Trash of the Count's Family

There was a short moment of silence as everybody drank their tea.

“Could you please tell me what is going on?”

The atmosphere in the room changed after Mila asked the question.

“And what did you mean by ‘Lord’?”

Rasheel’s eyes looked a bit warmer as he asked that question, but Mila frowned.

Dragon Lord.

That was an existence that was no longer in this world.

Mila’s eyes clouded over before she turned toward Eruhaben.

“Did you become the Lord?”

“No.”

Click.

Eruhaben elegantly put down the teacup in his hand and looked at the two Dragons.

“This will probably be a very long story. Cale, is it okay if I do it?”

Eruhaben should be able to explain it better than Cale since the story was related to the Dragons.

“Yes, sir. Please do.”

Crunch crunch.

Cale bit down on a cookie and stepped back from the conversation for a moment.

“Then let me start with how I first met this unlucky bastard and the little kid.”

Eruhaben started to share everything that had happened until now.

* * *

Drip.

Some tea dripped out of Rasheel’s mouth. He was so shocked that he didn’t notice that his mouth was hanging open.

He soon jumped up out of his seat.

“Holy shit! How could all this have happened while I was asleep-?!”

Rasheel could not say anything else as he looked toward Cale. Eruhaben’s calm voice continued to fill Rasheel’s ears.

“As for the current situation… The White Star is planning on summoning the sealed god, and some monsters that will be a disaster to this world.”

Eruhaben gave a short description of the potential ending.

“This world will be destroyed if we cannot stop the White Star.”

This world would be destroyed.

Rasheel used the sleeve of his pajamas to wipe the tea off his mouth before pointing toward Cale.

“I thought the humans were having some territorial dispute because the Elementals called you a damn hero! But WHAT?! THIS-?!”

Eruhaben calmly responded to him.

“It is a kind of territorial dispute in a way. It is just on a much larger scale.”

“How can you phrase it like that-?!”

‘Just a much larger scale?! If things went wrong, a god’s seal would be released and the Demonic race that worships that god might take over this world! That bastard called the White Star or White Radish or whatever might end up becoming a god who rules over this world as well.’

“And you said that the last Lord’s soul is still here? And that Lord’s child is that cute but somewhat clueless kid who was talking about destroying everything earlier?”

Rasheel slapped himself.

“O, ow! That hurt! That must mean that this is not a dream!”

How could there be such an annoying situation like this?!

“Ah, fucking hell!”

The White Star was the last Dragon Slayer. That man had started an endless loop of reincarnation.

The Dragon Lord, her children, a sealed god, and even the Demonic race were involved in his quest to fulfill his wildest desires.

Not only that…

The peace of this land was on the line.

There might be a grand battle on a scale that has not been seen since ancient times.

No.

It might become a war even bigger than during ancient times.

Even the do-as-I-please Rasheel knew his foundational duty as a Dragon.

They were to protect this world from outside influences.

The Divine race, the Demonic race, and even the gods were all included in these ‘outside influences.’

According to the rules of this world, any outside force trying to influence this world was breaking their rules.

He clenched his head and plopped down on the couch.

“Ow! What a headache!”

wake up to?! I should have

Elementals! Why the hell did they need

been able to hear the voices of Elementals since he was young. This was

Rasheel lowered his head.

Pat. Pat.

his head after feeling a gentle hand patting his

please don’t get so riled up and drink a cup of tea.

“…You-”

on his face as he looked at the smiling

this human had already been through, and he

was on the selfish side and found altruistic

the life of this human named Cale Henituse was beyond mysterious;

good bastard,

also the only one who was nice to him even though he had tried to cause

all. I am not a good person; I am

“…You-”

a loss for

stopped talking and clenched the teacup before looking away

a complicated mess

I’m winning

observed Rasheel and smiled internally in a way that Raon would call him a

showing the most normal

reaction because of how their first meeting had gone. Although Rasheel grumbled and was a little rough to handle, he seemed as

can’t tell

quietly drinking tea with her scythe placed down

“What do you think?”

asked Mila that question, and

I thought about what

put the teacup

love you put into raising your crops, a single natural disaster could ruin a whole season of

then picked

raise Dodori by

a rag out of her pocket and slowly wiped the dirt off her

bastards try to get in my child’s

reflected on the now-clean

anything that

at that

Clunk. Clunk.

teacup and kettle

blowing

Gulp.

Rasheel subconscious gulped.

feel her years of experience but had thought that her attribute would be

why he had paid less attention to this Dragon over Eruhaben, but she seemed extremely

Clunk. Clunk. Clunk!

looked ready to crack at any moment because of this

you, I don’t care what happens to this land. It doesn’t matter to me whether the God of Despair’s seal is removed, whether the Demonic race invades, or whatever the hell this White Star does. All I care about

Mila looked toward Cale.

your dream of peace for this world. In that case, I must step

glow as she looked at Cale with

lowered himself down on the couch after feeling

at that

Smile.

Cale started to smile.

“You’re wrong, madam.”

then placed his

Tap!

stopped once he

“You said I’m wrong?”

world peace. It is just focused on me. I just want a safe place for my people and I

However…

in order to live like that. That is why I am doing all

into

aiming for. Mila-nim, you must be thinking that I am very different from

was not a hero and

his people, and his goal was to live

a good person, as he frequently told

Cale started to smile.

observed him for a bit before starting to

Extremely arrogant. Peace is just a

phrased it like that,

it sounded to

aura slowly dwindled before

“But I like it.”

She started to smile.

like heroes. I especially do not

Sacrifice.

that these heroes were very noble in

make the people

who will be happy about the things they earned through a hero’s sacrifice. Some of them

people close to

loved ones of the hero who sacrificed herself, the ones who had been by the hero’s side… They would end up feeling a deep sense

Mila didn’t like that.

was not a

She looked at Cale.

from what she had

hero even when the

to sacrifice himself, but dreamt of living peacefully without sacrificing himself nor the people

desires were extremely

like this usually

it very

Cale a

was like her, unlike the Cale she had learned about from the books Dodori bought and forced her

sounds like Dodori will learn

Cale smiled.

meant that Dodori was definitely joining Cale’s