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

with a gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t

puppy with

Nobody here is on

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

‘Really?’

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

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

Tap.

down on the table at that

“What do you think?”

asked her a question and

conditions, but…

gaze turned toward

aiming for the

strong nation with Elisneh the

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

were inns and other facilities for travelers along

numerous merchant guilds of the Eastern continent used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to

to a toll gate on

recalled the toll gate fee people needed to pay

based on the size of the party

guilds used the Molden Kingdom's roads because they

even at the low-cost toll, increasing the commercial supremacy of

Cale started to speak.

Jopis, you of all people should know most

The one time.

time Jopis almost defeated

she was the one who created

and workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People had

was revealed that the original plan

other words, the idea started from Jopis but the two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First

of them

be said that both of the sisters

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

Jopis started to smile.

the most. But

it nor is it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other

The currency

merchant guilds that built their

was said to be

Jopis started to speak.

the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom

blowing up the palace and

speak in a

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

Roan Kingdom would become the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent the

to give a portion of a couple years worth of toll

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

then saw Cale

at

the leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on

information and

“Aha.”

hands as

assassin household work for

speak

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

crossed his arms and

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

the current document in Jopis’s hand right

what would

Ron started to smile.

but above everything

elegantly nodded

I was defeated in every area, but the worst was that damn money. There

Click.

put her

toward the

are telling me, I guess you contacted me after

teacup as he

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

“Haha-”

the cup rippled following Jopis's laughter. She tightly

about Arm… Elisneh… It was as I investigated that bitch.

her pride

expression showed, Jopis was

to turn the Molden Kingdom into a

as she

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

the Molden Kingdom's money was

Cale started to speak.

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

the Molan Household located in the Molden

Elisneh

two locations would have worked together to benefit

away from Cale and looked

does that money have to do with the

Molan household will now throw away its name as

There was only one thing left

guess only

sparkled as Cale

where money

and started to speak as if she was responding

run a couple of

responded with

assassin in

seemed to be planning

what about

was blankly staring at

“Ah.”

elegantly as

puppies and was being held hostage.

was at that