Trash of the Count's Family

“No?”

The man looking like Hilsman had an amused smile on his face as he shook his head about whether he was from the Thames family.

“I think anybody looking at him would be able to tell that he is joking around.”

The silver kitten On mumbled with a look of distrust. Cale picked Hong, who was tapping his leg, into his arms. Hong then shouted with shock.

“Your hand is injured!”

“What?”

“What did you say?!”

On and Raon’s gazes immediately turned toward Cale.

“Tsk. You are as clumsy as your mother.”

Swish.

On, Hong, and Raon. The children averaging nine-years-old all turned their heads toward the fake Hilsman.

Smirk. One corner of Cale’s lips twisted up as Cale slowly walked over to the seated ‘Hilsman.’

“Alright, sir, you just have to answer one thing for me.” (TL: Cale is speaking respectfully to this dude and ‘sir’ is really the best way to do it in English)

Cale stood right in front of the fake Hilsman and lowered his head. Cale could see the mischievous gaze in fake Hilsman’s eyes as he sat there and looked up at him.

“Are you a Hunter?”

His biological mother, Drew Thames, had told him about the ‘Hunters’ who search for single-lifers.

“Why do you ask? What are you going to do if I am a Hunter?”

“What an easy question to answer.”

Cale calmly answered back.

“I would have to take care of you.”

The fake Hilsman’s lips twisted up.

“…You truly do have the blood of the Thames.”

His face was now completely serious and the mischievousness was gone, but he seemed satisfied with Cale’s response.

“Yeah. Anybody with the Thames blood should loathe Hunters. It’d be a shame if you didn’t have the drive to annihilate the Hunters.”

‘Hmm?’

Cale flinched for a moment.

‘Annihilate?’

Cale was not thinking about annihilation. He just said that he would ‘take care’ of him. ‘Take care’ could mean many things.

It could be a negotiation to never hunt again or an agreement through conversation. If Cale had to use force on this guy, then there was the option of tying his arms and legs up so that he couldn’t ever hunt again.

There were many ways to ‘take care’ of him.

‘It’s not like I’m trying to follow the Thames bloodline and get rid of the Hunters.’

Although his body had the blood of the Thames, the soul within was a completely different person.

Of course, he had some thoughts about helping the biological mother of this body, Drew Thames, if she had anger or a grudge against the Hunters. He felt the same way about the issues of the Thames family.

‘But more importantly… I am worried about Choi Han.’

The biggest reason that Cale was wary about the Hunters was because of Choi Han.

Choi Han is a single-lifer. Yes, Choi Han is very strong, but they had no way of knowing the size nor strength of these mysterious Hunters. As a result, Cale couldn’t help but be extremely sensitive about the existence of these Hunters.

Whether it was Choi Han or Cale himself…

They were the two people in the most similar situation since they both left Earth and found a home in a new world.

‘I have a feeling there is a Hunter here.’

Three of the strong individuals that his father, Duke Deruth, had hired had disappeared.

If one of them was the White Star, there were still two mysterious individuals.

The fake Hilsman was not counted within those two people since he came with Duchess Violan from the Henituse territory.

“Yes… you do need to take care of all of them. Every single one.”

Either way, the fake Hilsman in front of him seemed to have misunderstood Cale’s definition of ‘take care’ as something a bit more vicious.

‘…This is kind of scary.’

Cale got chills on his back seeing the fake Hilsman snickering seriously with the mischievousness completely gone. He felt the same way he felt on that first day when he opened his eyes as Cale Henituse and saw Ron.

‘I…it…it feels like something new is starting.’

It was a terrible feeling for someone who was dreaming of a peaceful future, so Cale just decided to think that he understood it wrong.

He subconsciously rubbed the back of his neck as he opened his mouth.

“I guess I can at least conclude that you are not a Hunter.”

This fake did not seem to be a Hunter. In fact, it seemed as if he loathed the Hunters quite a bit.

‘He is either someone from the Thames family or someone connected to them.’

The fake Hilsman slowly nodded his head.

“Yeah. I am not a Hunter.”

