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

the puppy with a gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized what

continued to pet the puppy with a satisfied

stop talking. Nobody here is on my

rushed here right away to save

‘Really?’

had finished his conversation with Alberu, but Raon did

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

Tap.

put the document down on the

“What do you think?”

asked her a question and she immediately started

conditions,

turned toward

aiming for

strong

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

were inns and other

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 the

a toll

needed to pay to use the

very low and charged based on the size of

the Molden Kingdom's roads because they were the fastest, safest, and had

the Molden Kingdom raking in a lot of money even at the

Cale started to speak.

know most

The one time.

almost

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

dealing with the politics and administration…

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 are no

be said that both of the sisters were

side to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably

Jopis started to smile.

the roads the most. But giving the toll to the Roan

it nor is it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other venues that fund the Molden Kingdom even more than the

owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores

with them giving the small merchant guilds that built their homes in the Molden Kingdom permission to run the operations as long as

to be more than

Jopis started to speak.

soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might

not end after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis

continued to speak in a graceful

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

of

the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent the

fine to give a portion of a couple years worth of toll

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

then saw Cale pointing

at Bud and

King, the leader of the Mercenaries

whom the people of the past information and assassin households who had been

“Aha.”

her chin on her hands as she

assassin household work for the

speak at

aspect where you were significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh

crossed his arms and stepped

here… He had modified this

current document

what would that

Ron started to smile.

but above everything

nodded

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

Click.

put her teacup

sharp gaze headed toward the people in the

on the things you are telling me, I guess you contacted me after knowing about

filled the teacup

of evidence showing that the numerous small merchant guilds

“Haha-”

the cup rippled following Jopis's laughter. She

It was as I investigated that bitch. I

as if her

expression showed, Jopis was

wanted to turn the Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the

grip as she

Kingdom's true

be wrong to say that the Molden Kingdom's money was

Cale started to speak.

bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess it was only possible because they had a source of

fall of the Molan Household located in the Molden mountain range and Arm’s second

Elisneh the

have worked together to benefit each

moved her gaze away from Cale and

that money have to do with the

household will now throw away its

thing

I guess only information

as

flows where

Ron and started to speak as if she was

of the more important inns for that information

responded with a benign

assassin in the

was smiling as she said 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

about the

was blankly staring

“Ah.”

head elegantly as if

probably doesn’t know because he was fooled by the puppies and

was at