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

at the puppy with a gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I

with a satisfied smile

Nobody

Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed here right away to save you! He even stopped

‘Really?’

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

he looked back toward Cale while Cale started to frown wondering what was

Tap.

the document down on the table

“What do you think?”

question and she immediately

saw many conditions, but…

gaze turned toward

aiming for

Kingdom become a strong nation with

roads going North, South, East, and West… They connected

inns and other

guilds of the Eastern continent used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other

to a

to pay to use the safe

the size of the party and the number of carts, making many small merchants

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

of money even at the low-cost toll, increasing the commercial supremacy of the Molden

Cale started to speak.

people should know most about things

The one time.

Jopis almost defeated

created the road

workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People

plan that started all of this

started from Jopis but the two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh

them

that both of the sisters

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

Jopis started to smile.

the most. But giving the toll to the

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

The currency

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

be more

Jopis started to speak.

for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire

not end after blowing up the palace and

continued to speak in a

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

of tea

prevent the invasion from nearby kingdoms, handle arbitrations,

couple years worth of toll if

everything it says it

Cale

pointed at Bud and

King, the leader of the Mercenaries

patriarch whom the people of the past information and

“Aha.”

on her hands as she looked around at the people

and the assassin household work for the Roan Kingdom for

speak

an aspect where you were significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh

crossed his arms and

on their way here… He had modified this offer to Jopis once

was the current document in Jopis’s hand

would

Ron started to smile.

but above everything else,

elegantly nodded her

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

Click.

her teacup

gaze headed toward the people in

I

the teacup as he

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 and have frequent contacts

“Haha-”

the cup rippled following Jopis's laughter.

Elisneh… It was as I investigated that bitch. I learned that

looked as if her

as her expression showed,

wanted to turn the Molden Kingdom into a

relaxed her grip as she continued

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

the Molden Kingdom's money was all

Cale started to speak.

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

located in the Molden mountain range and Arm’s second

Elisneh the

to benefit each

moved her gaze away from Cale and looked

money have to do with the Molan

now throw away

one thing

I guess only

eyes sparkled as

where

and started to speak as if she

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

with

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

smiling as she said that. She did not seem scared at all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a lot of things in her mind. She then turned her head as she

about

was blankly staring

“Ah.”

elegantly as

know because he was fooled by the puppies

was at that