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 the dirty

her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized what I am, but they realized that

puppy with

should just stop talking. Nobody here is

at that moment. Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed here

‘Really?’

stopped slouching a bit. Of course, Cale had finished

Bud smiled as he looked back toward Cale while Cale started to frown wondering what was up

Tap.

on

“What do you think?”

question and she immediately

conditions, but…

turned toward

aiming for

Kingdom become a strong nation with Elisneh the First at

roads going North, South,

inns and other

used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a set fee every time

to a toll gate on

to pay to use the safe

toll was very low and charged based on the size of the party and the number of carts,

roads because they

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

Cale started to speak.

know most about things related to the

The one time.

almost defeated Elisneh

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

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

that the original plan that started all of this was

Jopis but the two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First who had the authority to make it happen had given the

of them

both of the sisters were

to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably quickly

Jopis started to smile.

the roads the most. But giving the toll to

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

inns owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores

up the roads all belonged to the kingdom, with them giving the small merchant guilds that built their homes

to be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

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

Roan Kingdom’s proposal did not end after blowing

speak in a

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

sip of

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

years worth of toll

Kingdom able to do everything it says it will do?

Cale pointing

had pointed at Bud

leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large

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

“Aha.”

her chin on her hands as she looked

Guild and the assassin household

speak at

an aspect where you were significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh during

crossed his arms and

their way here… He had modified this offer to Jopis once using that information as

result was the current document in Jopis’s hand

what would

Ron started to smile.

above

elegantly nodded

in every area, but the worst was that damn money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do when they lacked those

Click.

put her

toward the people in

you are telling me, I guess you contacted me

teacup

to find a lot of evidence showing that the numerous small merchant guilds that the Molden Kingdom

“Haha-”

cup rippled following Jopis's laughter. She tightly

investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm was

looked as if her pride had been

expression showed, Jopis was quite

Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the

as she

true small merchant guilds and their employees

that the Molden

Cale started to speak.

build bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess it was only

of the Molan Household located in the

Illusionist, Elisneh

to benefit each other according to the White Star's

from Cale and looked

that money have to do with the

Molan household will now throw away its

was only one thing

I guess only

eyes sparkled as Cale

where

to speak as if

run a couple of the

with

my, oh my. I preferred having you being an 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 her head as she

about the Mercenaries

blankly staring

“Ah.”

nodded her head elegantly as if

was fooled by the puppies

was at