On’s ears twitched as she looked at him.

This guy looked like Hilsman, but the way he looked so tired reminded her of Cale or even the White Star.

He seemed uninterested or bored.

‘…He kind of reminds me of Eruhaben-nim too.’

Yes, he seemed more like Eruhaben than Cale.

He reminded her of the old Eruhaben, the one who seemed distant from the events of the world. This fake Hilsman seemed disconnected like that.

‘But the anger in his eyes earlier was real.’

On thought about something two people told her in the past. They each had placed her on their laps and said the following.

‘From now on, you will hold information in your hands. The first thing you need to do for that is to observe people well.’

She had heard that while on Ron’s lap.

think has gone completely nuts, just ignore them and go

from Cale

from the fake Hilsman while paying attention to

came to see Duke Deruth. I have something to tell him and something to

“From my father?”

“Yes.”

mischievous smile appeared on fake Hilsman’s face again as he continued

hear about my

father knows who

figure

‘Mm.’

up and down at

him, then you

“…King?”

who this guy

thought of

Zed Crossman.

while leaving most of the Roan Kingdom’s politics to Alberu. He had become king at

inherit the throne from Zed Crossman whenever

I think about

questions about how the Thames family had

Kingdom’s noble families had

to have cared

happened when Drew Thames was young, but for some

the answer to

Thames household had some connections to Zed Crossman, or if there were

understand to a degree why

had been a student when he met Drew, had said that he knew nothing about how the family had perished. This would make it understandable why he

was not information that someone at Duke

‘…This……’

Cale got the chills.

like there’s some serious

big was approaching him that he

thing would have so much impact on him

managed to

felt that something

“…I’m crazy.”

him mumble but he couldn’t pay any attention

can I have such a thought?! Let’s not think terrible thoughts. I will only have good positive

put Hong down for a moment and touched

angry the White

can only be at peace

smiled brightly after feeling

didn’t realize that your identity would be

right. Aren’t you

“No, sir.”

“…Hmm?”

need to know, do

but have a look of

out if I want to

to learn about this gigantic

My sworn brother will soon be king. I can easily ask him to organize

useful worker, no, hyung-nim, who would grumble but still get them all organized

As for the Hunters?

could think in simple terms with them as

mess with me? …I’ll just make them like the White Star in

Smirk.

Cale’s lips curled

very… Very easy

an eerie feeling while

much the same as Drew Thames when she was younger. Great disasters would happen when she

he was

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

loud noise and a bright

It’s the second

his head and looked

opened and a dark red light shot out toward

as the crown prince

Roh Man regarding the ‘information to take down the Lion

attack had five

and claws while the second stage was releasing this dark red light in its

dodging so

eyes were sparkling as he headed

and picked

– Rok Soo.

could hear Lee Soo Hyuk’s voice through

like big trouble. Am I wrong? Would Han, the Dark Tiger, and the you I know have expected such

Flinch.

hearing that

Hilsman nonchalantly

into the air or in directions with no people,

red light was releasing nonstop from the

Baaa- baaaaang, baaaaang! Bang!

into the air while other times it shot down to the ground where there was nobody standing. The nearby area was crumbling from the attack that was shooting

created… But I feel like that barrier will immediately be destroyed by the monster’s

Hilsman

he is annoying

Hong were peeking at

looking at Cale the same way Rasheel was looking at Mila and

“Fuck!”

Bang, bang-!

chaotic as he heard

more

“Shut up!”

Dodori’s comment as he agilely

were focused on the Lion Dragon,

in order to prevent the Lion Dragon’s attacks

Tang- tang!

stopping to aim

“Roooooooooooooooar—!”

wings were already destroyed. The Lion

“Hey!”

couldn’t hide

die if you continue like this! You said that the Lion Dragon

stages of taking down

on the Lion Dragon’s attacking

was launching focused attacks against the threatening

attacking anybody

In simple terms…

try to kill everyone! Who the hell is going to protect

Rasheel raised his voice.

can’t even use

Normally…

disturbance tool had

have been

and Mila… The five Dragons had planned on

Lion Dragon launched