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.”

you talking

Knight Captain’s face was extremely stiff,

things to Rosalyn, someone who was working hard to

will be very difficult for his highness if we cannot

“…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

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

calm down her shaking voice as she

came up with such a plan so

She looked around.

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

more energetic than

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

Commander-nim came up with this plan

‘What unbelievable-’

heard anything about

that is weird. There wasn’t even a

he personally came to each of our posts to stealthily inform us about it. If

Knight Captain let out a short laugh. It wasn’t because anything was funny; he was just doing it to

and the

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

she ended up at a loss for words at

gold Dragon will also heal soon? I thought he was in serious condition.

Duke Deruth say that as

a bone Dragon, Sir Choi Han,

around as he continued to

would we

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

knights shouted behind him. The soldiers let

bright expressions on

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

of this monster. They could end up dead while just drawing its attention. No, they felt as if they would die for

still had

Cale’s father, said the

Knight Captain repeated the words he was keeping

with my son to let him know that I am here with

visiting them and informing them of the

and noticed that I felt the same way after hearing him say

the battle between the

fear, shouted in amazement, and

had all seen their lights falling

to now cast aside his fear, swallow his astonishment,

to move forward

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

up their minds to get rid of the

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

Knight Captain flinched and

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

her red hair back as she said a short

“…He dares.”

to roar like flames from

at

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

could see the black Yong bursting out through

“Choi Han–!”

out with

if you think that I

the black Yong together…

“How amazing.”

the

face of Deruth Henituse. She did not feel any wariness

any

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

Clang!

immediately pulled

“Who knows?”

was because he looked so much

do you mean by who

Alberu started to frown.

his pajamas, and swung his

Baaaaang!

and the sword

are the only one with this kind of

able to feel that I have changed as

closed his mouth at that

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

Han was easily flung

up with

body is

water, and fire attributes, but not the

earth-attribute ancient power would have allowed him to

Star had been unable to use his full power

the answer. By

the White Star, smiled as

are you attacking so weakly? Choi Han was the

with Deruth Henituse’s

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

son of

of Hannah’s sword, and a fire was visible in her

aimed for an opening while the

“Ugh!”

could reach the White Star… Her body was

“Hannah!”

Hannah, who was rolling on the ground. He could see a thick wall

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

shrugged his

Ooooooooong-

mana appeared around her,

Star