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

too! Those puppies are smart!

pet the puppy with

talking. Nobody here

at that moment. Hey Mercenary King! The human rushed here right away

‘Really?’

had finished his

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

Tap.

on the table at

“What do you think?”

and she immediately

saw many conditions,

gaze turned

aiming

the Molden Kingdom become a strong nation with Elisneh the First

well-maintained roads going North, South, East, and West…

inns and other facilities for travelers along

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

similar to a toll

pay to use the safe zone roads once the monsters

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

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

money even at

Cale started to speak.

should know most about things related

The one time.

almost defeated Elisneh the

created the road maintenance plan that helped the

dealing with the politics and administration… People had thought

original plan that started all of this was

two sisters worked together to bring it to fruition… And Elisneh the First who had the authority to

them

that both of the sisters were very

First's side to help her, the

Jopis started to smile.

suppose I know about the roads the most. But giving the

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

by the kingdom. The currency exchange

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

said to be more than the toll these

Jopis started to speak.

the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be ripped to pieces if

end after blowing up the palace and

to speak

Kingdom 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

of tea before

Kingdom’s ally, prevent the

was fine to give a portion of a couple years worth

it says it will do? Especially when it

saw Cale pointing

at Bud and

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

past information and assassin households who had been

“Aha.”

hands as she

the Mercenaries Guild and the assassin household work

speak at

lacking in comparison to

his arms and

here… He had modified

the current document in

would that

Ron started to smile.

above everything else,

elegantly nodded

damn money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do

Click.

her teacup

gaze headed toward the people

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

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 small merchant guilds that the Molden Kingdom has given permission to

“Haha-”

the cup rippled following Jopis's laughter. She tightly clenched her

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

as if her pride

as her expression showed, Jopis

Kingdom into a

her grip as she continued to

that is supposed to go to the Molden Kingdom's true small merchant guilds and their employees is being funneled to

wrong to say that the Molden Kingdom's money was

Cale started to speak.

money to build bases and quickly increase

the Molan Household located in the Molden mountain range

Illusionist, Elisneh the

worked together to benefit each

from

have to do with

household will now throw away its name

one thing left if they

guess only information

eyes sparkled as

where

started to speak as if she

couple of the more important inns for that

with

my. I preferred having you being an assassin

smiling as she said that. She did not seem scared at all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a

about the

blankly

“Ah.”

head elegantly as if she

know because he was fooled by the puppies and was being held hostage.

was at that