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.

my balance

prepared for a rumbling

damn god only know how

he could

amount of the despair he gathered from

he was trying to use the White Star or

since

flailed in

‘Fuck!’

and his body tilted

Han was running toward him in

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

brightly while supporting him. Clopeh was supporting

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

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

two automatic video recording devices

‘...This punk?’

aloofly and nodded his head despite the emotions raging

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack

did not have the time

“Ugh!”

fluctuated even stronger and was shooting

Tatap!

as Choi Han kicked off the floor and shot forward toward the temple

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

the wall he presumed to

the wall underneath the sculpture as if they were supporting it

Crack, crack-

then left the wall and started charging toward Cale and the

appeared after the hands left the wall expanded without any

this is a

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

Another image of the

him away, and

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

the hands at the same

the still numerous remaining hands were still

heading

Cale was

“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

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at that

“The left!”

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

was loud and

hole on the

god and reseal him so that he

that thought changed

wanted

him so that he could escape from the temple.

what could he

I can't do

don’t know

need to think about it

was at least flexible enough to

much the sealed god

Why?

not like he

door with this

in the opposite

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

That must mean that...

escape for now and find a way to

gave up. But that meant that

would absolutely

answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss Cage ask the God

of Death, he would spill the beans since he

that doesn’t

that we took down the White

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

could all take care

strong allies on

shouted at that

Didn’t you say that attacks don’t work on the temple and that they won't even leave any

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

that meant that no attacks

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

realized that she did not notice because it was

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

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

calm voice as she realized that

has lost a

of the power he had gathered in his sealed

for the

this temple has

“That’s great.”

moved toward a

“Choi Han!”

was already running forward, channeled his

Ooooooooong-

was a small rumbling as the black yong rose from the shining

mana... The black yong

stop

“I understand.”

and wrapped around the hands coming out

Squeeze.

her fist and the threads became taut and stopped the hands from

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

was the aura of

Crackle. Crack.

using his ancient powers

that and clenched her eyes while Cale was feeling refreshed as he looked down

body is

time

a time that he was struggling to recall

yong and the red mana crashed

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion

did not miss

Choi Han were already

make a hole in

was planning on helping

he had plenty of powers he