Trash of the Count's Family

Shhhh, shhhh.

Jopis was elegantly drinking tea as she looked through the document Cale handed her.

Sniff sniff!

Cale was frowning at the puppy that kept circling around him and sniffing him.

‘Why is she acting like this?’

The shabby puppy whose eyes could not be seen because of her long hair continued to remain by Cale’s side while wagging her tail.

“…She’s cute.”

Choi Han who was sitting on the bed mumbled with a dazed expression.

It was at that moment.

Tap.

The puppy placed her front paw on Cale's shoe. She then looked up at Cale.

Choi Han found it to be extremely cute.

“…So cute.”

“Cute? She's very shrewd.”

‘What?’

Choi Han’s gaze moved in a different direction. He saw Bud who was still tied down even though he no longer had the gag.

Bud continued in a sobbing tone after seeing Cale and Choi Han’s gaze focused on him.

“Those five dogs were the reason I ended up like this. My goodness, for the Mercenary King to look like this…”

“…Five dogs?”

Cale mumbled and lowered his head.

Huff huff.

The puppy tilted her head as her tail continued to wag. Cale didn’t like animals very much, but this puppy was indeed cute.

Bud continued in his sad tone.

“The ones outside the window.”

Cale's gaze headed out the window.

This window located in the old room…

Normally, he should be able to see the green trees and grass outside the window that was locked because it was autumn and cold as they were under the mountain.

However, he saw something else right now.

“…A dog?”

He saw a dog outside this window that was decently high.

‘They look similar.’

The puppy that was looking at Cale with puppy dog eyes and her paw on Cale’s shoe looked similar to the dog outside the window.

However, the puppy outside the window looked a bit cleaner than this one.

‘Is it tall enough?’

Cale thought about the high window and looked out the window as he wondered how he could see a puppy.

“Mm.”

He saw two other puppies holding up the puppy at the window sill. There was another puppy next to them roaming around as if it was the lookout.

‘…They don’t look like regular dogs?’

The puppy feigning ignorance to everything by Cale’s foot didn't seem normal either. These five fluffy puppies seemed a bit special.

"I never said that I only had the mother dog.”

Cale turned his head after hearing Jopis's elegant voice.

“I was tricked by those cute children. I let down my guard down and……!”

Bud looked extremely upset. No, he seemed depressed.

“Ruff!”

The puppy by Cale’s foot barked once with an, ‘I have no idea what he’s talking about,’ type of expression before looking toward Bud and tilting her head to the side multiple times.

“Aigoo!”

Bud looked as if he didn't know what to do as he found the puppy to be cute but also could not hide his depressed state.

“Hmm.”

Cale crossed his arms and quietly watched them.

‘I was wondering how Bud was captured when Jopis isn’t that strong of a shaman.’

That had been a question on his mind ever since he met Jopis. How did she manage to capture Bud, a sword master and someone with an ancient power, as hostage?

Bud’s ancient power was something that allowed him to get a general idea of other people's powers.

Furthermore, Jopis was not a strong shaman. In fact, she was on the weaker side.

The fact that Bud ended up as a hostage to such a person made Cale think that Bud had been captured on purpose.

However, he could now tell that the ones to capture Bud were these long-haired dirty dogs and not Jopis.

Cale's hand started to move as he started to speak.

“That’s totally my style.”

“Ruff, ruff!”

petted the

liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized what I am, but they realized that

to pet the puppy with a satisfied

Nobody here

moment. Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed here right away

‘Really?’

slouching a bit. Of course, Cale had finished his conversation

smiled as he looked back toward Cale while Cale started to frown wondering what

Tap.

down on the table

“What do you think?”

her a question and

conditions, but…

gaze turned toward

are aiming for the

Kingdom become a strong nation with Elisneh the

Kingdom had created wide and well-maintained roads going North, South, East, and West…

and other facilities for travelers along

the reasons that the numerous merchant guilds of the Eastern continent used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom

similar to a toll gate on

needed to pay to use the safe zone roads once

and charged based on the size of the party

roads because they were the fastest, safest, and had the least complicated verification

money even at the

Cale started to speak.

all people should know most about things related to the

The one time.

Jopis almost defeated Elisneh

created the road maintenance plan that helped

workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People

revealed that the original plan that started all of this

words, the idea started from Jopis but the two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And

them are no

that both of the

by Elisneh the First's side to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably quickly ascend to the

Jopis started to smile.

suppose I know about the roads the most. But giving the toll

contract. Furthermore,

owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned

merchant guilds that built their homes in the Molden Kingdom permission to run the operations

said to be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the

Roan Kingdom’s proposal did not end after blowing up

continued to speak in a

also know about those Arm bastards whose f*cking heads we need to blow up. I

sip of tea before continuing to

Kingdom would become the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent the invasion from nearby kingdoms, handle arbitrations, and help

a couple years worth of toll if the Roan Kingdom would do as it

able to do everything it says it will do? Especially when it

then saw Cale pointing at

at

Mercenary King, the leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on

the people of the past information and assassin households who

“Aha.”

her hands as she

Mercenaries Guild and the assassin household work for the Roan

to speak

there was an aspect where you were significantly lacking

arms and

heard from Ron and Glenn on their way here… He had modified this offer to Jopis once using that information as background

current document in Jopis’s hand right

would that

Ron started to smile.

above

elegantly nodded her

every area, but the worst was that damn money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do when they lacked

Click.

her

gaze headed toward the people

you are telling me, I guess you contacted

filled the teacup as

clean the remnants of Arm… We were able to find a lot of evidence showing that the numerous small merchant

“Haha-”

rippled following Jopis's

Elisneh… It was as I investigated that bitch. I

looked as if her pride had been

her expression showed, Jopis was quite

into a strong kingdom

grip as she

money that is supposed to go to the Molden Kingdom's true small merchant guilds and their employees is

say that the Molden Kingdom's money was all going

Cale started to speak.

had been getting the money to build bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess it was only

the Molan Household located in the Molden mountain range and Arm’s second secret

Illusionist, Elisneh

would have worked together to benefit

gaze away from Cale

have to do with the

Molan household will now throw

was only one thing left if they

I guess only

as Cale started

where

Ron and started to speak

you'll need the rights to run a couple of the more important inns for

with a benign

assassin in the darkness. You're trying to become an even scarier

all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a lot of things in her mind. She

about the

was blankly

“Ah.”

elegantly as

was fooled by the puppies and

at