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

face was extremely stiff, but he put on a faint

Rosalyn, someone

blood to heal his injuries. Apparently…it will be very difficult for his highness

“…And?”

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

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

extremely hard to calm down her shaking voice

came up with such a plan

She looked around.

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

Knight Captain responded, more energetic than ever before, at that

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

has awakened. Our esteemed former Commander-nim came up with this plan as soon as he heard about

‘What unbelievable-’

had not heard anything

is weird. There wasn’t even

stealthily inform us about it. If we do have any spies, they would have just thought that Commander Deruth was

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

Cale and the Duke-nim both

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

shout that before she ended up at a loss

also heal soon? I thought he was in

Duke Deruth say that as

Han, and former Commander

Knight Captain looked around as

we fear

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

him. The soldiers

had bright expressions on their

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

dead while just drawing

they still had to

Cale’s father, said

repeated the words he was keeping close to his

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

stealthily visiting them and informing them of the plan. Those words had

and noticed that I felt the same way after hearing him

watching the battle between the great heroes

fear, shouted in amazement, and held back

end, they had all seen their lights

his fear, swallow his astonishment, and

move

sun, the future of the Roan

made up their minds to get rid of the

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

flinched and

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

her red hair back as

“…He dares.”

roar like flames from the bottom of her

at

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

was a loud bang and Rosalyn could see the black Yong bursting

“Choi Han–!”

was thrown out with it as

that I am

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

“How amazing.”

the one

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

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

the White

Clang!

master Hannah immediately pulled out her

“Who knows?”

questionable statement. It was because he looked so

you mean by who

Alberu started to frown.

in his pajamas, and swung his spear

Baaaaang!

and the sword slammed into each

only one with this

Then you should be able to feel

closed his mouth at

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

Han was easily flung

could only come up

body is in

Star had the wood, wind, water, and fire attributes,

power would have allowed him to achieve balance with

full power until now because his body had not

know the answer. By the

Star, smiled as

so weakly? Choi

with Deruth Henituse’s

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

son of a

and a fire

the

“Ugh!”

reach the

“Hannah!”

on the ground. He could see a thick

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

his shoulders at Mila’s calm

Ooooooooong-

her, shaking

White Star nonchalantly