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.

soldiers were feeling relieved that

Captain looked around at

the message

Buy some time.

The Knight Captain looked back toward the city after dutifully

Bone Dragon was

headed toward where the Dragon

we

we go over and take

headed over toward the fallen Dragon once they snapped out

The mages who had both respect and wariness

At that moment…

“Stop!”

after hearing a shout

prince Alberu Crossman kicked off the black Bone

Boom-!

was a small rumbling once he landed on

be urgently running

back as his

Rosalyn followed behind him.

changes there will be to the mana around a Dragon that is

mages flinched and stopped

Rosalyn said seemed reasonable

their curiosity, they could not go against Alberu, the magically talented crown prince who had the

a big reason they

breathing once they had gotten a

“…What a mess.”

whose level of magic they would

one of the strongest things in the

on a land dried out by drought. The crack started from the Dragon’s claw and spread throughout its upper body

radiant golden hide seemed

“…Eruhaben-nim.”

stopped walking after seeing

Eruhaben-nim’s current condition that she had not been able to see because of the Lion Dragon and the

was at a loss

fall had been

had fought some more, that fall could have ended

She got a headache.

that someone might

thinking that she might

was pretty much,

“Eruhaben-nim.”

heard Alberu’s voice at

off and revealed his blonde hair and blue eyes as he walked

very stiff expression

was wondering how to keep up the act and

it was quite laughable that he had debated

was

looked like hell right

finally realized that this heavy

Shhhhh.

touched Eruhaben’s cracking

“Are you okay, Eruhaben-nim?”

bad that the others who were

“Huff. Huff.”

ancient Dragon

were majestic creatures, they couldn’t help but look at the heavily breathing Dragon with

– Crown prince.

heard Eruhaben’s calm voice in his

I just stay

Dragon peeked open one of

Apparently, there is

praising his

“Haaaaaaaa.”

Alberu’s gaze changed.

looking at me the way

eyes enough to see Alberu who was right in front of him, was almost at

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

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

– What?

Eruhaben-nim, you cannot die! Please

– …Ho.

got the chills after hearing

‘What chilling acting skills.’

most

mother’s family while hiding the fact that he

amazed internally when he

here and pretend you are

– Got it.

then raised

breathing is getting

just laid there without doing anything. Alberu took care

May I

snapped out of her thoughts

care and turned around. He then gave an order to the

a nearby

was probably urgently looking for a temple in order to heal the Dragon. Multiple mages immediately took out video

head and started talking

not enough. The Saint, I need to contact the

Some people around him nodded

a Dragon… Maybe the Saint would be able to

personally go

approaching him at

“Your highness.”

and respectfully greeted Alberu. Alberu quickly put his hand on

and the Wolf

him so that

a Wolf elder who nodded his

it

walked past Lock, and

that

hesitated for a moment before

“…The Young master-nim…”

Alberu turned toward Lock.

master-nim, no, never mind, your highness.

else and just looked over Lock’s shoulder to the ancient Dragon who had

me. I

relief after hearing

worry, your highness. We can

his mouth went up after hearing

was because he knew where Lock’s confidence

and looked

and Choi Han were

if they were staying guarded against the Lion Dragon. For the White

and go. Mary was on one of her flying skeleton

Mary, and Choi

them should be able to prepare for any urgent situations

“I should hurry.”

Hall as if he was rushing to

on chatting with Cale

“Your highness-”

him as

“…Duke.”

It was Duke Deruth.

unknown sense of nervousness. Alberu looked at him with pity,

hope you can

have Deruth come

cintamani… That orb that was connected to Earth was with Cale. Furthermore, Cale’s body was

Deruth who had come all the way here for