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 talking about,

Captain’s face was extremely stiff, but he put on a faint

Rosalyn, someone who was

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

“…And?”

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 is

Rosalyn’s face stiffened up.

worked extremely hard to calm down her shaking voice as

Who came up with such a plan so

She looked around.

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

energetic than ever before,

“Sir Cale did.”

“…What?”

She subconsciously spoke informally.

‘Who? Young master Cale.’

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

‘What unbelievable-’

heard

weird. There

to each of our posts to stealthily inform us about it. If we do have any spies, they would have

short laugh. It wasn’t because anything was funny;

Sir Cale and the Duke-nim

“That-”

‘That makes no sense!’

ended up at a loss for words at

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

Duke Deruth say that

Choi Han, and former Commander Cale-nim. We also have

around as he continued

would we fear

“That’s right!”

“We have no fear!”

shouted behind him. The soldiers let

bright expressions

However, they were anxious.

They were scared.

end up dead while just drawing its attention. No, they felt

still had to

Commander Cale’s

Knight Captain repeated the words he was keeping close to his

wish to fight together with my son to

said that after stealthily visiting them and informing them

realized many things and noticed that I felt the same way

been watching the battle between the great heroes and

shaken in fear, shouted in amazement, and

all seen their

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

chose to move

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

made up their minds to get rid of the

“…Magic Tower Master-nim……?”

Knight Captain flinched and

“R, Rosalyn-nim?”

“Haha, hahaha-”

Rosalyn was laughing.

brushed her red hair back as

“…He dares.”

like flames from the

at that

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

bang and Rosalyn could see the black Yong bursting out through

“Choi Han–!”

thrown out with

think that I am the same

Yong together… Deruth Henituse smiled as he looked

“How amazing.”

the

anything from the person wearing the face of

to feel any of the White Star’s aura until

the

Clang!

Hannah immediately pulled out

“Who knows?”

hearing Deruth Henituse’s questionable statement. It was because he looked so much like Cale Henituse’s father right

the hell do you mean by

Alberu started to frown.

gotten off the bed, still in his pajamas, and swung

Baaaaang!

and the sword slammed

sword! You are the only one

know. Then you should be able to

closed his mouth at

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

easily

could only come up with one explanation for

is in

and fire attributes, but not the earth attribute in

would have allowed him to achieve

to use his full power until

the answer. By the

White Star, smiled as

attacking so weakly? Choi Han was

Deruth Henituse’s face,

something might have happened to

son of a

burst out of Hannah’s sword, and a fire was

aimed for an opening while the

“Ugh!”

before her attack could reach the White Star… Her body was

“Hannah!”

Jack urgently supported Hannah, who was rolling on the ground. He could see a thick wall made of water and

“Where is Duke Deruth?”

his shoulders

Ooooooooong-

appeared around her, shaking

Star