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 the

gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart!

the puppy with a satisfied smile on his

should just stop talking. Nobody

rushed here right

‘Really?’

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

looked back toward Cale while Cale started to frown wondering

Tap.

on the table at that

“What do you think?”

a question and she immediately

saw many conditions, but…

gaze turned toward

are aiming for the

the Molden Kingdom become a strong

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

were inns and other facilities for travelers along

Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a set fee every time they entered the Molden Kingdom to

similar to a

fee people needed to pay to

the size of the party and the number of

because they were the fastest, safest,

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

Cale started to speak.

should know most about things related to

The one time.

almost

that she was the one who created

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

revealed that the original plan that started all

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

of them

be said that both of the

Jopis remained by Elisneh the First's side to help her, the

Jopis started to smile.

the most. But giving the

long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other venues that fund

inns owned by the kingdom. The

them giving the small merchant guilds that built their homes in the Molden Kingdom permission to run the operations as long as they gave the kingdom a cut

was said to be more than

Jopis started to speak.

soon as the palace crumbles. The entire

did not end after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis her

speak in a graceful

to blow up. I guess it makes

a sip of tea before

ally, prevent the invasion

give a portion of a couple years worth of toll if the Roan Kingdom

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

then saw Cale pointing at two

pointed at Bud

Mercenary King, the leader of the Mercenaries

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

“Aha.”

her chin on her hands as

the assassin household

speak at that

significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh during

crossed his arms and stepped

He had modified

current document in Jopis’s hand

what would that

Ron started to smile.

above everything

nodded her

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

Click.

her teacup

headed toward

telling me, I guess you contacted

the teacup

that the numerous small merchant guilds that the Molden Kingdom has given permission to operate the kingdom’s facilities belong to Arm and have frequent

“Haha-”

rippled following Jopis's laughter. She tightly clenched her

was as I investigated that bitch. I learned that

if her pride

as her expression showed, Jopis

Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the Molden Kingdom’s

grip as she continued to

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

say that the Molden Kingdom's money was all going

Cale started to speak.

build 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

Elisneh

would have worked together to benefit each other according to the White

moved her gaze away from Cale and

that money have to do with the Molan

Molan household will now throw away its name as

was only one thing

guess

sparkled as

flows where

Ron and started to speak as if she

rights to run a couple of the more important inns for that information and

with a benign

preferred having you being an assassin

at all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a

about the Mercenaries

was blankly

“Ah.”

nodded her head elegantly as if she

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

at that