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 the

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

continued to pet the puppy with a

Nobody

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

‘Really?’

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

looked back toward Cale while

Tap.

put the document down on the table at

“What do you think?”

her a question and she

many conditions, but… Your

gaze turned

aiming for

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

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

were inns and other facilities

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

similar to a toll

pay to

of the

roads because they were the fastest, safest, and had the least complicated

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

Cale started to speak.

of all people should know most

The one time.

time Jopis almost defeated Elisneh the

created the road maintenance plan that helped the Molden

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

revealed that the original plan that started all

the idea started from Jopis but the two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First who had the authority to make it happen had

of them

be said that both of the sisters

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

Jopis started to smile.

know about the roads the most. But giving

for all of it nor is it a long-term contract. Furthermore, there are other venues that fund the

The currency exchange

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 a cut

amount was said to be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

nearby strong kingdoms would aim for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be ripped to pieces if things go

Roan Kingdom’s proposal did not end after blowing up the palace and giving Jopis

to speak

to also know about those Arm bastards whose f*cking heads we need to blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I

of tea before continuing to

Molden Kingdom’s ally, prevent the invasion from

portion of a couple years worth of toll if

it will do? Especially when it is on a

Cale pointing at two

at Bud

the leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a

patriarch whom the people of the past information and

“Aha.”

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

the assassin household work for the Roan

to speak at that

there was an aspect where you were significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh

arms and

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

document in Jopis’s hand

would

Ron started to smile.

but above everything else,

elegantly nodded

defeated in every area, but the worst was that damn money.

Click.

put her teacup

toward the

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

filled the teacup

reclaimed our residence and started to clean the remnants of Arm… We were able to find a lot of evidence showing that the numerous

“Haha-”

following

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

looked as if her pride had

her expression showed, Jopis was quite

had wanted to turn the Molden Kingdom into a strong kingdom with the Molden

grip as she continued

to the Molden Kingdom's true small merchant guilds

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

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

in the Molden mountain range and

Illusionist, Elisneh

locations would have worked together to benefit each other according to the

moved her gaze away from Cale and

money have to do

will now throw away

one thing left if they took out

I guess only information

sparkled as Cale

where

looked toward Ron and started to speak as if

rights to run a couple of the

with a

an assassin in the darkness.

she said that. She did not seem scared at all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a lot of things in her mind.

about the

blankly staring

“Ah.”

her head elegantly as if she

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

was at