Trash of the Count's Family

Raon was clapping while Mila was calmly focusing on her task at hand. Cale was lying on the bed, looking toward the window and snickering.

Lock just blankly looked out the terrace window.

“H, he’s acting, right? It’s fake?”

His voice was shaking.

The fallen Eruhaben…. The sight was too shocking to call it an act.

‘My heart is beating wildly even though I know it’s fake.’

Lock tightly clenched his fists.

“Lock, don’t worry! Gramps wasn’t hurt by the Lion Dragon’s attack!”

Cale looked at Ron with an odd gaze for a moment.

‘…He shouldn’t be able to see anything because it’s so far away. How is he so sure Eruhaben-nim wasn’t hit?’

Cale questioned Raon’s response, but Raon just smiled brightly, as if he didn’t question anything at all.

Lock couldn’t help but smile after seeing Raon’s bright smile.

“Lock, you start moving according to the plan as well.”

“Yes, young master-nim!”

Lock watched Cale, who was reaching the final stages of Connect Together, as he responded vigorously.

“I’m okay.”

“…Yes, sir, I understand.”

Lock barely managed to lift his feet and left the office after hearing Cale say that he was okay.

Cale watched Lock leave for a bit before looking back out the window.

The fallen Dragon’s large body…

A portion of a building was unfortunately destroyed because of the Dragon’s fall. Dust and smoke rose up like clouds because of the aftershock.

This sight brought shock to everybody except the few who knew the truth.

“…Ah.”

Some of the mages plopped down on the ground.

The shield they had cast to block the aftershock of the Dragon and monster’s fight was long gone, and all that the mages could see was the fallen Dragon…an existence that was said to be the king of magic.

“I, I can’t believe that he…so futilely-”

Although the battle had been fierce and intense, it oddly felt as if it had all been futile.

The reason behind it was simple.

“…It really is a monster.”

The Dragon had fallen, but the monster was fine.

The monster was quietly observing the fallen Dragon without a single scratch on its shield.

The Dragon had not managed to harm the enemy even a little.

That fact was making the others feel as if it had been futile.

“…Something that even a Dragon couldn’t do-”

‘We have to do it now?’

The mages could not get themselves to say that part.

But there were others who were feeling even more scared than they were feeling.

“W, what just happened? Did the Dragon really fall to the ground?”

“I don’t know! I can’t see anything!”

They were the soldiers waiting outside the city walls.

The soldiers definitely saw the Dragon falling down. But they could not accept what had just happened.

They heard the noise of the Dragon crashing to the ground, but they could not accept it since the tall city walls prevented them from seeing what had happened.

The number of people quietly whispering slowly increased, getting louder and amplifying their anxiety as well.

“Quiet-!”

The soldiers flinched and shut up after one of the knights shouted.

The knight would usually scold the soldiers more for their actions, but he too was swept up with fear and astonishment that he couldn’t scold the anxious soldiers.

The Knight Captain stepped forward at that moment.

“All of you stay in position! Do not lose focus!”

There was a video communication device in his hand.

Although he was shouting sternly, his back that was covered by his armor was full of sweat.

‘…Your highness.’

He recalled the short conversation he just had with Alberu and continued to shout.

“As long as we do not attack first! That monster will not attack us!”

The soldiers looked up at the monster in the sky.

This monster really was just quietly observing the ancient Dragon.

“So, do not be afraid!”

The Knight Captain started to walk as soon as he shouted toward the soldiers. The lower-grade knights followed right behind him.

They whispered to him.

“Captain-nim, then what should we-?”

“Are we just waiting?”

The Knight Captain nodded his head with a stiff expression.

“First of all, we have no plans on attacking first. The decision has been made that we need to first figure out the monster’s weakness and get a better grasp of the current situation. His highness as ordered us to wait.”

He then gave the knights an order.

“So make sure that the soldiers are not overwhelmed by fear.”

“…We are just going to stay in place for now, sir?”

“That’s right. His highness’s order is to wait and buy us some time in a stalemate. Inform the soldiers about the situation as well.”

