Trash of the Count's Family

“Grr… you’re annoyingly persistent.”

The Cat tribe leader was trying to catch his breath while frowning at Ron.

“Huuuuuu.”

Ron’s breath was also slightly heavy. His face was calm but his back was full of sweat. The old man’s eyes observed the berserk tribe leader.

“I’ve heard stories about berserk Cats but this is my first time seeing it in person.”

Berserk transformations were different based on the attributes of the Beast tribe.

Some of them, such as Tigers and Wolves, grew bigger and their strength increased exponentially. There were also transformations like the Whale tribe’s where there were no physical changes but a medium was used to increase their strength.

The Cats had their own unique transformation as well.

‘First, their whole body becomes covered in fur.’

Their body didn’t grow bigger like the Wolves but there were some physical changes.

‘Most importantly, they become extremely agile and don’t make any noises in their movements.’

They moved very quickly and didn’t make any noise when their feet touched the ground as they moved. This berserk transformation was probably why the Cats were known for being stealthy.

The tribe leader smirked while looking at Ron observing him.

“Keke. You sound very tired.”

Ron didn’t respond to the tribe leader. It was the truth.

Ron had barely caught up to the tribe leader.

“So persistent. Such annoyingly persistent old bastards.”

The tribe leader commented while looking around.

“How they hell do none of you groan even after getting hurt? Your venomous aura should decrease with age but your eyes are all boiling with venomous aura.”

The reason Ron was able to catch up to the tribe leader…

“…….”

“…….”

It was thanks to the people from the Molan Household surrounding the tribe leader.

Whether it was their arm or leg… They were all bleeding with injuries here and there but none of them had released a single groan.

“…You pestering bugs.”

On the way here… Attacks that made the Cats who were running away with the tribe leader stop temporarily or forever had continued all around the forest.

They were all attacks by the Molan household.

They were so persistent in chasing the Cats that they forced the Cats to split up and escape in different directions.

Ron responded with a stoic expression on his face.

“You’re left all alone thanks to those so called pestering bugs.”

“Ugh!”

The tribe leader frowned.

The Cat that was taken down by Ron’s dagger just moments ago was the last one who had been escaping with the tribe leader.

Ron had heard Dodori shouting behind him the moment before he jumped into the forest.

‘Cale fainted! It’s serious!’

On and Hong had run off earlier than he did and did not hear it. Ron realized that there was not much time. He needed to take care of the enemies as quickly as possible before returning to the Roan Kingdom.

Shhhhh.

Ron raised his hand and the people from the Molan household who had not made a single noise disappeared into the fog at his signal.

“Hmph.”

The Cat tribe leader scoffed as if he found them ridiculous but still prepared for their attacks.

Oooooo– oooooo–

There was an eerie noise and the fog around them started to roar.

“Grrrrrrr. Did you really think you could survive after stepping into my domain?”

The tribe leader’s fog ability… Adding on his extremely improved speed and soundless movement from his berserk transformation…

Those two together made it so that coming into the fog domain of a berserk Fog Cat was pretty much asking to be killed.

However, he soon frowned.

“…These crazy bastards!”

The rest of the Molan household other than Ron who had disappeared into the fog moved away from the tribe leader.

The tribe leader quickly swung the dagger in his hand.

Claaaaang!

Ron’s dagger and the tribe leader’s dagger slammed into each other and made a terrible noise.

They were inside the tribe leader’s thick fog. However, the tribe leader could see Ron’s face clearly because he was the master of this fog.

Ron was smiling.

“I’m pretty sure I said I was going to kill you, you bastard.”

“…Is that why you sent your damn subordinates elsewhere?”

“That’s right.”

The tribe leader frowned.

Ron should not be able to see him inside this thick fog. But he was looking right at him. What was going on?

“……!”

The tribe leader then saw a faint red light in his fog and urgently looked behind him.

He could see a red fog trying extremely hard to break into his fog domain.

Small amounts of it were able to push its way into his fog domain.

‘Those motherfucking mutant bastards!’

This was definitely On and Hong’s fog.

Not just that, this was poisonous fog.

That red fog must be telling this damn Molan patriarch about his location.

The tribe leader started sweating.

He had seen the fog that had covered about half of the mountain as he ran away earlier.

