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 dirty

the puppy with a gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized what I am,

with a satisfied smile on

talking. Nobody here is

He heard Raon's voice in his mind at that moment. Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed here

‘Really?’

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

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

Tap.

on the table

“What do you think?”

question and she immediately

conditions,

gaze turned

aiming for the

a strong nation with Elisneh the First at the

and well-maintained roads going North, South, East, and

were inns and other facilities

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

similar to a toll gate on

pay to use the safe

Molden Kingdom’s toll was very low and charged based on the size of the party and the number of carts, making many small

roads because they were the fastest, safest, and had the

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

Cale started to speak.

Jopis, you of all people should know most about things related to the

The one time.

Jopis almost defeated Elisneh

that she was the one who created the road maintenance plan that helped the Molden Kingdom grow

the politics and administration… People had thought that Elisneh the First had done it

it was revealed that the original plan that started all

together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First

them

that both of the sisters were very

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

Jopis started to smile.

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

contract. Furthermore, there

owned by the kingdom. The

them giving the small 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.

would aim for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might

Kingdom’s proposal did not end after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis her

to speak in a

Kingdom seems to also know about those Arm bastards whose f*cking heads we need to blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I suspected it since learning about your

of tea

Kingdom’s ally, prevent the invasion

of a couple years worth

it

Cale

pointed at Bud and

of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on the Eastern

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

“Aha.”

as she looked around

assassin household

to speak at

significantly lacking in comparison to

his arms and stepped

He

result was the current document in Jopis’s hand right

would that

Ron started to smile.

above everything

elegantly nodded

area, but the worst was that damn money. There seemed

Click.

her

headed toward the people

I guess you

filled the teacup as he

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

“Haha-”

rippled following Jopis's laughter. She

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

looked as if her

showed, Jopis was quite

the Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the Molden

as she

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

not be wrong to say that the Molden Kingdom's money was all going

Cale started to speak.

money to build bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess

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

Illusionist, Elisneh the

locations would have worked together to benefit

from Cale and looked at

what does that money have to do with the Molan

throw away

There was only one thing left if they

guess only

as Cale

flows where

to speak as if she was

the rights to run a couple of the more important

responded with a benign

assassin in the darkness.

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

about the Mercenaries

was blankly

“Ah.”

nodded her head elegantly as if

puppies

at