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

was looking at the puppy with a gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too!

with a

Nobody here is

in his mind at that moment. Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed

‘Really?’

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

Cale while Cale started to

Tap.

the document down on

“What do you think?”

her a question and she

conditions, but…

gaze turned

aiming for the

strong nation

roads going North,

were inns and other

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

a toll gate on

people needed to pay to use the safe zone roads once the

Molden Kingdom’s toll was very low and charged based on the size of the party and the

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

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

The one time.

almost defeated Elisneh the

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

maintenance, gathering of fees and workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People had thought that

was revealed that the original plan that started all of this

to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the

them

said that both

help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably quickly ascend to the Eastern

Jopis started to smile.

I know about the roads the most. But giving the toll to the Roan

is it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other venues that fund the Molden Kingdom even more than the

The currency exchange stores owned

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

be more

Jopis started to speak.

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

after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis her

to speak in

we need to blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I suspected it since learning about your connection to the Molan

took a sip of tea before continuing to

prevent the invasion from nearby kingdoms, handle arbitrations,

a portion of a couple years worth of toll if the

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

Cale pointing at two

pointed at

the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on the Eastern

the people of the past information and assassin households who had been living in hiding were slowly

“Aha.”

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

household work for

started to speak

significantly lacking in

arms and

had heard from Ron and Glenn on their way here… He

document in Jopis’s

would that

Ron started to smile.

above

nodded

damn money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do when they

Click.

put her teacup

toward the people in

you are telling me, I guess you contacted

teacup

lot of evidence showing that the numerous small merchant guilds that the Molden Kingdom has given permission to

“Haha-”

cup rippled following Jopis's laughter. She

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

looked as if her

showed, Jopis

had wanted to turn the Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the

grip as

true small

that the

Cale started to speak.

quickly increase their forces. I guess it was only possible because they had

in the

Illusionist, Elisneh the

benefit each other according to the White Star's

away from

have to do with the Molan

throw

was only one thing

guess

sparkled as

flows where money

to speak as if she was responding

the rights to run a couple of the more important inns for that information

responded with

my. I preferred having you being an assassin in the darkness. You're trying to

seemed to be planning a lot of things in her mind. She then turned her head as she

what about the Mercenaries

blankly

“Ah.”

head elegantly as if she

King probably doesn’t know because he was fooled by the puppies and was being held hostage.

was at