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.

the hell am I supposed to maintain my balance when the ground is moving so

for a rumbling at the same

only know how to make

that was all he could

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

trying to use the White

angry since everything he did

two arms flailed in

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his body tilted

running toward him in shock. Choi Han then

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

while supporting him. Clopeh was

away because the smile on Clopeh’s face was so radiant. It was because he saw the broken automatic video recording

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

automatic video recording devices in Clopeh's

‘...This punk?’

smiled aloofly and nodded his head despite the emotions raging in Cale’s

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack that

have the

“Ugh!”

even stronger and was shooting up

Tatap!

were some light footsteps as Choi Han kicked off the floor and shot forward

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie

‘...Hands-’

wall he presumed to be

drawn on the wall underneath the sculpture as if they were supporting it were

Crack, crack-

left the wall and started charging toward Cale

after the hands left the wall expanded

this is

sight of numerous hands reaching out was a bit

the

heard Clopeh's voice, pushed him away, and stood

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

shot out toward the hands at the

the still numerous remaining hands

were heading

realized that Cale was the target of those

“I will block them.”

voice as two robes moved in front

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at that

“The left!”

to look at Cale. Cale looked more relaxed than she had expected. Mary heard Cale’s voice just as she was about to stop being

was loud

a hole on the left

the sealed god and

changed

sealed god wanted

him so that he could escape from the

case, what

do it on

I don’t know the

just need to think

least flexible

there wasn’t much the sealed god could

Why?

like

this white key for the

about it in the

to stay here if we

That must mean that...

will escape for now and find a way to take down the sealed

gave up. But that meant that

would absolutely not do

ask Eruhaben-nim or have

that if he threatened or annoyed the God of Death, he would spill the beans since he supposedly had a lot of negative feelings

if that

that we took

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

take care of

had many strong allies on

at

that attacks don’t work on the temple and that they won't even leave

them about the temple, any power other than for communication would not leave even a scratch on

that meant that no attacks

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

that she did not

attacks had crumbled many parts of the temple wall and

was pretty small compared to the scale of the attacks they had cast, but at

Cale’s calm voice as she

sealed god has lost a lot

god had used too much of the power

the sealed god

means that this temple

“That’s great.”

moved toward a spot

“Choi Han!”

who was already running forward,

Ooooooooong-

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

mana... The black yong charging behind it

You stop the

“I understand.”

threads shot out of Mary’s hand and

Squeeze.

fist and the threads became taut and stopped the hands from advancing.

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

it was the aura of a flame

Crackle. Crack.

using his ancient

her eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed as he looked down at the fiery thunderbolt

body is

time it was

think about a time that he was struggling to

and the

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion

he did not

Han were already preparing their

isn't even enough to make

was why Cale was planning

Rock, water, he had