Trash of the Count's Family

Count Mock's gaze moved to the document that was slowly being opened on the table.

‘Precious information?’

He looked away from the document and looked at Cale. Cale felt his gaze and raised his head as Mock started to speak to him.

“…The Duke does something like this?”

“Of course. There is a reason he is the Duke.”

‘Ho!’

Mock barely managed to hold himself from scoffing out loud.

“Is there anyone who knows about this?”

“The fact that he is collecting information like this?”

“Yes.”

Mock subconsciously tensed up.

But the boy casually answered as if it wasn't much.

“How would there be anybody who knows?”

Mock tightly clenched onto the armrests after hearing that nonchalant response.

‘I didn’t think Duke Fredo would be gathering information in secret like this without even reporting it to his majesty!’

Based on how he said that it was top secret information, there was a whole system set up to divide the information up by value or importance.

Mock knew that Duke Fredo was the strongest physically among the first four nobles.

‘But I thought that he was just an eccentric individual whose thoughts I couldn't predict but that he was still loyal to his majesty!’

Mock could not hide his shock at this newly gained knowledge.

He then started to think.

‘…I guess these kinds of things need to be done to rise to the Duke position.’

The veins on the back of his wrists were clearly visible as he continued to clench on the armrests.

Mock's gaze shook as he looked back at the document. His gaze was filled with self-reflection at the fact that he had not gathered information in this matter and that he should do so in the future.

Furthermore, there was also a strong desire that doing so would allow him to rise to the Duke position as well.

‘My goodness, he lives such a complicated life.’

Cale confirmed Mock’s status before smiling internally.

Shhh.

The document containing top-secret information finally opened all the way.

“Please take a look.”

Count Mock leaned forward and focused on the document after hearing Cale's statement.

< 1. The location suspected of being Cale Henituse's base. >

“Cale Henituse's base……?”

Mock immediately looked back at Cale. The boy smiled and motioned with his hand.

“Please keep reading.”

Mock turned back toward the document.

“Count-nim. You should read all the red words first.”

There were a lot of things written on the document, but the red words were quite eye-catching and Mock started to read them first, as Cale had mentioned.

< The Forest of Darkness, one of the Forbidden Regions that exists in the Roan Kingdom's Henituse territory. >

< The families of Cale Henituse's friends are confirmed to be living there. Determined to be a black castle located at the center of the Forest of Darkness. (Confirmed in the air.) >

< Security is quite tight because the Tiger tribe and others usually reside there. >

The Henituse territory.

It was a place that any of the Endable Kingdom's chief executives have heard about at least once, no, many times.

It was Cale Henituse’s hometown as well as where the northern Indomitable Alliance’s first plans failed.

Mock confirmed the new details among the familiar details.

“…There’s a castle in the Forest of Darkness within the Henituse territory?”

‘And that is where Cale Henituse's friends and their families live? It is where Cale Henituse spends most of his time as well?’

Mock naturally looked at the next sentence.

< It is not easy to approach because of the Tiger Tribe and Cale Henituse's friends who reside in the castle. >

At the bottom of the document…

Written in the brightest red color…

< However, I believe that if we are able to attack and take control of this location, we could use the hostages here to land a serious blow on Cale Henituse and his friends. >

That last sentence was written in Duke Fredo’s handwriting.

Count Mock was the overseer of the grand assembly.

seen the motions the first nobles had submitted many times and was familiar with all of

mean that this last

the last sentence to be Duke

of this information being

the

had gone himself to confirm Duke Fredo's

so he would not have been able to write this at the

unconscious, so the chances of this being real were quite high unless Duke Fredo had

his expression and nonchalantly asked the

“…What is this?”

you read it

The boy mischievously smiled.

don't understand why you are

disappear

“Count-nim.”

toward the Count as

at the center of the

Tap. Tap.

on top of the document as he

are Cale Henituse and his famous

boy made

they are all split up among

at the north of

snowy mountain on the northern part of

Eastern continent's Molden

Roan Kingdom's Stan territory and capital on the Western

has figured

“…Where is it?”

have headed north to the Lake of Despair. One of our people who

have gone

worried about the World Tree the

silently nodded his head to show

going dry at that moment. His body was slowly starting

reason this

it out loud. The boy

castle is currently

Mock's heart was slowly

plan naturally formed in

boy's voice egged him

There are some magic circles, but there is nobody protecting the place.

‘We can destroy it.’

sentence etched itself

what we will find there are the weakest people related to

information about Cale Henituse to know that he cherished his friends

hero mentality of trying to protect

ignored his wildly beating heart and

not leave

now is the

raised his

heart started to beat even louder

because he thinks we have not discovered it! But based on his personality,

Boom!

boy slammed his hands on

the boy

so, before that

boy's eyes looked

about smacking this guy from behind as he shouted each word one by

few from the 96 noble awaiters. We

We.

that word filled Count

slowly lifted himself away from the back of the chair

majesty is more likely to approve of this because it is

‘No.

is something his majesty might desire

better and better plan

would calm the noble awaiters who wanted to achieve merit while landing a blow on

nonchalantly asked Cale who looked like

black castle. Are you satisfied with just

“Not at all.”

The boy smiled.

and believed it to be

you know how many times

with

He continued to speak.

control of that castle will be step one to drag

to an all-out

sir. Even a small flame can end up burning down

Mock quietly asked.

won't want

Smile.

The boy just smiled.

‘…This punk!’

realized that what Naru wanted, in

no

know the ways of

it because dirt was finally

wasn’t

Push.

document being pushed toward

give

to the

to

calm but held

please make your decision and pull them

“…What?”