The knights responded with a salute and called their subordinate knights and the ones leading the soldiers.

The message that they were stalling for time started to be distributed.

It made people scared but also relieved that they were not fighting right now.

The fallen Dragon… The struggling heroes…

And finally, the absence of their Commander, who was like a symbol of victory.

that they were not

around at them and thought

message to the soldiers as

Buy some time.

as many people know that as possible. The Knight Captain looked back

black Bone Dragon was urgently

toward where the

do we heal

go over and

City… The people immediately headed over toward the fallen Dragon once they snapped

had both respect and wariness for the Dragon started to move to be as close to the Dragon

At that moment…

“Stop!”

raised their heads after

prince Alberu Crossman kicked off the black Bone Dragon’s armor

Boom-!

rumbling once

to be urgently running to

you move back as his highness

Rosalyn followed behind him.

don’t know what kind of changes there will be to the mana around a Dragon that is in danger! Do not

flinched and stopped trying

Rosalyn said seemed reasonable

of their curiosity, they could not go against Alberu, the magically talented crown prince who had the highest position here, nor against Rosalyn,

there was a big reason they did not

see the Dragon’s extremely faint breathing once they

“…What a mess.”

a creature whose level of magic they would

scales that were said to be one of the strongest things in the world had so

drought. The crack started from the Dragon’s claw and spread throughout its upper body and a portion of its

hide seemed darker and gloomier

“…Eruhaben-nim.”

subconsciously stopped walking after seeing

been

a loss

fall had

that if Eruhaben had fought some more, that fall could have ended up becoming

She got a headache.

had thought that someone might die

prepared herself, thinking that

was pretty much, no, was her master,

“Eruhaben-nim.”

voice

blonde hair and

very stiff expression

wondering how to keep up the act and play along since

he had debated

really was

like hell right

realized that this heavy breathing was not completely

Shhhhh.

hand touched Eruhaben’s

“Are you okay, Eruhaben-nim?”

sounded so bad that the

“Huff. Huff.”

Dragon could not

were majestic creatures, they couldn’t help but look at

– Crown prince.

Eruhaben’s calm

Do I just

one of its eyes and stealthily

is

was praising

“Haaaaaaaa.”

Alberu’s gaze changed.

…Why are you looking at me the way

eyes enough to see Alberu who was right in

put his hand on Eruhaben’s forehead. He then mumbled in a

completely out of it. He does seem to be conscious,

– What?

you cannot die!

– …Ho.

chills after

‘What chilling acting skills.’

most

without the help of his mother’s family while hiding the fact

internally when he heard

here and pretend you are

– Got it.

raised

breathing is getting even

doing anything. Alberu

I take a

her thoughts and moved to

and turned around. He then gave an order to the first mage he made eye contact

a nearby temple

in order to heal the Dragon.

head and started talking to himself as

not enough. The Saint,

around him nodded

Dragon… Maybe the Saint

personally go

noticed Lock approaching him at

“Your highness.”

bowed and respectfully greeted Alberu. Alberu quickly put his hand on

Tiger tribe and the Wolf tribe can stand

highness! We will protect him so that nobody can approach

Wolf elder who nodded his head and the Wolves started to

leave it to

walked past Lock,

make it so that nobody can get

hesitated for a moment before

“…The Young master-nim…”

Alberu turned toward Lock.

young master-nim, no, never mind, your highness. Please, just go take

just looked over Lock’s shoulder

I have some

relief after hearing

highness.

of his mouth went up after hearing Lock’s voice that was full

because he knew where

and looked

and Choi Han were up in

down as well, but someone needed to look as if they were staying guarded against the Lion Dragon.

Alberu that it was okay to hurry up and go. Mary was on one of her flying skeleton monsters as she moved toward the black

Dragon half-blood, Mary, and

to

“I should hurry.”

as if

planning on chatting with Cale

“Your highness-”

him

“…Duke.”

It was Duke Deruth.

sense of nervousness. Alberu looked at him with pity,

you can

not have Deruth

to Earth was with Cale. Furthermore, Cale’s

Duke Deruth who had come all