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

I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I

pet the puppy with

stop talking. Nobody here

rushed here right away to save you! He even stopped talking to the crown

‘Really?’

finished

looked back toward Cale while Cale started

Tap.

on the table at

“What do you think?”

and she immediately

saw many conditions, but…

turned

are aiming

become a strong nation with Elisneh the First

wide and well-maintained roads going North,

were inns and other facilities for travelers along

were 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 a set fee every time they entered the Molden Kingdom

to a toll gate

recalled the toll gate fee people needed to pay to use the safe zone

of the party and the number of carts, making many

merchant guilds used the Molden Kingdom's roads because they were the fastest, safest, and had

raking in a lot of money even at the low-cost

Cale started to speak.

all people should know most about things related to the

The one time.

Jopis almost

it was revealed that she was the one who created

of fees and workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People had

was revealed that the original plan that started all of

the idea started from Jopis but the two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First who had the authority

of them are

said that both

the Molden Kingdom could probably

Jopis started to smile.

know about the roads the most.

a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other

The currency exchange

guilds that built their homes

amount was said to be more than the

Jopis started to speak.

strong kingdoms would aim for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be ripped to

not end after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis

to speak

Arm bastards whose f*cking heads we need to blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I suspected it since

a sip of tea before continuing to

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

to give a portion of a couple years worth of toll if the Roan Kingdom would

to do everything it says it will

Cale pointing

at Bud and

the Mercenaries Guild, a

information and assassin households who had been living in hiding were slowly gathering

“Aha.”

her chin on her hands as she

Guild and the assassin household work for the Roan

to speak

where you were significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh during your fight for the

arms and stepped

here… He had modified this offer to Jopis once using that

document in Jopis’s hand right

would that

Ron started to smile.

above everything

elegantly nodded her

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

Click.

her teacup

toward the people in

you are telling me, I guess you contacted me after

the teacup as

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

“Haha-”

in the cup rippled following Jopis's

about Arm… Elisneh… It was as I investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm was her source of money

her pride

her expression showed,

wanted to turn the Molden Kingdom into

grip as

supposed to go to the Molden Kingdom's true

the Molden Kingdom's money was all going to

Cale started to speak.

the money to build bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess it was only possible because they had a

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

Illusionist, Elisneh the

two locations would have worked together to benefit each other

her gaze away from Cale and looked

money have to do with the Molan

now throw away

one thing left if

I guess

sparkled as

flows where

to speak as if she was responding to

rights to run a couple of the more

responded with

assassin in

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

about

was blankly staring at

“Ah.”

nodded her head elegantly as if she

doesn’t know because he was fooled by the puppies and was being

was at