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.

completely

from Cale while he was petting

On nonchalantly looked away from the fake Hilsman while

have something to tell

“From my father?”

“Yes.”

on fake Hilsman’s face again

can hear about

father knows who

figure it

‘Mm.’

looked up and down at Cale slowly before saying something

him, then you can ask

“…King?”

this guy was

thought of

Zed Crossman.

the current king but chilling in the back while leaving most of the Roan Kingdom’s politics to Alberu.

the throne from Zed Crossman whenever he decided

that I think

had questions about how

the Roan Kingdom’s

have

that long ago since it happened when Drew Thames was young, but for some odd reason, the Roan Kingdom had no

answer to

Thames household had some connections to Zed Crossman,

to a degree

said that he knew nothing about how the family had perished. This would make it understandable why he would only know

information that someone at Duke Deruth’s level would be able to

‘…This……’

Cale got the chills.

like there’s some serious secret history in

so big was approaching him that he would even drink

this thing would have so much impact on him that it would be like a

live if he managed to avoid impact

something that serious might

“…I’m crazy.”

him oddly after hearing him mumble but he couldn’t pay any attention to them. He just shook his

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

for a moment and touched the golden plaque

thinking about how angry the White Star must be while

mind really can only be at peace

brightly after feeling much

identity would be related to his majesty

right. Aren’t you curious

“No, sir.”

“…Hmm?”

not like I need to know,

but have a look of

I can easily find out if I

just didn’t want to learn

Crossman? My sworn brother will soon be king. I can easily

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

As for the Hunters?

could think in simple

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

Smirk.

Cale’s

a very… Very easy

fake Hilsman got an eerie feeling while

same as Drew Thames when she was younger. Great disasters would happen when she smiled viciously

was

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

a loud noise and a bright

It’s the second

turned his head and

mouth opened and a dark

as the crown prince

3’s Ahn Roh Man regarding the ‘information

attack had five

stage was using just its shield and claws while the second stage was releasing

so well,

eyes were sparkling as he headed toward

behind him and picked up

– Rok Soo.

could hear Lee Soo

wrong? Would Han, the Dark Tiger, and the you

Flinch.

hearing that

Hilsman nonchalantly

good job leading the monster’s attack to shoot into the air or in directions with no people, but… That attack will head

light was releasing nonstop from the

Baaa- baaaaang, baaaaang! Bang!

the ground where there was nobody standing. The nearby area was crumbling from the attack that

But I feel like that barrier will immediately be destroyed

Hilsman

he is

Hong were peeking at Cale

way

“Fuck!”

Bang, bang-!

Rasheel’s mind was quite chaotic as he heard

to be more like

“Shut up!”

Dodori’s comment

focused on the Lion Dragon, Eruhaben, and

were flapping without stopping in order to prevent the Lion Dragon’s

Tang- tang!

releasing bullets without stopping to aim for any

“Roooooooooooooooar—!”

the Lion Dragon’s eight wings were already destroyed. The Lion Dragon

“Hey!”

still couldn’t hide his anxiety and

like this! You said

taking down the Lion

on the

was launching focused

attacking anybody in

In simple terms…

everyone! Who the hell is going

Rasheel raised his voice.

can’t even use

Normally…

mana disturbance tool had

would have been

Rasheel, and Mila… The five Dragons

Dragon launched