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!”

hand petted

like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized what I

with a satisfied smile on his

talking. Nobody here is on

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

‘Really?’

Cale had finished his conversation with

to that, Bud smiled as he looked back toward Cale while

Tap.

on the table at

“What do you think?”

a question and she immediately started to

saw many conditions, but…

gaze turned toward

are aiming

had the Molden Kingdom become a strong nation with Elisneh

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

there were inns and other facilities for

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

to a toll gate on

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

the size of

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

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

Cale started to speak.

know most about things related

The one time.

Jopis almost

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

the politics and administration… People had thought that Elisneh

plan that started all of

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

of them are

that both of the sisters were

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

Jopis started to smile.

the roads the most. But giving the toll

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

by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned by

up the 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 operations as long as they gave the kingdom

be more than the toll

Jopis started to speak.

as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be

blowing up

continued to speak in

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

took a sip of tea before

become the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent the invasion from nearby

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

says it will do? Especially when it is on a completely

Cale pointing

had pointed at Bud and

of the Mercenaries

information and assassin households who had been living in hiding

“Aha.”

gasped put her chin on her hands as she looked around

the Mercenaries Guild and the assassin household work for the Roan

to speak at

an aspect where you were significantly lacking in

arms and stepped

Ron and Glenn on their way here… He had

was the current document in Jopis’s hand right

what would that

Ron started to smile.

but above everything else,

elegantly nodded

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

Click.

her

headed toward the people in

are telling me, I guess you contacted me after

teacup as he

showing that the

“Haha-”

the cup rippled following Jopis's

It was as I investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm was her

as if her pride

as her expression showed, Jopis was

the Molden Kingdom into

her grip as she

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

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

Cale started to speak.

had been getting the money to build bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess it was

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

Illusionist, Elisneh the

locations would have worked together to benefit each

her gaze away from Cale

that money have to do with

Molan household will now throw away

was only one thing left if they took

I guess

as Cale started

flows where

to speak as if she was responding to

couple of the more important

responded with a benign

having you being an assassin in

as she said that. She did not seem scared at all. In fact, she seemed to be

about the

blankly

“Ah.”

her head elegantly

fooled by the puppies

was at that