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

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

continued to pet the puppy with a satisfied

stop talking. Nobody

The human rushed here right away to save you! He

‘Really?’

a bit. Of course, Cale had finished his conversation with Alberu,

looked back toward Cale while

Tap.

on the table at that

“What do you think?”

a question and she immediately started to

many conditions, but… Your

turned

aiming for

a strong nation with Elisneh

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

and other facilities for travelers

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 toll gate on

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

Molden Kingdom’s toll was very low and charged based on the size of the party and the number of carts, making many small merchants use

roads because they were the fastest, safest,

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

Cale started to speak.

of all people should know most

The one time.

almost defeated

revealed that she was the one who created the road maintenance plan that helped the Molden

the politics and administration… People had thought that Elisneh the

it was revealed that the original plan that started all of this was

from Jopis but the two sisters worked together to bring it to

them are no

be said that both of the

the

Jopis started to smile.

most. But

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

owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned by the

small merchant guilds that built their homes in the Molden

be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

aim for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace

not end after blowing up the palace and giving

speak in a

Arm bastards whose f*cking heads we need to blow up.

took a sip of tea before

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

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

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

then saw Cale pointing at

pointed at

the leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction

the past information and assassin households

“Aha.”

put her chin on her hands as she looked

and the assassin household work for

to speak

an aspect where you were significantly lacking

his arms

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

current document

would that

Ron started to smile.

above everything else,

elegantly nodded her

area, but the worst was that damn money. There seemed

Click.

her

gaze headed toward the

you are telling me, I guess you contacted me

teacup

we reclaimed our residence and started 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 has

“Haha-”

the cup rippled following

Arm… Elisneh… It was as I investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm was her source of money and her

as if her pride had

showed, Jopis was

into a strong kingdom

grip as

to the Molden Kingdom's true small merchant guilds and their

the Molden Kingdom's

Cale started to speak.

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

of the Molan Household located in the Molden mountain range

Illusionist, Elisneh the

together to benefit each other

away from Cale and

what does that money have

now throw away its name

only one thing left if they took

guess only

as Cale started to

flows where money

speak as

the rights to run a couple of

with a benign

having you being an assassin in the darkness. You're trying to become

at all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a lot of things in her mind. She then turned her head as she

about the

blankly staring

“Ah.”

nodded her head elegantly as

was fooled by the puppies and was being

was at that