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

Captain looked around at them and thought

delivered the message to the soldiers

Buy some time.

as many people know that as possible. The Knight Captain looked back toward the city after dutifully completing the crown

Dragon was urgently

toward where the Dragon

do we heal

over and take a look

immediately headed over toward the fallen Dragon

both respect and wariness for the Dragon started to move to

At that moment…

“Stop!”

raised their heads after hearing a

black Bone Dragon’s armor

Boom-!

rumbling once he

be urgently

you move back as his

Rosalyn followed behind him.

kind of changes there will be to the mana around a Dragon that is in danger! Do not approach unless we say

stopped trying to follow

said seemed

talented crown prince who had the highest

a big reason they did not dare

extremely faint breathing

“…What a mess.”

mages said that toward the Dragon, a creature whose level

said to be one of the strongest things in the world had so many cracks in

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

hide seemed darker

“…Eruhaben-nim.”

walking after seeing Eruhaben’s

finally see Eruhaben-nim’s current condition that she had not been able to

was at a loss for

Eruhaben’s fall had

seeing Eruhaben’s condition let her know that if Eruhaben had fought some more, that

She got a headache.

someone might die in

prepared herself, thinking that she might die as

thinking that someone who was pretty much, no, was her master,

“Eruhaben-nim.”

Alberu’s voice at

had taken his helmet off and revealed his blonde hair and blue eyes as he walked

very stiff expression

up the act and play along since the White

he had

was prepared

looked like hell right

that this heavy breathing was not completely

Shhhhh.

touched

“Are you okay, Eruhaben-nim?”

a bit. It sounded so bad that the

“Huff. Huff.”

Dragon

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

– Crown prince.

Alberu heard Eruhaben’s

just

open one of its eyes and stealthily

is

praising his acting

“Haaaaaaaa.”

Alberu’s gaze changed.

are you looking at me

see Alberu who was right in front of

Eruhaben’s forehead. He then mumbled in a sad

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

– What?

cannot

– …Ho.

after

‘What chilling acting skills.’

make most theatre actors

mother’s family while hiding the fact that he

when he heard Alberu

just stay here and pretend you

– Got it.

raised

breathing! Eruhaben-nim’s breathing is

just laid there without doing anything.

highness! May I take

her thoughts and moved

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

a nearby

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

started talking to himself as if

Saint,

around him nodded their heads after Alberu mentioned

Maybe the Saint would be able to

personally go

Lock approaching him at that

“Your highness.”

Alberu quickly put

Tiger tribe and the Wolf tribe

your highness! We will protect him so that nobody

looked toward a Wolf elder who nodded his head and the Wolves

it to

walked past

it so that nobody can get close and

a

“…The Young master-nim…”

Alberu turned toward Lock.

your highness. Please, just

didn’t ask anything else and just looked over Lock’s shoulder to the

worry about me. I have some time to

any relief after hearing the

your highness. We

up after hearing Lock’s voice that was

he knew where Lock’s confidence was coming

at Eruhaben and looked

Dragon half-blood and Choi

to come down as well, but someone needed to look as if they were staying guarded against

Han nodded his head at 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

Mary,

them should be able to prepare for

“I should hurry.”

as if he was rushing

on chatting with Cale about their

“Your highness-”

stopped him as

“…Duke.”

It was Duke Deruth.

unknown sense of nervousness. Alberu looked at him

you

have

cintamani… That orb that was connected to Earth was

Deruth who had come all