly closed, until…

Boom!

It closed completely and Cale could not see outside.

"Why are you just blankly standing there?”

Cale turned away from the door and faced forward after hearing Alberu's voice.

"Are you not coming?”

Cale shrugged his shoulders and started to walk after hearing Alberu’s jovial voice.

Tap. Tap.

The two of them were the only ones in here, so Cale’s steps echoed loudly.

“Did you get rid of everybody else on purpose?”

“Yes. They all have the day off today.”

“Is that okay?”

Cale stood in front of Alberu and Alberu took a document out of his pocket and waved it around.

"Do you see his majesty’s crest?”

Cale chuckled after looking at the document with the king’s crest.

“It’s more of a do not approach warning than a day off.”

“Yes. Even the guards are 10 meters away from the building.”

Cale quietly listened before asking a question.

“I guess it is a big secret?”

“…I'm not sure.”

Cale could see that Alberu was still smiling but that his eyes were stiff. His eyes were not normal and seemed to hold anguish.

Alberu turned away after seeing Cale staring at him and started to walk.

“…The people of the royal family seem to think it is a big secret.”

"Does that mean you don't think it is a big secret, your highness?”

Cale walked while looking at Alberu's back and soon heard Alberu’s quiet whisper.

“You can decide that after looking at it.”

Alberu was passing the decision of whether it was a secret or not to Cale.

“Sure. But your highness, it looks like we are going somewhere odd?”

The Roan Kingdom’s Palace's Grand Library.

That was the library with the most books in the entire kingdom, as well as the location with the most precious books.

The Grand Library of the oldest kingdom on the continent lived up to its name by being multiple stories high, and although the surface level itself was larger than any other building in the kingdom, it also had three large underground levels as well.

“Just follow me.”

Cale thought that they were heading to a hidden room in the library, however, Alberu headed toward the center of the Grand Library's first floor.

“Cale Henituse. There is a rule we must follow whenever we extend the library.”

“What is it?”

Alberu stopped walking.

Cale looked toward the crown prince who was enveloped in the moonlight coming through the large window on the first floor. The crown prince started to speak at the center of the moonlight.

“Make sure the gaze of the sun is always by your side.”

Cale recalled the layout of the Grand Library that had a lot of large windows.

“And this place I am standing at right now…”

Alberu looked down at his feet. He was at the center of the moonlight right now, but this was the spot for the sun when it was at its highest point.

“Do not cover it with anything.”

Alberu took a small wooden box out of his pocket.

Click.

The box opened easily. There was a small seal in the box. It was an iron seal that looked very old.

"This is something that only the head of the Crossman household can possess.”

Cale flinched at Alberu’s explanation.

Alberu who realized the reason behind it smiled as he asked.

"What’s wrong? Are you shocked I said the Crossman ‘household,’ and not the Crossman Royal family? Anyway, this is something only the head can have.”

Alberu looked at the old seal in his hand with an odd expression.

expression on his face

you borrow it from

“Borrow?”

as he

“It is mine.”

throne still belonged to Zed Crossman. Cale had heard that crown prince Alberu still went to the king to get

took care of most things inside and outside of the kingdom… There was a lot of chatter about why he had not yet taken the

had thought that Alberu was waiting to turn the Roan Kingdom into

also thought it might be because the continent was quite

‘But that wasn’t it.’

of Cale’s lips

you were already

I won't disagree

Alberu’s lips twisted up as

no ancient texts in the Roan Kingdom's Grand Library that discussed the Gate to the Demon World. I investigated because I thought there might be something

had looked for the name, ‘Gate to the Demon World,’ as well as the Eastern continent's Three

was nothing in the ancient texts and only a few records about it in recent documents about the Gate to the Demon World that

that I organized for you so take it

“Thank you very much.”

to thank me for

what are you

Cale started to frown.

remains quite terrible no matter how many

before closing

His hands were touching the tiles on the

“It’s around here somewhere…”

a place to

“Yeah.”

“Should I help you?”

bigger, so just stand there

upset. How could he make finding a place to put the

his eyes closed could not see Cale's expression as he focused

“I found it.”

then opened

immediately started to

“…You scared me.”

“How?”

right in front of him, before moving the hand holding the seal with an expression that seemed to be saying that there was no point

“Cale.”

“Yes, sir.”

tell you about this library's final

his right hand in the small gap under

of the sun's gaze strikes

old seal touched the gap that would be hard to see with the

his right

“Close your eyes.”

Click.

turned around after hearing

“…This.”

others could not come

bookshelves started

on the first floor slowly started to

on one location as

all of the sun's gaze strikes down. Close

place where

toward the same direction as

a space created by

“It's darkness.”

where no light

reach this place during the day

walked toward it and Cale

“Alright, let’s go down.”

the bookshelves had a

the

Alberu said before he started to head down without

Tap. Tap.

old stone staircase heading

Chhhh- Chhhh-

the walls of the dark staircase

you not

behind Alberu heard

you will tell me everything, your

“My goodness.”

his head from side to

curious even though

“Not really.”

such… a

let out a sigh and continued

was still some time

many records about the Crossman Royal family since the

“Of course.”

Roan Kingdom and the

there are not many records related to the

differentiating the Crossman Royal family and the

are mainly passed down verbally. Furthermore, those records are only passed down to the descendants and nobody else.

was thinking there were so many

honest

Tap.

Alberu stopped walking.

was a stone door in front of

start of

“…The start?”

of the first head of the family. There are just records that have been passed down orally through

turned around and

something like this in one of those records. ‘Go around the world over and over. Keep doing that until I

and had the legend of

was

to that land, create a kingdom, and

the hole on the stone door's

Click.