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

too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized what I am, but they realized that I

pet the puppy with

Nobody here

in his mind at that moment. Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed here right away to save you! He even stopped talking to

‘Really?’

a bit. Of course, Cale had finished his conversation with Alberu, but Raon did

as he looked back toward Cale while Cale started to

Tap.

the document down on the table at that

“What do you think?”

a question and she

saw many conditions, but…

gaze turned toward

aiming for

Kingdom become a strong nation with Elisneh the First at the

well-maintained roads going North, South,

there were inns and other

Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a set fee every

a toll gate

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

based on the size of the party

large merchant guilds used the Molden Kingdom's roads because they were the

in the Molden Kingdom raking in a lot of money even at the low-cost toll, increasing the commercial supremacy

Cale started to speak.

should know most about things related to the

The one time.

Jopis almost defeated

it was revealed that she was the one who created the road maintenance plan that helped the

and workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People had thought that

it was revealed that the original plan that started all of this was

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

of them are no

both of the sisters

Jopis remained by Elisneh the First's side to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably quickly ascend to the Eastern continent’s first

Jopis started to smile.

about the roads the most. But giving

asking for all of it nor is it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other venues that fund the

kingdom. The

the roads all belonged to the kingdom, with them giving the small merchant guilds that built their homes in the Molden Kingdom permission

said to be more than the

Jopis started to speak.

Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be ripped to pieces if

after blowing

speak in a graceful

up. I guess it makes

sip of tea before

the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent

years worth of toll if the

everything it says it will do?

Cale pointing at

pointed at

Mercenaries Guild, a

patriarch whom the people of the past information and assassin households who had been living in

“Aha.”

who gasped put her chin on her hands as she looked around at the people

household work for the Roan Kingdom

speak

an aspect where you were significantly lacking in comparison to

his arms

He had modified this offer to Jopis once using that information as

result was the current document in

would

Ron started to smile.

but above everything

elegantly nodded

damn money. There seemed to

Click.

put her

toward the people

are telling me, I guess you contacted me after

teacup as

residence and started to clean the remnants of Arm… We were able to find a lot of evidence showing that the numerous small merchant guilds that the Molden Kingdom has given permission to operate the kingdom’s facilities belong to Arm

“Haha-”

cup rippled following

investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm was her source of money and

if her pride had been

expression showed, Jopis

had wanted to turn the Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom

grip as she continued

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

be wrong to say that the Molden

Cale started to speak.

wondering where Arm had been getting the money to build bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess it was only possible because they

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

Elisneh the

locations would have worked together to benefit each other according to the

moved her gaze away from Cale

have to do with

throw

one thing left

guess only information

as

where

looked toward Ron and started to speak as if she was responding

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

responded with a benign

my, oh my. I preferred having you being an assassin in

to be planning

what about the

blankly staring

“Ah.”

elegantly

was fooled by the puppies and was being held hostage.

at