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

too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized what I am, but they realized that

to pet the puppy with a

should just stop talking. Nobody

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

‘Really?’

bit. Of course, Cale had finished his conversation with Alberu, but Raon did not know

toward Cale while Cale started to frown wondering what was

Tap.

on the table at that

“What do you think?”

asked her a question and she immediately started to

saw many conditions, but… Your

gaze turned

are aiming for

a strong

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

and other facilities for travelers along those

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

a toll gate

people needed to pay to use

based on the size of the party and the number of carts, making many small

the Molden Kingdom's roads because they were the fastest,

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

Cale started to speak.

know most about things related to

The one time.

time Jopis almost defeated Elisneh

the one who created the road maintenance plan that helped the Molden Kingdom grow so

gathering of fees and workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People had thought that Elisneh the

it was revealed that the original plan that started all of this

the two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First who had the

of them

that both

side to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably quickly ascend to the Eastern

Jopis started to smile.

the roads the most. But giving the toll

not asking for all of it nor is it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other

inns owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned by the

to the kingdom, with them giving the small merchant guilds that built their homes in the Molden

was said to be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be

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

continued to speak in a

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

a sip of tea before continuing to

prevent the invasion from

to give a portion of a couple years worth of toll

says it will do? Especially

Cale pointing at

had pointed at Bud and

leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on

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

“Aha.”

gasped put her chin on her hands as she looked around at

household work

speak

where you were significantly lacking in

arms and

from Ron and Glenn on their way here… He had

current document in

would that

Ron started to smile.

but above everything else,

nodded

the worst was that damn money. There seemed to

Click.

her teacup

headed toward the people

me, I guess you contacted me after

teacup as

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 operate the kingdom’s facilities belong to Arm and have

“Haha-”

in the cup rippled following Jopis's

that bitch. I learned that Arm was her source of

looked as if her pride

as her expression showed, Jopis was quite

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

her grip as she continued

the Molden Kingdom's true small merchant guilds and

the Molden Kingdom's money was all going

Cale started to speak.

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

in the Molden mountain range and Arm’s

Elisneh

locations would have worked together to benefit each other according to

gaze away from Cale and looked at

does that money have to do with

will now throw away

was only one thing left if they took out

guess

as Cale

where money

to speak as if she was

you'll need the rights to run a couple of

with a benign

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

at all. In fact, she seemed to be planning

what about the

blankly staring

“Ah.”

nodded her head elegantly as

doesn’t know because he was fooled by the puppies and was being held hostage. Should I ask your

was at