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

extremely stiff, but he put on

Rosalyn, someone who was working

very difficult

“…And?”

the monsters during the day, minus his highness, will be able to ambush it and gather its blood. That is the

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

extremely hard to calm down

came up with such a plan so

She looked around.

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

more energetic than ever before, at that

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

awakened. Our esteemed former Commander-nim came up

‘What unbelievable-’

heard

There wasn’t even a

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

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

Sir Cale and the Duke-nim both

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

ended up at a loss for words

also heard that the esteemed gold Dragon will also heal soon? I thought he was in serious condition. He truly has you to thank for

say that

ma’am. Now we have two Dragons, a bone Dragon, Sir Choi Han, and former Commander Cale-nim. We also have you,

looked around as he continued to

we fear

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

The soldiers let out a spirited

bright

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

while just drawing

still had to

Duke, former Commander Cale’s father,

the words he was keeping close to

to let him know that

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

I felt

had just been watching the battle between the great heroes and these mighty

shaken in fear, shouted in amazement, and held back

they had all seen their lights falling

Knight Captain decided to now cast aside his fear, swallow his astonishment, and let

to move forward instead of

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

get rid of the

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

Captain flinched

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

hair back as she said a short

“…He dares.”

started to roar like flames from the bottom

at

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

bang and Rosalyn could see the black Yong bursting out

“Choi Han–!”

was thrown out with it

you think that I am the same

was responsible for throwing Choi Han and the black Yong together… Deruth

“How amazing.”

was the one

wearing the face of Deruth Henituse. She did not feel any wariness toward

able to feel any of

the White

Clang!

immediately pulled out

“Who knows?”

statement. It was because he

do you mean by

Alberu started to frown.

his

Baaaaang!

sword slammed

You are the only one with this

should be able to feel

mouth at that

he usually uses

Han was easily flung

come up with

body is

wood, wind, water, and fire attributes, but not the

have allowed him to achieve balance with all five

his full power

the answer. By

White Star,

weakly? Choi Han was the

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

have happened to Cale Henituse’s father? Are

son of a

and a fire was visible

while the White Star

“Ugh!”

before her attack could reach the White

“Hannah!”

He could see a thick

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

White Star shrugged his

Ooooooooong-

appeared around her, shaking the

White Star nonchalantly