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

stiff, but

someone who was working hard to

very difficult for his highness if we cannot get

“…And?”

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

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

worked extremely hard to calm down her shaking voice as

up with such a

She looked around.

From her home kingdom…. The prince of the Breck Kingdom, her young brother, smiled and waved his

energetic

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

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

‘What unbelievable-’

heard anything about this

weird. There wasn’t

that there may be a spy among us, so he personally came to each of 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

wasn’t because anything was funny; he was just doing it to calm

and the Duke-nim both

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

that before she ended up at a loss for words at what

soon? I thought he was in serious condition. He

Deruth say that

we have two Dragons, a bone Dragon, Sir Choi Han, and former Commander Cale-nim. We

Knight Captain looked around as he continued

we

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

shouted behind him. The soldiers let out a spirited shout

bright expressions

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

they still

former Commander Cale’s

the words he was keeping close

fight together with my son to let him know that I

informing them of the plan. Those words

I felt the same way after hearing him

battle between the great heroes and

in fear, shouted in amazement, and held back

had all seen their lights falling to the

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

to move forward instead

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

made up their minds to get rid

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

Captain flinched and

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

brushed her red hair back

“…He dares.”

flames from the

was at

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

could see the black Yong bursting out through

“Choi Han–!”

out with

you think that I

responsible for throwing Choi Han and the black Yong together…

“How amazing.”

Mila was the one

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

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

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

Clang!

immediately pulled out

“Who knows?”

was because he looked so much like Cale Henituse’s father

do you mean by who

Alberu started to frown.

in his pajamas, and

Baaaaang!

and the sword

the only one with

you know. Then you should be able to

closed his mouth at

definitely used the amount of power he usually uses to face the

was easily flung out the

up

body is in

wind, water, and fire attributes,

an earth-attribute ancient power would have allowed him

to use his full

the answer.

the White Star, smiled as he

weakly?

Deruth Henituse’s

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

of

Hannah’s sword, and a fire was visible in

an opening while the

“Ugh!”

the White

“Hannah!”

who was rolling on the ground. He could see a

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

White Star shrugged his shoulders at Mila’s calm

Ooooooooong-

around her,

Star