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.

maintain my balance when the ground

only been prepared for a rumbling at the same level

only know how to make

that was all he could

up a good amount of the

was trying to use the White Star or Cale to

since everything he

two arms flailed in the

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his body

him in shock.

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s

so radiant. It was because he saw the broken automatic video recording

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

the two automatic video

‘...This punk?’

nodded his head despite the emotions raging in

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack

not have the time to do

“Ugh!”

even stronger

Tatap!

Choi Han kicked off

‘Shit.’

an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

on the wall he presumed to

hands drawn on the wall underneath the

Crack, crack-

wall and started charging toward Cale and

that appeared after the hands left the wall expanded without any

is a bit

numerous hands reaching out was a bit scary. As Cale subconsciously

the legend might

heard Clopeh's voice, pushed him away, and stood up on his own. He then

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

toward the

the still numerous remaining hands were still

were heading toward

was the target of those

“I will block them.”

heard the GPS-like voice as two robes moved in front of

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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

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

was

a hole on

the sealed god and reseal him so that

that thought changed

sealed god wanted Cale to Embrace

deal with him and to Embrace him so that he could escape from the temple. That was when Cale

what

I can't do it on

don’t know the

to think

least flexible enough to

wasn’t much the

Why?

like he

with this white key for the

in

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

That must mean that...

find a way to take down the

shout that he gave up. But that meant that he

would absolutely not

ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage

believed that if he threatened or annoyed the God of Death, he would spill the beans since he supposedly had

that

took down the White

he couldn't show the others, there was no

all take

many strong allies on

at

say that attacks don’t work on

other than for communication would not leave even a scratch on this temple if used in

no attacks worked on the

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward Choi

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

she did not notice because it

and Mary’s attacks had crumbled many parts of the temple wall and the

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

Cale’s calm voice as she realized that

lost a lot of

too much of the power he had gathered in his sealed

prison for the sealed

this temple has gotten

“That’s great.”

toward a spot as she said

“Choi Han!”

Han, who was already running forward,

Ooooooooong-

rose

The black yong charging

stop the

“I understand.”

hand and wrapped around

Squeeze.

taut and stopped the hands from advancing. Mary’s shoulders shook a

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

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

Crackle. Crack.

using his

eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed

body is

the last time it was

struggling to recall as he raised the hand holding the fiery

and the red mana crashed into the

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion

he did not miss

Choi Han were already preparing their next

isn't even enough to make

planning on helping

Rock, water, he had