Trash of the Count's Family

‘Damn it! Fuck!’

Alberu Crossman immediately picked up the spear he had hidden under his body and kicked off the bed.

‘We were tricked!’

The person Choi Han’s sword was headed toward right now was not Deruth Henituse.

He heard the horn flute again.

Buuuu—- oooo—– buuuuuuu-!

The horn flute had distinct tones for different orders.

The one earlier was to announce the battle while this one was for charging forward to attack.

His body subconsciously flinched, and his gaze headed out the window.

He could see the Knight Captain pulling out his sword.

The other knights pulled out their weapons as well, while the mages were getting ready to cast an extremely large spell toward the Puzzle City plaza.

Alberu Crossman made eye contact with Deruth Henituse.

Smirk.

“I already told you. I said I was late because of taking care of some things after the meeting.”

Deruth Henituse laughed.

Alberu realized it at that moment.

‘It’s the White Star.’

This bastard was the White Star.

He was sure of it.

He then anxiously had a question pop up in his mind.

‘…When? How?’

Since when had the White Star been pretending to be Duke Deruth Henituse?

Alberu had not noticed anything awkward from the Duke.

‘Cale Henituse said that Duke Deruth told him to take out his biological mother’s diary from her grave.’

That meant that it was highly likely that Duke Deruth had been himself when Cale left Puzzle City.

‘And it is also highly likely that Duke Deruth was himself when Cale saw him as soon as he came back from his meeting with the World Tree.’

Duke Deruth had brought up and asked about Cale’s trip to his mother’s grave. Since Cale had not mentioned it first, he needed to have that information in advance to do that.

‘Then it happened after that.’

It would be most accurate to say that the White Star took over as Duke Deruth sometime after that.

‘In that short period of time!’

Alberu and Cale were aware of most of Duke Deruth’s actions and movements since they discussed this feigning death strategy with him.

They didn’t try to find out, but it was something that came naturally as they were working together.

‘Duke Deruth didn’t go anywhere special either.’

Cale also asked Choi Han to guard Duke Deruth’s bedroom at night, in order to avoid any ambush or abducting attempts from the White Star.

‘When and how did he avoid our gazes?’

Alberu felt extreme anger boiling inside him.

‘I’ve been tricked. I lost.’

The emotion from those negative thoughts roared inside of him.

“Motherf-”

Baaaaaaaaaang-

The rest of the word was drowned out by a loud noise.

The shining black aura rising from Choi Han’s sword was fluctuating violently.

“How does it feel? How is it to be on the receiving end?”

The black aura was blocked by a burning fire sword that was about the size of a dagger. Deruth Henituse’s hand was holding onto that sword.

The man then calmly moved his other hand.

Baaaaaang!

A wind wall crumbled after being struck by beige-colored mana.

Clunk!

The windows of the room almost exploded open at the pressure from the attacks.

They could see what was going on outside a little clearer now.

As the darkness of the night slowly started to take over for the red sunset in the sky…

Shaaaaaaaaaaa-

The cold winter breeze blew in through the window.

“I went to each of their posts to talk to them. I told them that the Saint checked the crown prince’s condition and the reason his internal organs are a mess is because of the venomous aura within the monster’s attack. I told them that the monster’s blood was necessary to heal it.”

Deruth’s voice was carried by the wind and echoed through the entire room.

* * *

While that was going on, Rosalyn left ancient Dragon Eruhaben’s side and urgently rushed over to the Knight Captain.

“What is going on, Captain-nim?!”

“Magic Tower Master-nim. Have you not heard? I guess you might not have, as it was urgently decided not too long ago.”

are you talking

Captain’s face was extremely stiff, but

Rosalyn, someone who

needs the monster’s blood to heal his injuries. Apparently…it will be very difficult for his highness if we cannot get it within the

“…And?”

Kingdom’s troops and the reinforcements will attack and capture the monster’s attention so that the individuals who attacked the monsters during the day, minus his highness, will be able to ambush it and gather its blood. That is the plan. They said that all the preparations

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

worked extremely hard to calm down her shaking voice as she

up with such a plan

She looked around.

and Toonka noticed her and were heading over. From her home kingdom…. The prince of the Breck Kingdom, her young brother, smiled and waved

energetic than ever before,

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

that former Commander Cale has awakened. Our esteemed former Commander-nim came up with

‘What unbelievable-’

not heard anything about

There

he personally came to each of our posts to stealthily inform us about it. If we do have any spies, they would have just thought that Commander Deruth was just walking around to our

a short laugh. It wasn’t because anything was funny; he was just doing it

Cale and the Duke-nim

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

up at a loss for words

was in

Duke Deruth say that

Dragons, a bone Dragon, Sir Choi Han, and former Commander Cale-nim. We also

looked around as

would we fear

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

knights shouted behind him. The soldiers let out a

had bright expressions on their

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

They could end up dead while just drawing its

still had

former Commander Cale’s

the words he was keeping

wish to fight together with my son to let him know that I

them and informing them of

I felt the same way after hearing

the battle between the great heroes and these

in amazement, and held

all seen their lights falling to

to now cast aside his

chose to move forward instead

sun, the future of the Roan Kingdom

people here had made up their minds to get rid of the

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

Captain flinched and

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

hair back

“…He dares.”

mana started to roar like flames from

was at

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

loud bang and Rosalyn could see the black Yong bursting out through the window of a

“Choi Han–!”

was thrown out

if you think that I

who was responsible for throwing Choi Han and the black Yong together… Deruth Henituse smiled as he

“How amazing.”

Mila was the one to

wearing the face of Deruth Henituse. She

to feel any of the White Star’s aura

bastard! You’re the White Star, aren’t

Clang!

Hannah immediately pulled out

“Who knows?”

Henituse’s questionable statement. It was because he looked so much like Cale Henituse’s father right

hell do you mean by

Alberu started to frown.

off the bed, still in his pajamas, and swung his spear

Baaaaang!

and the sword slammed

sword! You are the only one with this kind of ancient power, you

you know. Then you should be able to feel that I have changed as well, can’t

mouth

he usually uses

was easily flung

only come up with one explanation for

is in

and fire attributes, but not

an earth-attribute ancient power would have allowed him to

Star had been unable to use his full power until now because his body had not been

answer. By

White Star,

attacking so weakly? Choi Han was

Star, still with Deruth Henituse’s face, already knew

think something might have happened to Cale Henituse’s father? Are you

son of

of Hannah’s sword, and

for an opening while the

“Ugh!”

could reach the White Star… Her body was

“Hannah!”

the ground. He could see a thick

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

Star shrugged his shoulders at

Ooooooooong-

appeared around her,

Star nonchalantly