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

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

continued to pet the puppy with

Nobody here is on

The human rushed here right away to save you!

‘Really?’

course, Cale had finished his conversation with

Cale while Cale started

Tap.

on

“What do you think?”

a question and

many conditions, but…

gaze turned

are aiming

become a strong

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

there were inns and other facilities for

reasons that the numerous merchant guilds of the Eastern continent used the Molden Kingdom’s roads when traveling to other

a toll

people needed to pay

charged based on the size of the party and the number of

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

resulted in the Molden Kingdom raking in a lot of money even at the low-cost

Cale started to speak.

all people should know most about things related to

The one time.

time Jopis almost defeated

she was the one who created the road maintenance

gathering of fees and workers, dealing with the politics and

original plan that started all of

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

them are

said that both

Elisneh the First's side to help her, the Molden Kingdom

Jopis started to smile.

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

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

inns owned by the kingdom. The currency

that built their homes in the Molden Kingdom permission to run the operations as long as they gave

to be more

Jopis started to speak.

Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles. The entire kingdom might be

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

continued to speak in

blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I suspected it since learning about your connection to the Molan

sip of tea

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

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

to do everything it says it will do? Especially when it is

Cale pointing at two

at

leader of the Mercenaries Guild, a large faction on

the past information and assassin households who had been living in hiding

“Aha.”

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

assassin household work for the Roan Kingdom for

to speak at

aspect where you were significantly lacking in

arms and

had heard from Ron and Glenn on their way here… He had

the current document in Jopis’s

what would that

Ron started to smile.

but above

elegantly nodded her

money. There

Click.

her

toward the people in the

the things you are telling me, I guess you

the teacup as

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-”

cup rippled following Jopis's laughter. She tightly clenched

bitch. I learned that Arm was

looked as if her pride

her expression showed, Jopis was

had wanted to turn the Molden Kingdom into

relaxed her grip as she continued

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

say that the

Cale started to speak.

Arm had been getting the money to build bases and quickly increase their forces. I guess it was only

Household located in the

Elisneh the

benefit

from Cale and looked

does that money have to do with the

throw away its name

was only one thing left if

guess only

as Cale

flows where money

to speak as

to run a couple of the more important

with a benign

an assassin in the

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

what about the

blankly staring

“Ah.”

elegantly as if

by the puppies and was being held hostage. Should

at