‘…How the hell can a twelve year old create such fog?! How can she be so similar to her father-?!’

On and Hong’s father, the former tribe leader, was extremely weak physically compared to the other Cats because he could not go berserk.

The Cats were also a tribe that had to fight. Stealthiness and movement were the two most important things when it came to assassination.

However, the former tribe leader’s fog ability was much stronger than anybody else his age.

you really think that the fog of

Oooooo– oooooo–

title as the current tribe leader, making it so that they couldn’t even see the grass

dust could not make

the only one who could see in this fog, started to

no noise even though his feet

Slaaash-!

flying at him even as

know where

leader could see Ron’s dagger that was flying

quickly blocked Ron’s

‘Fuck!’

say anything and just changed directions. It was to aim

Bang!

twisted his body and blocked that attack with the

his other

Baaaaang! Bang!

thick fog… The tribe

“Unbelievable!’

and launch another attack when he should be the only one who could see in

‘Holy shit, how?!’

away to take the tribe

only

not here and this

was this old bastard moving

these daggers aiming for him. He had to focus on Ron’s attacks that were getting

Baaaaang! Clang! Claaaaang!

endless sounds of their daggers

the fuck is an old man so

forehead

Dagger arts. Strength.

to surpass the

did not grow stronger when they went berserk. Their original strength remained the

‘Unbelievable!’

was holding his dagger

didn’t have time to pay attention to

is he able to attack me

leader had achieved victory over and over using these three things

had no answer since all three things were not working

Claaaaang!

“Ugh!”

groan while pushing away

the moment the

“How?!”

shouted while

the hell did you do it?! Are you able

smirking at him. The old man’s entire body was covered in sweat

“Breath.”

“What?”

the tribe leader’s response

“Ugh!”

Claaaaang! Clang! Tang!

battle started once again. Ron focused as much as

against the Cats at

had been training to go up against the Fog Cat Tribe ever

training had been

‘Find the enemy’s opening.’

a different manner from Choi

for an assassin to be

they

was the

found the

Rustle.

help but make noises whenever he moved. But the Cat tribe leader made

tribe leader always made

the sound of

made noises breathing in and breathing out. Ron followed that

is

aging body was trying to make his hearing get worse but Ron continued to remember a certain moment

the

was running away

Running

on the run, doing anything and everything to avoid the enemies. The scariest thing at that time was the

symbolized that enemies who would kill

to cover his mouth and his son’s mouth despite their heavy

completely restore his senses to be as sharp as it had been back

Claaaaang!

“This motherfucking old bastard!”

Drip. Drip.

sweat dripped down the side of Ron’s face

his mental fortitude to focus for so

then smirked toward the tribe leader who should be looking

difficult if you got stronger after going berserk. I’m relieved you only got

tribe leader’s eyes roared with

accepted that he could not run away or hide in the fog

“I’ll kill you!”

every ounce of strength

Claaaaang! Clang! Tang!

sneered after seeing that

Let’s keep fighting like this! You’ll

tribe leader could see a tree behind

foot and kicked

Pow!

to block his kick and Ron

Boom!

was quite a loud noise and the tribe leader saw the slightly stiffened expression on Ron’s

“Time to finish this!”

benign smile appeared on Ron’s face as soon as

“Who knows?”

questioned what might be going on. Ron happily informed

are learning everything I

everything he knew other than assassination skills to the children who had lived the

Rustle.

noise reached the tribe

above

heard it from the leaves on

dodge Ron’s attacks that were at a higher level than he had expected and the sound of their daggers clashing had been so loud that… He did not notice someone who was stealthier than most assassins sneaking into

‘An intruder!’

leader finally realized someone

moment he saw that intruder land on

Slaaash-!

something being

hearing the noise and could

You, you-”

had slashed his ankle and revealed

careful of what’s

leader heard the voice of the younger of

and stealthily approached

small but sharp claws that were full of poison left some not too deep yet not too shallow marks on the tribe leader’s

Drip. Drip.

dripping from his

“You shithead-, ugh!”

leader who tried to swing his dagger toward Hong stumbled as the

his claws

Slaaaash-

and

You, you-!”

plopped down on the ground and felt as if he was suffocating as he looked at

Black poison.

was most likely

the fog. Rustle.