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 dirty

at the puppy with a gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are

with a

should just stop talking. Nobody

shut up. He heard Raon's voice in his mind at that moment. Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed here right away to save you! He even stopped talking to the crown prince

‘Really?’

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

that, Bud smiled as he looked back toward Cale while

Tap.

put the document down on the table

“What do you think?”

a question and she immediately started to

saw many conditions,

gaze turned

aiming

Molden Kingdom become a strong nation

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

there were inns and other facilities for travelers

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 set

to a

pay to use the safe zone roads once the

Kingdom’s toll was very low and charged based on the size of the party and the number of

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

Molden Kingdom raking 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

The one time.

almost

the one who created the road maintenance plan that helped the Molden Kingdom grow so

fees and workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People had thought

original plan that started all of

bring it to

them are no

said that both of the

to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably

Jopis started to smile.

about the roads the most. But giving the toll to

nor is it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other

owned by the kingdom. The currency exchange stores owned

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 a

amount was said to be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be

end after blowing up

continued to speak

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 to the

sip of tea before continuing to

ally, prevent the invasion from nearby kingdoms,

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

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

Cale

at

Mercenaries Guild, a large faction

the past information and assassin households who had been

“Aha.”

on her hands as she looked around at the people

household work for the Roan Kingdom for

to speak at

were significantly lacking

his arms and

on their way here… He had modified this offer to Jopis once using that

the current document in

what would that

Ron started to smile.

but above everything else,

elegantly nodded

in every area, but the worst was that damn money. There seemed to be nothing

Click.

put her teacup

gaze headed toward the people

telling me, I

teacup

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

“Haha-”

rippled following Jopis's laughter. She tightly clenched her

about Arm… Elisneh… It was as I investigated that bitch. I

if her

her expression showed, Jopis was

turn the Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the Molden

her grip as she

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

wrong to say that the Molden Kingdom's money was

Cale started to speak.

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

the Molden mountain range and Arm’s second

Elisneh

together to benefit

gaze away from Cale and

that money have to do with the

household will now throw

only one thing left if they

guess

sparkled as

where

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

couple of the more important

with a benign

oh my. I preferred having you being an assassin in the darkness. You're trying to become an even scarier

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 she continued to

about the Mercenaries

blankly staring

“Ah.”

her head elegantly as

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

was at