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

gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those

the puppy with

just stop talking. Nobody

The human rushed here right away to save you! He even stopped talking

‘Really?’

course, Cale had finished his

back toward Cale while Cale started to frown

Tap.

the document down on the table at that

“What do you think?”

and she immediately started

saw many conditions, but… Your

gaze turned toward

aiming for the

a strong nation with Elisneh the First at the

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

were inns and other facilities for travelers

used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a

similar to a toll gate

gate fee people needed to pay

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

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

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

Cale started to speak.

of all people should know most

The one time.

almost defeated

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

the politics and administration…

that the original plan that started all of this was

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

of them are

that both of the sisters

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

Jopis started to smile.

the most. But giving

it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other venues that fund the Molden

the kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned by

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 to run the operations as long

be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

nearby strong kingdoms would aim for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace

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

to speak in

f*cking heads we need to blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I suspected it since

sip of tea before continuing

become the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent

fine to give a portion of a couple years worth of toll if

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

saw Cale pointing at

at

Mercenary King, the leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on

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

“Aha.”

chin on her hands as she looked around at the people in the

the Mercenaries Guild and the assassin household work for the

to speak at

was an aspect where you were significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh during your fight for the

crossed his arms and stepped

had heard from Ron and Glenn on their way here… He had modified this offer to Jopis once using that information as

document

what would

Ron started to smile.

but above

nodded her

the worst was that damn money. There seemed to be

Click.

her

toward the people in

things you are telling me, I guess you contacted me

teacup

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

“Haha-”

rippled following Jopis's laughter.

was as I investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm

her pride

as her expression showed, Jopis was quite

the Molden Kingdom into

her grip as

money that is supposed to go to the Molden Kingdom's true

that the Molden Kingdom's money was all going

Cale started to speak.

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

in the Molden mountain range

Elisneh

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

away from

does that money have to do with

Molan household will now throw

thing left if they took

guess only

eyes sparkled as

flows where money

to speak as

you'll need the rights to run a couple of

with a

being an assassin

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

what about

blankly staring at

“Ah.”

her head elegantly

King probably doesn’t know because he was fooled by the puppies and

was at that