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

for a rumbling at the same

damn god only know how to make

was all he could do

up a good amount of the despair he gathered from the

he was trying to use the White Star or Cale to

sure he's angry since

arms flailed

‘Fuck!’

his body tilted toward the

toward him in shock. Choi

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s back with

was so radiant. It was because he saw the

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

saw the two automatic video recording devices

‘...This punk?’

nodded his head despite the emotions raging in

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

to smack

not have the

“Ugh!”

Temple floor fluctuated even stronger and

Tatap!

kicked off the floor and shot forward toward

‘Shit.’

an eerie sight

‘...Hands-’

sculpture on the wall he

the wall underneath the sculpture as if they were supporting

Crack, crack-

then left the wall and started charging toward Cale

wrists that appeared after the hands left the

is a bit

was a bit scary. As Cale subconsciously

of the legend might

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

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

the hands at the

the still numerous remaining hands were still moving

were heading

Cale was the target of those

“I will block them.”

two robes

hair was fluttering and

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

at that

“The left!”

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

voice was loud

a hole on

sealed god

changed

god wanted Cale to Embrace

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

that case, what could

do it on my

I don’t

just need to think

least flexible enough to

much the sealed

Why?

like he

the door with this white key for the temple to

it in

here if we

That must mean that...

for now and find a way to take down

up. But that

would absolutely

get an answer if I ask Eruhaben-nim or have Miss

if he threatened or annoyed the God of Death, he would spill the beans since

that

that we took

show the others, there was no need for him to suffer

all take care

had many strong allies on

shouted at that

that attacks don’t work on the

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

meant that no attacks

“No, Rosalyn!”

turned toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

not notice because it

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

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

Cale’s calm voice as she realized that

has lost a lot of

too much of the power

was the prison for the sealed god but

that this temple has

“That’s great.”

moved toward a spot as she said

“Choi Han!”

already running forward, channeled his black aura as she

Ooooooooong-

black yong rose from the shining

yong

You stop the

“I understand.”

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

Squeeze.

threads became taut and stopped the hands

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

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

Crackle. Crack.

using his ancient

was feeling refreshed

My body is

the last time it was like

to think about a time that he was struggling to recall as he raised the hand holding the

Han and Rosalyn... The black yong and the red mana

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

loud explosion made Cale

did not

and Choi Han were already

isn't even enough to make

was why Cale was planning on helping out

Rock, water, he had plenty of