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 about,

Captain’s face was extremely stiff, but he put

to Rosalyn, someone who

Apparently…it will be very difficult for his

“…And?”

will attack and capture the monster’s attention so that the individuals who attacked the monsters during the day, minus his highness, will

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

worked extremely hard to calm down her shaking

Who came up with such a plan so

She looked around.

kingdom…. The prince of the Breck Kingdom, her young brother, smiled

energetic

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

former Commander-nim came up with

‘What unbelievable-’

had not heard anything about this

is weird. There wasn’t

spy among us, so he personally came to each of our posts to stealthily inform us about it. If

It wasn’t because anything

and the Duke-nim

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

about to shout that before she ended up at a loss for words at what

thought he was in serious condition. He truly has you to thank for taking care of

say that as

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

around as

would we fear

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

behind him. The soldiers let out

had bright expressions on

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

had to draw the attention of this monster. They could end up dead while just drawing its attention. No,

still had

Duke, former Commander Cale’s father, said the

words he was keeping close to

my son to let him know that I

after stealthily visiting them and informing them

felt the

watching the battle between

in fear, shouted in amazement, and

they had all seen

aside his fear, swallow his astonishment, and let his anger

move forward instead

that the sun can rise again, so that our new sun, the future of the Roan Kingdom can rise again…

up their minds to get rid

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

Captain flinched

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

back

“…He dares.”

like flames from the bottom

at that

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

could see the black Yong bursting out through the window

“Choi Han–!”

out with

think that I am the same as

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

“How amazing.”

was the

face of Deruth Henituse.

to feel any of the White Star’s aura until

the White

Clang!

immediately

“Who knows?”

flinched after hearing Deruth Henituse’s questionable statement. It was because he looked so much like Cale

you mean

Alberu started to frown.

bed, still in his pajamas, and swung his spear toward Duke

Baaaaang!

sword slammed into each

You are the only one with

to feel that I have changed as

his mouth at

definitely used the amount of power he usually uses to face the White Star. It was a pretty strong

Han was easily flung out

could only come up

is

had the wood, wind, water, and fire attributes, but not the earth attribute in the

power would have allowed him to achieve balance with all five

to use his full power until now because his

answer. By the

White Star, smiled as he

weakly? Choi Han was

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

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

son of

and a

aimed for an opening while the White Star

“Ugh!”

reach the White

“Hannah!”

He could see a

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

shrugged his shoulders

Ooooooooong-

around her, shaking

White Star nonchalantly