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

Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they

pet the puppy with a satisfied smile on his

talking. Nobody here

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

‘Really?’

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

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

Tap.

on

“What do you think?”

her a question and

saw many conditions, but…

turned

are aiming for

strong

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

were inns and other

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

to a toll

recalled the toll gate fee people needed to pay to use the safe zone roads once

very low and charged based on the size of the party and

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

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

Cale started to speak.

you of all people should know most about things related

The one time.

Jopis almost

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

gathering of fees and workers, dealing with the politics

that the original plan that started all of this

it to fruition… And Elisneh the First who had the authority to

them are no

said that both of the sisters were

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

Jopis started to smile.

most. But giving the toll to the

it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other venues that fund the Molden

kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned

built their homes in the Molden Kingdom permission to run the

to be more

Jopis started to speak.

kingdoms would aim for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might

not end after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis

to speak

Kingdom seems 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 learning about your connection

of

Kingdom’s ally, prevent the invasion

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

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

Cale pointing

at Bud and

leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a

the past information and assassin households who

“Aha.”

her hands as she looked around at the people in the

Mercenaries Guild and the assassin household work for the Roan Kingdom

started to speak at that

lacking in comparison to Elisneh during your fight

his arms and

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

document in Jopis’s hand

what would that

Ron started to smile.

but above

elegantly nodded

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

Click.

her

sharp gaze headed toward

telling me, I guess

teacup

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

“Haha-”

rippled following Jopis's laughter. She tightly clenched

Arm… Elisneh… It was as I investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm was her

as if her

as her expression showed, Jopis

the Molden Kingdom into a strong

as she continued

that is supposed to go to the Molden Kingdom's true small

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

Cale started to speak.

build bases and quickly increase their forces. I

the Molden mountain range and

Illusionist, Elisneh the

benefit each other according to

away from Cale and looked at

does that money have to

will now throw away

one thing left if they took out

I guess only

as Cale started to

where

toward Ron and started to speak as if she was responding to

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

with a benign

I preferred having you being an assassin in the darkness. You're trying

she seemed to be planning a lot of things in her

about the

blankly

“Ah.”

her head elegantly

the puppies and was being held hostage. Should I ask your close

was at