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

with a gaze that said he liked her. Human! I like those puppies too! Those puppies are smart! I don’t think they realized

to pet the puppy with

Nobody here

Mercenary King! The human rushed

‘Really?’

a bit. Of course, Cale had finished

back toward Cale while Cale started to frown wondering what was

Tap.

put the document down on the table at

“What do you think?”

her a question and she immediately

many conditions,

turned toward

aiming for

Molden Kingdom become a strong nation with Elisneh the First at the

roads going North, South,

inns and other facilities for

guilds of the Eastern continent used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a set fee every time they entered the Molden Kingdom to use their

similar to a toll gate

toll gate fee people needed to pay

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

the Molden Kingdom's roads because they were the fastest, safest, and had the least

Molden Kingdom raking in a lot of money even

Cale started to speak.

of all people should know most about things related to

The one time.

Jopis almost

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

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

that the original plan that started

bring it to fruition… And

them are no

be said that both

side to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably quickly ascend to the Eastern continent’s first

Jopis started to smile.

I know about the roads the most. But giving the toll to the Roan

Furthermore, there are other venues that

owned by the kingdom. The

guilds that built their homes

be

Jopis started to speak.

roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be ripped to pieces if things go

blowing up the palace and

speak

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

sip of tea before continuing

the Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent the invasion from nearby kingdoms, handle arbitrations, and

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

everything it says it will do? Especially when it is

Cale pointing at two

had pointed at Bud and

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

whom the people of the past information

“Aha.”

her chin on her hands as she looked

assassin household work for the Roan

speak at that

lacking in comparison to Elisneh during your fight

arms and

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

document in

would that

Ron started to smile.

above everything else,

elegantly nodded her

every area, but the worst was that damn money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do when they

Click.

her teacup

sharp gaze headed toward the people in the

me, I guess you

filled the teacup as he

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

“Haha-”

following Jopis's laughter. She tightly

investigated that bitch. I learned that Arm was her source of

if her pride had

her expression showed,

Kingdom into

grip as

go to the Molden Kingdom's true small merchant guilds

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

Cale started to speak.

wondering where Arm had been getting the money to build bases and quickly increase their

the Molan Household located in the Molden

Illusionist, Elisneh the

have worked together to benefit each other according to the

away from Cale and looked

does that money have to

household will now throw away its

one thing left if they took

guess

sparkled as Cale

where

Ron and started to speak as if

a couple of the more

responded with a benign

you being an assassin

seemed to

what about

blankly staring

“Ah.”

her head elegantly as if she

doesn’t know because he was fooled by the puppies

at