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.

supposed to maintain my balance when the

been prepared for a rumbling at

god only know how

was all he could do right

sealed and he used up a good amount of

was trying to use the

since everything

flailed

‘Fuck!’

his balance and his body

running toward him in shock. Choi

“Mm.”

"Are you okay, sir?”

while supporting him. Clopeh was supporting Cale’s

was so radiant. It

‘At least it's bro-hmm?’

video recording devices in

‘...This punk?’

aloofly and nodded his head despite the

“I recorded everything, Cale-nim.”

wanted to

did not have the

“Ugh!”

fluctuated even stronger and

Tatap!

Han kicked off the floor and shot forward toward the temple

‘Shit.’

caught an eerie

‘...Hands-’

the wall he presumed to be the sealed

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

Crack, crack-

started charging toward

hands left the wall expanded

is a

sight of numerous hands reaching out was a bit scary. As

image of the legend might

and stood up on his own. He

“Choi Han!”

Baaaaaang---!

toward the hands at

the still numerous remaining

heading toward

Cale was the target of those

“I will block them.”

GPS-like voice as two robes moved

out of Mary's hand and started grasping the hands. Rosalyn's red hair was

“Choi Han, Miss Rosalyn!”

shouted at

“The left!”

at Cale. Cale looked more relaxed than she had expected.

voice was

on the

plan was to Embrace the sealed god and

thought changed at

sealed god wanted Cale to Embrace

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

case, what could

I can't do

I don’t

need to think about it

was at least flexible enough

the sealed god

Why?

not like he

open the door with this

about it in

here if we don’t

That must mean that...

a way to take down

up. But that meant that he would need to go

Cale would absolutely not

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

the God of Death, he would spill the beans since he supposedly had a lot of

that doesn’t

we took down the White

that small task that he couldn't show the others, there

take

many strong allies

at

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

what Ahn Roh Man told them about the temple, any power other than for communication would

meant that no attacks worked on the

“No, Rosalyn!”

toward

“It's breaking right now!”

“Ah.”

did not notice because it was

Rosalyn, and Mary’s attacks had

the scale of the attacks they had cast, but

calm voice as she realized that

sealed god has lost a lot of

had used too much of the power he had gathered in his sealed

the sealed

means that this temple has gotten weaker

“That’s great.”

toward a spot

“Choi Han!”

who was already running forward, channeled his black aura as she

Ooooooooong-

the black yong rose from the shining black aura and opened its

yong charging behind it

You stop

“I understand.”

Mary’s hand and wrapped around the hands coming out

Squeeze.

threads became taut and stopped the hands

“...Ah.”

Clopeh gasped.

No, it was the aura of

Crackle. Crack.

using his

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

is in the best

last time

time that he was struggling to recall as he raised

black yong and the red mana crashed

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang---!

explosion

he did not miss

Choi Han were already preparing their

to make

was why Cale was planning

water, he had