Trash of the Count's Family

TCF 762

# It’s Karma (1)

The rumbling shaking the temple suddenly stopped.

Red light no longer shot out of the sculpture on the wall.

Choi Han's hand holding the sword relaxed. The sword hung down toward the ground.

Tap. Tap.

Cale was picking up the red diary.

There was silence for a moment.

However, during that short instant... Choi Han’s eyes quickly inspected Cale’s condition.

‘...The injury-’

He was certain that he saw the dagger stab deep into Cale’s chest.

There was a large hole on the left side of Cale’s shirt, however, his body underneath was bloodied but fine.

‘...Tattoo.’

Cale had said that the ancient powers become tattooed on your body when you obtain them. He mentioned that he had one such design on his chest over his heart, but that tattoo and a grotesque injury mixed together to look disgusting.

Cale was laughing right now while looking like that.

He was laughing while looking at the sculpture that Choi Han presumed the sealed god was sealed within.

Plop.

Something round rolled over and touched Choi Han’s foot. He looked down to see an orb.

‘...An automatic video recording device?

There was that video recording device earlier too. Why are these automatic video recording devices here?’

Choi Han was confused for a moment before he thought of someone and turned his head.

Cale, the sealed god... And the now dead and disappeared White Star.

Clopeh was quietly moving during this short moment of silence.

The temple shook violently and was destroyed in many places because of the battle.

Clopeh was quickly doing something within this debris.

Choi Han frowned after realizing what Clopeh was doing.

‘...Did he install some automatic video recording devices?

That crazy bastard.’

Choi Han filled with rage. It was because Clopeh's green eyes were sparkling as if they were green leaves covered in morning dew receiving sunlight.

He had a thought at the same time.

‘I need to make sure that the children do not see that.’

Forget the chaos that would ensue if Raon, On, or Hong saw that... the children would be so sad.

He also had another thought.

‘I will need to show it to Eruhaben-nim and his highness though.’

Choi Han had not thought about it until now because of the shocking sight, but he knew that what Cale stabbed his heart with was a dagger. That let him know that Cale had not told them everything until now.

He did tell them that this dagger from the World Tree was the tool to kill the White Star but he had never expected the method to be something like this.

Of course, this method did allow them to delete the White Star from this world easier than expected.

‘...That and this are two different things.’

Choi Han made up his mind to never completely believe the things Cale said from now on. He told himself that he would look into things without Cale knowing if something seemed iffy or it felt as if Cale was hiding something.

He made eye contact with Mary at that moment.

He had no idea what she was thinking, but Mary’s gaze was no joke either.

The fact that such an innocent girl could have this kind of gaze meant that she had received quite the shock.

The two of them looked at each other and nodded their heads before turning away.

Step step.

Cale’s footsteps broke through the silence and echoed in the temple.

He had already put the white half-mask and the diary back in his pocket and was headed toward the wall with the sculpture.

To be more specific, he was headed toward the altar in front of that wall.

“Is it this?”

Cale stopped walking and quietly looked down at the key on top of the altar.

This was the original way to get out of this temple and make it disappear.

This was something Ahn Roh Man, the man from another world, had told them. The person who manages to complete all of the illusion tests gets to the end of the temple, grabs this white key, and returns to the temple door that serves as both the entrance and the exit.

‘I can’t do that.’

Cale had no intentions of using that method.

He showed his true thoughts without any hesitation.

“How...”

He looked into the eyes of the beautiful sculpture on the wall as he asked.

“How can I kill you?”

Smile.

The moment the corners of Cale’s lips curled up...

“Cale-nim!”

Choi Han urgently called out to him while Rosalyn grabbed Mary’s arm and shouted.

“Sit!”

Booooooooooooooooooooooooom---

There was another loud explosion in the temple and the entire thing started shaking again.

However, the strength of the rumbling was completely different from earlier.

The marble floor of the temple bobbed up and down as if they were waves.

It was as if the angry god’s mind was being reflected in here.

“Ugh!”

Cale's body tilted.

I supposed to maintain my balance when the ground is moving

prepared for a rumbling at the same level

damn god only know how to make

all he could do

sealed and he used up a good amount of the despair he gathered from the numerous

that he was trying to use the White

he's angry since everything

arms flailed in the

‘Fuck!’

lost his balance and his body tilted toward the

running toward him in shock. Choi Han

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

brightly while supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s back

Clopeh’s face was so

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

video

‘...This punk?’

his head despite the emotions raging

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to

not have the time to do

“Ugh!”

fluctuated even stronger and was shooting up irregularly

Tatap!

footsteps as Choi Han kicked off the floor and shot

‘Shit.’

eerie sight at that

‘...Hands-’

wall he

on the wall underneath the sculpture as if they were

Crack, crack-

started charging toward Cale and

the hands left the wall expanded

this is a

was a

Another image of the

and stood up

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

toward the hands

the still numerous remaining hands were still moving

were heading

was

“I will block them.”

heard the GPS-like voice as two

grasping the hands. Rosalyn's red hair was fluttering and her hands that were full of

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

more relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard Cale’s voice just as she

voice was loud

on

was to Embrace the sealed god and reseal him so that he could not

thought changed

wanted

sealed god asked Cale to make a deal with him and to Embrace him so that he could escape from the temple. That was when Cale learned that

what

can't do it on

I don’t know

to think about it

flexible enough to

wasn’t much the

Why?

not like he can

to open the door with this white key for the temple to

about it in the

temple has to stay here if we don’t open the door

That must mean that...

find a way to take down the

up. But that meant that he would

absolutely not

ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage ask the God of

spill

if that

we took down the White

small task that he couldn't show the others, there was no need for him to

all take care of

many strong allies

shouted at that

master Cale! Didn’t you say that attacks don’t work on the temple and that they

to what Ahn Roh Man told them about the temple, any power other than for communication would not leave even a scratch on this temple if used in

meant that no attacks

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

not

lights as well as Choi Han, Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks had crumbled many parts of the

was pretty small compared to the scale of the attacks they

calm voice as she realized that

lost a lot

power he

temple was the prison for the sealed

this temple has gotten weaker

“That’s great.”

moved toward a spot as she said

“Choi Han!”

forward, channeled

Ooooooooong-

was a small rumbling as the black yong rose from the shining black aura and opened

yong charging behind it with its

stop

“I understand.”

threads shot out of Mary’s hand and wrapped around the hands coming

Squeeze.

and stopped the hands from advancing. Mary’s

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

felt a flame behind her. No, it was the aura of a flame imbued

Crackle. Crack.

his ancient

and clenched her eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed

body is

last time it was like

struggling to recall as he raised

and the red

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion made Cale

did not

and Choi Han were already

to make a hole

was planning on helping out as

Rock, water, he had plenty of powers he could