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 he put on a

explain things to Rosalyn, someone who was working hard to help

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

“…And?”

is why the Roan 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 are complete for when the temple opens after

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

worked extremely hard to calm down her shaking

said that? Who came up with such

She looked around.

kingdom…. The prince of the Breck Kingdom,

Captain responded, more energetic than ever before,

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

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

‘What unbelievable-’

not heard anything

weird. There

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 posts to chat with us.

wasn’t because anything was funny; he was just doing

Cale and the Duke-nim both

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

ended up at

gold Dragon will also heal soon? I thought he was in serious condition. He truly has you to thank for taking care

Duke Deruth say that

Sir Choi Han, and former Commander Cale-nim. We also have

Captain looked around

we fear

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

knights shouted behind him. The soldiers let

had bright

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

could end up dead while just drawing its attention. No, they felt as if they would

they still

Duke, former Commander Cale’s father, said the

the words he

together with my son to let him know

Deruth had said that after stealthily visiting them and informing them of the plan.

that I felt

watching the battle between the great heroes and

had shaken in fear, shouted in amazement,

they had all seen their

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

to move

sun, the future of the Roan Kingdom can rise again… We will put an end

here had made up their minds to get rid of the fear, this

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

flinched and then

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

hair back as she said

“…He dares.”

flames

was at

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

the black Yong bursting out through the window of

“Choi Han–!”

thrown out with it

if you think that I am the same

Yong together… Deruth Henituse smiled as he looked at the others in the

“How amazing.”

was the one to

anything from the person wearing the face of Deruth Henituse. She did not feel any

had not been able to feel any of the White Star’s aura until just

bastard! You’re the White

Clang!

master Hannah immediately pulled out

“Who knows?”

It was because he looked so much like Cale

the hell do you mean

Alberu started to frown.

had gotten off the bed, still in his pajamas, and swung

Baaaaang!

sword slammed

sword! You are the only one with this

you know. Then you should be able to feel that I

his mouth

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

Choi Han was easily flung

up

is in

the wood, wind, water, and fire attributes, but

ancient power would have allowed him to

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

the answer. By

Star, smiled as

weakly?

still with Deruth Henituse’s face, already knew the

happened to Cale Henituse’s father? Are you worried that he is

of

sword, and a fire

for an opening while the

“Ugh!”

the White Star…

“Hannah!”

on the ground. He could see a thick wall made of water and wind around the White

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

Star shrugged his shoulders at

Ooooooooong-

mana appeared around her, shaking

White Star