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

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

puppy with

talking. Nobody here is on my

The human rushed here right

‘Really?’

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

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

Tap.

put the document down on the table at that

“What do you think?”

asked her a question and

conditions, but… Your

gaze turned toward

aiming for the

Kingdom become a strong nation with Elisneh the First at

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

there were inns and other facilities for travelers

roads when traveling to other nations, paying the Molden Kingdom a set fee every time they entered the Molden Kingdom to use

to a toll gate on

people needed to pay

the Molden Kingdom’s toll was very low and charged based on the size of the party and the number of carts, making many small

the large merchant guilds used the Molden Kingdom's roads because they were the fastest, safest, and had the least complicated verification

Molden Kingdom raking in a lot of money even at the low-cost toll, increasing the commercial

Cale started to speak.

know most

The one time.

Jopis almost

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

road maintenance, gathering of fees and workers, dealing with the politics and administration… People had thought that Elisneh the First had done

original plan that started all of this

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

of them are

be said that both of

Jopis remained by Elisneh the First's side to help her, the Molden Kingdom could probably quickly

Jopis started to smile.

know about the roads the most. But

of 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 exchange stores owned

belonged to the kingdom, with them giving the small merchant guilds that built their homes in the Molden

said to be more than the toll

Jopis started to speak.

aim for the Molden Kingdom’s roads as soon as the palace crumbles.

did not end after blowing

to speak in

blow up. I guess it makes sense, and I suspected it since learning

took a sip of tea

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

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

to do everything it says it will do? Especially when

saw Cale

at Bud and

the Mercenaries

other was the Molan patriarch whom the people of the past information and

“Aha.”

who gasped put her chin on her hands as she looked around at

the assassin household work for the

to speak at that

significantly lacking in comparison to Elisneh during your fight

arms

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

document

what would

Ron started to smile.

above everything else,

nodded

worst was that damn money. There seemed to be nothing someone could do

Click.

her teacup

sharp gaze headed toward the people

telling me, I guess you

teacup as he

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 operate the kingdom’s facilities belong to

“Haha-”

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

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

looked as if her

her expression showed, Jopis was

the Molden Kingdom into a

relaxed her grip as

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

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

Cale started to speak.

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

Molan Household located in the Molden mountain range

Illusionist, Elisneh the

locations would have worked together to benefit each other according

moved her gaze away from Cale and

does that money have to do with the Molan

household will now throw away its

one thing

guess only

sparkled as Cale started to

where money

speak as if she was

to run a couple of

with

having you being an assassin in the darkness. You're trying to become an even

all. In fact, she seemed to be planning a lot

about

blankly

“Ah.”

elegantly

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

was at that