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

he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think

to pet the puppy with a satisfied smile on his

Nobody here

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

‘Really?’

bit. Of course, Cale had finished

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

Tap.

on the table at

“What do you think?”

question and

conditions, but… Your

gaze turned toward

are aiming for the

become a strong nation with Elisneh

had created wide and well-maintained roads going

and other facilities

were the reasons that the numerous merchant guilds of the Eastern continent used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations,

to a toll

pay to use the safe zone roads once the monsters

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

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

even at the low-cost toll, increasing

Cale started to speak.

should know most about

The one time.

Jopis almost defeated Elisneh the

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

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

revealed that the original plan that started all of this was

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

of them are no

could be said that both of

to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably

Jopis started to smile.

suppose I know about the roads the most. But

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

kingdom. The currency exchange stores

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 long as they gave the kingdom

to be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

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

blowing up the palace and giving Jopis

to speak

need to blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I suspected it since learning about your connection to the Molan

took a sip of tea before

become the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent the invasion

years worth of toll if the Roan

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

Cale pointing at

pointed at Bud and

the leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on the

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

“Aha.”

chin on her hands as she looked around at the people in

Guild and the assassin household work for the Roan Kingdom

speak

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

his arms and stepped

heard from Ron and Glenn on their way here… He had modified this offer to

the current document in Jopis’s hand

would

Ron started to smile.

above

elegantly nodded her

money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do when they

Click.

her

headed toward the people in

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

filled the teacup

to clean the 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

that bitch.

her pride had been

expression showed, Jopis was quite

Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with

as she continued

Kingdom's true

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

Cale started to speak.

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

in the Molden mountain range and Arm’s

Illusionist, Elisneh

worked together to benefit each other according to the

gaze away from Cale and

does that money have to do with

household will now throw away

There was only one thing left if they took

I guess only information

eyes sparkled as Cale started to

where

to speak as if she

need the rights to run a couple of the more important inns for

with a

having you being an assassin in the darkness.

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

what about the

was blankly staring at

“Ah.”

head elegantly as if

was fooled by the puppies and was

at