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 just kept

the hell did they

hear the voices of Elementals since he was

Rasheel lowered his head.

Pat. Pat.

feeling a gentle hand patting

so riled up and drink a cup of tea. Anger is not good for

“…You-”

face as he looked at the smiling Cale who was

how many terrible battles this human had already been through, and he knew that there were too many more

and found altruistic people like Cale quite

Cale Henituse was beyond mysterious; it

a really good bastard, aren’t

to him even though

a good person; I am extremely

“…You-”

was at a loss

talking and clenched the teacup before

a complicated

winning

Raon would call him a

is showing the

Rasheel was having such a normal reaction because of how their first meeting had gone. Although Rasheel grumbled and was a little rough to handle, he seemed as if he would truly give his all

can’t tell anything about this

was quietly drinking tea with her scythe placed

“What do you think?”

that question, and Mila turned toward

that I became a mother… I thought

put the teacup

No matter how much effort and love you put into raising your crops, a single natural disaster could ruin a whole season of crops and destroy everything you put your heart and

picked

raise Dodori by

a rag out of her pocket and slowly wiped the

bastards try to get in my child’s way… I will

face was reflected on the

anything that puts my child

was at that

Clunk. Clunk.

and kettle

blowing

Gulp.

Rasheel subconscious gulped.

that her attribute would be weak because of her peaceful

attention to this Dragon over Eruhaben, but she

Clunk. Clunk. Clunk!

teacup looked ready to crack at any moment because

whether the God of Despair’s seal is removed, whether the Demonic race invades, or whatever the

Mila looked toward Cale.

your dream of

had an odd glow as she looked at

down on the

was at that

Smile.

Cale started to smile.

“You’re wrong, madam.”

placed his

Tap!

he gently placed

“You said I’m wrong?”

ma’am. My dream is not world peace. It is just focused on me. I just want a safe place for my people and I so that we can live peacefully doing whatever we want to

However…

to live like that. That is why I am doing all of this to protect

into

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

was not a hero

most about himself and his people, and his

truly believed he was not a good person, as he frequently

Cale started to smile.

quietly observed him for a bit before starting to

Extremely arrogant. Peace is just a step for

phrased it like that,

it sounded to

slowly dwindled before it

“But I like it.”

She started to smile.

like heroes. I especially do not like heroes who sacrifice

Sacrifice.

heroes were

the people left behind

a large number of people who will be happy about the things they earned through a hero’s sacrifice. Some of them might even feel

people close to

had been by the hero’s

Mila didn’t like that.

a

She looked at Cale.

from what she had

is not a hero even when

but dreamt of living peacefully without sacrificing himself nor

desires were extremely

usually achieved their

like it

liked Cale a

the Cale she had learned about from the books Dodori bought and forced

will learn something

Cale smiled.

meant that Dodori