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

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

with

should just stop talking. Nobody here is

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

‘Really?’

bit. Of course, Cale had finished

back toward Cale while Cale started to frown wondering what was up with

Tap.

the document down on the table at

“What do you think?”

asked her a question and

saw many conditions,

turned toward

aiming

strong nation with

had created wide and well-maintained roads going North,

and other facilities for

the reasons that the numerous merchant guilds of the Eastern continent used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a set fee every time they entered

a toll gate on

pay to use the

size of the party

guilds used the Molden Kingdom's roads because they were the

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

Cale started to speak.

know most about things related

The one time.

time Jopis almost defeated Elisneh the

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

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

revealed that the original plan that

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

them are no

be said that both of the

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

Jopis started to smile.

most.

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

owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores

facilities they created 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

amount was said to be more than the toll

Jopis started to speak.

as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be ripped to pieces if

end after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis her

continued to speak in a graceful

to also know about those Arm bastards whose f*cking heads we need to blow up. I guess

a sip of tea before

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

of a couple years worth of toll if the Roan

to do everything it says it will do? Especially when it

Cale pointing at

pointed at Bud

leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on the

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

“Aha.”

as she looked

Mercenaries Guild and the assassin household work for the

to speak

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

his arms and stepped

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

document

would that

Ron started to smile.

but above

nodded her

that damn money. There seemed

Click.

put her

gaze headed toward the people in

are telling me, I

filled the teacup as

clean the remnants of Arm… We were able to find a lot of evidence showing that the numerous small merchant guilds that

“Haha-”

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

I investigated that bitch. I

her pride had

showed, Jopis

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

relaxed her grip as she continued

supposed to go to the Molden Kingdom's true small merchant guilds and their employees is being funneled to

would not be wrong to say that the Molden Kingdom's money was all

Cale started to speak.

getting the money to build bases and quickly increase their

the Molan Household located in the

Illusionist, Elisneh

worked together to benefit each

from Cale

does that money have

will now throw

only one thing

I guess only

as Cale started

flows where money

looked toward Ron and started to speak as if she was

a couple of the more important inns for

with a

being an assassin in the darkness. You're

she said that. She did not seem scared at all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a lot of things in

about

was blankly

“Ah.”

elegantly as if

he was fooled by the puppies

at that