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

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

puppy with a satisfied smile on

Nobody here is on my

The human rushed here right

‘Really?’

Cale had finished his conversation with Alberu, but Raon did not

looked back toward Cale while Cale

Tap.

the document down on

“What do you think?”

her a question and she immediately

many conditions,

turned

aiming for the

had the Molden Kingdom become a strong nation

had created wide and well-maintained roads going North,

were inns and other facilities

when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a set fee every time they entered the Molden Kingdom to use their

similar to a toll

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

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

roads because they were the fastest,

even at the low-cost toll,

Cale started to speak.

people should know most about things related to the

The one time.

one time Jopis almost defeated

was when it was revealed that she was the one who created the road maintenance plan that helped the Molden Kingdom grow so

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

original plan

bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First who had the authority to

of them are

both

side to help her, the

Jopis started to smile.

know about the roads the most. But giving the toll

for all of it nor is it a long-term contract. Furthermore,

inns owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned

that built their homes in the Molden Kingdom permission to run the operations as long

to be more

Jopis started to speak.

the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace

blowing up

continued to speak in a

Roan 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

sip of tea before continuing to

ally, prevent the invasion from nearby

portion of a couple years worth of toll if the Roan Kingdom would do

Kingdom able to do everything it says it will do? Especially when it is on

saw Cale

pointed at Bud

of the Mercenaries

patriarch whom the people of the past information and assassin households who

“Aha.”

her chin on her hands as

Mercenaries Guild and the assassin household work for the Roan Kingdom

speak

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

his arms

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

current document in Jopis’s hand

what would that

Ron started to smile.

but above everything else,

nodded her

the worst was that damn money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do when they lacked those

Click.

her teacup

toward the people

on the things you are telling me, I guess you

filled the teacup

residence and 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 has given permission to

“Haha-”

water in the cup rippled following Jopis's laughter. She

that bitch. I learned

as if her pride had

expression showed, Jopis

Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the Molden Kingdom’s

her grip as she continued to

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.

getting the money to build bases and quickly

the Molden mountain range and

Illusionist, Elisneh the

to benefit each other

away from

does that money have

now throw away its

one thing left if

I guess

sparkled as

where

Ron and started to speak as if she was responding to

couple of the more important inns for that information

with a benign

I preferred having you being an assassin in the darkness. You're trying to become an even scarier

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

what about the

blankly staring

“Ah.”

nodded her head elegantly

the puppies and was being held hostage.

was at that