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

stiff, but he

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

highness needs the monster’s blood to heal his injuries. Apparently…it will be very difficult for

“…And?”

reinforcements will attack and capture the monster’s attention so that the individuals who attacked the monsters during the day, minus his highness, will

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

extremely hard to calm down

Who came up with such a plan

She looked around.

heading over. From her home kingdom…. The prince of the Breck Kingdom,

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

‘What unbelievable-’

not heard anything about

that is weird. There wasn’t even a

us about it. If we do have any spies, they

anything was funny; he was just doing it to calm himself

and the Duke-nim both so

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

shout that before she ended up at

thought he was in

Duke Deruth say that as

Dragons, a bone Dragon, Sir Choi Han, and former Commander Cale-nim.

Knight Captain looked around as he continued

we fear

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

him. The soldiers

bright expressions on their

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

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

still

former Commander Cale’s father, said the

repeated the words he

together with my son to let him know that

them of the plan. Those words had shaken the

that I felt

between

had shaken in fear, shouted in amazement,

had all seen their lights falling to

Captain decided to now cast aside his fear, swallow

to move forward instead

our new sun, the future of the

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

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

flinched and then

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

hair back as she said a

“…He dares.”

like flames from

was at

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

see the black Yong bursting out

“Choi Han–!”

was thrown out with it

if you think that I am the same as

the black Yong together… Deruth Henituse

“How amazing.”

was the one

the face of Deruth Henituse. She did

been able to feel any of

You’re the

Clang!

Hannah immediately

“Who knows?”

It was because he looked so much

do you mean by who

Alberu started to frown.

bed, still in his pajamas, and swung his

Baaaaang!

and the sword slammed into each

only one with this kind of ancient power, you

know. Then you should be able to

mouth

the amount of power he usually uses to face the White Star.

Choi Han was easily flung

only come up with

body is

wind, water, and fire attributes, but not the

an earth-attribute ancient power would have allowed him to achieve

been unable to use his full power until now because

the answer. By

White Star, smiled as he

you attacking so weakly? Choi Han was

still with Deruth Henituse’s

because you think something might have happened to

son of a

burst out of Hannah’s sword, and a

the White Star was fending

“Ugh!”

reach the White Star… Her body was

“Hannah!”

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

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

his shoulders at Mila’s calm

Ooooooooong-

appeared around her,

Star